Best Jobs For Former Business Analysts [2023]

It’s tough to be a business analyst nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a business analyst isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become business analysts in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many business analysts no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former business analysts to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former BUSINESS ANALYSTS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former BUSINESS ANALYSTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Senior Business Analyst	8.47%
2	Project Manager	3.51%
3	Consultant	1.67%
4	Data Analyst	1.2%
5	Business Analyst-Consultant	1.04%
6	Business Analyst/project Manager	1.03%
7	Product Manager	1.0%
8	Systems Analyst	0.92%
9	Finance Analyst	0.9%
10	Lead Business Analyst	0.89%
11	Senior Project Manager	0.89%
12	Senior Consultant	0.8%
13	Program Manager	0.72%
14	Quality Assurance Analyst	0.71%
15	Information Technology Project Manager	0.68%
16	Senior Analyst	0.65%
17	Technical Business Analyst	0.63%
18	Senior Finance Analyst	0.56%
19	Analyst	0.53%
20	Business Consultant	0.5%
21	Business & Data Analyst	0.49%
22	Manager	0.47%
23	Operations Manager	0.46%
24	Senior Systems Analyst	0.41%
25	Project Coordinator	0.38%
26	Vice President	0.38%
27	Senior Manager	0.37%
28	Quality Assurance Lead	0.35%
29	Administrative Assistant	0.33%
30	Lead Business Systems Analyst	0.33%
31	Technical Writer	0.32%
32	Senior Data Analyst-	0.32%
33	Information Technology Consultant	0.31%
34	Project Analyst	0.3%
35	Information Technology Manager	0.3%
36	Owner	0.29%
37	Business Process Analyst	0.29%
38	Team Leader	0.28%
39	Project Leader	0.27%
40	Information Technology Analyst	0.27%
41	Operations Analyst	0.27%
42	Systems Administrator	0.26%
43	Associate	0.26%
44	Management Consultant	0.25%
45	Assistant Vice President	0.24%
46	Customer Service Representative	0.24%
47	Programmer Analyst	0.24%
48	Office Manager	0.24%
49	Finance Manager	0.24%
50	Senior Quality Assurance Analyst	0.23%
51	Account Manager	0.23%
52	Senior Software Engineer	0.22%
53	Business Intelligence Analyst	0.22%
54	Quality Assurance	0.21%
55	Technical Analyst	0.21%
56	Internship	0.21%
57	Senior Business Data Analyst	0.21%
58	Business Analyst/quality Analyst	0.21%
59	Marketing Manager	0.21%
60	Systems Engineer	0.21%
61	Business Systems Consultant	0.2%
62	Scrum Master	0.2%
63	Business Developer	0.2%
64	Senior Technical Business Analyst	0.19%
65	Business Manager	0.19%
66	Accountant	0.18%
67	Product Owner	0.18%
68	Marketing Analyst	0.18%
69	Account Executive	0.18%
70	Management Analyst	0.18%
71	Reporting Analyst	0.18%
72	Development Administrator	0.18%
73	Applications Analyst	0.18%
74	Quality Assurance Tester	0.18%
75	Human Resources Coordinator	0.17%
76	Administrator	0.17%
77	Quality Analyst	0.17%
78	Business Analyst-Product Owner	0.16%
79	Business Development Manager	0.16%
80	Specialist	0.16%
81	Quality Assurance Engineer	0.16%
82	Salesforce Administrator	0.15%
83	Senior Business Analyst/scrum Master	0.15%
84	Director	0.15%
85	Principal Consultant	0.15%
86	Research Assistant	0.15%
87	Consultant/project Manager	0.15%
88	Technical Consultant	0.15%
89	Salesforce Developer	0.15%
90	Purchasing Manager	0.15%
91	Software Engineer	0.15%
92	Technical Project Manager	0.15%
93	Functional Analyst	0.15%
94	Analyst Lead	0.15%
95	Technical Support Specialist	0.14%
96	Controller	0.14%
97	Applications Developer	0.14%
98	Senior Associate	0.14%
99	Software Developer	0.14%
100	Developer Analyst	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former BUSINESS ANALYSTS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a business analyst would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former business analysts to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former BUSINESS ANALYSTS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed business analyst under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a business analyst, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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