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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 148 98
Rank change year-on-year +30 -50 -4
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 722 465 849
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.32% 1.73% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 1.94% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 315 595
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 15
10th Percentile £61.66 - £21.40
25th Percentile £66.18 £61.50 £60.63
Median hourly rate £77.94 £66.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.08% -22.35% +112.50%
75th Percentile £89.21 £75.00 £86.50
90th Percentile £93.43 £81.63 -
UK median hourly rate £77.94 £66.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +18.08% -22.35% +162.67%

All Process & 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 27,490 23,991 31,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.32% 89.05% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,508 14,731 21,614
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,729 768 1,481
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Business Analysis job vacancy trend 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 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 2026. 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 +29 404 £575 -4.25% 96
North of England +2 97 £450 -10.00% 64
Midlands +11 84 £475 -9.52% 43
South West +11 53 £500 - 32
West Midlands -2 51 £492 -6.29% 29
South East -2 51 £500 - 88
Yorkshire -10 47 £506 -10.85% 27
North West -24 43 £400 -15.79% 27
East Midlands +6 33 £359 -15.53% 14
East of England -11 21 £585 +17.00% 30
North East - 9 £444 - 12
Business Analysis
UK

Business Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 55 (7.62%) Confluence
2 10 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.11%) SAS
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 55 (7.62%) MS Visio
2 49 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.42%) Notion
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.28%) Sketch
8 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (2.63%) Endur
3 15 (2.08%) SAP WM
4 14 (1.94%) SAP EWM
5 11 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (1.11%) Loan IQ
7 7 (0.97%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.42%) iTrent
10 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
11 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.28%) Temenos T24
12 1 (0.14%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 100 (13.85%) Power Platform
2 61 (8.45%) Azure
3 32 (4.43%) AWS
4 30 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (3.19%) SaaS
6 21 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (2.22%) PowerApps
9 13 (1.80%) Power Automate
10 11 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (1.25%) Lucidchart
11 9 (1.25%) Miro
12 7 (0.97%) Apigee
12 7 (0.97%) GCP
12 7 (0.97%) Kong
13 5 (0.69%) dbt
13 5 (0.69%) Figma
13 5 (0.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (0.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.28%) Broadband
1 2 (0.28%) Firewall
1 2 (0.28%) HTTP
1 2 (0.28%) Intranet
1 2 (0.28%) NAS
1 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.14%) Internet
2 1 (0.14%) LAN
2 1 (0.14%) WAN
2 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (12.05%) Power BI
2 17 (2.35%) Relational Database
3 16 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.66%) SQL Server
5 10 (1.39%) Tableau
6 7 (0.97%) Data Mining
7 6 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.69%) Metadata
8 5 (0.69%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.69%) Redis
8 5 (0.69%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.42%) Power Query
10 3 (0.42%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.28%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (0.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 84 (11.63%) JIRA
2 10 (1.39%) Git
3 6 (0.83%) Postman
4 5 (0.69%) Selenium
4 5 (0.69%) webpack
5 4 (0.55%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.55%) ERwin
5 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.28%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.28%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.14%) Ant
8 1 (0.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.14%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.14%) TestNG
8 1 (0.14%) Toad
General
1 312 (43.21%) Social Skills
2 259 (35.87%) Finance
3 146 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (13.71%) Banking
5 83 (11.50%) Public Sector
6 57 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
7 51 (7.06%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
9 36 (4.99%) Front Office
10 34 (4.71%) Investment Banking
11 30 (4.16%) Legal
12 28 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (3.46%) Marketing
15 24 (3.32%) Manufacturing
15 24 (3.32%) Retail
16 20 (2.77%) Local Government
17 17 (2.35%) Financial Institution
17 17 (2.35%) Telecoms
18 14 (1.94%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 492 (68.14%) Analyst
2 458 (63.43%) Business Analyst
3 99 (13.71%) Senior
4 81 (11.22%) Senior Analyst
5 73 (10.11%) Senior Business Analyst
6 43 (5.96%) Lead
7 39 (5.40%) Technical Analyst
8 37 (5.12%) Technical Business Analyst
9 32 (4.43%) Consultant
10 30 (4.16%) Financial Analyst
10 30 (4.16%) Project Manager
11 27 (3.74%) Finance Business Analyst
12 25 (3.46%) Architect
12 25 (3.46%) Banking Analyst
12 25 (3.46%) Developer
13 23 (3.19%) Banking Business Analyst
14 20 (2.77%) Data Business Analyst
15 17 (2.35%) IT Analyst
15 17 (2.35%) IT Business Analyst
15 17 (2.35%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.77%) XML
2 18 (2.49%) .NET
3 15 (2.08%) CSS
3 15 (2.08%) HTML
3 15 (2.08%) REST
4 12 (1.66%) jQuery
4 12 (1.66%) JSON
5 11 (1.52%) EDI
6 9 (1.25%) Swagger
7 8 (1.11%) OAuth
7 8 (1.11%) React
7 8 (1.11%) SOAP
7 8 (1.11%) VML
8 7 (0.97%) ASP.NET Web API
8 7 (0.97%) OpenAPI
8 7 (0.97%) PySpark
8 7 (0.97%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.83%) JWT
10 5 (0.69%) Bootstrap
10 5 (0.69%) Compass CSS Framework
Miscellaneous
1 84 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 41 (5.68%) Management Information System
3 30 (4.16%) Onboarding
4 27 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
5 24 (3.32%) PMI
6 15 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.52%) Credit Risk
9 11 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.39%) Reinsurance
11 9 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (0.97%) Cloud Native
13 7 (0.97%) Life Science
13 7 (0.97%) NHS
14 6 (0.83%) Derivative
14 6 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.11%) Linux
2 5 (0.69%) Windows
3 4 (0.55%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) CentOS
4 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.28%) AIX
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Solaris
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (45.71%) Agile
2 232 (32.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 184 (25.48%) Requirements Gathering
4 168 (23.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 159 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (20.78%) Workshop Facilitation
7 143 (19.81%) User Stories
8 117 (16.20%) Project Management
9 113 (15.65%) User Acceptance Testing
10 94 (13.02%) Project Delivery
11 92 (12.74%) Migration
12 86 (11.91%) Business Intelligence
13 83 (11.50%) Analytics
14 82 (11.36%) Decision-Making
15 79 (10.94%) GAP Analysis
16 75 (10.39%) Waterfall
17 74 (10.25%) Use Case
18 73 (10.11%) Scrum
19 72 (9.97%) Data Modelling
19 72 (9.97%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 88 (12.19%) SQL
2 33 (4.57%) Python
3 21 (2.91%) C#
4 18 (2.49%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.08%) Java
6 4 (0.55%) Perl
6 4 (0.55%) VBA
7 3 (0.42%) C
7 3 (0.42%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.42%) Scala
7 3 (0.42%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.28%) C++
8 2 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.28%) Korn
9 1 (0.14%) ABAP
9 1 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.14%) Jython
9 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (15.24%) Degree
2 93 (12.88%) Security Cleared
3 78 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 43 (5.96%) CBAP
5 33 (4.57%) PMI Certification
6 24 (3.32%) IIBA
7 16 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.94%) SAP Certification
9 12 (1.66%) PMP
10 11 (1.52%) ISEB
11 9 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.11%) CSPO
13 7 (0.97%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.97%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.97%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.69%) APMP
15 3 (0.42%) ACCA
16 2 (0.28%) CFA
16 2 (0.28%) CIMA
16 2 (0.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.79%) QA
2 37 (5.12%) GDPR
3 24 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.39%) PMO
6 9 (1.25%) GxP
6 9 (1.25%) NIST
6 9 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.11%) MiFID
7 8 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.11%) PSD2
8 7 (0.97%) SLA
9 6 (0.83%) ISO 8583
10 5 (0.69%) EMIR
10 5 (0.69%) GRC
11 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.55%) WCAG
12 3 (0.42%) GMP
System Software
1 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.14%) Docker
1 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (0.97%) Terraform
2 3 (0.42%) Ansible
3 2 (0.28%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 99 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.48%) SAP
3 43 (5.96%) Salesforce
4 29 (4.02%) Oracle
5 14 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.52%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.25%) Murex
7 9 (1.25%) Workday
8 8 (1.11%) GoldenSource
8 8 (1.11%) Google
9 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.69%) Bloomberg
9 5 (0.69%) OpenLink
10 4 (0.55%) Adobe
10 4 (0.55%) Avaloq
10 4 (0.55%) CyberArk
10 4 (0.55%) IBM
10 4 (0.55%) Sparx
11 3 (0.42%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.42%) UiPath