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 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 40 50
Rank change year-on-year -22 +10 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,746 1,422 1,319
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.77% 5.12% 4.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.09% 5.60% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 979 989
10th Percentile £367 £351 £363
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £681 £758 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 10
10th Percentile £29.73 £27.05 £25.98
25th Percentile £35.40 £29.35 £33.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £31.49 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.54% -31.91% -2.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £34.45 £69.31
90th Percentile £104.00 £57.10 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £32.89 £42.00
% change year-on-year +77.87% -21.69% -22.22%

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 42,725 25,379 30,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.37% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,394 16,363 19,081
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,515 1,370 1,471
10th Percentile £14.91 £13.75 £14.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +73.38% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.99 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 1,011 £528 -8.17% 522
North of England -21 256 £466 +9.71% 151
South East -4 175 £500 +7.53% 165
Midlands -5 167 £459 +17.56% 79
West Midlands +10 128 £450 -7.69% 51
North West -29 113 £439 +2.39% 76
Yorkshire -20 105 £481 +18.10% 48
South West +1 83 £480 +3.78% 59
North East -18 39 £525 +31.09% 27
East Midlands -25 38 £460 +28.49% 28
East of England -19 30 £463 +2.78% 41
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 648 (37.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 619 (35.45%) Business Analysis
3 579 (33.16%) Requirements Gathering
4 563 (32.25%) Agile
5 499 (28.58%) Workshop Facilitation
6 456 (26.12%) User Stories
7 336 (19.24%) User Acceptance Testing
8 331 (18.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 290 (16.61%) Acceptance Criteria
10 229 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
11 208 (11.91%) JIRA
12 204 (11.68%) Process Improvement
12 204 (11.68%) Validation
13 193 (11.05%) SQL
14 182 (10.42%) AI
14 182 (10.42%) Migration
15 177 (10.14%) Data Analysis
15 177 (10.14%) Decision-Making
16 172 (9.85%) Microsoft
17 146 (8.36%) Data Modelling
18 143 (8.19%) Degree
18 143 (8.19%) Security Cleared
19 141 (8.08%) Confluence
19 141 (8.08%) Requirements Workshops
20 138 (7.90%) Azure
21 137 (7.85%) Scrum
22 123 (7.04%) Impact Assessments
23 120 (6.87%) GAP Analysis
23 120 (6.87%) Project Delivery
24 117 (6.70%) Translating Business Requirements

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
1 141 (8.08%) Confluence
2 23 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.40%) CMS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.17%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
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%) Moodle
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.057%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.057%) Totara
Applications
1 88 (5.04%) MS Visio
2 66 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.23%) Notion
5 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.57%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.57%) Endur
4 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.29%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.23%) HFM
9 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
10 3 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 138 (7.90%) Azure
2 107 (6.13%) Power Platform
3 62 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (2.69%) AWS
5 44 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
6 30 (1.72%) SaaS
7 26 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 20 (1.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 20 (1.15%) Snowflake
9 19 (1.09%) Lucidchart
10 17 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (0.97%) Miro
11 12 (0.69%) GCP
12 11 (0.63%) Entra ID
12 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (0.57%) Power Automate
14 9 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (0.46%) IBM Blueworks
15 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.34%) Network Security
2 5 (0.29%) Intranet
3 4 (0.23%) Wireless
4 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.11%) 802.11
5 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.11%) VPN
5 2 (0.11%) WAN
5 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
5 2 (0.11%) WLAN
6 1 (0.057%) 5G
6 1 (0.057%) DNS
6 1 (0.057%) HTTP
6 1 (0.057%) LAN
6 1 (0.057%) PBX
6 1 (0.057%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.057%) SNMP
6 1 (0.057%) SSH
6 1 (0.057%) SSL
6 1 (0.057%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.27%) Power BI
2 35 (2.00%) Metadata
3 32 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.03%) Tableau
5 13 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.34%) Data Mining
8 6 (0.34%) GIS
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.17%) Big Data
10 3 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (0.17%) Looker
10 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 208 (11.91%) JIRA
2 2 (0.11%) Balsamiq
2 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.11%) GitLab
2 2 (0.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 622 (35.62%) Finance
2 562 (32.19%) Social Skills
3 389 (22.28%) Analytical Skills
4 245 (14.03%) Banking
5 139 (7.96%) Documentation Skills
6 136 (7.79%) Public Sector
7 111 (6.36%) Retail
8 92 (5.27%) Front Office
9 65 (3.72%) Investment Banking
10 63 (3.61%) Legal
11 48 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (2.75%) Manufacturing
12 44 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.95%) Local Government
14 32 (1.83%) Back Office
15 29 (1.66%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (1.49%) Billing
16 26 (1.49%) Marketing
17 23 (1.32%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (0.86%) Middleware
3 14 (0.80%) JSON
4 13 (0.74%) XML
5 11 (0.63%) ADO
6 7 (0.40%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.29%) STL
7 5 (0.29%) Terraform
8 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.23%) FHIR
8 4 (0.23%) Gherkin
8 4 (0.23%) NumPy
8 4 (0.23%) Pandas
8 4 (0.23%) VML
9 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.17%) Swagger
10 2 (0.11%) EDI
10 2 (0.11%) REST
10 2 (0.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 176 (10.08%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.09%) Derivative
4 44 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
5 37 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 35 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 32 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 30 (1.72%) Fixed Income
10 27 (1.55%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.26%) Operational Technology
12 21 (1.20%) Credit Risk
13 20 (1.15%) Reference Data
14 19 (1.09%) Equities
15 18 (1.03%) FMCG
15 18 (1.03%) Market Risk
16 17 (0.97%) Hedge funds
17 16 (0.92%) NHS
18 13 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
18 13 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.92%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
3 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.057%) Linux
4 1 (0.057%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (37.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 619 (35.45%) Business Analysis
3 579 (33.16%) Requirements Gathering
4 563 (32.25%) Agile
5 499 (28.58%) Workshop Facilitation
6 456 (26.12%) User Stories
7 336 (19.24%) User Acceptance Testing
8 331 (18.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 290 (16.61%) Acceptance Criteria
10 229 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
11 204 (11.68%) Process Improvement
11 204 (11.68%) Validation
12 182 (10.42%) AI
12 182 (10.42%) Migration
13 177 (10.14%) Data Analysis
13 177 (10.14%) Decision-Making
14 146 (8.36%) Data Modelling
15 141 (8.08%) Requirements Workshops
16 137 (7.85%) Scrum
17 123 (7.04%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 193 (11.05%) SQL
2 30 (1.72%) Python
3 14 (0.80%) Korn
4 8 (0.46%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.17%) R
7 2 (0.11%) VBA
8 1 (0.057%) ABAP
8 1 (0.057%) C
8 1 (0.057%) C#
8 1 (0.057%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.057%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
8 1 (0.057%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 143 (8.19%) Degree
1 143 (8.19%) Security Cleared
2 113 (6.47%) SC Cleared
3 40 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (1.95%) IIBA
5 26 (1.49%) CBAP
6 24 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 23 (1.32%) ACCA
8 22 (1.26%) CIMA
9 16 (0.92%) PMP
10 12 (0.69%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.69%) FFIEC
11 10 (0.57%) ISEB
12 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.34%) CSPO
14 6 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 3 (0.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 89 (5.10%) QA
3 25 (1.43%) GDPR
4 23 (1.32%) NIST
5 17 (0.97%) MiFID
6 14 (0.80%) IFRS
6 14 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.69%) COBIT
8 12 (0.69%) GRC
9 11 (0.63%) EMIR
9 11 (0.63%) PMO
10 10 (0.57%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.40%) Basel III
13 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.29%) SEPA
15 4 (0.23%) FINREP
15 4 (0.23%) ISO 15022
16 3 (0.17%) COREP
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
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%) Kibana
Vendors
1 172 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.47%) Salesforce
2 113 (6.47%) SAP
3 61 (3.49%) ServiceNow
4 60 (3.44%) Oracle
5 33 (1.89%) Murex
6 21 (1.20%) Databricks
7 18 (1.03%) Workday
8 17 (0.97%) CyberArk
9 15 (0.86%) IBM
10 13 (0.74%) Bloomberg
10 13 (0.74%) Guidewire
11 9 (0.52%) Pega
12 8 (0.46%) Charles River
12 8 (0.46%) IFS
12 8 (0.46%) OpenLink
13 7 (0.40%) Infor
13 7 (0.40%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.34%) Ariba
14 6 (0.34%) Informatica