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 28 April 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 45 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,752 1,161 1,605
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.36% 4.75% 4.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.72% 5.12% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 808 1,167
10th Percentile £356 £375 £387
25th Percentile £417 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £32.82 - -
25th Percentile £41.94 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £62.94 £32.82 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.79% +45.84% -62.66%
75th Percentile £72.34 £50.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £56.75 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.82 £28.00
% change year-on-year +90.46% +17.20% -53.53%

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 37,090 22,661 34,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.65% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,200 15,114 22,756
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.82% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,526 899 2,410
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.20 £12.92
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.59 £31.76 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +43.53% -10.91% -20.78%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.54
UK median hourly rate £43.39 £29.25 £35.83
% change year-on-year +48.35% -18.36% -20.38%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 0 1,051 £537 -2.36% 112
North of England +12 284 £425 -1.16% 100
Midlands -7 156 £465 -4.37% 50
Yorkshire +2 131 £475 +5.56% 42
North West 0 129 £400 -5.82% 37
West Midlands -2 124 £475 -5.00% 32
South East -29 119 £500 +5.26% 77
South West 0 90 £450 -10.00% 19
North East +10 40 £425 +6.25% 22
East Midlands -25 30 £408 -2.40% 17
East of England -28 27 £500 +16.28% 18
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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.

1 586 (33.45%) Agile
2 521 (29.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 504 (28.77%) Business Analysis
4 456 (26.03%) Requirements Gathering
5 429 (24.49%) User Stories
6 413 (23.57%) Workshop Facilitation
7 349 (19.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 276 (15.75%) User Acceptance Testing
9 262 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
10 255 (14.55%) JIRA
11 253 (14.44%) Acceptance Criteria
12 247 (14.10%) Security Cleared
13 244 (13.93%) Migration
14 206 (11.76%) SC Cleared
15 199 (11.36%) Confluence
16 189 (10.79%) SQL
17 167 (9.53%) Process Improvement
18 164 (9.36%) Validation
19 158 (9.02%) Data Analysis
19 158 (9.02%) Microsoft
20 151 (8.62%) Decision-Making
21 147 (8.39%) Degree
21 147 (8.39%) GAP Analysis
22 145 (8.28%) Scrum
23 144 (8.22%) Data Modelling
24 135 (7.71%) MS Visio
25 132 (7.53%) DevOps
26 122 (6.96%) Azure
27 117 (6.68%) Project Delivery
28 116 (6.62%) Impact Assessments

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
1 199 (11.36%) Confluence
2 29 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.97%) SAS
4 4 (0.23%) CMS
4 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.17%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Apache
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.057%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 135 (7.71%) MS Visio
2 111 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.17%) Notion
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (1.03%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.80%) Endur
5 10 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
6 8 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.34%) Summit
8 5 (0.29%) Findur
8 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.29%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.23%) Actimize
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 122 (6.96%) Azure
2 110 (6.28%) Power Platform
3 71 (4.05%) AWS
4 37 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
6 29 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (1.37%) Lucidchart
8 20 (1.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 18 (1.03%) GitHub
9 18 (1.03%) Miro
10 17 (0.97%) GCP
11 16 (0.91%) SaaS
11 16 (0.91%) Snowflake
12 11 (0.63%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.51%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.46%) Figma
15 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (0.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 7 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.34%) Wireless
2 4 (0.23%) Network Security
3 3 (0.17%) DNS
3 3 (0.17%) Internet
4 2 (0.11%) Broadband
4 2 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.11%) Firewall
4 2 (0.11%) Intranet
4 2 (0.11%) NAS
4 2 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.11%) X.25
5 1 (0.057%) 802.11
5 1 (0.057%) DNSSEC
5 1 (0.057%) SONET
5 1 (0.057%) TETRA
5 1 (0.057%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.057%) Wireless Security
5 1 (0.057%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (5.08%) Power BI
2 38 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (1.71%) Tableau
4 29 (1.66%) Metadata
5 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.34%) Big Data
6 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.29%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.17%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.17%) Power Query
9 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.11%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.11%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 255 (14.55%) JIRA
2 17 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 14 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.46%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.11%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.057%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 611 (34.87%) Social Skills
2 609 (34.76%) Finance
3 409 (23.34%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (15.30%) Banking
5 165 (9.42%) Public Sector
6 131 (7.48%) Documentation Skills
7 90 (5.14%) Retail
8 77 (4.39%) Front Office
9 62 (3.54%) Investment Banking
9 62 (3.54%) Legal
10 61 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
12 39 (2.23%) Marketing
13 37 (2.11%) Financial Institution
14 32 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (1.77%) Back Office
16 28 (1.60%) Telecoms
17 21 (1.20%) Manufacturing
18 18 (1.03%) Law
18 18 (1.03%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (1.77%) REST
2 27 (1.54%) XML
3 17 (0.97%) JSON
4 16 (0.91%) SOAP
5 13 (0.74%) ADO
5 13 (0.74%) Middleware
6 12 (0.68%) Swagger
6 12 (0.68%) VML
7 11 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (0.57%) OAuth
9 9 (0.51%) FHIR
10 7 (0.40%) JWT
10 7 (0.40%) OpenAPI
11 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
12 5 (0.29%) .NET
12 5 (0.29%) NumPy
12 5 (0.29%) Pandas
12 5 (0.29%) SAML
13 4 (0.23%) HTML
14 3 (0.17%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 159 (9.08%) Product Ownership
2 55 (3.14%) Onboarding
3 44 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
4 43 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 42 (2.40%) Derivative
6 39 (2.23%) Fixed Income
6 39 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 27 (1.54%) Credit Risk
9 25 (1.43%) NHS
10 24 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.03%) Hedge funds
12 18 (1.03%) PMI
13 17 (0.97%) Equities
13 17 (0.97%) Market Risk
14 16 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 13 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.74%) Linux
2 12 (0.68%) Windows
3 7 (0.40%) Unix
4 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.29%) VMS
5 3 (0.17%) Android
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (33.45%) Agile
2 521 (29.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 504 (28.77%) Business Analysis
4 456 (26.03%) Requirements Gathering
5 429 (24.49%) User Stories
6 413 (23.57%) Workshop Facilitation
7 349 (19.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 276 (15.75%) User Acceptance Testing
9 262 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
10 253 (14.44%) Acceptance Criteria
11 244 (13.93%) Migration
12 167 (9.53%) Process Improvement
13 164 (9.36%) Validation
14 158 (9.02%) Data Analysis
15 151 (8.62%) Decision-Making
16 147 (8.39%) GAP Analysis
17 145 (8.28%) Scrum
18 144 (8.22%) Data Modelling
19 132 (7.53%) DevOps
20 117 (6.68%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 189 (10.79%) SQL
2 43 (2.45%) Python
3 12 (0.68%) Korn
4 7 (0.40%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.34%) VBA
6 5 (0.29%) R
7 4 (0.23%) Java
8 2 (0.11%) C#
8 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.057%) ABAP
9 1 (0.057%) C++
9 1 (0.057%) Groovy
9 1 (0.057%) Ruby
9 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 247 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 206 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 147 (8.39%) Degree
4 52 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (2.74%) CBAP
6 45 (2.57%) IIBA
7 26 (1.48%) PMI Certification
8 15 (0.86%) CSPO
9 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (0.68%) PMP
11 9 (0.51%) ISEB
12 8 (0.46%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.46%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.29%) ACCA
14 4 (0.23%) CFA
14 4 (0.23%) CIMA
14 4 (0.23%) MBA
15 3 (0.17%) FFIEC
16 2 (0.11%) CAPM
16 2 (0.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.76%) QA
2 87 (4.97%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.97%) GDPR
4 24 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.37%) NIST
5 20 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.03%) MiFID
7 16 (0.91%) EMIR
8 12 (0.68%) GRC
9 11 (0.63%) PMO
9 11 (0.63%) PSD2
10 10 (0.57%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.51%) HL7
12 8 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.46%) ISO 8583
13 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.40%) Basel III
13 7 (0.40%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
15 5 (0.29%) IFRS
System Software
1 7 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.057%) RACF
3 1 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (0.86%) Ansible
2 8 (0.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.17%) Terraform
4 2 (0.11%) Control-M
4 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.057%) Grafana
5 1 (0.057%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.057%) Kibana
5 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.057%) SCCM
5 1 (0.057%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 158 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.16%) Salesforce
3 88 (5.02%) SAP
4 55 (3.14%) Oracle
4 55 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 30 (1.71%) Murex
6 20 (1.14%) Bloomberg
7 19 (1.08%) Workday
8 18 (1.03%) Databricks
9 14 (0.80%) Adobe
10 13 (0.74%) Pega
10 13 (0.74%) Sonatype
11 12 (0.68%) Guidewire
11 12 (0.68%) Splunk
12 11 (0.63%) Avaloq
12 11 (0.63%) Google
13 9 (0.51%) OpenLink
13 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 8 (0.46%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.46%) Zuora