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 6 March 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 48 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,702 1,128 1,763
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.68% 4.41% 4.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.08% 4.75% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 825 1,308
10th Percentile £350 £358 £400
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 8
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £41.83 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £34.11 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.56% -18.79% -27.59%
75th Percentile £81.50 £50.00 £68.17
90th Percentile £90.25 £71.50 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £34.11 £50.00
% change year-on-year +90.56% -31.78% -13.79%

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 33,481 23,742 35,057
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 92.91% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,160 15,275 23,477
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £638
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 2,170 743 2,218
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.01 £13.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.48 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.89 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +6.26% -19.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.10 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £34.00 £34.08
% change year-on-year - -0.23% -15.93%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 1,042 £525 -8.70% 148
North of England +6 254 £425 - 107
Midlands +1 147 £469 -6.30% 65
Yorkshire +8 124 £475 +5.56% 45
South East -19 117 £495 +4.21% 109
North West -1 112 £401 +0.13% 44
West Midlands +1 109 £475 -5.00% 42
South West +23 93 £463 -5.13% 31
East Midlands -8 36 £405 -0.98% 23
North East +14 34 £425 +6.25% 20
East of England -25 23 £500 - 27
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 March 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.

1 598 (35.14%) Agile
2 560 (32.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 509 (29.91%) Business Analysis
4 454 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 381 (22.39%) Workshop Facilitation
6 373 (21.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 369 (21.68%) User Stories
8 274 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
9 257 (15.10%) JIRA
10 242 (14.22%) Migration
11 241 (14.16%) User Acceptance Testing
12 234 (13.75%) Security Cleared
13 201 (11.81%) Acceptance Criteria
14 198 (11.63%) SC Cleared
14 198 (11.63%) SQL
15 197 (11.57%) Confluence
16 157 (9.22%) Degree
17 156 (9.17%) Data Analysis
18 155 (9.11%) Microsoft
19 154 (9.05%) Process Improvement
20 144 (8.46%) Decision-Making
20 144 (8.46%) Scrum
21 141 (8.28%) Data Modelling
22 137 (8.05%) GAP Analysis
23 136 (7.99%) Validation
24 127 (7.46%) MS Visio
24 127 (7.46%) Project Delivery
25 125 (7.34%) DevOps
26 120 (7.05%) Power Platform
27 119 (6.99%) Business Intelligence

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
1 197 (11.57%) Confluence
2 28 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.94%) SAS
4 6 (0.35%) CMS
5 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.059%) Appian
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.059%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 127 (7.46%) MS Visio
2 116 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 68 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.24%) Autodesk Inventor
6 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.24%) Notion
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.059%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.059%) CATIA
8 1 (0.059%) Sketch
8 1 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 26 (1.53%) Endur
2 24 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.88%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.53%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.29%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.18%) Actimize
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.18%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 120 (7.05%) Power Platform
2 112 (6.58%) Azure
3 69 (4.05%) AWS
4 40 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
6 28 (1.65%) SaaS
7 23 (1.35%) GitHub
8 21 (1.23%) Lucidchart
9 17 (1.00%) Miro
9 17 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 16 (0.94%) GCP
10 16 (0.94%) Snowflake
11 14 (0.82%) Power Automate
12 12 (0.71%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.53%) Entra ID
13 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.41%) Apigee
14 7 (0.41%) Kong
14 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.29%) Network Security
2 3 (0.18%) Firewall
2 3 (0.18%) Internet
3 2 (0.12%) Broadband
3 2 (0.12%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.12%) Intranet
3 2 (0.12%) NAS
3 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.12%) WAN
3 2 (0.12%) X.25
4 1 (0.059%) DNS
4 1 (0.059%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.059%) LAN
4 1 (0.059%) Softphone
4 1 (0.059%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.76%) Power BI
2 36 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (2.00%) Tableau
4 19 (1.12%) Metadata
5 10 (0.59%) Relational Database
5 10 (0.59%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.24%) Big Data
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.18%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.18%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.18%) Power Query
8 3 (0.18%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.12%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.12%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 257 (15.10%) JIRA
2 21 (1.23%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.47%) Postman
5 3 (0.18%) Balsamiq
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%) Git
6 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.059%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.059%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.059%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.059%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.059%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 630 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 603 (35.43%) Finance
3 388 (22.80%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (15.16%) Banking
5 171 (10.05%) Public Sector
6 122 (7.17%) Documentation Skills
7 63 (3.70%) Front Office
8 60 (3.53%) Retail
9 59 (3.47%) Legal
10 58 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
11 55 (3.23%) Investment Banking
12 47 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 40 (2.35%) Marketing
15 32 (1.88%) Back Office
16 28 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (1.59%) Local Government
18 26 (1.53%) Financial Institution
19 17 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 16 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.29%) REST
2 25 (1.47%) XML
3 20 (1.18%) SOAP
4 19 (1.12%) JSON
5 14 (0.82%) ADO
6 12 (0.71%) OAuth
6 12 (0.71%) Swagger
7 10 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (0.59%) SailPoint
8 8 (0.47%) SAML
8 8 (0.47%) VML
9 7 (0.41%) FHIR
9 7 (0.41%) JWT
9 7 (0.41%) OpenAPI
10 5 (0.29%) .NET
10 5 (0.29%) Middleware
11 4 (0.24%) HTML
11 4 (0.24%) RESTful
11 4 (0.24%) Web Services
11 4 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (8.17%) Product Ownership
2 59 (3.47%) Onboarding
3 40 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 39 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 35 (2.06%) Fixed Income
6 32 (1.88%) Derivative
6 32 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 27 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 25 (1.47%) PMI
9 23 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (1.29%) Credit Risk
10 22 (1.29%) NHS
11 21 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 20 (1.18%) Equities
13 19 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.76%) CMDB
15 12 (0.71%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.65%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.94%) Linux
2 14 (0.82%) Windows
3 5 (0.29%) 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 (0.059%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (35.14%) Agile
2 560 (32.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 509 (29.91%) Business Analysis
4 454 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 381 (22.39%) Workshop Facilitation
6 373 (21.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 369 (21.68%) User Stories
8 274 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
9 242 (14.22%) Migration
10 241 (14.16%) User Acceptance Testing
11 201 (11.81%) Acceptance Criteria
12 156 (9.17%) Data Analysis
13 154 (9.05%) Process Improvement
14 144 (8.46%) Decision-Making
14 144 (8.46%) Scrum
15 141 (8.28%) Data Modelling
16 137 (8.05%) GAP Analysis
17 136 (7.99%) Validation
18 127 (7.46%) Project Delivery
19 125 (7.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 198 (11.63%) SQL
2 44 (2.59%) Python
3 8 (0.47%) Korn
4 7 (0.41%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.29%) Java
5 5 (0.29%) R
6 4 (0.24%) VBA
7 3 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.12%) C#
9 1 (0.059%) C++
9 1 (0.059%) COBOL
9 1 (0.059%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.059%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 234 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 198 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 157 (9.22%) Degree
4 55 (3.23%) CBAP
5 42 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (2.35%) IIBA
7 33 (1.94%) PMI Certification
8 14 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (0.76%) PMP
10 12 (0.71%) ISEB
11 11 (0.65%) CSPO
11 11 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.41%) CFA
13 6 (0.35%) DV Cleared
14 5 (0.29%) ACCA
14 5 (0.29%) MBA
15 4 (0.24%) CIMA
16 3 (0.18%) AWS Certification
17 2 (0.12%) AAT
17 2 (0.12%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (5.41%) QA
2 77 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.64%) GDPR
4 22 (1.29%) MiFID
5 17 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.94%) EMIR
6 16 (0.94%) NIST
6 16 (0.94%) PSD2
7 14 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.71%) ISO 20022
8 12 (0.71%) ISO 8583
9 11 (0.65%) GRC
9 11 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.47%) SEPA
11 7 (0.41%) HL7
11 7 (0.41%) PMO
12 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.35%) Basel III
12 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.059%) Docker
2 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.059%) RACF
2 1 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.059%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (1.35%) Ansible
2 6 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.12%) Terraform
6 1 (0.059%) Control-M
6 1 (0.059%) Grafana
6 1 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.059%) Kibana
6 1 (0.059%) SCCM
Vendors
1 155 (9.11%) Microsoft
2 99 (5.82%) Salesforce
3 74 (4.35%) SAP
4 53 (3.11%) Oracle
5 49 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 36 (2.12%) Murex
7 24 (1.41%) Bloomberg
8 19 (1.12%) Sonatype
9 17 (1.00%) Adobe
10 15 (0.88%) Workday
11 14 (0.82%) MuleSoft
12 12 (0.71%) Google
12 12 (0.71%) Splunk
13 11 (0.65%) Guidewire
13 11 (0.65%) Pega
14 10 (0.59%) Avaloq
14 10 (0.59%) Databricks
14 10 (0.59%) OpenLink
15 8 (0.47%) OneTrust
15 8 (0.47%) Refinitiv