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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 110 159
Rank change year-on-year -33 +49 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Analyst 544 1,061 1,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.30% 3.15% 2.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 3.31% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 444 885 1,655
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £46,700
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 £99,813 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +5.71%

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 22,286 32,090 67,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,616 23,723 34,810
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 20 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 20 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 0 84 £75,000 +13.21% 16
South London -9 16 £46,250 -22.92% 2
West London -26 4 £72,500 +38.10% 2
East London +10 1 £60,000 +14.29% 33
Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 (41.18%) Agile
2 179 (32.90%) Finance
3 164 (30.15%) Business Analysis
4 135 (24.82%) Social Skills
5 129 (23.71%) SQL
6 98 (18.01%) Product Ownership
7 89 (16.36%) Degree
7 89 (16.36%) User Stories
8 88 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
9 84 (15.44%) Roadmaps
10 81 (14.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 79 (14.52%) Requirements Gathering
12 73 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 72 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
14 70 (12.87%) Front Office
14 70 (12.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 69 (12.68%) Fixed Income
16 67 (12.32%) Equities
17 66 (12.13%) Banking
18 64 (11.76%) Investment Management
19 63 (11.58%) Asset Management
19 63 (11.58%) Python
19 63 (11.58%) Analytics
20 60 (11.03%) Derivative
21 59 (10.85%) Artificial Intelligence
21 59 (10.85%) Machine Learning
22 58 (10.66%) Hedge funds
23 55 (10.11%) AWS
24 52 (9.56%) Project Management
25 51 (9.38%) Waterfall

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 33 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 33 (6.07%) MS Visio
2 21 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (2.76%) Aladdin
1 15 (2.76%) Endur
2 3 (0.55%) Magento
2 3 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
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 (10.11%) AWS
2 20 (3.68%) Azure
3 14 (2.57%) Power Platform
4 8 (1.47%) SaaS
5 7 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (0.92%) Figma
8 4 (0.74%) dbt
8 4 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (0.74%) OCI
9 2 (0.37%) Asana
9 2 (0.37%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.37%) FinancialForce
9 2 (0.37%) GCP
9 2 (0.37%) Miro
9 2 (0.37%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.37%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.37%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.18%) Apigee
10 1 (0.18%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (2.21%) Power BI
3 5 (0.92%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.74%) Apache Arrow
4 4 (0.74%) Big Data
4 4 (0.74%) Dremio
5 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.55%) Tableau
6 2 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Ignite
6 2 (0.37%) Metadata
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.37%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.37%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.18%) MySQL
7 1 (0.18%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.18%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 38 (6.99%) JIRA
2 2 (0.37%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.18%) JMeter
3 1 (0.18%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 179 (32.90%) Finance
2 135 (24.82%) Social Skills
3 88 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (14.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (12.87%) Front Office
6 66 (12.13%) Banking
7 29 (5.33%) Legal
8 25 (4.60%) Law
8 25 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (4.60%) Retail
9 23 (4.23%) Public Sector
10 22 (4.04%) Investment Banking
11 20 (3.68%) Back Office
12 19 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (2.76%) Retail Banking
14 14 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (2.02%) Advertising
16 8 (1.47%) Marketing
17 7 (1.29%) Publishing
18 6 (1.10%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.29%) XML
2 6 (1.10%) .NET
3 5 (0.92%) .NET Framework
3 5 (0.92%) React
4 4 (0.74%) Laravel
4 4 (0.74%) Next.js
4 4 (0.74%) React Native
5 3 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (0.55%) JSON
5 3 (0.55%) XSLT
6 2 (0.37%) ADO
7 1 (0.18%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.18%) Kafka
7 1 (0.18%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.18%) PySpark
7 1 (0.18%) REST
7 1 (0.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 98 (18.01%) Product Ownership
2 70 (12.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 69 (12.68%) Fixed Income
4 67 (12.32%) Equities
5 60 (11.03%) Derivative
6 58 (10.66%) Hedge funds
7 25 (4.60%) Reinsurance
8 16 (2.94%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.74%) Freedom of Information
12 3 (0.55%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.55%) Equity Derivative
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%) 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 (41.18%) Agile
2 164 (30.15%) Business Analysis
3 89 (16.36%) User Stories
4 84 (15.44%) Roadmaps
5 79 (14.52%) Requirements Gathering
6 73 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 72 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (11.76%) Investment Management
9 63 (11.58%) Analytics
9 63 (11.58%) Asset Management
10 59 (10.85%) Artificial Intelligence
10 59 (10.85%) Machine Learning
11 52 (9.56%) Project Management
12 51 (9.38%) Waterfall
12 51 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
13 40 (7.35%) Change Management
13 40 (7.35%) Fintech
13 40 (7.35%) Scrum
14 39 (7.17%) Use Case
15 34 (6.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 129 (23.71%) SQL
2 63 (11.58%) Python
3 7 (1.29%) Java
4 4 (0.74%) PHP
5 3 (0.55%) VBA
6 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.18%) C#
7 1 (0.18%) JCL
7 1 (0.18%) R
7 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (16.36%) Degree
2 26 (4.78%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.86%) 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%) ACCA
11 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CSPO
11 1 (0.18%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.02%) 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 24 (4.41%) Bloomberg
2 22 (4.04%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.49%) Salesforce
4 15 (2.76%) Oracle
5 14 (2.57%) BISAM
6 9 (1.65%) SAP
7 7 (1.29%) Atlassian
8 5 (0.92%) ION Trading
9 4 (0.74%) Marketo
10 3 (0.55%) Conga
11 2 (0.37%) Adobe
11 2 (0.37%) Google
11 2 (0.37%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.37%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.37%) Triple Point
12 1 (0.18%) Charles River
12 1 (0.18%) OpenLink
12 1 (0.18%) Reuters
12 1 (0.18%) Temenos