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 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 47 35
Rank change year-on-year -2 -12 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,486 1,183 1,823
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.69% 4.18% 5.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.13% 4.50% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 891 1,359
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £709 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 6
10th Percentile £25.00 £25.26 £26.01
25th Percentile £26.80 £30.59 £36.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £41.50 £60.03
Median % change year-on-year -24.12% -30.87% +80.54%
75th Percentile £68.09 £75.00 £69.39
90th Percentile £88.25 £84.60 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £38.38 £60.03
% change year-on-year -6.85% -36.07% +90.57%

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 28,943 26,290 33,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 92.90% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,488 16,329 23,123
10th Percentile £300 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,752 823 1,420
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.78 £14.69
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% -23.71% +39.03%
75th Percentile £61.19 £64.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.35 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +38.46%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 0 933 £525 -8.70% 175
North of England +6 200 £425 -3.41% 98
Midlands +9 130 £425 -10.53% 41
South East +1 102 £475 -2.56% 93
Yorkshire +1 93 £475 +5.56% 27
North West -12 83 £400 -5.88% 61
West Midlands -9 78 £480 -4.00% 24
South West +30 77 £463 -1.86% 30
East Midlands +15 52 £358 -10.50% 17
North East +20 34 £425 +3.03% 13
East of England -17 22 £500 -2.44% 15
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, 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.

1 563 (37.89%) Agile
2 476 (32.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 456 (30.69%) Business Analysis
4 384 (25.84%) Requirements Gathering
5 316 (21.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 312 (21.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 300 (20.19%) User Stories
8 258 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
9 212 (14.27%) JIRA
9 212 (14.27%) User Acceptance Testing
10 198 (13.32%) Migration
11 195 (13.12%) SQL
12 155 (10.43%) Confluence
13 151 (10.16%) Degree
14 147 (9.89%) Microsoft
15 145 (9.76%) Data Analysis
16 141 (9.49%) Scrum
17 140 (9.42%) Security Cleared
18 133 (8.95%) Acceptance Criteria
19 131 (8.82%) Process Improvement
20 125 (8.41%) Waterfall
21 124 (8.34%) Analytics
21 124 (8.34%) Decision-Making
22 122 (8.21%) Project Delivery
23 118 (7.94%) GAP Analysis
24 115 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
24 115 (7.74%) Data Modelling
24 115 (7.74%) Power Platform
24 115 (7.74%) SC Cleared
25 112 (7.54%) Change Management

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
1 155 (10.43%) Confluence
2 29 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.54%) SAS
4 6 (0.40%) CMS
5 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.067%) Camunda
8 1 (0.067%) JBoss
8 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.067%) Mule
8 1 (0.067%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 103 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 103 (6.93%) MS Visio
2 56 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.27%) Autodesk Inventor
6 4 (0.27%) Notion
7 2 (0.13%) Trello
8 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.067%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 44 (2.96%) Endur
2 27 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
5 10 (0.67%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.67%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.27%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.27%) Temenos T24
8 3 (0.20%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.20%) SAP GTS
8 3 (0.20%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.13%) BASE24
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 115 (7.74%) Power Platform
2 77 (5.18%) Azure
3 60 (4.04%) AWS
4 36 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (1.88%) SaaS
7 26 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 23 (1.55%) Lucidchart
9 19 (1.28%) Miro
10 18 (1.21%) GCP
11 15 (1.01%) GitHub
12 14 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 13 (0.87%) Snowflake
14 12 (0.81%) Figma
14 12 (0.81%) Power Automate
14 12 (0.81%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.67%) Entra ID
16 9 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Copilot
18 6 (0.40%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.34%) Firewall
1 5 (0.34%) Network Security
2 3 (0.20%) Internet
3 2 (0.13%) Broadband
3 2 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.13%) Intranet
3 2 (0.13%) NAS
3 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.13%) WAN
3 2 (0.13%) X.25
4 1 (0.067%) ATM
4 1 (0.067%) DNS
4 1 (0.067%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.067%) LAN
4 1 (0.067%) Softphone
4 1 (0.067%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (6.59%) Power BI
2 44 (2.96%) Tableau
3 26 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.21%) Metadata
5 14 (0.94%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.27%) Big Data
7 4 (0.27%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.27%) Power Query
7 4 (0.27%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.20%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.20%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.13%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.13%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.13%) Looker
9 2 (0.13%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 212 (14.27%) JIRA
2 12 (0.81%) Jenkins
2 12 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (0.40%) Postman
4 3 (0.20%) Git
5 2 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.13%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.067%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.067%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.067%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.067%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.067%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.067%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 592 (39.84%) Social Skills
2 530 (35.67%) Finance
3 333 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (15.61%) Banking
5 140 (9.42%) Public Sector
6 97 (6.53%) Documentation Skills
7 58 (3.90%) Retail
8 56 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (3.63%) Legal
10 52 (3.50%) Front Office
10 52 (3.50%) Investment Banking
11 50 (3.36%) Back Office
12 49 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
13 45 (3.03%) Telecoms
14 42 (2.83%) Marketing
15 25 (1.68%) Local Government
16 24 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (1.41%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.41%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.09%) REST
2 24 (1.62%) XML
3 15 (1.01%) SOAP
4 12 (0.81%) JSON
4 12 (0.81%) SailPoint
5 9 (0.61%) ADO
5 9 (0.61%) OAuth
5 9 (0.61%) Swagger
6 7 (0.47%) SAML
7 6 (0.40%) .NET
7 6 (0.40%) RESTful
8 5 (0.34%) JWT
8 5 (0.34%) OpenAPI
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.34%) VML
9 4 (0.27%) Anaconda
9 4 (0.27%) FHIR
9 4 (0.27%) Gherkin
9 4 (0.27%) Middleware
9 4 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.14%) Product Ownership
2 73 (4.91%) Onboarding
3 35 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
4 34 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
5 32 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 30 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 28 (1.88%) Fixed Income
7 28 (1.88%) PMI
7 28 (1.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 27 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (1.62%) Derivative
11 22 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
12 21 (1.41%) Equities
13 18 (1.21%) Credit Risk
14 16 (1.08%) Data Centre
15 15 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (0.94%) Mobile App
17 13 (0.87%) NHS
18 11 (0.74%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.08%) Linux
2 10 (0.67%) Windows
3 6 (0.40%) VMS
4 2 (0.13%) Android
4 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.067%) AIX
5 1 (0.067%) Solaris
5 1 (0.067%) Unix
5 1 (0.067%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (37.89%) Agile
2 476 (32.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 456 (30.69%) Business Analysis
4 384 (25.84%) Requirements Gathering
5 316 (21.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 312 (21.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 300 (20.19%) User Stories
8 258 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
9 212 (14.27%) User Acceptance Testing
10 198 (13.32%) Migration
11 145 (9.76%) Data Analysis
12 141 (9.49%) Scrum
13 133 (8.95%) Acceptance Criteria
14 131 (8.82%) Process Improvement
15 125 (8.41%) Waterfall
16 124 (8.34%) Analytics
16 124 (8.34%) Decision-Making
17 122 (8.21%) Project Delivery
18 118 (7.94%) GAP Analysis
19 115 (7.74%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 195 (13.12%) SQL
2 47 (3.16%) Python
3 8 (0.54%) JavaScript
4 7 (0.47%) Korn
5 6 (0.40%) C#
6 5 (0.34%) Java
6 5 (0.34%) R
6 5 (0.34%) VBA
7 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.067%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.067%) C++
8 1 (0.067%) COBOL
8 1 (0.067%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.067%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 151 (10.16%) Degree
2 140 (9.42%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 52 (3.50%) CBAP
5 35 (2.36%) PMI Certification
6 25 (1.68%) IIBA
7 23 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (0.87%) CSPO
10 12 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.67%) ISEB
11 10 (0.67%) PMP
12 8 (0.54%) CFA
13 7 (0.47%) DV Cleared
14 5 (0.34%) ACCA
15 4 (0.27%) CIMA
15 4 (0.27%) MBA
16 3 (0.20%) AWS Certification
17 2 (0.13%) BC Cleared
17 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.45%) QA
2 69 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.43%) GDPR
4 27 (1.82%) MiFID
5 20 (1.35%) EMIR
6 16 (1.08%) PSD2
7 15 (1.01%) ISO 20022
8 13 (0.87%) GRC
9 12 (0.81%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.67%) SEPA
11 9 (0.61%) ISO 8583
11 9 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.61%) NIST
12 8 (0.54%) PMO
13 7 (0.47%) Basel III
13 7 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.27%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.067%) Docker
2 1 (0.067%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.067%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.067%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (0.87%) Ansible
2 7 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.13%) SCCM
4 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.067%) Terraform
Vendors
1 147 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.53%) Salesforce
3 64 (4.31%) SAP
4 46 (3.10%) Oracle
5 31 (2.09%) ServiceNow
6 23 (1.55%) Murex
7 17 (1.14%) Google
7 17 (1.14%) OpenLink
8 16 (1.08%) MuleSoft
9 15 (1.01%) Bloomberg
10 13 (0.87%) Adobe
11 11 (0.74%) OneTrust
12 10 (0.67%) Sonatype
13 9 (0.61%) Guidewire
14 8 (0.54%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.54%) Pega
15 7 (0.47%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.47%) Avaloq
15 7 (0.47%) Workday
16 6 (0.40%) Refinitiv