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 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 48 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,608 1,112 1,774
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.75% 4.29% 4.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.18% 4.61% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 829 1,317
10th Percentile £350 £363 £398
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £710 £745 £707
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 7
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.06 -
25th Percentile £27.97 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £47.43 £27.13 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.86% -13.89% +10.53%
75th Percentile £74.59 £34.11 £60.66
90th Percentile £87.25 £76.15 £68.54
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.52 £31.50
% change year-on-year +26.90% +0.06% +10.53%

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 31,053 24,121 35,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 93.07% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,752 15,028 23,675
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,981 713 2,112
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.92 £13.19
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.63
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.44
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.54 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.55% -4.17% -2.51%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +3 988 £535 -2.73% 126
North of England +12 245 £425 - 84
Midlands 0 131 £475 -1.30% 48
Yorkshire +9 113 £475 +5.56% 26
North West -6 111 £400 -5.88% 43
South East -19 103 £500 +5.26% 109
South West +25 93 £463 -2.63% 23
West Midlands -8 93 £481 -3.75% 31
North East +16 37 £425 +6.25% 16
East Midlands -8 37 £401 -2.20% 17
East of England -18 24 £516 +3.25% 25
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 February 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.

1 586 (36.44%) Agile
2 534 (33.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 491 (30.53%) Business Analysis
4 441 (27.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 354 (22.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 350 (21.77%) Workshop Facilitation
7 346 (21.52%) User Stories
8 277 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
9 249 (15.49%) JIRA
10 232 (14.43%) User Acceptance Testing
11 225 (13.99%) Migration
12 198 (12.31%) SQL
13 195 (12.13%) Security Cleared
14 185 (11.50%) Confluence
15 166 (10.32%) Acceptance Criteria
15 166 (10.32%) SC Cleared
16 158 (9.83%) Degree
17 156 (9.70%) Data Analysis
17 156 (9.70%) Microsoft
18 153 (9.51%) Process Improvement
19 149 (9.27%) Scrum
20 132 (8.21%) GAP Analysis
21 131 (8.15%) Project Delivery
21 131 (8.15%) Validation
22 127 (7.90%) Data Modelling
22 127 (7.90%) Decision-Making
23 122 (7.59%) Analytics
24 120 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
24 120 (7.46%) MS Visio
24 120 (7.46%) Power Platform

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
1 185 (11.50%) Confluence
2 23 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.87%) SAS
4 5 (0.31%) CMS
5 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.062%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.062%) Appian
6 1 (0.062%) Camunda
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.062%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 120 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 120 (7.46%) MS Visio
2 68 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 56 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.25%) Autodesk Inventor
6 4 (0.25%) Notion
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.062%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.062%) CATIA
8 1 (0.062%) Sketch
8 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (1.87%) Endur
2 23 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 15 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
4 14 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.31%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.19%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.19%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.12%) ION MarketView
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 120 (7.46%) Power Platform
2 99 (6.16%) Azure
3 65 (4.04%) AWS
4 36 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (1.68%) SaaS
7 26 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (1.37%) GitHub
9 19 (1.18%) Lucidchart
10 17 (1.06%) Miro
11 15 (0.93%) GCP
11 15 (0.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 15 (0.93%) Snowflake
12 13 (0.81%) Power Automate
13 12 (0.75%) PowerApps
14 11 (0.68%) Figma
15 9 (0.56%) Entra ID
16 7 (0.44%) Apigee
16 7 (0.44%) Kong
17 6 (0.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.25%) Firewall
2 3 (0.19%) Internet
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
3 2 (0.12%) Broadband
3 2 (0.12%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.12%) NAS
3 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.12%) WAN
3 2 (0.12%) X.25
4 1 (0.062%) DNS
4 1 (0.062%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.062%) LAN
4 1 (0.062%) Softphone
4 1 (0.062%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (6.16%) Power BI
2 36 (2.24%) Tableau
3 31 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.12%) Metadata
5 14 (0.87%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.31%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.25%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.25%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.19%) Big Data
8 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.19%) Power Query
8 3 (0.19%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.12%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.12%) Looker
9 2 (0.12%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 249 (15.49%) JIRA
2 20 (1.24%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.50%) Postman
5 3 (0.19%) Git
5 3 (0.19%) Toad
6 2 (0.12%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.12%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.062%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.062%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.062%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.062%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.062%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.062%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 628 (39.05%) Social Skills
2 576 (35.82%) Finance
3 367 (22.82%) Analytical Skills
4 257 (15.98%) Banking
5 154 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 115 (7.15%) Documentation Skills
7 62 (3.86%) Front Office
7 62 (3.86%) Retail
8 58 (3.61%) Investment Banking
9 55 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
10 52 (3.23%) Legal
11 47 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (2.86%) Telecoms
13 40 (2.49%) Back Office
14 35 (2.18%) Marketing
15 26 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.49%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.43%) Local Government
18 19 (1.18%) Manufacturing
19 16 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.24%) REST
2 24 (1.49%) XML
3 18 (1.12%) SOAP
4 16 (1.00%) JSON
5 11 (0.68%) ADO
5 11 (0.68%) SailPoint
5 11 (0.68%) Swagger
6 10 (0.62%) OAuth
7 8 (0.50%) VML
8 7 (0.44%) .NET
8 7 (0.44%) SAML
9 6 (0.37%) FHIR
9 6 (0.37%) JWT
9 6 (0.37%) Middleware
9 6 (0.37%) OpenAPI
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.31%) RESTful
11 4 (0.25%) Anaconda
11 4 (0.25%) Web Services
11 4 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (8.40%) Product Ownership
2 60 (3.73%) Onboarding
3 40 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
4 39 (2.43%) Fixed Income
5 32 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 32 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 29 (1.80%) Derivative
7 29 (1.80%) PMI
8 27 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.62%) Credit Risk
9 26 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 23 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.37%) Equities
12 20 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.06%) NHS
14 16 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.81%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.81%) Mobile App
16 12 (0.75%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.93%) Linux
2 9 (0.56%) Windows
3 5 (0.31%) VMS
4 3 (0.19%) Unix
5 2 (0.12%) Android
5 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (36.44%) Agile
2 534 (33.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 491 (30.53%) Business Analysis
4 441 (27.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 354 (22.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 350 (21.77%) Workshop Facilitation
7 346 (21.52%) User Stories
8 277 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
9 232 (14.43%) User Acceptance Testing
10 225 (13.99%) Migration
11 166 (10.32%) Acceptance Criteria
12 156 (9.70%) Data Analysis
13 153 (9.51%) Process Improvement
14 149 (9.27%) Scrum
15 132 (8.21%) GAP Analysis
16 131 (8.15%) Project Delivery
16 131 (8.15%) Validation
17 127 (7.90%) Data Modelling
17 127 (7.90%) Decision-Making
18 122 (7.59%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 198 (12.31%) SQL
2 41 (2.55%) Python
3 8 (0.50%) Korn
4 7 (0.44%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.37%) R
6 4 (0.25%) Java
6 4 (0.25%) VBA
7 3 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.12%) C#
9 1 (0.062%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.062%) C++
9 1 (0.062%) COBOL
9 1 (0.062%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.062%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 195 (12.13%) Security Cleared
2 166 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 158 (9.83%) Degree
4 63 (3.92%) CBAP
5 39 (2.43%) IIBA
6 37 (2.30%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (0.81%) CSPO
8 13 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.75%) ISEB
10 11 (0.68%) PMP
11 9 (0.56%) CFA
12 5 (0.31%) ACCA
12 5 (0.31%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.31%) MBA
13 4 (0.25%) CIMA
14 3 (0.19%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.12%) AAT
15 2 (0.12%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.78%) QA
2 67 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.05%) GDPR
4 26 (1.62%) MiFID
5 20 (1.24%) PSD2
6 19 (1.18%) EMIR
7 18 (1.12%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.81%) ISO 20022
8 13 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.62%) GRC
9 10 (0.62%) ISO 8583
10 9 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.50%) SEPA
12 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.44%) PMO
13 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.37%) Basel III
13 6 (0.37%) HL7
13 6 (0.37%) NIST
13 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.062%) Docker
2 1 (0.062%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.062%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (1.37%) Ansible
2 6 (0.37%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.12%) SCCM
5 1 (0.062%) Control-M
5 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.062%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.062%) Terraform
Vendors
1 156 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.60%) Salesforce
3 68 (4.23%) SAP
4 49 (3.05%) Oracle
5 36 (2.24%) ServiceNow
6 35 (2.18%) Murex
7 24 (1.49%) Bloomberg
8 18 (1.12%) Sonatype
9 15 (0.93%) MuleSoft
10 13 (0.81%) Adobe
10 13 (0.81%) Google
11 12 (0.75%) OpenLink
12 11 (0.68%) Workday
13 10 (0.62%) Avaloq
13 10 (0.62%) Guidewire
14 9 (0.56%) Databricks
14 9 (0.56%) OneTrust
14 9 (0.56%) Pega
15 8 (0.50%) Refinitiv
15 8 (0.50%) Splunk