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 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 46 40
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,703 1,136 1,724
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.58% 4.65% 4.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.98% 5.00% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 827 1,268
10th Percentile £354 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £431 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% +1.52%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £759 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 7
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £41.83 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.81 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.29% -22.28% -9.48%
75th Percentile £81.50 £55.63 £68.78
90th Percentile £90.25 £74.25 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £34.68 £50.00
% change year-on-year +87.43% -30.64% -13.79%

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 34,185 22,733 34,999
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 93.02% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,607 15,058 23,418
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,238 789 2,273
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.14 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.40 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.77% - -23.53%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +2 1,041 £525 -8.70% 150
North of England +2 254 £425 - 105
Midlands -3 149 £465 -4.62% 57
Yorkshire +1 122 £475 +5.56% 49
South East -24 116 £500 +2.56% 85
West Midlands -9 115 £475 -5.00% 35
North West -16 113 £400 -2.44% 33
South West +17 94 £466 -4.46% 32
North East +14 35 £425 +6.25% 24
East Midlands -23 32 £401 +0.38% 22
East of England -18 24 £469 +4.17% 31
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 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.

1 590 (34.64%) Agile
2 550 (32.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 506 (29.71%) Business Analysis
4 463 (27.19%) Requirements Gathering
5 406 (23.84%) Workshop Facilitation
6 393 (23.08%) User Stories
7 370 (21.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 273 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
9 265 (15.56%) JIRA
10 263 (15.44%) User Acceptance Testing
11 244 (14.33%) Migration
12 240 (14.09%) Security Cleared
13 221 (12.98%) Acceptance Criteria
14 204 (11.98%) SC Cleared
15 202 (11.86%) Confluence
16 198 (11.63%) SQL
17 164 (9.63%) Process Improvement
18 159 (9.34%) Data Analysis
19 156 (9.16%) Microsoft
20 152 (8.93%) Degree
21 147 (8.63%) Scrum
22 144 (8.46%) Validation
23 142 (8.34%) GAP Analysis
24 139 (8.16%) Data Modelling
25 138 (8.10%) Decision-Making
26 136 (7.99%) MS Visio
27 130 (7.63%) Project Delivery
28 127 (7.46%) DevOps
29 120 (7.05%) Power Platform
30 118 (6.93%) Azure

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
1 202 (11.86%) Confluence
2 28 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.94%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.059%) Appian
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.059%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 136 (7.99%) MS Visio
2 118 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 65 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.23%) Notion
7 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Inventor
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.059%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.059%) CATIA
8 1 (0.059%) Sketch
8 1 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 22 (1.29%) Endur
2 18 (1.06%) Aladdin
2 18 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 5 (0.29%) Summit
5 5 (0.29%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.23%) Actimize
6 4 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.23%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 3 (0.18%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.18%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 120 (7.05%) Power Platform
2 118 (6.93%) Azure
3 68 (3.99%) AWS
4 40 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (1.35%) GitHub
8 21 (1.23%) Lucidchart
8 21 (1.23%) SaaS
9 19 (1.12%) Miro
10 17 (1.00%) GCP
10 17 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 17 (1.00%) Snowflake
11 11 (0.65%) Power Automate
12 10 (0.59%) PowerApps
13 9 (0.53%) Entra ID
13 9 (0.53%) Figma
14 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.41%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.29%) Network Security
2 3 (0.18%) Firewall
2 3 (0.18%) Internet
2 3 (0.18%) Wireless
3 2 (0.12%) Broadband
3 2 (0.12%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.12%) DNS
3 2 (0.12%) Intranet
3 2 (0.12%) NAS
3 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.12%) WAN
3 2 (0.12%) X.25
4 1 (0.059%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.75%) Power BI
2 40 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (2.00%) Tableau
4 23 (1.35%) Metadata
5 13 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.53%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.29%) Big Data
8 5 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.29%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.23%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.18%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.18%) Power Query
11 2 (0.12%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.12%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 265 (15.56%) JIRA
2 21 (1.23%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.47%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.18%) Toad
7 2 (0.12%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.12%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.12%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.12%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.059%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.059%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.059%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.059%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 630 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 591 (34.70%) Finance
3 398 (23.37%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (15.38%) Banking
5 170 (9.98%) Public Sector
6 130 (7.63%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (3.93%) Retail
8 64 (3.76%) Front Office
9 59 (3.46%) Investment Banking
9 59 (3.46%) Legal
10 54 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
12 39 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 38 (2.23%) Marketing
14 35 (2.06%) Back Office
15 29 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (1.47%) Financial Institution
16 25 (1.47%) Local Government
17 16 (0.94%) Law
17 16 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.06%) REST
2 29 (1.70%) XML
3 18 (1.06%) JSON
3 18 (1.06%) SOAP
4 12 (0.70%) ADO
4 12 (0.70%) Swagger
5 11 (0.65%) OAuth
6 9 (0.53%) FHIR
6 9 (0.53%) SailPoint
7 8 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (0.47%) VML
8 7 (0.41%) JWT
8 7 (0.41%) OpenAPI
8 7 (0.41%) SAML
9 6 (0.35%) Middleware
10 5 (0.29%) .NET
11 4 (0.23%) HTML
11 4 (0.23%) RESTful
12 3 (0.18%) Murex MxML
12 3 (0.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (8.34%) Product Ownership
2 59 (3.46%) Onboarding
3 42 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
4 40 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 38 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 34 (2.00%) Derivative
8 33 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 26 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 25 (1.47%) PMI
11 24 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 23 (1.35%) Credit Risk
13 22 (1.29%) NHS
14 20 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 19 (1.12%) Equities
16 18 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.70%) Hedge funds
17 12 (0.70%) Market Risk
17 12 (0.70%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.94%) Linux
2 12 (0.70%) Windows
3 6 (0.35%) Unix
4 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.29%) VMS
5 3 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.12%) AIX
6 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.12%) Solaris
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (34.64%) Agile
2 550 (32.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 506 (29.71%) Business Analysis
4 463 (27.19%) Requirements Gathering
5 406 (23.84%) Workshop Facilitation
6 393 (23.08%) User Stories
7 370 (21.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 273 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
9 263 (15.44%) User Acceptance Testing
10 244 (14.33%) Migration
11 221 (12.98%) Acceptance Criteria
12 164 (9.63%) Process Improvement
13 159 (9.34%) Data Analysis
14 147 (8.63%) Scrum
15 144 (8.46%) Validation
16 142 (8.34%) GAP Analysis
17 139 (8.16%) Data Modelling
18 138 (8.10%) Decision-Making
19 130 (7.63%) Project Delivery
20 127 (7.46%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 198 (11.63%) SQL
2 42 (2.47%) Python
3 10 (0.59%) Korn
4 7 (0.41%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.29%) Java
6 4 (0.23%) VBA
7 3 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.18%) R
8 2 (0.12%) C#
8 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.059%) C++
9 1 (0.059%) COBOL
9 1 (0.059%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 240 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 204 (11.98%) SC Cleared
3 152 (8.93%) Degree
4 57 (3.35%) CBAP
5 42 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.47%) IIBA
6 35 (2.06%) PMI Certification
7 15 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (0.88%) PMP
8 13 (0.76%) ISEB
9 12 (0.70%) CSPO
10 11 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.41%) CFA
12 6 (0.35%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.29%) MBA
14 4 (0.23%) ACCA
15 3 (0.18%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.18%) CIMA
16 2 (0.12%) AAT
16 2 (0.12%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.75%) QA
2 82 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 50 (2.94%) GDPR
4 22 (1.29%) MiFID
5 20 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.06%) NIST
7 17 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 16 (0.94%) EMIR
9 13 (0.76%) GRC
9 13 (0.76%) PSD2
10 12 (0.70%) ISO 8583
11 11 (0.65%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.59%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.53%) HL7
13 9 (0.53%) PMO
14 8 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.35%) SEPA
16 6 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.059%) Docker
2 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.059%) RACF
2 1 (0.059%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (1.23%) Ansible
2 6 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.12%) Terraform
5 1 (0.059%) Control-M
5 1 (0.059%) Grafana
5 1 (0.059%) Kibana
5 1 (0.059%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.059%) SCCM
Vendors
1 156 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 98 (5.75%) Salesforce
3 76 (4.46%) SAP
4 54 (3.17%) Oracle
5 49 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 34 (2.00%) Murex
7 23 (1.35%) Bloomberg
8 19 (1.12%) Sonatype
9 17 (1.00%) Adobe
10 16 (0.94%) Workday
11 14 (0.82%) Databricks
12 13 (0.76%) Pega
13 12 (0.70%) Google
14 10 (0.59%) Avaloq
14 10 (0.59%) Guidewire
14 10 (0.59%) Splunk
15 9 (0.53%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.53%) OpenLink
16 8 (0.47%) OneTrust
16 8 (0.47%) Refinitiv