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 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 38 41
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,752 1,253 1,546
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.13% 5.14% 4.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.47% 5.56% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 860 1,135
10th Percentile £356 £358 £375
25th Percentile £417 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £715 £763 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 8
10th Percentile £28.03 - -
25th Percentile £34.87 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.81 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +53.17% +61.60% -59.60%
75th Percentile £89.70 £51.88 £49.81
90th Percentile £104.00 £71.00 £70.10
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £34.11 £35.25
% change year-on-year +81.76% -3.23% -43.60%

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 39,165 22,521 34,505
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.41% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 14,805 22,602
10th Percentile £325 £289 £288
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,761 973 2,623
10th Percentile £15.84 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £29.33 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.32% -25.75% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.73% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 1,030 £537 -6.61% 141
North of England -8 274 £434 +5.15% 61
Midlands -9 168 £475 +4.11% 37
South East -13 143 £500 +2.56% 71
West Midlands +2 139 £475 -7.32% 17
North West -16 126 £401 -2.91% 29
Yorkshire -3 113 £488 +14.71% 23
South West +4 75 £425 -8.50% 31
North East +5 46 £450 +12.50% 10
East of England -20 35 £500 +13.64% 18
East Midlands -36 28 £399 +6.40% 20
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 572 (32.65%) Agile
2 521 (29.74%) Business Analysis
3 510 (29.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 449 (25.63%) Requirements Gathering
5 432 (24.66%) User Stories
6 407 (23.23%) Workshop Facilitation
7 339 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 296 (16.89%) User Acceptance Testing
9 269 (15.35%) Acceptance Criteria
10 254 (14.50%) JIRA
11 249 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
12 234 (13.36%) Security Cleared
13 209 (11.93%) Migration
14 192 (10.96%) Confluence
15 189 (10.79%) SC Cleared
16 176 (10.05%) Validation
17 175 (9.99%) SQL
18 164 (9.36%) Microsoft
19 158 (9.02%) Data Analysis
20 155 (8.85%) Decision-Making
21 147 (8.39%) Degree
21 147 (8.39%) Scrum
22 145 (8.28%) Azure
23 144 (8.22%) DevOps
23 144 (8.22%) Process Improvement
24 140 (7.99%) Data Modelling
25 126 (7.19%) GAP Analysis
26 123 (7.02%) MS Visio
27 117 (6.68%) Impact Assessments
28 114 (6.51%) Project Management

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
1 192 (10.96%) Confluence
2 22 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.03%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) 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
1 123 (7.02%) MS Visio
2 97 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Notion
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.14%) Aladdin
2 20 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.68%) Endur
3 12 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.34%) Findur
4 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.34%) Summit
5 5 (0.29%) Actimize
5 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 5 (0.29%) Maximo
5 5 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.23%) HFM
6 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 145 (8.28%) Azure
2 106 (6.05%) Power Platform
3 65 (3.71%) AWS
4 50 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (1.14%) Lucidchart
7 20 (1.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 18 (1.03%) SaaS
9 15 (0.86%) Miro
9 15 (0.86%) Snowflake
10 13 (0.74%) GitHub
11 11 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (0.63%) GCP
11 11 (0.63%) Power Automate
12 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 9 (0.51%) Figma
14 8 (0.46%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.46%) SuccessFactors
15 7 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.46%) Network Security
2 6 (0.34%) Wireless
3 4 (0.23%) 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
5 1 (0.057%) 5G
5 1 (0.057%) Broadband
5 1 (0.057%) DNSSEC
5 1 (0.057%) Firewall
5 1 (0.057%) PBX
5 1 (0.057%) SNMP
5 1 (0.057%) SONET
5 1 (0.057%) TETRA
5 1 (0.057%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (4.97%) Power BI
2 39 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (1.54%) Tableau
4 26 (1.48%) Metadata
5 15 (0.86%) 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%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.17%) Power Query
9 3 (0.17%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.11%) Looker
10 2 (0.11%) OLAP
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.057%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 254 (14.50%) JIRA
2 12 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.40%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) 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
1 608 (34.70%) Finance
2 579 (33.05%) Social Skills
3 400 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (14.90%) Banking
5 154 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 135 (7.71%) Documentation Skills
7 93 (5.31%) Front Office
8 82 (4.68%) Retail
9 70 (4.00%) Investment Banking
10 66 (3.77%) Legal
11 56 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.17%) Back Office
14 36 (2.05%) Financial Institution
15 34 (1.94%) Marketing
16 32 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 22 (1.26%) Local Government
19 20 (1.14%) Law
20 17 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.48%) XML
2 21 (1.20%) REST
3 20 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.91%) JSON
5 15 (0.86%) ADO
6 14 (0.80%) Middleware
7 13 (0.74%) SOAP
8 9 (0.51%) Swagger
9 8 (0.46%) VML
10 6 (0.34%) OAuth
11 5 (0.29%) FHIR
11 5 (0.29%) NumPy
11 5 (0.29%) Pandas
12 4 (0.23%) .NET
12 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
12 4 (0.23%) JWT
12 4 (0.23%) OpenAPI
12 4 (0.23%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.23%) YAML
13 3 (0.17%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 155 (8.85%) Product Ownership
2 55 (3.14%) Derivative
3 49 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 44 (2.51%) Fixed Income
5 42 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 39 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 38 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 38 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.60%) Credit Risk
9 26 (1.48%) Hedge funds
10 24 (1.37%) NHS
11 22 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.20%) Market Risk
13 20 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.14%) Operational Technology
14 19 (1.08%) Management Information System
15 16 (0.91%) Equities
16 15 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
17 14 (0.80%) PMI
17 14 (0.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.80%) Windows
2 6 (0.34%) Linux
2 6 (0.34%) Unix
3 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.23%) Android
5 2 (0.11%) AIX
5 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.057%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (32.65%) Agile
2 521 (29.74%) Business Analysis
3 510 (29.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 449 (25.63%) Requirements Gathering
5 432 (24.66%) User Stories
6 407 (23.23%) Workshop Facilitation
7 339 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 296 (16.89%) User Acceptance Testing
9 269 (15.35%) Acceptance Criteria
10 249 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (11.93%) Migration
12 176 (10.05%) Validation
13 158 (9.02%) Data Analysis
14 155 (8.85%) Decision-Making
15 147 (8.39%) Scrum
16 144 (8.22%) DevOps
16 144 (8.22%) Process Improvement
17 140 (7.99%) Data Modelling
18 126 (7.19%) GAP Analysis
19 117 (6.68%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 175 (9.99%) SQL
2 42 (2.40%) Python
3 13 (0.74%) Korn
4 6 (0.34%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) R
5 4 (0.23%) VBA
6 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.057%) ABAP
8 1 (0.057%) C
8 1 (0.057%) C#
8 1 (0.057%) Groovy
8 1 (0.057%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.057%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 234 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 189 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 147 (8.39%) Degree
4 52 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.40%) IIBA
6 38 (2.17%) CBAP
7 23 (1.31%) PMI Certification
8 13 (0.74%) PMP
9 11 (0.63%) ACCA
9 11 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (0.57%) CIMA
10 10 (0.57%) ISEB
11 8 (0.46%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.46%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.40%) CSPO
13 4 (0.23%) FFIEC
13 4 (0.23%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.23%) MBA
14 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.17%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.48%) QA
2 85 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.63%) GDPR
4 27 (1.54%) NIST
5 26 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.97%) EMIR
8 15 (0.86%) MiFID
9 14 (0.80%) GRC
10 11 (0.63%) PMO
11 10 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.51%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.51%) PSD2
13 8 (0.46%) IFRS
14 7 (0.40%) COBIT
14 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
15 6 (0.34%) ISO 8583
16 5 (0.29%) Basel III
16 5 (0.29%) HL7
16 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.11%) Docker
4 1 (0.057%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (0.57%) Ansible
2 5 (0.29%) 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
1 164 (9.36%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.34%) Salesforce
3 100 (5.71%) SAP
4 59 (3.37%) Oracle
5 54 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 33 (1.88%) Murex
7 21 (1.20%) Databricks
8 19 (1.08%) Workday
9 17 (0.97%) Bloomberg
10 12 (0.68%) 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%) ION Trading
13 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 9 (0.51%) Sonatype
14 8 (0.46%) Avaloq
15 7 (0.40%) Cisco
16 6 (0.34%) IBM