Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Business Analyst (BA)
England > East of England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the East of England is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 64 56
Rank change year-on-year -19 -8 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 22 22 53
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.38% 1.95% 3.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 2.19% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 39
10th Percentile £370 £388 £280
25th Percentile £436 £491 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +13.89% -7.69%
75th Percentile £540 £553 £500
90th Percentile £550 £594 £570
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £67.56
England median hourly rate £32.75 £54.00 £67.56
% change year-on-year -39.36% -20.07% +93.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,424 1,005 1,510
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.11% 88.86% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 448 872
10th Percentile £188 £218 £200
25th Percentile £337 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -4.84% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 155 275
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.92 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.54 £21.46 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +6.74% +111.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £84.36
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -24.86% -22.58% +39.11%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Business Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the East of England

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the East of England

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the East of England

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the East of England

Business Analyst
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 Analyst within the East of England region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Hertfordshire -21 6 £500 -13.04% 3
Essex - 6 £525 - 4
Cambridgeshire -9 5 £408 -18.50% 7
Bedfordshire -13 3 £533 +6.50% 3
Norfolk -19 2 £463 -
Business Analyst
England

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 22 December 2025, Business Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 10 (45.45%) Requirements Gathering
2 6 (27.27%) Business Analysis
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
4 4 (18.18%) ERP
4 4 (18.18%) Scrum
4 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (18.18%) User Stories
5 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (13.64%) CRM
5 3 (13.64%) Degree
5 3 (13.64%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.64%) Oracle
5 3 (13.64%) Power BI
5 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
5 3 (13.64%) SAP
6 2 (9.09%) AI
6 2 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (9.09%) Analytics
6 2 (9.09%) BASE24
6 2 (9.09%) BPMN
6 2 (9.09%) Business Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (9.09%) Emotional Intelligence

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) BASE24
1 2 (9.09%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (4.55%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.55%) ChatGPT
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.55%) Google Workspace
2 1 (4.55%) Lucidchart
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (4.55%) SaaS
2 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.55%) Automotive
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.55%) FMCG
1 1 (4.55%) IoT
1 1 (4.55%) Midjourney
1 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Requirements Gathering
2 6 (27.27%) Business Analysis
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
4 4 (18.18%) ERP
4 4 (18.18%) Scrum
4 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (18.18%) User Stories
5 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (13.64%) CRM
5 3 (13.64%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.09%) Business Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) Emotional Intelligence
6 2 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
1 1 (4.55%) Python
1 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GAMP
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) GxP
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
1 3 (13.64%) SAP
2 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Retek
3 1 (4.55%) Sage