Business Analyst Contracts in Cambridge

Business Analyst (BA)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in Cambridge is £410 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 15 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 7.73% 7.32% 4.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.43% 7.81% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 12
10th Percentile - £346 £318
25th Percentile £405 £398 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £406
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% +9.54% +1.56%
75th Percentile £415 £538 £438
90th Percentile - £572 £483
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £410 £445 £413
% change year-on-year -7.87% +7.88% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.50 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £20.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 178 269 305
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 93.73% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 188 197
10th Percentile £231 £185 £313
25th Percentile £350 £335 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £638 £600 £625
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +12.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 16 16
10th Percentile £21.10 £16.49 £14.86
25th Percentile £25.00 £17.50 £16.07
Median hourly rate £52.50 £20.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +156.10% -46.75% +93.32%
75th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 - £71.88
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £13.58
% change year-on-year +5.16% +14.14% +0.59%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in Cambridge

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in Cambridge

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 Cambridge region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 13 (86.67%) Pharmaceutical
1 13 (86.67%) Good Clinical Practice
1 13 (86.67%) GxP
1 13 (86.67%) Six Sigma
1 13 (86.67%) Lean Six Sigma
1 13 (86.67%) Data Governance
1 13 (86.67%) GDPR
2 12 (80.00%) Manufacturing
3 8 (53.33%) Degree
3 8 (53.33%) Data Protection
3 8 (53.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 7 (46.67%) Business Process Modelling
4 7 (46.67%) Power BI
4 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Analysis
4 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
4 7 (46.67%) Requirements Engineering
4 7 (46.67%) IIBA
4 7 (46.67%) JIRA
4 7 (46.67%) Business Analysis
4 7 (46.67%) Requirements Analysis
4 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (40.00%) Workflow
5 6 (40.00%) Java
5 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (40.00%) Python
5 6 (40.00%) Eclipse
5 6 (40.00%) Confluence
5 6 (40.00%) Groovy
5 6 (40.00%) Metadata
5 6 (40.00%) Collibra

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
2 6 (40.00%) Collibra
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Power BI
2 6 (40.00%) Metadata
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) JIRA
2 6 (40.00%) Eclipse
2 6 (40.00%) PyCharm
General
1 13 (86.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 12 (80.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Data Governance
1 13 (86.67%) Lean Six Sigma
1 13 (86.67%) Six Sigma
2 8 (53.33%) Data Protection
2 8 (53.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 7 (46.67%) Business Analysis
3 7 (46.67%) Business Process Modelling
3 7 (46.67%) Requirements Analysis
3 7 (46.67%) Requirements Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Analysis
3 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (40.00%) Workflow
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) Business Process Mapping
5 1 (6.67%) Data Sharing
5 1 (6.67%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (6.67%) Project Management
5 1 (6.67%) Use Case
5 1 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Groovy
1 6 (40.00%) Java
1 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
2 7 (46.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (86.67%) GDPR
1 13 (86.67%) Good Clinical Practice
1 13 (86.67%) GxP