What Lead Business Analysis Jobs Ask For
Across 645 open Lead Business Analysis postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are agile, ai, sql.
Updated October 17, 2026
742 open Lead Business Analysis postings. The percentages below are measured over the 645 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| agile | 37% |
| ai | 29% |
| sql | 27% |
| analytics | 25% |
| user-stories | 24% |
| automation | 20% |
| stakeholder-management | 20% |
| requirements-gathering | 17% |
| cloud | 17% |
| scrum | 16% |
| acceptance-criteria | 16% |
| jira | 15% |
| process-improvement | 15% |
| solution-design | 14% |
| powerbi | 13% |
| api | 11% |
| azure | 10% |
| confluence | 10% |
| vendor-management | 9% |
| data-quality | 9% |
| erp | 9% |
| devops | 8% |
| visio | 8% |
| sdlc | 8% |
| crm | 7% |
| oracle | 7% |
| python | 7% |
| salesforce | 7% |
| sap | 7% |
| data-analytics | 7% |
| gap-analysis | 7% |
| root-cause-analysis | 6% |
| data-modeling | 6% |
| requirements-elicitation | 6% |
| data-governance | 6% |
| generative-ai | 5% |
| tableau | 5% |
| azure-devops | 5% |
| bpmn | 5% |
| aws | 4% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all Business Analysis levels
Most Business Analysis postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- agile 7,641
- sql 6,285
- user-stories 5,647
- ai 4,766
- analytics 4,586
- automation 4,158
- jira 4,150
- acceptance-criteria 3,617
- stakeholder-management 3,371
- process-improvement 3,311
- scrum 3,290
- requirements-gathering 3,239