Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 37 45
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,802 1,428 1,413
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.98% 5.19% 4.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.30% 5.66% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,215 991 1,033
10th Percentile £363 £358 £365
25th Percentile £425 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -1.43% -0.94%
75th Percentile £600 £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 11 10
10th Percentile £29.12 £25.26 £25.98
25th Percentile £34.87 £29.61 £40.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £47.50 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -18.45% -8.63%
75th Percentile £77.20 £53.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £104.00 £72.50 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £40.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +43.56% -18.50% -21.57%

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 41,951 25,239 31,602
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 91.71% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,523 16,403 20,840
10th Percentile £329 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,084 1,288 1,943
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.10% -38.84% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -40.82% -1.16%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 1,043 £550 -4.35% 131
North of England -11 263 £450 +5.88% 88
South East -3 177 £500 +2.56% 74
Midlands -2 176 £467 +19.62% 40
West Midlands +6 140 £475 -2.56% 28
North West -29 124 £432 +0.23% 30
Yorkshire -24 103 £475 +16.56% 40
South West 0 79 £463 -1.85% 31
North East -12 37 £475 -9.09% 18
East of England -7 35 £475 +5.56% 26
East Midlands -25 34 £460 +28.49% 12
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 570 (31.63%) Business Analysis
2 569 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 568 (31.52%) Agile
4 503 (27.91%) Requirements Gathering
5 460 (25.53%) Workshop Facilitation
6 449 (24.92%) User Stories
7 350 (19.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 338 (18.76%) User Acceptance Testing
9 281 (15.59%) Acceptance Criteria
10 236 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
11 232 (12.87%) JIRA
12 199 (11.04%) Validation
13 198 (10.99%) Migration
14 186 (10.32%) Process Improvement
15 184 (10.21%) SQL
16 183 (10.16%) Security Cleared
17 169 (9.38%) Data Analysis
18 168 (9.32%) Decision-Making
19 164 (9.10%) Microsoft
20 160 (8.88%) Confluence
21 158 (8.77%) Azure
22 150 (8.32%) Data Modelling
23 149 (8.27%) AI
24 146 (8.10%) SC Cleared
25 141 (7.82%) Degree
26 137 (7.60%) Scrum
27 123 (6.83%) DevOps
28 120 (6.66%) Business Intelligence
29 115 (6.38%) Impact Assessments
29 115 (6.38%) Salesforce

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
1 160 (8.88%) Confluence
2 30 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.33%) CMS
4 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.28%) SAS
5 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.055%) Camunda
7 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.055%) Moodle
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.055%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.055%) Totara
Applications
1 112 (6.22%) MS Visio
2 70 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.22%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.055%) CATIA
7 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.055%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.72%) Aladdin
5 11 (0.61%) Endur
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.33%) Findur
7 6 (0.33%) Maximo
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.33%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.28%) Actimize
8 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.22%) HFM
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.22%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 158 (8.77%) Azure
2 113 (6.27%) Power Platform
3 64 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (2.72%) AWS
5 36 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
6 23 (1.28%) SaaS
6 23 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 22 (1.22%) Lucidchart
7 22 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (1.17%) Snowflake
9 15 (0.83%) GCP
9 15 (0.83%) Miro
10 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
10 14 (0.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 13 (0.72%) Power Automate
12 12 (0.67%) Entra ID
13 11 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (0.61%) Figma
13 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.55%) 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 (0.055%) 5G
4 1 (0.055%) DNSSEC
4 1 (0.055%) Extranet
4 1 (0.055%) Firewall
4 1 (0.055%) Internet
4 1 (0.055%) PBX
4 1 (0.055%) SNMP
4 1 (0.055%) SONET
4 1 (0.055%) TETRA
4 1 (0.055%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.22%) Power BI
2 39 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (1.78%) Metadata
4 24 (1.33%) Tableau
5 16 (0.89%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.72%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (0.39%) Data Mining
7 7 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.22%) Big Data
9 4 (0.22%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.17%) Looker
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.11%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 232 (12.87%) JIRA
2 7 (0.39%) Balsamiq
3 4 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.11%) GitLab
6 1 (0.055%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.055%) Postman
6 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.055%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.055%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.055%) Toad
General
1 632 (35.07%) Finance
2 565 (31.35%) Social Skills
3 420 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (13.43%) Banking
5 151 (8.38%) Public Sector
6 136 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
7 99 (5.49%) Retail
8 93 (5.16%) Front Office
9 69 (3.83%) Legal
10 64 (3.55%) Investment Banking
11 49 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.28%) Manufacturing
13 38 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.89%) Local Government
14 34 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (1.83%) Back Office
15 33 (1.83%) Financial Institution
16 31 (1.72%) Marketing
17 25 (1.39%) Police
18 23 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (1.05%) XML
3 16 (0.89%) JSON
3 16 (0.89%) Middleware
4 14 (0.78%) ADO
5 8 (0.44%) SailPoint
6 7 (0.39%) REST
7 5 (0.28%) FHIR
7 5 (0.28%) NumPy
7 5 (0.28%) Pandas
7 5 (0.28%) STL
8 4 (0.22%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.22%) SOAP
8 4 (0.22%) 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%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 159 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 68 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 53 (2.94%) Derivative
4 47 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 40 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (1.94%) Fixed Income
6 35 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (1.66%) Data Structures
8 30 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 27 (1.50%) Operational Technology
10 26 (1.44%) Hedge funds
11 25 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.17%) Reference Data
13 19 (1.05%) Credit Risk
13 19 (1.05%) Market Risk
14 18 (1.00%) NHS
15 17 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (0.89%) Equities
17 15 (0.83%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.72%) Windows
2 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.28%) Android
4 4 (0.22%) Unix
5 3 (0.17%) Linux
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (31.63%) Business Analysis
2 569 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 568 (31.52%) Agile
4 503 (27.91%) Requirements Gathering
5 460 (25.53%) Workshop Facilitation
6 449 (24.92%) User Stories
7 350 (19.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 338 (18.76%) User Acceptance Testing
9 281 (15.59%) Acceptance Criteria
10 236 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
11 199 (11.04%) Validation
12 198 (10.99%) Migration
13 186 (10.32%) Process Improvement
14 169 (9.38%) Data Analysis
15 168 (9.32%) Decision-Making
16 150 (8.32%) Data Modelling
17 149 (8.27%) AI
18 137 (7.60%) Scrum
19 123 (6.83%) DevOps
20 120 (6.66%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 184 (10.21%) SQL
2 41 (2.28%) Python
3 14 (0.78%) Korn
4 8 (0.44%) 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 (0.055%) ABAP
7 1 (0.055%) C
7 1 (0.055%) C#
7 1 (0.055%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.055%) Groovy
7 1 (0.055%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.055%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.055%) Ruby
7 1 (0.055%) SOQL
7 1 (0.055%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 183 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 146 (8.10%) SC Cleared
3 141 (7.82%) Degree
4 40 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (1.66%) CBAP
6 29 (1.61%) IIBA
7 26 (1.44%) PMI Certification
8 17 (0.94%) PMP
9 12 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 12 (0.67%) FFIEC
10 11 (0.61%) ACCA
10 11 (0.61%) CIMA
10 11 (0.61%) ISEB
11 7 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.33%) CSPO
12 6 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 95 (5.27%) QA
3 36 (2.00%) GDPR
4 34 (1.89%) NIST
5 28 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.94%) MiFID
7 15 (0.83%) EMIR
8 14 (0.78%) GRC
9 13 (0.72%) COBIT
10 11 (0.61%) PMO
11 10 (0.55%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.39%) Basel III
14 7 (0.39%) SEPA
14 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
15 5 (0.28%) COREP
15 5 (0.28%) HL7
15 5 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.055%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (0.33%) Terraform
2 4 (0.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.11%) Ansible
4 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.055%) Autotask
5 1 (0.055%) Control-M
5 1 (0.055%) Grafana
5 1 (0.055%) Kibana
5 1 (0.055%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.055%) SCCM
5 1 (0.055%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 164 (9.10%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.38%) Salesforce
3 112 (6.22%) SAP
4 68 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 61 (3.39%) Oracle
6 26 (1.44%) Murex
7 25 (1.39%) Databricks
8 21 (1.17%) Workday
9 15 (0.83%) CyberArk
10 13 (0.72%) Pega
11 12 (0.67%) Guidewire
12 11 (0.61%) Bloomberg
12 11 (0.61%) IBM
13 10 (0.55%) Planon
13 10 (0.55%) Zscaler
14 9 (0.50%) OpenLink
14 9 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 8 (0.44%) Charles River
15 8 (0.44%) ION Trading
16 7 (0.39%) Avaloq