Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 37 47
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,752 1,406 1,361
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 5.13% 4.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.16% 5.61% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 980 1,008
10th Percentile £367 £355 £374
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -3.10% -1.87%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £626
90th Percentile £688 £763 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 10
10th Percentile £29.12 £27.13 £25.98
25th Percentile £34.87 £31.49 £33.13
Median hourly rate £56.75 £32.89 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +72.54% -28.89% -2.63%
75th Percentile £77.20 £57.50 £69.31
90th Percentile £104.00 £75.75 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +61.76% -20.00% -21.30%

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 42,143 25,068 30,781
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 91.54% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,317 16,174 19,714
10th Percentile £325 £281 £303
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,273 1,351 1,623
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £21.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.01
90th Percentile £79.80 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -16 1,017 £550 -4.35% 381
North of England -15 263 £463 +8.82% 113
Midlands -5 164 £471 +25.53% 82
South East -9 164 £500 +5.26% 123
West Midlands +11 125 £475 - 60
North West -26 120 £439 +3.24% 61
Yorkshire -15 105 £475 +16.14% 33
South West +5 84 £480 +2.35% 64
North East -17 39 £525 +20.00% 20
East Midlands -22 38 £460 +28.49% 22
East of England -13 33 £475 +5.56% 23
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 September 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.

1 614 (35.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 607 (34.65%) Business Analysis
3 568 (32.42%) Agile
4 544 (31.05%) Requirements Gathering
5 494 (28.20%) Workshop Facilitation
6 468 (26.71%) User Stories
7 347 (19.81%) User Acceptance Testing
8 327 (18.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 298 (17.01%) Acceptance Criteria
10 224 (12.79%) JIRA
10 224 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
11 202 (11.53%) Validation
12 201 (11.47%) Process Improvement
13 192 (10.96%) SQL
14 186 (10.62%) Migration
15 178 (10.16%) AI
16 173 (9.87%) Data Analysis
17 165 (9.42%) Microsoft
18 164 (9.36%) Decision-Making
19 153 (8.73%) Confluence
20 148 (8.45%) Azure
20 148 (8.45%) Degree
20 148 (8.45%) Security Cleared
21 136 (7.76%) Data Modelling
22 135 (7.71%) Scrum
23 128 (7.31%) Requirements Workshops
24 122 (6.96%) GAP Analysis
24 122 (6.96%) Impact Assessments
25 121 (6.91%) DevOps
26 119 (6.79%) SC 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
1 153 (8.73%) Confluence
2 25 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.34%) CMS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.17%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.057%) Camunda
7 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Moodle
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.057%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.057%) Totara
Applications
1 96 (5.48%) MS Visio
2 69 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.23%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.57%) Endur
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.40%) Maximo
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.34%) Findur
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
10 4 (0.23%) HFM
10 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.23%) Summit
11 3 (0.17%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.17%) Primavera
11 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 148 (8.45%) Azure
2 109 (6.22%) Power Platform
3 63 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (3.03%) AWS
5 41 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (1.48%) SaaS
7 25 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 20 (1.14%) Snowflake
9 19 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (1.03%) Lucidchart
10 18 (1.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 17 (0.97%) Miro
12 14 (0.80%) GCP
13 12 (0.68%) Entra ID
14 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.63%) Power Automate
14 11 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
15 9 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (0.46%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.34%) Network Security
1 6 (0.34%) Wireless
2 5 (0.29%) Intranet
3 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.11%) 802.11
4 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.11%) DNS
4 2 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.11%) WLAN
5 1 (0.057%) 5G
5 1 (0.057%) HTTP
5 1 (0.057%) LAN
5 1 (0.057%) PBX
5 1 (0.057%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.057%) SNMP
5 1 (0.057%) SSH
5 1 (0.057%) SSL
5 1 (0.057%) VoIP
5 1 (0.057%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.37%) Power BI
2 36 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (2.00%) Metadata
4 22 (1.26%) Tableau
5 13 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 12 (0.68%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
8 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.29%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.23%) Big Data
11 4 (0.23%) GIS
11 4 (0.23%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.17%) Looker
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 224 (12.79%) JIRA
2 4 (0.23%) Balsamiq
3 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.11%) GitLab
4 2 (0.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 624 (35.62%) Finance
2 570 (32.53%) Social Skills
3 397 (22.66%) Analytical Skills
4 243 (13.87%) Banking
5 139 (7.93%) Documentation Skills
6 133 (7.59%) Public Sector
7 107 (6.11%) Retail
8 94 (5.37%) Front Office
9 68 (3.88%) Investment Banking
10 62 (3.54%) Legal
11 48 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
12 45 (2.57%) Manufacturing
13 37 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (2.00%) Back Office
15 33 (1.88%) Local Government
16 31 (1.77%) Financial Institution
17 30 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
18 25 (1.43%) Marketing
19 24 (1.37%) Billing
19 24 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (0.97%) XML
3 15 (0.86%) Middleware
4 14 (0.80%) JSON
5 13 (0.74%) ADO
6 7 (0.40%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.34%) FHIR
8 5 (0.29%) STL
8 5 (0.29%) Terraform
9 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.23%) NumPy
9 4 (0.23%) Pandas
9 4 (0.23%) VML
10 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
10 3 (0.17%) REST
10 3 (0.17%) Swagger
11 2 (0.11%) EDI
11 2 (0.11%) Kafka
11 2 (0.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 166 (9.47%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.85%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.20%) Derivative
4 48 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 43 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 36 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (2.00%) Fixed Income
8 31 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 28 (1.60%) Data Structures
11 24 (1.37%) Credit Risk
11 24 (1.37%) Operational Technology
12 21 (1.20%) Reference Data
13 20 (1.14%) Hedge funds
13 20 (1.14%) Market Risk
14 19 (1.08%) Equities
15 18 (1.03%) FMCG
16 17 (0.97%) NHS
17 14 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
18 13 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.46%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
2 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.23%) Unix
3 1 (0.057%) Linux
3 1 (0.057%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 614 (35.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 607 (34.65%) Business Analysis
3 568 (32.42%) Agile
4 544 (31.05%) Requirements Gathering
5 494 (28.20%) Workshop Facilitation
6 468 (26.71%) User Stories
7 347 (19.81%) User Acceptance Testing
8 327 (18.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 298 (17.01%) Acceptance Criteria
10 224 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
11 202 (11.53%) Validation
12 201 (11.47%) Process Improvement
13 186 (10.62%) Migration
14 178 (10.16%) AI
15 173 (9.87%) Data Analysis
16 164 (9.36%) Decision-Making
17 136 (7.76%) Data Modelling
18 135 (7.71%) Scrum
19 128 (7.31%) Requirements Workshops
20 122 (6.96%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 192 (10.96%) SQL
2 32 (1.83%) Python
3 14 (0.80%) Korn
4 8 (0.46%) Java
5 3 (0.17%) PL/SQL
5 3 (0.17%) R
6 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.11%) VBA
7 1 (0.057%) ABAP
7 1 (0.057%) C
7 1 (0.057%) C#
7 1 (0.057%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.057%) Groovy
7 1 (0.057%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.057%) Ruby
7 1 (0.057%) SOQL
7 1 (0.057%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (8.45%) Degree
1 148 (8.45%) Security Cleared
2 119 (6.79%) SC Cleared
3 35 (2.00%) IIBA
4 33 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (1.60%) CBAP
6 25 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 17 (0.97%) ACCA
7 17 (0.97%) CIMA
8 16 (0.91%) PMP
9 12 (0.68%) FFIEC
10 11 (0.63%) ISEB
11 10 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.34%) CSPO
13 6 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (6.16%) Data Quality
2 93 (5.31%) QA
3 32 (1.83%) GDPR
4 27 (1.54%) NIST
5 21 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.97%) MiFID
7 14 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.80%) GRC
8 13 (0.74%) COBIT
8 13 (0.74%) EMIR
9 11 (0.63%) IFRS
9 11 (0.63%) PMO
10 8 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.40%) Basel III
11 7 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.29%) HL7
14 4 (0.23%) FINREP
14 4 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.057%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
1 3 (0.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.057%) Autotask
2 1 (0.057%) Control-M
2 1 (0.057%) Grafana
2 1 (0.057%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.057%) Kibana
2 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 165 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 118 (6.74%) Salesforce
3 111 (6.34%) SAP
4 67 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 61 (3.48%) Oracle
6 32 (1.83%) Murex
7 24 (1.37%) Databricks
8 18 (1.03%) Workday
9 17 (0.97%) CyberArk
10 12 (0.68%) IBM
11 11 (0.63%) Bloomberg
11 11 (0.63%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.57%) Pega
13 8 (0.46%) Charles River
14 7 (0.40%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.34%) Ariba
16 5 (0.29%) Infor
16 5 (0.29%) Informatica
16 5 (0.29%) ION Trading