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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 38 46
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,781 1,414 1,401
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.91% 5.12% 4.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.22% 5.58% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 980 1,029
10th Percentile £363 £358 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -4.65% +0.66%
75th Percentile £602 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £771 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £28.82 £31.04 £26.50
25th Percentile £34.87 £32.89 £35.67
Median hourly rate £58.50 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% - -21.57%
75th Percentile £77.65 £57.50 £72.38
90th Percentile £104.00 £75.75 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £48.75 £46.25
% change year-on-year +16.41% +5.41% -27.45%

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 42,171 25,321 30,947
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.63% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,536 16,398 20,303
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,172 1,321 1,795
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.44 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.38% -44.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% +2.87%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -14 1,030 £550 -4.35% 172
North of England -13 261 £451 +6.00% 98
South East -1 181 £500 +2.56% 86
Midlands -4 174 £466 +24.20% 59
West Midlands +13 137 £475 - 36
North West -19 122 £438 +1.63% 38
Yorkshire -22 103 £475 +17.00% 36
South West -1 74 £458 -3.68% 33
North East -10 37 £475 -8.65% 26
East Midlands -20 35 £461 +28.84% 23
East of England -7 33 £475 +5.56% 28
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 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.

1 584 (32.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 573 (32.17%) Business Analysis
3 558 (31.33%) Agile
4 503 (28.24%) Requirements Gathering
5 475 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
6 456 (25.60%) User Stories
7 341 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 340 (19.09%) User Acceptance Testing
9 289 (16.23%) Acceptance Criteria
10 229 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
11 224 (12.58%) JIRA
12 198 (11.12%) Validation
13 197 (11.06%) Migration
14 189 (10.61%) SQL
15 184 (10.33%) Process Improvement
16 168 (9.43%) Data Analysis
17 167 (9.38%) Decision-Making
18 166 (9.32%) Security Cleared
19 165 (9.26%) AI
20 160 (8.98%) Microsoft
21 159 (8.93%) Confluence
22 153 (8.59%) Azure
23 146 (8.20%) Data Modelling
24 141 (7.92%) Degree
25 133 (7.47%) SC Cleared
26 128 (7.19%) Scrum
27 119 (6.68%) DevOps
28 118 (6.63%) Impact Assessments
29 117 (6.57%) Salesforce
30 116 (6.51%) 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
1 159 (8.93%) Confluence
2 30 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.34%) CMS
4 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.22%) SAS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.11%) Apache
7 2 (0.11%) Appian
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.056%) Camunda
8 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.056%) Moodle
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.056%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.056%) Totara
Applications
1 103 (5.78%) MS Visio
2 68 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.22%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.056%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.67%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.62%) Endur
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.34%) Findur
7 6 (0.34%) Maximo
7 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.28%) Actimize
8 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.22%) HFM
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 153 (8.59%) Azure
2 108 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 63 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (2.64%) AWS
5 41 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
6 24 (1.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 23 (1.29%) SaaS
8 22 (1.24%) Lucidchart
8 22 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (1.12%) Snowflake
10 15 (0.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 14 (0.79%) GCP
11 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (0.73%) Miro
13 12 (0.67%) Entra ID
14 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (0.62%) Power Automate
14 11 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
15 10 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (0.45%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.56%) Network Security
2 6 (0.34%) Intranet
2 6 (0.34%) Wireless
3 2 (0.11%) 802.11
3 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.11%) DNS
3 2 (0.11%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
3 2 (0.11%) WLAN
4 1 (0.056%) 5G
4 1 (0.056%) Extranet
4 1 (0.056%) Firewall
4 1 (0.056%) Internet
4 1 (0.056%) PBX
4 1 (0.056%) SNMP
4 1 (0.056%) SONET
4 1 (0.056%) SSH
4 1 (0.056%) SSL
4 1 (0.056%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (4.94%) Power BI
2 39 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (1.80%) Metadata
4 23 (1.29%) Tableau
5 15 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (0.39%) Data Mining
7 7 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.22%) Big Data
9 4 (0.22%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.17%) Looker
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 224 (12.58%) JIRA
2 6 (0.34%) Balsamiq
3 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.11%) GitLab
5 1 (0.056%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.056%) Postman
5 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 622 (34.92%) Finance
2 557 (31.27%) Social Skills
3 420 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 243 (13.64%) Banking
5 145 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 136 (7.64%) Documentation Skills
7 100 (5.61%) Retail
8 98 (5.50%) Front Office
9 68 (3.82%) Legal
10 67 (3.76%) Investment Banking
11 49 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 45 (2.53%) Manufacturing
13 36 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.91%) Local Government
15 32 (1.80%) Marketing
15 32 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (1.74%) Back Office
17 30 (1.68%) Financial Institution
18 25 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 25 (1.40%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (1.01%) XML
3 16 (0.90%) JSON
4 15 (0.84%) Middleware
5 14 (0.79%) ADO
6 7 (0.39%) REST
6 7 (0.39%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.34%) FHIR
8 5 (0.28%) NumPy
8 5 (0.28%) Pandas
8 5 (0.28%) STL
9 4 (0.22%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.22%) SOAP
9 4 (0.22%) VML
10 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
10 3 (0.17%) Swagger
11 2 (0.11%) EDI
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.10%) Product Ownership
2 72 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.20%) Derivative
4 48 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 41 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 37 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 36 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.74%) Fixed Income
9 30 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 26 (1.46%) Hedge funds
12 25 (1.40%) Operational Technology
13 22 (1.24%) Credit Risk
14 20 (1.12%) Market Risk
14 20 (1.12%) Reference Data
14 20 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.95%) Equities
15 17 (0.95%) FMCG
15 17 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.67%) Windows
2 6 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.28%) Android
4 4 (0.22%) Unix
5 3 (0.17%) Linux
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (32.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 573 (32.17%) Business Analysis
3 558 (31.33%) Agile
4 503 (28.24%) Requirements Gathering
5 475 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
6 456 (25.60%) User Stories
7 341 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 340 (19.09%) User Acceptance Testing
9 289 (16.23%) Acceptance Criteria
10 229 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
11 198 (11.12%) Validation
12 197 (11.06%) Migration
13 184 (10.33%) Process Improvement
14 168 (9.43%) Data Analysis
15 167 (9.38%) Decision-Making
16 165 (9.26%) AI
17 146 (8.20%) Data Modelling
18 128 (7.19%) Scrum
19 119 (6.68%) DevOps
20 118 (6.63%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 189 (10.61%) SQL
2 37 (2.08%) Python
3 12 (0.67%) Korn
4 9 (0.51%) Java
5 3 (0.17%) R
6 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.11%) VBA
7 1 (0.056%) ABAP
7 1 (0.056%) C
7 1 (0.056%) C#
7 1 (0.056%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.056%) Groovy
7 1 (0.056%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.056%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.056%) Ruby
7 1 (0.056%) SOQL
7 1 (0.056%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 166 (9.32%) Security Cleared
2 141 (7.92%) Degree
3 133 (7.47%) SC Cleared
4 39 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (1.74%) IIBA
6 28 (1.57%) CBAP
7 26 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 17 (0.95%) PMP
9 13 (0.73%) ACCA
9 13 (0.73%) CIMA
9 13 (0.73%) FFIEC
10 11 (0.62%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.62%) ISEB
11 7 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.34%) CSPO
12 6 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 93 (5.22%) QA
3 37 (2.08%) GDPR
4 35 (1.97%) NIST
5 28 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.95%) MiFID
7 15 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.84%) GRC
8 14 (0.79%) COBIT
9 13 (0.73%) EMIR
10 11 (0.62%) PMO
11 10 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.39%) IFRS
13 7 (0.39%) SEPA
13 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
14 6 (0.34%) Basel III
14 6 (0.34%) HL7
14 6 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.056%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (0.34%) Terraform
2 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
2 3 (0.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.056%) Ansible
4 1 (0.056%) Autotask
4 1 (0.056%) Control-M
4 1 (0.056%) Grafana
4 1 (0.056%) Kibana
4 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.056%) SCCM
4 1 (0.056%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 160 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 117 (6.57%) Salesforce
3 115 (6.46%) SAP
4 71 (3.99%) ServiceNow
5 59 (3.31%) Oracle
6 30 (1.68%) Murex
7 23 (1.29%) Databricks
8 21 (1.18%) Workday
9 15 (0.84%) CyberArk
10 12 (0.67%) Guidewire
10 12 (0.67%) Pega
11 11 (0.62%) Bloomberg
11 11 (0.62%) IBM
12 10 (0.56%) Planon
12 10 (0.56%) Zscaler
13 9 (0.51%) OpenLink
13 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 8 (0.45%) Charles River
15 7 (0.39%) Cisco
15 7 (0.39%) Splunk