Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 38 48
Rank change year-on-year -20 +10 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,753 1,405 1,335
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 5.16% 4.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.16% 5.65% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,149 975 989
10th Percentile £366 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -2.86% -1.87%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £768 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 10
10th Percentile £29.12 £27.09 £25.98
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.42 £33.13
Median hourly rate £56.75 £32.19 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +76.30% -30.40% -2.63%
75th Percentile £77.20 £45.13 £69.31
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.38 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £33.45 £42.50
% change year-on-year +64.45% -21.31% -21.30%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 42,168 24,883 30,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 91.42% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,332 16,051 19,383
10th Percentile £325 £281 £304
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,270 1,335 1,579
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.52 £14.28
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.23
Median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +5.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% +1.18%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 England.

Business Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in England over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analyst in England over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
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 Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 4 September 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 -17 1,013 £539 -6.30% 358
North of England -16 264 £466 +9.71% 99
South East -13 166 £500 +5.26% 130
Midlands -2 165 £467 +24.40% 82
West Midlands +13 127 £475 - 54
North West -23 120 £439 +3.24% 52
Yorkshire -18 105 £475 +17.00% 31
South West +5 86 £480 +3.78% 58
North East -9 40 £525 +20.00% 17
East Midlands -29 37 £461 +28.84% 28
East of England -8 32 £475 +5.56% 26
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 September 2026, 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 England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 617 (35.20%) Stakeholder Management
2 603 (34.40%) Business Analysis
3 565 (32.23%) Agile
4 553 (31.55%) Requirements Gathering
5 494 (28.18%) Workshop Facilitation
6 466 (26.58%) User Stories
7 342 (19.51%) User Acceptance Testing
8 327 (18.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 292 (16.66%) Acceptance Criteria
10 223 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
11 219 (12.49%) JIRA
12 202 (11.52%) Validation
13 201 (11.47%) Process Improvement
14 193 (11.01%) SQL
15 184 (10.50%) Migration
16 174 (9.93%) AI
17 171 (9.75%) Data Analysis
18 167 (9.53%) Decision-Making
19 164 (9.36%) Microsoft
20 149 (8.50%) Confluence
21 148 (8.44%) Security Cleared
22 146 (8.33%) Azure
23 144 (8.21%) Degree
24 136 (7.76%) Scrum
25 135 (7.70%) Data Modelling
26 132 (7.53%) Requirements Workshops
27 121 (6.90%) GAP Analysis
27 121 (6.90%) Impact Assessments
27 121 (6.90%) Project Delivery
28 119 (6.79%) DevOps

Business Analyst Skill Set
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
1 149 (8.50%) Confluence
2 24 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.34%) CMS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.17%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.057%) Camunda
7 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Moodle
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.057%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.057%) Totara
Applications
1 93 (5.31%) MS Visio
2 68 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.23%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.63%) Endur
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.40%) Maximo
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.34%) Findur
8 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
9 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
10 4 (0.23%) HFM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.23%) Summit
11 3 (0.17%) Actimize
11 3 (0.17%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 146 (8.33%) Azure
2 105 (5.99%) Power Platform
3 62 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (2.80%) AWS
5 41 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (1.54%) SaaS
7 26 (1.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 19 (1.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 18 (1.03%) Lucidchart
9 18 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (1.03%) Snowflake
10 17 (0.97%) Miro
11 13 (0.74%) GCP
12 12 (0.68%) Entra ID
13 11 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (0.57%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (0.46%) Figma
16 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.34%) Network Security
1 6 (0.34%) Wireless
2 5 (0.29%) Intranet
3 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.11%) 802.11
4 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.11%) DNS
4 2 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.11%) WLAN
5 1 (0.057%) 5G
5 1 (0.057%) HTTP
5 1 (0.057%) LAN
5 1 (0.057%) PBX
5 1 (0.057%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.057%) SNMP
5 1 (0.057%) SSH
5 1 (0.057%) SSL
5 1 (0.057%) VoIP
5 1 (0.057%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.13%) Power BI
2 35 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (2.00%) Metadata
3 18 (1.03%) Tableau
4 13 (0.74%) Data Lake
5 10 (0.57%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 5 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.23%) Big Data
10 4 (0.23%) GIS
10 4 (0.23%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.17%) Looker
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
12 2 (0.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 219 (12.49%) JIRA
2 4 (0.23%) Balsamiq
3 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.11%) GitLab
4 2 (0.11%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 622 (35.48%) Finance
2 562 (32.06%) Social Skills
3 396 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (13.92%) Banking
5 140 (7.99%) Documentation Skills
6 133 (7.59%) Public Sector
7 109 (6.22%) Retail
8 94 (5.36%) Front Office
9 67 (3.82%) Investment Banking
10 63 (3.59%) Legal
11 47 (2.68%) Manufacturing
12 44 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
14 36 (2.05%) Back Office
15 34 (1.94%) Local Government
16 30 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (1.65%) Financial Institution
18 26 (1.48%) Marketing
19 25 (1.43%) Billing
19 25 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (0.97%) XML
3 16 (0.91%) Middleware
4 14 (0.80%) JSON
5 13 (0.74%) ADO
6 7 (0.40%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.34%) FHIR
8 5 (0.29%) STL
8 5 (0.29%) Terraform
9 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.23%) NumPy
9 4 (0.23%) Pandas
9 4 (0.23%) VML
10 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
10 3 (0.17%) REST
10 3 (0.17%) Swagger
11 2 (0.11%) EDI
11 2 (0.11%) Kafka
11 2 (0.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 84 (4.79%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.31%) Derivative
4 47 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 38 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 34 (1.94%) Fixed Income
8 30 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.65%) Management Information System
10 28 (1.60%) Data Structures
11 24 (1.37%) Credit Risk
11 24 (1.37%) Operational Technology
12 21 (1.20%) Reference Data
13 20 (1.14%) Market Risk
14 19 (1.08%) Equities
14 19 (1.08%) Hedge funds
15 18 (1.03%) FMCG
16 15 (0.86%) NHS
17 14 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
18 13 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.46%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
2 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.23%) Unix
3 1 (0.057%) Linux
3 1 (0.057%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (35.20%) Stakeholder Management
2 603 (34.40%) Business Analysis
3 565 (32.23%) Agile
4 553 (31.55%) Requirements Gathering
5 494 (28.18%) Workshop Facilitation
6 466 (26.58%) User Stories
7 342 (19.51%) User Acceptance Testing
8 327 (18.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 292 (16.66%) Acceptance Criteria
10 223 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
11 202 (11.52%) Validation
12 201 (11.47%) Process Improvement
13 184 (10.50%) Migration
14 174 (9.93%) AI
15 171 (9.75%) Data Analysis
16 167 (9.53%) Decision-Making
17 136 (7.76%) Scrum
18 135 (7.70%) Data Modelling
19 132 (7.53%) Requirements Workshops
20 121 (6.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 193 (11.01%) SQL
2 31 (1.77%) Python
3 14 (0.80%) Korn
4 8 (0.46%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.17%) R
7 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.11%) VBA
8 1 (0.057%) ABAP
8 1 (0.057%) C
8 1 (0.057%) C#
8 1 (0.057%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.057%) Groovy
8 1 (0.057%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
8 1 (0.057%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (8.44%) Security Cleared
2 144 (8.21%) Degree
3 118 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 35 (2.00%) IIBA
5 34 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 27 (1.54%) CBAP
7 25 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 17 (0.97%) ACCA
8 17 (0.97%) CIMA
9 16 (0.91%) PMP
10 12 (0.68%) FFIEC
11 11 (0.63%) ISEB
12 10 (0.57%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.34%) CSPO
14 6 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 3 (0.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 96 (5.48%) QA
3 32 (1.83%) GDPR
4 27 (1.54%) NIST
5 21 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.97%) MiFID
7 14 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.80%) GRC
8 13 (0.74%) COBIT
9 12 (0.68%) PMO
10 11 (0.63%) EMIR
10 11 (0.63%) IFRS
11 8 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.40%) Basel III
12 7 (0.40%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
14 5 (0.29%) HL7
15 4 (0.23%) FINREP
15 4 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
1 3 (0.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.057%) Autotask
2 1 (0.057%) Control-M
2 1 (0.057%) Grafana
2 1 (0.057%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.057%) Kibana
2 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 164 (9.36%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.56%) Salesforce
3 113 (6.45%) SAP
4 65 (3.71%) ServiceNow
5 62 (3.54%) Oracle
6 32 (1.83%) Murex
7 23 (1.31%) Databricks
8 18 (1.03%) Workday
9 17 (0.97%) CyberArk
10 13 (0.74%) IBM
11 11 (0.63%) Bloomberg
11 11 (0.63%) Guidewire
11 11 (0.63%) OpenLink
11 11 (0.63%) Pega
12 8 (0.46%) Charles River
13 7 (0.40%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.34%) Ariba
15 5 (0.29%) Infor
15 5 (0.29%) Informatica
15 5 (0.29%) ION Trading