Business Analyst Resume Keywords

Top 20 skills in business analyst job postings

1. 1

   SQL
   25% of postings16% as required
2. 2

   Excel
   21% of postings15% as required
3. 3

   Data analysis
   17% of postings15% as required
4. 4

   Business analysis
   16% of postings13% as required
5. 5

   Power BI
   15% of postings10% as required
6. 6

   Project management
   13% of postings11% as required
7. 7

   Jira
   12% of postings8% as required
8. 8

   Agile
   10% of postings7% as required
9. 9

   Tableau
   10% of postings7% as required
10. 10

    Microsoft Office
    7% of postings6% as required
11. 11

    Python
    7% of postings6% as required
12. 12

    Visio
    6% of postings5% as required
13. 13

    Reporting
    6% of postings6% as required
14. 14

    Requirements gathering
    6% of postings5% as required
15. 15

    Confluence
    6% of postings3% as required
16. 16

    Salesforce
    6% of postings4% as required
17. 17

    PowerPoint
    5% of postings3% as required
18. 18

    Communication
    5% of postings5% as required
19. 19

    Process improvement
    5% of postings4% as required
20. 20

    User acceptance testing
    4% of postings4% as required

Source: public postings from employer career sites collected by LetMeApply. Skills are read from each posting with AI and merged across spellings (for example, AWS and Amazon Web Services). Each employer counts at most 3 times, so one company hiring in bulk does not skew the list.