Business Analysis Contracts in Cheshire

Business Analysis
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Business Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 40 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 25 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.57% 3.57% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.73% 4.24% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 15
10th Percentile £276 - £382
25th Percentile £373 £405 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% +1.12% -6.32%
75th Percentile £509 £488 £680
90th Percentile £553 £571 £710
North West median daily rate £456 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Business Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in Cheshire

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in Cheshire

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in Cheshire

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in Cheshire

Business Analysis
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford +4 10 £407 -12.00% 4
Macclesfield +4 4 £500 +11.11%
Crewe - 4 £410 - 2
Wilmslow - 1 £430 -
Business Analysis
North West

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (20.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
1 4 (16.00%) Azure AI
1 4 (16.00%) GCP
1 4 (16.00%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) Git
General
1 11 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Finance
3 7 (28.00%) Legal
3 7 (28.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (24.00%) Banking
4 6 (24.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (16.00%) Automotive
5 4 (16.00%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Analyst
1 18 (72.00%) Business Analyst
2 7 (28.00%) Senior
3 6 (24.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Data Migration Expert
5 1 (4.00%) Data Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Junior
5 1 (4.00%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Junior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Project Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (16.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) CMDB
2 4 (16.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 9 (36.00%) Change Management
4 9 (36.00%) Risk Management
5 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (32.00%) Test Strategy
6 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (28.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (24.00%) Focus Group
7 6 (24.00%) ITSM
7 6 (24.00%) Service Catalogue
7 6 (24.00%) Service Management
8 5 (20.00%) Process Improvement
8 5 (20.00%) SDLC
8 5 (20.00%) Waterfall
9 4 (16.00%) Feasibility Study
9 4 (16.00%) Linear Algebra
9 4 (16.00%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) Scala
3 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) IIBA
2 4 (16.00%) ISEB
3 1 (4.00%) CBAP
3 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Ariba
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft