Writing a business analyst resume

Everything below is counted from 1,161 live business analyst postings, 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: 1,161
Employers: 508
Remote: 12%
Verified live (7d): 1,034

What they ask for

Counted across 913 of the most recent 1,161 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Microsoft Excel34%
Atlassian JIRA24%
Scrum23%
Microsoft Power BI19%
Confluence15%
Tableau15%
Microsoft PowerPoint14%
Python13%
Microsoft Visio13%
Customer Relationship Management10%
Enterprise Resource Planning10%
SAP9%
Microsoft Azure9%
Agile7%

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

Capco34
Inetum24
AvePoint18
Accenture do Brasil Ltda Company17
Sopra Steria17
capitalone.wd12.capital_one15
SpaceX14
ProSidian Consulting, LLC14
CoverGo13
ING Bank Personeel BV13
State Street13
Activate Interactive Pte Ltd10

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