Business Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Business Analyst (BA)
England > North of England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the North of England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 29 32
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 192 319 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.11% 5.61% 5.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.41% 5.88% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 256 307
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £405 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +4.86% +8.82%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £525
90th Percentile £588 £613 £571
England median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - £18.29
25th Percentile - - £18.75
Median hourly rate £20.77 £27.98 £21.20
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +31.98% -2.48%
75th Percentile - - £22.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.64 £60.25 £26.14
% change year-on-year -64.09% +130.53% -28.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,358 5,423 6,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 95.37% 96.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,821 5,048
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £387 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £556
90th Percentile £672 £684 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 154 276
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.08 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.52 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.74 £30.65 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -32.33% +63.96% +4.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.66 £29.88
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.48 £51.60
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -7 101 £475 +2.70% 27
Yorkshire -9 79 £475 -5.00% 28
North East +10 11 £475 -5.00% 4
Business Analyst
England

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Business Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 67 (34.90%) Requirements Gathering
2 63 (32.81%) Social Skills
3 55 (28.65%) Business Analysis
4 52 (27.08%) Agile
5 43 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (18.23%) Degree
6 35 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (17.71%) User Stories
8 33 (17.19%) Workshop Facilitation
9 31 (16.15%) Finance
10 27 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
11 26 (13.54%) Public Sector
12 25 (13.02%) Waterfall
13 20 (10.42%) Requirements Workshops
14 18 (9.38%) Project Management
15 17 (8.85%) Acceptance Criteria
16 15 (7.81%) Scrum
16 15 (7.81%) Data Analysis
16 15 (7.81%) GAP Analysis
16 15 (7.81%) Microsoft
17 14 (7.29%) Change Management
17 14 (7.29%) Use Case
18 13 (6.77%) Product Ownership
18 13 (6.77%) Power Platform
18 13 (6.77%) JIRA
18 13 (6.77%) SDLC
18 13 (6.77%) Power BI
18 13 (6.77%) Manufacturing
18 13 (6.77%) ERP
19 12 (6.25%) MS Visio

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.13%) Confluence
2 3 (1.56%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) LiveLink
Applications
1 12 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 12 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.65%) SAP PM
3 4 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 13 (6.77%) Power Platform
2 6 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (3.13%) SaaS
3 5 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.56%) IaaS
5 1 (0.52%) AWS
5 1 (0.52%) Azure
5 1 (0.52%) Collibra
5 1 (0.52%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) WAN
2 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.77%) Power BI
2 4 (2.08%) Tableau
3 3 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.56%) GIS
4 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.04%) EDRMS
4 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.52%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (6.77%) JIRA
2 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.52%) PyCharm
2 1 (0.52%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 63 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.15%) Finance
3 27 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.54%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.77%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.73%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (4.69%) Banking
8 8 (4.17%) Retail
9 7 (3.65%) Legal
10 3 (1.56%) Billing
10 3 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Games
11 2 (1.04%) Local Government
11 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Law
12 1 (0.52%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.56%) .NET
2 1 (0.52%) OAuth
2 1 (0.52%) OpenID
2 1 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.77%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (2.60%) Industry 4.0
3 5 (2.60%) IoT
3 5 (2.60%) Robotics
4 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.04%) NHS
6 2 (1.04%) Tandem
7 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.52%) Life Science
7 1 (0.52%) PMI
7 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.52%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (34.90%) Requirements Gathering
2 55 (28.65%) Business Analysis
3 52 (27.08%) Agile
4 43 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (17.71%) User Stories
7 33 (17.19%) Workshop Facilitation
8 25 (13.02%) Waterfall
9 20 (10.42%) Requirements Workshops
10 18 (9.38%) Project Management
11 17 (8.85%) Acceptance Criteria
12 15 (7.81%) Data Analysis
12 15 (7.81%) GAP Analysis
12 15 (7.81%) Scrum
13 14 (7.29%) Change Management
13 14 (7.29%) Use Case
14 13 (6.77%) ERP
14 13 (6.77%) SDLC
15 12 (6.25%) Migration
15 12 (6.25%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.08%) Python
2 3 (1.56%) C#
3 2 (1.04%) Java
3 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.04%) SQL
4 1 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 35 (18.23%) Degree
2 9 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.13%) CBAP
4 5 (2.60%) IIBA
4 5 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.56%) HNC
7 2 (1.04%) ISEB
8 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.65%) GDPR
2 6 (3.13%) Good Clinical Practice
2 6 (3.13%) GxP
2 6 (3.13%) QA
3 5 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.04%) GRC
5 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) COREP
5 1 (0.52%) FINREP
Systems Management
1 3 (1.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.25%) SAP
3 6 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.56%) ESRI
6 2 (1.04%) Capita
6 2 (1.04%) FNZ
6 2 (1.04%) Workday
7 1 (0.52%) F5
7 1 (0.52%) Pega
7 1 (0.52%) Sage
7 1 (0.52%) Splunk