Business Analysis Contracts

Business Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 100 88
Rank change year-on-year -16 -12 +12
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 815 1,400 2,476
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.90% 2.42% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.70% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 987 1,794
10th Percentile £375 £400 £393
25th Percentile £428 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +9.47%
75th Percentile £619 £647 £606
90th Percentile £700 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 6
10th Percentile - £35.00 £30.63
25th Percentile £18.35 £49.00 £36.88
Median hourly rate £36.13 £63.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% +31.25% +81.27%
75th Percentile £81.33 £68.00 £61.06
90th Percentile £84.22 £70.00 £67.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.13 £66.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -45.26% +37.50% +100.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analysis over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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
England -19 681 £538 -2.27% 275
London -17 400 £563 -6.25% 120
Work from Home +9 340 £538 +2.38% 108
UK excluding London -27 329 £475 - 160
North of England +7 86 £475 -4.04% 40
Scotland +2 68 £450 +4.65% 10
South East -27 65 £500 +5.26% 33
North West +4 56 £475 -1.81% 19
Midlands -7 52 £475 -5.00% 31
South West -10 33 £575 +4.55% 27
West Midlands -34 28 £475 -5.00% 23
Yorkshire +2 26 £490 -2.00% 15
East of England +2 25 £428 -14.50% 15
East Midlands +31 23 £450 -2.70% 8
North East +17 3 £370 -7.50% 6
Wales +7 3 £513 +7.89% 3
Northern Ireland 0 1 £335 -45.97% 3

Business Analysis
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 31 (3.80%) Confluence
2 13 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.37%) CMS
6 2 (0.25%) Apache
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.12%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 46 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (4.66%) MS Visio
3 36 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.60%) Aligne
2 13 (1.60%) SAP PM
3 9 (1.10%) Endur
4 6 (0.74%) Magento
4 6 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
4 6 (0.74%) SAP Hybris
5 5 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.49%) SAP BPC
6 4 (0.49%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.37%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.37%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.25%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.25%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 76 (9.33%) Azure
2 39 (4.79%) AWS
3 37 (4.54%) Power Platform
4 33 (4.05%) SaaS
5 29 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (1.84%) Serverless
8 13 (1.60%) PaaS
9 11 (1.35%) Power Automate
10 10 (1.23%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (0.86%) Adobe Analytics
13 7 (0.86%) Azure Functions
13 7 (0.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 6 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
15 5 (0.61%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 5 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.86%) WAN
2 6 (0.74%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (0.61%) SDH
3 5 (0.61%) SSH
4 4 (0.49%) Junos
5 3 (0.37%) Firewall
5 3 (0.37%) Intranet
5 3 (0.37%) PBX
5 3 (0.37%) Skype
5 3 (0.37%) VoIP
6 2 (0.25%) NAS
6 2 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.12%) DKIM
7 1 (0.12%) DMARC
7 1 (0.12%) Internet
7 1 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.12%) MPLS
7 1 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.56%) Power BI
2 13 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (1.60%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.47%) Big Data
4 11 (1.35%) SAP HANA
5 10 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.86%) Hadoop
6 7 (0.86%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.74%) Tableau
8 5 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.61%) OLTP
9 4 (0.49%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.49%) Impala
10 3 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.37%) GIS
10 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.37%) Presto
10 3 (0.37%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 57 (6.99%) JIRA
2 7 (0.86%) Git
2 7 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (0.61%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.61%) JUnit
5 4 (0.49%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.49%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.25%) Moq
6 2 (0.25%) NUnit
7 1 (0.12%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.12%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 313 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 245 (30.06%) Finance
3 183 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (13.74%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.71%) Banking
6 62 (7.61%) Presentation Skills
7 48 (5.89%) Influencing Skills
8 37 (4.54%) Manufacturing
9 31 (3.80%) Retail
10 26 (3.19%) Front Office
10 26 (3.19%) Investment Banking
11 25 (3.07%) Legal
12 24 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 23 (2.82%) Telecoms
14 18 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (1.84%) Local Government
15 15 (1.84%) Marketing
16 14 (1.72%) Law
17 12 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 493 (60.49%) Analyst
2 442 (54.23%) Business Analyst
3 77 (9.45%) Senior
4 67 (8.22%) Project Manager
5 61 (7.48%) Senior Analyst
6 56 (6.87%) Architect
7 54 (6.63%) Senior Business Analyst
8 37 (4.54%) Consultant
8 37 (4.54%) Lead
9 36 (4.42%) Financial Analyst
10 31 (3.80%) Developer
10 31 (3.80%) IT Analyst
11 29 (3.56%) Business IT Analyst
12 28 (3.44%) IT Business Analyst
13 27 (3.31%) Finance Business Analyst
14 25 (3.07%) SAP Analyst
14 25 (3.07%) Technical Analyst
14 25 (3.07%) Technical Business Analyst
15 19 (2.33%) Service Manager
15 19 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.45%) XML
2 17 (2.09%) .NET
2 17 (2.09%) Web Services
3 15 (1.84%) JSON
4 9 (1.10%) HTML
4 9 (1.10%) WPF
5 8 (0.98%) CSS
6 6 (0.74%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (0.61%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.61%) ARM Templates
7 5 (0.61%) Hibernate
7 5 (0.61%) J2EE
7 5 (0.61%) JPA
7 5 (0.61%) REST
7 5 (0.61%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.61%) SOAP
7 5 (0.61%) Spring
8 4 (0.49%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.49%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (0.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.38%) Product Ownership
2 47 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.10%) CMDB
9 9 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.10%) IoT
9 9 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
9 9 (1.10%) Solar Panel
10 8 (0.98%) NHS
10 8 (0.98%) Reinsurance
11 7 (0.86%) Cloud Native
11 7 (0.86%) Derivative
11 7 (0.86%) PMI
11 7 (0.86%) Wiki
12 6 (0.74%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.35%) Unix
2 9 (1.10%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.74%) Linux
4 4 (0.49%) Windows
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (35.95%) Agile
2 196 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
3 188 (23.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 170 (20.86%) Project Management
5 149 (18.28%) User Stories
6 145 (17.79%) Requirements Gathering
7 104 (12.76%) Scrum
8 94 (11.53%) Acceptance Criteria
9 92 (11.29%) Change Management
10 87 (10.67%) Roadmaps
11 81 (9.94%) Project Delivery
12 76 (9.33%) Workshop Facilitation
13 75 (9.20%) Migration
14 74 (9.08%) Data Analysis
15 72 (8.83%) User Acceptance Testing
16 69 (8.47%) Analytics
16 69 (8.47%) Business Case
17 65 (7.98%) Decision-Making
18 62 (7.61%) DevOps
19 60 (7.36%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 62 (7.61%) SQL
2 23 (2.82%) C#
2 23 (2.82%) Java
3 22 (2.70%) Python
4 14 (1.72%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.10%) Perl
6 8 (0.98%) Swift
7 6 (0.74%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.37%) VBA
9 2 (0.25%) Lua
9 2 (0.25%) PHP
10 1 (0.12%) Bash
10 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (16.56%) Degree
2 99 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 79 (9.69%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.45%) CBAP
5 16 (1.96%) IIBA
6 14 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 9 (1.10%) APMP
8 9 (1.10%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.86%) CCNP
9 7 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (0.86%) HND
9 7 (0.86%) ISEB
9 7 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.61%) CSPO
11 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.26%) QA
2 18 (2.21%) GDPR
3 16 (1.96%) GxP
4 12 (1.47%) Good Clinical Practice
5 11 (1.35%) PMO
6 8 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (0.74%) EMIR
7 6 (0.74%) NIST
8 5 (0.61%) SEPA
9 4 (0.49%) MiFID
9 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.49%) SLA
10 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.37%) GAAP
10 3 (0.37%) GRC
10 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) HDFS
3 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (1.10%) Terraform
2 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 96 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.33%) SAP
3 32 (3.93%) Oracle
3 32 (3.93%) ServiceNow
4 16 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.23%) Adobe
6 9 (1.10%) Cadence
7 8 (0.98%) Bloomberg
7 8 (0.98%) Cisco
7 8 (0.98%) Juniper
7 8 (0.98%) Okta
8 7 (0.86%) IBM
8 7 (0.86%) Nokia
9 6 (0.74%) Ariba
9 6 (0.74%) Google
9 6 (0.74%) ION Trading
9 6 (0.74%) VMware
10 5 (0.61%) Hyperion
10 5 (0.61%) MarketAxess
10 5 (0.61%) Tradeweb