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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 38 49
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,769 1,433 1,328
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.80% 5.15% 4.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.12% 5.64% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 992 990
10th Percentile £367 £355 £363
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £680 £756 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 10
10th Percentile £29.73 £27.05 £25.98
25th Percentile £35.40 £29.35 £33.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £31.49 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.54% -31.91% -2.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £34.45 £69.31
90th Percentile £104.00 £57.10 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £32.89 £42.00
% change year-on-year +77.87% -21.69% -22.22%

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 42,946 25,411 30,652
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 91.36% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,575 16,393 19,112
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -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% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,509 1,371 1,480
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.75 £14.83
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year +76.76% -46.16% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -16 1,026 £527 -8.43% 526
North of England -21 259 £463 +10.45% 156
South East -9 176 £500 +7.53% 177
Midlands -7 169 £460 +17.95% 82
West Midlands +12 130 £459 -5.95% 56
North West -38 114 £439 +3.24% 78
Yorkshire -16 105 £481 +18.10% 48
South West +2 83 £480 +4.07% 65
North East -24 41 £525 +31.09% 30
East Midlands -23 38 £460 +28.49% 26
East of England -15 32 £463 +2.78% 47
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 657 (37.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 625 (35.33%) Business Analysis
3 587 (33.18%) Requirements Gathering
4 571 (32.28%) Agile
5 506 (28.60%) Workshop Facilitation
6 464 (26.23%) User Stories
7 342 (19.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 333 (18.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 298 (16.85%) Acceptance Criteria
10 234 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
11 211 (11.93%) JIRA
12 209 (11.81%) Validation
13 207 (11.70%) Process Improvement
14 195 (11.02%) SQL
15 186 (10.51%) AI
16 181 (10.23%) Migration
17 179 (10.12%) Data Analysis
18 177 (10.01%) Decision-Making
19 175 (9.89%) Microsoft
20 149 (8.42%) Data Modelling
21 145 (8.20%) Requirements Workshops
21 145 (8.20%) Security Cleared
22 144 (8.14%) Degree
23 142 (8.03%) Confluence
24 141 (7.97%) Azure
24 141 (7.97%) Scrum
25 125 (7.07%) Impact Assessments
26 123 (6.95%) GAP Analysis
27 121 (6.84%) Project Delivery
28 118 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements

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
1 142 (8.03%) Confluence
2 23 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.40%) CMS
4 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.17%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
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%) Moodle
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.057%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.057%) Totara
Applications
1 91 (5.14%) MS Visio
2 67 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.23%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.57%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.57%) Endur
4 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.45%) Maximo
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.28%) Findur
8 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.28%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.23%) HFM
9 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
10 3 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 141 (7.97%) Azure
2 107 (6.05%) Power Platform
3 64 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (2.66%) AWS
5 44 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
6 30 (1.70%) SaaS
7 27 (1.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 21 (1.19%) Lucidchart
8 21 (1.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 20 (1.13%) Snowflake
10 18 (1.02%) Miro
11 17 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (0.68%) Entra ID
12 12 (0.68%) GCP
13 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (0.57%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (0.45%) IBM Blueworks
16 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.34%) Network Security
1 6 (0.34%) Wireless
2 5 (0.28%) Intranet
3 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.11%) 802.11
4 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.11%) WLAN
5 1 (0.057%) 5G
5 1 (0.057%) DNS
5 1 (0.057%) DNSSEC
5 1 (0.057%) HTTP
5 1 (0.057%) LAN
5 1 (0.057%) PBX
5 1 (0.057%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.057%) SNMP
5 1 (0.057%) SSL
5 1 (0.057%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.20%) Power BI
2 35 (1.98%) Metadata
3 32 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.02%) Tableau
5 13 (0.73%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.34%) Data Mining
8 6 (0.34%) GIS
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.17%) Big Data
10 3 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (0.17%) Looker
10 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.11%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 211 (11.93%) JIRA
2 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.11%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.11%) GitLab
3 2 (0.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 632 (35.73%) Finance
2 569 (32.17%) Social Skills
3 392 (22.16%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (13.91%) Banking
5 142 (8.03%) Documentation Skills
6 136 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 111 (6.27%) Retail
8 92 (5.20%) Front Office
9 66 (3.73%) Investment Banking
10 64 (3.62%) Legal
11 48 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (2.71%) Manufacturing
12 46 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.98%) Back Office
14 34 (1.92%) Local Government
15 30 (1.70%) Financial Institution
15 30 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (1.47%) Billing
16 26 (1.47%) Marketing
17 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (0.85%) Middleware
3 14 (0.79%) JSON
4 13 (0.73%) XML
5 11 (0.62%) ADO
6 7 (0.40%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.28%) STL
7 5 (0.28%) Terraform
8 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.23%) FHIR
8 4 (0.23%) Gherkin
8 4 (0.23%) NumPy
8 4 (0.23%) Pandas
8 4 (0.23%) VML
9 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.17%) Swagger
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.11%) REST
10 2 (0.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 178 (10.06%) Product Ownership
2 88 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.05%) Derivative
4 44 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
5 37 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 35 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 32 (1.81%) Data Structures
7 32 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.70%) Fixed Income
9 27 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.24%) Operational Technology
11 21 (1.19%) Credit Risk
12 20 (1.13%) Reference Data
13 19 (1.07%) Equities
14 18 (1.02%) FMCG
14 18 (1.02%) Market Risk
15 17 (0.96%) Hedge funds
16 16 (0.90%) NHS
17 13 (0.73%) AI Agents
17 13 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.90%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
3 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.057%) Linux
4 1 (0.057%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (37.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 625 (35.33%) Business Analysis
3 587 (33.18%) Requirements Gathering
4 571 (32.28%) Agile
5 506 (28.60%) Workshop Facilitation
6 464 (26.23%) User Stories
7 342 (19.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 333 (18.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 298 (16.85%) Acceptance Criteria
10 234 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (11.81%) Validation
12 207 (11.70%) Process Improvement
13 186 (10.51%) AI
14 181 (10.23%) Migration
15 179 (10.12%) Data Analysis
16 177 (10.01%) Decision-Making
17 149 (8.42%) Data Modelling
18 145 (8.20%) Requirements Workshops
19 141 (7.97%) Scrum
20 125 (7.07%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 195 (11.02%) SQL
2 30 (1.70%) Python
3 14 (0.79%) Korn
4 8 (0.45%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.17%) R
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%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
8 1 (0.057%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 144 (8.14%) Degree
3 115 (6.50%) SC Cleared
4 40 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (1.92%) IIBA
6 26 (1.47%) CBAP
7 24 (1.36%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.30%) ACCA
9 22 (1.24%) CIMA
10 16 (0.90%) PMP
11 12 (0.68%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.68%) FFIEC
12 10 (0.57%) ISEB
13 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.40%) CSPO
14 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 3 (0.17%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 91 (5.14%) QA
3 26 (1.47%) GDPR
4 24 (1.36%) NIST
5 17 (0.96%) MiFID
6 15 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.79%) IFRS
8 13 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.73%) COBIT
9 12 (0.68%) GRC
10 11 (0.62%) EMIR
10 11 (0.62%) PMO
11 10 (0.57%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.40%) Basel III
14 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.28%) SEPA
16 4 (0.23%) FINREP
16 4 (0.23%) ISO 15022
16 4 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.45%) 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%) Kibana
Vendors
1 175 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.50%) Salesforce
3 114 (6.44%) SAP
4 62 (3.50%) ServiceNow
5 60 (3.39%) Oracle
6 33 (1.87%) Murex
7 21 (1.19%) Databricks
8 18 (1.02%) Workday
9 17 (0.96%) CyberArk
10 15 (0.85%) IBM
11 13 (0.73%) Bloomberg
11 13 (0.73%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
13 9 (0.51%) Pega
14 8 (0.45%) Charles River
14 8 (0.45%) IFS
15 7 (0.40%) Infor
15 7 (0.40%) Zscaler
16 6 (0.34%) Ariba
16 6 (0.34%) Informatica