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 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 51 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 -17 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,495 1,241 2,093
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.92% 3.95% 5.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.39% 4.25% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,050 944 1,546
10th Percentile £350 £364 £400
25th Percentile £413 £442 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £618
90th Percentile £714 £731 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 7
10th Percentile £25.18 £30.59 £27.54
25th Percentile £27.11 £36.14 £41.25
Median hourly rate £32.19 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.62% -16.67% +71.43%
75th Percentile £72.63 £76.88 £68.78
90th Percentile £88.50 £80.75 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £33.45 £42.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -26.32% +71.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,745 29,203 36,890
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 92.93% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,747 17,857 25,486
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,697 1,114 1,429
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.12 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +41.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +4 964 £550 -4.35% 177
North of England +9 200 £425 -5.56% 105
Midlands +5 113 £402 -15.37% 77
South East +12 106 £489 +0.77% 144
Yorkshire +13 97 £408 -14.21% 31
North West -7 82 £437 +4.36% 57
South West +20 59 £488 +14.71% 53
West Midlands -11 59 £500 +1.27% 51
East Midlands +21 54 £358 -12.95% 26
North East +9 21 £425 +4.62% 20
East of England -14 21 £450 -14.29% 38
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 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.

1 573 (38.33%) Agile
2 451 (30.17%) Business Analysis
3 438 (29.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 367 (24.55%) Requirements Gathering
5 309 (20.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 280 (18.73%) Workshop Facilitation
7 279 (18.66%) User Stories
8 246 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
9 207 (13.85%) User Acceptance Testing
10 195 (13.04%) SQL
11 187 (12.51%) JIRA
12 175 (11.71%) Migration
13 171 (11.44%) Data Analysis
14 153 (10.23%) Microsoft
15 142 (9.50%) Scrum
16 141 (9.43%) Confluence
17 140 (9.36%) Degree
18 136 (9.10%) Waterfall
19 131 (8.76%) Analytics
20 126 (8.43%) Decision-Making
21 123 (8.23%) Project Delivery
21 123 (8.23%) Project Management
22 122 (8.16%) GAP Analysis
22 122 (8.16%) Process Improvement
23 119 (7.96%) Change Management
24 106 (7.09%) Azure
24 106 (7.09%) DevOps
25 104 (6.96%) Acceptance Criteria
25 104 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
26 103 (6.89%) Security Cleared

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 (9.43%) Confluence
2 27 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.47%) CMS
4 5 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.067%) Camunda
8 1 (0.067%) JBoss
8 1 (0.067%) Mule
8 1 (0.067%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 104 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (6.56%) MS Visio
3 51 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.27%) Autodesk Inventor
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.067%) Notion
9 1 (0.067%) Sketch
9 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (3.08%) Endur
2 23 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.74%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
6 9 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.54%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.47%) Temenos T24
9 6 (0.40%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.27%) SAP GTS
11 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.20%) Markit EDM
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.20%) SAP HR
12 2 (0.13%) BASE24
12 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.13%) Shopify
12 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 106 (7.09%) Azure
2 95 (6.35%) Power Platform
3 58 (3.88%) AWS
4 53 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (2.47%) SaaS
6 26 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (1.61%) GCP
7 24 (1.61%) Miro
8 23 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (1.27%) Entra ID
10 18 (1.20%) Lucidchart
11 13 (0.87%) GitHub
11 13 (0.87%) Snowflake
12 12 (0.80%) Figma
13 11 (0.74%) Power Automate
14 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (0.60%) PowerApps
15 9 (0.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 7 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (0.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.40%) Firewall
2 5 (0.33%) Network Security
3 3 (0.20%) WAN
4 2 (0.13%) ATM
4 2 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.13%) Internet
4 2 (0.13%) Intranet
4 2 (0.13%) LAN
4 2 (0.13%) NAS
4 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.067%) Broadband
5 1 (0.067%) DNS
5 1 (0.067%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.067%) Softphone
5 1 (0.067%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (5.69%) Power BI
2 43 (2.88%) Tableau
3 19 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.20%) Metadata
5 15 (1.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.40%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.33%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.33%) Power Query
7 5 (0.33%) Star Schema
8 4 (0.27%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.27%) Data Mart
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.20%) Big Data
9 3 (0.20%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.20%) GIS
9 3 (0.20%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 187 (12.51%) JIRA
2 11 (0.74%) Jenkins
2 11 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (0.20%) Git
3 3 (0.20%) Postman
4 2 (0.13%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.13%) Charles Proxy
4 2 (0.13%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.067%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.067%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.067%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.067%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.067%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 615 (41.14%) Social Skills
2 554 (37.06%) Finance
3 332 (22.21%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (15.79%) Banking
5 128 (8.56%) Public Sector
6 73 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 60 (4.01%) Back Office
8 57 (3.81%) Investment Banking
8 57 (3.81%) Retail
9 55 (3.68%) Front Office
10 52 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (3.41%) Legal
12 50 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (2.61%) Telecoms
14 38 (2.54%) Marketing
15 29 (1.94%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 27 (1.81%) Local Government
18 23 (1.54%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.40%) XML
2 20 (1.34%) REST
3 15 (1.00%) SailPoint
4 14 (0.94%) JSON
4 14 (0.94%) OAuth
4 14 (0.94%) SAML
5 11 (0.74%) ADO
6 10 (0.67%) SOAP
7 9 (0.60%) OpenID
8 7 (0.47%) Swagger
9 5 (0.33%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.33%) Web Services
10 4 (0.27%) .NET
10 4 (0.27%) Anaconda
10 4 (0.27%) DCOM
10 4 (0.27%) FHIR
10 4 (0.27%) Gherkin
10 4 (0.27%) HTML
10 4 (0.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 123 (8.23%) Product Ownership
2 77 (5.15%) Onboarding
3 39 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
4 33 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 32 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (2.07%) Derivative
6 31 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 30 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 28 (1.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 27 (1.81%) Fixed Income
10 26 (1.74%) PMI
10 26 (1.74%) Reinsurance
11 25 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (1.40%) Data Centre
13 20 (1.34%) Credit Risk
13 20 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.27%) Cloud Native
15 17 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (1.07%) Equities
17 15 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.74%) Linux
2 10 (0.67%) Windows
3 4 (0.27%) VMS
4 2 (0.13%) Android
4 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.067%) AIX
5 1 (0.067%) Solaris
5 1 (0.067%) Unix
5 1 (0.067%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (38.33%) Agile
2 451 (30.17%) Business Analysis
3 438 (29.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 367 (24.55%) Requirements Gathering
5 309 (20.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 280 (18.73%) Workshop Facilitation
7 279 (18.66%) User Stories
8 246 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
9 207 (13.85%) User Acceptance Testing
10 175 (11.71%) Migration
11 171 (11.44%) Data Analysis
12 142 (9.50%) Scrum
13 136 (9.10%) Waterfall
14 131 (8.76%) Analytics
15 126 (8.43%) Decision-Making
16 123 (8.23%) Project Delivery
16 123 (8.23%) Project Management
17 122 (8.16%) GAP Analysis
17 122 (8.16%) Process Improvement
18 119 (7.96%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 195 (13.04%) SQL
2 51 (3.41%) Python
3 8 (0.54%) C#
4 7 (0.47%) JavaScript
4 7 (0.47%) Korn
5 6 (0.40%) VBA
6 5 (0.33%) Java
6 5 (0.33%) R
7 1 (0.067%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.067%) C++
7 1 (0.067%) COBOL
7 1 (0.067%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.067%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.067%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 140 (9.36%) Degree
2 103 (6.89%) Security Cleared
3 80 (5.35%) SC Cleared
4 44 (2.94%) CBAP
5 32 (2.14%) PMI Certification
6 17 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 10 (0.67%) IIBA
10 9 (0.60%) ACCA
11 8 (0.54%) ISEB
11 8 (0.54%) PMP
12 7 (0.47%) CIMA
13 6 (0.40%) CFA
14 5 (0.33%) CSPO
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.20%) FFIEC
15 3 (0.20%) MBA
15 3 (0.20%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.55%) QA
2 65 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.41%) GDPR
4 30 (2.01%) MiFID
5 22 (1.47%) EMIR
6 16 (1.07%) ISO 20022
7 15 (1.00%) GRC
8 14 (0.94%) PSD2
9 13 (0.87%) NIST
9 13 (0.87%) SEPA
10 11 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.54%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.54%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.47%) ISO 8583
12 7 (0.47%) PMO
12 7 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.33%) Basel III
14 5 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (0.87%) 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 15 (1.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (0.80%) Ansible
4 7 (0.47%) Terraform
5 4 (0.27%) SCCM
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 153 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.42%) Salesforce
3 67 (4.48%) SAP
4 55 (3.68%) Oracle
5 42 (2.81%) ServiceNow
6 22 (1.47%) Murex
7 19 (1.27%) OpenLink
8 16 (1.07%) Google
9 14 (0.94%) MuleSoft
10 13 (0.87%) Adobe
10 13 (0.87%) Workday
11 10 (0.67%) Bloomberg
12 9 (0.60%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.60%) Guidewire
12 9 (0.60%) OneTrust
12 9 (0.60%) Sonatype
13 8 (0.54%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.54%) Charles River
14 7 (0.47%) Alibaba
14 7 (0.47%) Temenos