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 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 45 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,740 1,140 1,689
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.50% 4.68% 4.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.87% 5.04% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 809 1,239
10th Percentile £356 £362 £394
25th Percentile £413 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £631
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 35,703 22,640 34,614
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.87% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,481 15,159 23,114
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -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% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,372 844 2,312
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.29 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.57%
75th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £33.07
% change year-on-year +25.94% -3.95% -26.52%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +1 1,056 £537 -5.79% 148
North of England -6 264 £425 +3.66% 104
Midlands -1 157 £465 -2.11% 55
Yorkshire +8 125 £475 +5.56% 43
West Midlands +6 122 £475 -5.00% 35
North West -20 119 £400 -2.44% 37
South East -23 119 £500 +5.26% 78
South West +21 97 £469 -6.20% 35
North East +14 36 £425 +6.25% 24
East Midlands -18 33 £401 -2.20% 20
East of England -28 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 6 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.

1 593 (34.08%) Agile
2 548 (31.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 514 (29.54%) Business Analysis
4 465 (26.72%) Requirements Gathering
5 426 (24.48%) Workshop Facilitation
6 405 (23.28%) User Stories
7 374 (21.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 273 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
9 271 (15.57%) User Acceptance Testing
10 254 (14.60%) JIRA
11 240 (13.79%) Migration
11 240 (13.79%) Security Cleared
12 236 (13.56%) Acceptance Criteria
13 207 (11.90%) SC Cleared
14 197 (11.32%) Confluence
14 197 (11.32%) SQL
15 167 (9.60%) Process Improvement
16 158 (9.08%) Data Analysis
16 158 (9.08%) Microsoft
17 157 (9.02%) Validation
18 153 (8.79%) Decision-Making
19 148 (8.51%) Degree
20 145 (8.33%) GAP Analysis
20 145 (8.33%) Scrum
21 139 (7.99%) MS Visio
22 137 (7.87%) Data Modelling
23 128 (7.36%) Project Delivery
24 123 (7.07%) DevOps
24 123 (7.07%) Project Management
25 121 (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
1 197 (11.32%) Confluence
2 29 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.98%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) 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
1 139 (7.99%) MS Visio
2 114 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.29%) 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 (1.15%) Endur
2 18 (1.03%) Aladdin
2 18 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 5 (0.29%) Summit
5 5 (0.29%) Temenos T24
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%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 3 (0.17%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 121 (6.95%) Power Platform
2 115 (6.61%) Azure
3 64 (3.68%) AWS
4 36 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (1.38%) Lucidchart
8 21 (1.21%) GitHub
8 21 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 19 (1.09%) Miro
10 17 (0.98%) SaaS
11 16 (0.92%) GCP
11 16 (0.92%) Snowflake
12 12 (0.69%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.57%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.52%) Figma
14 9 (0.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.63%) Power BI
2 39 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (2.07%) Tableau
4 24 (1.38%) Metadata
5 13 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.40%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.29%) Big Data
8 5 (0.29%) 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
1 254 (14.60%) JIRA
2 18 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 17 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.46%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) 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
1 616 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 613 (35.23%) Finance
3 413 (23.74%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (15.34%) Banking
5 172 (9.89%) Public Sector
6 137 (7.87%) Documentation Skills
7 80 (4.60%) Retail
8 72 (4.14%) Front Office
9 62 (3.56%) Legal
10 61 (3.51%) Investment Banking
11 55 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
13 37 (2.13%) Marketing
14 36 (2.07%) Back Office
15 34 (1.95%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
17 30 (1.72%) Financial Institution
18 25 (1.44%) Local Government
19 17 (0.98%) Law
19 17 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.90%) REST
2 27 (1.55%) XML
3 17 (0.98%) JSON
4 16 (0.92%) SOAP
5 12 (0.69%) Swagger
6 11 (0.63%) OAuth
7 10 (0.57%) ADO
7 10 (0.57%) VML
8 9 (0.52%) FHIR
9 8 (0.46%) 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 (0.29%) .NET
12 4 (0.23%) HTML
12 4 (0.23%) NumPy
12 4 (0.23%) Pandas
12 4 (0.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 153 (8.79%) Product Ownership
2 60 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 42 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 42 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
4 40 (2.30%) Fixed Income
5 39 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (2.18%) Derivative
7 32 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 26 (1.49%) NHS
8 26 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.44%) Credit Risk
9 25 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.32%) PMI
11 22 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.15%) Equities
13 18 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 17 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.86%) Market Risk
16 14 (0.80%) Hedge funds
17 12 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.92%) Linux
2 14 (0.80%) Windows
3 6 (0.34%) Unix
4 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.29%) 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
1 593 (34.08%) Agile
2 548 (31.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 514 (29.54%) Business Analysis
4 465 (26.72%) Requirements Gathering
5 426 (24.48%) Workshop Facilitation
6 405 (23.28%) User Stories
7 374 (21.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 273 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
9 271 (15.57%) User Acceptance Testing
10 240 (13.79%) Migration
11 236 (13.56%) Acceptance Criteria
12 167 (9.60%) Process Improvement
13 158 (9.08%) Data Analysis
14 157 (9.02%) Validation
15 153 (8.79%) Decision-Making
16 145 (8.33%) GAP Analysis
16 145 (8.33%) Scrum
17 137 (7.87%) Data Modelling
18 128 (7.36%) Project Delivery
19 123 (7.07%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 197 (11.32%) SQL
2 43 (2.47%) Python
3 9 (0.52%) 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
1 240 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 207 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 148 (8.51%) Degree
4 53 (3.05%) CBAP
5 43 (2.47%) IIBA
6 42 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (1.90%) PMI Certification
8 15 (0.86%) PMP
9 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (0.75%) CSPO
11 11 (0.63%) ISEB
12 10 (0.57%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.40%) CFA
14 6 (0.34%) DV Cleared
15 5 (0.29%) MBA
16 4 (0.23%) ACCA
17 3 (0.17%) CIMA
18 2 (0.11%) APMP
18 2 (0.11%) CAPM
18 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.86%) QA
2 86 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.99%) GDPR
4 23 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (1.21%) MiFID
6 19 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.03%) NIST
8 16 (0.92%) EMIR
9 14 (0.80%) PSD2
10 12 (0.69%) ISO 8583
11 11 (0.63%) GRC
11 11 (0.63%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.57%) PMO
13 9 (0.52%) HL7
13 9 (0.52%) ISO 20022
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 (0.29%) SOC 2
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%) Kibana
4 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 158 (9.08%) Microsoft
2 104 (5.98%) Salesforce
3 74 (4.25%) SAP
4 52 (2.99%) Oracle
5 49 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 33 (1.90%) Murex
7 23 (1.32%) Bloomberg
8 16 (0.92%) Adobe
8 16 (0.92%) Sonatype
8 16 (0.92%) Workday
9 15 (0.86%) Databricks
10 12 (0.69%) Pega
11 11 (0.63%) Google
11 11 (0.63%) Splunk
12 10 (0.57%) Avaloq
12 10 (0.57%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
13 8 (0.46%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.46%) Refinitiv
13 8 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud