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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 110 97
Rank change year-on-year -34 -13 -1
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 312 520 852
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.50% 2.28% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.56% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 377 626
10th Percentile £361 £388 £360
25th Percentile £405 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.85%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £545
90th Percentile £600 £650 £628
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 3
10th Percentile - £35.00 £25.92
25th Percentile £18.35 £62.63 £32.14
Median hourly rate £36.13 £66.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +53.49% +72.00%
75th Percentile £81.33 £70.00 £48.25
90th Percentile £84.22 - £51.10
UK median hourly rate £36.13 £64.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -43.99% +82.98% +28.18%

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 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 84 £475 -4.04% 49
South East -35 62 £500 +5.26% 38
Scotland -7 58 £450 - 17
North West +8 54 £475 -5.00% 26
Midlands -12 49 £458 -8.50% 39
South West -5 32 £553 -5.56% 22
Yorkshire +10 26 £490 +5.95% 16
East of England +1 26 £425 -12.82% 14
West Midlands -31 26 £475 -7.32% 24
East Midlands +26 23 £450 -4.00% 15
North East +11 3 £370 -7.50% 7
Wales +8 3 £513 +7.89% 7
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 3
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 (4.17%) Confluence
2 8 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.96%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.32%) LiveLink
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.21%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.92%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.28%) Magento
4 3 (0.96%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.64%) Maximo
5 2 (0.64%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.64%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.32%) Relativity
6 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.32%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.32%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.32%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.32%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 24 (7.69%) Azure
2 22 (7.05%) SaaS
3 19 (6.09%) AWS
4 15 (4.81%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.24%) PaaS
9 5 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.28%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 4 (1.28%) Serverless
10 4 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (0.96%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (0.64%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.64%) Intacct
12 2 (0.64%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.64%) SonarCloud
13 1 (0.32%) Bloomreach
13 1 (0.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.92%) WAN
2 5 (1.60%) SDH
3 4 (1.28%) Junos
4 3 (0.96%) PBX
4 3 (0.96%) Skype
4 3 (0.96%) VoIP
5 2 (0.64%) Internet
5 2 (0.64%) SMS
6 1 (0.32%) Firewall
6 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.32%) LAN
6 1 (0.32%) MPLS
6 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.49%) Power BI
2 6 (1.92%) SAP HANA
3 4 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (1.28%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (0.96%) GIS
4 3 (0.96%) Tableau
5 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.32%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.32%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 21 (6.73%) JIRA
2 7 (2.24%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.64%) Git
3 2 (0.64%) Moq
3 2 (0.64%) NUnit
4 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 120 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 67 (21.47%) Finance
3 57 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (15.06%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.05%) Manufacturing
6 20 (6.41%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (6.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 19 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (5.45%) Telecoms
9 15 (4.81%) Legal
10 13 (4.17%) Retail
11 12 (3.85%) Banking
11 12 (3.85%) Local Government
12 11 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.60%) Marketing
14 5 (1.60%) Police
15 4 (1.28%) Aeronautics
15 4 (1.28%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 212 (67.95%) Analyst
2 185 (59.29%) Business Analyst
3 39 (12.50%) Senior
4 34 (10.90%) Senior Analyst
5 31 (9.94%) Architect
6 30 (9.62%) Senior Business Analyst
7 18 (5.77%) Project Manager
8 16 (5.13%) Lead
9 15 (4.81%) SAP Analyst
9 15 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.85%) IT Analyst
11 11 (3.53%) IT Manager
12 10 (3.21%) Business IT Analyst
12 10 (3.21%) IT Business Analyst
13 9 (2.88%) Business Architect
13 9 (2.88%) Product Analyst
13 9 (2.88%) Service Manager
14 8 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
14 8 (2.56%) IT Services Delivery Manager
14 8 (2.56%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.24%) .NET
2 5 (1.60%) HTML
3 4 (1.28%) .NET Framework
3 4 (1.28%) ASP.NET
3 4 (1.28%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (1.28%) CSS
4 3 (0.96%) JSON
4 3 (0.96%) XML
5 2 (0.64%) Blazor
5 2 (0.64%) RESTful
5 2 (0.64%) WCF
6 1 (0.32%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.32%) Node.js
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.41%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.21%) Virtual Team
4 9 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.24%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.24%) NHS
6 6 (1.92%) IoT
6 6 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.92%) Wiki
7 5 (1.60%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (1.60%) Robotics
8 4 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.96%) Blackberry
9 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.96%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.64%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.64%) Smart Meter
11 1 (0.32%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.56%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.64%) Windows
3 1 (0.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (34.29%) Agile
2 80 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 77 (24.68%) Requirements Gathering
5 75 (24.04%) Project Management
6 68 (21.79%) User Stories
7 53 (16.99%) Change Management
8 52 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 43 (13.78%) Scrum
10 38 (12.18%) Acceptance Criteria
11 36 (11.54%) Decision-Making
12 32 (10.26%) Waterfall
13 31 (9.94%) Workshop Facilitation
14 28 (8.97%) Business Case
15 26 (8.33%) Project Delivery
16 25 (8.01%) Business Process Modelling
16 25 (8.01%) User Acceptance Testing
17 24 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (7.69%) Data Protection
17 24 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.56%) SQL
1 8 (2.56%) Swift
2 7 (2.24%) JavaScript
3 6 (1.92%) Java
4 4 (1.28%) C#
4 4 (1.28%) Python
5 2 (0.64%) Perl
6 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 61 (19.55%) Degree
2 34 (10.90%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.81%) IIBA
5 14 (4.49%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.21%) CBAP
7 7 (2.24%) CCNP
7 7 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.24%) HND
7 7 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (1.92%) ISEB
9 5 (1.60%) ACCA
9 5 (1.60%) CIMA
10 4 (1.28%) JNCIA
11 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.96%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.96%) NVQ Level 4
11 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.81%) GxP
2 12 (3.85%) GDPR
2 12 (3.85%) Good Clinical Practice
3 10 (3.21%) QA
4 4 (1.28%) NIST
5 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.64%) PMO
6 2 (0.64%) SLA
7 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.32%) COREP
7 1 (0.32%) GMP
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.32%) SEPA
7 1 (0.32%) TARGET2
System Software
1 4 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.62%) SAP
3 9 (2.88%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.56%) Cadence
4 8 (2.56%) Okta
4 8 (2.56%) Oracle
5 7 (2.24%) Cisco
5 7 (2.24%) IBM
5 7 (2.24%) Juniper
5 7 (2.24%) Nokia
6 5 (1.60%) Adobe
6 5 (1.60%) VMware
7 4 (1.28%) Ariba
7 4 (1.28%) Avaya
7 4 (1.28%) Ciena
7 4 (1.28%) Google
7 4 (1.28%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.28%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.96%) Ribbon
8 3 (0.96%) Sage