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Business Analyst: skills and learning path

Business analysts sit between the business and the tech team: they gather requirements, write user stories and check that what gets built solves the problem.

Based on 2,000 job posts, Sep 2024 – Mar 2026 Typical experience asked: 2–6 years Business Analyst jobs

Check your resume against Business Analyst job posts

See which of these skills your resume shows and get a learning path for the rest. No sign-up needed, and nothing you paste or upload is saved.

What Business Analyst job posts ask for

The share of job posts that ask for each skill, rounded. Core skills are asked for in at least 15% of posts.

Learning path

The core skills in order, with a free course and practice on jobpe for each. Check your resume above to see only the skills you're missing.

  1. 1

    Requirements analysis

    Core skill · in about 30% of job posts
  2. 2

    SQL

    Core skill · in about 25% of job posts
  3. 3

    Project management

    Core skill · in about 25% of job posts
  4. 4

    Agile and Scrum

    Core skill · in about 25% of job posts
  5. 5

    Data analysis

    Core skill · in about 20% of job posts

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