Business Analyst Salary 2026/27: What You Take Home
ONS codes business analysts to SOC 2020 unit group 2431, management consultants and business analysts, whose full-time median was £53,295 in ASHE 2025, with the middle half between £40,202 and £70,977. IT business analysts are coded to 2133, with a median of £60,288. The 2431 median is £3,025 above the higher-rate threshold with no pension contribution.
Typical pay & take-home
- Median gross
- £53,295
- ASHE 2025, 25th to 75th percentile
- £40,202–£70,977
- Take-home at median
- £41,469 England, no pension applied — use the salary calculator for your scheme.
At the median for this profession, you earn about 37% above the UK full-time median (£39,039), placing you between the 50th percentile (£39,039) and the 75th percentile (£54,009) of UK full-time earnings.
What influences business analyst pay
Business analysts bridge business needs and technical delivery - gathering requirements, mapping processes and specifying change. The ONS coding index puts "Analyst, business" in SOC 2020 2431, whose April 2025 full-time median was £53,295, with the 10th percentile at £29,980 and the 90th at £93,362, and "Analyst, business, IT" in 2133, IT business analysts, architects and systems designers, median £60,288 and middle half £45,860 to £81,932. The IT group also contains solution architects and systems designers, which is part of why it runs higher.
ONS does not split either group by seniority, sector or platform, so there is no official figure for junior, senior or lead analyst pay; the spread between the 10th and 90th percentiles is the nearest measure of how wide the range is.
At the £53,295 median, with no pension contribution, about £3,025 of pay is above the £50,270 threshold and taxed at 40%, with 2% NI on the same slice. A 5% salary sacrifice pension cuts that to about £360. Above £100,000 of adjusted net income the personal allowance tapers away at £1 for every £2, a 62% marginal rate including NI.
Career progression
- ASHE does not publish business analyst pay by seniority. These are points in the April 2025 full-time pay distribution for SOC 2020 2431.
- 10th percentile: £29,980.
- Lower quartile: £40,202.
- Median: £53,295.
- Upper quartile: £70,977.
- 90th percentile: £93,362.
- Progression into product management, delivery/programme management or management consultancy.
Frequently asked questions
- What is take-home for a business analyst on the £53,295 median?
- With no pension contribution, take-home in England in 2026/27 is about £41,469 a year, or £3,456 a month, after £8,750 Income Tax and £3,077 National Insurance. With a 5% pension contribution by salary sacrifice it is about £39,923, and about £360 is still taxed at 40%.
- Do IT business analysts earn more than business analysts?
- On the ONS figures, yes. The "IT business analysts, architects and systems designers" group had a full-time median of £60,288 in ASHE 2025 versus £53,295 for "management consultants and business analysts". The IT group also includes solution architects and systems designers, which lifts its median, so the gap is not a like-for-like comparison of analysts.
- When does a business analyst start paying 40% tax?
- On taxable pay above £50,270 outside Scotland. Taxable pay is salary less any pension contribution made by salary sacrifice or a net pay arrangement, so a contribution can keep a salary just above the threshold out of the 40% band. National Insurance is charged at 2% instead of 8% on earnings above the same figure.