Business Analyst Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Business Analyst (BA)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 34 31
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 7 21 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.33% 4.02% 4.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.82% 4.77% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 18
10th Percentile £390 - £334
25th Percentile £413 £405 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £439
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -6.55% +3.24%
75th Percentile - £513 £494
90th Percentile £465 £563 £558
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £465
% change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £20.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -59.00% -23.08% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 248 440 454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 82.67% 84.29% 81.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 164 278
10th Percentile £246 £220 £213
25th Percentile £379 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £553 £530
90th Percentile £688 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £488 £442 £475
% change year-on-year +10.35% -6.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 169 90
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +37.87% +6.90%
75th Percentile £29.29 £28.75 £20.56
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £27.63
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £39.03
% change year-on-year -12.79% +10.19% +106.75%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in Cambridgeshire

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in Cambridgeshire

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in Cambridgeshire

Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. 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
Peterborough +15 4 £413 - 4
Cambridge -4 3 £450 +9.76% 9
Business Analyst
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
1 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
2 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
2 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Journey Map
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) Wealth Management
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) BPMN
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
2 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) API Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) User Stories
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow