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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 37 45
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,763 1,378 1,527
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.01% 5.23% 4.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.34% 5.68% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,200 945 1,117
10th Percentile £360 £358 £363
25th Percentile £424 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £720 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 9
10th Percentile £28.21 £25.26 £20.77
25th Percentile £34.87 £27.21 £21.25
Median hourly rate £61.50 £34.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.30% -19.74% -29.17%
75th Percentile £78.55 £50.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £104.00 £69.50 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £34.06 £46.25
% change year-on-year +76.19% -26.37% -19.57%

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 40,631 24,276 34,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.17% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,859 15,839 22,711
10th Percentile £325 £292 £300
25th Percentile £419 £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 £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,929 1,140 2,561
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.99 £12.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.98 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.08 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.28% -29.81% -8.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +62.26% -29.80% -12.21%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -11 1,050 £550 -4.35% 185
North of England -20 255 £450 +5.88% 96
Midlands +1 168 £465 +9.41% 55
South East -4 159 £500 +2.56% 102
West Midlands +10 134 £475 -5.00% 32
North West -30 115 £425 -1.28% 43
Yorkshire -22 106 £475 +15.15% 43
South West -5 66 £438 -2.78% 37
North East -4 39 £475 +18.75% 11
East of England -22 33 £475 +5.56% 24
East Midlands -22 32 £415 +10.67% 23
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 556 (31.54%) Agile
2 520 (29.50%) Business Analysis
2 520 (29.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 452 (25.64%) Requirements Gathering
4 414 (23.48%) User Stories
5 411 (23.31%) Workshop Facilitation
6 342 (19.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 297 (16.85%) User Acceptance Testing
8 262 (14.86%) Acceptance Criteria
9 240 (13.61%) JIRA
10 237 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
11 202 (11.46%) Security Cleared
12 199 (11.29%) Migration
13 191 (10.83%) Validation
14 187 (10.61%) SQL
15 172 (9.76%) Confluence
16 167 (9.47%) Data Analysis
17 163 (9.25%) Process Improvement
18 161 (9.13%) SC Cleared
19 159 (9.02%) Decision-Making
20 157 (8.91%) Azure
21 154 (8.74%) Microsoft
22 149 (8.45%) Data Modelling
23 140 (7.94%) Scrum
24 139 (7.88%) Degree
25 132 (7.49%) DevOps
26 128 (7.26%) AI
27 119 (6.75%) GAP Analysis
28 118 (6.69%) MS Visio
29 116 (6.58%) 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
1 172 (9.76%) Confluence
2 28 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.51%) SAS
4 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.23%) CMS
6 3 (0.17%) Appian
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 118 (6.69%) MS Visio
2 90 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Notion
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.02%) Aladdin
3 17 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (0.62%) Endur
6 6 (0.34%) Findur
6 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.34%) Summit
7 5 (0.28%) Actimize
7 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 5 (0.28%) Maximo
7 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.23%) HFM
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 157 (8.91%) Azure
2 106 (6.01%) Power Platform
3 60 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (2.78%) AWS
5 26 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
5 26 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (1.30%) SaaS
7 22 (1.25%) Lucidchart
8 21 (1.19%) Snowflake
9 17 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 16 (0.91%) Miro
11 14 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (0.62%) GCP
13 11 (0.62%) Power Automate
14 10 (0.57%) GitHub
14 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 10 (0.57%) SuccessFactors
15 9 (0.51%) Figma
15 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.51%) 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%) DNSSEC
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%) SONET
5 1 (0.057%) TETRA
5 1 (0.057%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.22%) Power BI
2 42 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (1.64%) Metadata
4 26 (1.47%) Tableau
5 17 (0.96%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) Data Mining
7 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.23%) Big Data
9 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.11%) Looker
10 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.11%) OLAP
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 240 (13.61%) JIRA
2 12 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.28%) Balsamiq
5 4 (0.23%) Postman
6 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.057%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 621 (35.22%) Finance
2 560 (31.76%) Social Skills
3 400 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (14.63%) Banking
5 145 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 128 (7.26%) Documentation Skills
7 99 (5.62%) Front Office
8 85 (4.82%) Retail
9 69 (3.91%) Investment Banking
10 66 (3.74%) Legal
11 52 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
13 37 (2.10%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.99%) Financial Institution
15 33 (1.87%) Back Office
16 31 (1.76%) Marketing
17 30 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
18 25 (1.42%) Local Government
19 22 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 19 (1.08%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.42%) XML
2 24 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
3 16 (0.91%) Middleware
4 15 (0.85%) ADO
4 15 (0.85%) JSON
5 9 (0.51%) REST
6 7 (0.40%) SOAP
7 6 (0.34%) VML
8 5 (0.28%) FHIR
8 5 (0.28%) NumPy
8 5 (0.28%) Pandas
8 5 (0.28%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.23%) STL
9 4 (0.23%) Swagger
9 4 (0.23%) YAML
10 3 (0.17%) EDI
11 2 (0.11%) .NET
11 2 (0.11%) OAuth
12 1 (0.057%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 150 (8.51%) Product Ownership
2 60 (3.40%) Derivative
3 56 (3.18%) Onboarding
4 44 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 43 (2.44%) Fixed Income
6 41 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 38 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 35 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (1.70%) Credit Risk
10 26 (1.47%) Hedge funds
11 25 (1.42%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.25%) Market Risk
14 21 (1.19%) Management Information System
15 20 (1.13%) Operational Technology
16 18 (1.02%) NHS
17 17 (0.96%) Reference Data
18 16 (0.91%) Equities
18 16 (0.91%) Reinsurance
19 15 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.74%) Windows
2 6 (0.34%) Apple iOS
2 6 (0.34%) Unix
3 5 (0.28%) Android
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
1 556 (31.54%) Agile
2 520 (29.50%) Business Analysis
2 520 (29.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 452 (25.64%) Requirements Gathering
4 414 (23.48%) User Stories
5 411 (23.31%) Workshop Facilitation
6 342 (19.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 297 (16.85%) User Acceptance Testing
8 262 (14.86%) Acceptance Criteria
9 237 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
10 199 (11.29%) Migration
11 191 (10.83%) Validation
12 167 (9.47%) Data Analysis
13 163 (9.25%) Process Improvement
14 159 (9.02%) Decision-Making
15 149 (8.45%) Data Modelling
16 140 (7.94%) Scrum
17 132 (7.49%) DevOps
18 128 (7.26%) AI
19 119 (6.75%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 187 (10.61%) SQL
2 45 (2.55%) Python
3 14 (0.79%) Korn
4 7 (0.40%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) R
6 3 (0.17%) VBA
7 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.057%) ABAP
8 1 (0.057%) C
8 1 (0.057%) C#
8 1 (0.057%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.057%) Groovy
8 1 (0.057%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
8 1 (0.057%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 202 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 161 (9.13%) SC Cleared
3 139 (7.88%) Degree
4 47 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.82%) CBAP
6 30 (1.70%) IIBA
7 24 (1.36%) PMI Certification
8 12 (0.68%) PMP
9 11 (0.62%) ACCA
10 10 (0.57%) CIMA
10 10 (0.57%) ISEB
11 9 (0.51%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.45%) FFIEC
13 7 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (0.28%) CSPO
14 5 (0.28%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
16 3 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 86 (4.88%) QA
3 40 (2.27%) GDPR
4 30 (1.70%) NIST
5 28 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.79%) EMIR
7 14 (0.79%) GRC
7 14 (0.79%) MiFID
8 10 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.51%) COBIT
9 9 (0.51%) PMO
10 8 (0.45%) IFRS
10 8 (0.45%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.40%) Basel III
11 7 (0.40%) PSD2
11 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.28%) COREP
12 5 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.057%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (0.57%) Ansible
2 6 (0.34%) Terraform
3 4 (0.23%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.11%) Control-M
5 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.057%) Autotask
6 1 (0.057%) Grafana
6 1 (0.057%) Kibana
6 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.057%) SCCM
6 1 (0.057%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 154 (8.74%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.24%) Salesforce
3 107 (6.07%) SAP
4 68 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 62 (3.52%) Oracle
6 36 (2.04%) Murex
7 26 (1.47%) Databricks
8 21 (1.19%) Workday
9 18 (1.02%) Bloomberg
10 12 (0.68%) Pega
10 12 (0.68%) Splunk
11 11 (0.62%) ION Trading
12 10 (0.57%) Avaloq
12 10 (0.57%) CyberArk
12 10 (0.57%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.57%) Planon
13 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 9 (0.51%) Sonatype
14 8 (0.45%) IBM