Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 47 40
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,673 1,127 1,774
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.71% 4.39% 4.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.12% 4.72% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 830 1,321
10th Percentile £350 £358 £400
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 8
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £41.83 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.82 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.08% -21.87% -23.64%
75th Percentile £81.50 £50.00 £68.17
90th Percentile £90.25 £72.50 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £32.82 £50.00
% change year-on-year +98.08% -34.37% -9.09%

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 32,663 23,861 35,129
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.91% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,724 15,180 23,561
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,100 745 2,165
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.24 £13.23
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.40 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% -0.71% -12.50%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +5 1,020 £525 -4.55% 100
North of England +12 257 £425 - 77
Midlands -1 144 £475 -5.00% 45
Yorkshire +8 124 £475 +5.56% 25
North West -11 115 £401 +0.13% 38
South East -16 109 £500 +5.26% 94
West Midlands +5 108 £475 -5.00% 28
South West +24 94 £463 -7.50% 25
East Midlands -7 35 £404 -1.59% 17
North East +14 34 £425 +6.25% 16
East of England -22 22 £500 - 29
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 February 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.

1 590 (35.27%) Agile
2 551 (32.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 501 (29.95%) Business Analysis
4 450 (26.90%) Requirements Gathering
5 370 (22.12%) Workshop Facilitation
6 363 (21.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 360 (21.52%) User Stories
8 272 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
9 255 (15.24%) JIRA
10 241 (14.41%) Migration
11 233 (13.93%) User Acceptance Testing
12 224 (13.39%) Security Cleared
13 196 (11.72%) SQL
14 194 (11.60%) Confluence
15 190 (11.36%) Acceptance Criteria
15 190 (11.36%) SC Cleared
16 155 (9.26%) Microsoft
17 154 (9.21%) Process Improvement
18 152 (9.09%) Data Analysis
19 150 (8.97%) Degree
20 142 (8.49%) Decision-Making
21 141 (8.43%) Scrum
22 137 (8.19%) Data Modelling
23 132 (7.89%) Validation
24 131 (7.83%) GAP Analysis
25 129 (7.71%) Project Delivery
26 124 (7.41%) DevOps
26 124 (7.41%) MS Visio
27 118 (7.05%) Power Platform
28 116 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel

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
1 194 (11.60%) Confluence
2 26 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.96%) SAS
4 6 (0.36%) CMS
5 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.060%) Appian
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.060%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.060%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 124 (7.41%) MS Visio
2 116 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 67 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.24%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.24%) Notion
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.060%) CATIA
9 1 (0.060%) Sketch
9 1 (0.060%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.61%) Endur
2 24 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.90%) Aladdin
3 15 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
3 15 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.24%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.24%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.18%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 118 (7.05%) Power Platform
2 110 (6.58%) Azure
3 67 (4.00%) AWS
4 39 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
6 28 (1.67%) SaaS
7 23 (1.37%) GitHub
8 21 (1.26%) Lucidchart
9 17 (1.02%) Miro
10 16 (0.96%) GCP
10 16 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 15 (0.90%) Snowflake
12 13 (0.78%) Power Automate
13 12 (0.72%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.54%) Entra ID
15 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
16 7 (0.42%) Apigee
16 7 (0.42%) Figma
16 7 (0.42%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.18%) Firewall
1 3 (0.18%) Internet
1 3 (0.18%) Network Security
2 2 (0.12%) Broadband
2 2 (0.12%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.12%) Intranet
2 2 (0.12%) NAS
2 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.12%) WAN
2 2 (0.12%) X.25
3 1 (0.060%) DNS
3 1 (0.060%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.060%) LAN
3 1 (0.060%) Softphone
3 1 (0.060%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.74%) Power BI
2 34 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (1.85%) Tableau
4 19 (1.14%) Metadata
5 12 (0.72%) SQL Server
6 8 (0.48%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.24%) Big Data
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.18%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.18%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.18%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.18%) Power Query
9 3 (0.18%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.12%) OLAP
10 2 (0.12%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 255 (15.24%) JIRA
2 21 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.48%) Postman
5 3 (0.18%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.18%) Git
5 3 (0.18%) Toad
6 2 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.12%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.060%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.060%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.060%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.060%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.060%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 624 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 591 (35.33%) Finance
3 378 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (15.54%) Banking
5 167 (9.98%) Public Sector
6 120 (7.17%) Documentation Skills
7 62 (3.71%) Front Office
7 62 (3.71%) Retail
8 58 (3.47%) Legal
9 56 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (3.29%) Investment Banking
11 47 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
12 45 (2.69%) Telecoms
13 39 (2.33%) Marketing
14 32 (1.91%) Back Office
15 27 (1.61%) Local Government
15 27 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (1.49%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.08%) Manufacturing
18 17 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.33%) REST
2 24 (1.43%) XML
3 20 (1.20%) SOAP
4 19 (1.14%) JSON
5 14 (0.84%) ADO
6 12 (0.72%) Swagger
7 11 (0.66%) OAuth
8 10 (0.60%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (0.48%) VML
10 7 (0.42%) FHIR
10 7 (0.42%) JWT
10 7 (0.42%) OpenAPI
10 7 (0.42%) SAML
11 6 (0.36%) Middleware
12 5 (0.30%) .NET
13 4 (0.24%) HTML
13 4 (0.24%) RESTful
13 4 (0.24%) Web Services
13 4 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (8.07%) Product Ownership
2 57 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 42 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
4 38 (2.27%) Fixed Income
4 38 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 33 (1.97%) Derivative
7 32 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 25 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 25 (1.49%) PMI
9 24 (1.43%) Credit Risk
10 23 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 20 (1.20%) Equities
12 20 (1.20%) NHS
13 19 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.72%) CMDB
14 12 (0.72%) Data Centre
15 11 (0.66%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.96%) Linux
2 14 (0.84%) Windows
3 5 (0.30%) VMS
4 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.18%) Android
5 3 (0.18%) Unix
6 2 (0.12%) AIX
6 2 (0.12%) Solaris
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (35.27%) Agile
2 551 (32.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 501 (29.95%) Business Analysis
4 450 (26.90%) Requirements Gathering
5 370 (22.12%) Workshop Facilitation
6 363 (21.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 360 (21.52%) User Stories
8 272 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
9 241 (14.41%) Migration
10 233 (13.93%) User Acceptance Testing
11 190 (11.36%) Acceptance Criteria
12 154 (9.21%) Process Improvement
13 152 (9.09%) Data Analysis
14 142 (8.49%) Decision-Making
15 141 (8.43%) Scrum
16 137 (8.19%) Data Modelling
17 132 (7.89%) Validation
18 131 (7.83%) GAP Analysis
19 129 (7.71%) Project Delivery
20 124 (7.41%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 196 (11.72%) SQL
2 45 (2.69%) Python
3 8 (0.48%) Korn
4 7 (0.42%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.30%) Java
5 5 (0.30%) R
6 4 (0.24%) VBA
7 3 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.12%) C#
9 1 (0.060%) C++
9 1 (0.060%) COBOL
9 1 (0.060%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.060%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 224 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 190 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 150 (8.97%) Degree
4 56 (3.35%) CBAP
5 41 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (2.39%) IIBA
7 33 (1.97%) PMI Certification
8 13 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (0.78%) PMP
9 12 (0.72%) ISEB
10 11 (0.66%) CSPO
10 11 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.36%) CFA
11 6 (0.36%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.30%) ACCA
12 5 (0.30%) MBA
13 4 (0.24%) CIMA
14 3 (0.18%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.12%) AAT
15 2 (0.12%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.44%) QA
2 76 (4.54%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.75%) GDPR
4 22 (1.32%) MiFID
5 17 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.96%) PSD2
7 15 (0.90%) EMIR
8 13 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.78%) NIST
9 12 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 12 (0.72%) ISO 8583
10 11 (0.66%) GRC
10 11 (0.66%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.48%) SEPA
12 7 (0.42%) HL7
12 7 (0.42%) PMO
12 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.36%) Basel III
System Software
1 8 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.060%) Docker
2 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.060%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (1.37%) Ansible
2 6 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.12%) Terraform
6 1 (0.060%) Control-M
6 1 (0.060%) Grafana
6 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.060%) Kibana
6 1 (0.060%) SCCM
Vendors
1 155 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 96 (5.74%) Salesforce
3 69 (4.12%) SAP
4 51 (3.05%) Oracle
5 42 (2.51%) ServiceNow
6 36 (2.15%) Murex
7 24 (1.43%) Bloomberg
8 19 (1.14%) Sonatype
9 17 (1.02%) Adobe
10 14 (0.84%) MuleSoft
10 14 (0.84%) Workday
11 12 (0.72%) Google
12 10 (0.60%) Avaloq
12 10 (0.60%) Databricks
12 10 (0.60%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.60%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.60%) Splunk
13 9 (0.54%) Pega
14 8 (0.48%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.48%) OneTrust