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 27 January 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 51 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 -13 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,527 1,085 1,838
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.69% 4.13% 4.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.12% 4.44% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 813 1,372
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £625
90th Percentile £713 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 7
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £26.80 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £31.49 £31.06 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -1.41% +39.35%
75th Percentile £68.09 £44.33 £60.66
90th Percentile £88.25 £76.73 £68.54
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £31.52 £29.50
% change year-on-year +13.40% +6.85% +30.50%

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 29,830 24,448 35,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 93.01% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,019 15,064 23,689
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
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 1,843 738 1,948
10th Percentile £14.82 £15.98 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.26 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -9.98% -13.33% +7.14%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 27 January 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 +4 952 £539 -2.09% 112
North of England +8 222 £420 -1.18% 71
Midlands +5 126 £456 -5.19% 64
Yorkshire +13 104 £469 +4.17% 30
South East -15 100 £475 - 110
North West -11 98 £400 -5.88% 32
South West +26 84 £463 -2.63% 36
West Midlands -1 83 £480 -4.00% 47
East Midlands +3 42 £360 -14.29% 17
North East +16 36 £425 +6.25% 10
East of England -11 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 27 January 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.

1 583 (38.18%) Agile
2 522 (34.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 481 (31.50%) Business Analysis
4 420 (27.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 339 (22.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 337 (22.07%) Workshop Facilitation
7 334 (21.87%) User Stories
8 264 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
9 234 (15.32%) JIRA
10 224 (14.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 213 (13.95%) Migration
12 195 (12.77%) SQL
13 174 (11.39%) Confluence
13 174 (11.39%) Security Cleared
14 161 (10.54%) Acceptance Criteria
15 151 (9.89%) Data Analysis
16 150 (9.82%) Degree
17 149 (9.76%) Microsoft
17 149 (9.76%) SC Cleared
18 143 (9.36%) Scrum
19 136 (8.91%) Process Improvement
20 131 (8.58%) Project Delivery
21 124 (8.12%) Data Modelling
21 124 (8.12%) GAP Analysis
21 124 (8.12%) Waterfall
22 122 (7.99%) Analytics
23 120 (7.86%) Validation
24 117 (7.66%) Decision-Making
24 117 (7.66%) Power Platform
25 114 (7.47%) Business Intelligence

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
1 174 (11.39%) Confluence
2 26 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.85%) SAS
4 5 (0.33%) CMS
5 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.13%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.065%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.065%) Appian
7 1 (0.065%) Camunda
7 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.065%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 110 (7.20%) MS Visio
2 108 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.26%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.26%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.065%) Sketch
9 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (2.10%) Endur
2 24 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
5 13 (0.85%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.52%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.33%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.26%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.26%) Temenos T24
9 3 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.20%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.13%) BASE24
10 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.13%) Summit
10 2 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 117 (7.66%) Power Platform
2 83 (5.44%) Azure
3 62 (4.06%) AWS
4 33 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (1.77%) SaaS
6 24 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (1.38%) Lucidchart
8 19 (1.24%) GitHub
9 15 (0.98%) Miro
9 15 (0.98%) Snowflake
10 14 (0.92%) GCP
10 14 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 11 (0.72%) Power Automate
12 10 (0.65%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.59%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.52%) Figma
15 7 (0.46%) Apigee
15 7 (0.46%) Kong
16 6 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.26%) Firewall
2 3 (0.20%) Internet
2 3 (0.20%) 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 (0.065%) DNS
4 1 (0.065%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.065%) LAN
4 1 (0.065%) Softphone
4 1 (0.065%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (6.35%) Power BI
2 38 (2.49%) Tableau
3 27 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.24%) Metadata
5 13 (0.85%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.26%) Big Data
7 4 (0.26%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.26%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.26%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.26%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.20%) Power Query
8 3 (0.20%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.13%) Looker
9 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 234 (15.32%) JIRA
2 16 (1.05%) Jenkins
2 16 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (0.52%) Postman
4 3 (0.20%) Git
5 2 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.13%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.065%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.065%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.065%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.065%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.065%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.065%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.065%) Toad
General
1 612 (40.08%) Social Skills
2 531 (34.77%) Finance
3 344 (22.53%) Analytical Skills
4 233 (15.26%) Banking
5 141 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 107 (7.01%) Documentation Skills
7 63 (4.13%) Retail
8 57 (3.73%) Front Office
9 53 (3.47%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
11 50 (3.27%) Legal
12 49 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (3.14%) Telecoms
14 38 (2.49%) Back Office
15 34 (2.23%) Marketing
16 25 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (1.57%) Local Government
18 21 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 19 (1.24%) Financial Institution
20 18 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.29%) REST
2 23 (1.51%) XML
3 18 (1.18%) SOAP
4 15 (0.98%) JSON
5 11 (0.72%) SailPoint
5 11 (0.72%) Swagger
6 10 (0.65%) OAuth
7 8 (0.52%) ADO
7 8 (0.52%) VML
8 7 (0.46%) .NET
8 7 (0.46%) SAML
9 6 (0.39%) JWT
9 6 (0.39%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (0.39%) RESTful
10 5 (0.33%) FHIR
10 5 (0.33%) Middleware
11 4 (0.26%) Anaconda
11 4 (0.26%) HTML
11 4 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.32%) Product Ownership
2 64 (4.19%) Onboarding
3 36 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
4 34 (2.23%) Fixed Income
5 33 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 33 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (2.03%) PMI
7 29 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 27 (1.77%) Credit Risk
9 26 (1.70%) Derivative
9 26 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 25 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 23 (1.51%) Management Information System
12 20 (1.31%) Equities
13 16 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (0.98%) NHS
15 14 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (0.85%) Data Centre
16 13 (0.85%) Mobile App
17 11 (0.72%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.05%) Linux
2 9 (0.59%) Windows
3 6 (0.39%) VMS
4 3 (0.20%) Unix
5 2 (0.13%) Android
5 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.065%) AIX
6 1 (0.065%) Solaris
6 1 (0.065%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (38.18%) Agile
2 522 (34.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 481 (31.50%) Business Analysis
4 420 (27.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 339 (22.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 337 (22.07%) Workshop Facilitation
7 334 (21.87%) User Stories
8 264 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
9 224 (14.67%) User Acceptance Testing
10 213 (13.95%) Migration
11 161 (10.54%) Acceptance Criteria
12 151 (9.89%) Data Analysis
13 143 (9.36%) Scrum
14 136 (8.91%) Process Improvement
15 131 (8.58%) Project Delivery
16 124 (8.12%) Data Modelling
16 124 (8.12%) GAP Analysis
16 124 (8.12%) Waterfall
17 122 (7.99%) Analytics
18 120 (7.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 195 (12.77%) SQL
2 43 (2.82%) Python
3 8 (0.52%) JavaScript
4 6 (0.39%) Korn
4 6 (0.39%) VBA
5 5 (0.33%) R
6 4 (0.26%) Java
7 3 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.13%) C#
9 1 (0.065%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.065%) C++
9 1 (0.065%) COBOL
9 1 (0.065%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.065%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 174 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 150 (9.82%) Degree
3 149 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 62 (4.06%) CBAP
5 39 (2.55%) PMI Certification
6 37 (2.42%) IIBA
7 28 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.85%) CSPO
10 12 (0.79%) PMP
11 11 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.72%) ISEB
12 8 (0.52%) CFA
13 5 (0.33%) ACCA
13 5 (0.33%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.33%) MBA
14 4 (0.26%) CIMA
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.13%) AAT
16 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (5.83%) QA
2 61 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.21%) GDPR
4 25 (1.64%) MiFID
5 18 (1.18%) PSD2
6 17 (1.11%) EMIR
7 16 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.79%) ISO 20022
8 12 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.72%) GRC
10 10 (0.65%) ISO 8583
11 8 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.52%) PMO
12 7 (0.46%) NIST
12 7 (0.46%) SEPA
13 6 (0.39%) Basel III
13 6 (0.39%) IFRS
14 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.33%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.065%) Docker
2 1 (0.065%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.065%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (1.18%) Ansible
2 5 (0.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.13%) SCCM
4 1 (0.065%) Control-M
4 1 (0.065%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.065%) Terraform
Vendors
1 149 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.22%) Salesforce
3 65 (4.26%) SAP
4 46 (3.01%) Oracle
5 34 (2.23%) ServiceNow
6 30 (1.96%) Murex
7 20 (1.31%) Bloomberg
8 16 (1.05%) MuleSoft
9 15 (0.98%) Sonatype
10 13 (0.85%) Adobe
10 13 (0.85%) Google
10 13 (0.85%) OpenLink
11 10 (0.65%) Workday
12 9 (0.59%) Guidewire
12 9 (0.59%) OneTrust
13 8 (0.52%) Avaloq
13 8 (0.52%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.52%) Pega
14 7 (0.46%) eFront
14 7 (0.46%) Refinitiv