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Business Analyst Jobs & Careers
Looking for your next Business Analyst opportunity?
HOK Consulting connects Business Analysts with organisations delivering technology transformation, digital change and business-critical programmes across permanent, contract and interim opportunities.
Whether your experience covers requirements gathering, stakeholder management, process improvement, Agile delivery, regulatory change or technology transformation, explore current opportunities or upload your CV to join HOK’s technology talent network.
Current Business Analyst Jobs
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What Does a Business Analyst Do?
Business Analysts help organisations understand problems, define requirements and translate business needs into practical technology and process changes.
The role commonly involves gathering requirements, analysing existing processes, facilitating workshops, documenting user stories and acceptance criteria and supporting teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Business Analysts often work between business stakeholders, Project Managers, Product Owners, developers, architects and testing teams to ensure proposed solutions address the underlying requirement and deliver the expected outcome.
Business Analyst Skills & Experience
The exact requirements vary between organisations and programmes, but Business Analyst roles commonly involve experience across areas such as:
- Business Analysis
- Requirements Gathering
- Stakeholder Management
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Workshop Facilitation
- Process Improvement
- Process Mapping
- Gap Analysis
- User Acceptance Testing
- Agile Delivery
- Scrum
- Waterfall Delivery
- Jira
- Confluence
- Business Change
- Regulatory Change
- Technology Transformation
- Software Delivery
- Financial Services Technology
Business Analysts may specialise in a particular technology domain or sector, while others work across broad transformation, operational and regulatory change programmes.
Strong analytical thinking, communication and stakeholder management are particularly important when turning complex business requirements into clear information that technical and delivery teams can act upon.
Typical Business Analyst Responsibilities
- Gathering and documenting business and functional requirements
- Working with stakeholders to understand problems, objectives and priorities
- Facilitating workshops and requirements sessions
- Creating user stories, acceptance criteria and process documentation
- Mapping current and future business processes
- Performing gap analysis and identifying improvement opportunities
- Translating business requirements for technical and delivery teams
- Supporting Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery approaches
- Working with testing teams during user acceptance testing
- Managing requirements throughout the project lifecycle
- Supporting business change, regulatory change and technology transformation
- Helping ensure delivered solutions meet agreed business outcomes
Responsibilities vary depending on the organisation, sector and whether the role focuses on technology delivery, business change, regulatory programmes, data, software, infrastructure or wider digital transformation.
Business Analyst Salary Expectations
Business Analyst salaries vary according to experience, location, sector, technical domain and the scale and complexity of the programmes being supported.
Permanent Business Analyst
Around £55,000 per year
UK median advertised salary
Contract Business Analyst
Around £500 per day
UK median contract rate
Senior Business Analysts and professionals with specialist financial services, regulatory, payments, cloud or large-scale technology transformation experience may command higher salaries or contract rates.
Salary information is provided as a general UK market guide and can vary significantly between individual roles.
Business Analyst Career Progression
Business Analysis can lead into senior analysis, product, delivery and transformation leadership positions.
Typical Business Analyst Career Path
Alternative Career Paths
Business Analysts may also progress into roles such as:
- Technical Business Analyst
- Product Owner
- Project Manager
- Delivery Manager
- Change Manager
- Transformation Lead
The right progression depends on whether you want to deepen your business analysis expertise, move towards product or delivery management or take broader responsibility for organisational and technology change.
Your Next Move
Looking for Your Next Business Analyst Opportunity?
If you’re considering your next permanent position, contract assignment or interim opportunity, send HOK Consulting your CV.
Tell us about the programmes you’ve supported, the sectors and technology environments you’ve worked across and the type of opportunity you’re looking for.
Specialist Recruitment
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Business Analysis forms part of HOK Consulting’s wider Project & Delivery recruitment expertise, connecting organisations with professionals across project management, programme management, business analysis, change, transformation and complex technology delivery.
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Recruiting Business Analysts?
HOK Consulting supports organisations looking for experienced Business Analysts across permanent, contract and interim requirements.
Whether you’re delivering technology transformation, regulatory change, process improvement, software delivery or another complex change programme, speak to HOK about your requirements.