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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 39 47
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,751 1,414 1,378
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 5.13% 4.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.15% 5.61% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 983 1,015
10th Percentile £366 £351 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -2.86% -1.69%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £768 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 10
10th Percentile £29.12 £27.13 £25.98
25th Percentile £34.87 £31.49 £33.13
Median hourly rate £56.75 £32.89 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +72.54% -28.89% -22.92%
75th Percentile £77.20 £57.50 £69.31
90th Percentile £104.00 £75.75 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £33.45 £42.50
% change year-on-year +64.45% -21.31% -25.44%

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 42,233 25,214 30,900
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.54% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,442 16,270 19,985
10th Percentile £325 £280 £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 3,231 1,370 1,701
10th Percentile £15.20 £13.64 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.45 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.48% -43.94% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.68% -41.51% -1.58%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -16 1,011 £550 -4.35% 155
North of England -12 260 £463 +8.82% 71
Midlands -2 170 £465 +24.00% 45
South East -10 169 £500 +5.26% 84
West Midlands +14 130 £475 - 28
North West -26 122 £439 +2.39% 28
Yorkshire -11 102 £475 +16.56% 29
South West +3 81 £480 +1.69% 35
East Midlands -25 38 £460 +28.49% 17
North East -15 37 £525 +20.00% 16
East of England -11 33 £475 +5.56% 17
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 596 (34.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 592 (33.81%) Business Analysis
3 557 (31.81%) Agile
4 526 (30.04%) Requirements Gathering
5 487 (27.81%) Workshop Facilitation
6 459 (26.21%) User Stories
7 348 (19.87%) User Acceptance Testing
8 329 (18.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 290 (16.56%) Acceptance Criteria
10 223 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
11 220 (12.56%) JIRA
12 201 (11.48%) Validation
13 195 (11.14%) Process Improvement
13 195 (11.14%) SQL
14 184 (10.51%) Migration
15 173 (9.88%) AI
16 172 (9.82%) Data Analysis
17 165 (9.42%) Decision-Making
18 162 (9.25%) Microsoft
19 151 (8.62%) Confluence
20 150 (8.57%) Security Cleared
21 146 (8.34%) Degree
22 144 (8.22%) Azure
23 139 (7.94%) Data Modelling
24 133 (7.60%) Scrum
25 121 (6.91%) Impact Assessments
26 120 (6.85%) Requirements Workshops
27 119 (6.80%) GAP Analysis
28 118 (6.74%) Business Intelligence
28 118 (6.74%) SC Cleared

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
1 151 (8.62%) Confluence
2 27 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.34%) CMS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.17%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Camunda
7 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.057%) Moodle
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.057%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.057%) Totara
Applications
1 98 (5.60%) MS Visio
2 70 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.23%) Notion
5 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.69%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.57%) Endur
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.40%) Maximo
8 6 (0.34%) Findur
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
9 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.23%) HFM
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.23%) Summit
11 3 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 144 (8.22%) Azure
2 110 (6.28%) Power Platform
3 60 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (2.68%) AWS
5 37 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (1.43%) SaaS
6 25 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 21 (1.20%) Snowflake
8 20 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (1.03%) Lucidchart
10 17 (0.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 16 (0.91%) Miro
12 13 (0.74%) GCP
13 12 (0.69%) Entra ID
13 12 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.63%) Power Automate
15 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (0.46%) Figma
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 95 (5.43%) Power BI
2 37 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (2.06%) Metadata
4 23 (1.31%) Tableau
5 13 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 12 (0.69%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
8 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
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%) Big Data
11 4 (0.23%) GIS
11 4 (0.23%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.17%) Looker
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
13 2 (0.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 220 (12.56%) JIRA
2 4 (0.23%) Balsamiq
3 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.11%) GitLab
4 2 (0.11%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 618 (35.29%) Finance
2 566 (32.32%) Social Skills
3 401 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (13.82%) Banking
5 140 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
6 133 (7.60%) Public Sector
7 108 (6.17%) Retail
8 94 (5.37%) Front Office
9 66 (3.77%) Investment Banking
10 64 (3.66%) Legal
11 47 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (2.46%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.94%) Back Office
15 33 (1.88%) Financial Institution
16 32 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
17 31 (1.77%) Local Government
18 26 (1.48%) Marketing
19 24 (1.37%) Billing
19 24 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (0.97%) XML
3 15 (0.86%) Middleware
4 14 (0.80%) ADO
5 13 (0.74%) JSON
6 7 (0.40%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.29%) FHIR
7 5 (0.29%) STL
7 5 (0.29%) Terraform
8 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.23%) NumPy
8 4 (0.23%) Pandas
8 4 (0.23%) REST
8 4 (0.23%) VML
9 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.17%) Swagger
10 2 (0.11%) EDI
10 2 (0.11%) Kafka
10 2 (0.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 168 (9.59%) Product Ownership
2 79 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.20%) Derivative
4 44 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 44 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
5 35 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 33 (1.88%) Fixed Income
7 30 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 30 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.37%) Operational Technology
10 22 (1.26%) Credit Risk
10 22 (1.26%) Hedge funds
10 22 (1.26%) Reference Data
11 20 (1.14%) Market Risk
12 18 (1.03%) Equities
13 17 (0.97%) FMCG
14 16 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.91%) NHS
15 14 (0.80%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.46%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
2 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.23%) Unix
3 1 (0.057%) Linux
3 1 (0.057%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (34.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 592 (33.81%) Business Analysis
3 557 (31.81%) Agile
4 526 (30.04%) Requirements Gathering
5 487 (27.81%) Workshop Facilitation
6 459 (26.21%) User Stories
7 348 (19.87%) User Acceptance Testing
8 329 (18.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 290 (16.56%) Acceptance Criteria
10 223 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
11 201 (11.48%) Validation
12 195 (11.14%) Process Improvement
13 184 (10.51%) Migration
14 173 (9.88%) AI
15 172 (9.82%) Data Analysis
16 165 (9.42%) Decision-Making
17 139 (7.94%) Data Modelling
18 133 (7.60%) Scrum
19 121 (6.91%) Impact Assessments
20 120 (6.85%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 195 (11.14%) SQL
2 32 (1.83%) 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
1 150 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 146 (8.34%) Degree
3 118 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 34 (1.94%) IIBA
5 33 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (1.60%) CBAP
7 25 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 16 (0.91%) ACCA
8 16 (0.91%) CIMA
8 16 (0.91%) PMP
9 13 (0.74%) FFIEC
10 11 (0.63%) ISEB
11 10 (0.57%) 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 4 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (6.17%) Data Quality
2 92 (5.25%) QA
3 32 (1.83%) GDPR
3 32 (1.83%) NIST
4 22 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (0.97%) MiFID
6 14 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.80%) COBIT
6 14 (0.80%) GRC
7 13 (0.74%) EMIR
8 11 (0.63%) PMO
9 10 (0.57%) IFRS
10 9 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.34%) Basel III
12 6 (0.34%) SEPA
12 6 (0.34%) SLA
13 5 (0.29%) HL7
System Software
1 13 (0.74%) 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 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
1 3 (0.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.057%) Autotask
2 1 (0.057%) Control-M
2 1 (0.057%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 162 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.57%) Salesforce
3 112 (6.40%) SAP
4 73 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 56 (3.20%) Oracle
6 31 (1.77%) Murex
7 24 (1.37%) Databricks
8 19 (1.09%) Workday
9 17 (0.97%) CyberArk
10 12 (0.69%) Guidewire
10 12 (0.69%) IBM
11 11 (0.63%) Bloomberg
11 11 (0.63%) Pega
12 10 (0.57%) Planon
12 10 (0.57%) Zscaler
13 9 (0.51%) OpenLink
14 8 (0.46%) Charles River
15 7 (0.40%) Cisco
16 6 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 6 (0.34%) Splunk