Senior Business Analyst Jobs

Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA)
UK

The median Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA) salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 689 644 653
Rank change year-on-year -45 +9 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Business Analyst 221 365 707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.36% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.39% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 149 222 497
10th Percentile £46,166 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,143 £53,136 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £93,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Business Analyst over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England -9 201 £65,000 - 61
UK excluding London -66 117 £55,000 -4.35% 19
London +67 97 £80,000 +23.08% 41
Work from Home +33 95 £59,925 -0.95% 23
North of England +43 54 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Yorkshire +79 30 £55,000 -13.73% 2
North West +15 23 £62,500 +11.11% 3
Midlands -8 21 £50,500 -11.79% 1
South East -12 15 £63,750 +21.43% 3
East Midlands -11 11 £49,843 -7.70%
West Midlands +2 9 £50,000 -12.66% 1
South West -30 9 £54,575 +3.95% 1
Wales +16 7 £45,000 -5.26% 1
Scotland -67 7 £58,800 -9.54%
Northern Ireland +30 3 £58,800 +23.79% 3
East of England +4 1 £72,000 -10.00% 5
North East -3 1 £58,800 -2.00%

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Business Analyst in the job title.

1 93 (42.08%) Agile
2 90 (40.72%) Business Analysis
3 80 (36.20%) Requirements Gathering
4 75 (33.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 70 (31.67%) Degree
6 44 (19.91%) JIRA
6 44 (19.91%) Acceptance Criteria
7 43 (19.46%) Social Skills
8 42 (19.00%) MS Visio
9 39 (17.65%) User Stories
9 39 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (17.19%) Finance
11 37 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
11 37 (16.74%) User Research
12 32 (14.48%) Business Process Modelling
12 32 (14.48%) Security Cleared
13 31 (14.03%) SC Cleared
13 31 (14.03%) Confluence
13 31 (14.03%) Scrum
14 30 (13.57%) Epics
15 28 (12.67%) Requirements Workshops
15 28 (12.67%) UML
16 25 (11.31%) Project Management
17 24 (10.86%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
17 24 (10.86%) Actionable Insight
17 24 (10.86%) Backlog Refinement
17 24 (10.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 23 (10.41%) Miro
18 23 (10.41%) Roadmaps

Senior Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (14.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 42 (19.00%) MS Visio
2 18 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (4.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (6.33%) Endur
2 1 (0.45%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.41%) Miro
2 6 (2.71%) Azure
2 6 (2.71%) Power Platform
2 6 (2.71%) SaaS
3 4 (1.81%) AWS
4 3 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.45%) GCP
5 1 (0.45%) Slack
5 1 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.52%) Broadband
1 10 (4.52%) Internet
1 10 (4.52%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.71%) Power BI
2 4 (1.81%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (1.36%) Tableau
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.45%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.45%) Metadata
5 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.45%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 44 (19.91%) JIRA
2 2 (0.90%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 38 (17.19%) Finance
4 37 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.14%) Retail
6 12 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.98%) Legal
8 10 (4.52%) Law
9 9 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.17%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.36%) Banking
11 3 (1.36%) Local Government
12 2 (0.90%) Advertising
12 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
13 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.52%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (1.81%) Laravel
2 4 (1.81%) Next.js
2 4 (1.81%) React
2 4 (1.81%) React Native
3 1 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.14%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.43%) Reinsurance
3 11 (4.98%) NHS
4 10 (4.52%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.17%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.36%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.45%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.45%) FMCG
9 1 (0.45%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.45%) PMI
9 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (42.08%) Agile
2 90 (40.72%) Business Analysis
3 80 (36.20%) Requirements Gathering
4 75 (33.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (19.91%) Acceptance Criteria
6 39 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (17.65%) User Stories
7 37 (16.74%) User Research
8 32 (14.48%) Business Process Modelling
9 31 (14.03%) Scrum
10 30 (13.57%) Epics
11 28 (12.67%) Requirements Workshops
11 28 (12.67%) UML
12 25 (11.31%) Project Management
13 24 (10.86%) Actionable Insight
13 24 (10.86%) Backlog Refinement
13 24 (10.86%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
13 24 (10.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 23 (10.41%) Knowledge Transfer
14 23 (10.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.88%) SQL
2 4 (1.81%) PHP
3 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 70 (31.67%) Degree
2 32 (14.48%) Security Cleared
3 31 (14.03%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.26%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.81%) PMP
6 3 (1.36%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.90%) CBAP
7 2 (0.90%) IIBA
7 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) ACCA
8 1 (0.45%) APMP
8 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.45%) CIMA
8 1 (0.45%) CSPO
8 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.81%) PMO
2 3 (1.36%) QA
3 2 (0.90%) IFRS
3 2 (0.90%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.45%) EMIR
4 1 (0.45%) MiFID
4 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (0.90%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 19 (8.60%) Salesforce
2 10 (4.52%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.17%) F5
4 4 (1.81%) Oracle
4 4 (1.81%) SAP
5 2 (0.90%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.45%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.45%) Google
6 1 (0.45%) Marketo
6 1 (0.45%) Murex
6 1 (0.45%) NEC
6 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.45%) SnapLogic