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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 48 45
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Business Analysis 30 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.74% 1.99% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 2.34% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 3
10th Percentile £287 £451 £383
25th Percentile £390 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -15.90% - -22.62%
75th Percentile £514 £509 £501
90th Percentile £581 £549 £504
North West median daily rate £441 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -11.90% -9.09% +10.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 578 428 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.31% 85.26% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 285 207
10th Percentile £307 £322 £312
25th Percentile £358 £392 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.53% -8.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £589
90th Percentile £644 £650 £646
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 32
10th Percentile - £11.18 £17.15
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £22.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +14.60% +45.43%
75th Percentile £36.75 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £35.75
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Business Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in Cheshire

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Business Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
DemandTrendContract 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 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
Knutsford -3 16 £405 -26.36% 1
Macclesfield -3 4 £550 +15.79% 3
Crewe - 4 £410 -
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 10 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) AWS
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Anthropic Claude
2 4 (13.33%) Azure AI
2 4 (13.33%) GCP
2 4 (13.33%) Google Gemini
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Neo4j
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (13.33%) Git
General
1 16 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (40.00%) Finance
3 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (26.67%) Legal
4 8 (26.67%) Manufacturing
4 8 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (23.33%) Banking
6 4 (13.33%) Automotive
6 4 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Business Analyst
2 20 (66.67%) Analyst
3 7 (23.33%) Senior
3 7 (23.33%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Expert
6 1 (3.33%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Data Migration Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Junior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Product Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Product Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Product Owner
6 1 (3.33%) Project Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) PyTorch
1 4 (13.33%) Streamlit
1 4 (13.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (3.33%) LDAP
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth
3 1 (3.33%) OLE
3 1 (3.33%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) CMDB
1 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) PMI
4 1 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) Agile
2 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (30.00%) Change Management
3 9 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 9 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (23.33%) ITSM
5 7 (23.33%) Project Management
5 7 (23.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (20.00%) Feasibility Study
6 6 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
6 6 (20.00%) Service Management
6 6 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 6 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 5 (16.67%) SDLC
7 5 (16.67%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) Scala
3 2 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Degree
2 6 (20.00%) CBAP
3 4 (13.33%) IIBA
3 4 (13.33%) ISEB
4 2 (6.67%) CSPO
4 2 (6.67%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) COBIT
2 2 (6.67%) ISO 20022
2 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.33%) Basel III
3 1 (3.33%) GRC
3 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.33%) PSD2
3 1 (3.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (16.67%) SAP
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) IBM
4 2 (6.67%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (3.33%) Ariba
5 1 (3.33%) Okta