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 8 January 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 49 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,492 1,135 1,792
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.73% 4.15% 5.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.17% 4.47% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 856 1,335
10th Percentile £350 £391 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% +1.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 5
10th Percentile £25.00 £25.26 £24.96
25th Percentile £26.80 £30.59 £31.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £41.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.12% -20.95% +91.92%
75th Percentile £68.09 £75.00 £67.56
90th Percentile £88.25 £84.60 £69.02
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £38.38 £42.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% -8.63% +53.54%

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 28,868 25,405 33,449
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 92.84% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,444 15,743 22,770
10th Percentile £300 £300 £280
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
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 1,758 792 1,481
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £62.25 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.99 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.54 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.35% -26.97% +34.85%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -1 928 £525 -7.28% 146
North of England +7 205 £425 -5.56% 86
Midlands +9 133 £435 -8.42% 56
South East -3 101 £478 -2.05% 105
Yorkshire +8 93 £475 +5.56% 32
North West -8 90 £400 -6.43% 41
West Midlands -11 81 £475 -5.00% 33
South West +30 80 £469 -1.32% 37
East Midlands +9 53 £358 -10.50% 23
North East +20 36 £425 +3.03% 14
East of England -14 24 £500 -2.44% 25
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 January 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.

1 572 (38.34%) Agile
2 491 (32.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 463 (31.03%) Business Analysis
4 394 (26.41%) Requirements Gathering
5 320 (21.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 318 (21.31%) Workshop Facilitation
7 312 (20.91%) User Stories
8 264 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
9 216 (14.48%) User Acceptance Testing
10 214 (14.34%) JIRA
11 201 (13.47%) Migration
12 190 (12.73%) SQL
13 155 (10.39%) Confluence
13 155 (10.39%) Degree
14 149 (9.99%) Microsoft
15 148 (9.92%) Security Cleared
16 145 (9.72%) Data Analysis
17 141 (9.45%) Acceptance Criteria
18 140 (9.38%) Scrum
19 130 (8.71%) Waterfall
20 128 (8.58%) Process Improvement
21 126 (8.45%) Decision-Making
22 124 (8.31%) Project Delivery
23 122 (8.18%) Analytics
24 121 (8.11%) GAP Analysis
24 121 (8.11%) SC Cleared
25 117 (7.84%) Power Platform
26 116 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
27 114 (7.64%) Data Modelling
28 113 (7.57%) Change Management

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
1 155 (10.39%) Confluence
2 28 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.60%) SAS
4 6 (0.40%) CMS
5 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.067%) Camunda
8 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.067%) Mule
8 1 (0.067%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 105 (7.04%) MS Visio
2 103 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (3.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.27%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.27%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.067%) Sketch
9 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (2.61%) Endur
2 26 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
5 10 (0.67%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.67%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.20%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.13%) BASE24
9 2 (0.13%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.13%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 117 (7.84%) Power Platform
2 76 (5.09%) Azure
3 60 (4.02%) AWS
4 33 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (1.81%) SaaS
6 26 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (1.41%) Lucidchart
8 18 (1.21%) Miro
9 17 (1.14%) GCP
10 15 (1.01%) GitHub
11 14 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 13 (0.87%) Snowflake
13 12 (0.80%) Power Automate
13 12 (0.80%) PowerApps
14 11 (0.74%) Figma
15 10 (0.67%) Entra ID
16 8 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 7 (0.47%) Apigee
17 7 (0.47%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.27%) Firewall
1 4 (0.27%) Network Security
2 3 (0.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
3 2 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.13%) Intranet
3 2 (0.13%) NAS
3 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.13%) WAN
3 2 (0.13%) X.25
4 1 (0.067%) ATM
4 1 (0.067%) DNS
4 1 (0.067%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.067%) LAN
4 1 (0.067%) Softphone
4 1 (0.067%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (6.64%) Power BI
2 42 (2.82%) Tableau
3 26 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.21%) Metadata
5 14 (0.94%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.34%) Power Query
7 4 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.27%) Big Data
7 4 (0.27%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.27%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.20%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.20%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.20%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.13%) Looker
9 2 (0.13%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 214 (14.34%) JIRA
2 12 (0.80%) Jenkins
2 12 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (0.40%) Postman
4 3 (0.20%) Git
5 2 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.13%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.067%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.067%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.067%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.067%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.067%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.067%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 598 (40.08%) Social Skills
2 529 (35.46%) Finance
3 335 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
4 234 (15.68%) Banking
5 143 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 100 (6.70%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (4.09%) Retail
8 58 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (3.62%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.49%) Legal
11 51 (3.42%) Front Office
12 50 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (3.08%) Back Office
14 44 (2.95%) Telecoms
15 40 (2.68%) Marketing
16 26 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.68%) Local Government
18 23 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 20 (1.34%) Financial Institution
20 19 (1.27%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.21%) REST
2 26 (1.74%) XML
3 16 (1.07%) SOAP
4 13 (0.87%) JSON
5 12 (0.80%) SailPoint
6 10 (0.67%) OAuth
6 10 (0.67%) Swagger
7 9 (0.60%) ADO
8 7 (0.47%) SAML
9 6 (0.40%) .NET
9 6 (0.40%) JWT
9 6 (0.40%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.40%) RESTful
9 6 (0.40%) VML
10 5 (0.34%) Middleware
10 5 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (0.27%) Anaconda
11 4 (0.27%) FHIR
11 4 (0.27%) HTML
11 4 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.04%) Product Ownership
2 73 (4.89%) Onboarding
3 34 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
3 34 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
3 34 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
4 31 (2.08%) PMI
5 30 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 27 (1.81%) Fixed Income
6 27 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 26 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 25 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 23 (1.54%) Derivative
10 22 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.34%) Equities
12 18 (1.21%) Credit Risk
13 14 (0.94%) Data Centre
13 14 (0.94%) NHS
13 14 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (0.87%) Mobile App
15 10 (0.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.07%) Linux
2 10 (0.67%) Windows
3 6 (0.40%) VMS
4 2 (0.13%) Android
4 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.067%) AIX
5 1 (0.067%) Solaris
5 1 (0.067%) Unix
5 1 (0.067%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (38.34%) Agile
2 491 (32.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 463 (31.03%) Business Analysis
4 394 (26.41%) Requirements Gathering
5 320 (21.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 318 (21.31%) Workshop Facilitation
7 312 (20.91%) User Stories
8 264 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
9 216 (14.48%) User Acceptance Testing
10 201 (13.47%) Migration
11 145 (9.72%) Data Analysis
12 141 (9.45%) Acceptance Criteria
13 140 (9.38%) Scrum
14 130 (8.71%) Waterfall
15 128 (8.58%) Process Improvement
16 126 (8.45%) Decision-Making
17 124 (8.31%) Project Delivery
18 122 (8.18%) Analytics
19 121 (8.11%) GAP Analysis
20 116 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 190 (12.73%) SQL
2 42 (2.82%) Python
3 8 (0.54%) JavaScript
4 7 (0.47%) Korn
5 5 (0.34%) C#
5 5 (0.34%) R
5 5 (0.34%) VBA
6 4 (0.27%) Java
7 3 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.067%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.067%) C++
8 1 (0.067%) COBOL
8 1 (0.067%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.067%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 155 (10.39%) Degree
2 148 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 121 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.89%) CBAP
5 39 (2.61%) PMI Certification
6 28 (1.88%) IIBA
7 24 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.87%) CSPO
10 12 (0.80%) PMP
11 9 (0.60%) ISEB
12 8 (0.54%) CFA
12 8 (0.54%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.34%) ACCA
13 5 (0.34%) MBA
14 4 (0.27%) CIMA
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.13%) APMP
16 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (5.76%) QA
2 67 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.42%) GDPR
4 27 (1.81%) MiFID
5 20 (1.34%) EMIR
6 16 (1.07%) PSD2
7 15 (1.01%) ISO 20022
8 13 (0.87%) GRC
9 12 (0.80%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.67%) SEPA
11 9 (0.60%) ISO 8583
11 9 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 8 (0.54%) NIST
12 8 (0.54%) PMO
13 7 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.40%) Basel III
15 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.27%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.067%) Docker
2 1 (0.067%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.067%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.067%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (0.87%) Ansible
2 6 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.13%) SCCM
5 1 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.067%) Terraform
Vendors
1 149 (9.99%) Microsoft
2 99 (6.64%) Salesforce
3 62 (4.16%) SAP
4 46 (3.08%) Oracle
5 31 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 21 (1.41%) Murex
7 17 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 16 (1.07%) Bloomberg
8 16 (1.07%) Google
9 13 (0.87%) Adobe
9 13 (0.87%) OpenLink
10 10 (0.67%) Sonatype
11 9 (0.60%) Guidewire
11 9 (0.60%) OneTrust
12 8 (0.54%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.54%) Pega
13 7 (0.47%) Avaloq
13 7 (0.47%) Workday
14 6 (0.40%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.40%) Refinitiv