Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 39 44
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,752 1,414 1,401
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 5.12% 4.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.14% 5.59% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 977 1,028
10th Percentile £366 £354 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £510 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -4.67% +0.19%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £772 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile £29.12 £27.13 £26.50
25th Percentile £34.87 £32.00 £35.67
Median hourly rate £56.75 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.47% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £77.20 £57.50 £72.38
90th Percentile £104.00 £75.75 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year +15.79% +2.70% -18.86%

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 42,292 25,286 30,796
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.58% 92.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,558 16,303 20,188
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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 3,206 1,347 1,752
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.08
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +3.61%

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 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 18 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 18 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 1,015 £550 -4.35% 284
North of England -15 264 £470 +10.33% 109
Midlands -3 171 £466 +24.20% 68
South East -14 170 £500 +2.56% 92
West Midlands +16 131 £475 - 42
North West -26 123 £438 +2.10% 52
Yorkshire -22 103 £475 +16.14% 34
South West -4 74 £473 +0.75% 52
North East -9 39 £525 +5.00% 25
East Midlands -24 38 £460 +28.49% 26
East of England -14 32 £475 +5.56% 21
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 592 (33.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 583 (33.28%) Business Analysis
3 558 (31.85%) Agile
4 513 (29.28%) Requirements Gathering
5 487 (27.80%) Workshop Facilitation
6 457 (26.08%) User Stories
7 349 (19.92%) User Acceptance Testing
8 338 (19.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 287 (16.38%) Acceptance Criteria
10 226 (12.90%) JIRA
11 224 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
12 199 (11.36%) Validation
13 196 (11.19%) Process Improvement
14 188 (10.73%) Migration
15 185 (10.56%) SQL
16 172 (9.82%) AI
17 169 (9.65%) Data Analysis
18 164 (9.36%) Decision-Making
18 164 (9.36%) Microsoft
19 159 (9.08%) Confluence
20 153 (8.73%) Security Cleared
21 144 (8.22%) Azure
22 142 (8.11%) Degree
23 136 (7.76%) Data Modelling
23 136 (7.76%) Scrum
24 122 (6.96%) SC Cleared
25 121 (6.91%) Impact Assessments
26 118 (6.74%) GAP Analysis
27 117 (6.68%) Business Intelligence
28 115 (6.56%) DevOps

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 (9.08%) Confluence
2 28 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.34%) CMS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.23%) 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 (0.057%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.057%) Camunda
8 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.057%) Moodle
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.057%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.057%) Totara
Applications
1 98 (5.59%) MS Visio
2 72 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.23%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.57%) Endur
6 6 (0.34%) Findur
6 6 (0.34%) Maximo
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.29%) Actimize
7 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.23%) HFM
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.23%) Summit
8 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 144 (8.22%) Azure
2 111 (6.34%) Power Platform
3 58 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (2.68%) AWS
5 37 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 24 (1.37%) SaaS
8 23 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (1.14%) Snowflake
10 17 (0.97%) Lucidchart
11 16 (0.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 14 (0.80%) GCP
13 13 (0.74%) Miro
14 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.63%) Entra ID
15 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (0.63%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
16 10 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (0.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.57%) Network Security
2 6 (0.34%) Wireless
3 4 (0.23%) 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 (0.057%) 5G
5 1 (0.057%) Extranet
5 1 (0.057%) Firewall
5 1 (0.057%) Internet
5 1 (0.057%) PBX
5 1 (0.057%) SNMP
5 1 (0.057%) SSH
5 1 (0.057%) SSL
5 1 (0.057%) TETRA
5 1 (0.057%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.37%) Power BI
2 39 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (1.88%) Metadata
4 21 (1.20%) Tableau
5 13 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.63%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.29%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.23%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.17%) Big Data
12 3 (0.17%) GIS
12 3 (0.17%) Looker
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
13 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 226 (12.90%) JIRA
2 4 (0.23%) Balsamiq
3 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.11%) GitLab
5 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.057%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 622 (35.50%) Finance
2 559 (31.91%) Social Skills
3 418 (23.86%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (13.53%) Banking
5 141 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
6 134 (7.65%) Public Sector
7 108 (6.16%) Retail
8 94 (5.37%) Front Office
9 67 (3.82%) Legal
10 64 (3.65%) Investment Banking
11 48 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.51%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.88%) Back Office
15 32 (1.83%) Local Government
16 30 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (1.66%) Financial Institution
18 27 (1.54%) Marketing
19 25 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 23 (1.31%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (0.97%) XML
3 15 (0.86%) Middleware
4 14 (0.80%) JSON
5 13 (0.74%) ADO
6 7 (0.40%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.34%) FHIR
7 6 (0.34%) REST
8 5 (0.29%) STL
9 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.23%) NumPy
9 4 (0.23%) Pandas
9 4 (0.23%) VML
10 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.17%) SOAP
11 2 (0.11%) EDI
11 2 (0.11%) Kafka
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.11%) OpenAPI
11 2 (0.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.34%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.08%) Derivative
4 48 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 43 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 33 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.77%) Fixed Income
9 30 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.43%) Operational Technology
12 22 (1.26%) Credit Risk
12 22 (1.26%) Hedge funds
13 20 (1.14%) Market Risk
14 19 (1.08%) Reference Data
15 17 (0.97%) Equities
15 17 (0.97%) FMCG
15 17 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.86%) NHS
16 15 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.57%) Windows
2 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.23%) Android
3 4 (0.23%) Unix
4 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.057%) Linux
5 1 (0.057%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (33.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 583 (33.28%) Business Analysis
3 558 (31.85%) Agile
4 513 (29.28%) Requirements Gathering
5 487 (27.80%) Workshop Facilitation
6 457 (26.08%) User Stories
7 349 (19.92%) User Acceptance Testing
8 338 (19.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 287 (16.38%) Acceptance Criteria
10 224 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
11 199 (11.36%) Validation
12 196 (11.19%) Process Improvement
13 188 (10.73%) Migration
14 172 (9.82%) AI
15 169 (9.65%) Data Analysis
16 164 (9.36%) Decision-Making
17 136 (7.76%) Data Modelling
17 136 (7.76%) Scrum
18 121 (6.91%) Impact Assessments
19 118 (6.74%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 185 (10.56%) SQL
2 33 (1.88%) Python
3 14 (0.80%) Korn
4 8 (0.46%) 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 (0.057%) ABAP
7 1 (0.057%) C
7 1 (0.057%) C#
7 1 (0.057%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.057%) Groovy
7 1 (0.057%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.057%) Ruby
7 1 (0.057%) SOQL
7 1 (0.057%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (8.73%) Security Cleared
2 142 (8.11%) Degree
3 122 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 35 (2.00%) IIBA
5 34 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (1.66%) CBAP
7 25 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 16 (0.91%) PMP
9 14 (0.80%) ACCA
9 14 (0.80%) CIMA
9 14 (0.80%) FFIEC
10 12 (0.68%) ISEB
11 11 (0.63%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.34%) CSPO
13 6 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.29%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
15 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (6.05%) Data Quality
2 92 (5.25%) QA
3 35 (2.00%) NIST
4 33 (1.88%) GDPR
5 25 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.97%) MiFID
7 15 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.86%) COBIT
8 14 (0.80%) GRC
9 13 (0.74%) EMIR
10 11 (0.63%) PMO
11 10 (0.57%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.46%) IFRS
13 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.40%) SEPA
13 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
14 6 (0.34%) Basel III
14 6 (0.34%) HL7
14 6 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.057%) 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
4 1 (0.057%) Ansible
4 1 (0.057%) Autotask
4 1 (0.057%) Control-M
4 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 164 (9.36%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.56%) Salesforce
3 113 (6.45%) SAP
4 71 (4.05%) ServiceNow
5 54 (3.08%) Oracle
6 30 (1.71%) Murex
7 22 (1.26%) Databricks
8 19 (1.08%) Workday
9 16 (0.91%) CyberArk
10 13 (0.74%) Pega
11 12 (0.68%) Guidewire
12 11 (0.63%) IBM
13 10 (0.57%) Bloomberg
13 10 (0.57%) Planon
13 10 (0.57%) Zscaler
14 9 (0.51%) OpenLink
15 8 (0.46%) Charles River
16 7 (0.40%) Cisco
16 7 (0.40%) Splunk
17 6 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud