Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 38 51
Rank change year-on-year -24 +13 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,717 1,435 1,281
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.71% 5.12% 3.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.03% 5.62% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 1,008 966
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 10
10th Percentile £30.34 £26.26 £39.73
25th Percentile £37.00 £27.11 £43.44
Median hourly rate £64.70 £31.49 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +105.46% -53.17% +41.58%
75th Percentile £81.41 £33.67 £77.81
90th Percentile £104.00 £51.83 £82.68
UK median hourly rate £64.70 £32.19 £58.25
% change year-on-year +100.99% -44.74% +7.87%

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 42,592 25,553 30,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 91.09% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,048 16,438 18,399
10th Percentile £327 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,718 1,434 1,293
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.15 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% -41.51% -6.52%
75th Percentile £67.96 £51.55 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +65.84% -40.16% -5.55%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -17 991 £525 -5.41% 512
North of England -27 243 £460 +8.24% 180
South East -8 180 £500 +4.17% 168
Midlands -6 163 £450 +20.00% 97
West Midlands +14 126 £450 -7.69% 59
North West -27 114 £444 +3.50% 91
Yorkshire -17 93 £450 +9.56% 65
South West +5 88 £488 +6.09% 56
North East -21 37 £525 +31.09% 24
East Midlands -26 36 £460 +28.49% 38
East of England -25 33 £525 +16.67% 41
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 696 (40.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 652 (37.97%) Business Analysis
3 602 (35.06%) Requirements Gathering
4 549 (31.97%) Agile
5 533 (31.04%) Workshop Facilitation
6 458 (26.67%) User Stories
7 337 (19.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 337 (19.63%) User Acceptance Testing
8 307 (17.88%) Acceptance Criteria
9 236 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
10 207 (12.06%) Process Improvement
11 206 (12.00%) JIRA
11 206 (12.00%) Validation
12 196 (11.42%) SQL
13 192 (11.18%) Migration
14 187 (10.89%) AI
15 182 (10.60%) Data Analysis
16 181 (10.54%) Microsoft
17 168 (9.78%) Decision-Making
18 161 (9.38%) Security Cleared
19 153 (8.91%) Degree
20 151 (8.79%) Data Modelling
21 149 (8.68%) Requirements Workshops
22 143 (8.33%) Confluence
23 138 (8.04%) Azure
24 134 (7.80%) GAP Analysis
25 133 (7.75%) Impact Assessments
26 131 (7.63%) Scrum
27 129 (7.51%) SC Cleared
28 128 (7.45%) Project Delivery

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
1 143 (8.33%) Confluence
2 23 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.64%) CMS
4 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.12%) Appian
5 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.12%) Kentico
5 2 (0.12%) SAS
5 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.058%) Apache
6 1 (0.058%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.058%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.058%) Camunda
6 1 (0.058%) Moodle
6 1 (0.058%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.058%) Totara
Applications
1 81 (4.72%) MS Visio
2 65 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Notion
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.47%) Endur
6 8 (0.47%) Maximo
6 8 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.23%) HFM
10 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.17%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.17%) Primavera
11 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 138 (8.04%) Azure
2 109 (6.35%) Power Platform
3 67 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
5 44 (2.56%) AWS
6 32 (1.86%) SaaS
7 23 (1.34%) Lucidchart
7 23 (1.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 23 (1.34%) Snowflake
8 20 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (1.11%) Miro
10 18 (1.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 13 (0.76%) GCP
12 12 (0.70%) Entra ID
12 12 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (0.52%) Figma
14 9 (0.52%) IBM Blueworks
14 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.41%) Network Security
2 5 (0.29%) Intranet
3 4 (0.23%) Wireless
4 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.12%) 802.11
5 2 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.12%) PBX
5 2 (0.12%) VoIP
5 2 (0.12%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) WAN
5 2 (0.12%) Wireless Security
5 2 (0.12%) WLAN
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) HTTP
6 1 (0.058%) LAN
6 1 (0.058%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.058%) SSH
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
6 1 (0.058%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.47%) Power BI
2 38 (2.21%) Metadata
3 33 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.11%) Data Lake
4 19 (1.11%) Tableau
5 7 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (0.41%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.35%) Data Mining
6 6 (0.35%) GIS
6 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.29%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.23%) Looker
9 3 (0.17%) Big Data
9 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.17%) Power Query
10 2 (0.12%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 206 (12.00%) JIRA
2 3 (0.17%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.12%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.058%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.058%) Oracle Forms
General
1 591 (34.42%) Finance
2 561 (32.67%) Social Skills
3 379 (22.07%) Analytical Skills
4 239 (13.92%) Banking
5 148 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 139 (8.10%) Documentation Skills
7 104 (6.06%) Retail
8 81 (4.72%) Front Office
9 61 (3.55%) Investment Banking
9 61 (3.55%) Legal
10 49 (2.85%) Manufacturing
11 46 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (1.92%) Back Office
13 32 (1.86%) Local Government
13 32 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (1.51%) Billing
15 26 (1.51%) Financial Institution
16 25 (1.46%) General Ledger
16 25 (1.46%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (0.87%) JSON
3 13 (0.76%) XML
4 12 (0.70%) Middleware
5 9 (0.52%) ADO
6 6 (0.35%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.29%) Terraform
8 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.23%) EDI
8 4 (0.23%) FHIR
8 4 (0.23%) Gherkin
8 4 (0.23%) OpenAPI
8 4 (0.23%) Swagger
9 3 (0.17%) .NET
9 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.17%) STL
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.12%) RESTful
10 2 (0.12%) VML
11 1 (0.058%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.44%) Product Ownership
2 82 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 46 (2.68%) Derivative
4 41 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
5 36 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 34 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 29 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 27 (1.57%) Reference Data
10 26 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.46%) Fixed Income
12 18 (1.05%) Equities
12 18 (1.05%) Taxonomies
13 17 (0.99%) Operational Technology
14 16 (0.93%) FMCG
14 16 (0.93%) NHS
15 15 (0.87%) Credit Risk
15 15 (0.87%) Market Risk
16 14 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.87%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
3 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.058%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (40.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 652 (37.97%) Business Analysis
3 602 (35.06%) Requirements Gathering
4 549 (31.97%) Agile
5 533 (31.04%) Workshop Facilitation
6 458 (26.67%) User Stories
7 337 (19.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 337 (19.63%) User Acceptance Testing
8 307 (17.88%) Acceptance Criteria
9 236 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
10 207 (12.06%) Process Improvement
11 206 (12.00%) Validation
12 192 (11.18%) Migration
13 187 (10.89%) AI
14 182 (10.60%) Data Analysis
15 168 (9.78%) Decision-Making
16 151 (8.79%) Data Modelling
17 149 (8.68%) Requirements Workshops
18 134 (7.80%) GAP Analysis
19 133 (7.75%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 196 (11.42%) SQL
2 28 (1.63%) Python
3 15 (0.87%) Korn
4 8 (0.47%) Java
5 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.12%) C#
6 2 (0.12%) R
6 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.058%) C
7 1 (0.058%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.058%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.058%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.058%) Ruby
7 1 (0.058%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 161 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 153 (8.91%) Degree
3 129 (7.51%) SC Cleared
4 42 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.15%) IIBA
6 28 (1.63%) CBAP
7 24 (1.40%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.34%) ACCA
9 22 (1.28%) CIMA
10 16 (0.93%) PMP
11 12 (0.70%) FFIEC
12 11 (0.64%) DV Cleared
13 10 (0.58%) ISEB
14 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.41%) CSPO
15 7 (0.41%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
17 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
17 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 82 (4.78%) QA
3 21 (1.22%) GDPR
4 20 (1.16%) NIST
5 19 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.82%) IFRS
7 13 (0.76%) MiFID
8 12 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.70%) COBIT
8 12 (0.70%) PMO
9 10 (0.58%) GRC
10 9 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.41%) EMIR
13 6 (0.35%) Basel III
13 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.29%) SEPA
15 4 (0.23%) FINREP
15 4 (0.23%) ISO 15022
15 4 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (0.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.058%) Autotask
3 1 (0.058%) Grafana
3 1 (0.058%) Kibana
3 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 181 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 114 (6.64%) SAP
3 100 (5.82%) Salesforce
4 59 (3.44%) Oracle
5 56 (3.26%) ServiceNow
6 34 (1.98%) Murex
7 26 (1.51%) Databricks
8 18 (1.05%) CyberArk
8 18 (1.05%) Workday
9 16 (0.93%) IBM
10 13 (0.76%) Bloomberg
11 12 (0.70%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.58%) Pega
13 9 (0.52%) IFS
14 7 (0.41%) Ariba
14 7 (0.41%) Charles River
14 7 (0.41%) Infor
14 7 (0.41%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.35%) Informatica
15 6 (0.35%) PeopleSoft