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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 August 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
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 24 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +2
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 167 152 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 9.06% 7.38% 6.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.66% 7.79% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 99 125
10th Percentile £355 £425 £424
25th Percentile £451 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £695
90th Percentile £750 £725 £781
Central London median daily rate £575 £569 £596
% change year-on-year +1.10% -4.61% +8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £37.43 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.75 £77.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.61% +121.43% -13.58%
75th Percentile £75.56 £78.75 -
90th Percentile £83.48 - -
Central London median hourly rate £60.75 £59.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.10% +70.00% -13.58%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,729 1,950 3,054
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 94.71% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,288 2,103
10th Percentile £331 £363 £351
25th Percentile £425 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £679 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 11
10th Percentile £17.89 £15.87 £14.18
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.88 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -28.95% -9.52%
75th Percentile £47.00 £89.06 £60.63
90th Percentile £65.03 £137.50 £83.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% -22.86% -15.66%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies 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 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the City of London

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the City of London

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analyst in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analyst in the City of London

Business Analyst
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the City of London region over the 6 months to 20 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Business Analyst
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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 81 (48.50%) Finance
2 74 (44.31%) Social Skills
3 62 (37.13%) Agile
4 51 (30.54%) Business Analysis
5 45 (26.95%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (23.35%) User Stories
7 37 (22.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (20.96%) Data Analysis
9 33 (19.76%) User Acceptance Testing
10 32 (19.16%) SQL
11 30 (17.96%) Workshop Facilitation
12 27 (16.17%) Requirements Gathering
12 27 (16.17%) Acceptance Criteria
12 27 (16.17%) Banking
13 25 (14.97%) Microsoft
14 20 (11.98%) Project Management
14 20 (11.98%) Decision-Making
15 19 (11.38%) Degree
16 18 (10.78%) Scrum
17 17 (10.18%) GAP Analysis
17 17 (10.18%) Project Delivery
18 16 (9.58%) Validation
18 16 (9.58%) Migration
18 16 (9.58%) Front Office
19 15 (8.98%) Asset Management
19 15 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
19 15 (8.98%) JIRA
19 15 (8.98%) Azure
19 15 (8.98%) Presentation Skills

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 12 (7.19%) Confluence
2 5 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (6.59%) MS Visio
2 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.40%) Aladdin
3 3 (1.80%) ION Anvil
4 2 (1.20%) Endur
4 2 (1.20%) Loan IQ
4 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.60%) HFM
5 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.60%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.98%) Azure
2 13 (7.78%) Power Platform
3 9 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.99%) AWS
5 4 (2.40%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.80%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.20%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.20%) SaaS
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.60%) Collibra
8 1 (0.60%) GCP
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) Intranet
2 1 (0.60%) ATM
2 1 (0.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.59%) Power BI
2 5 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.40%) Star Schema
3 4 (2.40%) Tableau
4 3 (1.80%) Power Query
5 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.60%) Looker
6 1 (0.60%) Metadata
6 1 (0.60%) MS Access
6 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.60%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (8.98%) JIRA
General
1 81 (48.50%) Finance
2 74 (44.31%) Social Skills
3 45 (26.95%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (16.17%) Banking
5 16 (9.58%) Front Office
6 15 (8.98%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (7.78%) Back Office
8 11 (6.59%) Financial Institution
9 8 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (4.19%) Investment Banking
10 7 (4.19%) Legal
10 7 (4.19%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.40%) Law
11 4 (2.40%) Retail
12 3 (1.80%) Marketing
13 2 (1.20%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.60%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.40%) XML
2 3 (1.80%) ADO
3 1 (0.60%) DCOM
3 1 (0.60%) JSON
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.60%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.60%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.59%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.99%) Reinsurance
3 9 (5.39%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.59%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.40%) Derivative
6 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.20%) CMDB
8 2 (1.20%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (1.20%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.60%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.60%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.60%) PMI
9 1 (0.60%) Robotics
9 1 (0.60%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (37.13%) Agile
2 51 (30.54%) Business Analysis
3 39 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (23.35%) User Stories
4 37 (22.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (20.96%) Data Analysis
6 33 (19.76%) User Acceptance Testing
7 30 (17.96%) Workshop Facilitation
8 27 (16.17%) Acceptance Criteria
8 27 (16.17%) Requirements Gathering
9 20 (11.98%) Decision-Making
9 20 (11.98%) Project Management
10 18 (10.78%) Scrum
11 17 (10.18%) GAP Analysis
11 17 (10.18%) Project Delivery
12 16 (9.58%) Migration
12 16 (9.58%) Validation
13 15 (8.98%) Asset Management
13 15 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (8.38%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.16%) SQL
2 11 (6.59%) Python
3 2 (1.20%) VBA
4 1 (0.60%) C#
4 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.60%) Korn
4 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (11.38%) Degree
2 9 (5.39%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.59%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.80%) CBAP
6 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) ACCA
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CIMA
7 1 (0.60%) CISM
7 1 (0.60%) CISSP
7 1 (0.60%) CRISC
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.38%) QA
2 8 (4.79%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.79%) EMIR
2 8 (4.79%) MiFID
3 3 (1.80%) GDPR
3 3 (1.80%) SEPA
4 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) Basel III
5 1 (0.60%) COBIT
5 1 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) PMO
5 1 (0.60%) PSD2
Vendors
1 25 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.99%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.59%) Oracle
4 4 (2.40%) Guidewire
5 3 (1.80%) Charles River
5 3 (1.80%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.80%) SAP
5 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.20%) Aderant
6 2 (1.20%) Adobe
6 2 (1.20%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.20%) FIS
6 2 (1.20%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.20%) Intapp
6 2 (1.20%) Murex
6 2 (1.20%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (1.20%) Progress
7 1 (0.60%) eFront
7 1 (0.60%) Sparx
7 1 (0.60%) Zscaler