The Datum Report

Occupation 2133 · Professional occupations

IT business analysts, architects and systems designers

Half of full-time it business analysts, architects and systems designers in the UK earn more than £60,288 a year, and half earn less.

IT business analysts, architects and systems designers proviide advice on the effective utilisation of IT and design IT systems in order to meet the business objectives or to enhance the business effectiveness of the organisation.

How people enter it

Entrants usually possess a degree or equivalent qualification, although entry with other academic qualifications and/or significant relevant experience is possible. There is a variety of relevant vocational, professional and postgraduate qualifications available.

What the work involves

• liaises with internal/external clients to analyse business procedure, clarify clients’ requirements and to define the scope of existing software, hardware and network provision
• undertakes feasibility studies for major IT developments incorporating costs and benefits, and presents proposals to clients
• communicates the impact of emerging technologies to clients and advises upon the potential introduction of such technology
• provides advice and assistance in the procurement, provision, delivery, installation, maintenance and use of IT systems and their environments
• examines existing business models and flows of data and designs functional specifications and test plans for new systems in order to meet clients’ needs
• researches, analyses, evaluates and monitors network infrastructure and performance
• works closely with clients to implement new systems

Also called

Business analyst (computing/IT) · Data communications analyst · Change analyst (computing/IT) · Systems analyst · Systems consultant · Technical analyst (computing/IT) · Technical architect · User experience architect

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for it business analysts, architects and systems designers, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 11 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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