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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 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 1,804 1,411 1,528
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.03% 5.23% 4.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.37% 5.68% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,224 971 1,112
10th Percentile £358 £358 £363
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £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 8
10th Percentile £28.21 £25.26 £21.11
25th Percentile £34.87 £27.21 £25.19
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 £69.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £69.50 £76.13
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 41,323 24,840 34,624
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 92.06% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,324 16,186 22,692
10th Percentile £325 £293 £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 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,956 1,184 2,511
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.76 £12.88
25th Percentile £22.08 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £26.39 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.87% -29.64% -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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -13 1,066 £550 -4.35% 164
North of England -21 262 £450 +5.88% 75
Midlands -2 173 £465 +9.41% 38
South East 0 169 £500 +2.56% 90
West Midlands +12 137 £475 -5.00% 26
North West -25 117 £425 -1.28% 31
Yorkshire -17 109 £463 +12.12% 35
South West -4 70 £450 - 30
North East -2 39 £475 +18.75% 9
East Midlands -18 34 £425 +13.33% 12
East of England -17 32 £463 +2.78% 16
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 574 (31.82%) Agile
2 543 (30.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 538 (29.82%) Business Analysis
4 475 (26.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 430 (23.84%) User Stories
6 426 (23.61%) Workshop Facilitation
7 350 (19.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 309 (17.13%) User Acceptance Testing
9 275 (15.24%) Acceptance Criteria
10 247 (13.69%) JIRA
11 241 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
12 205 (11.36%) Migration
13 201 (11.14%) Validation
14 198 (10.98%) Security Cleared
15 187 (10.37%) SQL
16 177 (9.81%) Confluence
17 171 (9.48%) Process Improvement
18 169 (9.37%) Data Analysis
19 166 (9.20%) Decision-Making
20 160 (8.87%) Azure
20 160 (8.87%) Microsoft
21 156 (8.65%) SC Cleared
22 150 (8.31%) Data Modelling
23 145 (8.04%) Scrum
24 143 (7.93%) Degree
25 138 (7.65%) DevOps
26 132 (7.32%) AI
27 122 (6.76%) Impact Assessments
28 121 (6.71%) GAP Analysis
28 121 (6.71%) MS Visio

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 (9.81%) Confluence
2 31 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.50%) SAS
4 5 (0.28%) CMS
4 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.055%) Apache
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 121 (6.71%) MS Visio
2 91 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.28%) 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 26 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.00%) Aladdin
3 17 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (0.61%) Endur
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.33%) Findur
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.33%) Summit
8 5 (0.28%) Actimize
8 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.28%) Maximo
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
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%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 160 (8.87%) Azure
2 109 (6.04%) Power Platform
3 65 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (2.77%) AWS
5 27 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
5 27 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (1.33%) Lucidchart
6 24 (1.33%) SaaS
7 21 (1.16%) Snowflake
8 17 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 16 (0.89%) Miro
10 14 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (0.72%) GitHub
11 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (0.61%) Figma
12 11 (0.61%) GCP
12 11 (0.61%) Power Automate
12 11 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (0.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.50%) Network Security
2 6 (0.33%) Wireless
3 5 (0.28%) 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 (0.055%) 5G
5 1 (0.055%) DNSSEC
5 1 (0.055%) Extranet
5 1 (0.055%) Firewall
5 1 (0.055%) Internet
5 1 (0.055%) PBX
5 1 (0.055%) SNMP
5 1 (0.055%) SONET
5 1 (0.055%) TETRA
5 1 (0.055%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.27%) Power BI
2 42 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (1.77%) Metadata
4 26 (1.44%) 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 (13.69%) JIRA
2 12 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.50%) 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
1 634 (35.14%) Finance
2 579 (32.10%) Social Skills
3 412 (22.84%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (14.47%) Banking
5 152 (8.43%) Public Sector
6 132 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
7 99 (5.49%) Front Office
8 92 (5.10%) Retail
9 69 (3.82%) Investment Banking
10 66 (3.66%) Legal
11 52 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.11%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.94%) Financial Institution
15 33 (1.83%) Back Office
16 31 (1.72%) Marketing
17 30 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (1.44%) Local Government
19 23 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 20 (1.11%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.33%) XML
3 17 (0.94%) JSON
4 16 (0.89%) Middleware
5 15 (0.83%) ADO
6 9 (0.50%) REST
7 7 (0.39%) SOAP
8 6 (0.33%) Swagger
8 6 (0.33%) VML
9 5 (0.28%) FHIR
9 5 (0.28%) NumPy
9 5 (0.28%) Pandas
9 5 (0.28%) SailPoint
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
1 153 (8.48%) Product Ownership
2 62 (3.44%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.22%) Derivative
4 44 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 42 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 38 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (1.66%) Credit Risk
9 26 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.44%) Hedge funds
10 25 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.33%) Management Information System
12 23 (1.27%) Market Risk
12 23 (1.27%) Operational Technology
13 18 (1.00%) NHS
14 17 (0.94%) Reference Data
15 16 (0.89%) Equities
15 16 (0.89%) Reinsurance
16 15 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
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
1 574 (31.82%) Agile
2 543 (30.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 538 (29.82%) Business Analysis
4 475 (26.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 430 (23.84%) User Stories
6 426 (23.61%) Workshop Facilitation
7 350 (19.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 309 (17.13%) User Acceptance Testing
9 275 (15.24%) Acceptance Criteria
10 241 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
11 205 (11.36%) Migration
12 201 (11.14%) Validation
13 171 (9.48%) Process Improvement
14 169 (9.37%) Data Analysis
15 166 (9.20%) Decision-Making
16 150 (8.31%) Data Modelling
17 145 (8.04%) Scrum
18 138 (7.65%) DevOps
19 132 (7.32%) AI
20 122 (6.76%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 187 (10.37%) SQL
2 46 (2.55%) Python
3 14 (0.78%) 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
1 198 (10.98%) Security Cleared
2 156 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 143 (7.93%) Degree
4 49 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (1.83%) CBAP
6 30 (1.66%) IIBA
7 22 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 12 (0.67%) PMP
9 11 (0.61%) ACCA
10 10 (0.55%) CIMA
10 10 (0.55%) ISEB
11 8 (0.44%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.44%) FFIEC
12 7 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (0.28%) CSPO
13 5 (0.28%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.17%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 87 (4.82%) QA
3 40 (2.22%) GDPR
4 30 (1.66%) NIST
5 28 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.83%) GRC
8 14 (0.78%) EMIR
8 14 (0.78%) MiFID
9 10 (0.55%) 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%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.33%) IFRS
12 6 (0.33%) SEPA
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 10 (0.55%) 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
1 160 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.21%) SAP
3 111 (6.15%) Salesforce
4 70 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 67 (3.71%) Oracle
6 35 (1.94%) Murex
7 26 (1.44%) Databricks
8 23 (1.27%) Workday
9 17 (0.94%) Bloomberg
10 12 (0.67%) Pega
10 12 (0.67%) Splunk
11 11 (0.61%) CyberArk
11 11 (0.61%) Guidewire
11 11 (0.61%) ION Trading
12 10 (0.55%) Avaloq
12 10 (0.55%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.55%) Planon
13 9 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 9 (0.50%) Sonatype
14 8 (0.44%) IBM