Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 39 46
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,782 1,411 1,398
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.89% 5.10% 4.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.20% 5.56% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 977 1,029
10th Percentile £366 £357 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £511 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% -4.88% +0.66%
75th Percentile £602 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £772 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 11
10th Percentile £29.12 £30.56 £26.50
25th Percentile £34.87 £32.67 £35.67
Median hourly rate £56.75 £48.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.41% -2.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £77.20 £61.25 £72.38
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.38 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £46.25
% change year-on-year +12.82% +5.41% -26.00%

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 42,382 25,355 30,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.59% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,645 16,377 20,264
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,188 1,341 1,792
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.30 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.98% -43.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +2.00%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -14 1,039 £550 -4.35% 275
North of England -11 259 £463 +8.57% 95
South East -1 178 £500 +3.90% 89
Midlands +1 173 £471 +25.53% 61
West Midlands +14 133 £475 - 41
North West -30 123 £438 +2.10% 39
Yorkshire -20 100 £481 +17.67% 35
South West -10 74 £470 +0.11% 40
East Midlands -23 38 £460 +28.49% 20
North East -13 37 £525 +5.00% 23
East of England -9 32 £475 +5.56% 25
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 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.

1 601 (33.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 588 (33.00%) Business Analysis
3 572 (32.10%) Agile
4 525 (29.46%) Requirements Gathering
5 492 (27.61%) Workshop Facilitation
6 468 (26.26%) User Stories
7 350 (19.64%) User Acceptance Testing
8 345 (19.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 291 (16.33%) Acceptance Criteria
10 228 (12.79%) JIRA
11 225 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
12 202 (11.34%) Validation
13 201 (11.28%) Migration
14 195 (10.94%) Process Improvement
15 189 (10.61%) SQL
16 172 (9.65%) Data Analysis
17 169 (9.48%) AI
18 168 (9.43%) Microsoft
19 166 (9.32%) Security Cleared
20 165 (9.26%) Decision-Making
21 163 (9.15%) Confluence
22 150 (8.42%) Azure
23 145 (8.14%) Data Modelling
23 145 (8.14%) Degree
24 135 (7.58%) Scrum
25 134 (7.52%) SC Cleared
26 125 (7.01%) Impact Assessments
27 122 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
28 120 (6.73%) Salesforce
29 119 (6.68%) GAP Analysis

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
1 163 (9.15%) Confluence
2 28 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.34%) CMS
4 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.22%) SAS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.11%) Apache
7 2 (0.11%) Appian
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.056%) Camunda
8 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.056%) Moodle
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.056%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.056%) Totara
Applications
1 100 (5.61%) MS Visio
2 71 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.22%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.056%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.67%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.62%) Endur
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.34%) Findur
7 6 (0.34%) Maximo
7 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.28%) Actimize
8 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.22%) Summit
9 4 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 150 (8.42%) Azure
2 113 (6.34%) Power Platform
3 62 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (2.58%) AWS
5 40 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (1.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 24 (1.35%) SaaS
8 23 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (1.12%) Lucidchart
9 20 (1.12%) Snowflake
10 16 (0.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 14 (0.79%) GCP
11 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (0.67%) Miro
13 11 (0.62%) Entra ID
13 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (0.62%) Power Automate
13 11 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.56%) Network Security
2 6 (0.34%) Wireless
3 4 (0.22%) Intranet
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%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.11%) WLAN
5 1 (0.056%) 5G
5 1 (0.056%) Firewall
5 1 (0.056%) Internet
5 1 (0.056%) PBX
5 1 (0.056%) SNMP
5 1 (0.056%) SONET
5 1 (0.056%) SSH
5 1 (0.056%) SSL
5 1 (0.056%) TETRA
5 1 (0.056%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.27%) Power BI
2 39 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (1.85%) Metadata
4 22 (1.23%) Tableau
5 15 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (0.39%) Data Mining
7 7 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.22%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.17%) Big Data
10 3 (0.17%) GIS
10 3 (0.17%) Looker
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 228 (12.79%) JIRA
2 6 (0.34%) Balsamiq
3 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.11%) GitLab
5 1 (0.056%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.056%) Postman
5 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 628 (35.24%) Finance
2 567 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 419 (23.51%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (13.58%) Banking
5 142 (7.97%) Documentation Skills
6 135 (7.58%) Public Sector
7 105 (5.89%) Retail
8 97 (5.44%) Front Office
9 67 (3.76%) Legal
10 66 (3.70%) Investment Banking
11 48 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.47%) Manufacturing
13 38 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.80%) Local Government
14 32 (1.80%) Marketing
15 31 (1.74%) Back Office
15 31 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
16 30 (1.68%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 25 (1.40%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (0.95%) XML
3 15 (0.84%) JSON
3 15 (0.84%) Middleware
4 14 (0.79%) ADO
5 7 (0.39%) SailPoint
6 6 (0.34%) FHIR
6 6 (0.34%) REST
7 5 (0.28%) STL
8 4 (0.22%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.22%) NumPy
8 4 (0.22%) Pandas
8 4 (0.22%) VML
9 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.17%) SOAP
10 2 (0.11%) EDI
10 2 (0.11%) Kafka
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.11%) OpenAPI
10 2 (0.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.14%) Derivative
4 48 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 45 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 36 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 31 (1.74%) Fixed Income
10 29 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.40%) Hedge funds
11 25 (1.40%) Operational Technology
12 22 (1.23%) Credit Risk
13 20 (1.12%) Market Risk
13 20 (1.12%) Reference Data
14 17 (0.95%) Equities
14 17 (0.95%) FMCG
14 17 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (0.84%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.62%) Windows
2 6 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.28%) Android
4 4 (0.22%) Unix
5 2 (0.11%) Linux
5 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.056%) AIX
6 1 (0.056%) Solaris
6 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (33.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 588 (33.00%) Business Analysis
3 572 (32.10%) Agile
4 525 (29.46%) Requirements Gathering
5 492 (27.61%) Workshop Facilitation
6 468 (26.26%) User Stories
7 350 (19.64%) User Acceptance Testing
8 345 (19.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 291 (16.33%) Acceptance Criteria
10 225 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
11 202 (11.34%) Validation
12 201 (11.28%) Migration
13 195 (10.94%) Process Improvement
14 172 (9.65%) Data Analysis
15 169 (9.48%) AI
16 165 (9.26%) Decision-Making
17 145 (8.14%) Data Modelling
18 135 (7.58%) Scrum
19 125 (7.01%) Impact Assessments
20 122 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 189 (10.61%) SQL
2 35 (1.96%) Python
3 14 (0.79%) Korn
4 8 (0.45%) Java
5 3 (0.17%) R
6 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.11%) VBA
7 1 (0.056%) ABAP
7 1 (0.056%) C
7 1 (0.056%) C#
7 1 (0.056%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.056%) Groovy
7 1 (0.056%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.056%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.056%) Ruby
7 1 (0.056%) SOQL
7 1 (0.056%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 166 (9.32%) Security Cleared
2 145 (8.14%) Degree
3 134 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 35 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 35 (1.96%) IIBA
5 29 (1.63%) CBAP
6 26 (1.46%) PMI Certification
7 17 (0.95%) PMP
8 14 (0.79%) FFIEC
9 13 (0.73%) ACCA
9 13 (0.73%) CIMA
10 12 (0.67%) ISEB
11 11 (0.62%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.34%) CSPO
13 6 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.28%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
15 4 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 93 (5.22%) QA
3 37 (2.08%) GDPR
4 36 (2.02%) NIST
5 26 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.95%) MiFID
7 15 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.84%) COBIT
8 14 (0.79%) GRC
9 13 (0.73%) EMIR
10 11 (0.62%) PMO
11 10 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.39%) IFRS
13 7 (0.39%) SEPA
13 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
14 6 (0.34%) Basel III
14 6 (0.34%) HL7
14 6 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.056%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (0.34%) Terraform
2 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
2 3 (0.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.056%) Ansible
4 1 (0.056%) Autotask
4 1 (0.056%) Control-M
4 1 (0.056%) Grafana
4 1 (0.056%) Kibana
4 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.056%) SCCM
4 1 (0.056%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 168 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 120 (6.73%) Salesforce
3 115 (6.45%) SAP
4 71 (3.98%) ServiceNow
5 60 (3.37%) Oracle
6 30 (1.68%) Murex
7 23 (1.29%) Databricks
8 20 (1.12%) Workday
9 16 (0.90%) CyberArk
10 13 (0.73%) Pega
11 12 (0.67%) Guidewire
12 11 (0.62%) Bloomberg
12 11 (0.62%) IBM
13 10 (0.56%) Planon
13 10 (0.56%) Zscaler
14 9 (0.51%) OpenLink
14 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 8 (0.45%) Charles River
16 7 (0.39%) Cisco
16 7 (0.39%) Splunk