Data Business Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Business Analyst (Data BA)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Business Analyst (Data BA) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £498 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 400 430
Rank change year-on-year +48 +30 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Data Business Analyst 30 52 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.23% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 37 65
10th Percentile £363 £326 £355
25th Percentile £405 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £555 £556 £525
90th Percentile £562 £610 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £516
% change year-on-year - +6.54% +3.25%

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 18,841 22,170 29,329
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 94.33% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,486 20,548
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
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 2,255 1,134 1,466
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +3.98%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Data Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data 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 Data Business Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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 +18 9 £500 -11.11% 1
South East +8 8 £555 +23.33%
East of England +9 6 £410 -21.90%
North West +22 5 £500 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire +19 4 £504 -10.44%
Scotland +44 3 - -
Midlands +27 3 £400 -24.71%
West Midlands +16 2 £425 -20.00%
South West +16 1 £288 -43.90%
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
Data Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Data 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 Data Business Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (36.67%) GDPR
2 10 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (30.00%) Power BI
3 9 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 8 (26.67%) Data Governance
4 8 (26.67%) JIRA
5 7 (23.33%) Product Ownership
6 6 (20.00%) Finance
6 6 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (20.00%) SQL
6 6 (20.00%) Python
6 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (20.00%) Confluence
7 5 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
7 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (16.67%) Migration
7 5 (16.67%) Agile
8 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
8 4 (13.33%) Lean Six Sigma
8 4 (13.33%) Groovy
8 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
8 4 (13.33%) Workflow
8 4 (13.33%) Six Sigma
8 4 (13.33%) Eclipse
8 4 (13.33%) Good Clinical Practice
8 4 (13.33%) GxP
8 4 (13.33%) Java
8 4 (13.33%) JavaScript

Data 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 6 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SAS
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.33%) Collibra
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) IaaS
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Power BI
2 4 (13.33%) Metadata
2 4 (13.33%) Tableau
3 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) JIRA
2 4 (13.33%) Eclipse
2 4 (13.33%) PyCharm
General
1 10 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Automotive
6 1 (3.33%) Billing
6 1 (3.33%) Local Government
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Life Science
3 1 (3.33%) NHS
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (26.67%) Data Governance
3 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (16.67%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (16.67%) Migration
4 5 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
5 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Lean Six Sigma
5 4 (13.33%) Six Sigma
5 4 (13.33%) Workflow
6 3 (10.00%) CRM
6 3 (10.00%) Data Management
6 3 (10.00%) ETL
6 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
7 2 (6.67%) Data Strategy
7 2 (6.67%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) Python
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) Groovy
2 4 (13.33%) Java
2 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.33%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (36.67%) GDPR
2 4 (13.33%) Good Clinical Practice
2 4 (13.33%) GxP
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco
2 1 (3.33%) Dell
2 1 (3.33%) Optimizely
2 1 (3.33%) VMware