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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 37 43
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,756 1,340 1,522
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.01% 5.25% 4.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.34% 5.70% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 920 1,109
10th Percentile £359 £357 £375
25th Percentile £424 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £723 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 9
10th Percentile £28.12 £25.26 £20.77
25th Percentile £34.70 £27.21 £21.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £34.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.90% -19.74% -29.17%
75th Percentile £84.12 £50.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £104.00 £69.50 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £34.06 £46.25
% change year-on-year +71.78% -26.37% -19.57%

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 40,429 23,502 34,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.15% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,779 15,373 22,543
10th Percentile £325 £293 £298
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,896 1,093 2,589
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.87 £16.74
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.51
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.26% -28.00% -12.79%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -11 1,039 £550 -4.35% 100
North of England -19 258 £450 +5.88% 76
Midlands +1 172 £470 +10.59% 48
South East -11 157 £500 +2.56% 85
West Midlands +17 139 £475 -5.00% 26
North West -28 117 £420 -1.75% 30
Yorkshire -15 107 £469 +14.12% 36
South West -2 66 £438 -2.78% 30
North East -2 41 £475 +18.75% 12
East of England -17 34 £475 +5.56% 17
East Midlands -25 31 £405 +8.00% 22
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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.

1 567 (32.29%) Agile
2 523 (29.78%) Business Analysis
3 518 (29.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 456 (25.97%) Requirements Gathering
5 426 (24.26%) User Stories
6 406 (23.12%) Workshop Facilitation
7 335 (19.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 297 (16.91%) User Acceptance Testing
9 268 (15.26%) Acceptance Criteria
10 246 (14.01%) JIRA
11 239 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
12 205 (11.67%) Security Cleared
13 199 (11.33%) Migration
14 188 (10.71%) Validation
15 184 (10.48%) SQL
16 177 (10.08%) Confluence
17 165 (9.40%) SC Cleared
18 164 (9.34%) Data Analysis
19 159 (9.05%) Decision-Making
19 159 (9.05%) Microsoft
20 156 (8.88%) Process Improvement
21 155 (8.83%) Azure
22 146 (8.31%) Data Modelling
23 143 (8.14%) Scrum
24 140 (7.97%) Degree
25 138 (7.86%) DevOps
26 125 (7.12%) AI
27 119 (6.78%) Impact Assessments
28 118 (6.72%) MS Visio
29 116 (6.61%) GAP Analysis

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
1 177 (10.08%) Confluence
2 26 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.74%) SAS
4 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Appian
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Apache
Applications
1 118 (6.72%) MS Visio
2 92 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Notion
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.08%) Aladdin
3 18 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (0.63%) Endur
6 6 (0.34%) Findur
6 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.34%) Summit
7 5 (0.28%) Actimize
7 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 5 (0.28%) Maximo
7 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.23%) HFM
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 155 (8.83%) Azure
2 105 (5.98%) Power Platform
3 58 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (3.13%) AWS
5 26 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
6 24 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (1.31%) SaaS
8 22 (1.25%) Lucidchart
9 21 (1.20%) Snowflake
10 18 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 15 (0.85%) Miro
12 14 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (0.68%) Power Automate
14 11 (0.63%) GCP
14 11 (0.63%) GitHub
15 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 9 (0.51%) Figma
16 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (0.51%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.46%) Network Security
2 6 (0.34%) Wireless
3 4 (0.23%) Intranet
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%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.11%) WLAN
5 1 (0.057%) 5G
5 1 (0.057%) DNSSEC
5 1 (0.057%) Extranet
5 1 (0.057%) Firewall
5 1 (0.057%) Internet
5 1 (0.057%) PBX
5 1 (0.057%) SNMP
5 1 (0.057%) SONET
5 1 (0.057%) TETRA
5 1 (0.057%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.13%) Power BI
2 41 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (1.59%) Metadata
4 26 (1.48%) Tableau
5 16 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) Data Mining
7 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.23%) Big Data
9 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.11%) Looker
10 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.11%) OLAP
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 246 (14.01%) JIRA
2 12 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.28%) Balsamiq
5 4 (0.23%) Postman
6 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
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
1 607 (34.57%) Finance
2 568 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 397 (22.61%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (14.81%) Banking
5 144 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 129 (7.35%) Documentation Skills
7 98 (5.58%) Front Office
8 86 (4.90%) Retail
9 70 (3.99%) Investment Banking
10 67 (3.82%) Legal
11 52 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
13 37 (2.11%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.99%) Back Office
15 34 (1.94%) Financial Institution
16 32 (1.82%) Marketing
17 31 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
18 22 (1.25%) Local Government
19 21 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 18 (1.03%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.48%) XML
2 23 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (0.97%) Middleware
4 16 (0.91%) JSON
5 15 (0.85%) ADO
6 11 (0.63%) REST
7 8 (0.46%) SOAP
8 7 (0.40%) VML
9 5 (0.28%) FHIR
9 5 (0.28%) NumPy
9 5 (0.28%) Pandas
9 5 (0.28%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.28%) Swagger
10 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.23%) STL
10 4 (0.23%) YAML
11 3 (0.17%) EDI
11 3 (0.17%) OAuth
12 2 (0.11%) .NET
12 2 (0.11%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 154 (8.77%) Product Ownership
2 56 (3.19%) Derivative
3 54 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 44 (2.51%) Fixed Income
5 43 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 40 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
7 37 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 36 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.54%) Credit Risk
10 26 (1.48%) Hedge funds
11 23 (1.31%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.20%) Market Risk
14 20 (1.14%) Management Information System
14 20 (1.14%) NHS
14 20 (1.14%) Operational Technology
15 17 (0.97%) Reference Data
16 16 (0.91%) Equities
17 15 (0.85%) PMI
17 15 (0.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.74%) Windows
2 6 (0.34%) Apple iOS
2 6 (0.34%) Unix
3 5 (0.28%) Android
4 3 (0.17%) Linux
5 2 (0.11%) AIX
5 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (32.29%) Agile
2 523 (29.78%) Business Analysis
3 518 (29.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 456 (25.97%) Requirements Gathering
5 426 (24.26%) User Stories
6 406 (23.12%) Workshop Facilitation
7 335 (19.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 297 (16.91%) User Acceptance Testing
9 268 (15.26%) Acceptance Criteria
10 239 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
11 199 (11.33%) Migration
12 188 (10.71%) Validation
13 164 (9.34%) Data Analysis
14 159 (9.05%) Decision-Making
15 156 (8.88%) Process Improvement
16 146 (8.31%) Data Modelling
17 143 (8.14%) Scrum
18 138 (7.86%) DevOps
19 125 (7.12%) AI
20 119 (6.78%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 184 (10.48%) SQL
2 46 (2.62%) Python
3 14 (0.80%) Korn
4 7 (0.40%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) R
6 3 (0.17%) VBA
7 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
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%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.057%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 205 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 165 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 140 (7.97%) Degree
4 47 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (1.94%) CBAP
5 34 (1.94%) IIBA
6 24 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 12 (0.68%) PMP
8 11 (0.63%) ACCA
9 10 (0.57%) CIMA
10 9 (0.51%) ISEB
11 8 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.46%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.40%) FFIEC
13 6 (0.34%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.28%) CSPO
14 5 (0.28%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (5.07%) QA
2 88 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 43 (2.45%) GDPR
4 30 (1.71%) NIST
5 28 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.80%) EMIR
7 14 (0.80%) GRC
8 13 (0.74%) MiFID
9 10 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.51%) COBIT
10 9 (0.51%) PMO
11 8 (0.46%) IFRS
11 8 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.40%) PSD2
12 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.28%) Basel III
13 5 (0.28%) COREP
13 5 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.057%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (0.57%) Ansible
2 6 (0.34%) Terraform
3 4 (0.23%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.11%) Control-M
5 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.057%) Autotask
6 1 (0.057%) Grafana
6 1 (0.057%) Kibana
6 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.057%) SCCM
6 1 (0.057%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 159 (9.05%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.32%) Salesforce
3 108 (6.15%) SAP
4 67 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 61 (3.47%) Oracle
6 35 (1.99%) Murex
7 25 (1.42%) Databricks
8 20 (1.14%) Workday
9 16 (0.91%) Bloomberg
10 12 (0.68%) Pega
10 12 (0.68%) Splunk
11 11 (0.63%) ION Trading
12 10 (0.57%) Avaloq
12 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.57%) Planon
13 9 (0.51%) Guidewire
13 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 9 (0.51%) Sonatype
14 7 (0.40%) Charles River
14 7 (0.40%) CyberArk