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 4 March 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 49 40
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,686 1,101 1,765
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.69% 4.37% 4.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.10% 4.71% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 807 1,312
10th Percentile £350 £362 £400
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 8
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £41.83 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.82 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.08% -21.87% -23.64%
75th Percentile £81.50 £50.00 £68.17
90th Percentile £90.25 £72.50 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £32.82 £50.00
% change year-on-year +98.08% -34.37% -9.09%

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 33,061 23,387 34,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 92.91% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,941 15,028 23,405
10th Percentile £306 £299 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
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 2,141 735 2,208
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.13 £13.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £33.31
Median % change year-on-year - +5.08% -19.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -1.47% - -16.05%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +5 1,026 £525 -8.70% 125
North of England +10 255 £425 - 95
Midlands -3 147 £473 -5.50% 54
Yorkshire +6 123 £475 +5.56% 35
South East -8 116 £500 +5.26% 85
North West -11 113 £401 +0.13% 41
West Midlands 0 111 £475 -5.00% 33
South West +23 93 £463 -7.50% 24
North East +15 35 £425 +6.25% 22
East Midlands -15 35 £404 -1.47% 21
East of England -24 22 £500 - 25
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 March 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.

1 588 (34.88%) Agile
2 555 (32.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 502 (29.77%) Business Analysis
4 452 (26.81%) Requirements Gathering
5 375 (22.24%) Workshop Facilitation
6 369 (21.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 366 (21.71%) User Stories
8 272 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 253 (15.01%) JIRA
10 239 (14.18%) Migration
11 237 (14.06%) User Acceptance Testing
12 229 (13.58%) Security Cleared
13 197 (11.68%) SQL
14 195 (11.57%) Acceptance Criteria
15 194 (11.51%) Confluence
16 193 (11.45%) SC Cleared
17 154 (9.13%) Microsoft
17 154 (9.13%) Process Improvement
18 153 (9.07%) Degree
19 152 (9.02%) Data Analysis
20 142 (8.42%) Decision-Making
21 141 (8.36%) Scrum
22 138 (8.19%) Data Modelling
23 133 (7.89%) GAP Analysis
24 132 (7.83%) Validation
25 129 (7.65%) Project Delivery
26 123 (7.30%) DevOps
26 123 (7.30%) MS Visio
27 118 (7.00%) Power Platform
28 115 (6.82%) Business Intelligence

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
1 194 (11.51%) Confluence
2 27 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.95%) SAS
4 6 (0.36%) CMS
5 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.059%) Appian
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.059%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 123 (7.30%) MS Visio
2 114 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 67 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.24%) Autodesk Inventor
6 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.24%) Notion
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.059%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.059%) CATIA
8 1 (0.059%) Sketch
8 1 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.60%) Endur
2 24 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.89%) Aladdin
3 15 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
3 15 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.30%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.24%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.18%) Actimize
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.18%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 118 (7.00%) Power Platform
2 108 (6.41%) Azure
3 66 (3.91%) AWS
4 38 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
6 28 (1.66%) SaaS
7 23 (1.36%) GitHub
8 21 (1.25%) Lucidchart
9 17 (1.01%) Miro
10 16 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 15 (0.89%) GCP
11 15 (0.89%) Snowflake
12 13 (0.77%) Power Automate
13 12 (0.71%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.53%) Entra ID
15 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
16 7 (0.42%) Apigee
16 7 (0.42%) Figma
16 7 (0.42%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.30%) Network Security
2 3 (0.18%) Firewall
2 3 (0.18%) Internet
3 2 (0.12%) Broadband
3 2 (0.12%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.12%) Intranet
3 2 (0.12%) NAS
3 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.12%) WAN
3 2 (0.12%) X.25
4 1 (0.059%) DNS
4 1 (0.059%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.059%) LAN
4 1 (0.059%) Softphone
4 1 (0.059%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.69%) Power BI
2 35 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (1.90%) Tableau
4 19 (1.13%) Metadata
5 10 (0.59%) SQL Server
6 8 (0.47%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.24%) Big Data
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.18%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.18%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.18%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.18%) Power Query
9 3 (0.18%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.12%) OLAP
10 2 (0.12%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 253 (15.01%) JIRA
2 21 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.47%) Postman
5 3 (0.18%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.18%) Toad
6 2 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.12%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.12%) Git
6 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.059%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.059%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.059%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.059%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.059%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 626 (37.13%) Social Skills
2 593 (35.17%) Finance
3 383 (22.72%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (15.18%) Banking
5 168 (9.96%) Public Sector
6 121 (7.18%) Documentation Skills
7 63 (3.74%) Front Office
8 59 (3.50%) Legal
8 59 (3.50%) Retail
9 56 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
9 56 (3.32%) Investment Banking
10 46 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (2.61%) Telecoms
12 39 (2.31%) Marketing
13 32 (1.90%) Back Office
14 27 (1.60%) Local Government
14 27 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.42%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.31%) REST
2 25 (1.48%) XML
3 20 (1.19%) SOAP
4 19 (1.13%) JSON
5 14 (0.83%) ADO
6 12 (0.71%) Swagger
7 11 (0.65%) OAuth
8 10 (0.59%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (0.47%) VML
10 7 (0.42%) FHIR
10 7 (0.42%) JWT
10 7 (0.42%) OpenAPI
10 7 (0.42%) SAML
11 5 (0.30%) .NET
11 5 (0.30%) Middleware
12 4 (0.24%) HTML
12 4 (0.24%) RESTful
12 4 (0.24%) Web Services
12 4 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 58 (3.44%) Onboarding
3 42 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
4 38 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (2.14%) Fixed Income
6 34 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 32 (1.90%) Derivative
7 32 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 26 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 25 (1.48%) PMI
10 23 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.30%) Credit Risk
12 21 (1.25%) Management Information System
12 21 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 20 (1.19%) Equities
13 20 (1.19%) NHS
14 19 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.71%) CMDB
16 11 (0.65%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.95%) Linux
2 14 (0.83%) Windows
3 5 (0.30%) VMS
4 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.18%) Android
5 3 (0.18%) Unix
6 2 (0.12%) AIX
6 2 (0.12%) Solaris
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (34.88%) Agile
2 555 (32.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 502 (29.77%) Business Analysis
4 452 (26.81%) Requirements Gathering
5 375 (22.24%) Workshop Facilitation
6 369 (21.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 366 (21.71%) User Stories
8 272 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 239 (14.18%) Migration
10 237 (14.06%) User Acceptance Testing
11 195 (11.57%) Acceptance Criteria
12 154 (9.13%) Process Improvement
13 152 (9.02%) Data Analysis
14 142 (8.42%) Decision-Making
15 141 (8.36%) Scrum
16 138 (8.19%) Data Modelling
17 133 (7.89%) GAP Analysis
18 132 (7.83%) Validation
19 129 (7.65%) Project Delivery
20 123 (7.30%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 197 (11.68%) SQL
2 44 (2.61%) Python
3 8 (0.47%) Korn
4 7 (0.42%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.30%) Java
5 5 (0.30%) R
6 4 (0.24%) VBA
7 3 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.12%) C#
9 1 (0.059%) C++
9 1 (0.059%) COBOL
9 1 (0.059%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.059%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 229 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 193 (11.45%) SC Cleared
3 153 (9.07%) Degree
4 55 (3.26%) CBAP
5 42 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (2.37%) IIBA
7 33 (1.96%) PMI Certification
8 14 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (0.77%) PMP
10 12 (0.71%) ISEB
11 11 (0.65%) CSPO
11 11 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.36%) CFA
12 6 (0.36%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.30%) ACCA
13 5 (0.30%) MBA
14 4 (0.24%) CIMA
15 3 (0.18%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.12%) AAT
16 2 (0.12%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.40%) QA
2 76 (4.51%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.67%) GDPR
4 22 (1.30%) MiFID
5 17 (1.01%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.95%) NIST
6 16 (0.95%) PSD2
7 15 (0.89%) EMIR
8 14 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.71%) ISO 20022
9 12 (0.71%) ISO 8583
10 11 (0.65%) GRC
10 11 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.47%) SEPA
12 7 (0.42%) HL7
12 7 (0.42%) PMO
13 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.36%) Basel III
13 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.059%) Docker
2 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.059%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (1.36%) Ansible
2 6 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.12%) Terraform
6 1 (0.059%) Control-M
6 1 (0.059%) Grafana
6 1 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.059%) Kibana
6 1 (0.059%) SCCM
Vendors
1 154 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 97 (5.75%) Salesforce
3 72 (4.27%) SAP
4 51 (3.02%) Oracle
5 47 (2.79%) ServiceNow
6 36 (2.14%) Murex
7 24 (1.42%) Bloomberg
8 19 (1.13%) Sonatype
9 17 (1.01%) Adobe
10 14 (0.83%) MuleSoft
10 14 (0.83%) Workday
11 12 (0.71%) Google
11 12 (0.71%) Splunk
12 10 (0.59%) Avaloq
12 10 (0.59%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.59%) OpenLink
13 9 (0.53%) Databricks
13 9 (0.53%) Pega
14 8 (0.47%) OneTrust
14 8 (0.47%) Refinitiv