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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 38 47
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,754 1,415 1,361
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 5.13% 4.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.16% 5.60% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 984 1,008
10th Percentile £367 £351 £374
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% -3.57% -1.87%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £626
90th Percentile £688 £763 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 10
10th Percentile £29.12 £27.13 £25.98
25th Percentile £34.87 £31.49 £33.13
Median hourly rate £56.75 £32.89 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +72.54% -28.89% -2.63%
75th Percentile £77.20 £57.50 £69.31
90th Percentile £104.00 £75.75 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +61.76% -20.00% -21.30%

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 42,208 25,248 30,773
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.56% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,337 16,299 19,707
10th Percentile £325 £281 £303
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,268 1,358 1,625
10th Percentile £15.18 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.34 £21.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -44.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.74
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -15 1,022 £550 -4.35% 323
North of England -15 262 £463 +8.82% 105
Midlands -4 165 £467 +24.40% 69
South East -9 163 £500 +5.26% 124
West Midlands +9 125 £475 - 47
North West -33 119 £440 +3.53% 49
Yorkshire -12 105 £475 +16.14% 37
South West +6 82 £480 +3.34% 52
North East -17 39 £525 +20.00% 22
East Midlands -22 38 £460 +28.49% 22
East of England -12 33 £475 +5.56% 25
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 612 (34.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 604 (34.44%) Business Analysis
3 568 (32.38%) Agile
4 543 (30.96%) Requirements Gathering
5 493 (28.11%) Workshop Facilitation
6 465 (26.51%) User Stories
7 348 (19.84%) User Acceptance Testing
8 328 (18.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 296 (16.88%) Acceptance Criteria
10 225 (12.83%) JIRA
11 222 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
12 204 (11.63%) Validation
13 201 (11.46%) Process Improvement
14 191 (10.89%) SQL
15 187 (10.66%) Migration
16 177 (10.09%) AI
17 176 (10.03%) Data Analysis
18 166 (9.46%) Decision-Making
18 166 (9.46%) Microsoft
19 154 (8.78%) Confluence
20 149 (8.49%) Security Cleared
21 148 (8.44%) Azure
22 147 (8.38%) Degree
23 138 (7.87%) Data Modelling
23 138 (7.87%) Scrum
24 128 (7.30%) Requirements Workshops
25 122 (6.96%) Impact Assessments
26 121 (6.90%) GAP Analysis
27 120 (6.84%) DevOps
27 120 (6.84%) SC 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
1 154 (8.78%) Confluence
2 26 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.34%) CMS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.17%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.057%) Camunda
7 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Moodle
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.057%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.057%) Totara
Applications
1 98 (5.59%) MS Visio
2 70 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.23%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.57%) Endur
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.40%) Maximo
8 6 (0.34%) Findur
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
10 4 (0.23%) HFM
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.23%) Summit
11 3 (0.17%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 148 (8.44%) Azure
2 111 (6.33%) Power Platform
3 63 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (2.85%) AWS
5 41 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (1.48%) SaaS
6 26 (1.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 20 (1.14%) Snowflake
8 19 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (1.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 18 (1.03%) Lucidchart
10 16 (0.91%) Miro
11 13 (0.74%) GCP
12 12 (0.68%) Entra ID
13 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (0.63%) Power Automate
13 11 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (0.46%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.34%) Network Security
1 6 (0.34%) Wireless
2 5 (0.29%) Intranet
3 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.11%) 802.11
4 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.11%) DNS
4 2 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.11%) WLAN
5 1 (0.057%) 5G
5 1 (0.057%) HTTP
5 1 (0.057%) LAN
5 1 (0.057%) PBX
5 1 (0.057%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.057%) SNMP
5 1 (0.057%) SSH
5 1 (0.057%) SSL
5 1 (0.057%) VoIP
5 1 (0.057%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.47%) Power BI
2 36 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (2.00%) Metadata
4 23 (1.31%) Tableau
5 13 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 12 (0.68%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
8 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.29%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.23%) Big Data
11 4 (0.23%) GIS
11 4 (0.23%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.17%) Looker
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
13 2 (0.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 225 (12.83%) JIRA
2 4 (0.23%) Balsamiq
3 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.11%) GitLab
4 2 (0.11%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 624 (35.58%) Finance
2 566 (32.27%) Social Skills
3 396 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (13.91%) Banking
5 139 (7.92%) Documentation Skills
6 132 (7.53%) Public Sector
7 108 (6.16%) Retail
8 94 (5.36%) Front Office
9 68 (3.88%) Investment Banking
10 61 (3.48%) Legal
11 48 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (2.51%) Manufacturing
13 36 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (2.00%) Back Office
15 33 (1.88%) Local Government
16 32 (1.82%) Financial Institution
17 31 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (1.48%) Marketing
19 24 (1.37%) Billing
19 24 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (0.91%) XML
3 15 (0.86%) Middleware
4 14 (0.80%) JSON
5 13 (0.74%) ADO
6 7 (0.40%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.34%) FHIR
8 5 (0.29%) STL
8 5 (0.29%) Terraform
9 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.23%) NumPy
9 4 (0.23%) Pandas
9 4 (0.23%) VML
10 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
10 3 (0.17%) REST
10 3 (0.17%) Swagger
11 2 (0.11%) EDI
11 2 (0.11%) Kafka
11 2 (0.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 169 (9.64%) Product Ownership
2 82 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.19%) Derivative
4 48 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 43 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 36 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (2.00%) Fixed Income
8 31 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 29 (1.65%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.37%) Credit Risk
10 24 (1.37%) Operational Technology
11 21 (1.20%) Reference Data
12 20 (1.14%) Hedge funds
12 20 (1.14%) Market Risk
13 19 (1.08%) Equities
14 17 (0.97%) FMCG
14 17 (0.97%) NHS
15 14 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.46%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
2 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.23%) Unix
3 1 (0.057%) Linux
3 1 (0.057%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (34.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 604 (34.44%) Business Analysis
3 568 (32.38%) Agile
4 543 (30.96%) Requirements Gathering
5 493 (28.11%) Workshop Facilitation
6 465 (26.51%) User Stories
7 348 (19.84%) User Acceptance Testing
8 328 (18.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 296 (16.88%) Acceptance Criteria
10 222 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
11 204 (11.63%) Validation
12 201 (11.46%) Process Improvement
13 187 (10.66%) Migration
14 177 (10.09%) AI
15 176 (10.03%) Data Analysis
16 166 (9.46%) Decision-Making
17 138 (7.87%) Data Modelling
17 138 (7.87%) Scrum
18 128 (7.30%) Requirements Workshops
19 122 (6.96%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 191 (10.89%) SQL
2 32 (1.82%) Python
3 14 (0.80%) Korn
4 8 (0.46%) Java
5 3 (0.17%) R
6 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.11%) VBA
7 1 (0.057%) ABAP
7 1 (0.057%) C
7 1 (0.057%) C#
7 1 (0.057%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.057%) Groovy
7 1 (0.057%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.057%) Ruby
7 1 (0.057%) SOQL
7 1 (0.057%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (8.49%) Security Cleared
2 147 (8.38%) Degree
3 120 (6.84%) SC Cleared
4 35 (2.00%) IIBA
5 32 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (1.60%) CBAP
7 25 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 17 (0.97%) ACCA
8 17 (0.97%) CIMA
9 16 (0.91%) PMP
10 12 (0.68%) FFIEC
11 11 (0.63%) ISEB
12 10 (0.57%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.34%) CSPO
14 6 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
15 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (6.16%) Data Quality
2 93 (5.30%) QA
3 32 (1.82%) GDPR
4 27 (1.54%) NIST
5 21 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.97%) MiFID
7 14 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.80%) GRC
8 13 (0.74%) COBIT
8 13 (0.74%) EMIR
9 11 (0.63%) IFRS
9 11 (0.63%) PMO
10 8 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.40%) Basel III
11 7 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.29%) HL7
14 4 (0.23%) FINREP
14 4 (0.23%) SEPA
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
5 1 (0.057%) RACF
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%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 166 (9.46%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.78%) Salesforce
3 111 (6.33%) SAP
4 67 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 61 (3.48%) Oracle
6 32 (1.82%) Murex
7 24 (1.37%) Databricks
8 19 (1.08%) Workday
9 17 (0.97%) CyberArk
10 12 (0.68%) Guidewire
10 12 (0.68%) IBM
10 12 (0.68%) Pega
11 11 (0.63%) Bloomberg
12 10 (0.57%) OpenLink
13 8 (0.46%) Charles River
13 8 (0.46%) Planon
14 7 (0.40%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.34%) Ariba
15 6 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 5 (0.29%) Blue Prism