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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 58 60
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 61 67 83
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.31% 3.26% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 3.54% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 42 49
10th Percentile £350 £415 £463
25th Percentile £411 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £675 £712 £688
90th Percentile £826 £820 £723
Central London median daily rate £560 £610 £615
% change year-on-year -8.20% -0.81% +6.96%

All Process and 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 1,666 1,894 2,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.40% 92.17% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,158 1,603
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -0.92%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.52 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £42.12 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%

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 26 December 2025.

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 3 (4.92%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (16.39%) MS Visio
2 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (9.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (3.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.48%) Azure
2 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.92%) AWS
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.28%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.64%) Boomi
6 1 (1.64%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.64%) Figma
6 1 (1.64%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.64%) Miro
6 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.64%) Slack
6 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) Power BI
2 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.28%) Metadata
3 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.64%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
2 2 (3.28%) ER Studio
2 2 (3.28%) ERwin
2 2 (3.28%) Git
2 2 (3.28%) Postman
2 2 (3.28%) Selenium
2 2 (3.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (47.54%) Finance
2 27 (44.26%) Social Skills
3 23 (37.70%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (26.23%) Banking
5 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
6 7 (11.48%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (11.48%) Investment Banking
7 6 (9.84%) Front Office
8 5 (8.20%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (6.56%) Back Office
9 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (6.56%) Legal
9 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (3.28%) Marketing
11 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (75.41%) Analyst
2 43 (70.49%) Business Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) Senior
4 6 (9.84%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (9.84%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) Senior Business Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Banking Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Payments Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Payments Business Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Banking Business Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Business Change Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Business IT Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Change Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) HR Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) IT Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) IT Business Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) .NET
2 3 (4.92%) XML
3 2 (3.28%) JSON
4 1 (1.64%) Middleware
4 1 (1.64%) Murex MxML
4 1 (1.64%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.28%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.28%) PMI
4 2 (3.28%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.64%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.64%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.64%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.98%) Agile
2 19 (31.15%) Project Delivery
3 18 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (27.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 16 (26.23%) Workshop Facilitation
6 14 (22.95%) Requirements Gathering
6 14 (22.95%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (22.95%) User Stories
7 13 (21.31%) Process Improvement
8 11 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (14.75%) Data Analysis
10 8 (13.11%) Data Modelling
11 7 (11.48%) Acceptance Criteria
11 7 (11.48%) Scrum
11 7 (11.48%) Use Case
11 7 (11.48%) Validation
12 6 (9.84%) BPMN
12 6 (9.84%) Migration
12 6 (9.84%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.39%) SQL
2 4 (6.56%) Java
2 4 (6.56%) Python
3 2 (3.28%) C#
3 2 (3.28%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (16.39%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) CBAP
2 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) ISEB
3 2 (3.28%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.64%) IIBA
4 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) GDPR
3 2 (3.28%) ISO 20022
3 2 (3.28%) ISO 8583
3 2 (3.28%) MiFID
3 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.28%) PMO
3 2 (3.28%) PSD2
4 1 (1.64%) Basel III
4 1 (1.64%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.64%) EMIR
4 1 (1.64%) GRC
4 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.84%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) Adobe
4 2 (3.28%) Sparx
4 2 (3.28%) UiPath
5 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.64%) Dell
5 1 (1.64%) eFront
5 1 (1.64%) IBM
5 1 (1.64%) Informatica
5 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.64%) Murex
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud