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 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 45 40
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,755 1,141 1,690
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.50% 4.68% 4.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.88% 5.04% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 809 1,240
10th Percentile £356 £362 £394
25th Percentile £413 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £630
90th Percentile £713 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 8
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £34.19 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.82 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +98.08% +29.96% -56.47%
75th Percentile £76.75 £50.00 £57.81
90th Percentile £88.25 £56.75 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £64.19 £32.82 £39.00
% change year-on-year +95.60% -15.86% -32.76%

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 35,993 22,652 34,626
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.87% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,660 15,166 23,117
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,393 844 2,319
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.18 £20.29 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.25%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £34.00
% change year-on-year +25.94% -6.59% -23.65%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 0 1,064 £537 -5.79% 148
North of England -5 266 £425 +3.66% 104
Midlands -5 158 £465 -2.11% 55
Yorkshire +9 126 £475 +5.56% 43
West Midlands +3 123 £475 -5.00% 35
South East -22 122 £500 +5.26% 78
North West -15 120 £400 -2.44% 37
South West +17 98 £466 -6.85% 35
North East +13 36 £425 +6.25% 24
East Midlands -17 33 £401 -2.20% 20
East of England -33 24 £488 +8.33% 32
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 April 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.

1 598 (34.07%) Agile
2 551 (31.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 518 (29.52%) Business Analysis
4 470 (26.78%) Requirements Gathering
5 429 (24.44%) Workshop Facilitation
6 405 (23.08%) User Stories
7 377 (21.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 276 (15.73%) User Acceptance Testing
9 274 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
10 258 (14.70%) JIRA
11 243 (13.85%) Migration
12 241 (13.73%) Security Cleared
13 237 (13.50%) Acceptance Criteria
14 208 (11.85%) SC Cleared
15 200 (11.40%) Confluence
16 197 (11.23%) SQL
17 169 (9.63%) Process Improvement
18 160 (9.12%) Data Analysis
18 160 (9.12%) Microsoft
19 159 (9.06%) Validation
20 155 (8.83%) Decision-Making
21 150 (8.55%) Degree
22 148 (8.43%) GAP Analysis
23 147 (8.38%) Scrum
24 140 (7.98%) MS Visio
25 139 (7.92%) Data Modelling
26 129 (7.35%) Project Delivery
27 125 (7.12%) DevOps
27 125 (7.12%) Project Management
28 122 (6.95%) Power Platform

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
1 200 (11.40%) Confluence
2 29 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.97%) SAS
4 5 (0.28%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.057%) Appian
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.057%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 140 (7.98%) MS Visio
2 116 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.23%) Notion
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) Sketch
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.14%) Endur
2 18 (1.03%) Aladdin
2 18 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 5 (0.28%) Summit
5 5 (0.28%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.23%) Actimize
6 4 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.23%) Findur
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.17%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 122 (6.95%) Power Platform
2 117 (6.67%) Azure
3 65 (3.70%) AWS
4 38 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (1.37%) Lucidchart
8 21 (1.20%) GitHub
8 21 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 19 (1.08%) Miro
10 17 (0.97%) SaaS
11 16 (0.91%) GCP
11 16 (0.91%) Snowflake
12 12 (0.68%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.57%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.51%) Figma
14 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.23%) Network Security
2 3 (0.17%) Internet
2 3 (0.17%) Wireless
3 2 (0.11%) Broadband
3 2 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.11%) DNS
3 2 (0.11%) Firewall
3 2 (0.11%) Intranet
3 2 (0.11%) NAS
3 2 (0.11%) X.25
4 1 (0.057%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (5.64%) Power BI
2 39 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (2.05%) Tableau
4 24 (1.37%) Metadata
5 13 (0.74%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.40%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.28%) Big Data
8 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.17%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.17%) Power Query
11 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.11%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.11%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 258 (14.70%) JIRA
2 18 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 17 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.46%) Postman
5 5 (0.28%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.11%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.057%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.057%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 622 (35.44%) Social Skills
2 617 (35.16%) Finance
3 418 (23.82%) Analytical Skills
4 269 (15.33%) Banking
5 174 (9.91%) Public Sector
6 137 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
7 80 (4.56%) Retail
8 73 (4.16%) Front Office
9 63 (3.59%) Legal
10 62 (3.53%) Investment Banking
11 55 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.17%) Marketing
14 37 (2.11%) Back Office
15 34 (1.94%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.77%) Financial Institution
16 31 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (1.48%) Local Government
18 18 (1.03%) Law
19 17 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.88%) REST
2 27 (1.54%) XML
3 17 (0.97%) JSON
4 16 (0.91%) SOAP
5 12 (0.68%) Swagger
6 11 (0.63%) OAuth
7 10 (0.57%) ADO
7 10 (0.57%) VML
8 9 (0.51%) FHIR
8 9 (0.51%) Middleware
9 8 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (0.40%) JWT
10 7 (0.40%) OpenAPI
10 7 (0.40%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.40%) SAML
11 5 (0.28%) .NET
12 4 (0.23%) HTML
12 4 (0.23%) NumPy
12 4 (0.23%) Pandas
12 4 (0.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 155 (8.83%) Product Ownership
2 61 (3.48%) Onboarding
3 43 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 42 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
5 40 (2.28%) Fixed Income
6 39 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.17%) Derivative
8 32 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 26 (1.48%) NHS
9 26 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.42%) Credit Risk
10 25 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.31%) PMI
12 22 (1.25%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.14%) Equities
14 18 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 17 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.85%) Market Risk
17 14 (0.80%) Hedge funds
18 13 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.91%) Linux
2 14 (0.80%) Windows
3 6 (0.34%) Unix
4 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.28%) VMS
5 3 (0.17%) Android
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.057%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (34.07%) Agile
2 551 (31.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 518 (29.52%) Business Analysis
4 470 (26.78%) Requirements Gathering
5 429 (24.44%) Workshop Facilitation
6 405 (23.08%) User Stories
7 377 (21.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 276 (15.73%) User Acceptance Testing
9 274 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
10 243 (13.85%) Migration
11 237 (13.50%) Acceptance Criteria
12 169 (9.63%) Process Improvement
13 160 (9.12%) Data Analysis
14 159 (9.06%) Validation
15 155 (8.83%) Decision-Making
16 148 (8.43%) GAP Analysis
17 147 (8.38%) Scrum
18 139 (7.92%) Data Modelling
19 129 (7.35%) Project Delivery
20 125 (7.12%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 197 (11.23%) SQL
2 43 (2.45%) Python
3 9 (0.51%) Korn
4 7 (0.40%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.34%) VBA
6 4 (0.23%) Java
6 4 (0.23%) R
7 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.11%) C#
8 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.057%) C++
9 1 (0.057%) COBOL
9 1 (0.057%) Groovy
9 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 241 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 208 (11.85%) SC Cleared
3 150 (8.55%) Degree
4 53 (3.02%) CBAP
5 44 (2.51%) IIBA
6 42 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (1.88%) PMI Certification
8 15 (0.85%) PMP
9 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (0.74%) CSPO
11 11 (0.63%) ISEB
12 10 (0.57%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.40%) CFA
13 7 (0.40%) DV Cleared
14 5 (0.28%) MBA
15 4 (0.23%) ACCA
16 3 (0.17%) CIMA
17 2 (0.11%) APMP
17 2 (0.11%) CAPM
17 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.93%) QA
2 87 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.96%) GDPR
4 23 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.25%) MiFID
6 19 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.03%) NIST
8 16 (0.91%) EMIR
9 14 (0.80%) PSD2
10 12 (0.68%) GRC
10 12 (0.68%) ISO 8583
11 11 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.63%) PMO
12 10 (0.57%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.51%) HL7
14 8 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.34%) Basel III
16 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
17 5 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.057%) Docker
2 1 (0.057%) RACF
Systems Management
1 18 (1.03%) Ansible
2 6 (0.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.11%) Control-M
3 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.11%) Terraform
4 1 (0.057%) Grafana
4 1 (0.057%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.057%) Kibana
4 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 160 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 105 (5.98%) Salesforce
3 74 (4.22%) SAP
4 52 (2.96%) Oracle
5 51 (2.91%) ServiceNow
6 33 (1.88%) Murex
7 23 (1.31%) Bloomberg
8 16 (0.91%) Adobe
8 16 (0.91%) Databricks
8 16 (0.91%) Sonatype
8 16 (0.91%) Workday
9 12 (0.68%) Pega
10 11 (0.63%) Avaloq
10 11 (0.63%) Google
10 11 (0.63%) Splunk
11 10 (0.57%) Guidewire
11 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
12 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 8 (0.46%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.46%) Refinitiv