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 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 39 48
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,776 1,436 1,323
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 5.17% 4.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.14% 5.66% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 992 986
10th Percentile £369 £358 £363
25th Percentile £430 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £625
90th Percentile £680 £750 £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 42,868 25,363 30,417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 91.35% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,561 16,372 19,015
10th Percentile £329 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 3,457 1,358 1,485
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.75 £14.60
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.01%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 1,027 £525 -8.70% 537
North of England -19 260 £463 +8.82% 163
South East -7 177 £500 +11.11% 175
Midlands -10 168 £463 +17.09% 89
West Midlands +8 130 £461 -3.05% 59
North West -29 115 £438 +2.10% 81
Yorkshire -21 104 £481 +17.67% 49
South West +2 85 £480 +4.35% 62
North East -13 42 £525 +25.30% 33
East Midlands -20 37 £461 +28.84% 30
East of England -20 32 £463 +2.78% 50
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 648 (36.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 623 (35.08%) Business Analysis
3 581 (32.71%) Requirements Gathering
4 573 (32.26%) Agile
5 504 (28.38%) Workshop Facilitation
6 466 (26.24%) User Stories
7 343 (19.31%) User Acceptance Testing
8 334 (18.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 296 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
10 235 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
11 212 (11.94%) JIRA
12 210 (11.82%) Validation
13 205 (11.54%) Process Improvement
14 197 (11.09%) SQL
15 184 (10.36%) AI
16 183 (10.30%) Data Analysis
17 180 (10.14%) Migration
18 176 (9.91%) Decision-Making
19 174 (9.80%) Microsoft
20 149 (8.39%) Security Cleared
21 147 (8.28%) Data Modelling
22 143 (8.05%) Azure
22 143 (8.05%) Confluence
23 142 (8.00%) Degree
24 141 (7.94%) Requirements Workshops
25 139 (7.83%) Scrum
26 127 (7.15%) GAP Analysis
27 126 (7.09%) Impact Assessments
28 123 (6.93%) Project Delivery
29 122 (6.87%) 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
1 143 (8.05%) Confluence
2 23 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.34%) 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 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.056%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.056%) Camunda
7 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.056%) Moodle
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.056%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.056%) Totara
Applications
1 94 (5.29%) MS Visio
2 70 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.23%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.056%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.62%) Endur
5 10 (0.56%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.45%) Maximo
8 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.34%) Findur
10 5 (0.28%) SAP HR
10 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
11 4 (0.23%) HFM
11 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
12 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 143 (8.05%) Azure
2 109 (6.14%) Power Platform
3 63 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (2.76%) AWS
5 44 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
6 30 (1.69%) SaaS
7 27 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 21 (1.18%) Lucidchart
9 20 (1.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 19 (1.07%) Miro
10 19 (1.07%) Snowflake
11 18 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (0.73%) GCP
13 12 (0.68%) Entra ID
14 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
15 10 (0.56%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
18 7 (0.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
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%) DNS
4 2 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.11%) WLAN
5 1 (0.056%) 5G
5 1 (0.056%) DNSSEC
5 1 (0.056%) HTTP
5 1 (0.056%) Mobile Backhaul
5 1 (0.056%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.056%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.056%) SNMP
5 1 (0.056%) SONET
5 1 (0.056%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.29%) Power BI
2 35 (1.97%) Metadata
3 32 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.01%) Tableau
5 13 (0.73%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.56%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.34%) Data Mining
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.28%) GIS
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.17%) Big Data
12 3 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.17%) Looker
12 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.17%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 212 (11.94%) JIRA
2 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.11%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.11%) GitLab
3 2 (0.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.056%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
General
1 628 (35.36%) Finance
2 576 (32.43%) Social Skills
3 400 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (13.85%) Banking
5 141 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
6 136 (7.66%) Public Sector
7 111 (6.25%) Retail
8 95 (5.35%) Front Office
9 68 (3.83%) Investment Banking
10 64 (3.60%) Legal
11 48 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (2.65%) Manufacturing
13 46 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
14 37 (2.08%) Back Office
15 33 (1.86%) Local Government
16 30 (1.69%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (1.46%) Billing
18 25 (1.41%) Marketing
19 24 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (0.84%) Middleware
2 15 (0.84%) XML
3 14 (0.79%) JSON
4 12 (0.68%) ADO
5 7 (0.39%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.28%) STL
6 5 (0.28%) Terraform
7 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.23%) FHIR
7 4 (0.23%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.23%) NumPy
7 4 (0.23%) Pandas
7 4 (0.23%) VML
8 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.17%) Swagger
9 2 (0.11%) EDI
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 176 (9.91%) Product Ownership
2 88 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.27%) Derivative
4 46 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 40 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 36 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 32 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 32 (1.80%) Fixed Income
8 31 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.30%) Credit Risk
10 23 (1.30%) Operational Technology
11 20 (1.13%) Market Risk
11 20 (1.13%) Reference Data
12 19 (1.07%) Equities
13 18 (1.01%) FMCG
13 18 (1.01%) Hedge funds
14 16 (0.90%) NHS
15 13 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.90%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
2 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.17%) Unix
4 1 (0.056%) Linux
4 1 (0.056%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (36.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 623 (35.08%) Business Analysis
3 581 (32.71%) Requirements Gathering
4 573 (32.26%) Agile
5 504 (28.38%) Workshop Facilitation
6 466 (26.24%) User Stories
7 343 (19.31%) User Acceptance Testing
8 334 (18.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 296 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
10 235 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
11 210 (11.82%) Validation
12 205 (11.54%) Process Improvement
13 184 (10.36%) AI
14 183 (10.30%) Data Analysis
15 180 (10.14%) Migration
16 176 (9.91%) Decision-Making
17 147 (8.28%) Data Modelling
18 141 (7.94%) Requirements Workshops
19 139 (7.83%) Scrum
20 127 (7.15%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 197 (11.09%) SQL
2 31 (1.75%) Python
3 13 (0.73%) Korn
4 8 (0.45%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.17%) R
7 2 (0.11%) VBA
8 1 (0.056%) ABAP
8 1 (0.056%) C
8 1 (0.056%) C#
8 1 (0.056%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.056%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.056%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.056%) Ruby
8 1 (0.056%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.056%) SOQL
8 1 (0.056%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (8.39%) Security Cleared
2 142 (8.00%) Degree
3 118 (6.64%) SC Cleared
4 39 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (1.97%) IIBA
6 26 (1.46%) CBAP
7 24 (1.35%) 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 (0.56%) ISEB
13 7 (0.39%) CSPO
13 7 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 3 (0.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 91 (5.12%) QA
3 29 (1.63%) GDPR
4 25 (1.41%) NIST
5 19 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.96%) MiFID
7 14 (0.79%) IFRS
8 13 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.73%) COBIT
8 13 (0.73%) GRC
9 12 (0.68%) PMO
10 11 (0.62%) EMIR
11 9 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.51%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.39%) Basel III
13 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.23%) FINREP
14 4 (0.23%) ISO 15022
14 4 (0.23%) SEPA
14 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 (0.056%) Autotask
2 1 (0.056%) Control-M
2 1 (0.056%) Grafana
2 1 (0.056%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.056%) Kibana
2 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 174 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.36%) Salesforce
3 112 (6.31%) SAP
4 65 (3.66%) ServiceNow
5 59 (3.32%) Oracle
6 33 (1.86%) Murex
7 19 (1.07%) Databricks
8 17 (0.96%) CyberArk
8 17 (0.96%) Workday
9 14 (0.79%) IBM
10 13 (0.73%) Bloomberg
11 11 (0.62%) Guidewire
11 11 (0.62%) OpenLink
12 9 (0.51%) Pega
13 8 (0.45%) Charles River
14 7 (0.39%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.34%) Ariba
15 6 (0.34%) IFS
15 6 (0.34%) Informatica
16 5 (0.28%) Infor