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 10 May 2026.

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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,769 1,190 1,588
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.33% 4.86% 4.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.70% 5.25% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,237 829 1,156
10th Percentile £358 £363 £383
25th Percentile £416 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 6
10th Percentile £27.94 - -
25th Percentile £35.40 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £62.94 £34.11 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +84.51% +57.66% -64.09%
75th Percentile £78.10 £50.00 £28.06
90th Percentile £104.00 £57.50 £52.25
UK median hourly rate £62.94 £32.82 £25.25
% change year-on-year +91.79% +29.96% -58.09%

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 37,652 22,655 34,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 92.58% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,467 15,083 22,632
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,567 919 2,443
10th Percentile £15.74 £14.11 £12.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.40 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% -18.24% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £28.68 £36.65
% change year-on-year +55.19% -21.76% -18.56%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -3 1,052 £525 -8.70% 155
North of England +6 281 £425 - 94
Midlands -9 169 £465 -2.11% 51
West Midlands +4 137 £475 -5.00% 34
Yorkshire +9 129 £475 +5.56% 36
South East -23 127 £500 +5.26% 71
North West -12 122 £400 -4.19% 34
South West -1 84 £450 -10.00% 19
North East +14 47 £425 +6.25% 24
East Midlands -31 31 £408 +8.96% 17
East of England -29 29 £500 +11.11% 24
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 593 (33.52%) Agile
2 523 (29.56%) Business Analysis
2 523 (29.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 459 (25.95%) Requirements Gathering
4 434 (24.53%) User Stories
5 415 (23.46%) Workshop Facilitation
6 347 (19.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 280 (15.83%) User Acceptance Testing
8 262 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 260 (14.70%) Acceptance Criteria
10 253 (14.30%) JIRA
11 252 (14.25%) Security Cleared
12 239 (13.51%) Migration
13 209 (11.81%) SC Cleared
14 203 (11.48%) Confluence
15 184 (10.40%) SQL
16 163 (9.21%) Process Improvement
17 159 (8.99%) Microsoft
17 159 (8.99%) Validation
18 158 (8.93%) Data Analysis
18 158 (8.93%) Decision-Making
19 146 (8.25%) Degree
20 144 (8.14%) Scrum
21 143 (8.08%) Data Modelling
22 142 (8.03%) GAP Analysis
23 137 (7.74%) Azure
24 134 (7.57%) DevOps
25 131 (7.41%) MS Visio
26 121 (6.84%) AI
27 120 (6.78%) Project Delivery

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
1 203 (11.48%) Confluence
2 24 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.96%) SAS
4 4 (0.23%) CMS
4 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Apache
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.057%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 131 (7.41%) MS Visio
2 106 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.28%) Notion
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.02%) Aladdin
4 12 (0.68%) Endur
5 9 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.34%) Summit
8 5 (0.28%) Findur
8 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.23%) Actimize
9 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 137 (7.74%) Azure
2 117 (6.61%) Power Platform
3 73 (4.13%) AWS
4 41 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
5 30 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (1.24%) Lucidchart
6 22 (1.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 18 (1.02%) GCP
8 17 (0.96%) SaaS
9 16 (0.90%) GitHub
9 16 (0.90%) Miro
10 14 (0.79%) Snowflake
11 10 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (0.57%) Power Automate
11 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 8 (0.45%) Figma
12 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (0.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.34%) Wireless
2 4 (0.23%) Internet
2 4 (0.23%) Network Security
3 3 (0.17%) DNS
3 3 (0.17%) Intranet
4 2 (0.11%) 802.11
4 2 (0.11%) Broadband
4 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.11%) Firewall
4 2 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.11%) WLAN
4 2 (0.11%) X.25
5 1 (0.057%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.057%) Extranet
5 1 (0.057%) NAS
5 1 (0.057%) PBX
5 1 (0.057%) SONET
5 1 (0.057%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.31%) Power BI
2 41 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (1.81%) Tableau
4 29 (1.64%) Metadata
5 15 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.40%) Big Data
6 7 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (0.17%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.17%) Power Query
9 3 (0.17%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.11%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.11%) Looker
10 2 (0.11%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 253 (14.30%) JIRA
2 15 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.45%) Postman
5 5 (0.28%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.057%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.057%) Charles Proxy
8 1 (0.057%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.057%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 604 (34.14%) Finance
1 604 (34.14%) Social Skills
2 419 (23.69%) Analytical Skills
3 260 (14.70%) Banking
4 166 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 131 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
6 88 (4.97%) Retail
7 80 (4.52%) Front Office
8 63 (3.56%) Legal
9 62 (3.50%) Investment Banking
10 60 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (2.15%) Financial Institution
12 38 (2.15%) Marketing
13 34 (1.92%) Back Office
14 32 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.41%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.24%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.19%) Law
18 19 (1.07%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.58%) REST
2 26 (1.47%) XML
3 16 (0.90%) JSON
4 15 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.85%) SOAP
5 13 (0.73%) ADO
6 12 (0.68%) VML
7 11 (0.62%) Swagger
8 10 (0.57%) Middleware
9 9 (0.51%) OAuth
10 6 (0.34%) FHIR
10 6 (0.34%) JWT
10 6 (0.34%) OpenAPI
10 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.28%) .NET
11 5 (0.28%) NumPy
11 5 (0.28%) Pandas
11 5 (0.28%) SAML
12 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
13 3 (0.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 156 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 52 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 44 (2.49%) Derivative
4 42 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 42 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
5 40 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (2.20%) Fixed Income
7 30 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 26 (1.47%) Credit Risk
9 25 (1.41%) NHS
10 23 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 22 (1.24%) Hedge funds
11 22 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.19%) Management Information System
13 19 (1.07%) PMI
14 18 (1.02%) Market Risk
15 16 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.85%) Equities
16 15 (0.85%) Operational Technology
17 12 (0.68%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.73%) Windows
2 10 (0.57%) Linux
3 6 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.34%) Unix
4 5 (0.28%) VMS
5 4 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (33.52%) Agile
2 523 (29.56%) Business Analysis
2 523 (29.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 459 (25.95%) Requirements Gathering
4 434 (24.53%) User Stories
5 415 (23.46%) Workshop Facilitation
6 347 (19.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 280 (15.83%) User Acceptance Testing
8 262 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 260 (14.70%) Acceptance Criteria
10 239 (13.51%) Migration
11 163 (9.21%) Process Improvement
12 159 (8.99%) Validation
13 158 (8.93%) Data Analysis
13 158 (8.93%) Decision-Making
14 144 (8.14%) Scrum
15 143 (8.08%) Data Modelling
16 142 (8.03%) GAP Analysis
17 134 (7.57%) DevOps
18 121 (6.84%) AI
Programming Languages
1 184 (10.40%) SQL
2 42 (2.37%) Python
3 11 (0.62%) Korn
4 6 (0.34%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.28%) Java
5 5 (0.28%) R
5 5 (0.28%) VBA
6 2 (0.11%) C#
6 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.057%) ABAP
7 1 (0.057%) C
7 1 (0.057%) C++
7 1 (0.057%) Groovy
7 1 (0.057%) Ruby
7 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 252 (14.25%) Security Cleared
2 209 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 146 (8.25%) Degree
4 55 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (2.83%) CBAP
6 46 (2.60%) IIBA
7 26 (1.47%) PMI Certification
8 15 (0.85%) CSPO
9 13 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.62%) PMP
11 10 (0.57%) ISEB
12 8 (0.45%) ACCA
12 8 (0.45%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.40%) CIMA
13 7 (0.40%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.23%) CFA
14 4 (0.23%) MBA
15 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.17%) FFIEC
15 3 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.65%) QA
2 88 (4.97%) Data Quality
3 51 (2.88%) GDPR
4 25 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.41%) NIST
5 21 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.96%) EMIR
6 17 (0.96%) MiFID
7 11 (0.62%) ISO 20022
7 11 (0.62%) PSD2
8 10 (0.57%) GRC
9 9 (0.51%) PMO
10 8 (0.45%) ISO 8583
11 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.40%) Basel III
11 7 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.34%) COBIT
12 6 (0.34%) HL7
12 6 (0.34%) IFRS
12 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.057%) RACF
3 1 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (0.73%) Ansible
2 9 (0.51%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.28%) Terraform
4 2 (0.11%) Control-M
4 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.057%) Autotask
5 1 (0.057%) Grafana
5 1 (0.057%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.057%) Kibana
5 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.057%) SCCM
5 1 (0.057%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 159 (8.99%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.11%) Salesforce
3 97 (5.48%) SAP
4 54 (3.05%) Oracle
5 53 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 33 (1.87%) Murex
7 21 (1.19%) Databricks
8 19 (1.07%) Bloomberg
8 19 (1.07%) Workday
9 13 (0.73%) Pega
10 12 (0.68%) Guidewire
10 12 (0.68%) Splunk
11 11 (0.62%) Sonatype
12 10 (0.57%) Adobe
12 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 9 (0.51%) Avaloq
14 8 (0.45%) Google
14 8 (0.45%) Sage
14 8 (0.45%) Zuora