Business Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Business Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Analysis over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 107 93
Rank change year-on-year -24 -14 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 333 557 873
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.62% 2.37% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.65% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 412 660
10th Percentile £358 £378 £362
25th Percentile £405 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.24%
75th Percentile £543 £550 £540
90th Percentile £611 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile - £35.00 £43.55
25th Percentile £18.35 £61.50 £45.13
Median hourly rate £36.13 £66.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +37.50% +100.00%
75th Percentile £81.33 £70.00 £50.63
90th Percentile £84.22 - £52.05
UK median hourly rate £36.13 £62.75 £48.00
% change year-on-year -42.43% +30.73% +81.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 of England +8 88 £475 -0.52% 37
Scotland +4 69 £450 +5.02% 7
South East -34 65 £500 +5.26% 34
North West +11 57 £475 - 17
Midlands -9 52 £475 -5.00% 33
South West -2 33 £575 +4.55% 25
West Midlands -26 28 £475 -5.00% 23
Yorkshire +10 27 £490 -2.00% 15
East of England -5 26 £426 -14.75% 15
East Midlands +29 23 £450 -2.70% 10
North East +17 3 £370 -7.50% 5
Wales +6 3 £513 +7.89% 3
Northern Ireland +1 1 £335 -45.97% 4
Business Analysis
UK

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (3.90%) Confluence
2 7 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.90%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.30%) LiveLink
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.30%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (4.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.40%) SAP PM
3 5 (1.50%) Magento
4 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.90%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.90%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.60%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.30%) Maximo
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.30%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.30%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.30%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 24 (7.21%) Azure
2 20 (6.01%) SaaS
3 19 (5.71%) AWS
4 15 (4.50%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.10%) PaaS
8 5 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.50%) Serverless
9 4 (1.20%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.90%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.60%) Intacct
11 2 (0.60%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.60%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.60%) SonarCloud
12 1 (0.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 1 (0.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.80%) WAN
2 5 (1.50%) SDH
3 4 (1.20%) Junos
4 3 (0.90%) PBX
4 3 (0.90%) Skype
4 3 (0.90%) VoIP
5 2 (0.60%) Firewall
5 2 (0.60%) SMS
6 1 (0.30%) HTTP
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
6 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.30%) LAN
6 1 (0.30%) MPLS
6 1 (0.30%) Network Security
6 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.20%) Power BI
2 7 (2.10%) SAP HANA
3 4 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (0.90%) GIS
4 3 (0.90%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.90%) Tableau
5 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.30%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.30%) Power Query
6 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.30%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 19 (5.71%) JIRA
2 7 (2.10%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (0.90%) Git
4 2 (0.60%) Moq
4 2 (0.60%) NUnit
5 1 (0.30%) GitLab
5 1 (0.30%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 134 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 74 (22.22%) Finance
3 62 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (15.32%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.21%) Presentation Skills
6 22 (6.61%) Manufacturing
7 20 (6.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 19 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (5.11%) Retail
9 17 (5.11%) Telecoms
10 15 (4.50%) Banking
11 14 (4.20%) Legal
12 13 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (3.60%) Local Government
14 6 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.50%) Retail Banking
16 4 (1.20%) Aeronautics
16 4 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (1.20%) Marketing
16 4 (1.20%) Police
Job Titles
1 218 (65.47%) Analyst
2 191 (57.36%) Business Analyst
3 38 (11.41%) Senior
4 33 (9.91%) Architect
4 33 (9.91%) Senior Analyst
5 29 (8.71%) Senior Business Analyst
6 25 (7.51%) Project Manager
7 17 (5.11%) SAP Analyst
8 16 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.50%) Lead
10 14 (4.20%) IT Manager
11 12 (3.60%) IT Analyst
12 11 (3.30%) Service Manager
13 10 (3.00%) Business IT Analyst
13 10 (3.00%) Consultant
13 10 (3.00%) Digital Analyst
13 10 (3.00%) IT Business Analyst
13 10 (3.00%) IT Services Delivery Manager
13 10 (3.00%) IT Services Manager
13 10 (3.00%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.70%) .NET
2 5 (1.50%) HTML
2 5 (1.50%) XML
3 4 (1.20%) .NET Framework
3 4 (1.20%) ASP.NET
3 4 (1.20%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (1.20%) CSS
3 4 (1.20%) JSON
4 3 (0.90%) RESTful
5 2 (0.60%) Blazor
5 2 (0.60%) WCF
6 1 (0.30%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.30%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.30%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.30%) Node.js
6 1 (0.30%) OAuth
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.30%) React
6 1 (0.30%) REST
6 1 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.31%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.01%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.30%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.10%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.80%) Wiki
7 5 (1.50%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (1.50%) IoT
7 5 (1.50%) NHS
7 5 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.50%) Robotics
7 5 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.90%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.60%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.60%) Life Science
10 2 (0.60%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.40%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.30%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (35.14%) Agile
2 88 (26.43%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (25.53%) Requirements Gathering
4 84 (25.23%) Project Management
5 81 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 68 (20.42%) User Stories
7 56 (16.82%) Change Management
8 52 (15.62%) Roadmaps
9 45 (13.51%) Scrum
10 39 (11.71%) Acceptance Criteria
10 39 (11.71%) Business Case
11 38 (11.41%) Decision-Making
12 37 (11.11%) Project Delivery
13 33 (9.91%) Waterfall
14 28 (8.41%) Business Process Modelling
14 28 (8.41%) Workshop Facilitation
15 26 (7.81%) ITIL
16 25 (7.51%) DevOps
16 25 (7.51%) PRINCE2
16 25 (7.51%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.40%) JavaScript
1 8 (2.40%) SQL
1 8 (2.40%) Swift
2 7 (2.10%) Java
3 5 (1.50%) C#
4 4 (1.20%) Python
5 2 (0.60%) Perl
6 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 61 (18.32%) Degree
2 38 (11.41%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.91%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.50%) IIBA
5 14 (4.20%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.00%) CBAP
7 7 (2.10%) CCNP
7 7 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.10%) HND
7 7 (2.10%) ISEB
7 7 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.50%) ACCA
8 5 (1.50%) APMP
8 5 (1.50%) CIMA
9 4 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.20%) JNCIA
10 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.90%) NVQ Level 4
10 3 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.50%) GxP
2 14 (4.20%) GDPR
2 14 (4.20%) QA
3 12 (3.60%) Good Clinical Practice
4 6 (1.80%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.20%) NIST
6 3 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.60%) COREP
7 2 (0.60%) FINREP
7 2 (0.60%) PMO
7 2 (0.60%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) Basel III
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.30%) SEPA
8 1 (0.30%) TARGET2
System Software
1 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.11%) SAP
3 11 (3.30%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.40%) Juniper
4 8 (2.40%) Okta
5 7 (2.10%) Cadence
5 7 (2.10%) Cisco
5 7 (2.10%) IBM
5 7 (2.10%) Nokia
5 7 (2.10%) Oracle
6 5 (1.50%) Ariba
6 5 (1.50%) VMware
7 4 (1.20%) Adobe
7 4 (1.20%) Avaya
7 4 (1.20%) Ciena
7 4 (1.20%) Google
7 4 (1.20%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.90%) ESRI
8 3 (0.90%) Ribbon
8 3 (0.90%) Sage