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 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 37 45
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,814 1,424 1,503
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.05% 5.22% 4.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.38% 5.67% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 978 1,086
10th Percentile £358 £358 £363
25th Percentile £420 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £602 £638 £625
90th Percentile £713 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 10
10th Percentile £28.21 £25.26 £21.20
25th Percentile £34.87 £27.21 £30.06
Median hourly rate £61.50 £34.11 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +80.30% -26.25% -24.49%
75th Percentile £78.55 £50.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £104.00 £69.50 £75.38
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £34.06 £50.00
% change year-on-year +76.19% -31.89% -18.37%

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 41,444 25,115 34,097
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.03% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,363 16,356 22,299
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £420 £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 £738 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,982 1,217 2,452
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.20 £17.98 £17.25
Median hourly rate £45.56 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.84% -28.75% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +64.87% -33.75% -5.88%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -12 1,068 £550 -4.35% 198
North of England -17 268 £450 +4.65% 94
South East -3 176 £500 +2.56% 98
Midlands +2 171 £463 +8.82% 45
West Midlands +10 134 £465 -7.00% 31
North West -30 121 £425 -1.39% 31
Yorkshire -18 111 £475 +15.15% 50
South West -3 69 £450 -2.17% 45
North East -2 39 £475 -0.78% 13
East Midlands -19 35 £425 +13.33% 14
East of England -16 31 £475 +5.56% 20
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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.

1 571 (31.48%) Agile
2 546 (30.10%) Business Analysis
3 545 (30.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 487 (26.85%) Requirements Gathering
5 434 (23.93%) User Stories
6 430 (23.70%) Workshop Facilitation
7 352 (19.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 315 (17.36%) User Acceptance Testing
9 278 (15.33%) Acceptance Criteria
10 247 (13.62%) JIRA
11 243 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
12 205 (11.30%) Migration
13 202 (11.14%) Security Cleared
14 198 (10.92%) Validation
15 186 (10.25%) SQL
16 177 (9.76%) Confluence
17 174 (9.59%) Data Analysis
18 173 (9.54%) Process Improvement
19 169 (9.32%) Decision-Making
20 163 (8.99%) Microsoft
21 160 (8.82%) SC Cleared
22 159 (8.77%) Azure
23 150 (8.27%) Data Modelling
24 143 (7.88%) Degree
25 141 (7.77%) Scrum
26 136 (7.50%) DevOps
27 130 (7.17%) AI
28 128 (7.06%) Impact Assessments
29 122 (6.73%) MS Visio
30 121 (6.67%) 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 (9.76%) Confluence
2 31 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.44%) SAS
4 6 (0.33%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.055%) Apache
7 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 122 (6.73%) MS Visio
2 90 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.17%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.055%) CATIA
8 1 (0.055%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.99%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (0.61%) Endur
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.33%) Findur
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.33%) Summit
8 5 (0.28%) Actimize
8 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.28%) Maximo
8 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.28%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.22%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 159 (8.77%) Azure
2 111 (6.12%) Power Platform
3 65 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (2.70%) AWS
5 29 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (1.32%) Lucidchart
7 24 (1.32%) SaaS
8 20 (1.10%) Snowflake
9 18 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 16 (0.88%) Miro
11 14 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (0.66%) Figma
13 12 (0.66%) GitHub
13 12 (0.66%) Power Automate
14 11 (0.61%) GCP
14 11 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 11 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
15 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.50%) Network Security
2 6 (0.33%) Intranet
2 6 (0.33%) Wireless
3 2 (0.11%) 802.11
3 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.11%) DNS
3 2 (0.11%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
3 2 (0.11%) WLAN
4 1 (0.055%) 5G
4 1 (0.055%) DNSSEC
4 1 (0.055%) Extranet
4 1 (0.055%) Firewall
4 1 (0.055%) Internet
4 1 (0.055%) PBX
4 1 (0.055%) SNMP
4 1 (0.055%) SONET
4 1 (0.055%) TETRA
4 1 (0.055%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.29%) Power BI
2 41 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (1.76%) Metadata
4 26 (1.43%) Tableau
5 17 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.33%) Data Mining
7 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (0.33%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.22%) Big Data
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.11%) OLAP
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 247 (13.62%) JIRA
2 11 (0.61%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.39%) Balsamiq
5 4 (0.22%) Postman
6 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.055%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.055%) SonarQube
General
1 639 (35.23%) Finance
2 576 (31.75%) Social Skills
3 418 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (14.33%) Banking
5 157 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 135 (7.44%) Documentation Skills
7 96 (5.29%) Front Office
8 88 (4.85%) Retail
9 69 (3.80%) Investment Banking
10 64 (3.53%) Legal
11 51 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 36 (1.98%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.93%) Back Office
15 34 (1.87%) Financial Institution
16 31 (1.71%) Marketing
16 31 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (1.60%) Local Government
18 23 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 20 (1.10%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.38%) XML
3 18 (0.99%) JSON
4 16 (0.88%) Middleware
5 15 (0.83%) ADO
6 9 (0.50%) REST
7 7 (0.39%) SOAP
8 6 (0.33%) Swagger
9 5 (0.28%) FHIR
9 5 (0.28%) NumPy
9 5 (0.28%) Pandas
9 5 (0.28%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.28%) VML
10 4 (0.22%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.22%) STL
11 3 (0.17%) EDI
11 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
11 3 (0.17%) YAML
12 2 (0.11%) .NET
12 2 (0.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 154 (8.49%) Product Ownership
2 64 (3.53%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.20%) Derivative
4 45 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 43 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 42 (2.32%) Fixed Income
7 37 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 37 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.65%) Credit Risk
9 26 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.43%) Hedge funds
10 25 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.27%) Market Risk
11 23 (1.27%) Operational Technology
12 18 (0.99%) NHS
12 18 (0.99%) Reference Data
13 16 (0.88%) Equities
13 16 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.72%) Windows
2 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
2 6 (0.33%) 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
1 571 (31.48%) Agile
2 546 (30.10%) Business Analysis
3 545 (30.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 487 (26.85%) Requirements Gathering
5 434 (23.93%) User Stories
6 430 (23.70%) Workshop Facilitation
7 352 (19.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 315 (17.36%) User Acceptance Testing
9 278 (15.33%) Acceptance Criteria
10 243 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
11 205 (11.30%) Migration
12 198 (10.92%) Validation
13 174 (9.59%) Data Analysis
14 173 (9.54%) Process Improvement
15 169 (9.32%) Decision-Making
16 150 (8.27%) Data Modelling
17 141 (7.77%) Scrum
18 136 (7.50%) DevOps
19 130 (7.17%) AI
20 128 (7.06%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 186 (10.25%) SQL
2 45 (2.48%) Python
3 14 (0.77%) Korn
4 7 (0.39%) Java
5 4 (0.22%) R
6 3 (0.17%) VBA
7 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.055%) ABAP
8 1 (0.055%) C
8 1 (0.055%) C#
8 1 (0.055%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.055%) Groovy
8 1 (0.055%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.055%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.055%) Ruby
8 1 (0.055%) SOQL
8 1 (0.055%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 202 (11.14%) Security Cleared
2 160 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 143 (7.88%) Degree
4 50 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (1.98%) CBAP
6 30 (1.65%) IIBA
7 22 (1.21%) PMI Certification
8 13 (0.72%) ISEB
9 12 (0.66%) PMP
10 11 (0.61%) ACCA
10 11 (0.61%) CIMA
11 9 (0.50%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.44%) FFIEC
13 7 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.39%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.28%) CSPO
14 5 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.22%) ISEB Practitioner
16 3 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.62%) Data Quality
2 88 (4.85%) QA
3 39 (2.15%) GDPR
4 30 (1.65%) NIST
5 28 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.83%) EMIR
7 15 (0.83%) GRC
7 15 (0.83%) MiFID
8 11 (0.61%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.55%) PMO
9 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.50%) COBIT
11 7 (0.39%) Basel III
11 7 (0.39%) PSD2
11 7 (0.39%) SEPA
11 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.33%) IFRS
13 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.28%) COREP
System Software
1 6 (0.33%) Active Directory
1 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.11%) Docker
4 1 (0.055%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (0.50%) Ansible
2 6 (0.33%) Terraform
3 4 (0.22%) 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 (0.055%) Autotask
6 1 (0.055%) Grafana
6 1 (0.055%) Kibana
6 1 (0.055%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.055%) SCCM
6 1 (0.055%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 163 (8.99%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.06%) Salesforce
2 110 (6.06%) SAP
3 71 (3.91%) ServiceNow
4 67 (3.69%) Oracle
5 32 (1.76%) Murex
6 25 (1.38%) Databricks
7 23 (1.27%) Workday
8 17 (0.94%) Bloomberg
9 12 (0.66%) CyberArk
9 12 (0.66%) Pega
9 12 (0.66%) Splunk
10 11 (0.61%) ION Trading
11 10 (0.55%) Guidewire
11 10 (0.55%) OpenLink
11 10 (0.55%) Planon
12 9 (0.50%) Avaloq
12 9 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 8 (0.44%) Charles River
13 8 (0.44%) IBM