Business Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 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 71 44 36
Rank change year-on-year -27 -8 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 572 1,092 1,668
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.79% 4.65% 5.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.02% 4.94% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 852 1,264
10th Percentile £350 £363 £356
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £519
90th Percentile £588 £600 £570
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile - £20.25 £18.30
25th Percentile - £26.05 £18.75
Median hourly rate £20.77 £63.75 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -67.42% +184.60% -4.31%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £32.95
90th Percentile - £77.35 £47.30
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £60.25 £26.27
% change year-on-year -58.09% +129.35% -27.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
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 Analyst within the UK excluding London 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 of England -10 192 £475 -2.06% 55
South East -29 116 £475 - 41
North West -7 101 £475 +2.70% 26
Scotland +3 100 £450 +5.39% 7
Yorkshire -9 79 £475 -5.00% 26
Midlands -28 75 £450 -5.26% 37
East of England -7 48 £425 -12.82% 15
West Midlands -40 47 £450 -5.26% 23
South West -48 33 £513 -2.38% 15
East Midlands +19 26 £425 -8.11% 14
North East +10 11 £475 -5.00% 3
Wales +1 7 £420 -11.58% 2
Northern Ireland -5 4 £368 -10.91% 8
Business Analyst
UK

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 190 (33.22%) Business Analysis
2 165 (28.85%) Social Skills
3 159 (27.80%) Agile
4 140 (24.48%) Requirements Gathering
5 125 (21.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 104 (18.18%) Finance
7 102 (17.83%) User Stories
8 82 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (13.99%) Degree
10 77 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
11 70 (12.24%) Project Management
12 68 (11.89%) Public Sector
13 62 (10.84%) Workshop Facilitation
14 52 (9.09%) Manufacturing
14 52 (9.09%) ERP
15 50 (8.74%) Scrum
16 48 (8.39%) Microsoft
17 47 (8.22%) SAP
17 47 (8.22%) Change Management
17 47 (8.22%) JIRA
17 47 (8.22%) User Acceptance Testing
18 44 (7.69%) Data Analysis
19 43 (7.52%) CRM
19 43 (7.52%) Waterfall
20 42 (7.34%) Business Case
21 41 (7.17%) Acceptance Criteria
21 41 (7.17%) Roadmaps
22 36 (6.29%) Use Case
23 35 (6.12%) Process Improvement
24 34 (5.94%) Product Ownership

Business Analyst Skill Set
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 31 (5.42%) Confluence
2 7 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) LiveLink
Applications
1 32 (5.59%) MS Visio
2 29 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.22%) SAP PM
3 6 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.70%) SAP Hybris
4 4 (0.70%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.52%) Maximo
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 28 (4.90%) Power Platform
2 25 (4.37%) Azure
3 15 (2.62%) SaaS
4 12 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (1.75%) AWS
6 9 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
8 6 (1.05%) Collibra
9 5 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (0.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 3 (0.52%) Boomi
10 3 (0.52%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.52%) IaaS
10 3 (0.52%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.35%) IBM Blueworks
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.35%) OCI
11 2 (0.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 1 (0.17%) Adobe Analytics
12 1 (0.17%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.52%) Internet
1 3 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
1 3 (0.52%) WAN
2 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.17%) Network Security
2 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.90%) Power BI
2 8 (1.40%) Tableau
3 6 (1.05%) Metadata
3 6 (1.05%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.52%) GIS
6 2 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.35%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.35%) Power Query
6 2 (0.35%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.17%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 47 (8.22%) JIRA
2 6 (1.05%) Eclipse
2 6 (1.05%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.17%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 165 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.18%) Finance
3 77 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.89%) Public Sector
5 52 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 30 (5.24%) Pharmaceutical
7 27 (4.72%) Banking
8 24 (4.20%) Retail
9 16 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.45%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.27%) Local Government
12 11 (1.92%) Legal
12 11 (1.92%) Marketing
13 10 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.22%) Automotive
16 6 (1.05%) Billing
16 6 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.87%) XML
2 4 (0.70%) .NET
2 4 (0.70%) JSON
2 4 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (0.35%) HTML
3 2 (0.35%) Web Services
4 1 (0.17%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.17%) OAuth
4 1 (0.17%) OpenID
4 1 (0.17%) pytest
4 1 (0.17%) REST
4 1 (0.17%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.94%) Product Ownership
2 15 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 10 (1.75%) IoT
5 7 (1.22%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.22%) Wiki
6 6 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.05%) Life Science
6 6 (1.05%) NHS
6 6 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.05%) Operational Technology
7 5 (0.87%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (0.87%) Robotics
8 4 (0.70%) LIMS
8 4 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (33.22%) Business Analysis
2 159 (27.80%) Agile
3 140 (24.48%) Requirements Gathering
4 125 (21.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 102 (17.83%) User Stories
6 82 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (12.24%) Project Management
8 62 (10.84%) Workshop Facilitation
9 52 (9.09%) ERP
10 50 (8.74%) Scrum
11 47 (8.22%) Change Management
11 47 (8.22%) User Acceptance Testing
12 44 (7.69%) Data Analysis
13 43 (7.52%) CRM
13 43 (7.52%) Waterfall
14 42 (7.34%) Business Case
15 41 (7.17%) Acceptance Criteria
15 41 (7.17%) Roadmaps
16 36 (6.29%) Use Case
17 35 (6.12%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 20 (3.50%) SQL
2 14 (2.45%) Python
3 9 (1.57%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.22%) Java
5 6 (1.05%) Groovy
6 3 (0.52%) C#
7 1 (0.17%) JCL
7 1 (0.17%) R
7 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (13.99%) Degree
2 33 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 19 (3.32%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.80%) IIBA
5 12 (2.10%) CBAP
5 12 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.92%) ISEB
7 8 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.87%) ACCA
8 5 (0.87%) CIMA
9 3 (0.52%) HNC
9 3 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.35%) CSPO
10 2 (0.35%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.17%) APMP
11 1 (0.17%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.55%) GDPR
2 18 (3.15%) Good Clinical Practice
2 18 (3.15%) GxP
3 13 (2.27%) QA
4 7 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.52%) PMO
7 2 (0.35%) COREP
7 2 (0.35%) FINREP
7 2 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) Basel III
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.17%) NIST
8 1 (0.17%) PSD2
8 1 (0.17%) SEPA
8 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.17%) TARGET2
8 1 (0.17%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 4 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 47 (8.22%) SAP
3 15 (2.62%) Oracle
4 14 (2.45%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.22%) Cadence
7 6 (1.05%) Workday
8 5 (0.87%) Adobe
8 5 (0.87%) Ariba
9 4 (0.70%) IFS
10 3 (0.52%) ESRI
11 2 (0.35%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.35%) CA
11 2 (0.35%) Capita
11 2 (0.35%) FNZ
11 2 (0.35%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.35%) Splunk
12 1 (0.17%) F5
12 1 (0.17%) Pega
12 1 (0.17%) Talend