Business Analysis Contracts in England

Business Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 123 102
Rank change year-on-year 0 -21 -10
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 549 690 1,240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.25% 1.86% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.14% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 476 873
10th Percentile £361 £380 £411
25th Percentile £438 £436 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £671 £632 £650
90th Percentile £788 £706 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 14
10th Percentile £56.02 - £35.00
25th Percentile £61.50 £18.35 £46.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £72.70 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.34% +15.85% +0.40%
75th Percentile £66.00 £84.29 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £86.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £59.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.78% -5.60% +17.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in England

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in England

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in England

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in England

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analysis in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analysis in England

Business Analysis
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +3 357 £600 +5.63% 356
North of England +3 69 £453 -4.63% 75
North West +9 47 £456 -4.00% 46
Midlands +8 40 £525 +10.53% 54
West Midlands +18 33 £525 +10.53% 39
South East +8 30 £488 -7.14% 114
South West +36 24 £444 -22.83% 48
East of England +24 20 £500 +16.96% 28
Yorkshire 0 19 £469 -4.29% 21
East Midlands -7 7 £358 -20.44% 12
North East 0 3 £350 -5.41% 8
Business Analysis
UK

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 42 (7.65%) Confluence
2 10 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.09%) CMS
3 6 (1.09%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.91%) SAS
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.36%) Apache
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.36%) Drupal
6 2 (0.36%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.18%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 49 (8.93%) MS Visio
2 42 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (4.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.55%) Trello
7 2 (0.36%) Notepad++
7 2 (0.36%) Open Workbench
8 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (5.83%) Aladdin
2 14 (2.55%) thinkFolio
3 12 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (1.09%) Endur
5 4 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.55%) Actimize
6 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.55%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.55%) Shopify
6 3 (0.55%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.36%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.36%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.18%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.18%) Maximo
8 1 (0.18%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.18%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 42 (7.65%) Power Platform
2 35 (6.38%) Azure
3 18 (3.28%) AWS
4 11 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (1.28%) SaaS
7 6 (1.09%) GCP
7 6 (1.09%) Lucidchart
7 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (0.91%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.73%) Azure AI
9 4 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.73%) Google Gemini
9 4 (0.73%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.55%) Collibra
10 3 (0.55%) Miro
10 3 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.91%) Network Security
1 5 (0.91%) SD-WAN
1 5 (0.91%) SSL
2 4 (0.73%) Firewall
3 3 (0.55%) Intranet
4 2 (0.36%) HTTP
4 2 (0.36%) Internet
4 2 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.36%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.18%) IPsec
5 1 (0.18%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.18%) MQTT
5 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.10%) Power BI
2 17 (3.10%) Tableau
3 14 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.37%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
6 6 (1.09%) Data Mining
6 6 (1.09%) DB2
6 6 (1.09%) Metadata
7 5 (0.91%) Big Data
7 5 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.73%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.73%) Parquet
9 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.55%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.55%) QlikView
10 2 (0.36%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 68 (12.39%) JIRA
2 5 (0.91%) Git
3 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.36%) GitLab
4 2 (0.36%) MagicDraw
4 2 (0.36%) Maven
4 2 (0.36%) XMLSpy
5 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.18%) IntelliJ
General
1 230 (41.89%) Finance
2 214 (38.98%) Social Skills
3 115 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (12.39%) Front Office
5 56 (10.20%) Banking
6 43 (7.83%) Public Sector
7 36 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (4.55%) Legal
9 21 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (3.46%) Retail
11 16 (2.91%) Back Office
12 15 (2.73%) Financial Institution
12 15 (2.73%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (2.55%) Investment Banking
13 14 (2.55%) Local Government
14 13 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (2.37%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.37%) Marketing
15 12 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 389 (70.86%) Analyst
2 368 (67.03%) Business Analyst
3 50 (9.11%) Business Manager
4 47 (8.56%) Senior
5 39 (7.10%) Architect
5 39 (7.10%) Senior Analyst
6 37 (6.74%) Technical Business Analyst
7 36 (6.56%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 36 (6.56%) Senior Business Analyst
7 36 (6.56%) Technical Analyst
8 23 (4.19%) Data Business Analyst
8 23 (4.19%) Project Manager
9 21 (3.83%) Data Analyst
10 20 (3.64%) Financial Analyst
11 19 (3.46%) Finance Business Analyst
12 18 (3.28%) Developer
12 18 (3.28%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
13 17 (3.10%) Project Analyst
14 13 (2.37%) Business Project Manager
15 12 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.00%) JSON
2 10 (1.82%) XML
3 7 (1.28%) SAML
3 7 (1.28%) Web Services
4 5 (0.91%) .NET
4 5 (0.91%) FpML
4 5 (0.91%) React
4 5 (0.91%) REST
5 4 (0.73%) CSS
5 4 (0.73%) HTML
5 4 (0.73%) JDBC
5 4 (0.73%) Kafka
5 4 (0.73%) LDAP
5 4 (0.73%) ODBC
5 4 (0.73%) PyTorch
5 4 (0.73%) SOAP
5 4 (0.73%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (0.55%) OAuth
6 3 (0.55%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.93%) Fixed Income
2 42 (7.65%) Derivative
3 35 (6.38%) Hedge funds
3 35 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 32 (5.83%) Management Information System
4 32 (5.83%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 10 (1.82%) PMI
7 9 (1.64%) CMDB
7 9 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.46%) Operational Technology
9 7 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.09%) IoT
11 5 (0.91%) Equities
11 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.91%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.91%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.09%) Unix
2 4 (0.73%) Linux
3 3 (0.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (44.99%) Agile
2 154 (28.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 124 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (19.49%) Requirements Gathering
5 92 (16.76%) Project Management
6 88 (16.03%) User Stories
7 82 (14.94%) User Acceptance Testing
8 76 (13.84%) Decision-Making
9 72 (13.11%) Data Analysis
10 71 (12.93%) Workshop Facilitation
11 69 (12.57%) Analytics
11 69 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
12 65 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 58 (10.56%) Change Management
14 57 (10.38%) Process Improvement
15 54 (9.84%) Waterfall
16 51 (9.29%) Asset Management
16 51 (9.29%) Business Case
17 50 (9.11%) Acceptance Criteria
18 48 (8.74%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 106 (19.31%) SQL
2 70 (12.75%) Python
3 13 (2.37%) Java
4 6 (1.09%) R
5 5 (0.91%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.73%) C#
6 4 (0.73%) PHP
7 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.55%) Scala
7 3 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.36%) Bash
8 2 (0.36%) Lua
8 2 (0.36%) Perl
9 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (15.30%) Degree
2 56 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 42 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.74%) CBAP
5 16 (2.91%) IIBA
5 16 (2.91%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.28%) ISEB
8 6 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.09%) CCA
8 6 (1.09%) CISSP
8 6 (1.09%) PMP
9 4 (0.73%) CISA
9 4 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.73%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.55%) ACCA
10 3 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.36%) CEH
11 2 (0.36%) CFA
11 2 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.46%) GDPR
2 17 (3.10%) QA
3 15 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.82%) NIST
5 7 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (1.28%) MiFID
6 6 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.09%) GRC
6 6 (1.09%) PMO
7 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.73%) EMIR
8 4 (0.73%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.55%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.36%) Basel III
10 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (1.82%) Docker
2 9 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.36%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.36%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.18%) Rancher
4 1 (0.18%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 47 (8.56%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.38%) SAP
3 31 (5.65%) BISAM
4 25 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.10%) Charles River
5 17 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.73%) Oracle
6 15 (2.73%) SimCorp
7 14 (2.55%) Calypso
8 9 (1.64%) ION Trading
9 8 (1.46%) Murex
10 7 (1.28%) VMware
11 6 (1.09%) IBM
12 5 (0.91%) Adobe
12 5 (0.91%) Informatica
12 5 (0.91%) OpenText
12 5 (0.91%) Qualtrics
13 4 (0.73%) Google
13 4 (0.73%) Workday
14 3 (0.55%) Atlassian