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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 36 45
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,798 1,429 1,482
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.01% 5.24% 4.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.34% 5.71% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 986 1,084
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £765 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 9
10th Percentile £28.51 £25.45 £25.45
25th Percentile £34.87 £30.80 £40.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.81 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.04% -18.39% -18.37%
75th Percentile £78.10 £51.88 £69.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £71.00 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £34.11 £50.00
% change year-on-year +71.50% -31.78% -18.37%

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 41,476 25,032 32,906
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.85% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,274 16,261 21,669
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £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 2,987 1,247 2,188
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.15 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.26% -35.53% -3.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.52 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £44.10 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.33% -37.13% -6.98%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 1,048 £545 -5.22% 129
North of England -19 267 £450 +4.53% 80
South East -4 176 £500 +2.56% 89
Midlands +10 173 £475 +11.76% 32
West Midlands +14 136 £475 -5.00% 21
North West -32 121 £425 -2.07% 32
Yorkshire -15 110 £475 +15.15% 33
South West -10 68 £450 -3.12% 37
North East -12 39 £475 -0.78% 15
East Midlands -17 35 £443 +18.00% 11
East of England -15 33 £475 +10.47% 25
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 565 (31.42%) Agile
2 549 (30.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 547 (30.42%) Business Analysis
4 483 (26.86%) Requirements Gathering
5 438 (24.36%) Workshop Facilitation
6 435 (24.19%) User Stories
7 348 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 325 (18.08%) User Acceptance Testing
9 279 (15.52%) Acceptance Criteria
10 241 (13.40%) JIRA
11 235 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
12 204 (11.35%) Migration
13 203 (11.29%) Validation
14 191 (10.62%) Security Cleared
15 178 (9.90%) Process Improvement
15 178 (9.90%) SQL
16 169 (9.40%) Confluence
17 165 (9.18%) Data Analysis
17 165 (9.18%) Decision-Making
18 164 (9.12%) Azure
19 159 (8.84%) Microsoft
20 149 (8.29%) SC Cleared
21 147 (8.18%) Data Modelling
22 142 (7.90%) AI
23 138 (7.68%) Degree
24 137 (7.62%) DevOps
24 137 (7.62%) Scrum
25 125 (6.95%) Impact Assessments
26 120 (6.67%) GAP Analysis
27 117 (6.51%) MS Visio

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
1 169 (9.40%) Confluence
2 30 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.39%) SAS
4 6 (0.33%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
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%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 117 (6.51%) MS Visio
2 83 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.22%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.056%) CATIA
8 1 (0.056%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
4 15 (0.83%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.56%) Endur
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.33%) Findur
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.33%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.28%) Actimize
8 5 (0.28%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.28%) Maximo
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.28%) Summit
9 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.22%) HFM
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 164 (9.12%) Azure
2 108 (6.01%) Power Platform
3 67 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (2.78%) AWS
5 31 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (1.33%) SaaS
8 23 (1.28%) Lucidchart
9 21 (1.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 19 (1.06%) Snowflake
11 16 (0.89%) Miro
12 15 (0.83%) GCP
13 13 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (0.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 12 (0.67%) Figma
14 12 (0.67%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
16 10 (0.56%) Entra ID
16 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.50%) Network Security
2 6 (0.33%) Intranet
2 6 (0.33%) 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%) DNSSEC
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%) TETRA
4 1 (0.056%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.12%) Power BI
2 41 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (1.95%) Metadata
4 25 (1.39%) Tableau
5 16 (0.89%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.33%) Data Mining
7 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.22%) Big Data
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.11%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.11%) OLAP
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.11%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 241 (13.40%) JIRA
2 8 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.39%) Balsamiq
4 5 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.22%) Postman
6 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) Toad
8 1 (0.056%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
General
1 631 (35.09%) Finance
2 558 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 415 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (13.68%) Banking
5 155 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 134 (7.45%) Documentation Skills
7 97 (5.39%) Front Office
8 91 (5.06%) Retail
9 67 (3.73%) Legal
10 66 (3.67%) Investment Banking
11 50 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.95%) Back Office
13 35 (1.95%) Manufacturing
14 34 (1.89%) Marketing
15 33 (1.84%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.56%) Local Government
18 25 (1.39%) Police
19 23 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 23 (1.28%) XML
3 18 (1.00%) JSON
4 16 (0.89%) Middleware
5 15 (0.83%) ADO
6 9 (0.50%) REST
7 7 (0.39%) SOAP
8 6 (0.33%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.33%) Swagger
9 5 (0.28%) NumPy
9 5 (0.28%) Pandas
9 5 (0.28%) STL
10 4 (0.22%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.22%) FHIR
10 4 (0.22%) VML
11 3 (0.17%) EDI
11 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
12 2 (0.11%) OAuth
12 2 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 157 (8.73%) Product Ownership
2 65 (3.62%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.23%) Derivative
4 48 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 42 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 39 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 37 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 29 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 28 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.45%) Hedge funds
11 26 (1.45%) Operational Technology
11 26 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.33%) Credit Risk
13 22 (1.22%) Market Risk
14 20 (1.11%) Reference Data
15 17 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (0.95%) NHS
16 16 (0.89%) Equities
17 15 (0.83%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.72%) Windows
2 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.28%) Android
3 5 (0.28%) Unix
4 3 (0.17%) Linux
5 2 (0.11%) AIX
5 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (31.42%) Agile
2 549 (30.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 547 (30.42%) Business Analysis
4 483 (26.86%) Requirements Gathering
5 438 (24.36%) Workshop Facilitation
6 435 (24.19%) User Stories
7 348 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 325 (18.08%) User Acceptance Testing
9 279 (15.52%) Acceptance Criteria
10 235 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
11 204 (11.35%) Migration
12 203 (11.29%) Validation
13 178 (9.90%) Process Improvement
14 165 (9.18%) Data Analysis
14 165 (9.18%) Decision-Making
15 147 (8.18%) Data Modelling
16 142 (7.90%) AI
17 137 (7.62%) DevOps
17 137 (7.62%) Scrum
18 125 (6.95%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 178 (9.90%) SQL
2 41 (2.28%) Python
3 14 (0.78%) Korn
4 7 (0.39%) Java
5 4 (0.22%) 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
1 191 (10.62%) Security Cleared
2 149 (8.29%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.68%) Degree
4 44 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (1.89%) CBAP
6 30 (1.67%) IIBA
7 22 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 14 (0.78%) PMP
9 12 (0.67%) ISEB
10 11 (0.61%) ACCA
10 11 (0.61%) CIMA
11 10 (0.56%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.44%) FFIEC
12 8 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.33%) CSPO
14 6 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 4 (0.22%) ISEB Practitioner
17 3 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 89 (4.95%) QA
3 37 (2.06%) GDPR
4 30 (1.67%) NIST
5 28 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.83%) EMIR
7 15 (0.83%) MiFID
8 14 (0.78%) GRC
9 11 (0.61%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.56%) PMO
10 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.50%) COBIT
12 8 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.39%) Basel III
13 7 (0.39%) PSD2
13 7 (0.39%) SEPA
13 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
14 5 (0.28%) COREP
14 5 (0.28%) IFRS
System Software
1 10 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.11%) Docker
4 1 (0.056%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (0.33%) Ansible
1 6 (0.33%) Terraform
2 4 (0.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.056%) Autotask
5 1 (0.056%) Control-M
5 1 (0.056%) Grafana
5 1 (0.056%) Kibana
5 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.056%) SCCM
5 1 (0.056%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 159 (8.84%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.23%) Salesforce
3 111 (6.17%) SAP
4 67 (3.73%) ServiceNow
5 64 (3.56%) Oracle
6 29 (1.61%) Murex
7 25 (1.39%) Databricks
8 23 (1.28%) Workday
9 13 (0.72%) Bloomberg
9 13 (0.72%) CyberArk
9 13 (0.72%) Pega
10 12 (0.67%) Guidewire
11 11 (0.61%) Splunk
12 10 (0.56%) Planon
13 9 (0.50%) Avaloq
13 9 (0.50%) Charles River
13 9 (0.50%) ION Trading
13 9 (0.50%) OpenLink
13 9 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 9 (0.50%) Zscaler