Business Analysis Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Business Analysis skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 134 109
Rank change year-on-year +20 -25 -20
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 686 602 974
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.47% 1.84% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.14% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 388 643
10th Percentile £360 £375 £406
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £646 £638 £650
90th Percentile £761 £738 £705
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile £61.20 £50.05 £19.72
25th Percentile £64.50 £63.25 £21.73
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.40 £46.98
Median % change year-on-year -7.16% +60.50% +92.68%
75th Percentile £79.38 £83.55 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £84.89 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £70.95 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.35% +159.45%

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 25,234 28,138 37,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.88% 86.06% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,038 17,541 26,048
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £423 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,497 1,306 1,424
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%
75th Percentile £49.75 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in England

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analysis in England over the 6 months to 17 September 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 17 September 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 +19 421 £600 +4.35% 338
North of England +11 106 £472 -5.60% 224
Midlands +8 63 £447 -14.86% 143
North West -11 54 £456 -8.80% 125
Yorkshire +13 46 £475 -11.63% 66
South East +20 43 £458 -8.20% 246
West Midlands 0 43 £525 - 89
South West +21 29 £553 +17.24% 70
East Midlands +5 20 £358 -13.21% 54
East of England -7 14 £625 +25.00% 66
North East 0 6 £450 +21.62% 37
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 56 (8.16%) Confluence
2 9 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.29%) Apache
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 49 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 37 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 31 (4.52%) Aladdin
2 16 (2.33%) thinkFolio
3 15 (2.19%) SAP WM
4 14 (2.04%) Endur
4 14 (2.04%) SAP EWM
4 14 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (1.02%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.58%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.44%) Loan IQ
9 3 (0.44%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.44%) Shopify
10 2 (0.29%) Aligne
10 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 62 (9.04%) Azure
2 58 (8.45%) Power Platform
3 32 (4.66%) AWS
4 20 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (2.62%) SaaS
6 13 (1.90%) GCP
7 11 (1.60%) Miro
8 10 (1.46%) Lucidchart
9 8 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.02%) Figma
10 7 (1.02%) Snowflake
11 6 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (0.73%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (0.73%) Azure AI
12 5 (0.73%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.58%) Google Gemini
13 4 (0.58%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.44%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.87%) Firewall
2 5 (0.73%) HTTP
3 3 (0.44%) Intranet
4 2 (0.29%) Broadband
4 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.15%) Internet
5 1 (0.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.58%) Power BI
2 22 (3.21%) Relational Database
3 19 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (2.62%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.33%) Tableau
6 7 (1.02%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.02%) Redis
7 6 (0.87%) Data Mining
8 5 (0.73%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.73%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.58%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.44%) Metadata
10 3 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.29%) Power Query
11 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 75 (10.93%) JIRA
2 16 (2.33%) Git
3 7 (1.02%) webpack
4 5 (0.73%) Selenium
5 4 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.44%) AdminStudio
6 3 (0.44%) Postman
7 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.15%) git-flow
8 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 301 (43.88%) Social Skills
2 275 (40.09%) Finance
3 131 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (12.97%) Banking
5 71 (10.35%) Front Office
6 58 (8.45%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (5.10%) Public Sector
8 33 (4.81%) Manufacturing
9 31 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (4.23%) Legal
11 27 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (3.06%) Investment Banking
12 21 (3.06%) Retail
13 20 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (2.77%) Marketing
14 19 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (2.62%) Back Office
15 18 (2.62%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (1.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 466 (67.93%) Analyst
2 441 (64.29%) Business Analyst
3 68 (9.91%) Senior
4 51 (7.43%) Senior Analyst
5 44 (6.41%) Senior Business Analyst
6 42 (6.12%) Lead
7 38 (5.54%) Consultant
8 33 (4.81%) Business Manager
9 31 (4.52%) Architect
9 31 (4.52%) Financial Analyst
10 30 (4.37%) Data Analyst
11 29 (4.23%) Project Manager
12 28 (4.08%) Data Business Analyst
12 28 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
13 27 (3.94%) Finance Business Analyst
13 27 (3.94%) Technical Business Analyst
14 26 (3.79%) Developer
15 25 (3.64%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
16 18 (2.62%) SAP Consultant
17 16 (2.33%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.21%) .NET
2 18 (2.62%) CSS
2 18 (2.62%) HTML
3 16 (2.33%) React
4 14 (2.04%) jQuery
5 11 (1.60%) XML
6 9 (1.31%) JSON
7 7 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (1.02%) Bootstrap
7 7 (1.02%) HTML5
7 7 (1.02%) Memcached
8 6 (0.87%) REST
9 5 (0.73%) Compass CSS Framework
9 5 (0.73%) WPF
10 4 (0.58%) ADO
10 4 (0.58%) OAuth
10 4 (0.58%) PySpark
10 4 (0.58%) RESTful
10 4 (0.58%) SAML
10 4 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 42 (6.12%) Derivative
3 40 (5.83%) Onboarding
4 39 (5.69%) Management Information System
5 36 (5.25%) Fixed Income
6 31 (4.52%) Hedge funds
7 25 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (2.33%) Reinsurance
9 14 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.75%) Equities
11 12 (1.75%) PMI
12 10 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.31%) Reference Data
14 8 (1.17%) Credit Risk
14 8 (1.17%) Life Science
14 8 (1.17%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.87%) Linux
2 5 (0.73%) Windows
3 3 (0.44%) CentOS
3 3 (0.44%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.44%) Unix
3 3 (0.44%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.15%) AIX
5 1 (0.15%) Android
5 1 (0.15%) Solaris
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (46.94%) Agile
2 184 (26.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 156 (22.74%) Requirements Gathering
4 132 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (17.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 104 (15.16%) Project Management
7 101 (14.72%) User Stories
8 94 (13.70%) Analytics
9 93 (13.56%) Data Analysis
10 88 (12.83%) User Acceptance Testing
10 88 (12.83%) Workshop Facilitation
11 80 (11.66%) Business Intelligence
12 79 (11.52%) Project Delivery
13 78 (11.37%) Decision-Making
14 73 (10.64%) Change Management
15 72 (10.50%) Scrum
16 70 (10.20%) Roadmaps
17 63 (9.18%) GAP Analysis
18 60 (8.75%) Process Improvement
19 59 (8.60%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 118 (17.20%) SQL
2 73 (10.64%) Python
3 18 (2.62%) C#
4 14 (2.04%) Java
4 14 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.73%) PowerShell
5 5 (0.73%) VBA
6 4 (0.58%) Bash
6 4 (0.58%) PHP
6 4 (0.58%) R
6 4 (0.58%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.44%) C
7 3 (0.44%) Perl
7 3 (0.44%) Scala
8 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.29%) Ruby
8 2 (0.29%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.15%) C++
9 1 (0.15%) Jython
9 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (15.89%) Degree
2 57 (8.31%) Security Cleared
3 42 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 35 (5.10%) CBAP
5 19 (2.77%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.04%) SAP Certification
7 10 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.31%) IIBA
8 9 (1.31%) ISEB
9 8 (1.17%) PMP
10 7 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.73%) ACCA
11 5 (0.73%) APMP
11 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.73%) CISSP
12 4 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.58%) CEH
12 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.96%) GDPR
1 34 (4.96%) QA
2 21 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.04%) MiFID
4 13 (1.90%) EMIR
5 10 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (1.17%) NIST
7 7 (1.02%) GRC
7 7 (1.02%) GxP
7 7 (1.02%) SLA
8 6 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.73%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.73%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.73%) PMO
9 5 (0.73%) SEPA
10 4 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.58%) Dodd-Frank
11 3 (0.44%) Basel III
11 3 (0.44%) FATCA
System Software
1 6 (0.87%) Docker
2 4 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (0.87%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.58%) Terraform
3 3 (0.44%) SCCM
4 2 (0.29%) Ansible
4 2 (0.29%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.29%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 80 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.02%) SAP
3 34 (4.96%) Salesforce
4 27 (3.94%) Oracle
5 25 (3.64%) BISAM
5 25 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 23 (3.35%) Charles River
7 17 (2.48%) Calypso
7 17 (2.48%) SimCorp
8 13 (1.90%) Workday
9 8 (1.17%) Adobe
10 7 (1.02%) GoldenSource
11 6 (0.87%) Google
12 5 (0.73%) UiPath
13 4 (0.58%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.58%) Databricks
14 3 (0.44%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.44%) IBM
14 3 (0.44%) ION Trading
14 3 (0.44%) Sitecore