Business Analyst Contracts in the City of London

Business Analyst (BA)
Central London > City of London

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the City of London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 May 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 27 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 134 160 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.68% 7.31% 6.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.25% 7.69% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 104 159
10th Percentile £413 £450 £413
25th Percentile £500 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +7.55%
75th Percentile £695 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £725 £775
Central London median daily rate £588 £550 £556
% change year-on-year +6.82% -1.12% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

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

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,624 2,080 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 95.06% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 1,476 2,338
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £568 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +3.18% -6.78% +5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -5.41%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the City of London

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in the City of London

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the City of London

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in the City of London

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 City of London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 63 (47.01%) Finance
2 54 (40.30%) Social Skills
3 48 (35.82%) Business Analysis
4 36 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (25.37%) Agile
6 33 (24.63%) Data Analysis
7 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (21.64%) Banking
8 29 (21.64%) SQL
9 25 (18.66%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (17.91%) Requirements Gathering
11 20 (14.93%) Degree
12 19 (14.18%) User Acceptance Testing
12 19 (14.18%) Project Management
13 18 (13.43%) User Stories
14 17 (12.69%) Front Office
14 17 (12.69%) Decision-Making
15 15 (11.19%) Workshop Facilitation
16 14 (10.45%) Acceptance Criteria
16 14 (10.45%) Python
16 14 (10.45%) Process Improvement
17 13 (9.70%) Microsoft
18 12 (8.96%) Investment Banking
18 12 (8.96%) Security Cleared
18 12 (8.96%) JIRA
18 12 (8.96%) Presentation Skills
19 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
19 11 (8.21%) Analytics
19 11 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
20 10 (7.46%) Change Management

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (4.48%) Confluence
2 5 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.99%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Actimize
1 2 (1.49%) ION Anvil
1 2 (1.49%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.49%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.49%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (1.49%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.75%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Endur
2 1 (0.75%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.75%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.75%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 1 (0.75%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.46%) Azure
1 10 (7.46%) Power Platform
2 5 (3.73%) AWS
3 4 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.24%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.49%) GCP
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.75%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.75%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.22%) Power BI
2 5 (3.73%) Tableau
3 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.49%) Power Query
3 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.75%) Looker
4 1 (0.75%) MS Access
4 1 (0.75%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 12 (8.96%) JIRA
General
1 63 (47.01%) Finance
2 54 (40.30%) Social Skills
3 36 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (21.64%) Banking
5 17 (12.69%) Front Office
6 12 (8.96%) Investment Banking
6 12 (8.96%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (7.46%) Public Sector
8 9 (6.72%) Financial Institution
9 8 (5.97%) Back Office
10 6 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (3.73%) Legal
12 4 (2.99%) Retail
13 3 (2.24%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (1.49%) Marketing
14 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.75%) French Language
15 1 (0.75%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.24%) FpML
2 2 (1.49%) ADO
2 2 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (1.49%) XML
3 1 (0.75%) jQuery
3 1 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.46%) Fixed Income
1 10 (7.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (5.97%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.22%) Equities
4 5 (3.73%) Derivative
4 5 (3.73%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.49%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (1.49%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) CMDB
7 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.75%) Robotics
7 1 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
1 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (35.82%) Business Analysis
2 34 (25.37%) Agile
3 33 (24.63%) Data Analysis
4 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (18.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (17.91%) Requirements Gathering
7 19 (14.18%) Project Management
7 19 (14.18%) User Acceptance Testing
8 18 (13.43%) User Stories
9 17 (12.69%) Decision-Making
10 15 (11.19%) Workshop Facilitation
11 14 (10.45%) Acceptance Criteria
11 14 (10.45%) Process Improvement
12 11 (8.21%) Analytics
12 11 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (7.46%) Change Management
13 10 (7.46%) Risk Management
14 9 (6.72%) Asset Management
14 9 (6.72%) GAP Analysis
15 8 (5.97%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.64%) SQL
2 14 (10.45%) Python
3 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.75%) R
3 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (14.93%) Degree
2 12 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.73%) CBAP
5 4 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.99%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.24%) CFA
6 3 (2.24%) MBA
6 3 (2.24%) PMP
7 2 (1.49%) ACCA
7 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CAPM
8 1 (0.75%) CISM
8 1 (0.75%) CISSP
8 1 (0.75%) CRISC
8 1 (0.75%) IIBA
8 1 (0.75%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.46%) MiFID
2 8 (5.97%) EMIR
2 8 (5.97%) QA
3 5 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.24%) GDPR
6 2 (1.49%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.49%) NIST
7 1 (0.75%) GRC
7 1 (0.75%) PMO
7 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.75%) UCITS
Vendors
1 13 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.48%) SAP
3 5 (3.73%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.99%) Oracle
5 2 (1.49%) Adobe
5 2 (1.49%) Google
5 2 (1.49%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.49%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.75%) Aderant
6 1 (0.75%) Advent
6 1 (0.75%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (0.75%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.75%) Calypso
6 1 (0.75%) Charles River
6 1 (0.75%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.75%) Databricks
6 1 (0.75%) Murex
6 1 (0.75%) Progress
6 1 (0.75%) QAD