Agile Business Analyst Contracts

Agile Business Analyst (Agile BA)
UK

The median Agile Business Analyst (Agile BA) daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 630 595
Rank change year-on-year +71 -35 -52
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Business Analyst 41 83 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.14% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.15% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 54 225
10th Percentile £431 £372 £403
25th Percentile £485 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.39% -1.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £560
90th Percentile £613 £600 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +9.47% - +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

Agile Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Business Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Business Analyst over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Business Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +67 31 £550 +7.32% 2
Work from Home +113 23 £529 +20.86% 1
London +82 21 £575 +15.00% 1
UK excluding London +46 13 £520 +9.47% 1
North of England +24 4 £523 -5.00% 1
Yorkshire +20 4 £523 -5.00%
Midlands +30 3 £550 -
Scotland +27 3 £500 +19.76%
West Midlands +29 2 £569 -
South East +14 2 £532 +1.24%
South West +11 1 £575 +26.37%
East Midlands - 1 £450 -

Agile Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Agile 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 featuring Agile Business Analyst in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Agile
2 24 (58.54%) User Stories
3 18 (43.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (39.02%) Business Analysis
5 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
6 14 (34.15%) Acceptance Criteria
7 12 (29.27%) Scrum
7 12 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (26.83%) Product Ownership
9 10 (24.39%) Requirements Gathering
10 9 (21.95%) Workshop Facilitation
10 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (21.95%) CRM
11 8 (19.51%) Requirements Management
11 8 (19.51%) JIRA
11 8 (19.51%) SDLC
12 7 (17.07%) Epics
12 7 (17.07%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (14.63%) Business Process Mapping
13 6 (14.63%) Confluence
13 6 (14.63%) AWS
13 6 (14.63%) SaaS
13 6 (14.63%) PaaS
13 6 (14.63%) QA
13 6 (14.63%) Manufacturing
14 5 (12.20%) Migration
14 5 (12.20%) SAP
14 5 (12.20%) Degree
14 5 (12.20%) Retail

Agile Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (14.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.88%) SAP PM
1 2 (4.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) AWS
1 6 (14.63%) PaaS
1 6 (14.63%) SaaS
2 4 (9.76%) Azure
3 1 (2.44%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.44%) Google Analytics
3 1 (2.44%) Miro
3 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.88%) Tableau
3 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Postman
2 2 (4.88%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.44%) Balsamiq
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 12 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (14.63%) Manufacturing
5 5 (12.20%) Retail
6 4 (9.76%) Marketing
7 3 (7.32%) Banking
7 3 (7.32%) Finance
7 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.44%) Automotive
8 1 (2.44%) Back Office
8 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Legal
8 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) SOAP
2 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.32%) IoT
2 3 (7.32%) Reinsurance
3 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.44%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Online Banking
4 1 (2.44%) PMI
4 1 (2.44%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Agile
2 24 (58.54%) User Stories
3 18 (43.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (39.02%) Business Analysis
5 14 (34.15%) Acceptance Criteria
6 12 (29.27%) Scrum
7 10 (24.39%) Requirements Gathering
8 9 (21.95%) CRM
8 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (21.95%) Workshop Facilitation
9 8 (19.51%) Requirements Management
9 8 (19.51%) SDLC
10 7 (17.07%) Epics
11 6 (14.63%) Business Process Mapping
12 5 (12.20%) Business Process Modelling
12 5 (12.20%) Data Migration
12 5 (12.20%) Migration
13 4 (9.76%) Data Analysis
13 4 (9.76%) Kanban
13 4 (9.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) CSPO
1 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) CBAP
2 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) SAP
2 1 (2.44%) Adobe
2 1 (2.44%) Google
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft