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 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 48 39
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,520 1,097 1,818
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.68% 4.10% 4.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.10% 4.41% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 824 1,353
10th Percentile £350 £382 £400
25th Percentile £413 £448 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% +1.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £715 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 7
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £26.80 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £31.49 £31.52 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.06% +43.41%
75th Percentile £68.09 £75.00 £60.66
90th Percentile £88.25 £84.60 £68.54
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £32.82 £29.50
% change year-on-year +8.93% +11.24% +34.30%

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 29,794 24,851 34,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 92.97% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,017 15,358 23,541
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -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 1,844 750 1,852
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -8.98% +9.86%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £38.10
% change year-on-year -14.72% -14.69% +9.53%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +4 948 £539 -2.09% 109
North of England +7 219 £423 -0.59% 75
Midlands +10 129 £450 -7.69% 70
Yorkshire +4 103 £463 +2.78% 29
South East -7 99 £480 +1.05% 116
North West -11 96 £400 -5.88% 34
West Midlands -12 86 £475 -5.00% 49
South West +27 83 £463 -2.63% 43
East Midlands +2 42 £358 -14.76% 21
North East +17 36 £425 +6.25% 14
East of England -12 22 £516 +3.25% 34
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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.

1 581 (38.22%) Agile
2 520 (34.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 481 (31.64%) Business Analysis
4 419 (27.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 337 (22.17%) Workshop Facilitation
6 336 (22.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 329 (21.64%) User Stories
8 264 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
9 234 (15.39%) JIRA
10 222 (14.61%) User Acceptance Testing
11 210 (13.82%) Migration
12 195 (12.83%) SQL
13 173 (11.38%) Confluence
14 170 (11.18%) Security Cleared
15 157 (10.33%) Acceptance Criteria
16 151 (9.93%) Data Analysis
17 148 (9.74%) Microsoft
18 147 (9.67%) Degree
19 146 (9.61%) SC Cleared
20 143 (9.41%) Scrum
21 134 (8.82%) Process Improvement
22 133 (8.75%) Project Delivery
23 124 (8.16%) Waterfall
24 123 (8.09%) GAP Analysis
25 122 (8.03%) Data Modelling
26 120 (7.89%) Analytics
26 120 (7.89%) Validation
27 117 (7.70%) Decision-Making
27 117 (7.70%) Power Platform
28 115 (7.57%) Business Intelligence

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
1 173 (11.38%) Confluence
2 28 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.79%) SAS
4 5 (0.33%) CMS
5 4 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.066%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.066%) Appian
8 1 (0.066%) Camunda
8 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.066%) Mule
8 1 (0.066%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 109 (7.17%) MS Visio
2 108 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (4.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.26%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.26%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.066%) Sketch
9 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (2.24%) Endur
2 24 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
3 14 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.86%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.59%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.26%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.26%) Temenos T24
8 3 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.20%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.13%) BASE24
9 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 117 (7.70%) Power Platform
2 84 (5.53%) Azure
3 62 (4.08%) AWS
4 33 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (1.78%) SaaS
7 24 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (1.38%) Lucidchart
9 19 (1.25%) GitHub
10 15 (0.99%) GCP
10 15 (0.99%) Miro
10 15 (0.99%) Snowflake
11 14 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 11 (0.72%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.66%) Entra ID
14 9 (0.59%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.53%) Figma
16 7 (0.46%) Apigee
16 7 (0.46%) Kong
17 6 (0.39%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.26%) Firewall
2 3 (0.20%) Internet
2 3 (0.20%) Network Security
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 (0.066%) ATM
4 1 (0.066%) DNS
4 1 (0.066%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.066%) LAN
4 1 (0.066%) Softphone
4 1 (0.066%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (6.45%) Power BI
2 38 (2.50%) Tableau
3 27 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.18%) Metadata
5 13 (0.86%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.26%) Big Data
7 4 (0.26%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.26%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.26%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.20%) Power Query
8 3 (0.20%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.20%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.13%) Looker
9 2 (0.13%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 234 (15.39%) JIRA
2 16 (1.05%) Jenkins
2 16 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (0.53%) 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 (0.066%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.066%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.066%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.066%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.066%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.066%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.066%) Toad
General
1 616 (40.53%) Social Skills
2 525 (34.54%) Finance
3 341 (22.43%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (15.13%) Banking
5 141 (9.28%) Public Sector
6 107 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
7 65 (4.28%) Retail
8 57 (3.75%) Front Office
9 52 (3.42%) Investment Banking
9 52 (3.42%) Legal
10 51 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
11 50 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (3.16%) Telecoms
13 38 (2.50%) Back Office
14 34 (2.24%) Marketing
15 26 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.58%) Local Government
17 21 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (1.25%) Manufacturing
19 18 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.30%) REST
2 22 (1.45%) XML
3 18 (1.18%) SOAP
4 15 (0.99%) JSON
5 11 (0.72%) SailPoint
5 11 (0.72%) Swagger
6 10 (0.66%) OAuth
7 8 (0.53%) ADO
7 8 (0.53%) VML
8 7 (0.46%) .NET
8 7 (0.46%) SAML
9 6 (0.39%) JWT
9 6 (0.39%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.39%) RESTful
10 5 (0.33%) FHIR
10 5 (0.33%) Middleware
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (0.26%) Anaconda
11 4 (0.26%) HTML
11 4 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.16%) Product Ownership
2 65 (4.28%) Onboarding
3 37 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
4 33 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 33 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 32 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (2.11%) PMI
6 29 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 27 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 25 (1.64%) Credit Risk
8 25 (1.64%) Derivative
8 25 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 23 (1.51%) Management Information System
10 20 (1.32%) Equities
11 18 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (0.99%) NHS
13 14 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (0.86%) Data Centre
14 13 (0.86%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.72%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.05%) Linux
2 9 (0.59%) Windows
3 6 (0.39%) VMS
4 2 (0.13%) Android
4 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.13%) Unix
5 1 (0.066%) AIX
5 1 (0.066%) Solaris
5 1 (0.066%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (38.22%) Agile
2 520 (34.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 481 (31.64%) Business Analysis
4 419 (27.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 337 (22.17%) Workshop Facilitation
6 336 (22.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 329 (21.64%) User Stories
8 264 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
9 222 (14.61%) User Acceptance Testing
10 210 (13.82%) Migration
11 157 (10.33%) Acceptance Criteria
12 151 (9.93%) Data Analysis
13 143 (9.41%) Scrum
14 134 (8.82%) Process Improvement
15 133 (8.75%) Project Delivery
16 124 (8.16%) Waterfall
17 123 (8.09%) GAP Analysis
18 122 (8.03%) Data Modelling
19 120 (7.89%) Analytics
19 120 (7.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 195 (12.83%) SQL
2 43 (2.83%) Python
3 8 (0.53%) JavaScript
4 7 (0.46%) Korn
5 6 (0.39%) VBA
6 5 (0.33%) R
7 4 (0.26%) Java
8 3 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.13%) C#
10 1 (0.066%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.066%) C++
10 1 (0.066%) COBOL
10 1 (0.066%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.066%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 170 (11.18%) Security Cleared
2 147 (9.67%) Degree
3 146 (9.61%) SC Cleared
4 62 (4.08%) CBAP
5 40 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 36 (2.37%) IIBA
7 29 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.86%) CSPO
10 12 (0.79%) PMP
11 11 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.72%) ISEB
12 8 (0.53%) CFA
13 5 (0.33%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.33%) MBA
14 4 (0.26%) ACCA
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.20%) CIMA
16 2 (0.13%) APMP
16 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.99%) QA
2 60 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.29%) GDPR
4 25 (1.64%) MiFID
5 18 (1.18%) PSD2
6 17 (1.12%) EMIR
7 16 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.79%) ISO 20022
8 12 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.72%) GRC
9 11 (0.72%) ISO 8583
10 8 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.53%) NIST
10 8 (0.53%) PMO
11 7 (0.46%) SEPA
12 6 (0.39%) Basel III
12 6 (0.39%) IFRS
13 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.33%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (0.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.066%) Docker
2 1 (0.066%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.066%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (1.12%) Ansible
2 6 (0.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.13%) SCCM
5 1 (0.066%) Control-M
5 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.066%) Terraform
Vendors
1 148 (9.74%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 65 (4.28%) SAP
4 45 (2.96%) Oracle
5 34 (2.24%) ServiceNow
6 29 (1.91%) Murex
7 19 (1.25%) Bloomberg
8 17 (1.12%) MuleSoft
9 14 (0.92%) Google
9 14 (0.92%) Sonatype
10 13 (0.86%) Adobe
10 13 (0.86%) OpenLink
11 9 (0.59%) Guidewire
11 9 (0.59%) OneTrust
11 9 (0.59%) Workday
12 8 (0.53%) Avaloq
12 8 (0.53%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.53%) Pega
13 7 (0.46%) eFront
13 7 (0.46%) Refinitiv