Business Analyst Jobs in London

Business Analyst (BA)
England > London

The median Business Analyst (BA) salary in London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 113 157
Rank change year-on-year -24 +44 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 543 1,057 1,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.29% 3.14% 2.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 3.31% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 442 881 1,628
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,938 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 22,294 31,975 66,602
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,646 23,616 34,555
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in London

Business Analyst
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in London.

Salary trend for Business Analyst in London

Business Analyst
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Analyst in London

Business Analyst
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -4 84 £75,000 +14.29% 16
South London -7 16 £46,250 -22.92% 2
West London -27 4 £72,500 +38.10% 1
East London +10 1 £60,000 +14.29% 25
Business Analyst
England

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Business Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 224 (41.25%) Agile
2 178 (32.78%) Finance
3 164 (30.20%) Business Analysis
4 132 (24.31%) Social Skills
5 128 (23.57%) SQL
6 98 (18.05%) Product Ownership
7 89 (16.39%) User Stories
8 88 (16.21%) Degree
9 87 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
10 84 (15.47%) Roadmaps
11 80 (14.73%) Requirements Gathering
12 79 (14.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 73 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 71 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
15 70 (12.89%) Front Office
16 69 (12.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 68 (12.52%) Fixed Income
18 66 (12.15%) Equities
18 66 (12.15%) Banking
19 64 (11.79%) Investment Management
20 63 (11.60%) Asset Management
21 62 (11.42%) Python
21 62 (11.42%) Analytics
22 59 (10.87%) Machine Learning
22 59 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence
22 59 (10.87%) Derivative
23 57 (10.50%) Hedge funds
24 55 (10.13%) AWS
25 52 (9.58%) Waterfall
25 52 (9.58%) Project Management

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.31%) Confluence
2 5 (0.92%) WordPress
3 4 (0.74%) Apache
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) Appian
5 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 34 (6.26%) MS Visio
2 33 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (2.76%) Aladdin
1 15 (2.76%) Endur
2 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.55%) Magento
2 3 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.37%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (10.13%) AWS
2 20 (3.68%) Azure
3 13 (2.39%) Power Platform
4 8 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (1.47%) SaaS
5 6 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (0.92%) Figma
7 4 (0.74%) dbt
7 4 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.74%) OCI
8 2 (0.37%) Asana
8 2 (0.37%) BigCommerce
8 2 (0.37%) FinancialForce
8 2 (0.37%) GCP
8 2 (0.37%) Miro
8 2 (0.37%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.37%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.37%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.18%) Apigee
9 1 (0.18%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (2.03%) Power BI
3 4 (0.74%) Apache Arrow
3 4 (0.74%) Big Data
3 4 (0.74%) Dremio
3 4 (0.74%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.55%) Tableau
5 2 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Ignite
5 2 (0.37%) Metadata
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.37%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.37%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.18%) MySQL
6 1 (0.18%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.18%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 39 (7.18%) JIRA
2 2 (0.37%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.18%) JMeter
3 1 (0.18%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 178 (32.78%) Finance
2 132 (24.31%) Social Skills
3 87 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (14.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (12.89%) Front Office
6 66 (12.15%) Banking
7 29 (5.34%) Legal
8 25 (4.60%) Law
8 25 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (4.60%) Retail
9 23 (4.24%) Public Sector
10 22 (4.05%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.50%) Back Office
11 19 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (2.76%) Retail Banking
13 14 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (2.03%) Advertising
15 8 (1.47%) Marketing
16 7 (1.29%) Publishing
17 6 (1.10%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.10%) .NET
1 6 (1.10%) XML
2 5 (0.92%) .NET Framework
2 5 (0.92%) React
3 4 (0.74%) Laravel
3 4 (0.74%) Next.js
3 4 (0.74%) React Native
4 3 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (0.55%) JSON
5 2 (0.37%) ADO
5 2 (0.37%) XSLT
6 1 (0.18%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.18%) Kafka
6 1 (0.18%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.18%) PySpark
6 1 (0.18%) REST
6 1 (0.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 98 (18.05%) Product Ownership
2 69 (12.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 68 (12.52%) Fixed Income
4 66 (12.15%) Equities
5 59 (10.87%) Derivative
6 57 (10.50%) Hedge funds
7 25 (4.60%) Reinsurance
8 16 (2.95%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.74%) Freedom of Information
12 3 (0.55%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.55%) FMCG
12 3 (0.55%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.55%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.37%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (0.37%) OTC Derivatives
13 2 (0.37%) PropTech
13 2 (0.37%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.47%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (41.25%) Agile
2 164 (30.20%) Business Analysis
3 89 (16.39%) User Stories
4 84 (15.47%) Roadmaps
5 80 (14.73%) Requirements Gathering
6 73 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 71 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (11.79%) Investment Management
9 63 (11.60%) Asset Management
10 62 (11.42%) Analytics
11 59 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence
11 59 (10.87%) Machine Learning
12 52 (9.58%) Project Management
12 52 (9.58%) Waterfall
12 52 (9.58%) Workshop Facilitation
13 40 (7.37%) Change Management
13 40 (7.37%) Fintech
13 40 (7.37%) Scrum
14 39 (7.18%) Use Case
15 33 (6.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 128 (23.57%) SQL
2 62 (11.42%) Python
3 7 (1.29%) Java
4 4 (0.74%) PHP
5 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.37%) VBA
6 1 (0.18%) C#
6 1 (0.18%) JCL
6 1 (0.18%) R
6 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 88 (16.21%) Degree
2 26 (4.79%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.87%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.21%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.29%) ISEB
7 6 (1.10%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.10%) PMP
8 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.74%) CBAP
8 4 (0.74%) CFA
8 4 (0.74%) CIMA
9 3 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.18%) APMP
11 1 (0.18%) IIBA
11 1 (0.18%) ISEB Practitioner
11 1 (0.18%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.03%) QA
2 7 (1.29%) ISO 20022
3 5 (0.92%) PSD2
4 4 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.74%) IFRS
4 4 (0.74%) IFRS 17
4 4 (0.74%) PMO
4 4 (0.74%) SLA
5 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.55%) EMIR
5 3 (0.55%) MiFID
6 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.37%) Data Guard
1 2 (0.37%) Kibana
2 1 (0.18%) Grafana
2 1 (0.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (4.24%) Bloomberg
2 22 (4.05%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.50%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.58%) BISAM
4 14 (2.58%) Oracle
5 9 (1.66%) SAP
6 7 (1.29%) Atlassian
7 5 (0.92%) ION Trading
8 4 (0.74%) Marketo
9 3 (0.55%) Conga
10 2 (0.37%) Adobe
10 2 (0.37%) Google
10 2 (0.37%) JD Edwards
10 2 (0.37%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.37%) Triple Point
11 1 (0.18%) Charles River
11 1 (0.18%) NEC
11 1 (0.18%) OpenLink
11 1 (0.18%) Reuters