Business Analyst Contracts in the East Midlands

Business Analyst (BA)
England > East Midlands

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the East Midlands is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 June 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
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 46 54
Rank change year-on-year +19 +8 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 41 25 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.87% 2.87% 2.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.61% 3.05% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 23
10th Percentile £320 £356 £338
25th Percentile £358 £358 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £433 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.29% -6.49% +10.12%
75th Percentile £469 £500 £494
90th Percentile £545 £541 £555
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £34.11 £42.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -19.74% -29.17% +147.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 620 820 947
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.70% 94.25% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 521 730
10th Percentile £205 £188 £213
25th Percentile £331 £310 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -8.11% +5.11%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £594
90th Percentile £595 £622 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 91 47
10th Percentile £14.82 £11.83 £12.98
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £14.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £17.72 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.71% -15.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £35.13
90th Percentile £37.41 £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £44.06
% change year-on-year -27.94% -10.23% +79.82%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the East Midlands

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in the East Midlands

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the East Midlands

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in the East Midlands

Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +8 24 £358 -7.49% 7
Nottinghamshire +11 8 £450 - 4
Derbyshire +7 4 £583 +14.78% 3
Leicestershire 0 2 - - 6
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 1
Business Analyst
England

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 June 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 East Midlands region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Agile
2 11 (26.83%) Banking
2 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Finance
4 9 (21.95%) Data Analysis
4 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (19.51%) Azure
6 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (17.07%) Project Management
6 7 (17.07%) SQL
6 7 (17.07%) Business Case
7 6 (14.63%) Customer Experience
7 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
7 6 (14.63%) QA
8 5 (12.20%) Scrum
8 5 (12.20%) Retail
8 5 (12.20%) Analytics
9 4 (9.76%) Data Analytics
9 4 (9.76%) User Stories
9 4 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (9.76%) DevOps
9 4 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (9.76%) Visualisation
9 4 (9.76%) SDLC
9 4 (9.76%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (9.76%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (9.76%) Business Analysis

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (4.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) Azure
2 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.32%) AWS
3 3 (7.32%) GCP
4 2 (4.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.44%) Big Data
2 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.44%) Metadata
2 1 (2.44%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
General
1 12 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Banking
2 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Finance
4 5 (12.20%) Retail
5 4 (9.76%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.44%) Legal
7 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) LDAP
1 3 (7.32%) REST
2 1 (2.44%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.44%) Credit Risk
2 1 (2.44%) Derivative
2 1 (2.44%) EPoS
2 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 1 (2.44%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Agile
2 9 (21.95%) Data Analysis
2 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (17.07%) Business Case
4 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (17.07%) Project Management
5 6 (14.63%) Customer Experience
5 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
6 5 (12.20%) Analytics
6 5 (12.20%) Scrum
7 4 (9.76%) Business Analysis
7 4 (9.76%) Change Management
7 4 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (9.76%) Data Analytics
7 4 (9.76%) DevOps
7 4 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (9.76%) User Stories
7 4 (9.76%) Visualisation
7 4 (9.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) COREP
2 2 (4.88%) FINREP
3 1 (2.44%) EMIR
3 1 (2.44%) GRC
3 1 (2.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.44%) Databricks
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle
2 1 (2.44%) SAP
2 1 (2.44%) Trayport