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 10 November 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 52 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 -18 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,449 1,227 2,156
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.91% 3.98% 5.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.39% 4.28% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,023 938 1,593
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £618
90th Percentile £725 £727 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 7
10th Percentile £25.00 £30.59 £27.54
25th Percentile £27.01 £41.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £66.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.65% +10.83% +80.45%
75th Percentile £61.13 £76.88 £68.78
90th Percentile £88.75 £80.75 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £32.89 £46.25 £57.00
% change year-on-year -28.89% -18.86% +80.95%

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 26,886 28,684 37,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.99% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,258 17,524 25,976
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
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 1,601 1,072 1,433
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.19 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%
75th Percentile £51.90 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.86 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.65% -20.79% +53.98%

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 November 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 10 November 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 10 November 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 +4 932 £550 - 658
North of England +8 200 £425 -5.56% 220
Midlands +9 111 £400 -15.79% 99
South East +19 107 £488 -0.76% 563
Yorkshire +15 96 £406 -9.78% 55
North West -1 87 £440 +3.53% 137
West Midlands -16 60 £500 +1.27% 60
East Midlands +17 51 £359 -12.71% 39
South West +15 47 £461 +8.53% 96
East of England -21 20 £450 -12.20% 38
North East 0 17 £419 +3.14% 30
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 November 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.

1 541 (37.34%) Agile
2 428 (29.54%) Business Analysis
3 398 (27.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 341 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering
5 290 (20.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 263 (18.15%) User Stories
7 262 (18.08%) Workshop Facilitation
8 232 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
9 206 (14.22%) User Acceptance Testing
10 189 (13.04%) SQL
11 176 (12.15%) JIRA
12 170 (11.73%) Data Analysis
13 162 (11.18%) Migration
14 146 (10.08%) Microsoft
15 139 (9.59%) Degree
16 137 (9.45%) Scrum
17 135 (9.32%) Confluence
18 132 (9.11%) Waterfall
19 131 (9.04%) Analytics
20 128 (8.83%) Decision-Making
21 119 (8.21%) Change Management
21 119 (8.21%) Project Management
22 115 (7.94%) GAP Analysis
23 111 (7.66%) Process Improvement
23 111 (7.66%) Project Delivery
24 103 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
25 99 (6.83%) Azure
26 98 (6.76%) Business Intelligence
26 98 (6.76%) DevOps
27 94 (6.49%) 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
1 135 (9.32%) Confluence
2 27 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.41%) CMS
4 5 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.069%) Camunda
7 1 (0.069%) JBoss
7 1 (0.069%) Mule
Applications
1 103 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (6.49%) MS Visio
3 53 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.28%) Autodesk Inventor
8 2 (0.14%) Trello
9 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.069%) Notion
9 1 (0.069%) Sketch
9 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (3.17%) Endur
2 24 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.90%) Aladdin
4 12 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
6 9 (0.62%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.48%) Temenos T24
8 6 (0.41%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.35%) SAP GTS
10 3 (0.21%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.21%) SAP HR
11 2 (0.14%) BASE24
11 2 (0.14%) HFM
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.14%) Shopify
11 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
11 2 (0.14%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 99 (6.83%) Azure
2 86 (5.94%) Power Platform
3 51 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (3.31%) AWS
5 36 (2.48%) SaaS
6 25 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (1.52%) Miro
9 20 (1.38%) GCP
10 18 (1.24%) Entra ID
10 18 (1.24%) Lucidchart
11 13 (0.90%) Snowflake
12 12 (0.83%) Figma
13 11 (0.76%) GitHub
13 11 (0.76%) Power Automate
14 10 (0.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 9 (0.62%) PowerApps
16 8 (0.55%) Azure AKS
17 7 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.41%) 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 (0.069%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.069%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.069%) NAS
5 1 (0.069%) Softphone
5 1 (0.069%) VoIP
5 1 (0.069%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (5.52%) Power BI
2 43 (2.97%) Tableau
3 22 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (1.04%) SQL Server
5 13 (0.90%) Metadata
6 8 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.41%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.41%) 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 Reports
10 3 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.21%) Big Data
10 3 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.21%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.21%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 176 (12.15%) JIRA
2 9 (0.62%) Jenkins
2 9 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.28%) Git
4 2 (0.14%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.14%) Postman
5 1 (0.069%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.069%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.069%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.069%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.069%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.069%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.069%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 591 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 556 (38.37%) Finance
3 311 (21.46%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (16.36%) Banking
5 107 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 66 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 64 (4.42%) Front Office
8 60 (4.14%) Back Office
9 57 (3.93%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.59%) Retail
11 48 (3.31%) Legal
11 48 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
13 36 (2.48%) Marketing
14 35 (2.42%) Telecoms
15 31 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 30 (2.07%) Manufacturing
17 29 (2.00%) Local Government
18 27 (1.86%) Financial Institution
19 25 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.38%) XML
2 17 (1.17%) REST
3 13 (0.90%) JSON
3 13 (0.90%) SailPoint
4 12 (0.83%) SAML
5 11 (0.76%) ADO
5 11 (0.76%) OAuth
6 9 (0.62%) OpenID
7 8 (0.55%) SOAP
8 5 (0.35%) LDAP
8 5 (0.35%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.35%) Swagger
8 5 (0.35%) Web Services
9 4 (0.28%) Anaconda
9 4 (0.28%) DCOM
9 4 (0.28%) Gherkin
9 4 (0.28%) Middleware
10 3 (0.21%) .NET
10 3 (0.21%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 115 (7.94%) Product Ownership
2 67 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 38 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
4 36 (2.48%) Derivative
5 34 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 31 (2.14%) Fixed Income
6 31 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 28 (1.93%) Reinsurance
8 28 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 27 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 27 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (1.66%) PMI
11 20 (1.38%) Equities
12 19 (1.31%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.31%) Credit Risk
13 18 (1.24%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.62%) Linux
1 9 (0.62%) Windows
2 2 (0.14%) Unix
2 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.069%) AIX
3 1 (0.069%) Android
3 1 (0.069%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.069%) Solaris
3 1 (0.069%) VMS
3 1 (0.069%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (37.34%) Agile
2 428 (29.54%) Business Analysis
3 398 (27.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 341 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering
5 290 (20.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 263 (18.15%) User Stories
7 262 (18.08%) Workshop Facilitation
8 232 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
9 206 (14.22%) User Acceptance Testing
10 170 (11.73%) Data Analysis
11 162 (11.18%) Migration
12 137 (9.45%) Scrum
13 132 (9.11%) Waterfall
14 131 (9.04%) Analytics
15 128 (8.83%) Decision-Making
16 119 (8.21%) Change Management
16 119 (8.21%) Project Management
17 115 (7.94%) GAP Analysis
18 111 (7.66%) Process Improvement
18 111 (7.66%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 189 (13.04%) SQL
2 52 (3.59%) Python
3 8 (0.55%) C#
4 6 (0.41%) Korn
4 6 (0.41%) VBA
5 5 (0.35%) R
6 4 (0.28%) Java
7 3 (0.21%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.069%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.069%) COBOL
9 1 (0.069%) Magik
9 1 (0.069%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.069%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 139 (9.59%) Degree
2 83 (5.73%) Security Cleared
3 59 (4.07%) SC Cleared
4 43 (2.97%) CBAP
5 31 (2.14%) PMI Certification
6 14 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 10 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (0.69%) IIBA
10 9 (0.62%) ACCA
10 9 (0.62%) PMP
11 8 (0.55%) ISEB
12 7 (0.48%) CIMA
13 6 (0.41%) CFA
14 4 (0.28%) CSPO
15 3 (0.21%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.21%) FFIEC
15 3 (0.21%) MBA
15 3 (0.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.80%) QA
2 61 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 47 (3.24%) GDPR
4 33 (2.28%) MiFID
5 24 (1.66%) EMIR
6 15 (1.04%) GRC
6 15 (1.04%) SEPA
7 14 (0.97%) ISO 20022
8 12 (0.83%) NIST
8 12 (0.83%) PSD2
9 10 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.55%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.48%) Basel III
12 7 (0.48%) PMO
13 6 (0.41%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.35%) ISO 8583
14 5 (0.35%) Solvency II
15 4 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 14 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.069%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.069%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.69%) Ansible
4 6 (0.41%) Terraform
5 4 (0.28%) SCCM
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 146 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.73%) Salesforce
3 67 (4.62%) SAP
4 55 (3.80%) Oracle
5 38 (2.62%) ServiceNow
6 24 (1.66%) Murex
7 20 (1.38%) OpenLink
8 14 (0.97%) Google
9 13 (0.90%) Workday
10 12 (0.83%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.62%) Adobe
11 9 (0.62%) Charles River
11 9 (0.62%) Guidewire
12 8 (0.55%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.55%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.55%) Sonatype
13 7 (0.48%) Alibaba
13 7 (0.48%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.48%) OneTrust
13 7 (0.48%) Temenos