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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 38 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,742 1,204 1,566
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.20% 5.06% 4.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.54% 5.48% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 838 1,139
10th Percentile £358 £359 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 7
10th Percentile £28.03 £24.66 -
25th Percentile £34.87 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.81 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.17% +81.36% -64.00%
75th Percentile £89.70 £50.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £59.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £34.11 £28.00
% change year-on-year +83.23% +21.82% -55.20%

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 38,330 21,971 33,900
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.30% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,743 14,612 22,462
10th Percentile £320 £290 £284
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 884 2,500
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.47 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.88 £36.92
Median % change year-on-year +55.84% -21.78% -17.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.30
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.52 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.46% -24.62% -18.89%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -7 1,017 £550 -4.35% 158
North of England 0 277 £433 +1.88% 77
Midlands -4 177 £475 - 27
West Midlands +2 147 £475 -5.00% 15
South East -13 139 £500 +5.26% 65
North West -7 127 £400 -5.88% 31
Yorkshire +1 118 £488 +8.33% 32
South West -7 72 £425 -10.53% 20
North East +10 49 £450 +12.50% 14
East of England -24 35 £513 +19.88% 24
East Midlands -32 29 £393 +4.80% 12
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 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.

1 562 (32.26%) Agile
2 514 (29.51%) Business Analysis
3 505 (28.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 437 (25.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 424 (24.34%) User Stories
6 404 (23.19%) Workshop Facilitation
7 334 (19.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 285 (16.36%) User Acceptance Testing
9 258 (14.81%) Acceptance Criteria
10 248 (14.24%) JIRA
10 248 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
11 234 (13.43%) Security Cleared
12 218 (12.51%) Migration
13 195 (11.19%) Confluence
14 190 (10.91%) SC Cleared
15 175 (10.05%) SQL
16 166 (9.53%) Validation
17 159 (9.13%) Microsoft
18 155 (8.90%) Decision-Making
19 151 (8.67%) Data Analysis
20 143 (8.21%) Degree
20 143 (8.21%) Process Improvement
21 140 (8.04%) Scrum
22 138 (7.92%) Data Modelling
23 137 (7.86%) DevOps
24 135 (7.75%) Azure
25 132 (7.58%) GAP Analysis
26 130 (7.46%) MS Visio
27 116 (6.66%) Impact Assessments
28 112 (6.43%) Analytics

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
1 195 (11.19%) Confluence
2 22 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.98%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Appian
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Apache
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 130 (7.46%) MS Visio
2 101 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.29%) Notion
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.057%) CATIA
8 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.15%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.75%) Endur
5 10 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.34%) Findur
7 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.34%) Summit
8 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.29%) Maximo
8 5 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.23%) Actimize
9 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 135 (7.75%) Azure
2 109 (6.26%) Power Platform
3 63 (3.62%) AWS
4 43 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (1.26%) Lucidchart
6 22 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (1.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 18 (1.03%) SaaS
9 15 (0.86%) Miro
10 14 (0.80%) GitHub
10 14 (0.80%) Snowflake
11 12 (0.69%) GCP
12 11 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (0.63%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 9 (0.52%) Figma
14 9 (0.52%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.40%) Network Security
2 6 (0.34%) Wireless
3 3 (0.17%) Intranet
4 2 (0.11%) 802.11
4 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.11%) DNS
4 2 (0.11%) Internet
4 2 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.11%) WLAN
4 2 (0.11%) X.25
5 1 (0.057%) 5G
5 1 (0.057%) Broadband
5 1 (0.057%) Extranet
5 1 (0.057%) Firewall
5 1 (0.057%) PBX
5 1 (0.057%) SONET
5 1 (0.057%) TETRA
5 1 (0.057%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.17%) Power BI
2 42 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (1.72%) Tableau
4 27 (1.55%) Metadata
5 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.46%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.40%) Big Data
8 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.17%) Power Query
11 3 (0.17%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.11%) Looker
12 2 (0.11%) OLAP
13 1 (0.057%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (0.057%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 248 (14.24%) JIRA
2 13 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.40%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.057%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 611 (35.07%) Finance
2 593 (34.04%) Social Skills
3 395 (22.68%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (15.10%) Banking
5 150 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 129 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
7 89 (5.11%) Front Office
8 84 (4.82%) Retail
9 68 (3.90%) Investment Banking
10 65 (3.73%) Legal
11 56 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.18%) Financial Institution
14 37 (2.12%) Marketing
15 35 (2.01%) Back Office
16 32 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (1.38%) Manufacturing
18 23 (1.32%) Local Government
19 20 (1.15%) Law
20 18 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.55%) XML
2 23 (1.32%) REST
3 17 (0.98%) JSON
4 16 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (0.75%) ADO
5 13 (0.75%) SOAP
6 11 (0.63%) Middleware
7 10 (0.57%) VML
8 9 (0.52%) Swagger
9 6 (0.34%) OAuth
10 5 (0.29%) FHIR
10 5 (0.29%) NumPy
10 5 (0.29%) Pandas
11 4 (0.23%) .NET
11 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.23%) JWT
11 4 (0.23%) OpenAPI
11 4 (0.23%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.23%) YAML
12 3 (0.17%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 157 (9.01%) Product Ownership
2 49 (2.81%) Derivative
3 43 (2.47%) Fixed Income
3 43 (2.47%) Onboarding
4 42 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 39 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 31 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 26 (1.49%) Credit Risk
9 24 (1.38%) Hedge funds
9 24 (1.38%) NHS
10 22 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.15%) Market Risk
12 19 (1.09%) Management Information System
12 19 (1.09%) Operational Technology
13 16 (0.92%) Equities
13 16 (0.92%) PMI
14 15 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.75%) Windows
2 8 (0.46%) Linux
3 6 (0.34%) Unix
4 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.17%) Android
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 2 (0.11%) VMS
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (32.26%) Agile
2 514 (29.51%) Business Analysis
3 505 (28.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 437 (25.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 424 (24.34%) User Stories
6 404 (23.19%) Workshop Facilitation
7 334 (19.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 285 (16.36%) User Acceptance Testing
9 258 (14.81%) Acceptance Criteria
10 248 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
11 218 (12.51%) Migration
12 166 (9.53%) Validation
13 155 (8.90%) Decision-Making
14 151 (8.67%) Data Analysis
15 143 (8.21%) Process Improvement
16 140 (8.04%) Scrum
17 138 (7.92%) Data Modelling
18 137 (7.86%) DevOps
19 132 (7.58%) GAP Analysis
20 116 (6.66%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 175 (10.05%) SQL
2 42 (2.41%) Python
3 12 (0.69%) Korn
4 5 (0.29%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) R
5 4 (0.23%) VBA
6 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.11%) C#
7 2 (0.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.057%) ABAP
8 1 (0.057%) C
8 1 (0.057%) Groovy
8 1 (0.057%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 234 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 190 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 143 (8.21%) Degree
4 50 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 47 (2.70%) CBAP
6 45 (2.58%) IIBA
7 24 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 12 (0.69%) CSPO
8 12 (0.69%) PMP
9 10 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (0.57%) ISEB
10 9 (0.52%) ACCA
11 8 (0.46%) CIMA
11 8 (0.46%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.40%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.23%) CFA
13 4 (0.23%) MBA
14 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.17%) FFIEC
14 3 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.57%) QA
2 87 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.70%) GDPR
4 25 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.44%) NIST
5 21 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.98%) EMIR
7 15 (0.86%) MiFID
8 11 (0.63%) GRC
9 10 (0.57%) PMO
10 9 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.52%) PSD2
10 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.46%) IFRS
12 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
13 6 (0.34%) Basel III
13 6 (0.34%) COBIT
13 6 (0.34%) ISO 8583
14 5 (0.29%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.11%) Docker
4 1 (0.057%) RACF
4 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (0.63%) Ansible
2 5 (0.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.29%) Terraform
3 2 (0.11%) Control-M
3 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.057%) Autotask
4 1 (0.057%) Grafana
4 1 (0.057%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.057%) Kibana
4 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.057%) SCCM
4 1 (0.057%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 159 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.43%) Salesforce
3 101 (5.80%) SAP
4 56 (3.21%) Oracle
5 50 (2.87%) ServiceNow
6 32 (1.84%) Murex
7 21 (1.21%) Databricks
8 19 (1.09%) Workday
9 17 (0.98%) Bloomberg
10 12 (0.69%) Splunk
11 11 (0.63%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.57%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.57%) Pega
12 10 (0.57%) Planon
12 10 (0.57%) Sonatype
13 9 (0.52%) Avaloq
13 9 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 7 (0.40%) Charles River
14 7 (0.40%) Cisco
14 7 (0.40%) ION Trading