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 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 44 41
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,761 1,176 1,610
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.35% 4.82% 4.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.71% 5.21% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 817 1,167
10th Percentile £358 £370 £390
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £638
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 7
10th Percentile £35.03 - -
25th Percentile £41.94 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £64.19 £32.82 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +95.60% +45.84% -61.21%
75th Percentile £78.10 £50.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £103.05 £56.75 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £64.19 £32.82 £28.00
% change year-on-year +95.60% +17.20% -51.72%

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 37,365 22,563 34,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.56% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,363 15,023 22,839
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,529 906 2,437
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.45 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year +54.35% -16.20% -18.83%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.66
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.42
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.37% -19.07%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -3 1,058 £525 -8.70% 148
North of England +3 282 £425 - 105
Midlands -7 162 £464 -2.37% 51
Yorkshire +15 133 £488 +8.33% 45
West Midlands 0 130 £475 -5.00% 32
North West -11 125 £400 -5.88% 38
South East -26 123 £500 +2.56% 61
South West +1 85 £450 -10.00% 17
North East +12 41 £425 +6.25% 23
East Midlands -26 31 £405 +3.85% 19
East of England -34 27 £500 +16.28% 25
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 (33.62%) Agile
2 522 (29.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 511 (29.02%) Business Analysis
4 456 (25.89%) Requirements Gathering
5 438 (24.87%) User Stories
6 415 (23.57%) Workshop Facilitation
7 348 (19.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 277 (15.73%) User Acceptance Testing
9 263 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
10 255 (14.48%) JIRA
11 253 (14.37%) Acceptance Criteria
12 250 (14.20%) Security Cleared
13 239 (13.57%) Migration
14 208 (11.81%) SC Cleared
15 201 (11.41%) Confluence
16 191 (10.85%) SQL
17 165 (9.37%) Process Improvement
18 162 (9.20%) Validation
19 159 (9.03%) Data Analysis
19 159 (9.03%) Microsoft
20 150 (8.52%) Decision-Making
21 149 (8.46%) Degree
22 146 (8.29%) GAP Analysis
23 145 (8.23%) Scrum
24 142 (8.06%) Data Modelling
25 134 (7.61%) MS Visio
26 132 (7.50%) DevOps
27 126 (7.16%) Azure
28 117 (6.64%) AI
28 117 (6.64%) Business Intelligence

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
1 201 (11.41%) Confluence
2 26 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.97%) SAS
4 4 (0.23%) CMS
4 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
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
1 134 (7.61%) MS Visio
2 109 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.28%) Notion
7 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.02%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.80%) Endur
5 10 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
6 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.34%) Summit
9 5 (0.28%) Findur
9 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 5 (0.28%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.23%) Actimize
10 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
10 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 126 (7.16%) Azure
2 115 (6.53%) Power Platform
3 71 (4.03%) AWS
4 39 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
6 29 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (1.31%) Lucidchart
8 20 (1.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 17 (0.97%) GCP
9 17 (0.97%) Miro
10 16 (0.91%) GitHub
10 16 (0.91%) SaaS
10 16 (0.91%) Snowflake
11 11 (0.62%) Power Automate
12 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (0.51%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 8 (0.45%) Figma
14 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.40%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.40%) Wireless
2 4 (0.23%) Internet
2 4 (0.23%) Network Security
3 3 (0.17%) DNS
3 3 (0.17%) Intranet
4 2 (0.11%) 802.11
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%) VPN
4 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.11%) WLAN
4 2 (0.11%) X.25
5 1 (0.057%) Extranet
5 1 (0.057%) NAS
5 1 (0.057%) PBX
5 1 (0.057%) SONET
5 1 (0.057%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (5.28%) Power BI
2 39 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (1.82%) Tableau
4 30 (1.70%) Metadata
5 15 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.34%) Big Data
6 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
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
8 3 (0.17%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.11%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.11%) OLAP
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 255 (14.48%) JIRA
2 15 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.45%) Postman
5 5 (0.28%) 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
1 613 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 611 (34.70%) Finance
3 418 (23.74%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (15.11%) Banking
5 160 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 133 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
7 90 (5.11%) Retail
8 78 (4.43%) Front Office
9 63 (3.58%) Investment Banking
9 63 (3.58%) Legal
10 61 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
12 40 (2.27%) Marketing
13 38 (2.16%) Financial Institution
14 32 (1.82%) Back Office
14 32 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (1.59%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.19%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.08%) Law
18 17 (0.97%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.70%) REST
2 27 (1.53%) XML
3 17 (0.97%) JSON
4 16 (0.91%) SOAP
5 13 (0.74%) ADO
6 12 (0.68%) Middleware
6 12 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (0.68%) Swagger
6 12 (0.68%) VML
7 10 (0.57%) OAuth
8 7 (0.40%) FHIR
8 7 (0.40%) JWT
8 7 (0.40%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.28%) .NET
10 5 (0.28%) NumPy
10 5 (0.28%) Pandas
10 5 (0.28%) SAML
11 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 53 (3.01%) Onboarding
3 44 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 44 (2.50%) Derivative
4 42 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 39 (2.21%) Fixed Income
6 38 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 28 (1.59%) Credit Risk
9 24 (1.36%) Data Structures
10 23 (1.31%) NHS
10 23 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 19 (1.08%) Hedge funds
13 18 (1.02%) Market Risk
13 18 (1.02%) PMI
14 16 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.85%) Equities
15 15 (0.85%) Operational Technology
16 13 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.68%) Linux
1 12 (0.68%) Windows
2 7 (0.40%) Apple iOS
2 7 (0.40%) Unix
3 5 (0.28%) Android
3 5 (0.28%) VMS
4 2 (0.11%) AIX
4 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
4 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (33.62%) Agile
2 522 (29.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 511 (29.02%) Business Analysis
4 456 (25.89%) Requirements Gathering
5 438 (24.87%) User Stories
6 415 (23.57%) Workshop Facilitation
7 348 (19.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 277 (15.73%) User Acceptance Testing
9 263 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
10 253 (14.37%) Acceptance Criteria
11 239 (13.57%) Migration
12 165 (9.37%) Process Improvement
13 162 (9.20%) Validation
14 159 (9.03%) Data Analysis
15 150 (8.52%) Decision-Making
16 146 (8.29%) GAP Analysis
17 145 (8.23%) Scrum
18 142 (8.06%) Data Modelling
19 132 (7.50%) DevOps
20 117 (6.64%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 191 (10.85%) SQL
2 42 (2.39%) Python
3 12 (0.68%) Korn
4 7 (0.40%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.34%) VBA
6 5 (0.28%) 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
1 250 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 208 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 149 (8.46%) Degree
4 54 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (2.73%) CBAP
6 45 (2.56%) IIBA
7 26 (1.48%) PMI Certification
8 15 (0.85%) CSPO
9 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (0.68%) PMP
11 9 (0.51%) ISEB
12 8 (0.45%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.40%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.28%) ACCA
15 4 (0.23%) CFA
15 4 (0.23%) CIMA
15 4 (0.23%) MBA
16 3 (0.17%) FFIEC
17 2 (0.11%) CAPM
17 2 (0.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.74%) QA
2 89 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.95%) GDPR
4 23 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.31%) NIST
5 21 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.97%) MiFID
7 16 (0.91%) EMIR
8 11 (0.62%) PSD2
9 10 (0.57%) GRC
9 10 (0.57%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.57%) PMO
10 8 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.45%) ISO 8583
11 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.40%) Basel III
11 7 (0.40%) HL7
11 7 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.28%) 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 13 (0.74%) Ansible
2 8 (0.45%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.23%) 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
1 159 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 89 (5.05%) SAP
4 54 (3.07%) Oracle
4 54 (3.07%) ServiceNow
5 32 (1.82%) Murex
6 21 (1.19%) Bloomberg
7 20 (1.14%) Workday
8 19 (1.08%) Databricks
9 13 (0.74%) Adobe
9 13 (0.74%) Pega
10 12 (0.68%) Guidewire
10 12 (0.68%) Splunk
11 11 (0.62%) Google
11 11 (0.62%) Sonatype
12 10 (0.57%) Avaloq
12 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 8 (0.45%) Sage
13 8 (0.45%) Zuora