I read 201 business analyst postings. Fifty-nine of them never mention business analysis. Chad Wambles · November 2026 I collected every remote business analyst posting LinkedIn showed me over a fifteen day window. Two hundred and one of them. Then I wrote a parser that reads each one and records which of forty-five professional capabilities it actually asks for, from writing user stories to querying data with SQL to running a UAT cycle. I was looking for specializations. The

Ask which project management tool is cheapest and you will get an answer. Ask it again with one requirement attached and you get a different one, at eighteen times the price. I spent a week reading pricing pages: sixty-two paid tiers across fifteen vendors, every price on both billing cadences, every seat cap, every seat minimum, and thirteen capabilities recorded tier by tier. Then I built the thing that does the arithmetic, which is an Excel workbook rather than a dashboard

Three rankings of the eleven country pavilions, and no overall score. Any single number would need weights, and the weights turn out to decide more of the answer than the data does.