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 14 April 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 45 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,756 1,142 1,662
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.49% 4.68% 4.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.87% 5.05% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,243 801 1,223
10th Percentile £356 £363 £394
25th Percentile £414 £426 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 7
10th Percentile £31.43 - -
25th Percentile £52.53 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £68.75 £32.82 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.51% +45.84% -61.21%
75th Percentile £79.13 £50.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £89.25 £56.75 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £32.82 £28.00
% change year-on-year +98.08% +17.20% -51.72%

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 36,091 22,604 34,341
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.70% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,674 15,128 22,897
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £410 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 855 2,346
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.45 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -5.00% -21.90%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.48
UK median hourly rate £41.53 £31.42 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.16% -10.22% -22.22%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 0 1,060 £537 -4.96% 156
North of England +3 277 £425 - 107
Midlands -2 156 £465 -4.12% 55
Yorkshire +2 130 £488 +8.33% 47
North West -14 124 £400 -2.44% 39
West Midlands 0 122 £475 -5.00% 38
South East -17 122 £500 +2.56% 76
South West +7 92 £450 -12.20% 27
North East +11 39 £425 +6.25% 22
East Midlands -21 32 £405 -1.22% 17
East of England -28 24 £488 +14.04% 30
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 April 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.

1 596 (33.94%) Agile
2 545 (31.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 511 (29.10%) Business Analysis
4 462 (26.31%) Requirements Gathering
5 425 (24.20%) Workshop Facilitation
6 420 (23.92%) User Stories
7 363 (20.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 278 (15.83%) User Acceptance Testing
9 275 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
10 257 (14.64%) JIRA
11 244 (13.90%) Security Cleared
12 242 (13.78%) Acceptance Criteria
13 240 (13.67%) Migration
14 206 (11.73%) SC Cleared
15 203 (11.56%) Confluence
16 197 (11.22%) SQL
17 170 (9.68%) Process Improvement
18 161 (9.17%) Validation
19 160 (9.11%) Data Analysis
20 156 (8.88%) Microsoft
21 151 (8.60%) Scrum
22 150 (8.54%) Decision-Making
23 146 (8.31%) GAP Analysis
24 145 (8.26%) Degree
25 141 (8.03%) Data Modelling
26 137 (7.80%) MS Visio
27 135 (7.69%) DevOps
28 125 (7.12%) Project Delivery
29 122 (6.95%) Business Intelligence
29 122 (6.95%) 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
1 203 (11.56%) Confluence
2 30 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.97%) SAS
4 5 (0.28%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.057%) Appian
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.057%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 137 (7.80%) MS Visio
2 113 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.23%) Notion
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) Sketch
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.14%) Endur
2 18 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.91%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.34%) Summit
6 5 (0.28%) Findur
6 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.28%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.23%) Actimize
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 122 (6.95%) Power Platform
2 120 (6.83%) Azure
3 67 (3.82%) AWS
4 38 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (1.37%) Lucidchart
8 21 (1.20%) GitHub
8 21 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 20 (1.14%) Miro
10 16 (0.91%) GCP
10 16 (0.91%) SaaS
10 16 (0.91%) Snowflake
11 12 (0.68%) Power Automate
12 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (0.57%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.51%) Figma
13 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.23%) Network Security
2 3 (0.17%) Internet
2 3 (0.17%) Wireless
3 2 (0.11%) Broadband
3 2 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.11%) DNS
3 2 (0.11%) Firewall
3 2 (0.11%) Intranet
3 2 (0.11%) NAS
3 2 (0.11%) X.25
4 1 (0.057%) SONET
4 1 (0.057%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (5.69%) Power BI
2 40 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (2.05%) Tableau
4 27 (1.54%) Metadata
5 14 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.40%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.34%) Big Data
7 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.17%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.17%) Power Query
10 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.11%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.11%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 257 (14.64%) JIRA
2 20 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 17 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.46%) Postman
5 5 (0.28%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.11%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.057%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.057%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 615 (35.02%) Finance
2 614 (34.97%) Social Skills
3 419 (23.86%) Analytical Skills
4 269 (15.32%) Banking
5 173 (9.85%) Public Sector
6 138 (7.86%) Documentation Skills
7 82 (4.67%) Retail
8 74 (4.21%) Front Office
9 63 (3.59%) Investment Banking
10 62 (3.53%) Legal
11 59 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.16%) Marketing
14 35 (1.99%) Back Office
15 34 (1.94%) Financial Institution
16 32 (1.82%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
18 23 (1.31%) Local Government
19 17 (0.97%) Manufacturing
20 16 (0.91%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.82%) REST
2 27 (1.54%) XML
3 17 (0.97%) JSON
4 16 (0.91%) SOAP
5 12 (0.68%) Swagger
6 11 (0.63%) ADO
6 11 (0.63%) Middleware
6 11 (0.63%) VML
7 10 (0.57%) OAuth
8 9 (0.51%) FHIR
9 7 (0.40%) JWT
9 7 (0.40%) OpenAPI
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.28%) .NET
11 5 (0.28%) SAML
12 4 (0.23%) HTML
12 4 (0.23%) NumPy
12 4 (0.23%) Pandas
13 3 (0.17%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 155 (8.83%) Product Ownership
2 59 (3.36%) Onboarding
3 44 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 41 (2.33%) Derivative
5 40 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
5 40 (2.28%) Fixed Income
6 38 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 26 (1.48%) NHS
9 25 (1.42%) Credit Risk
9 25 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.42%) PMI
9 25 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.03%) Equities
12 16 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.91%) Hedge funds
12 16 (0.91%) Market Risk
12 16 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 14 (0.80%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.80%) Linux
1 14 (0.80%) Windows
2 7 (0.40%) Unix
3 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.28%) VMS
4 3 (0.17%) Android
5 2 (0.11%) AIX
5 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.057%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (33.94%) Agile
2 545 (31.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 511 (29.10%) Business Analysis
4 462 (26.31%) Requirements Gathering
5 425 (24.20%) Workshop Facilitation
6 420 (23.92%) User Stories
7 363 (20.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 278 (15.83%) User Acceptance Testing
9 275 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
10 242 (13.78%) Acceptance Criteria
11 240 (13.67%) Migration
12 170 (9.68%) Process Improvement
13 161 (9.17%) Validation
14 160 (9.11%) Data Analysis
15 151 (8.60%) Scrum
16 150 (8.54%) Decision-Making
17 146 (8.31%) GAP Analysis
18 141 (8.03%) Data Modelling
19 135 (7.69%) DevOps
20 125 (7.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 197 (11.22%) SQL
2 43 (2.45%) Python
3 9 (0.51%) Korn
4 7 (0.40%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.34%) VBA
6 5 (0.28%) Java
7 4 (0.23%) R
8 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.11%) C#
9 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.057%) ABAP
10 1 (0.057%) C++
10 1 (0.057%) COBOL
10 1 (0.057%) Groovy
10 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 244 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 206 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 145 (8.26%) Degree
4 54 (3.08%) CBAP
5 50 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 42 (2.39%) IIBA
7 34 (1.94%) PMI Certification
8 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (0.80%) CSPO
8 14 (0.80%) PMP
9 10 (0.57%) ISEB
9 10 (0.57%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.40%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.34%) CFA
12 5 (0.28%) MBA
13 4 (0.23%) ACCA
14 3 (0.17%) CIMA
15 2 (0.11%) CAPM
15 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (6.09%) QA
2 88 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.96%) GDPR
4 25 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.25%) MiFID
6 19 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.08%) NIST
7 15 (0.85%) EMIR
8 14 (0.80%) PSD2
9 13 (0.74%) GRC
10 12 (0.68%) ISO 8583
11 11 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.63%) PMO
12 10 (0.57%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.51%) HL7
14 8 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.34%) Basel III
15 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
16 5 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.057%) RACF
Systems Management
1 18 (1.03%) Ansible
2 8 (0.46%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.11%) Control-M
3 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.11%) Terraform
4 1 (0.057%) Grafana
4 1 (0.057%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.057%) Kibana
4 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.057%) SCCM
4 1 (0.057%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 156 (8.88%) Microsoft
2 99 (5.64%) Salesforce
3 76 (4.33%) SAP
4 53 (3.02%) Oracle
5 52 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 31 (1.77%) Murex
7 21 (1.20%) Bloomberg
8 18 (1.03%) Databricks
9 16 (0.91%) Adobe
9 16 (0.91%) Sonatype
10 15 (0.85%) Workday
11 12 (0.68%) Pega
12 11 (0.63%) Avaloq
12 11 (0.63%) Google
12 11 (0.63%) OpenLink
12 11 (0.63%) Splunk
13 10 (0.57%) Guidewire
14 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 8 (0.46%) MuleSoft
16 7 (0.40%) OneTrust