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 4 June 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 38 41
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,732 1,223 1,542
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 5.10% 4.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.49% 5.52% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,189 845 1,127
10th Percentile £358 £358 £380
25th Percentile £417 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +0.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £721 £766 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 7
10th Percentile £28.03 £24.66 -
25th Percentile £34.87 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.81 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.17% +81.36% -64.00%
75th Percentile £89.70 £50.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £59.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £34.11 £28.00
% change year-on-year +81.76% +21.82% -55.20%

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 38,587 22,165 34,087
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.40% 92.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,812 14,615 22,428
10th Percentile £325 £289 £284
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,713 946 2,578
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.27 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.74% -22.97% -15.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.70 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +52.48% -25.33% -16.67%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -8 1,016 £550 -4.35% 206
North of England -5 274 £435 +2.24% 88
Midlands -7 168 £475 - 55
South East -13 140 £500 +2.56% 79
West Midlands +6 139 £475 -5.00% 32
North West -8 126 £401 -5.76% 39
Yorkshire -7 113 £500 +14.68% 36
South West -7 71 £425 -10.53% 45
North East +4 46 £450 +12.50% 14
East of England -20 36 £500 +16.96% 29
East Midlands -28 28 £393 +4.80% 23
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 June 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.

1 564 (32.56%) Agile
2 512 (29.56%) Business Analysis
3 507 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 437 (25.23%) Requirements Gathering
5 428 (24.71%) User Stories
6 404 (23.33%) Workshop Facilitation
7 338 (19.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 288 (16.63%) User Acceptance Testing
9 265 (15.30%) Acceptance Criteria
10 248 (14.32%) JIRA
10 248 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
11 233 (13.45%) Security Cleared
12 212 (12.24%) Migration
13 192 (11.09%) Confluence
14 188 (10.85%) SC Cleared
15 169 (9.76%) Validation
16 168 (9.70%) SQL
17 162 (9.35%) Microsoft
18 152 (8.78%) Data Analysis
18 152 (8.78%) Decision-Making
19 145 (8.37%) Scrum
20 143 (8.26%) Degree
20 143 (8.26%) DevOps
21 141 (8.14%) Azure
21 141 (8.14%) Process Improvement
22 136 (7.85%) Data Modelling
23 128 (7.39%) GAP Analysis
24 123 (7.10%) MS Visio
25 116 (6.70%) Impact Assessments
26 112 (6.47%) Project Management

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
1 192 (11.09%) Confluence
2 21 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.98%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Appian
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.058%) Apache
7 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 123 (7.10%) MS Visio
2 96 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Notion
8 1 (0.058%) CATIA
8 1 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 20 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.75%) Endur
4 11 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.35%) Findur
5 6 (0.35%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.35%) Summit
6 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 5 (0.29%) Maximo
6 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
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%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 141 (8.14%) Azure
2 105 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 64 (3.70%) AWS
4 49 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (1.15%) Lucidchart
7 20 (1.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 18 (1.04%) SaaS
9 15 (0.87%) Miro
10 14 (0.81%) Snowflake
11 13 (0.75%) GitHub
12 11 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (0.64%) GCP
12 11 (0.64%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.58%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 9 (0.52%) Figma
15 8 (0.46%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.40%) Network Security
2 6 (0.35%) Wireless
3 3 (0.17%) Intranet
4 2 (0.12%) 802.11
4 2 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.12%) DNS
4 2 (0.12%) Internet
4 2 (0.12%) VPN
4 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.12%) Wireless Security
4 2 (0.12%) WLAN
5 1 (0.058%) 5G
5 1 (0.058%) Broadband
5 1 (0.058%) Extranet
5 1 (0.058%) Firewall
5 1 (0.058%) PBX
5 1 (0.058%) SNMP
5 1 (0.058%) SONET
5 1 (0.058%) TETRA
5 1 (0.058%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.97%) Power BI
2 38 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (1.56%) Metadata
3 27 (1.56%) Tableau
4 15 (0.87%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.40%) Big Data
5 7 (0.40%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (0.35%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.17%) Power Query
8 3 (0.17%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.12%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.12%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.12%) Looker
9 2 (0.12%) OLAP
10 1 (0.058%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.058%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 248 (14.32%) JIRA
2 12 (0.69%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.40%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.12%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.12%) GitLab
8 1 (0.058%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.058%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.058%) SonarQube
General
1 605 (34.93%) Finance
2 583 (33.66%) Social Skills
3 397 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (14.90%) Banking
5 151 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 130 (7.51%) Documentation Skills
7 92 (5.31%) Front Office
8 81 (4.68%) Retail
9 68 (3.93%) Investment Banking
10 64 (3.70%) Legal
11 56 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
12 45 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.19%) Back Office
14 36 (2.08%) Financial Institution
15 35 (2.02%) Marketing
16 32 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (1.39%) Manufacturing
18 23 (1.33%) Local Government
19 20 (1.15%) Law
20 17 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.56%) XML
2 21 (1.21%) REST
3 17 (0.98%) JSON
3 17 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (0.87%) ADO
5 13 (0.75%) SOAP
6 11 (0.64%) Middleware
7 9 (0.52%) Swagger
7 9 (0.52%) VML
8 6 (0.35%) OAuth
9 5 (0.29%) FHIR
9 5 (0.29%) NumPy
9 5 (0.29%) Pandas
10 4 (0.23%) .NET
10 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
10 4 (0.23%) JWT
10 4 (0.23%) OpenAPI
10 4 (0.23%) YAML
11 3 (0.17%) Murex MxML
11 3 (0.17%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 155 (8.95%) Product Ownership
2 50 (2.89%) Derivative
3 46 (2.66%) Onboarding
4 42 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 42 (2.42%) Fixed Income
5 38 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
6 37 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 27 (1.56%) Credit Risk
9 26 (1.50%) Hedge funds
10 24 (1.39%) NHS
11 22 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.15%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.15%) Market Risk
13 19 (1.10%) Management Information System
13 19 (1.10%) Operational Technology
14 15 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.81%) Equities
15 14 (0.81%) PMI
16 13 (0.75%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.69%) Windows
2 6 (0.35%) Linux
2 6 (0.35%) Unix
3 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.23%) Android
5 2 (0.12%) AIX
5 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.12%) Solaris
5 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.058%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (32.56%) Agile
2 512 (29.56%) Business Analysis
3 507 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 437 (25.23%) Requirements Gathering
5 428 (24.71%) User Stories
6 404 (23.33%) Workshop Facilitation
7 338 (19.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 288 (16.63%) User Acceptance Testing
9 265 (15.30%) Acceptance Criteria
10 248 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
11 212 (12.24%) Migration
12 169 (9.76%) Validation
13 152 (8.78%) Data Analysis
13 152 (8.78%) Decision-Making
14 145 (8.37%) Scrum
15 143 (8.26%) DevOps
16 141 (8.14%) Process Improvement
17 136 (7.85%) Data Modelling
18 128 (7.39%) GAP Analysis
19 116 (6.70%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 168 (9.70%) SQL
2 41 (2.37%) Python
3 12 (0.69%) Korn
4 5 (0.29%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) R
5 4 (0.23%) VBA
6 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.058%) ABAP
8 1 (0.058%) C
8 1 (0.058%) C#
8 1 (0.058%) Groovy
8 1 (0.058%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.058%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.058%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.058%) Ruby
8 1 (0.058%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 233 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 188 (10.85%) SC Cleared
3 143 (8.26%) Degree
4 50 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.42%) IIBA
6 39 (2.25%) CBAP
7 23 (1.33%) PMI Certification
8 13 (0.75%) PMP
9 11 (0.64%) ACCA
10 10 (0.58%) CIMA
10 10 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (0.58%) ISEB
11 9 (0.52%) CSPO
12 8 (0.46%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.40%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.23%) FFIEC
14 4 (0.23%) MBA
15 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.17%) CFA
15 3 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.37%) QA
2 85 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.66%) GDPR
4 27 (1.56%) NIST
5 25 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.98%) EMIR
8 14 (0.81%) MiFID
9 12 (0.69%) GRC
10 11 (0.64%) PMO
11 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.52%) IFRS
12 9 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.52%) PSD2
13 7 (0.40%) COBIT
13 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
14 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.35%) ISO 8583
15 5 (0.29%) Basel III
15 5 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.12%) Docker
4 1 (0.058%) RACF
4 1 (0.058%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (0.58%) Ansible
2 5 (0.29%) Terraform
3 4 (0.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.12%) Control-M
4 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.058%) Autotask
5 1 (0.058%) Grafana
5 1 (0.058%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.058%) Kibana
5 1 (0.058%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.058%) SCCM
5 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 162 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.35%) Salesforce
3 100 (5.77%) SAP
4 57 (3.29%) Oracle
5 53 (3.06%) ServiceNow
6 32 (1.85%) Murex
7 21 (1.21%) Databricks
8 19 (1.10%) Workday
9 16 (0.92%) Bloomberg
10 12 (0.69%) Splunk
11 11 (0.64%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.58%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.58%) Planon
13 9 (0.52%) Avaloq
13 9 (0.52%) Pega
13 9 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 9 (0.52%) Sonatype
14 8 (0.46%) ION Trading
15 7 (0.40%) Charles River
15 7 (0.40%) Cisco