Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 40 52
Rank change year-on-year -21 +12 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,726 1,430 1,286
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.73% 5.09% 3.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.05% 5.59% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 999 971
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £428 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -1.59%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 10
10th Percentile £29.43 £27.05 £39.73
25th Percentile £37.00 £29.35 £43.44
Median hourly rate £61.50 £31.49 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +95.30% -53.17% +12.08%
75th Percentile £76.75 £34.45 £77.81
90th Percentile £104.00 £57.10 £82.68
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £32.89 £58.25
% change year-on-year +86.99% -43.54% +2.19%

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 42,663 25,579 30,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 91.10% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,165 16,474 18,507
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,652 1,417 1,347
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.33 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.91
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.39% -3.57%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -17 997 £525 -6.46% 564
North of England -21 248 £463 +8.82% 222
South East -6 177 £500 +2.56% 192
Midlands -2 168 £450 +20.00% 132
West Midlands +13 131 £450 -5.26% 85
North West -22 112 £447 +3.95% 118
Yorkshire -22 98 £463 +12.12% 71
South West +12 86 £480 +6.67% 68
North East -16 39 £525 +31.09% 35
East Midlands -23 36 £461 +28.84% 47
East of England -17 28 £450 - 56
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 684 (39.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 639 (37.02%) Business Analysis
3 602 (34.88%) Requirements Gathering
4 556 (32.21%) Agile
5 521 (30.19%) Workshop Facilitation
6 461 (26.71%) User Stories
7 338 (19.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 338 (19.58%) User Acceptance Testing
8 299 (17.32%) Acceptance Criteria
9 230 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 210 (12.17%) Process Improvement
11 209 (12.11%) JIRA
12 201 (11.65%) Validation
13 196 (11.36%) SQL
14 194 (11.24%) Migration
15 189 (10.95%) AI
16 180 (10.43%) Microsoft
17 179 (10.37%) Data Analysis
18 171 (9.91%) Decision-Making
19 153 (8.86%) Data Modelling
20 149 (8.63%) Degree
21 148 (8.57%) Requirements Workshops
21 148 (8.57%) Security Cleared
22 146 (8.46%) Azure
23 144 (8.34%) Confluence
24 132 (7.65%) Scrum
25 129 (7.47%) Impact Assessments
26 128 (7.42%) GAP Analysis
26 128 (7.42%) Project Delivery
27 121 (7.01%) Data Quality

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
1 144 (8.34%) Confluence
2 22 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.46%) CMS
4 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.12%) Appian
5 2 (0.12%) SAS
6 1 (0.058%) Apache
6 1 (0.058%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.058%) Camunda
6 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.058%) Moodle
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.058%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.058%) Totara
Applications
1 81 (4.69%) MS Visio
2 62 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Notion
7 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.52%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.52%) Endur
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.23%) HFM
10 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.23%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.17%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.17%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 146 (8.46%) Azure
2 109 (6.32%) Power Platform
3 70 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (2.78%) AWS
5 47 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
6 32 (1.85%) SaaS
7 24 (1.39%) Snowflake
8 23 (1.33%) Lucidchart
8 23 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 20 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (1.10%) Miro
11 18 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 14 (0.81%) GCP
13 12 (0.70%) Entra ID
13 12 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (0.52%) Power Automate
16 8 (0.46%) Figma
16 8 (0.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.41%) Network Security
2 5 (0.29%) Intranet
3 4 (0.23%) Wireless
4 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.12%) 802.11
5 2 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.12%) PBX
5 2 (0.12%) VoIP
5 2 (0.12%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) WAN
5 2 (0.12%) Wireless Security
5 2 (0.12%) WLAN
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) HTTP
6 1 (0.058%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.058%) SNMP
6 1 (0.058%) SSH
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
6 1 (0.058%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.45%) Power BI
2 40 (2.32%) Metadata
3 31 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.04%) Tableau
5 17 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (0.35%) Data Mining
8 6 (0.35%) GIS
8 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.23%) Looker
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.17%) Big Data
10 3 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) Power Query
10 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 209 (12.11%) JIRA
2 3 (0.17%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.12%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.12%) GitLab
3 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.058%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.058%) Rational DOORS
General
1 598 (34.65%) Finance
2 570 (33.02%) Social Skills
3 378 (21.90%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (13.73%) Banking
5 147 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 137 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
7 107 (6.20%) Retail
8 83 (4.81%) Front Office
9 62 (3.59%) Investment Banking
10 61 (3.53%) Legal
11 49 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (2.84%) Manufacturing
12 40 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.97%) Back Office
14 33 (1.91%) Local Government
15 29 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (1.51%) Marketing
17 25 (1.45%) Billing
17 25 (1.45%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (0.87%) JSON
2 15 (0.87%) Middleware
3 14 (0.81%) XML
4 10 (0.58%) ADO
5 6 (0.35%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.29%) Terraform
7 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.23%) FHIR
7 4 (0.23%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.23%) OpenAPI
7 4 (0.23%) Swagger
8 3 (0.17%) EDI
8 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.17%) STL
8 3 (0.17%) VML
9 2 (0.12%) NumPy
9 2 (0.12%) Pandas
9 2 (0.12%) REST
9 2 (0.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.56%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 51 (2.95%) Derivative
4 42 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
5 35 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 35 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (1.97%) Data Structures
7 31 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 27 (1.56%) Fixed Income
8 27 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.33%) Reference Data
10 19 (1.10%) Operational Technology
11 18 (1.04%) Equities
11 18 (1.04%) Taxonomies
12 17 (0.98%) Credit Risk
13 16 (0.93%) FMCG
13 16 (0.93%) Hedge funds
13 16 (0.93%) Market Risk
13 16 (0.93%) NHS
14 14 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.87%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
3 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.058%) Linux
4 1 (0.058%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (39.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 639 (37.02%) Business Analysis
3 602 (34.88%) Requirements Gathering
4 556 (32.21%) Agile
5 521 (30.19%) Workshop Facilitation
6 461 (26.71%) User Stories
7 338 (19.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 338 (19.58%) User Acceptance Testing
8 299 (17.32%) Acceptance Criteria
9 230 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 210 (12.17%) Process Improvement
11 201 (11.65%) Validation
12 194 (11.24%) Migration
13 189 (10.95%) AI
14 179 (10.37%) Data Analysis
15 171 (9.91%) Decision-Making
16 153 (8.86%) Data Modelling
17 148 (8.57%) Requirements Workshops
18 132 (7.65%) Scrum
19 129 (7.47%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 196 (11.36%) SQL
2 28 (1.62%) Python
3 15 (0.87%) Korn
4 9 (0.52%) Java
5 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.17%) R
7 2 (0.12%) C#
7 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.058%) ABAP
8 1 (0.058%) C
8 1 (0.058%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.058%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.058%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.058%) Ruby
8 1 (0.058%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 149 (8.63%) Degree
2 148 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 115 (6.66%) SC Cleared
4 43 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (1.97%) IIBA
6 29 (1.68%) CBAP
7 26 (1.51%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.33%) ACCA
9 22 (1.27%) CIMA
10 16 (0.93%) PMP
11 12 (0.70%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.70%) FFIEC
12 10 (0.58%) ISEB
13 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.41%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.29%) CSPO
17 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
17 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 3 (0.17%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (7.01%) Data Quality
2 88 (5.10%) QA
3 22 (1.27%) GDPR
4 21 (1.22%) NIST
5 16 (0.93%) MiFID
6 14 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.81%) IFRS
7 12 (0.70%) COBIT
8 11 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.64%) GRC
8 11 (0.64%) PMO
9 10 (0.58%) EMIR
9 10 (0.58%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 6 (0.35%) Basel III
11 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.29%) SEPA
13 4 (0.23%) FINREP
13 4 (0.23%) ISO 15022
14 3 (0.17%) COREP
System Software
1 14 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (0.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.058%) Autotask
3 1 (0.058%) Grafana
3 1 (0.058%) Kibana
3 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 180 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 114 (6.60%) SAP
3 104 (6.03%) Salesforce
4 60 (3.48%) Oracle
5 57 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 32 (1.85%) Murex
7 28 (1.62%) Databricks
8 18 (1.04%) CyberArk
8 18 (1.04%) Workday
9 15 (0.87%) IBM
10 13 (0.75%) Bloomberg
10 13 (0.75%) Guidewire
11 10 (0.58%) Pega
12 8 (0.46%) Charles River
12 8 (0.46%) IFS
13 7 (0.41%) Ariba
13 7 (0.41%) Infor
13 7 (0.41%) OpenLink
13 7 (0.41%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.35%) Informatica