Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £512, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 40 51
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,732 1,426 1,264
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.72% 5.11% 3.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.04% 5.61% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,005 951
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 8 10
10th Percentile £30.95 £26.26 £39.73
25th Percentile £40.88 £27.11 £43.44
Median hourly rate £66.90 £31.49 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +112.45% -53.17% +28.10%
75th Percentile £90.00 £33.67 £77.81
90th Percentile £104.00 £51.83 £82.68
UK median hourly rate £66.90 £32.19 £58.25
% change year-on-year +107.83% -44.74% +9.39%

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 42,832 25,432 29,773
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 91.11% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,187 16,375 18,173
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.23%
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% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,752 1,439 1,252
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.29 £17.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £67.99 £50.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £41.27
% change year-on-year +65.84% -39.05% -8.30%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -18 999 £525 -4.55% 356
North of England -22 242 £460 +8.24% 129
South East -4 181 £500 +4.71% 123
Midlands -8 164 £450 +20.00% 73
West Midlands +5 127 £450 -10.00% 45
North West -27 115 £440 +3.04% 61
Yorkshire -21 93 £456 +11.08% 49
South West +5 90 £494 +7.10% 40
East of England -11 36 £475 +5.56% 30
East Midlands -23 36 £460 +28.49% 28
North East -21 35 £525 +31.09% 19
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 705 (40.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 663 (38.28%) Business Analysis
3 610 (35.22%) Requirements Gathering
4 553 (31.93%) Agile
5 541 (31.24%) Workshop Facilitation
6 465 (26.85%) User Stories
7 341 (19.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 339 (19.57%) User Acceptance Testing
9 313 (18.07%) Acceptance Criteria
10 237 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
11 211 (12.18%) Process Improvement
12 210 (12.12%) Validation
13 208 (12.01%) JIRA
14 197 (11.37%) SQL
15 191 (11.03%) AI
15 191 (11.03%) Migration
16 185 (10.68%) Data Analysis
17 182 (10.51%) Microsoft
18 172 (9.93%) Decision-Making
19 160 (9.24%) Security Cleared
20 157 (9.06%) Degree
21 152 (8.78%) Data Modelling
21 152 (8.78%) Requirements Workshops
22 145 (8.37%) Confluence
23 143 (8.26%) Azure
24 137 (7.91%) GAP Analysis
25 135 (7.79%) Impact Assessments
26 132 (7.62%) Scrum
27 130 (7.51%) SC Cleared
28 129 (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
1 145 (8.37%) Confluence
2 23 (1.33%) 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 84 (4.85%) MS Visio
2 65 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.46%) 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 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.46%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.46%) Endur
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.40%) 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
1 143 (8.26%) Azure
2 111 (6.41%) Power Platform
3 70 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
5 45 (2.60%) AWS
6 33 (1.91%) SaaS
7 23 (1.33%) Lucidchart
7 23 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 23 (1.33%) Snowflake
8 20 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (1.15%) Miro
9 18 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 13 (0.75%) GCP
11 12 (0.69%) Entra ID
11 12 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
12 10 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (0.58%) Figma
12 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (0.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.40%) 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 96 (5.54%) Power BI
2 38 (2.19%) Metadata
3 34 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 19 (1.10%) Tableau
5 8 (0.46%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (0.35%) Data Mining
7 6 (0.35%) GIS
7 6 (0.35%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
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
1 208 (12.01%) 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
1 600 (34.64%) Finance
2 567 (32.74%) Social Skills
3 383 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
4 243 (14.03%) Banking
5 148 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 141 (8.14%) Documentation Skills
7 103 (5.95%) Retail
8 81 (4.68%) Front Office
9 62 (3.58%) Investment Banking
10 60 (3.46%) Legal
11 49 (2.83%) Manufacturing
12 46 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (1.96%) Back Office
14 33 (1.91%) Local Government
15 32 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (1.50%) Billing
18 25 (1.44%) Financial Institution
18 25 (1.44%) General Ledger
18 25 (1.44%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (0.87%) JSON
3 13 (0.75%) Middleware
3 13 (0.75%) XML
4 10 (0.58%) ADO
5 6 (0.35%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.29%) Terraform
7 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.23%) EDI
7 4 (0.23%) FHIR
7 4 (0.23%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.23%) OpenAPI
7 4 (0.23%) Swagger
8 3 (0.17%) .NET
8 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.17%) STL
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.12%) RESTful
10 1 (0.058%) Handlebars
10 1 (0.058%) React
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 82 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 46 (2.66%) Derivative
4 41 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
5 37 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (2.02%) Data Structures
6 35 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 29 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 27 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 27 (1.56%) Reference Data
9 25 (1.44%) Fixed Income
10 19 (1.10%) Taxonomies
11 18 (1.04%) Equities
12 17 (0.98%) Operational Technology
13 16 (0.92%) FMCG
13 16 (0.92%) NHS
14 15 (0.87%) Credit Risk
14 15 (0.87%) Hedge funds
14 15 (0.87%) Market Risk
15 14 (0.81%) Virtual Team
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
1 705 (40.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 663 (38.28%) Business Analysis
3 610 (35.22%) Requirements Gathering
4 553 (31.93%) Agile
5 541 (31.24%) Workshop Facilitation
6 465 (26.85%) User Stories
7 341 (19.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 339 (19.57%) User Acceptance Testing
9 313 (18.07%) Acceptance Criteria
10 237 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
11 211 (12.18%) Process Improvement
12 210 (12.12%) Validation
13 191 (11.03%) AI
13 191 (11.03%) Migration
14 185 (10.68%) Data Analysis
15 172 (9.93%) Decision-Making
16 152 (8.78%) Data Modelling
16 152 (8.78%) Requirements Workshops
17 137 (7.91%) GAP Analysis
18 135 (7.79%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 197 (11.37%) SQL
2 28 (1.62%) Python
3 15 (0.87%) Korn
4 8 (0.46%) 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
1 160 (9.24%) Security Cleared
2 157 (9.06%) Degree
3 130 (7.51%) SC Cleared
4 39 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.14%) IIBA
6 30 (1.73%) CBAP
7 24 (1.39%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.33%) ACCA
9 22 (1.27%) CIMA
10 16 (0.92%) PMP
11 12 (0.69%) FFIEC
12 11 (0.64%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.64%) ISEB
13 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.35%) CSPO
15 6 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
16 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 82 (4.73%) QA
3 21 (1.21%) GDPR
4 20 (1.15%) NIST
5 19 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.81%) IFRS
7 12 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (0.69%) COBIT
7 12 (0.69%) MiFID
7 12 (0.69%) PMO
8 10 (0.58%) GRC
9 9 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.40%) EMIR
12 6 (0.35%) Basel III
12 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.29%) SEPA
14 4 (0.23%) FINREP
14 4 (0.23%) ISO 15022
14 4 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (0.40%) 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
1 182 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 114 (6.58%) SAP
3 101 (5.83%) Salesforce
4 60 (3.46%) Oracle
5 56 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 34 (1.96%) Murex
7 26 (1.50%) Databricks
8 18 (1.04%) CyberArk
8 18 (1.04%) Workday
9 16 (0.92%) IBM
10 13 (0.75%) Bloomberg
11 12 (0.69%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.58%) Pega
13 9 (0.52%) IFS
14 7 (0.40%) Ariba
14 7 (0.40%) Charles River
14 7 (0.40%) Infor
14 7 (0.40%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.35%) Informatica
15 6 (0.35%) PeopleSoft