Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £511, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 40 51
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,760 1,437 1,261
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.76% 5.09% 3.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.09% 5.59% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 1,017 947
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £743 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 10
10th Percentile £30.64 £25.00 £39.73
25th Percentile £37.00 £27.01 £43.44
Median hourly rate £66.90 £31.49 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +112.45% -53.17% +28.10%
75th Percentile £90.00 £61.13 £77.81
90th Percentile £104.00 £88.75 £82.68
UK median hourly rate £66.90 £32.89 £58.25
% change year-on-year +103.41% -43.54% +9.39%

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 43,038 25,712 29,854
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 91.15% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,329 16,534 18,240
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -2.78%
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% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,814 1,462 1,240
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.84 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £67.85 £51.61 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +63.24% -38.77% -8.72%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -15 1,016 £525 -5.83% 57
North of England -17 247 £455 +7.06% 40
South East -7 184 £500 +5.26% 60
Midlands -15 162 £450 +12.50% 30
West Midlands +7 126 £450 -10.00% 20
North West -21 119 £440 +3.04% 17
Yorkshire -23 95 £463 +13.08% 13
South West +8 94 £484 +4.65% 16
East of England -14 36 £475 +5.56% 7
East Midlands -24 35 £460 +28.49% 10
North East -19 34 £525 +31.09% 10
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 727 (41.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 681 (38.69%) Business Analysis
3 625 (35.51%) Requirements Gathering
4 559 (31.76%) Agile
5 550 (31.25%) Workshop Facilitation
6 478 (27.16%) User Stories
7 351 (19.94%) User Acceptance Testing
8 346 (19.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 330 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
10 244 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
11 215 (12.22%) Process Improvement
11 215 (12.22%) Validation
12 210 (11.93%) JIRA
13 200 (11.36%) SQL
14 199 (11.31%) AI
15 188 (10.68%) Migration
16 186 (10.57%) Data Analysis
17 183 (10.40%) Microsoft
18 172 (9.77%) Decision-Making
19 162 (9.20%) Degree
20 161 (9.15%) Security Cleared
21 158 (8.98%) Requirements Workshops
22 156 (8.86%) Data Modelling
23 145 (8.24%) Confluence
24 143 (8.13%) Azure
25 139 (7.90%) GAP Analysis
26 137 (7.78%) Impact Assessments
27 134 (7.61%) Scrum
28 132 (7.50%) Project Delivery
28 132 (7.50%) 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
1 145 (8.24%) Confluence
2 21 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.63%) CMS
4 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.11%) Kentico
5 2 (0.11%) SAS
5 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.057%) Apache
6 1 (0.057%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.057%) Appian
6 1 (0.057%) Camunda
6 1 (0.057%) Moodle
6 1 (0.057%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.057%) Totara
Applications
1 83 (4.72%) MS Visio
2 65 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Notion
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.45%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.45%) Endur
6 8 (0.45%) Maximo
6 8 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.28%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.23%) HFM
10 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.17%) MIS ActiveH
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
11 3 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 143 (8.13%) Azure
2 110 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 70 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
5 47 (2.67%) AWS
6 34 (1.93%) SaaS
7 23 (1.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 23 (1.31%) Snowflake
8 22 (1.25%) Lucidchart
9 20 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (1.14%) Miro
10 18 (1.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 13 (0.74%) GCP
12 12 (0.68%) Entra ID
12 12 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (0.57%) Figma
14 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (0.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.40%) Network Security
2 5 (0.28%) Intranet
3 4 (0.23%) Wireless
4 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.11%) 802.11
5 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.11%) PBX
5 2 (0.11%) VoIP
5 2 (0.11%) VPN
5 2 (0.11%) WAN
5 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
5 2 (0.11%) WLAN
6 1 (0.057%) 5G
6 1 (0.057%) DNS
6 1 (0.057%) HTTP
6 1 (0.057%) LAN
6 1 (0.057%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.057%) SNMP
6 1 (0.057%) SSH
6 1 (0.057%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.40%) Power BI
2 38 (2.16%) Metadata
3 36 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (1.14%) Tableau
5 19 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (0.34%) Data Mining
8 6 (0.34%) GIS
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.23%) Big Data
9 4 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.23%) Looker
10 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.17%) Power Query
11 2 (0.11%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 210 (11.93%) JIRA
2 3 (0.17%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.057%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.057%) Postman
4 1 (0.057%) SoapUI
General
1 612 (34.77%) Finance
2 574 (32.61%) Social Skills
3 392 (22.27%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (13.98%) Banking
5 150 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 146 (8.30%) Documentation Skills
7 103 (5.85%) Retail
8 83 (4.72%) Front Office
9 64 (3.64%) Legal
10 63 (3.58%) Investment Banking
11 48 (2.73%) Manufacturing
12 47 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.99%) Back Office
14 33 (1.88%) Local Government
15 31 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (1.53%) Billing
18 26 (1.48%) Financial Institution
18 26 (1.48%) General Ledger
18 26 (1.48%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (0.91%) JSON
3 14 (0.80%) Middleware
4 13 (0.74%) XML
5 9 (0.51%) ADO
6 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.28%) Terraform
8 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.23%) EDI
8 4 (0.23%) FHIR
8 4 (0.23%) Gherkin
8 4 (0.23%) OpenAPI
8 4 (0.23%) Swagger
9 3 (0.17%) .NET
9 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.17%) STL
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.11%) RESTful
11 1 (0.057%) Great Expectations
11 1 (0.057%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 83 (4.72%) Onboarding
3 48 (2.73%) Derivative
4 42 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
5 37 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 30 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 27 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 27 (1.53%) Reference Data
10 26 (1.48%) Fixed Income
11 20 (1.14%) Equities
11 20 (1.14%) Taxonomies
12 18 (1.02%) Operational Technology
13 17 (0.97%) AI Agents
14 16 (0.91%) FMCG
14 16 (0.91%) NHS
14 16 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 15 (0.85%) Hedge funds
15 15 (0.85%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.85%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
3 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.057%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 727 (41.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 681 (38.69%) Business Analysis
3 625 (35.51%) Requirements Gathering
4 559 (31.76%) Agile
5 550 (31.25%) Workshop Facilitation
6 478 (27.16%) User Stories
7 351 (19.94%) User Acceptance Testing
8 346 (19.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 330 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
10 244 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
11 215 (12.22%) Process Improvement
11 215 (12.22%) Validation
12 199 (11.31%) AI
13 188 (10.68%) Migration
14 186 (10.57%) Data Analysis
15 172 (9.77%) Decision-Making
16 158 (8.98%) Requirements Workshops
17 156 (8.86%) Data Modelling
18 139 (7.90%) GAP Analysis
19 137 (7.78%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 200 (11.36%) SQL
2 29 (1.65%) Python
3 14 (0.80%) Korn
4 8 (0.45%) Java
5 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.11%) C#
6 2 (0.11%) R
6 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.057%) C
7 1 (0.057%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.057%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.057%) Ruby
7 1 (0.057%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 162 (9.20%) Degree
2 161 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 132 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 38 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.10%) IIBA
6 30 (1.70%) CBAP
7 25 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 24 (1.36%) ACCA
9 23 (1.31%) CIMA
10 17 (0.97%) PMP
11 12 (0.68%) FFIEC
12 11 (0.63%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.63%) ISEB
13 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.40%) CSPO
14 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
17 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
17 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 80 (4.55%) QA
3 20 (1.14%) GDPR
3 20 (1.14%) NIST
4 19 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.85%) IFRS
6 12 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (0.68%) COBIT
6 12 (0.68%) GRC
6 12 (0.68%) MiFID
6 12 (0.68%) PMO
7 9 (0.51%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.40%) EMIR
10 6 (0.34%) Basel III
10 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.28%) SEPA
12 4 (0.23%) FINREP
12 4 (0.23%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (0.40%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.11%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.057%) Autotask
3 1 (0.057%) Grafana
3 1 (0.057%) Kibana
3 1 (0.057%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 183 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.53%) SAP
3 101 (5.74%) Salesforce
4 59 (3.35%) Oracle
5 54 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 35 (1.99%) Murex
7 27 (1.53%) Databricks
8 18 (1.02%) CyberArk
8 18 (1.02%) Workday
9 17 (0.97%) IBM
10 13 (0.74%) Bloomberg
11 11 (0.63%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.57%) IFS
13 9 (0.51%) Pega
14 8 (0.45%) Charles River
14 8 (0.45%) Informatica
15 7 (0.40%) Ariba
15 7 (0.40%) Infor
15 7 (0.40%) Zscaler
16 6 (0.34%) PeopleSoft