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 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 44 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,735 1,139 1,709
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.53% 4.70% 4.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.92% 5.05% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 814 1,249
10th Percentile £357 £359 £394
25th Percentile £413 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £630
90th Percentile £713 £771 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 8
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £34.19 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.82 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +98.08% +29.96% -56.47%
75th Percentile £76.75 £50.00 £57.81
90th Percentile £88.25 £56.75 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £64.19 £32.82 £39.00
% change year-on-year +95.60% -15.86% -32.76%

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 35,285 22,535 34,877
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 92.94% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,231 15,079 23,309
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,327 833 2,302
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.93
25th Percentile £19.96 £20.85 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% +4.62% -24.14%
75th Percentile £65.13 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.86
UK median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +1 1,052 £530 -7.83% 148
North of England -1 266 £425 +3.34% 104
Midlands -1 154 £468 -1.58% 55
Yorkshire +5 129 £475 +5.56% 43
West Midlands -1 120 £475 -5.00% 35
South East -23 119 £500 +5.26% 78
North West -16 118 £400 -1.23% 37
South West +17 97 £466 -6.85% 35
North East +15 35 £425 +6.25% 24
East Midlands -21 32 £400 -2.32% 20
East of England -30 24 £488 +8.33% 32
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 April 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.

1 592 (34.12%) Agile
2 549 (31.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 513 (29.57%) Business Analysis
4 463 (26.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 424 (24.44%) Workshop Facilitation
6 404 (23.29%) User Stories
7 378 (21.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 268 (15.45%) User Acceptance Testing
9 267 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
10 255 (14.70%) JIRA
11 242 (13.95%) Migration
12 240 (13.83%) Security Cleared
13 231 (13.31%) Acceptance Criteria
14 205 (11.82%) SC Cleared
15 200 (11.53%) SQL
16 195 (11.24%) Confluence
17 168 (9.68%) Process Improvement
18 159 (9.16%) Data Analysis
19 156 (8.99%) Microsoft
20 154 (8.88%) Validation
21 152 (8.76%) Decision-Making
22 151 (8.70%) Degree
23 147 (8.47%) GAP Analysis
24 146 (8.41%) Scrum
25 142 (8.18%) MS Visio
26 139 (8.01%) Data Modelling
27 130 (7.49%) Project Delivery
28 125 (7.20%) DevOps
29 121 (6.97%) Business Intelligence
29 121 (6.97%) Power Platform

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 (11.24%) Confluence
2 29 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.98%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.058%) Apache
7 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.058%) Appian
7 1 (0.058%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.058%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 142 (8.18%) MS Visio
2 118 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.23%) Notion
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.058%) CATIA
8 1 (0.058%) Sketch
8 1 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 19 (1.10%) Endur
2 18 (1.04%) Aladdin
2 18 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.35%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 5 (0.29%) Summit
5 5 (0.29%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.17%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 3 (0.17%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.17%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 121 (6.97%) Power Platform
2 117 (6.74%) Azure
3 67 (3.86%) AWS
4 38 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (1.27%) Lucidchart
8 21 (1.21%) GitHub
8 21 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 19 (1.10%) Miro
10 18 (1.04%) SaaS
11 17 (0.98%) Snowflake
12 16 (0.92%) GCP
13 11 (0.63%) Power Automate
14 10 (0.58%) PowerApps
15 9 (0.52%) Figma
15 9 (0.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
17 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.23%) Network Security
2 3 (0.17%) Internet
2 3 (0.17%) Wireless
3 2 (0.12%) Broadband
3 2 (0.12%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.12%) DNS
3 2 (0.12%) Firewall
3 2 (0.12%) Intranet
3 2 (0.12%) NAS
3 2 (0.12%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (5.71%) Power BI
2 42 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (2.07%) Tableau
4 24 (1.38%) Metadata
5 13 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.46%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.29%) Big Data
8 5 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.29%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.17%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.17%) Power Query
11 2 (0.12%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.12%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 255 (14.70%) JIRA
2 18 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 17 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.46%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.12%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.12%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.058%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.058%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.058%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.058%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.058%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.058%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 616 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 604 (34.81%) Finance
3 410 (23.63%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (15.33%) Banking
5 173 (9.97%) Public Sector
6 136 (7.84%) Documentation Skills
7 78 (4.50%) Retail
8 68 (3.92%) Front Office
9 61 (3.52%) Legal
10 60 (3.46%) Investment Banking
11 53 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.19%) Marketing
14 37 (2.13%) Back Office
15 35 (2.02%) Telecoms
16 30 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (1.56%) Financial Institution
18 26 (1.50%) Local Government
19 17 (0.98%) Law
19 17 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.90%) REST
2 28 (1.61%) XML
3 17 (0.98%) JSON
4 16 (0.92%) SOAP
5 12 (0.69%) Swagger
6 11 (0.63%) ADO
6 11 (0.63%) OAuth
7 9 (0.52%) FHIR
7 9 (0.52%) VML
8 8 (0.46%) Middleware
8 8 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.40%) JWT
9 7 (0.40%) OpenAPI
9 7 (0.40%) SailPoint
9 7 (0.40%) SAML
10 6 (0.35%) .NET
11 4 (0.23%) HTML
11 4 (0.23%) RESTful
12 3 (0.17%) Murex MxML
12 3 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 148 (8.53%) Product Ownership
2 59 (3.40%) Onboarding
3 42 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 41 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 38 (2.19%) Fixed Income
5 38 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (2.13%) Derivative
7 32 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 25 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 25 (1.44%) NHS
8 25 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.38%) Credit Risk
10 23 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 23 (1.33%) PMI
11 20 (1.15%) Equities
12 18 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 17 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (0.81%) Hedge funds
14 14 (0.81%) Market Risk
15 12 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.92%) Linux
2 14 (0.81%) Windows
3 6 (0.35%) Unix
4 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.29%) VMS
5 3 (0.17%) Android
6 2 (0.12%) AIX
6 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.12%) Solaris
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.058%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (34.12%) Agile
2 549 (31.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 513 (29.57%) Business Analysis
4 463 (26.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 424 (24.44%) Workshop Facilitation
6 404 (23.29%) User Stories
7 378 (21.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 268 (15.45%) User Acceptance Testing
9 267 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
10 242 (13.95%) Migration
11 231 (13.31%) Acceptance Criteria
12 168 (9.68%) Process Improvement
13 159 (9.16%) Data Analysis
14 154 (8.88%) Validation
15 152 (8.76%) Decision-Making
16 147 (8.47%) GAP Analysis
17 146 (8.41%) Scrum
18 139 (8.01%) Data Modelling
19 130 (7.49%) Project Delivery
20 125 (7.20%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 200 (11.53%) SQL
2 43 (2.48%) Python
3 9 (0.52%) Korn
4 7 (0.40%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.35%) VBA
6 5 (0.29%) Java
7 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.17%) R
8 2 (0.12%) C#
8 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.058%) C++
9 1 (0.058%) COBOL
9 1 (0.058%) Groovy
9 1 (0.058%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 240 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 205 (11.82%) SC Cleared
3 151 (8.70%) Degree
4 54 (3.11%) CBAP
5 43 (2.48%) IIBA
6 42 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (1.90%) PMI Certification
8 15 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (0.86%) PMP
9 12 (0.69%) CSPO
9 12 (0.69%) ISEB
10 11 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.40%) CFA
12 6 (0.35%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.29%) MBA
14 4 (0.23%) ACCA
15 3 (0.17%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.17%) CIMA
16 2 (0.12%) AAT
16 2 (0.12%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.76%) QA
2 87 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 51 (2.94%) GDPR
4 23 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.15%) MiFID
6 18 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.04%) NIST
7 15 (0.86%) EMIR
8 14 (0.81%) PSD2
9 13 (0.75%) GRC
10 12 (0.69%) ISO 8583
11 11 (0.63%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.52%) HL7
12 9 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.52%) PMO
13 8 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.35%) Basel III
15 6 (0.35%) Solvency II
16 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.058%) Docker
2 1 (0.058%) RACF
Systems Management
1 18 (1.04%) Ansible
2 6 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.12%) Control-M
3 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.12%) Terraform
4 1 (0.058%) Grafana
4 1 (0.058%) Kibana
4 1 (0.058%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.058%) SCCM
Vendors
1 156 (8.99%) Microsoft
2 104 (5.99%) Salesforce
3 75 (4.32%) SAP
4 54 (3.11%) Oracle
5 48 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 33 (1.90%) Murex
7 23 (1.33%) Bloomberg
8 16 (0.92%) Adobe
8 16 (0.92%) Sonatype
8 16 (0.92%) Workday
9 15 (0.86%) Databricks
10 12 (0.69%) Pega
11 11 (0.63%) Google
11 11 (0.63%) Splunk
12 10 (0.58%) Avaloq
12 10 (0.58%) Guidewire
13 9 (0.52%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.46%) OneTrust
14 8 (0.46%) OpenLink
14 8 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud