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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 36 44
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,816 1,437 1,463
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.02% 5.24% 4.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.35% 5.71% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 992 1,076
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £767 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 10
10th Percentile £28.82 £25.26 £25.98
25th Percentile £34.87 £29.61 £40.88
Median hourly rate £58.50 £47.50 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% -18.45% -4.90%
75th Percentile £77.65 £53.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £104.00 £72.50 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £40.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +39.26% -18.50% -18.37%

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 41,767 25,148 32,288
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.78% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,470 16,339 21,305
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,003 1,263 2,075
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.80 £18.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% -38.49% -2.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.85 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +70.39% -39.40% -5.26%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -15 1,051 £550 -4.35% 147
North of England -18 275 £450 +3.69% 91
South East -3 178 £500 +2.56% 98
Midlands 0 174 £467 +16.63% 39
West Midlands +14 136 £475 -5.00% 27
North West -28 129 £426 -2.63% 31
Yorkshire -17 109 £475 +15.15% 37
South West +2 74 £450 -4.05% 36
North East -12 38 £475 -8.65% 23
East Midlands -24 36 £460 +27.78% 12
East of England -8 34 £475 +7.95% 28
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 July 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.

1 570 (31.39%) Agile
2 561 (30.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 554 (30.51%) Business Analysis
4 491 (27.04%) Requirements Gathering
5 452 (24.89%) User Stories
6 448 (24.67%) Workshop Facilitation
7 359 (19.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 334 (18.39%) User Acceptance Testing
9 284 (15.64%) Acceptance Criteria
10 239 (13.16%) JIRA
11 237 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
12 207 (11.40%) Migration
13 204 (11.23%) Validation
14 187 (10.30%) Process Improvement
14 187 (10.30%) Security Cleared
15 178 (9.80%) SQL
16 168 (9.25%) Decision-Making
17 167 (9.20%) Confluence
18 166 (9.14%) Data Analysis
19 164 (9.03%) Microsoft
20 163 (8.98%) Azure
21 149 (8.20%) Data Modelling
22 148 (8.15%) SC Cleared
23 145 (7.98%) AI
24 140 (7.71%) Degree
25 138 (7.60%) Scrum
26 130 (7.16%) DevOps
27 120 (6.61%) Impact Assessments
28 117 (6.44%) Business Intelligence
28 117 (6.44%) GAP Analysis

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
1 167 (9.20%) Confluence
2 30 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.28%) CMS
3 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.28%) SAS
4 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.11%) Apache
5 2 (0.11%) Appian
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.055%) Camunda
6 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 116 (6.39%) MS Visio
2 79 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.22%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.055%) CATIA
8 1 (0.055%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
4 14 (0.77%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.50%) Endur
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.33%) Findur
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.33%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.28%) Actimize
8 5 (0.28%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.28%) Maximo
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.28%) Summit
9 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.22%) HFM
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 163 (8.98%) Azure
2 112 (6.17%) Power Platform
3 65 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (2.70%) AWS
5 35 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (1.32%) SaaS
8 22 (1.21%) Lucidchart
8 22 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 19 (1.05%) Snowflake
10 15 (0.83%) GCP
10 15 (0.83%) Miro
11 14 (0.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 13 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (0.72%) Power Automate
13 12 (0.66%) Entra ID
14 11 (0.61%) Figma
14 11 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
15 10 (0.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.50%) Network Security
2 6 (0.33%) Intranet
2 6 (0.33%) Wireless
3 2 (0.11%) 802.11
3 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.11%) DNS
3 2 (0.11%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
3 2 (0.11%) WLAN
4 1 (0.055%) 5G
4 1 (0.055%) DNSSEC
4 1 (0.055%) Extranet
4 1 (0.055%) Firewall
4 1 (0.055%) Internet
4 1 (0.055%) PBX
4 1 (0.055%) SNMP
4 1 (0.055%) SONET
4 1 (0.055%) TETRA
4 1 (0.055%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.18%) Power BI
2 42 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (1.93%) Metadata
4 25 (1.38%) Tableau
5 17 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.66%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.33%) Data Mining
7 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.28%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.22%) Big Data
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.11%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.11%) OLAP
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 239 (13.16%) JIRA
2 8 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.39%) Balsamiq
4 5 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.11%) GitLab
6 2 (0.11%) Postman
6 2 (0.11%) Toad
7 1 (0.055%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.055%) SonarQube
General
1 643 (35.41%) Finance
2 561 (30.89%) Social Skills
3 422 (23.24%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (13.66%) Banking
5 156 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 137 (7.54%) Documentation Skills
7 94 (5.18%) Retail
8 93 (5.12%) Front Office
9 68 (3.74%) Legal
10 65 (3.58%) Investment Banking
11 51 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
13 36 (1.98%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.93%) Back Office
14 35 (1.93%) Marketing
15 34 (1.87%) Financial Institution
16 33 (1.82%) Local Government
17 32 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (1.43%) Police
19 23 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.16%) XML
3 16 (0.88%) ADO
3 16 (0.88%) JSON
3 16 (0.88%) Middleware
4 8 (0.44%) SailPoint
5 7 (0.39%) REST
6 5 (0.28%) NumPy
6 5 (0.28%) Pandas
6 5 (0.28%) SOAP
6 5 (0.28%) STL
7 4 (0.22%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.22%) FHIR
7 4 (0.22%) Swagger
7 4 (0.22%) VML
8 3 (0.17%) EDI
8 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.11%) OAuth
9 2 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 162 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 67 (3.69%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.14%) Derivative
4 50 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 41 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 37 (2.04%) Fixed Income
6 37 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 31 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 28 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 27 (1.49%) Operational Technology
11 26 (1.43%) Hedge funds
11 26 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.27%) Credit Risk
13 22 (1.21%) Reference Data
14 21 (1.16%) Market Risk
15 17 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (0.94%) NHS
16 16 (0.88%) Equities
17 15 (0.83%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.72%) Windows
2 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.28%) Android
3 5 (0.28%) Unix
4 3 (0.17%) Linux
5 2 (0.11%) AIX
5 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (31.39%) Agile
2 561 (30.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 554 (30.51%) Business Analysis
4 491 (27.04%) Requirements Gathering
5 452 (24.89%) User Stories
6 448 (24.67%) Workshop Facilitation
7 359 (19.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 334 (18.39%) User Acceptance Testing
9 284 (15.64%) Acceptance Criteria
10 237 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
11 207 (11.40%) Migration
12 204 (11.23%) Validation
13 187 (10.30%) Process Improvement
14 168 (9.25%) Decision-Making
15 166 (9.14%) Data Analysis
16 149 (8.20%) Data Modelling
17 145 (7.98%) AI
18 138 (7.60%) Scrum
19 130 (7.16%) DevOps
20 120 (6.61%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 178 (9.80%) SQL
2 42 (2.31%) Python
3 14 (0.77%) Korn
4 7 (0.39%) Java
5 4 (0.22%) R
6 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.11%) VBA
7 1 (0.055%) ABAP
7 1 (0.055%) C
7 1 (0.055%) C#
7 1 (0.055%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.055%) Groovy
7 1 (0.055%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.055%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.055%) Ruby
7 1 (0.055%) SOQL
7 1 (0.055%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 187 (10.30%) Security Cleared
2 148 (8.15%) SC Cleared
3 140 (7.71%) Degree
4 45 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.76%) CBAP
6 29 (1.60%) IIBA
7 26 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 17 (0.94%) PMP
9 12 (0.66%) ACCA
9 12 (0.66%) CIMA
9 12 (0.66%) DV Cleared
9 12 (0.66%) ISEB
10 8 (0.44%) FFIEC
10 8 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.33%) CSPO
11 6 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.22%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.78%) Data Quality
2 93 (5.12%) QA
3 36 (1.98%) GDPR
4 30 (1.65%) NIST
5 28 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.88%) MiFID
8 15 (0.83%) EMIR
9 14 (0.77%) GRC
10 11 (0.61%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.55%) PMO
11 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.50%) COBIT
13 7 (0.39%) Basel III
13 7 (0.39%) SEPA
13 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
14 5 (0.28%) COREP
14 5 (0.28%) IFRS
14 5 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.055%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (0.33%) Ansible
1 6 (0.33%) Terraform
2 4 (0.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.055%) Autotask
5 1 (0.055%) Control-M
5 1 (0.055%) Grafana
5 1 (0.055%) Kibana
5 1 (0.055%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.055%) SCCM
5 1 (0.055%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 164 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.33%) Salesforce
3 110 (6.06%) SAP
4 68 (3.74%) ServiceNow
5 64 (3.52%) Oracle
6 28 (1.54%) Murex
7 26 (1.43%) Databricks
8 23 (1.27%) Workday
9 15 (0.83%) CyberArk
10 13 (0.72%) Bloomberg
10 13 (0.72%) Pega
11 12 (0.66%) Guidewire
12 11 (0.61%) Splunk
13 10 (0.55%) Planon
13 10 (0.55%) Zscaler
14 9 (0.50%) Charles River
14 9 (0.50%) IBM
14 9 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 8 (0.44%) ION Trading
15 8 (0.44%) OpenLink