Writing a business analyst resume

Everything below is counted from 1,544 live business analystpostings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 1,544
Employers: 614
Remote: 12%
Verified live (7d): 1,314

What they ask for

Counted across 1,160 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Microsoft Excel33%
Atlassian JIRA24%
Scrum23%
Microsoft Power BI20%
Tableau14%
Confluence14%
Python13%
Microsoft PowerPoint12%
Microsoft Visio11%
Microsoft Azure10%
Customer Relationship Management9%
Enterprise Resource Planning9%
SAP9%
Agile8%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

Sopra Steria49
Capco39
Genpact India Pvt. Ltd.22
AvePoint19
State Street19
ING Bank Personeel BV17
capitalone.wd12.capital_one16
ProSidian Consulting, LLC14
Barclays Global Serv. Cent13
Accenture do Brasil Ltda Company12
CoverGo12
Parsons Technical Services, Inc.11

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