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 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,752 1,203 1,559
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.28% 4.92% 4.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.63% 5.32% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 833 1,134
10th Percentile £356 £361 £380
25th Percentile £417 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 7
10th Percentile £28.03 - -
25th Percentile £34.87 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.11 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.23% +51.60% -62.66%
75th Percentile £89.70 £50.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £57.50 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.82 £28.00
% change year-on-year +90.46% +17.20% -53.53%

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 37,836 22,609 33,815
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.39% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,491 15,046 22,418
10th Percentile £319 £296 £284
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,612 915 2,440
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.59 £30.00 £36.92
Median % change year-on-year +51.95% -18.73% -17.54%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £28.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.75% -22.88% -18.89%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -5 1,025 £525 -8.70% 152
North of England +6 284 £429 +0.94% 90
Midlands -1 172 £465 -2.11% 37
West Midlands +9 139 £475 -5.00% 26
South East -20 137 £500 +5.26% 78
Yorkshire +6 127 £475 +4.11% 38
North West -9 125 £400 -2.44% 34
South West +5 77 £450 -10.00% 23
North East +14 49 £450 +12.50% 18
East of England -22 32 £488 +10.80% 28
East Midlands -25 32 £393 +0.77% 10
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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.

1 582 (33.22%) Agile
2 513 (29.28%) Business Analysis
2 513 (29.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 448 (25.57%) Requirements Gathering
4 433 (24.71%) User Stories
5 406 (23.17%) Workshop Facilitation
6 331 (18.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 281 (16.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 260 (14.84%) Acceptance Criteria
9 253 (14.44%) JIRA
10 246 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
11 243 (13.87%) Security Cleared
12 228 (13.01%) Migration
13 204 (11.64%) Confluence
14 197 (11.24%) SC Cleared
15 180 (10.27%) SQL
16 160 (9.13%) Microsoft
17 159 (9.08%) Decision-Making
18 157 (8.96%) Validation
19 152 (8.68%) Data Analysis
20 151 (8.62%) Degree
21 150 (8.56%) Process Improvement
22 145 (8.28%) Data Modelling
23 144 (8.22%) Scrum
24 135 (7.71%) DevOps
24 135 (7.71%) GAP Analysis
25 133 (7.59%) Azure
26 132 (7.53%) MS Visio
27 115 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
27 115 (6.56%) Impact Assessments

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
1 204 (11.64%) Confluence
2 24 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.97%) SAS
4 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Appian
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Apache
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 132 (7.53%) MS Visio
2 104 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.29%) Notion
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 22 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 22 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.03%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.63%) Endur
4 10 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.34%) Summit
8 5 (0.29%) Findur
8 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.23%) Actimize
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.23%) Maximo
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 133 (7.59%) Azure
2 115 (6.56%) Power Platform
3 68 (3.88%) AWS
4 42 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
6 29 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (1.20%) Lucidchart
7 21 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 18 (1.03%) SaaS
9 15 (0.86%) GitHub
9 15 (0.86%) Miro
10 14 (0.80%) GCP
11 13 (0.74%) Snowflake
12 11 (0.63%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 9 (0.51%) Figma
14 9 (0.51%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.34%) Wireless
2 4 (0.23%) Network Security
3 3 (0.17%) Intranet
4 2 (0.11%) 802.11
4 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.11%) DNS
4 2 (0.11%) Internet
4 2 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.11%) WLAN
4 2 (0.11%) X.25
5 1 (0.057%) 5G
5 1 (0.057%) Broadband
5 1 (0.057%) DNSSEC
5 1 (0.057%) Extranet
5 1 (0.057%) Firewall
5 1 (0.057%) NAS
5 1 (0.057%) SONET
5 1 (0.057%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.37%) Power BI
2 41 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (1.77%) Tableau
4 29 (1.66%) Metadata
5 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.40%) Big Data
6 7 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
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 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.11%) Looker
11 2 (0.11%) OLAP
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 253 (14.44%) JIRA
2 14 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.46%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.057%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 612 (34.93%) Finance
2 591 (33.73%) Social Skills
3 397 (22.66%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (14.90%) Banking
5 158 (9.02%) Public Sector
6 131 (7.48%) Documentation Skills
7 82 (4.68%) Front Office
7 82 (4.68%) Retail
8 63 (3.60%) Legal
9 62 (3.54%) Investment Banking
10 54 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (2.17%) Financial Institution
12 38 (2.17%) Marketing
13 35 (2.00%) Back Office
14 32 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 20 (1.14%) Law
16 20 (1.14%) Local Government
16 20 (1.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.54%) REST
2 25 (1.43%) XML
3 16 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.86%) JSON
5 14 (0.80%) SOAP
6 13 (0.74%) ADO
7 11 (0.63%) Middleware
7 11 (0.63%) VML
8 10 (0.57%) Swagger
9 7 (0.40%) OAuth
10 5 (0.29%) FHIR
10 5 (0.29%) JWT
10 5 (0.29%) NumPy
10 5 (0.29%) OpenAPI
10 5 (0.29%) Pandas
11 4 (0.23%) .NET
11 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.23%) SailPoint
12 3 (0.17%) SAML
12 3 (0.17%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 156 (8.90%) Product Ownership
2 46 (2.63%) Derivative
2 46 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 41 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 41 (2.34%) Fixed Income
3 41 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
4 39 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 26 (1.48%) Credit Risk
7 24 (1.37%) Data Structures
7 24 (1.37%) NHS
8 22 (1.26%) Hedge funds
9 21 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.08%) Market Risk
11 17 (0.97%) PMI
12 16 (0.91%) Operational Technology
13 15 (0.86%) Equities
14 14 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.68%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.68%) Windows
2 10 (0.57%) Linux
3 6 (0.34%) Unix
4 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.17%) Android
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 2 (0.11%) VMS
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (33.22%) Agile
2 513 (29.28%) Business Analysis
2 513 (29.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 448 (25.57%) Requirements Gathering
4 433 (24.71%) User Stories
5 406 (23.17%) Workshop Facilitation
6 331 (18.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 281 (16.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 260 (14.84%) Acceptance Criteria
9 246 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
10 228 (13.01%) Migration
11 159 (9.08%) Decision-Making
12 157 (8.96%) Validation
13 152 (8.68%) Data Analysis
14 150 (8.56%) Process Improvement
15 145 (8.28%) Data Modelling
16 144 (8.22%) Scrum
17 135 (7.71%) DevOps
17 135 (7.71%) GAP Analysis
18 115 (6.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 180 (10.27%) SQL
2 42 (2.40%) Python
3 10 (0.57%) Korn
4 5 (0.29%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.23%) R
5 4 (0.23%) VBA
6 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.11%) C#
7 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.057%) ABAP
8 1 (0.057%) C
8 1 (0.057%) C++
8 1 (0.057%) Groovy
8 1 (0.057%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 243 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 197 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 151 (8.62%) Degree
4 54 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (2.80%) CBAP
6 46 (2.63%) IIBA
7 25 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 14 (0.80%) CSPO
9 12 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (0.68%) PMP
10 10 (0.57%) ISEB
11 9 (0.51%) ACCA
11 9 (0.51%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.46%) CIMA
13 7 (0.40%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.23%) CFA
14 4 (0.23%) MBA
15 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.17%) FFIEC
15 3 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.54%) QA
2 89 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.68%) GDPR
4 25 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.43%) NIST
5 21 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.91%) EMIR
7 15 (0.86%) MiFID
8 11 (0.63%) GRC
8 11 (0.63%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.51%) PMO
9 9 (0.51%) PSD2
10 8 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.40%) IFRS
12 6 (0.34%) Basel III
12 6 (0.34%) COBIT
12 6 (0.34%) ISO 8583
12 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.29%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.17%) Docker
3 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.057%) RACF
Systems Management
1 12 (0.68%) Ansible
2 6 (0.34%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.34%) Terraform
3 2 (0.11%) Control-M
3 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.057%) Autotask
4 1 (0.057%) Grafana
4 1 (0.057%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.057%) Kibana
4 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.057%) SCCM
4 1 (0.057%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 160 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.34%) Salesforce
3 100 (5.71%) SAP
4 55 (3.14%) Oracle
5 52 (2.97%) ServiceNow
6 33 (1.88%) Murex
7 20 (1.14%) Databricks
8 19 (1.08%) Bloomberg
8 19 (1.08%) Workday
9 13 (0.74%) Pega
10 12 (0.68%) Splunk
11 11 (0.63%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 10 (0.57%) Sonatype
13 9 (0.51%) Avaloq
13 9 (0.51%) Planon
14 8 (0.46%) Adobe
14 8 (0.46%) Zuora
15 7 (0.40%) Cisco