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 2 February 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 47 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,545 1,100 1,824
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.71% 4.19% 4.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.14% 4.51% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,089 821 1,366
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £715 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 7
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £26.80 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £31.49 £30.59 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.89% +35.72%
75th Percentile £68.09 £34.11 £60.66
90th Percentile £88.25 £76.15 £68.54
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £31.52 £31.50
% change year-on-year +13.40% +0.06% +35.72%

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 30,066 24,417 35,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 93.06% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,145 15,033 24,004
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,886 731 2,091
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.92 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.60 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.64% +2.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.69
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £33.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year -10.27% -8.21% +2.71%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +3 959 £535 -2.73% 166
North of England +10 228 £420 -1.75% 80
Midlands -2 122 £470 -1.05% 73
South East -4 106 £500 +5.26% 120
North West -4 104 £400 -5.88% 45
Yorkshire +3 103 £469 +4.17% 28
South West +23 86 £463 -2.63% 37
West Midlands -5 82 £485 -3.00% 49
East Midlands -1 39 £400 -3.61% 24
North East +18 37 £425 +13.33% 8
East of England -18 22 £516 +3.25% 23
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 February 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.

1 579 (37.48%) Agile
2 524 (33.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 479 (31.00%) Business Analysis
4 424 (27.44%) Requirements Gathering
5 343 (22.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 341 (22.07%) Workshop Facilitation
7 340 (22.01%) User Stories
8 265 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
9 237 (15.34%) JIRA
10 229 (14.82%) User Acceptance Testing
11 219 (14.17%) Migration
12 194 (12.56%) SQL
13 181 (11.72%) Security Cleared
14 179 (11.59%) Confluence
15 164 (10.61%) Acceptance Criteria
16 156 (10.10%) SC Cleared
17 154 (9.97%) Degree
18 150 (9.71%) Data Analysis
19 149 (9.64%) Microsoft
20 143 (9.26%) Process Improvement
21 142 (9.19%) Scrum
22 130 (8.41%) Project Delivery
23 129 (8.35%) GAP Analysis
24 126 (8.16%) Validation
25 123 (7.96%) Data Modelling
26 122 (7.90%) Analytics
27 120 (7.77%) Waterfall
28 119 (7.70%) Decision-Making
29 116 (7.51%) Power Platform
30 115 (7.44%) DevOps

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
1 179 (11.59%) Confluence
2 24 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.91%) SAS
4 5 (0.32%) CMS
5 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.065%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.065%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.065%) Appian
6 1 (0.065%) Camunda
6 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.065%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 115 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (7.12%) MS Visio
3 64 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.26%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.26%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.065%) Sketch
9 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (2.07%) Endur
2 24 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
4 14 (0.91%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.26%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 3 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.19%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.19%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.13%) BASE24
8 2 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 116 (7.51%) Power Platform
2 92 (5.95%) Azure
3 63 (4.08%) AWS
4 35 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (1.68%) SaaS
6 24 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (1.42%) GitHub
8 19 (1.23%) Lucidchart
9 16 (1.04%) Miro
9 16 (1.04%) Snowflake
10 15 (0.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 14 (0.91%) GCP
12 11 (0.71%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.65%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.58%) Entra ID
15 8 (0.52%) Figma
16 7 (0.45%) Apigee
16 7 (0.45%) Kong
17 6 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.26%) Firewall
2 3 (0.19%) Internet
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
3 2 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.13%) Intranet
3 2 (0.13%) NAS
3 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.13%) WAN
3 2 (0.13%) X.25
4 1 (0.065%) DNS
4 1 (0.065%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.065%) LAN
4 1 (0.065%) Softphone
4 1 (0.065%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (6.21%) Power BI
2 39 (2.52%) Tableau
3 32 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (1.29%) Metadata
5 13 (0.84%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.32%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.26%) Big Data
7 4 (0.26%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.26%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.26%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.19%) Power Query
8 3 (0.19%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.13%) Looker
9 2 (0.13%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 237 (15.34%) JIRA
2 19 (1.23%) Jenkins
2 19 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (0.52%) Postman
4 3 (0.19%) Git
5 2 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.13%) Fiddler
5 2 (0.13%) Toad
6 1 (0.065%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.065%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.065%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.065%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.065%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.065%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 612 (39.61%) Social Skills
2 550 (35.60%) Finance
3 350 (22.65%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (15.79%) Banking
5 145 (9.39%) Public Sector
6 109 (7.06%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (3.95%) Retail
8 59 (3.82%) Front Office
9 55 (3.56%) Investment Banking
10 54 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (3.30%) Legal
11 51 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (3.11%) Telecoms
13 39 (2.52%) Back Office
14 36 (2.33%) Marketing
15 24 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (1.49%) Local Government
17 20 (1.29%) Financial Institution
18 19 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 17 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.33%) REST
2 23 (1.49%) XML
3 18 (1.17%) SOAP
4 16 (1.04%) JSON
5 11 (0.71%) ADO
5 11 (0.71%) SailPoint
5 11 (0.71%) Swagger
6 10 (0.65%) OAuth
7 8 (0.52%) VML
8 7 (0.45%) .NET
8 7 (0.45%) SAML
9 6 (0.39%) JWT
9 6 (0.39%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.32%) FHIR
10 5 (0.32%) Middleware
10 5 (0.32%) RESTful
11 4 (0.26%) HTML
11 4 (0.26%) Web Services
11 4 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.48%) Product Ownership
2 62 (4.01%) Onboarding
3 38 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
4 35 (2.27%) Fixed Income
5 33 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 33 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.94%) PMI
7 28 (1.81%) Data Structures
7 28 (1.81%) Derivative
7 28 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 27 (1.75%) Credit Risk
9 26 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 22 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.36%) Equities
12 16 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (0.97%) NHS
13 15 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (0.84%) Data Centre
14 13 (0.84%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.71%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.97%) Linux
2 8 (0.52%) Windows
3 6 (0.39%) VMS
4 3 (0.19%) Unix
5 2 (0.13%) Android
5 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.065%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (37.48%) Agile
2 524 (33.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 479 (31.00%) Business Analysis
4 424 (27.44%) Requirements Gathering
5 343 (22.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 341 (22.07%) Workshop Facilitation
7 340 (22.01%) User Stories
8 265 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
9 229 (14.82%) User Acceptance Testing
10 219 (14.17%) Migration
11 164 (10.61%) Acceptance Criteria
12 150 (9.71%) Data Analysis
13 143 (9.26%) Process Improvement
14 142 (9.19%) Scrum
15 130 (8.41%) Project Delivery
16 129 (8.35%) GAP Analysis
17 126 (8.16%) Validation
18 123 (7.96%) Data Modelling
19 122 (7.90%) Analytics
20 120 (7.77%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 194 (12.56%) SQL
2 40 (2.59%) Python
3 8 (0.52%) JavaScript
4 7 (0.45%) Korn
5 5 (0.32%) R
5 5 (0.32%) VBA
6 4 (0.26%) Java
7 3 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.13%) C#
9 1 (0.065%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.065%) C++
9 1 (0.065%) COBOL
9 1 (0.065%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.065%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 181 (11.72%) Security Cleared
2 156 (10.10%) SC Cleared
3 154 (9.97%) Degree
4 62 (4.01%) CBAP
5 38 (2.46%) IIBA
5 38 (2.46%) PMI Certification
6 33 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (0.91%) Master's Degree
8 13 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (0.84%) CSPO
9 12 (0.78%) ISEB
10 11 (0.71%) PMP
11 9 (0.58%) CFA
12 5 (0.32%) ACCA
12 5 (0.32%) MBA
13 4 (0.26%) CIMA
13 4 (0.26%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.19%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.70%) QA
2 64 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.24%) GDPR
4 25 (1.62%) MiFID
5 19 (1.23%) PSD2
6 17 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.10%) EMIR
7 13 (0.84%) ISO 20022
7 13 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.71%) GRC
9 10 (0.65%) ISO 8583
10 9 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.52%) PMO
12 7 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.45%) SEPA
13 6 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.39%) Basel III
13 6 (0.39%) NIST
14 5 (0.32%) HL7
14 5 (0.32%) IFRS
System Software
1 7 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.065%) Docker
2 1 (0.065%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.065%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (1.36%) Ansible
2 5 (0.32%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.13%) SCCM
4 1 (0.065%) Control-M
4 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.065%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.065%) Terraform
Vendors
1 149 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 96 (6.21%) Salesforce
3 67 (4.34%) SAP
4 47 (3.04%) Oracle
5 35 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 31 (2.01%) Murex
7 21 (1.36%) Bloomberg
8 18 (1.17%) Sonatype
9 15 (0.97%) MuleSoft
10 13 (0.84%) Adobe
10 13 (0.84%) OpenLink
11 12 (0.78%) Google
12 11 (0.71%) Workday
13 10 (0.65%) Guidewire
14 9 (0.58%) Avaloq
14 9 (0.58%) OneTrust
15 8 (0.52%) CyberArk
15 8 (0.52%) Databricks
15 8 (0.52%) Pega
15 8 (0.52%) Splunk