Finance Business Analyst Contracts

Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA) daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 524 549
Rank change year-on-year +61 +25 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Finance Business Analyst 116 176 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.31% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 145 242
10th Percentile £453 £422 £401
25th Percentile £500 £500 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £788 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £523 £500
% change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% +16.28%

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Finance Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance Business Analyst over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +57 105 £550 +4.76% 15
London +82 95 £550 - 5
Work from Home +109 51 £625 +19.05% 6
UK excluding London +47 14 £525 +0.48% 10
Scotland +37 5 £525 +23.53%
West Midlands +24 4 £550 +1.15%
Midlands +21 4 £550 +1.15% 1
South East +25 3 £650 +23.81% 3
North of England +15 2 - - 4
North West +20 1 - - 3
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Finance 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 Finance Business Analyst in the job title.

1 116 (100.00%) Finance
2 39 (33.62%) Agile
3 38 (32.76%) Banking
4 32 (27.59%) SQL
5 31 (26.72%) Social Skills
6 30 (25.86%) Asset Management
7 29 (25.00%) Business Analysis
8 28 (24.14%) Investment Management
9 26 (22.41%) Front Office
9 26 (22.41%) Product Ownership
10 25 (21.55%) Derivative
11 24 (20.69%) Python
12 23 (19.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 23 (19.83%) Fixed Income
12 23 (19.83%) Equities
12 23 (19.83%) AWS
12 23 (19.83%) Artificial Intelligence
12 23 (19.83%) Hedge funds
12 23 (19.83%) Machine Learning
13 20 (17.24%) ERP
14 19 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (15.52%) User Stories
16 17 (14.66%) Investment Banking
16 17 (14.66%) Roadmaps
17 16 (13.79%) Requirements Gathering
18 14 (12.07%) Migration
18 14 (12.07%) Bloomberg
19 13 (11.21%) Oracle
20 12 (10.34%) SAP
20 12 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing

Finance 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 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.86%) Apache
2 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (9.48%) Aladdin
2 6 (5.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (3.45%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.86%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.86%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.86%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.86%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.83%) AWS
2 4 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (2.59%) SaaS
4 2 (1.72%) Azure
5 1 (0.86%) Collibra
5 1 (0.86%) dbt
5 1 (0.86%) IaaS
5 1 (0.86%) OCI
5 1 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (0.86%) Apache Arrow
2 1 (0.86%) Apache Ignite
2 1 (0.86%) Dremio
2 1 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 116 (100.00%) Finance
2 38 (32.76%) Banking
3 31 (26.72%) Social Skills
4 26 (22.41%) Front Office
5 17 (14.66%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Retail
9 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.86%) Billing
10 1 (0.86%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.86%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.86%) Marketing
10 1 (0.86%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.86%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.86%) FIXML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.41%) Product Ownership
2 25 (21.55%) Derivative
3 23 (19.83%) Equities
3 23 (19.83%) Fixed Income
3 23 (19.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 23 (19.83%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.72%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.86%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.62%) Agile
2 30 (25.86%) Asset Management
3 29 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 28 (24.14%) Investment Management
5 23 (19.83%) Artificial Intelligence
5 23 (19.83%) Machine Learning
6 20 (17.24%) ERP
7 19 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (15.52%) User Stories
9 17 (14.66%) Roadmaps
10 16 (13.79%) Requirements Gathering
11 14 (12.07%) Migration
12 12 (10.34%) Fintech
12 12 (10.34%) Portfolio Management
12 12 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (9.48%) Analytics
13 11 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (9.48%) Product Management
14 10 (8.62%) GAP Analysis
15 9 (7.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.59%) SQL
2 24 (20.69%) Python
3 1 (0.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (5.17%) ACCA
1 6 (5.17%) CIMA
1 6 (5.17%) Degree
2 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (1.72%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.86%) ISEB
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (0.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.03%) QA
2 5 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.45%) EMIR
3 4 (3.45%) MiFID
4 2 (1.72%) IFRS
4 2 (1.72%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.72%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.86%) PMO
Vendors
1 14 (12.07%) Bloomberg
2 13 (11.21%) Oracle
3 12 (10.34%) SAP
4 11 (9.48%) BISAM
5 2 (1.72%) Cadence
5 2 (1.72%) Refinitiv
5 2 (1.72%) Workday
6 1 (0.86%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.86%) Splunk