Business Analyst Contracts in Central London

Business Analyst (BA)
London > Central London

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in Central London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 26 30
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 0
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 192 163 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 9.63% 7.07% 6.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.35% 7.47% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 109 126
10th Percentile £362 £413 £413
25th Percentile £456 £488 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £695
90th Percentile £745 £725 £780
London median daily rate £575 £550 £570
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £37.43 £44.30 -
25th Percentile £45.56 £49.63 -
Median hourly rate £60.75 £59.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +70.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £75.56 £69.63 -
90th Percentile £83.48 £75.10 -
London median hourly rate £32.89 £42.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.69% -23.64% +18.28%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,855 2,182 3,226
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 94.70% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,455 2,230
10th Percentile £323 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 14
10th Percentile £18.69 £19.60 £14.91
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.84 £24.69
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -23.94% -14.46%
75th Percentile £41.81 £65.63 £49.96
90th Percentile £63.93 £137.50 £74.88
London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.29 £37.50
% change year-on-year -9.87% -11.24% +8.48%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in Central London

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in Central London

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in Central London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in Central London

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in Central London

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analyst in Central London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analyst in Central London

Business Analyst
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +6 165 £550 - 106
City of Westminster +2 3 £450 -20.00% 1
West End of London -1 2 £450 -14.29%
Southwark - 1 - - 1
Business Analyst
London

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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 Central London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 94 (48.96%) Finance
2 76 (39.58%) Agile
2 76 (39.58%) Social Skills
3 59 (30.73%) Business Analysis
4 47 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (21.88%) User Stories
7 41 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (20.83%) Data Analysis
9 38 (19.79%) User Acceptance Testing
10 35 (18.23%) Requirements Gathering
11 34 (17.71%) SQL
12 30 (15.63%) Workshop Facilitation
13 29 (15.10%) Banking
14 27 (14.06%) Acceptance Criteria
15 25 (13.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (13.02%) Microsoft
15 25 (13.02%) Degree
16 21 (10.94%) Decision-Making
17 20 (10.42%) Scrum
18 19 (9.90%) Project Delivery
19 18 (9.38%) Project Management
20 17 (8.85%) GAP Analysis
20 17 (8.85%) Migration
20 17 (8.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 16 (8.33%) Validation
21 16 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
22 15 (7.81%) Collaborative Working
22 15 (7.81%) Asset Management
22 15 (7.81%) Front Office

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 12 (6.25%) Confluence
2 5 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 10 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Aladdin
1 4 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.56%) ION Anvil
2 3 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.04%) Endur
3 2 (1.04%) HFM
3 2 (1.04%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.52%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.29%) Azure
2 12 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 9 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.60%) AWS
5 4 (2.08%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.56%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.04%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.04%) SaaS
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.52%) Collibra
8 1 (0.52%) GCP
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.08%) Intranet
2 2 (1.04%) Firewall
2 2 (1.04%) Network Security
3 1 (0.52%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.21%) Power BI
2 6 (3.13%) Star Schema
3 5 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.08%) Tableau
5 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.04%) Power Query
5 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.52%) Looker
6 1 (0.52%) Metadata
6 1 (0.52%) MS Access
6 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.52%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (7.81%) JIRA
General
1 94 (48.96%) Finance
2 76 (39.58%) Social Skills
3 47 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.10%) Banking
5 25 (13.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (7.81%) Front Office
8 13 (6.77%) Back Office
9 11 (5.73%) Financial Institution
10 10 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (3.65%) Legal
12 7 (3.65%) Public Sector
13 6 (3.13%) Investment Banking
14 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (2.08%) Law
15 3 (1.56%) Marketing
15 3 (1.56%) Retail
16 2 (1.04%) Local Government
16 2 (1.04%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.60%) XML
2 3 (1.56%) ADO
3 1 (0.52%) DCOM
3 1 (0.52%) JSON
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.52%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.52%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.21%) Reinsurance
3 9 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.60%) Fixed Income
4 5 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.56%) Derivative
6 3 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.52%) CMDB
8 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.52%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (0.52%) PMI
8 1 (0.52%) Robotics
8 1 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (39.58%) Agile
2 59 (30.73%) Business Analysis
3 43 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (21.88%) User Stories
5 41 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (20.83%) Data Analysis
7 38 (19.79%) User Acceptance Testing
8 35 (18.23%) Requirements Gathering
9 30 (15.63%) Workshop Facilitation
10 27 (14.06%) Acceptance Criteria
11 21 (10.94%) Decision-Making
12 20 (10.42%) Scrum
13 19 (9.90%) Project Delivery
14 18 (9.38%) Project Management
15 17 (8.85%) GAP Analysis
15 17 (8.85%) Migration
15 17 (8.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 16 (8.33%) Validation
17 15 (7.81%) Asset Management
17 15 (7.81%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.71%) SQL
2 15 (7.81%) Python
3 2 (1.04%) C#
3 2 (1.04%) VBA
4 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.52%) Korn
4 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (13.02%) Degree
2 9 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.08%) CBAP
4 4 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) ACCA
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) CIMA
6 1 (0.52%) CISM
6 1 (0.52%) CISSP
6 1 (0.52%) CRISC
6 1 (0.52%) IIBA
6 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.77%) QA
2 8 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.17%) EMIR
2 8 (4.17%) MiFID
3 3 (1.56%) GDPR
3 3 (1.56%) SEPA
4 2 (1.04%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) Basel III
5 1 (0.52%) COBIT
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) PMO
5 1 (0.52%) PSD2
Vendors
1 25 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.69%) Oracle
2 9 (4.69%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.60%) SAP
4 4 (2.08%) Guidewire
5 3 (1.56%) Charles River
5 3 (1.56%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.04%) Aderant
6 2 (1.04%) Adobe
6 2 (1.04%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.04%) FIS
6 2 (1.04%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.04%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.04%) Intapp
6 2 (1.04%) Murex
6 2 (1.04%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (1.04%) Progress
6 2 (1.04%) Tagetik
6 2 (1.04%) Workday