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 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 48 35
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,436 1,323 2,225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.17% 4.05% 5.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.66% 4.35% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 986 1,666
10th Percentile £358 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% +3.69%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £750 £731 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 6
10th Percentile £27.05 £25.98 £26.61
25th Percentile £29.35 £33.13 £32.19
Median hourly rate £31.49 £46.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% -2.63% +73.64%
75th Percentile £34.45 £69.31 £73.75
90th Percentile £57.10 £80.88 £86.00
UK median hourly rate £32.89 £42.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -21.69% -22.22% +118.98%

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 25,358 30,404 39,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 93.00% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,368 19,004 27,789
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,358 1,484 1,356
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.59 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%
75th Percentile £54.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +10 942 £575 +4.55% 332
North of England +10 196 £425 -10.99% 144
Midlands +9 110 £395 -12.22% 74
North West +2 104 £429 -14.30% 77
South East +35 99 £450 -5.26% 229
Yorkshire +15 79 £409 -13.89% 44
West Midlands -8 59 £475 - 45
East Midlands +19 52 £358 -12.42% 28
South West +31 39 £460 +8.24% 43
East of England -11 23 £450 -7.69% 48
North East -1 13 £419 +8.13% 26
Business Analyst
UK

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Business Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 578 (40.25%) Finance
2 566 (39.42%) Agile
3 550 (38.30%) Social Skills
4 441 (30.71%) Business Analysis
5 345 (24.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 310 (21.59%) Requirements Gathering
7 305 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
8 254 (17.69%) User Stories
9 240 (16.71%) Banking
10 232 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
11 228 (15.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 218 (15.18%) SQL
12 218 (15.18%) Workshop Facilitation
13 204 (14.21%) User Acceptance Testing
14 192 (13.37%) Data Analysis
15 159 (11.07%) JIRA
16 148 (10.31%) Microsoft
17 146 (10.17%) Degree
18 143 (9.96%) Migration
19 139 (9.68%) Confluence
20 138 (9.61%) Scrum
21 137 (9.54%) Analytics
22 132 (9.19%) Decision-Making
23 129 (8.98%) Waterfall
24 122 (8.50%) Project Management
25 121 (8.43%) Change Management
26 119 (8.29%) GAP Analysis
27 114 (7.94%) Process Improvement
28 110 (7.66%) Business Intelligence
29 99 (6.89%) Acceptance Criteria

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 139 (9.68%) Confluence
2 27 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.35%) CMS
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.070%) Camunda
8 1 (0.070%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.070%) JBoss
8 1 (0.070%) Mule
8 1 (0.070%) SAS
Applications
1 95 (6.62%) MS Visio
2 90 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (2.79%) Endur
2 35 (2.44%) Aladdin
3 21 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (1.11%) thinkFolio
5 11 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.49%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.42%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.28%) ION Anvil
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.28%) SAP GTS
10 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.21%) MultiFonds
10 3 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 94 (6.55%) Azure
2 79 (5.50%) Power Platform
3 45 (3.13%) AWS
4 43 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (1.95%) SaaS
6 25 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (1.46%) GCP
8 19 (1.32%) Lucidchart
9 16 (1.11%) Miro
10 15 (1.04%) Entra ID
11 13 (0.91%) Snowflake
12 12 (0.84%) Figma
13 10 (0.70%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.56%) Azure AKS
14 8 (0.56%) Power Automate
14 8 (0.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 8 (0.56%) Slack
15 7 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (0.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.35%) Firewall
1 5 (0.35%) Intranet
2 4 (0.28%) Network Security
3 3 (0.21%) ATM
4 2 (0.14%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.14%) VoIP
5 1 (0.070%) GPRS
5 1 (0.070%) LAN
5 1 (0.070%) SNMP
5 1 (0.070%) Softphone
5 1 (0.070%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.81%) Power BI
2 33 (2.30%) Tableau
3 21 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.97%) SQL Server
5 10 (0.70%) Metadata
5 10 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.56%) Star Schema
7 6 (0.42%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.35%) Power Query
9 4 (0.28%) Data Mart
9 4 (0.28%) GIS
9 4 (0.28%) MS Access
10 3 (0.21%) Big Data
10 3 (0.21%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.21%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 159 (11.07%) JIRA
2 6 (0.42%) Postman
3 5 (0.35%) Git
4 4 (0.28%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.14%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.070%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.070%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.070%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.070%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 578 (40.25%) Finance
2 550 (38.30%) Social Skills
3 305 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (16.71%) Banking
5 97 (6.75%) Front Office
6 91 (6.34%) Public Sector
7 66 (4.60%) Back Office
8 54 (3.76%) Investment Banking
9 53 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
10 51 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (3.27%) Retail
12 42 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (2.92%) Legal
13 36 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (2.30%) Financial Institution
15 30 (2.09%) Manufacturing
16 29 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.95%) Marketing
18 26 (1.81%) Telecoms
19 21 (1.46%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.67%) XML
2 14 (0.97%) JSON
3 11 (0.77%) SAML
4 10 (0.70%) ADO
4 10 (0.70%) OAuth
4 10 (0.70%) REST
5 9 (0.63%) OpenID
5 9 (0.63%) SailPoint
6 8 (0.56%) Web Services
7 6 (0.42%) SOAP
8 5 (0.35%) LDAP
8 5 (0.35%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.28%) DCOM
9 4 (0.28%) FpML
9 4 (0.28%) Swagger
10 3 (0.21%) Gherkin
10 3 (0.21%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.21%) VML
11 2 (0.14%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 95 (6.62%) Product Ownership
2 72 (5.01%) Onboarding
3 62 (4.32%) Derivative
4 54 (3.76%) Fixed Income
5 40 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
6 31 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.09%) Reinsurance
8 28 (1.95%) Hedge funds
9 26 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 26 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 23 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 22 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 20 (1.39%) Market Risk
13 19 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.11%) Credit Risk
14 16 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.11%) PMI
15 15 (1.04%) Cloud Native
15 15 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.56%) Windows
2 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.14%) Linux
3 2 (0.14%) VMS
4 1 (0.070%) AIX
4 1 (0.070%) Solaris
4 1 (0.070%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (39.42%) Agile
2 441 (30.71%) Business Analysis
3 345 (24.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 310 (21.59%) Requirements Gathering
5 254 (17.69%) User Stories
6 232 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
7 228 (15.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 218 (15.18%) Workshop Facilitation
9 204 (14.21%) User Acceptance Testing
10 192 (13.37%) Data Analysis
11 143 (9.96%) Migration
12 138 (9.61%) Scrum
13 137 (9.54%) Analytics
14 132 (9.19%) Decision-Making
15 129 (8.98%) Waterfall
16 122 (8.50%) Project Management
17 121 (8.43%) Change Management
18 119 (8.29%) GAP Analysis
19 114 (7.94%) Process Improvement
20 110 (7.66%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 218 (15.18%) SQL
2 84 (5.85%) Python
3 8 (0.56%) C#
4 6 (0.42%) R
4 6 (0.42%) VBA
5 3 (0.21%) Java
6 2 (0.14%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.14%) Korn
6 2 (0.14%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.070%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.070%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.070%) Magik
Qualifications
1 146 (10.17%) Degree
2 88 (6.13%) Security Cleared
3 57 (3.97%) SC Cleared
4 39 (2.72%) CBAP
5 21 (1.46%) PMI Certification
6 15 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 11 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (0.77%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.70%) IIBA
9 9 (0.63%) ACCA
10 8 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.49%) CIMA
11 7 (0.49%) ISEB
12 6 (0.42%) PMP
13 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.21%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.21%) CFA
14 3 (0.21%) CSPO
14 3 (0.21%) FFIEC
14 3 (0.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.64%) QA
2 47 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 44 (3.06%) GDPR
4 35 (2.44%) MiFID
5 32 (2.23%) EMIR
6 16 (1.11%) SEPA
7 13 (0.91%) ISO 20022
8 12 (0.84%) NIST
9 11 (0.77%) GRC
10 9 (0.63%) Dodd-Frank
10 9 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.63%) PSD2
11 8 (0.56%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.56%) Basel III
11 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.42%) COREP
14 5 (0.35%) IFRS
14 5 (0.35%) Solvency II
15 4 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.42%) Terraform
4 4 (0.28%) SCCM
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.14%) Ansible
6 2 (0.14%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 148 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 67 (4.67%) Salesforce
3 64 (4.46%) SAP
4 57 (3.97%) Oracle
5 44 (3.06%) ServiceNow
6 25 (1.74%) BISAM
7 24 (1.67%) Charles River
8 21 (1.46%) OpenLink
9 20 (1.39%) Murex
10 19 (1.32%) Calypso
11 17 (1.18%) SimCorp
12 13 (0.91%) Google
13 11 (0.77%) ION Trading
13 11 (0.77%) Workday
14 9 (0.63%) Adobe
14 9 (0.63%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.56%) Guidewire
15 8 (0.56%) UiPath
16 7 (0.49%) Databricks
16 7 (0.49%) Duck Creek