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 7 May 2026.

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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 43 41
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,753 1,187 1,615
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.31% 4.87% 4.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.67% 5.26% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,225 827 1,172
10th Percentile £358 £363 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £638
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 7
10th Percentile £31.20 - -
25th Percentile £36.47 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £62.94 £34.11 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.51% +51.60% -62.66%
75th Percentile £77.20 £50.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £102.42 £57.50 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £62.94 £34.11 £28.00
% change year-on-year +84.51% +21.82% -53.53%

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 37,569 22,569 34,368
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 92.59% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,407 15,021 22,841
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
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 2,564 913 2,442
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £31.35 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.94% -14.12% -17.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.86
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +50.66% -20.55% -18.89%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -2 1,054 £525 -8.70% 156
North of England +2 274 £425 - 118
Midlands -9 165 £465 -2.11% 64
West Midlands +5 134 £475 -5.00% 41
Yorkshire +16 129 £475 +5.56% 50
North West -12 121 £400 -4.19% 36
South East -15 120 £500 +3.90% 87
South West -1 84 £450 -10.00% 33
North East +15 41 £425 +6.25% 32
East Midlands -28 30 £408 +4.49% 23
East of England -29 29 £500 +13.64% 40
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 587 (33.49%) Agile
2 519 (29.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 516 (29.44%) Business Analysis
4 455 (25.96%) Requirements Gathering
5 433 (24.70%) User Stories
6 414 (23.62%) Workshop Facilitation
7 346 (19.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 279 (15.92%) User Acceptance Testing
9 262 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
10 256 (14.60%) Acceptance Criteria
11 251 (14.32%) JIRA
12 248 (14.15%) Security Cleared
13 233 (13.29%) Migration
14 206 (11.75%) SC Cleared
15 202 (11.52%) Confluence
16 187 (10.67%) SQL
17 163 (9.30%) Process Improvement
18 161 (9.18%) Microsoft
19 159 (9.07%) Validation
20 157 (8.96%) Data Analysis
21 154 (8.78%) Decision-Making
22 146 (8.33%) Degree
23 144 (8.21%) GAP Analysis
24 142 (8.10%) Scrum
25 141 (8.04%) Data Modelling
26 132 (7.53%) Azure
26 132 (7.53%) MS Visio
27 131 (7.47%) DevOps
28 121 (6.90%) Project Delivery
29 119 (6.79%) AI

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
1 202 (11.52%) Confluence
2 24 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.97%) 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
1 132 (7.53%) MS Visio
2 108 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.29%) Notion
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 20 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.03%) Aladdin
3 13 (0.74%) Endur
4 10 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.34%) Summit
8 5 (0.29%) Findur
8 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.29%) Temenos T24
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%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 132 (7.53%) Azure
2 115 (6.56%) Power Platform
3 69 (3.94%) AWS
4 38 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
6 29 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (1.25%) Lucidchart
7 22 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 17 (0.97%) GCP
9 16 (0.91%) GitHub
9 16 (0.91%) Miro
9 16 (0.91%) SaaS
10 15 (0.86%) Snowflake
11 10 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (0.57%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 8 (0.46%) Figma
13 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (0.46%) 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 92 (5.25%) Power BI
2 40 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (1.83%) Tableau
4 30 (1.71%) Metadata
5 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.34%) Big Data
6 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.17%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.17%) Power Query
8 3 (0.17%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.11%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.11%) OLAP
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 251 (14.32%) JIRA
2 15 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.46%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) 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
1 607 (34.63%) Finance
2 602 (34.34%) Social Skills
3 417 (23.79%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (14.89%) Banking
5 159 (9.07%) Public Sector
6 131 (7.47%) Documentation Skills
7 90 (5.13%) Retail
8 79 (4.51%) Front Office
9 61 (3.48%) Investment Banking
9 61 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
10 60 (3.42%) Legal
11 49 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
12 40 (2.28%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.22%) Marketing
14 33 (1.88%) Back Office
15 32 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (1.48%) Telecoms
17 21 (1.20%) Law
17 21 (1.20%) Manufacturing
18 18 (1.03%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.65%) REST
2 27 (1.54%) XML
3 17 (0.97%) JSON
4 16 (0.91%) SOAP
5 14 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (0.74%) ADO
7 12 (0.68%) Swagger
7 12 (0.68%) VML
8 10 (0.57%) Middleware
8 10 (0.57%) OAuth
9 7 (0.40%) JWT
9 7 (0.40%) OpenAPI
10 6 (0.34%) FHIR
10 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.29%) .NET
11 5 (0.29%) NumPy
11 5 (0.29%) Pandas
11 5 (0.29%) SAML
12 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
13 3 (0.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 158 (9.01%) Product Ownership
2 51 (2.91%) Onboarding
3 45 (2.57%) Derivative
4 42 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 42 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
5 39 (2.22%) Fixed Income
5 39 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 26 (1.48%) Credit Risk
8 25 (1.43%) NHS
9 23 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.25%) Hedge funds
10 22 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 19 (1.08%) PMI
13 18 (1.03%) Market Risk
14 15 (0.86%) Equities
14 15 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (0.86%) Operational Technology
15 13 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.68%) Windows
2 11 (0.63%) Linux
3 6 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.34%) Unix
4 5 (0.29%) 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
1 587 (33.49%) Agile
2 519 (29.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 516 (29.44%) Business Analysis
4 455 (25.96%) Requirements Gathering
5 433 (24.70%) User Stories
6 414 (23.62%) Workshop Facilitation
7 346 (19.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 279 (15.92%) User Acceptance Testing
9 262 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
10 256 (14.60%) Acceptance Criteria
11 233 (13.29%) Migration
12 163 (9.30%) Process Improvement
13 159 (9.07%) Validation
14 157 (8.96%) Data Analysis
15 154 (8.78%) Decision-Making
16 144 (8.21%) GAP Analysis
17 142 (8.10%) Scrum
18 141 (8.04%) Data Modelling
19 131 (7.47%) DevOps
20 121 (6.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 187 (10.67%) SQL
2 41 (2.34%) Python
3 11 (0.63%) Korn
4 6 (0.34%) JavaScript
4 6 (0.34%) VBA
5 5 (0.29%) R
6 4 (0.23%) Java
7 2 (0.11%) C#
7 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.057%) ABAP
8 1 (0.057%) C++
8 1 (0.057%) Groovy
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 248 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 206 (11.75%) SC Cleared
3 146 (8.33%) Degree
4 54 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (2.85%) CBAP
6 46 (2.62%) IIBA
7 27 (1.54%) PMI Certification
8 15 (0.86%) CSPO
9 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (0.68%) PMP
11 10 (0.57%) ISEB
12 8 (0.46%) ACCA
12 8 (0.46%) 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%) FFIEC
15 3 (0.17%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.76%) QA
2 87 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 51 (2.91%) GDPR
4 25 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.43%) NIST
5 20 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.03%) MiFID
7 17 (0.97%) EMIR
8 11 (0.63%) ISO 20022
8 11 (0.63%) PSD2
9 10 (0.57%) GRC
10 9 (0.51%) PMO
11 8 (0.46%) ISO 8583
12 7 (0.40%) Basel III
12 7 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.34%) COBIT
13 6 (0.34%) HL7
13 6 (0.34%) IFRS
13 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 (0.74%) Ansible
2 8 (0.46%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.23%) 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
1 161 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 109 (6.22%) Salesforce
3 94 (5.36%) SAP
4 53 (3.02%) Oracle
4 53 (3.02%) ServiceNow
5 33 (1.88%) Murex
6 20 (1.14%) Bloomberg
7 19 (1.08%) Databricks
8 18 (1.03%) Workday
9 13 (0.74%) Pega
10 12 (0.68%) Guidewire
10 12 (0.68%) Splunk
11 11 (0.63%) Adobe
11 11 (0.63%) Sonatype
12 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
13 9 (0.51%) Avaloq
13 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 8 (0.46%) Google
14 8 (0.46%) Sage
14 8 (0.46%) Zuora