Business Analysis Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Business Analysis
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Business Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 58 55
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 67 61 79
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.66% 3.23% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 3.51% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 40 45
10th Percentile £350 £413 £463
25th Percentile £411 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £692 £684 £688
90th Percentile £830 £780 £723
Central London median daily rate £595 £600 £611
% change year-on-year -0.83% -1.84% +6.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,736 2,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.56% 92.05% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,056 1,536
10th Percentile £350 £373 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £770 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £574
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.22% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £13.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +35.24% -37.13%
75th Percentile £42.30 £94.94 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £114.55 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -32.10%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Business Analysis job vacancy trend in the City of London

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Business Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the City of London

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Business Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.97%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (16.42%) MS Visio
2 9 (13.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (8.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.49%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.49%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.45%) Azure
2 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (7.46%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.48%) AWS
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.99%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.49%) Boomi
5 1 (1.49%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.49%) GCP
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.49%) Slack
5 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) Power BI
2 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.99%) Metadata
3 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.49%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (14.93%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.99%) ER Studio
2 2 (2.99%) ERwin
2 2 (2.99%) Git
2 2 (2.99%) Postman
2 2 (2.99%) Selenium
2 2 (2.99%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.49%) WinAutomation
General
1 30 (44.78%) Finance
2 28 (41.79%) Social Skills
3 24 (35.82%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (26.87%) Banking
5 8 (11.94%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (11.94%) Front Office
5 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
6 7 (10.45%) Investment Banking
7 5 (7.46%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (7.46%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.97%) Back Office
8 4 (5.97%) Legal
8 4 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.49%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.49%) Local Government
10 1 (1.49%) Marketing
10 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (77.61%) Analyst
2 47 (70.15%) Business Analyst
3 10 (14.93%) Senior
4 8 (11.94%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) Banking Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Business Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) Banking Business Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) Payments Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) Payments Business Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Change Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) HR Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) IT Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) IT Business Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Murex Business Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) .NET
2 3 (4.48%) XML
3 2 (2.99%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) Middleware
4 1 (1.49%) Murex MxML
4 1 (1.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.97%) PMI
3 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.48%) Reference Data
3 3 (4.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.99%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.49%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.49%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.49%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) Agile
2 22 (32.84%) Project Delivery
3 18 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (26.87%) Requirements Gathering
3 18 (26.87%) Workshop Facilitation
4 17 (25.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 17 (25.37%) User Stories
5 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (22.39%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (19.40%) Process Improvement
7 11 (16.42%) Data Analysis
8 10 (14.93%) Validation
9 9 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (13.43%) Migration
10 8 (11.94%) Data Modelling
10 8 (11.94%) Project Management
10 8 (11.94%) Use Case
11 7 (10.45%) BPMN
11 7 (10.45%) Scrum
11 7 (10.45%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.42%) SQL
2 4 (5.97%) Java
2 4 (5.97%) Python
3 2 (2.99%) C#
3 2 (2.99%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) Degree
2 6 (8.96%) CBAP
3 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.97%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.99%) ISEB
5 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) IIBA
6 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) GRC
3 2 (2.99%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.99%) MiFID
3 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.99%) PMO
3 2 (2.99%) PSD2
4 1 (1.49%) Basel III
4 1 (1.49%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.49%) EMIR
4 1 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.48%) Murex
3 3 (4.48%) SAP
4 2 (2.99%) Sparx
4 2 (2.99%) UiPath
5 1 (1.49%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.49%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.49%) Dell
5 1 (1.49%) eFront
5 1 (1.49%) IBM
5 1 (1.49%) Informatica
5 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud