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 November 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 50 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 -16 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,470 1,228 2,140
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.92% 3.98% 5.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.39% 4.27% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 937 1,578
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £615
90th Percentile £725 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 7
10th Percentile £25.18 £30.06 £27.54
25th Percentile £27.11 £40.88 £41.25
Median hourly rate £32.19 £58.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.74% -2.92% +80.45%
75th Percentile £72.63 £77.81 £68.78
90th Percentile £88.50 £82.68 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £33.45 £42.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year -21.31% -25.44% +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 27,257 28,735 37,323
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 93.01% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,480 17,554 25,817
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,651 1,077 1,437
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.22 £15.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £19.47
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +60.48%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +4 942 £550 - 408
North of England +7 201 £425 -5.56% 141
Midlands +3 112 £400 -15.79% 105
South East +10 106 £489 -0.51% 141
Yorkshire +12 95 £406 -12.22% 42
North West -10 85 £445 +4.71% 78
West Midlands -15 61 £500 - 72
South West +23 57 £463 +8.82% 71
East Midlands +14 51 £360 -12.46% 33
North East +7 21 £425 +4.62% 23
East of England -20 20 £450 -14.29% 35
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 546 (37.14%) Agile
2 437 (29.73%) Business Analysis
3 420 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 354 (24.08%) Requirements Gathering
5 306 (20.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 270 (18.37%) Workshop Facilitation
7 269 (18.30%) User Stories
8 245 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 202 (13.74%) User Acceptance Testing
10 188 (12.79%) SQL
11 175 (11.90%) JIRA
12 171 (11.63%) Migration
13 170 (11.56%) Data Analysis
14 151 (10.27%) Microsoft
15 137 (9.32%) Scrum
16 136 (9.25%) Degree
17 134 (9.12%) Waterfall
18 133 (9.05%) Confluence
19 131 (8.91%) Analytics
20 125 (8.50%) Decision-Making
21 124 (8.44%) Process Improvement
22 120 (8.16%) Project Delivery
23 118 (8.03%) Change Management
23 118 (8.03%) GAP Analysis
23 118 (8.03%) Project Management
24 104 (7.07%) Azure
24 104 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
25 100 (6.80%) DevOps
26 98 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
27 97 (6.60%) Security Cleared

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
1 133 (9.05%) Confluence
2 28 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.48%) CMS
4 5 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.068%) Camunda
7 1 (0.068%) JBoss
7 1 (0.068%) Mule
7 1 (0.068%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 104 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (6.53%) MS Visio
3 52 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
4 51 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.27%) Autodesk Inventor
8 2 (0.14%) Trello
9 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.068%) Notion
9 1 (0.068%) Sketch
9 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (3.06%) Endur
2 22 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.82%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.61%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.48%) Temenos T24
8 6 (0.41%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.27%) SAP GTS
10 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
10 3 (0.20%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.20%) 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
Cloud Services
1 104 (7.07%) Azure
2 88 (5.99%) Power Platform
3 54 (3.67%) AWS
4 51 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (2.52%) SaaS
6 26 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (1.63%) GCP
7 24 (1.63%) Miro
8 23 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 18 (1.22%) Lucidchart
11 13 (0.88%) Snowflake
12 12 (0.82%) Figma
13 11 (0.75%) GitHub
13 11 (0.75%) Power Automate
14 9 (0.61%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 8 (0.54%) Azure AKS
16 7 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.48%) Firewall
2 5 (0.34%) Network Security
3 3 (0.20%) Intranet
3 3 (0.20%) WAN
4 2 (0.14%) ATM
4 2 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.14%) Internet
4 2 (0.14%) LAN
4 2 (0.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.068%) Broadband
5 1 (0.068%) DNS
5 1 (0.068%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.068%) NAS
5 1 (0.068%) Softphone
5 1 (0.068%) VoIP
5 1 (0.068%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (5.44%) Power BI
2 42 (2.86%) Tableau
3 20 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (1.02%) Metadata
4 15 (1.02%) SQL Server
5 7 (0.48%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.41%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.34%) Power Query
7 5 (0.34%) Star Schema
8 4 (0.27%) Data Mart
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.20%) Big Data
9 3 (0.20%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.20%) GIS
9 3 (0.20%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.14%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.14%) Looker
Development Applications
1 175 (11.90%) JIRA
2 9 (0.61%) Jenkins
2 9 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (0.20%) Git
4 2 (0.14%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.14%) Charles Proxy
4 2 (0.14%) Fiddler
4 2 (0.14%) Postman
5 1 (0.068%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.068%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.068%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.068%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 603 (41.02%) Social Skills
2 553 (37.62%) Finance
3 332 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
4 235 (15.99%) Banking
5 112 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 69 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 60 (4.08%) Investment Banking
8 59 (4.01%) Front Office
9 58 (3.95%) Back Office
10 56 (3.81%) Retail
11 52 (3.54%) Legal
12 51 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (2.72%) Telecoms
15 36 (2.45%) Marketing
16 30 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 29 (1.97%) Local Government
17 29 (1.97%) Manufacturing
18 26 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
19 25 (1.70%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.22%) XML
2 17 (1.16%) REST
3 15 (1.02%) SailPoint
4 14 (0.95%) SAML
5 12 (0.82%) JSON
5 12 (0.82%) OAuth
6 11 (0.75%) ADO
7 9 (0.61%) OpenID
8 8 (0.54%) SOAP
9 5 (0.34%) LDAP
9 5 (0.34%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.34%) Swagger
9 5 (0.34%) Web Services
10 4 (0.27%) .NET
10 4 (0.27%) Anaconda
10 4 (0.27%) DCOM
10 4 (0.27%) FHIR
10 4 (0.27%) Gherkin
10 4 (0.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 116 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 75 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 40 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
4 33 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 33 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (2.18%) Derivative
6 30 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 29 (1.97%) Fixed Income
8 28 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 28 (1.90%) Reinsurance
9 26 (1.77%) PMI
10 25 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 25 (1.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 20 (1.36%) Credit Risk
12 19 (1.29%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.29%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.16%) Equities
14 17 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (1.02%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.68%) Windows
2 9 (0.61%) Linux
3 4 (0.27%) VMS
4 2 (0.14%) Android
4 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.14%) Unix
4 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.068%) AIX
5 1 (0.068%) Solaris
5 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (37.14%) Agile
2 437 (29.73%) Business Analysis
3 420 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 354 (24.08%) Requirements Gathering
5 306 (20.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 270 (18.37%) Workshop Facilitation
7 269 (18.30%) User Stories
8 245 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 202 (13.74%) User Acceptance Testing
10 171 (11.63%) Migration
11 170 (11.56%) Data Analysis
12 137 (9.32%) Scrum
13 134 (9.12%) Waterfall
14 131 (8.91%) Analytics
15 125 (8.50%) Decision-Making
16 124 (8.44%) Process Improvement
17 120 (8.16%) Project Delivery
18 118 (8.03%) Change Management
18 118 (8.03%) GAP Analysis
18 118 (8.03%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (12.79%) SQL
2 49 (3.33%) Python
3 8 (0.54%) C#
4 7 (0.48%) Korn
4 7 (0.48%) VBA
5 5 (0.34%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.34%) R
6 4 (0.27%) Java
7 1 (0.068%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.068%) COBOL
7 1 (0.068%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.068%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.068%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 136 (9.25%) Degree
2 97 (6.60%) Security Cleared
3 75 (5.10%) SC Cleared
4 44 (2.99%) CBAP
5 32 (2.18%) PMI Certification
6 13 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 10 (0.68%) IIBA
10 9 (0.61%) ACCA
11 8 (0.54%) ISEB
11 8 (0.54%) PMP
12 7 (0.48%) CIMA
13 6 (0.41%) CFA
14 4 (0.27%) CSPO
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.20%) FFIEC
15 3 (0.20%) MBA
15 3 (0.20%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (5.85%) QA
2 62 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.47%) GDPR
4 31 (2.11%) MiFID
5 22 (1.50%) EMIR
6 15 (1.02%) GRC
7 14 (0.95%) ISO 20022
7 14 (0.95%) PSD2
8 13 (0.88%) SEPA
9 12 (0.82%) NIST
10 10 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.54%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.48%) Basel III
12 7 (0.48%) ISO 8583
12 7 (0.48%) PMO
13 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.34%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.068%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.068%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (0.68%) Ansible
4 6 (0.41%) Terraform
5 4 (0.27%) SCCM
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 151 (10.27%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.51%) Salesforce
3 67 (4.56%) SAP
4 55 (3.74%) Oracle
5 41 (2.79%) ServiceNow
6 22 (1.50%) Murex
7 19 (1.29%) OpenLink
8 16 (1.09%) Google
9 13 (0.88%) Workday
10 12 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.75%) Adobe
12 9 (0.61%) Charles River
12 9 (0.61%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.61%) OneTrust
13 8 (0.54%) Bloomberg
13 8 (0.54%) Guidewire
13 8 (0.54%) Sonatype
14 7 (0.48%) Alibaba
14 7 (0.48%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.48%) Temenos