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 27 October 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 48 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 -14 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,431 1,246 2,199
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.01% 4.00% 5.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.50% 4.30% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 949 1,636
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £407 £430 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £731 £705
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 7
10th Percentile £25.00 £39.73 £27.54
25th Percentile £27.01 £43.44 £33.13
Median hourly rate £31.49 £67.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.17% +28.10% +91.92%
75th Percentile £61.13 £77.81 £65.03
90th Percentile £88.75 £82.68 £71.54
UK median hourly rate £32.89 £58.25 £53.25
% change year-on-year -43.54% +9.39% +115.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 26,022 28,980 37,943
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 92.99% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,702 17,689 26,414
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.60% -2.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,501 1,127 1,418
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.38 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +55.17%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.92 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.73% -10.67% +61.82%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025. 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 +6 930 £550 - 391
North of England +1 191 £413 -8.33% 148
Midlands +15 120 £395 -16.84% 103
South East +13 98 £475 - 315
Yorkshire +5 88 £406 -12.22% 38
North West -10 86 £425 - 88
West Midlands -6 64 £500 +1.27% 68
East Midlands +20 57 £358 -12.95% 34
South West +23 43 £461 +8.53% 56
East of England -18 22 £450 -8.81% 37
North East +2 17 £401 -1.42% 24
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, 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.

1 536 (37.46%) Agile
2 430 (30.05%) Business Analysis
3 371 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 325 (22.71%) Requirements Gathering
5 275 (19.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 258 (18.03%) User Stories
7 250 (17.47%) Workshop Facilitation
8 230 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
9 200 (13.98%) SQL
10 196 (13.70%) User Acceptance Testing
11 177 (12.37%) Data Analysis
12 169 (11.81%) JIRA
13 150 (10.48%) Microsoft
13 150 (10.48%) Migration
14 143 (9.99%) Degree
15 139 (9.71%) Scrum
16 137 (9.57%) Analytics
16 137 (9.57%) Confluence
17 132 (9.22%) Waterfall
18 127 (8.87%) Decision-Making
19 116 (8.11%) Project Management
20 115 (8.04%) Change Management
21 113 (7.90%) GAP Analysis
21 113 (7.90%) Process Improvement
21 113 (7.90%) Project Delivery
22 103 (7.20%) Azure
23 101 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
24 98 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
25 95 (6.64%) DevOps
25 95 (6.64%) MS Visio

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
1 137 (9.57%) Confluence
2 25 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.42%) CMS
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.070%) Camunda
7 1 (0.070%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.070%) JBoss
7 1 (0.070%) Mule
Applications
1 98 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (6.64%) MS Visio
3 57 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
4 45 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.28%) Autodesk Inventor
8 2 (0.14%) Trello
9 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.070%) Notion
9 1 (0.070%) Sketch
9 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (3.14%) Endur
2 23 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.54%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
6 9 (0.63%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.42%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.42%) Temenos T24
8 5 (0.35%) SAP GTS
8 5 (0.35%) thinkFolio
9 3 (0.21%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.21%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.14%) BASE24
10 2 (0.14%) HFM
10 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.14%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 103 (7.20%) Azure
2 86 (6.01%) Power Platform
3 51 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (3.14%) AWS
5 36 (2.52%) SaaS
6 26 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (1.40%) GCP
8 20 (1.40%) Miro
9 19 (1.33%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.05%) Lucidchart
11 12 (0.84%) Figma
12 11 (0.77%) Snowflake
13 10 (0.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 9 (0.63%) GitHub
14 9 (0.63%) Power Automate
15 8 (0.56%) Azure AKS
15 8 (0.56%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.42%) Firewall
2 5 (0.35%) Network Security
3 3 (0.21%) ATM
3 3 (0.21%) Intranet
3 3 (0.21%) WAN
4 2 (0.14%) LAN
4 2 (0.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.070%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.070%) SNMP
5 1 (0.070%) Softphone
5 1 (0.070%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (5.59%) Power BI
2 39 (2.73%) Tableau
3 22 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (0.91%) SQL Server
5 12 (0.84%) Metadata
6 9 (0.63%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.49%) Star Schema
8 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.35%) GIS
8 5 (0.35%) Power Query
9 4 (0.28%) Data Mart
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.21%) Big Data
10 3 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.21%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.21%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.14%) Looker
11 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 169 (11.81%) JIRA
2 7 (0.49%) Jenkins
2 7 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (0.35%) Git
4 3 (0.21%) Postman
5 2 (0.14%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.070%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.070%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.070%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.070%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.070%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 569 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 550 (38.43%) Finance
3 309 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (16.21%) Banking
5 101 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 78 (5.45%) Front Office
7 64 (4.47%) Back Office
8 59 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
9 58 (4.05%) Investment Banking
10 48 (3.35%) Legal
10 48 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (3.35%) Retail
11 47 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 32 (2.24%) Telecoms
14 31 (2.17%) Manufacturing
14 31 (2.17%) Marketing
15 28 (1.96%) Financial Institution
15 28 (1.96%) Local Government
16 24 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.47%) XML
2 14 (0.98%) REST
3 13 (0.91%) JSON
3 13 (0.91%) SailPoint
4 12 (0.84%) SAML
5 11 (0.77%) ADO
6 10 (0.70%) OAuth
7 9 (0.63%) OpenID
8 8 (0.56%) SOAP
9 5 (0.35%) LDAP
9 5 (0.35%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.35%) Web Services
10 4 (0.28%) DCOM
10 4 (0.28%) Gherkin
10 4 (0.28%) Swagger
11 3 (0.21%) .NET
11 3 (0.21%) Anaconda
11 3 (0.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (0.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 104 (7.27%) Product Ownership
2 69 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 46 (3.21%) Derivative
4 36 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
5 35 (2.45%) Fixed Income
6 33 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 32 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 29 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.96%) Reinsurance
10 27 (1.89%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 26 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 24 (1.68%) PMI
13 19 (1.33%) Cloud Native
13 19 (1.33%) Credit Risk
13 19 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.26%) Equities
15 17 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (1.12%) Data Centre
16 16 (1.12%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.63%) Windows
2 6 (0.42%) Linux
3 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.14%) VMS
5 1 (0.070%) AIX
5 1 (0.070%) Solaris
5 1 (0.070%) Unix
5 1 (0.070%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (37.46%) Agile
2 430 (30.05%) Business Analysis
3 371 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 325 (22.71%) Requirements Gathering
5 275 (19.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 258 (18.03%) User Stories
7 250 (17.47%) Workshop Facilitation
8 230 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
9 196 (13.70%) User Acceptance Testing
10 177 (12.37%) Data Analysis
11 150 (10.48%) Migration
12 139 (9.71%) Scrum
13 137 (9.57%) Analytics
14 132 (9.22%) Waterfall
15 127 (8.87%) Decision-Making
16 116 (8.11%) Project Management
17 115 (8.04%) Change Management
18 113 (7.90%) GAP Analysis
18 113 (7.90%) Process Improvement
18 113 (7.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 200 (13.98%) SQL
2 60 (4.19%) Python
3 8 (0.56%) C#
4 5 (0.35%) R
4 5 (0.35%) VBA
5 4 (0.28%) Java
5 4 (0.28%) Korn
6 2 (0.14%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.070%) COBOL
7 1 (0.070%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.070%) Magik
7 1 (0.070%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 143 (9.99%) Degree
2 76 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 52 (3.63%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.21%) CBAP
5 30 (2.10%) PMI Certification
6 14 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (0.77%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.63%) ACCA
10 8 (0.56%) IIBA
10 8 (0.56%) ISEB
10 8 (0.56%) PMP
11 7 (0.49%) CIMA
12 6 (0.42%) CFA
13 4 (0.28%) CSPO
14 3 (0.21%) FFIEC
14 3 (0.21%) MBA
14 3 (0.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 2 (0.14%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.87%) QA
2 58 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.14%) GDPR
4 38 (2.66%) MiFID
5 32 (2.24%) EMIR
6 15 (1.05%) SEPA
7 14 (0.98%) GRC
7 14 (0.98%) ISO 20022
8 12 (0.84%) PSD2
9 11 (0.77%) NIST
10 10 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.56%) Dodd-Frank
12 7 (0.49%) Basel III
13 6 (0.42%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.35%) COREP
14 5 (0.35%) ISO 8583
14 5 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.070%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.070%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.56%) Ansible
4 6 (0.42%) Terraform
5 4 (0.28%) SCCM
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 150 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 75 (5.24%) Salesforce
3 65 (4.54%) SAP
4 52 (3.63%) Oracle
5 39 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 25 (1.75%) Murex
7 22 (1.54%) OpenLink
8 14 (0.98%) Charles River
9 11 (0.77%) Google
10 10 (0.70%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.70%) Workday
11 9 (0.63%) Guidewire
12 8 (0.56%) BISAM
12 8 (0.56%) Calypso
12 8 (0.56%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.49%) Adobe
13 7 (0.49%) Alibaba
13 7 (0.49%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.49%) UiPath
14 6 (0.42%) OneTrust