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 9 February 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 48 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,566 1,112 1,796
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.70% 4.27% 4.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.13% 4.59% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 827 1,337
10th Percentile £350 £363 £395
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £712 £750 £707
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 7
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.06 -
25th Percentile £26.80 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £31.49 £27.13 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.09% -13.89% +35.72%
75th Percentile £68.09 £34.11 £60.66
90th Percentile £88.25 £76.15 £68.54
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £31.52 £31.50
% change year-on-year +13.40% +0.06% +35.72%

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 30,503 24,211 35,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.07% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,396 14,990 23,931
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,952 719 2,136
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.91 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.36 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.61 £60.61
90th Percentile £72.45 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +3 965 £536 -2.55% 115
North of England +7 234 £423 -0.59% 81
Midlands +4 127 £475 -1.30% 53
Yorkshire +8 108 £475 +5.56% 25
North West -1 105 £400 -5.88% 44
South East -8 103 £500 +5.26% 107
South West +31 90 £463 -2.63% 21
West Midlands -10 89 £485 -3.00% 34
North East +17 37 £425 +6.25% 12
East Midlands -11 37 £401 -2.20% 19
East of England -16 24 £516 +3.25% 27
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 February 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 (36.53%) Agile
2 528 (33.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 479 (30.59%) Business Analysis
4 433 (27.65%) Requirements Gathering
5 345 (22.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 341 (21.78%) Workshop Facilitation
7 340 (21.71%) User Stories
8 269 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
9 242 (15.45%) JIRA
10 229 (14.62%) User Acceptance Testing
11 221 (14.11%) Migration
12 190 (12.13%) SQL
13 188 (12.01%) Security Cleared
14 179 (11.43%) Confluence
15 161 (10.28%) SC Cleared
16 159 (10.15%) Acceptance Criteria
17 155 (9.90%) Degree
18 151 (9.64%) Microsoft
19 150 (9.58%) Data Analysis
20 148 (9.45%) Process Improvement
21 142 (9.07%) Scrum
22 131 (8.37%) GAP Analysis
23 130 (8.30%) Validation
24 129 (8.24%) Project Delivery
25 125 (7.98%) Data Modelling
26 122 (7.79%) Decision-Making
27 121 (7.73%) Analytics
28 118 (7.54%) Power Platform
29 116 (7.41%) DevOps
29 116 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel

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
1 179 (11.43%) Confluence
2 23 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.89%) SAS
4 5 (0.32%) CMS
5 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.064%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.064%) Appian
6 1 (0.064%) Camunda
6 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.064%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 116 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (7.15%) MS Visio
3 65 (4.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.26%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.26%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.064%) CATIA
9 1 (0.064%) Sketch
9 1 (0.064%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (1.92%) Endur
2 23 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
4 14 (0.89%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.26%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 3 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.19%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.19%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.13%) BASE24
8 2 (0.13%) Summit
8 2 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 118 (7.54%) Power Platform
2 95 (6.07%) Azure
3 64 (4.09%) AWS
4 34 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (1.72%) SaaS
6 25 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (1.40%) GitHub
8 19 (1.21%) Lucidchart
9 15 (0.96%) GCP
9 15 (0.96%) Miro
9 15 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 14 (0.89%) Snowflake
11 11 (0.70%) Power Automate
12 10 (0.64%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.57%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.51%) Figma
15 7 (0.45%) Apigee
15 7 (0.45%) Kong
16 6 (0.38%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.26%) Firewall
2 3 (0.19%) Internet
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
3 2 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.13%) NAS
3 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.13%) WAN
3 2 (0.13%) X.25
4 1 (0.064%) DNS
4 1 (0.064%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.064%) LAN
4 1 (0.064%) Softphone
4 1 (0.064%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (6.19%) Power BI
2 36 (2.30%) Tableau
3 30 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.15%) Metadata
5 13 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.32%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.26%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.26%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.19%) Big Data
8 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.19%) Power Query
8 3 (0.19%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.19%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.13%) Looker
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 242 (15.45%) JIRA
2 20 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.51%) Postman
5 3 (0.19%) Git
6 2 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.13%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.13%) Toad
7 1 (0.064%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.064%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.064%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.064%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.064%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.064%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 613 (39.14%) Social Skills
2 559 (35.70%) Finance
3 358 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (15.96%) Banking
5 150 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 112 (7.15%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (3.90%) Front Office
8 60 (3.83%) Retail
9 56 (3.58%) Investment Banking
10 53 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (3.26%) Legal
12 46 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (2.94%) Telecoms
13 38 (2.43%) Back Office
14 35 (2.23%) Marketing
15 26 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (1.47%) Local Government
17 22 (1.40%) Financial Institution
18 19 (1.21%) Manufacturing
19 15 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.30%) REST
2 24 (1.53%) XML
3 18 (1.15%) SOAP
4 16 (1.02%) JSON
5 11 (0.70%) ADO
5 11 (0.70%) Swagger
6 10 (0.64%) OAuth
6 10 (0.64%) SailPoint
7 8 (0.51%) VML
8 7 (0.45%) .NET
8 7 (0.45%) SAML
9 6 (0.38%) FHIR
9 6 (0.38%) JWT
9 6 (0.38%) Middleware
9 6 (0.38%) OpenAPI
10 5 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.32%) RESTful
11 4 (0.26%) HTML
11 4 (0.26%) Web Services
11 4 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 132 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 60 (3.83%) Onboarding
3 40 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
4 38 (2.43%) Fixed Income
5 32 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 32 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (1.85%) PMI
7 28 (1.79%) Derivative
8 27 (1.72%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.66%) Credit Risk
9 26 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 23 (1.47%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.40%) Equities
12 18 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.09%) NHS
14 16 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.83%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.83%) Mobile App
16 12 (0.77%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.96%) Linux
2 9 (0.57%) Windows
3 5 (0.32%) VMS
4 3 (0.19%) Unix
5 2 (0.13%) Android
5 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.064%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (36.53%) Agile
2 528 (33.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 479 (30.59%) Business Analysis
4 433 (27.65%) Requirements Gathering
5 345 (22.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 341 (21.78%) Workshop Facilitation
7 340 (21.71%) User Stories
8 269 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
9 229 (14.62%) User Acceptance Testing
10 221 (14.11%) Migration
11 159 (10.15%) Acceptance Criteria
12 150 (9.58%) Data Analysis
13 148 (9.45%) Process Improvement
14 142 (9.07%) Scrum
15 131 (8.37%) GAP Analysis
16 130 (8.30%) Validation
17 129 (8.24%) Project Delivery
18 125 (7.98%) Data Modelling
19 122 (7.79%) Decision-Making
20 121 (7.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 190 (12.13%) SQL
2 38 (2.43%) Python
3 7 (0.45%) JavaScript
3 7 (0.45%) Korn
4 5 (0.32%) R
5 4 (0.26%) Java
5 4 (0.26%) VBA
6 3 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.13%) C#
8 1 (0.064%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.064%) C++
8 1 (0.064%) COBOL
8 1 (0.064%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.064%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 188 (12.01%) Security Cleared
2 161 (10.28%) SC Cleared
3 155 (9.90%) Degree
4 63 (4.02%) CBAP
5 39 (2.49%) IIBA
6 37 (2.36%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (0.83%) CSPO
8 13 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.77%) ISEB
10 11 (0.70%) PMP
11 9 (0.57%) CFA
12 5 (0.32%) ACCA
12 5 (0.32%) MBA
13 4 (0.26%) CIMA
13 4 (0.26%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.19%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.13%) AAT
15 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.81%) QA
2 66 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.13%) GDPR
4 25 (1.60%) MiFID
5 20 (1.28%) PSD2
6 18 (1.15%) EMIR
7 16 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.83%) ISO 20022
8 13 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.64%) GRC
9 10 (0.64%) ISO 8583
10 9 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.51%) SEPA
12 7 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.45%) PMO
13 6 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.38%) Basel III
13 6 (0.38%) HL7
13 6 (0.38%) NIST
13 6 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.064%) Docker
2 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.064%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (1.40%) Ansible
2 6 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.13%) SCCM
5 1 (0.064%) Control-M
5 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.064%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.064%) Terraform
Vendors
1 151 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.75%) Salesforce
3 68 (4.34%) SAP
4 47 (3.00%) Oracle
5 36 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 33 (2.11%) Murex
7 22 (1.40%) Bloomberg
8 18 (1.15%) Sonatype
9 15 (0.96%) MuleSoft
10 13 (0.83%) Adobe
10 13 (0.83%) Google
11 12 (0.77%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.64%) Avaloq
12 10 (0.64%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.64%) Workday
13 9 (0.57%) OneTrust
14 8 (0.51%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.51%) Databricks
14 8 (0.51%) Pega
14 8 (0.51%) Splunk