Business Analysis Contracts in the East of England

Business Analysis
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Business Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 81 80
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 -13
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 20 27 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.13% 1.41% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 1.64% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 27
10th Percentile £409 £338 £374
25th Percentile £434 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £439 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.96% -12.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £500 £538
90th Percentile £539 £588 £625
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.95
25th Percentile £61.50 - £62.63
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £64.50
75th Percentile £66.00 - £65.63
90th Percentile - - £65.85
England median hourly rate £63.00 £75.40 £62.75
% change year-on-year -16.44% +20.15% +0.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 835 1,648 1,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.11% 86.06% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 704 1,052
10th Percentile £225 £209 £200
25th Percentile £400 £342 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 611 339
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.46 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the East of England

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the East of England

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the East of England

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the East of England

Business Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Bedfordshire +4 10 £500 - 2
Hertfordshire +34 8 £425 -5.56% 4
Cambridgeshire -2 1 £375 -8.54% 5
Suffolk - 1 - - 1
Business Analysis
England

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.00%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (15.00%) SAP BPC
3 1 (5.00%) ContrOCC
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Games
4 1 (5.00%) Local Government
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Analyst
2 9 (45.00%) Business Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Systems Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Information Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Information Systems Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Insight Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) SAP Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) SAP Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Financial Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Product Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Report Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Life Science
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Decision-Making
1 9 (45.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (35.00%) Analytics
2 7 (35.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (35.00%) Project Management
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 5 (25.00%) Business Case
4 5 (25.00%) Information Management
4 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Biotechnology
5 4 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Data Management
6 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
7 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
7 2 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) CCA
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) SAP
2 3 (15.00%) Anaplan
2 3 (15.00%) Hyperion
3 2 (10.00%) Ariba
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Liquidlogic