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 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 46 40
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,691 1,120 1,729
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.58% 4.50% 4.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.98% 4.84% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 816 1,276
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £756 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 7
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £41.83 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.81 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.29% -22.28% -12.86%
75th Percentile £81.50 £55.63 £68.78
90th Percentile £90.25 £74.25 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £34.68 £50.00
% change year-on-year +87.43% -30.64% -17.01%

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 33,941 23,161 35,129
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.05% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,406 15,205 23,524
10th Percentile £310 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 775 2,271
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.45 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.44 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £33.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +8.21% +1.54% -23.53%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 15 March 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 1,038 £525 -8.70% 149
North of England +6 248 £425 - 102
Midlands -2 148 £466 -4.41% 62
Yorkshire +6 120 £475 +5.56% 37
South East -20 114 £500 +3.90% 106
West Midlands -8 111 £475 -5.00% 39
North West -9 110 £400 - 39
South West +17 97 £466 -6.85% 37
East Midlands -15 35 £405 +1.38% 23
North East +13 34 £425 +6.25% 27
East of England -24 22 £481 +6.94% 26
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 March 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.

1 588 (34.77%) Agile
2 552 (32.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 507 (29.98%) Business Analysis
4 454 (26.85%) Requirements Gathering
5 395 (23.36%) Workshop Facilitation
6 382 (22.59%) User Stories
7 373 (22.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 271 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
9 259 (15.32%) JIRA
10 250 (14.78%) User Acceptance Testing
11 246 (14.55%) Migration
12 239 (14.13%) Security Cleared
13 211 (12.48%) Acceptance Criteria
14 203 (12.00%) SC Cleared
15 200 (11.83%) SQL
16 198 (11.71%) Confluence
17 155 (9.17%) Process Improvement
18 154 (9.11%) Data Analysis
18 154 (9.11%) Degree
19 152 (8.99%) Microsoft
20 142 (8.40%) Decision-Making
21 140 (8.28%) Scrum
22 139 (8.22%) Data Modelling
23 137 (8.10%) GAP Analysis
24 135 (7.98%) Validation
25 129 (7.63%) MS Visio
26 124 (7.33%) Project Delivery
27 122 (7.21%) DevOps
27 122 (7.21%) Power Platform
28 120 (7.10%) 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
1 198 (11.71%) Confluence
2 27 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.95%) SAS
4 6 (0.35%) CMS
5 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.059%) Appian
6 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.059%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 129 (7.63%) MS Visio
2 113 (6.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 66 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.24%) Notion
7 3 (0.18%) Autodesk Inventor
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.059%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.059%) CATIA
9 1 (0.059%) Sketch
9 1 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 23 (1.36%) Endur
2 22 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (1.01%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
6 9 (0.53%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.30%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 5 (0.30%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.24%) Actimize
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.24%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.24%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.24%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 3 (0.18%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.18%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 122 (7.21%) Power Platform
2 111 (6.56%) Azure
3 69 (4.08%) AWS
4 37 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (1.48%) SaaS
8 23 (1.36%) GitHub
9 20 (1.18%) Lucidchart
10 17 (1.01%) GCP
10 17 (1.01%) Miro
10 17 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 17 (1.01%) Snowflake
11 13 (0.77%) Power Automate
12 12 (0.71%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.53%) Figma
14 8 (0.47%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.41%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.30%) Network Security
2 3 (0.18%) Firewall
2 3 (0.18%) Internet
3 2 (0.12%) Broadband
3 2 (0.12%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.12%) Intranet
3 2 (0.12%) NAS
3 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.12%) WAN
3 2 (0.12%) X.25
4 1 (0.059%) DNS
4 1 (0.059%) LAN
4 1 (0.059%) Softphone
4 1 (0.059%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (5.91%) Power BI
2 39 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (2.19%) Tableau
4 21 (1.24%) Metadata
5 11 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.53%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.30%) Big Data
8 5 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.18%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.18%) Power Query
10 3 (0.18%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.18%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 259 (15.32%) JIRA
2 21 (1.24%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.47%) Postman
5 5 (0.30%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.18%) Toad
7 2 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.12%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.059%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.059%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.059%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.059%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.059%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 620 (36.66%) Social Skills
2 587 (34.71%) Finance
3 389 (23.00%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (15.26%) Banking
5 173 (10.23%) Public Sector
6 124 (7.33%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (3.90%) Front Office
8 62 (3.67%) Retail
9 59 (3.49%) Legal
10 56 (3.31%) Investment Banking
11 55 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (2.42%) Telecoms
14 39 (2.31%) Marketing
15 30 (1.77%) Back Office
16 29 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.66%) Local Government
18 25 (1.48%) Financial Institution
19 15 (0.89%) Law
19 15 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.31%) REST
2 27 (1.60%) XML
3 20 (1.18%) SOAP
4 18 (1.06%) JSON
5 12 (0.71%) ADO
5 12 (0.71%) Swagger
6 11 (0.65%) OAuth
7 10 (0.59%) SailPoint
8 9 (0.53%) FHIR
9 8 (0.47%) VML
10 7 (0.41%) JWT
10 7 (0.41%) OpenAPI
10 7 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (0.41%) SAML
11 6 (0.35%) Middleware
12 5 (0.30%) .NET
13 4 (0.24%) HTML
13 4 (0.24%) RESTful
14 3 (0.18%) Web Services
14 3 (0.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (8.34%) Product Ownership
2 55 (3.25%) Onboarding
3 40 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
4 39 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.25%) Fixed Income
6 37 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 35 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 32 (1.89%) Derivative
9 25 (1.48%) PMI
10 24 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 24 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.30%) NHS
13 21 (1.24%) Credit Risk
13 21 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 20 (1.18%) Equities
15 18 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (0.71%) Mobile App
16 12 (0.71%) Reference Data
17 11 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.01%) Linux
2 12 (0.71%) Windows
3 5 (0.30%) VMS
4 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.24%) Unix
5 3 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.12%) AIX
6 2 (0.12%) Solaris
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (34.77%) Agile
2 552 (32.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 507 (29.98%) Business Analysis
4 454 (26.85%) Requirements Gathering
5 395 (23.36%) Workshop Facilitation
6 382 (22.59%) User Stories
7 373 (22.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 271 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
9 250 (14.78%) User Acceptance Testing
10 246 (14.55%) Migration
11 211 (12.48%) Acceptance Criteria
12 155 (9.17%) Process Improvement
13 154 (9.11%) Data Analysis
14 142 (8.40%) Decision-Making
15 140 (8.28%) Scrum
16 139 (8.22%) Data Modelling
17 137 (8.10%) GAP Analysis
18 135 (7.98%) Validation
19 124 (7.33%) Project Delivery
20 122 (7.21%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 200 (11.83%) SQL
2 44 (2.60%) Python
3 9 (0.53%) Korn
4 7 (0.41%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.35%) Java
6 4 (0.24%) R
6 4 (0.24%) VBA
7 3 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.12%) C#
8 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.059%) C++
9 1 (0.059%) COBOL
9 1 (0.059%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 239 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 203 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 154 (9.11%) Degree
4 57 (3.37%) CBAP
5 42 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (2.42%) IIBA
7 34 (2.01%) PMI Certification
8 15 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (0.83%) PMP
10 12 (0.71%) ISEB
11 11 (0.65%) CSPO
11 11 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.41%) CFA
13 6 (0.35%) DV Cleared
14 5 (0.30%) MBA
15 4 (0.24%) ACCA
16 3 (0.18%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.18%) CIMA
17 2 (0.12%) AAT
17 2 (0.12%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.62%) QA
2 79 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.78%) GDPR
4 22 (1.30%) MiFID
5 19 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.95%) EMIR
6 16 (0.95%) NIST
7 15 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.83%) PSD2
9 12 (0.71%) GRC
9 12 (0.71%) ISO 8583
10 11 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.53%) HL7
12 9 (0.53%) PMO
13 8 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.41%) SEPA
15 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.30%) Basel III
System Software
1 7 (0.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.059%) Docker
2 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.059%) RACF
2 1 (0.059%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (1.24%) Ansible
2 6 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.12%) Terraform
5 1 (0.059%) Control-M
5 1 (0.059%) Grafana
5 1 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.059%) Kibana
Vendors
1 152 (8.99%) Microsoft
2 98 (5.80%) Salesforce
3 76 (4.49%) SAP
4 51 (3.02%) Oracle
5 48 (2.84%) ServiceNow
6 36 (2.13%) Murex
7 23 (1.36%) Bloomberg
8 19 (1.12%) Sonatype
9 17 (1.01%) Adobe
10 16 (0.95%) Workday
11 13 (0.77%) Databricks
11 13 (0.77%) Pega
12 12 (0.71%) Google
13 11 (0.65%) Guidewire
14 10 (0.59%) Avaloq
14 10 (0.59%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.59%) Splunk
15 8 (0.47%) OneTrust
15 8 (0.47%) OpenLink
15 8 (0.47%) Refinitiv