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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 46 40
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,678 1,116 1,732
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.56% 4.54% 4.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.95% 4.88% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 813 1,280
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £630
90th Percentile £700 £756 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 7
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £41.83 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.81 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.29% -22.28% -9.48%
75th Percentile £81.50 £55.63 £68.78
90th Percentile £90.25 £74.25 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £34.68 £50.00
% change year-on-year +87.43% -30.64% -13.79%

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 33,895 22,860 35,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.04% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,384 15,072 23,528
10th Percentile £310 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 779 2,277
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.38 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.44 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £33.00 £32.90
% change year-on-year +8.21% +0.32% -22.60%

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 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 17 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 17 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 +2 1,026 £525 -8.70% 146
North of England +5 251 £425 - 96
Midlands -1 146 £464 -4.87% 62
Yorkshire +2 121 £475 +5.56% 38
South East -13 114 £500 +3.90% 99
North West -11 113 £400 - 34
West Midlands -8 112 £475 -5.00% 37
South West +21 95 £466 -6.85% 36
North East +13 33 £425 +6.25% 26
East Midlands -20 32 £401 -1.96% 25
East of England -27 22 £481 +1.32% 25
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 586 (34.92%) Agile
2 551 (32.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 504 (30.04%) Business Analysis
4 456 (27.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 397 (23.66%) Workshop Facilitation
6 384 (22.88%) User Stories
7 368 (21.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 270 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
9 261 (15.55%) JIRA
10 254 (15.14%) User Acceptance Testing
11 244 (14.54%) Migration
12 237 (14.12%) Security Cleared
13 212 (12.63%) Acceptance Criteria
14 202 (12.04%) SC Cleared
15 200 (11.92%) Confluence
15 200 (11.92%) SQL
16 157 (9.36%) Process Improvement
17 156 (9.30%) Data Analysis
18 154 (9.18%) Degree
19 152 (9.06%) Microsoft
20 144 (8.58%) Decision-Making
21 142 (8.46%) Scrum
22 140 (8.34%) Data Modelling
23 135 (8.05%) GAP Analysis
23 135 (8.05%) Validation
24 130 (7.75%) MS Visio
25 126 (7.51%) Project Delivery
26 122 (7.27%) DevOps
26 122 (7.27%) Power Platform
27 121 (7.21%) 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
1 200 (11.92%) Confluence
2 28 (1.67%) 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 (0.060%) Appian
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.060%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 130 (7.75%) MS Visio
2 115 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 66 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.24%) Notion
7 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Inventor
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.060%) CATIA
8 1 (0.060%) Sketch
8 1 (0.060%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 23 (1.37%) Endur
2 21 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (1.01%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
6 9 (0.54%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.30%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 5 (0.30%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.24%) Actimize
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.24%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.24%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.24%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 3 (0.18%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.18%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 122 (7.27%) Power Platform
2 113 (6.73%) Azure
3 67 (3.99%) AWS
4 38 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (1.37%) GitHub
8 22 (1.31%) SaaS
9 20 (1.19%) Lucidchart
10 17 (1.01%) Miro
10 17 (1.01%) Snowflake
11 16 (0.95%) GCP
11 16 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 13 (0.77%) Power Automate
13 12 (0.72%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.54%) Figma
15 8 (0.48%) Entra ID
15 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (0.42%) Apigee
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 (0.060%) DNS
4 1 (0.060%) LAN
4 1 (0.060%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (5.96%) Power BI
2 40 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (2.21%) Tableau
4 21 (1.25%) Metadata
5 11 (0.66%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.54%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.30%) Big Data
8 5 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.18%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.18%) Power Query
10 3 (0.18%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.18%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 261 (15.55%) JIRA
2 21 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.48%) Postman
5 5 (0.30%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.18%) Toad
7 2 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.12%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.060%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.060%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.060%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.060%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.060%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 619 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 584 (34.80%) Finance
3 389 (23.18%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (15.61%) Banking
5 170 (10.13%) Public Sector
6 126 (7.51%) Documentation Skills
7 64 (3.81%) Front Office
7 64 (3.81%) Retail
8 57 (3.40%) Investment Banking
8 57 (3.40%) Legal
9 56 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (2.32%) Marketing
11 39 (2.32%) Telecoms
12 30 (1.79%) Back Office
13 29 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (1.55%) Local Government
15 24 (1.43%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.89%) Law
16 15 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.26%) REST
2 27 (1.61%) XML
3 19 (1.13%) SOAP
4 18 (1.07%) JSON
5 12 (0.72%) ADO
5 12 (0.72%) Swagger
6 11 (0.66%) OAuth
7 10 (0.60%) SailPoint
8 9 (0.54%) FHIR
9 8 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (0.48%) VML
10 7 (0.42%) JWT
10 7 (0.42%) OpenAPI
10 7 (0.42%) SAML
11 6 (0.36%) Middleware
12 5 (0.30%) .NET
13 4 (0.24%) HTML
13 4 (0.24%) RESTful
14 3 (0.18%) Murex MxML
14 3 (0.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (8.28%) Product Ownership
2 56 (3.34%) Onboarding
3 40 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 39 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
5 37 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 36 (2.15%) Fixed Income
7 33 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (1.79%) Derivative
9 25 (1.49%) PMI
10 24 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 24 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.31%) NHS
12 21 (1.25%) Credit Risk
12 21 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 20 (1.19%) Equities
14 18 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.72%) Mobile App
15 12 (0.72%) Reference Data
16 11 (0.66%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.01%) Linux
2 12 (0.72%) Windows
3 5 (0.30%) VMS
4 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.24%) Unix
5 3 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.12%) AIX
6 2 (0.12%) Solaris
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (34.92%) Agile
2 551 (32.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 504 (30.04%) Business Analysis
4 456 (27.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 397 (23.66%) Workshop Facilitation
6 384 (22.88%) User Stories
7 368 (21.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 270 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
9 254 (15.14%) User Acceptance Testing
10 244 (14.54%) Migration
11 212 (12.63%) Acceptance Criteria
12 157 (9.36%) Process Improvement
13 156 (9.30%) Data Analysis
14 144 (8.58%) Decision-Making
15 142 (8.46%) Scrum
16 140 (8.34%) Data Modelling
17 135 (8.05%) GAP Analysis
17 135 (8.05%) Validation
18 126 (7.51%) Project Delivery
19 122 (7.27%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 200 (11.92%) SQL
2 42 (2.50%) Python
3 11 (0.66%) Korn
4 7 (0.42%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.36%) Java
6 4 (0.24%) R
6 4 (0.24%) VBA
7 3 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.12%) C#
8 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.060%) C++
9 1 (0.060%) COBOL
9 1 (0.060%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 237 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 202 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 154 (9.18%) Degree
4 57 (3.40%) CBAP
5 42 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (2.44%) IIBA
7 35 (2.09%) PMI Certification
8 15 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (0.89%) PMP
9 13 (0.77%) ISEB
10 11 (0.66%) CSPO
10 11 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.42%) CFA
12 6 (0.36%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.30%) MBA
14 4 (0.24%) ACCA
15 3 (0.18%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.18%) CIMA
16 2 (0.12%) AAT
16 2 (0.12%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.66%) QA
2 81 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.74%) GDPR
4 22 (1.31%) MiFID
5 19 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.95%) EMIR
6 16 (0.95%) NIST
7 15 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.77%) PSD2
9 12 (0.72%) GRC
9 12 (0.72%) ISO 8583
10 11 (0.66%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.54%) HL7
12 9 (0.54%) PMO
13 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.36%) SEPA
16 5 (0.30%) Basel III
System Software
1 7 (0.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.060%) Docker
2 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.060%) RACF
2 1 (0.060%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (1.25%) Ansible
2 6 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.12%) Terraform
5 1 (0.060%) Control-M
5 1 (0.060%) Grafana
5 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.060%) Kibana
Vendors
1 152 (9.06%) Microsoft
2 96 (5.72%) Salesforce
3 77 (4.59%) SAP
4 52 (3.10%) Oracle
5 46 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 34 (2.03%) Murex
7 23 (1.37%) Bloomberg
8 19 (1.13%) Sonatype
9 17 (1.01%) Adobe
10 16 (0.95%) Workday
11 14 (0.83%) Databricks
12 13 (0.77%) Pega
13 12 (0.72%) Google
14 11 (0.66%) Guidewire
15 10 (0.60%) Avaloq
15 10 (0.60%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.60%) Splunk
16 8 (0.48%) OneTrust
16 8 (0.48%) OpenLink
16 8 (0.48%) Refinitiv