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 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 47 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,575 1,108 1,797
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.72% 4.24% 4.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.16% 4.56% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 829 1,340
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £715 £739 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 7
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £26.80 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £31.49 £30.59 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.89% +35.72%
75th Percentile £68.09 £34.11 £60.66
90th Percentile £88.25 £76.15 £68.54
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £31.52 £31.50
% change year-on-year +13.40% +0.06% +35.72%

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 30,551 24,303 35,358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.05% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,452 15,042 23,806
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,916 729 2,105
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.92 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.82 £21.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -1.30%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +2 974 £537 -2.36% 125
North of England +8 234 £420 -2.33% 79
Midlands +2 126 £475 -1.30% 55
North West -6 107 £400 -5.88% 40
Yorkshire +8 106 £463 +2.78% 30
South East -8 106 £500 +5.26% 119
South West +29 90 £463 -2.63% 28
West Midlands -4 86 £485 -3.00% 35
East Midlands -6 39 £400 -3.61% 20
North East +17 37 £425 +13.33% 10
East of England -23 22 £516 +3.25% 22
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 584 (37.08%) Agile
2 529 (33.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 485 (30.79%) Business Analysis
4 432 (27.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 348 (22.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 345 (21.90%) User Stories
6 345 (21.90%) Workshop Facilitation
7 271 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
8 241 (15.30%) JIRA
9 235 (14.92%) User Acceptance Testing
10 226 (14.35%) Migration
11 195 (12.38%) SQL
12 185 (11.75%) Security Cleared
13 179 (11.37%) Confluence
14 167 (10.60%) Acceptance Criteria
15 158 (10.03%) SC Cleared
16 157 (9.97%) Degree
17 154 (9.78%) Microsoft
18 152 (9.65%) Data Analysis
19 145 (9.21%) Scrum
20 143 (9.08%) Process Improvement
21 131 (8.32%) Project Delivery
22 130 (8.25%) GAP Analysis
23 127 (8.06%) Validation
24 126 (8.00%) Data Modelling
25 123 (7.81%) Analytics
26 121 (7.68%) Decision-Making
27 120 (7.62%) Waterfall
28 117 (7.43%) Power Platform
29 116 (7.37%) DevOps

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
1 179 (11.37%) Confluence
2 24 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.89%) SAS
4 5 (0.32%) CMS
5 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.063%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.063%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.063%) Appian
6 1 (0.063%) Camunda
6 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.063%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 115 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (7.11%) MS Visio
3 64 (4.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.25%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.25%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.063%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.063%) Sketch
9 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (1.97%) Endur
2 25 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
4 14 (0.89%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.25%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 3 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.19%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.19%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.13%) BASE24
8 2 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 117 (7.43%) Power Platform
2 93 (5.90%) Azure
3 63 (4.00%) AWS
4 35 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (1.65%) SaaS
6 25 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (1.40%) GitHub
8 19 (1.21%) Lucidchart
9 16 (1.02%) Miro
9 16 (1.02%) Snowflake
10 15 (0.95%) GCP
10 15 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 11 (0.70%) Power Automate
12 10 (0.63%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.57%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.51%) Figma
15 7 (0.44%) Apigee
15 7 (0.44%) Kong
16 6 (0.38%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.25%) Firewall
2 3 (0.19%) Internet
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
3 2 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.13%) Intranet
3 2 (0.13%) NAS
3 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.13%) WAN
3 2 (0.13%) X.25
4 1 (0.063%) DNS
4 1 (0.063%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.063%) LAN
4 1 (0.063%) Softphone
4 1 (0.063%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (6.10%) Power BI
2 39 (2.48%) Tableau
3 32 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (1.27%) Metadata
5 13 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.32%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.25%) Big Data
7 4 (0.25%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.25%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.19%) Power Query
8 3 (0.19%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.13%) Looker
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 241 (15.30%) JIRA
2 20 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.51%) Postman
5 3 (0.19%) Git
6 2 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.13%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.13%) Toad
7 1 (0.063%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.063%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.063%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.063%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.063%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.063%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 620 (39.37%) Social Skills
2 565 (35.87%) Finance
3 356 (22.60%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (15.87%) Banking
5 151 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 112 (7.11%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (3.87%) Retail
8 60 (3.81%) Front Office
9 55 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (3.49%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.30%) Legal
11 51 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (3.05%) Telecoms
13 40 (2.54%) Back Office
14 36 (2.29%) Marketing
15 25 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (1.46%) Local Government
17 21 (1.33%) Financial Institution
18 19 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 17 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.29%) REST
2 24 (1.52%) XML
3 18 (1.14%) SOAP
4 16 (1.02%) JSON
5 11 (0.70%) ADO
5 11 (0.70%) SailPoint
5 11 (0.70%) Swagger
6 10 (0.63%) OAuth
7 8 (0.51%) VML
8 7 (0.44%) .NET
8 7 (0.44%) SAML
9 6 (0.38%) JWT
9 6 (0.38%) Middleware
9 6 (0.38%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.32%) FHIR
10 5 (0.32%) RESTful
11 4 (0.25%) HTML
11 4 (0.25%) Web Services
11 4 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (8.51%) Product Ownership
2 62 (3.94%) Onboarding
3 40 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
4 38 (2.41%) Fixed Income
5 33 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 33 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.90%) PMI
7 28 (1.78%) Data Structures
7 28 (1.78%) Derivative
7 28 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 27 (1.71%) Credit Risk
9 26 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 23 (1.46%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.40%) Equities
12 16 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.02%) NHS
12 16 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.83%) Mobile App
14 12 (0.76%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.95%) Linux
2 9 (0.57%) Windows
3 6 (0.38%) VMS
4 3 (0.19%) Unix
5 2 (0.13%) Android
5 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.063%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (37.08%) Agile
2 529 (33.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 485 (30.79%) Business Analysis
4 432 (27.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 348 (22.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 345 (21.90%) User Stories
6 345 (21.90%) Workshop Facilitation
7 271 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
8 235 (14.92%) User Acceptance Testing
9 226 (14.35%) Migration
10 167 (10.60%) Acceptance Criteria
11 152 (9.65%) Data Analysis
12 145 (9.21%) Scrum
13 143 (9.08%) Process Improvement
14 131 (8.32%) Project Delivery
15 130 (8.25%) GAP Analysis
16 127 (8.06%) Validation
17 126 (8.00%) Data Modelling
18 123 (7.81%) Analytics
19 121 (7.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 195 (12.38%) SQL
2 40 (2.54%) Python
3 8 (0.51%) JavaScript
3 8 (0.51%) Korn
4 5 (0.32%) R
4 5 (0.32%) VBA
5 4 (0.25%) Java
6 3 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.13%) C#
8 1 (0.063%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.063%) C++
8 1 (0.063%) COBOL
8 1 (0.063%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.063%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 185 (11.75%) Security Cleared
2 158 (10.03%) SC Cleared
3 157 (9.97%) Degree
4 62 (3.94%) CBAP
5 38 (2.41%) IIBA
5 38 (2.41%) PMI Certification
6 33 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 13 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (0.83%) CSPO
9 12 (0.76%) ISEB
10 11 (0.70%) PMP
11 9 (0.57%) CFA
12 5 (0.32%) ACCA
12 5 (0.32%) MBA
13 4 (0.25%) CIMA
13 4 (0.25%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.19%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.13%) AAT
15 2 (0.13%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.78%) QA
2 67 (4.25%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.17%) GDPR
4 25 (1.59%) MiFID
5 20 (1.27%) PSD2
6 18 (1.14%) EMIR
7 17 (1.08%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.83%) ISO 20022
8 13 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.70%) GRC
10 10 (0.63%) ISO 8583
11 9 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.51%) PMO
12 8 (0.51%) SEPA
13 7 (0.44%) Basel III
13 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.38%) NIST
14 6 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.32%) IFRS
System Software
1 7 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.063%) Docker
2 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.063%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (1.40%) Ansible
2 6 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.13%) SCCM
5 1 (0.063%) Control-M
5 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.063%) Terraform
Vendors
1 154 (9.78%) Microsoft
2 96 (6.10%) Salesforce
3 68 (4.32%) SAP
4 47 (2.98%) Oracle
5 36 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 33 (2.10%) Murex
7 22 (1.40%) Bloomberg
8 18 (1.14%) Sonatype
9 15 (0.95%) MuleSoft
10 13 (0.83%) Adobe
10 13 (0.83%) Google
10 13 (0.83%) OpenLink
11 11 (0.70%) Workday
12 10 (0.63%) Guidewire
13 9 (0.57%) Avaloq
13 9 (0.57%) OneTrust
14 8 (0.51%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.51%) Databricks
14 8 (0.51%) Pega
14 8 (0.51%) Splunk