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The Business Analyst Talent Pool in Poland

August 9, 2023

By Sonny Van Assche

Business analysts are key players in software development, acting as translators between customers and developers. With over 10,000 business analysts in Poland alone, it’s a rapidly growing field. This blog post breaks down the business analyst role, explores talent insights, and analyses key trends.

What Does a Business Analyst Do?

A business analyst is like Google Translate for software projects – they bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams. As one analyst explains:

“A Business Analyst is like Google Translate; they translate the customers’ language to a language developers understand. They talk to customers to understand the problem that new software needs to solve. The analyst explains this to the developers and helps them build the right features.”

Specifically, the key responsibilities of a business analyst include:

  • Communicating with customers to understand business needs
  • Translating those needs into precise requirements for developers
  • Creating simple diagrams and drawings to illustrate proposed solutions
  • Ensuring the finished software matches the business requirements
  • Updating requirements as customer needs to evolve
  • Using plain language, not complex technical jargon

They are the glue between the business and technical sides, ensuring both groups understand each other.

Key Talent Insights for Poland

Poland has a sizable pool of business analyst talent, with over 10,000 profiles on LinkedIn. Here are some key insights from the data:

  • 392 new profiles were added in the last 12 months
  • 2,271 changed jobs in the past year showing high demand
  • 515 open roles currently posted
  • 2,700 open to new opportunities
  • 56% female, 44% male – a much higher female ratio than many tech roles
  • The average tenure is only 1.6 years, showing high turnover

Salary Ranges (source: Ntiative Business Insights)

Typical salary ranges in PLN per month:

Level B2B Range UoP Range
Junior 8000-15000 PLN 9000-13000 PLN
Mid 15000-20000 PLN 13000-17000 PLN
Senior 20000-26000 PLN 17000-22000 PLN
Expert 25000+ PLN 24000+ PLN
Lead 23000+ PLN 22000+ PLN


Top Cities for Talent in Poland

The top cities in Poland for business analyst talent are:

  1. Warsaw – 4,011
  2. Krakow – 1,428
  3. Wroclaw – 1,177

However, the top cities for hiring demand relative to supply are Gdansk, Poznan, and Lodz.

Key Companies and Skills

Poland’s top companies hiring business analysts include EPAM Systems, UBS, Capgemini, AstraZeneca, and HSBC. HSBC, in particular, grew its analyst pool by 18% in the past year.

The fastest-growing companies for analyst hiring are LG Electronics, Facebook, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, and eBay.

The most common skills listed by analysts are SQL, data analysis, Jira, requirements analysis, and Agile methodologies. But the fastest growing skills sought are documentation, stakeholder management, business process design, business requirements, and data visualisation.

Conclusion

In summary, business analysts play a high-demand role in Poland’s booming technology sector. With bridging skills between business and tech, they look set to see continued growth and career prospects. Companies should focus on hiring efforts outside Warsaw, emphasise data and soft skills, and provide ongoing training to attract and retain top analysts.

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NTIATIVE is a recruitment agency for Business Analysts and other mid to senior roles in Software Development, Data Engineering and Infrastructure. We are based in Kraków, Poland.

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