Front Office Business Analyst Contracts

Business Analyst - Front Office (Front Office BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst - Front Office (Front Office BA) daily rate in the UK is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 677 808
Rank change year-on-year +98 +131 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Front Office Business Analyst 15 20 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.036% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.038% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 39
10th Percentile £615 £631 £613
25th Percentile £700 £711 £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £795 £800
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% -0.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £850 £850 -
90th Percentile - £851 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

Front Office Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office Business Analyst in the UK

Front Office Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office Business Analyst in the UK

Front Office Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office Business Analyst over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office Business Analyst in the UK

Front Office Business Analyst
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 11 June 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 +96 15 £800 +0.63%
London +77 14 £800 +0.63%
Work from Home +100 7 £850 +10.39%
UK excluding London - 1 £650 -
North of England - 1 £650 -
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Front Office 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 Front Office Business Analyst in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Front Office
2 14 (93.33%) Fixed Income
3 10 (66.67%) JIRA
4 9 (60.00%) Degree
5 8 (53.33%) QA
5 8 (53.33%) Confluence
5 8 (53.33%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (53.33%) Electronic Trading
5 8 (53.33%) Tradeweb
5 8 (53.33%) MarketAxess
5 8 (53.33%) TeamCity
5 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (53.33%) FIX Connectivity
5 8 (53.33%) Risk Management
5 8 (53.33%) Bloomberg
5 8 (53.33%) SQL
5 8 (53.33%) XML
5 8 (53.33%) Unix
5 8 (53.33%) UML
5 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 8 (53.33%) MS Visio
5 8 (53.33%) Data Modelling
5 8 (53.33%) ION Trading
5 8 (53.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (53.33%) Derivative
6 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (33.33%) Banking
7 4 (26.67%) ION MarketView
7 4 (26.67%) MiFID
7 4 (26.67%) EMIR

Front Office 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 8 (53.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (53.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) FIX Connectivity
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) JIRA
2 8 (53.33%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (100.00%) Front Office
2 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Banking
4 4 (26.67%) Investment Banking
5 3 (20.00%) Finance
6 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) FIX Protocol
1 8 (53.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (93.33%) Fixed Income
2 8 (53.33%) Derivative
3 2 (13.33%) Equities
4 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Data Modelling
1 8 (53.33%) Electronic Trading
1 8 (53.33%) Risk Management
1 8 (53.33%) UML
2 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) B2C
3 4 (26.67%) Business Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) CRM
5 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (6.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) QA
2 4 (26.67%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (26.67%) EMIR
2 4 (26.67%) MiFID
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Bloomberg
1 8 (53.33%) ION Trading
1 8 (53.33%) MarketAxess
1 8 (53.33%) Tradeweb
2 2 (13.33%) Murex