Finance Business Analyst Jobs

Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA) salary in the UK is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 835 857 969
Rank change year-on-year +22 +112 -141
Permanent jobs requiring a Finance Business Analyst 70 89 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.094% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.10% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 67 83 234
10th Percentile £54,750 £45,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £51,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £67,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -0.74% +13.33%
75th Percentile £114,375 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £89,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £46,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +35.14% -11.90% -4.55%

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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Finance Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance Business Analyst over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +50 69 £85,000 +25.93% 4
London +100 65 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Work from Home +52 45 £90,000 +56.52% 15
UK excluding London -46 3 £62,500 +35.14% 3
Midlands -10 2 £58,750 +2.17%
East Midlands -15 1 £70,000 +21.74%
South East -18 1 £62,500 +35.14%
West Midlands - 1 £47,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Finance 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 Finance Business Analyst in the job title.

1 70 (100.00%) Finance
2 60 (85.71%) Agile
3 54 (77.14%) Product Ownership
4 53 (75.71%) SQL
5 52 (74.29%) Python
5 52 (74.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 52 (74.29%) Fixed Income
5 52 (74.29%) Equities
5 52 (74.29%) Front Office
5 52 (74.29%) Asset Management
5 52 (74.29%) Derivative
5 52 (74.29%) Investment Management
5 52 (74.29%) AWS
5 52 (74.29%) Hedge funds
6 46 (65.71%) Machine Learning
6 46 (65.71%) Artificial Intelligence
7 37 (52.86%) Analytics
8 31 (44.29%) Product Management
9 23 (32.86%) Banking
10 22 (31.43%) Investment Banking
11 19 (27.14%) Roadmaps
12 18 (25.71%) Fintech
13 16 (22.86%) Portfolio Management
13 16 (22.86%) Bloomberg
14 15 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (20.00%) BISAM
15 14 (20.00%) Aladdin
16 12 (17.14%) Business Analysis
17 8 (11.43%) Apache
17 8 (11.43%) Apache Arrow

Finance 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 8 (11.43%) Apache
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 14 (20.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.43%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.43%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.43%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.43%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (74.29%) AWS
2 8 (11.43%) dbt
3 6 (8.57%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.71%) OCI
5 1 (1.43%) Asana
5 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.43%) FinancialForce
5 1 (1.43%) Google Sheets
5 1 (1.43%) SaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) Apache Arrow
1 8 (11.43%) Dremio
2 7 (10.00%) Tableau
3 6 (8.57%) Big Data
3 6 (8.57%) Data Lake
3 6 (8.57%) Power BI
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.86%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 1 (1.43%) JIRA
General
1 70 (100.00%) Finance
2 52 (74.29%) Front Office
3 23 (32.86%) Banking
4 22 (31.43%) Investment Banking
5 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.57%) Social Skills
7 5 (7.14%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Legal
8 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 54 (77.14%) Product Ownership
2 52 (74.29%) Derivative
2 52 (74.29%) Equities
2 52 (74.29%) Fixed Income
2 52 (74.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 52 (74.29%) Hedge funds
3 3 (4.29%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (85.71%) Agile
2 52 (74.29%) Asset Management
2 52 (74.29%) Investment Management
3 46 (65.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 46 (65.71%) Machine Learning
4 37 (52.86%) Analytics
5 31 (44.29%) Product Management
6 19 (27.14%) Roadmaps
7 18 (25.71%) Fintech
8 16 (22.86%) Portfolio Management
9 15 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (17.14%) Business Analysis
11 4 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (5.71%) Requirements Analysis
11 4 (5.71%) Scenario Testing
11 4 (5.71%) Waterfall
12 3 (4.29%) Process Improvement
12 3 (4.29%) Translating Business Requirements
12 3 (4.29%) Workshop Facilitation
13 2 (2.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 53 (75.71%) SQL
2 52 (74.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (4.29%) Degree
2 1 (1.43%) ACCA
2 1 (1.43%) CIMA
2 1 (1.43%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 16 (22.86%) Bloomberg
2 14 (20.00%) BISAM
3 5 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.43%) Google
4 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.43%) SAP