Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 39 52
Rank change year-on-year -21 +13 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,737 1,427 1,282
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.73% 5.09% 3.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.05% 5.58% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 996 966
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £428 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £750 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 10
10th Percentile £29.43 £27.05 £39.73
25th Percentile £37.00 £29.35 £43.44
Median hourly rate £61.50 £31.49 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +95.30% -53.17% +12.08%
75th Percentile £76.75 £34.45 £77.81
90th Percentile £104.00 £57.10 £82.68
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £32.89 £58.25
% change year-on-year +86.99% -43.54% +2.19%

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 42,864 25,553 30,182
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 91.19% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,324 16,470 18,510
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,642 1,405 1,351
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.44%
75th Percentile £67.88 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.96
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.45% -3.47%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -16 1,006 £525 -7.08% 520
North of England -17 249 £466 +9.71% 210
South East -6 178 £500 +2.56% 191
Midlands -6 167 £450 +20.00% 132
West Midlands +19 130 £450 -5.26% 85
North West -27 112 £447 +3.95% 110
Yorkshire -21 99 £469 +15.46% 70
South West +10 87 £478 +6.11% 64
North East -21 39 £525 +31.09% 30
East Midlands -30 36 £461 +28.84% 47
East of England -21 28 £450 - 56
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 687 (39.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 643 (37.02%) Business Analysis
3 604 (34.77%) Requirements Gathering
4 560 (32.24%) Agile
5 522 (30.05%) Workshop Facilitation
6 462 (26.60%) User Stories
7 341 (19.63%) User Acceptance Testing
8 339 (19.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 300 (17.27%) Acceptance Criteria
10 234 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
11 211 (12.15%) Process Improvement
12 209 (12.03%) JIRA
13 203 (11.69%) Validation
14 196 (11.28%) Migration
14 196 (11.28%) SQL
15 191 (11.00%) AI
16 182 (10.48%) Microsoft
17 179 (10.31%) Data Analysis
18 172 (9.90%) Decision-Making
19 155 (8.92%) Data Modelling
20 150 (8.64%) Security Cleared
21 149 (8.58%) Degree
22 148 (8.52%) Requirements Workshops
23 146 (8.41%) Azure
24 144 (8.29%) Confluence
25 134 (7.71%) Scrum
26 130 (7.48%) Impact Assessments
27 128 (7.37%) GAP Analysis
27 128 (7.37%) Project Delivery
28 122 (7.02%) Data Quality

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
1 144 (8.29%) Confluence
2 22 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.46%) CMS
4 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.12%) Appian
6 2 (0.12%) SAS
7 1 (0.058%) Apache
7 1 (0.058%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.058%) Camunda
7 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.058%) Moodle
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.058%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.058%) Totara
Applications
1 82 (4.72%) MS Visio
2 62 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Notion
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.58%) Endur
4 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.52%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.23%) HFM
10 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.23%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.17%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.17%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 146 (8.41%) Azure
2 110 (6.33%) Power Platform
3 70 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (2.76%) AWS
5 47 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
6 32 (1.84%) SaaS
7 24 (1.38%) Snowflake
8 23 (1.32%) Lucidchart
8 23 (1.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 20 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (1.09%) Miro
11 18 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 14 (0.81%) GCP
13 12 (0.69%) Entra ID
13 12 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (0.58%) Power Automate
16 8 (0.46%) Figma
16 8 (0.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.40%) Network Security
2 5 (0.29%) Intranet
3 4 (0.23%) Wireless
4 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.12%) 802.11
5 2 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.12%) PBX
5 2 (0.12%) VoIP
5 2 (0.12%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) WAN
5 2 (0.12%) Wireless Security
5 2 (0.12%) WLAN
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) HTTP
6 1 (0.058%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.058%) SNMP
6 1 (0.058%) SSH
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
6 1 (0.058%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.41%) Power BI
2 40 (2.30%) Metadata
3 31 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.04%) Tableau
5 17 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (0.35%) Data Mining
8 6 (0.35%) GIS
8 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.23%) Looker
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.17%) Big Data
10 3 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) Power Query
10 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 209 (12.03%) JIRA
2 3 (0.17%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.12%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.12%) GitLab
3 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.058%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.058%) Rational DOORS
General
1 607 (34.95%) Finance
2 575 (33.10%) Social Skills
3 380 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 239 (13.76%) Banking
5 147 (8.46%) Public Sector
6 137 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
7 107 (6.16%) Retail
8 86 (4.95%) Front Office
9 63 (3.63%) Investment Banking
10 62 (3.57%) Legal
11 49 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (2.82%) Manufacturing
12 40 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.96%) Back Office
14 33 (1.90%) Local Government
15 30 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (1.61%) Financial Institution
17 26 (1.50%) Marketing
18 25 (1.44%) Billing
18 25 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (0.86%) JSON
2 15 (0.86%) Middleware
3 14 (0.81%) XML
4 10 (0.58%) ADO
5 6 (0.35%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.29%) Terraform
7 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.23%) FHIR
7 4 (0.23%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.23%) OpenAPI
7 4 (0.23%) STL
7 4 (0.23%) Swagger
8 3 (0.17%) EDI
8 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.17%) NumPy
8 3 (0.17%) Pandas
8 3 (0.17%) VML
9 2 (0.12%) REST
9 2 (0.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 168 (9.67%) Product Ownership
2 87 (5.01%) Onboarding
3 51 (2.94%) Derivative
4 43 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
5 35 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 35 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 31 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 29 (1.67%) Fixed Income
9 27 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.38%) Reference Data
11 19 (1.09%) Operational Technology
12 18 (1.04%) Equities
12 18 (1.04%) Taxonomies
13 17 (0.98%) Credit Risk
14 16 (0.92%) FMCG
14 16 (0.92%) Hedge funds
14 16 (0.92%) Market Risk
14 16 (0.92%) NHS
15 14 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.86%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
3 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.058%) Linux
4 1 (0.058%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (39.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 643 (37.02%) Business Analysis
3 604 (34.77%) Requirements Gathering
4 560 (32.24%) Agile
5 522 (30.05%) Workshop Facilitation
6 462 (26.60%) User Stories
7 341 (19.63%) User Acceptance Testing
8 339 (19.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 300 (17.27%) Acceptance Criteria
10 234 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
11 211 (12.15%) Process Improvement
12 203 (11.69%) Validation
13 196 (11.28%) Migration
14 191 (11.00%) AI
15 179 (10.31%) Data Analysis
16 172 (9.90%) Decision-Making
17 155 (8.92%) Data Modelling
18 148 (8.52%) Requirements Workshops
19 134 (7.71%) Scrum
20 130 (7.48%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 196 (11.28%) SQL
2 29 (1.67%) Python
3 15 (0.86%) Korn
4 9 (0.52%) Java
5 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.17%) R
7 2 (0.12%) C#
7 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.058%) ABAP
8 1 (0.058%) C
8 1 (0.058%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.058%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.058%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.058%) Ruby
8 1 (0.058%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 150 (8.64%) Security Cleared
2 149 (8.58%) Degree
3 117 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 43 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (1.96%) IIBA
6 29 (1.67%) CBAP
7 26 (1.50%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.32%) ACCA
9 22 (1.27%) CIMA
10 16 (0.92%) PMP
11 12 (0.69%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.69%) FFIEC
12 10 (0.58%) ISEB
13 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.29%) CSPO
17 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
17 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 3 (0.17%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 88 (5.07%) QA
3 23 (1.32%) GDPR
4 21 (1.21%) NIST
5 17 (0.98%) MiFID
6 15 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.81%) IFRS
8 12 (0.69%) COBIT
8 12 (0.69%) PMO
9 11 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.63%) GRC
10 10 (0.58%) EMIR
10 10 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 6 (0.35%) Basel III
12 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.29%) SEPA
14 4 (0.23%) FINREP
14 4 (0.23%) ISO 15022
15 3 (0.17%) COREP
System Software
1 14 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (0.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.058%) Autotask
3 1 (0.058%) Grafana
3 1 (0.058%) Kibana
3 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 182 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 114 (6.56%) SAP
3 104 (5.99%) Salesforce
4 60 (3.45%) Oracle
5 58 (3.34%) ServiceNow
6 32 (1.84%) Murex
7 28 (1.61%) Databricks
8 18 (1.04%) CyberArk
8 18 (1.04%) Workday
9 15 (0.86%) IBM
10 13 (0.75%) Bloomberg
10 13 (0.75%) Guidewire
11 10 (0.58%) Pega
12 8 (0.46%) Charles River
12 8 (0.46%) IFS
12 8 (0.46%) OpenLink
13 7 (0.40%) Ariba
13 7 (0.40%) Infor
13 7 (0.40%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.35%) Informatica