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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 38 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,756 1,231 1,556
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 5.12% 4.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.53% 5.55% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 851 1,136
10th Percentile £358 £358 £378
25th Percentile £417 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 7
10th Percentile £28.03 £24.66 -
25th Percentile £34.87 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.81 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.17% +81.36% -64.00%
75th Percentile £89.70 £50.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £59.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £34.11 £28.00
% change year-on-year +83.23% +21.82% -55.20%

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 38,786 22,186 34,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.34% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,000 14,689 22,539
10th Percentile £322 £293 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,713 917 2,538
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% -21.79% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.95 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -16.67%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -7 1,027 £550 -4.35% 102
North of England -7 279 £432 +1.53% 58
Midlands -3 175 £473 -0.53% 25
West Midlands +3 145 £475 -5.00% 11
South East -20 140 £500 +3.90% 61
North West -17 130 £400 -5.82% 21
Yorkshire -8 117 £475 +8.94% 24
South West -8 73 £425 -10.53% 25
North East +12 49 £450 +12.50% 13
East of England -17 37 £500 +16.96% 18
East Midlands -26 29 £393 +4.80% 14
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 569 (32.40%) Agile
2 522 (29.73%) Business Analysis
3 510 (29.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 440 (25.06%) Requirements Gathering
5 433 (24.66%) User Stories
6 406 (23.12%) Workshop Facilitation
7 343 (19.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 288 (16.40%) User Acceptance Testing
9 267 (15.21%) Acceptance Criteria
10 251 (14.29%) JIRA
11 247 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
12 235 (13.38%) Security Cleared
13 215 (12.24%) Migration
14 195 (11.10%) Confluence
15 190 (10.82%) SC Cleared
16 173 (9.85%) SQL
17 172 (9.79%) Validation
18 163 (9.28%) Microsoft
19 157 (8.94%) Decision-Making
20 155 (8.83%) Data Analysis
21 145 (8.26%) Degree
22 144 (8.20%) Process Improvement
23 143 (8.14%) Scrum
24 142 (8.09%) DevOps
25 141 (8.03%) Data Modelling
26 138 (7.86%) Azure
27 134 (7.63%) GAP Analysis
28 128 (7.29%) MS Visio
29 118 (6.72%) Impact Assessments
30 114 (6.49%) Analytics

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
1 195 (11.10%) Confluence
2 21 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.97%) SAS
4 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Appian
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Apache
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 128 (7.29%) MS Visio
2 101 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.28%) Notion
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.057%) CATIA
8 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 22 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.14%) Aladdin
3 13 (0.74%) Endur
4 11 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.34%) Findur
5 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.34%) Summit
6 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 5 (0.28%) Maximo
6 5 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 138 (7.86%) Azure
2 111 (6.32%) Power Platform
3 62 (3.53%) AWS
4 48 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (1.20%) Lucidchart
6 21 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 18 (1.03%) SaaS
8 15 (0.85%) Miro
9 14 (0.80%) Snowflake
10 13 (0.74%) GitHub
11 12 (0.68%) Power Automate
12 11 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (0.57%) GCP
13 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 9 (0.51%) Figma
14 9 (0.51%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.40%) Network Security
2 6 (0.34%) Wireless
3 3 (0.17%) Intranet
4 2 (0.11%) 802.11
4 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.11%) DNS
4 2 (0.11%) Internet
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%) 5G
5 1 (0.057%) Broadband
5 1 (0.057%) Extranet
5 1 (0.057%) Firewall
5 1 (0.057%) PBX
5 1 (0.057%) SONET
5 1 (0.057%) TETRA
5 1 (0.057%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.24%) Power BI
2 40 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (1.71%) Tableau
4 27 (1.54%) Metadata
5 15 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.40%) Big Data
6 7 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.17%) Power Query
9 3 (0.17%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.11%) Looker
10 2 (0.11%) OLAP
11 1 (0.057%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.057%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 251 (14.29%) JIRA
2 12 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.40%) Postman
5 5 (0.28%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.057%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 618 (35.19%) Finance
2 595 (33.88%) Social Skills
3 395 (22.49%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (14.98%) Banking
5 151 (8.60%) Public Sector
6 133 (7.57%) Documentation Skills
7 91 (5.18%) Front Office
8 83 (4.73%) Retail
9 68 (3.87%) Investment Banking
10 65 (3.70%) Legal
11 56 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.16%) Financial Institution
14 37 (2.11%) Back Office
15 36 (2.05%) Marketing
16 32 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 23 (1.31%) Local Government
19 20 (1.14%) Law
20 17 (0.97%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.54%) XML
2 22 (1.25%) REST
3 17 (0.97%) JSON
3 17 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.85%) ADO
5 13 (0.74%) SOAP
6 11 (0.63%) Middleware
7 10 (0.57%) VML
8 9 (0.51%) Swagger
9 6 (0.34%) OAuth
10 5 (0.28%) FHIR
10 5 (0.28%) NumPy
10 5 (0.28%) Pandas
11 4 (0.23%) .NET
11 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.23%) JWT
11 4 (0.23%) OpenAPI
11 4 (0.23%) YAML
12 3 (0.17%) Murex MxML
12 3 (0.17%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 158 (9.00%) Product Ownership
2 49 (2.79%) Derivative
3 43 (2.45%) Fixed Income
3 43 (2.45%) Onboarding
4 40 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 39 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 39 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 27 (1.54%) Credit Risk
8 26 (1.48%) Hedge funds
9 25 (1.42%) NHS
10 22 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.14%) Management Information System
12 20 (1.14%) Market Risk
13 19 (1.08%) Operational Technology
14 16 (0.91%) Equities
14 16 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.85%) PMI
16 13 (0.74%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.68%) Windows
2 7 (0.40%) Linux
3 6 (0.34%) Unix
4 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.057%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (32.40%) Agile
2 522 (29.73%) Business Analysis
3 510 (29.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 440 (25.06%) Requirements Gathering
5 433 (24.66%) User Stories
6 406 (23.12%) Workshop Facilitation
7 343 (19.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 288 (16.40%) User Acceptance Testing
9 267 (15.21%) Acceptance Criteria
10 247 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
11 215 (12.24%) Migration
12 172 (9.79%) Validation
13 157 (8.94%) Decision-Making
14 155 (8.83%) Data Analysis
15 144 (8.20%) Process Improvement
16 143 (8.14%) Scrum
17 142 (8.09%) DevOps
18 141 (8.03%) Data Modelling
19 134 (7.63%) GAP Analysis
20 118 (6.72%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 173 (9.85%) SQL
2 42 (2.39%) Python
3 12 (0.68%) Korn
4 5 (0.28%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) R
5 4 (0.23%) VBA
6 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.11%) C#
7 2 (0.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.057%) ABAP
8 1 (0.057%) C
8 1 (0.057%) Groovy
8 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.057%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 235 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 190 (10.82%) SC Cleared
3 145 (8.26%) Degree
4 51 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (2.56%) CBAP
5 45 (2.56%) IIBA
6 24 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 13 (0.74%) PMP
8 11 (0.63%) ACCA
8 11 (0.63%) CSPO
9 10 (0.57%) CIMA
9 10 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (0.57%) ISEB
10 8 (0.46%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.40%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.23%) CFA
12 4 (0.23%) MBA
13 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.17%) FFIEC
13 3 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.52%) QA
2 90 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.68%) GDPR
4 25 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.42%) NIST
5 21 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.97%) EMIR
7 15 (0.85%) MiFID
8 11 (0.63%) GRC
8 11 (0.63%) PMO
9 10 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.51%) IFRS
10 9 (0.51%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.51%) PSD2
11 7 (0.40%) Basel III
11 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.34%) COBIT
12 6 (0.34%) ISO 8583
13 5 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.11%) Docker
4 1 (0.057%) RACF
4 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (0.57%) Ansible
2 5 (0.28%) Terraform
3 4 (0.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.11%) Control-M
4 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.057%) Autotask
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
1 163 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.38%) Salesforce
3 100 (5.69%) SAP
4 57 (3.25%) Oracle
5 52 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 31 (1.77%) Murex
7 21 (1.20%) Databricks
8 19 (1.08%) Workday
9 16 (0.91%) Bloomberg
10 13 (0.74%) Splunk
11 11 (0.63%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.57%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.57%) Pega
12 10 (0.57%) Planon
13 9 (0.51%) Avaloq
13 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 9 (0.51%) Sonatype
14 8 (0.46%) ION Trading
15 7 (0.40%) Charles River
15 7 (0.40%) Cisco