Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 39 50
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,742 1,425 1,309
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.74% 5.10% 4.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.06% 5.59% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 986 984
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £680 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 10
10th Percentile £29.73 £27.05 £29.66
25th Percentile £35.40 £29.35 £40.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £31.49 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.54% -45.94% +22.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £34.45 £73.69
90th Percentile £104.00 £57.10 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £32.89 £46.25
% change year-on-year +77.87% -28.89% -14.35%

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 42,924 25,502 30,456
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 91.27% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,454 16,440 18,762
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,577 1,399 1,408
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.46 £21.34
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 1,011 £525 -8.70% 545
North of England -23 248 £473 +11.18% 169
South East -14 184 £500 +4.17% 168
Midlands -6 164 £459 +22.47% 116
West Midlands +15 129 £450 -7.69% 72
North West -24 109 £450 +5.63% 89
Yorkshire -18 101 £475 +16.56% 56
South West -2 81 £480 +4.35% 59
North East -16 39 £525 +31.09% 24
East Midlands -29 34 £463 +29.19% 44
East of England -28 30 £463 +2.78% 56
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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.

1 668 (38.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 632 (36.28%) Business Analysis
3 584 (33.52%) Requirements Gathering
4 560 (32.15%) Agile
5 511 (29.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 455 (26.12%) User Stories
7 337 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
8 333 (19.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 291 (16.70%) Acceptance Criteria
10 231 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
11 208 (11.94%) Process Improvement
12 206 (11.83%) JIRA
13 204 (11.71%) Validation
14 195 (11.19%) SQL
15 193 (11.08%) Migration
16 188 (10.79%) AI
17 180 (10.33%) Data Analysis
18 177 (10.16%) Microsoft
19 173 (9.93%) Decision-Making
20 153 (8.78%) Data Modelling
21 149 (8.55%) Azure
22 147 (8.44%) Degree
23 145 (8.32%) Security Cleared
24 143 (8.21%) Requirements Workshops
25 140 (8.04%) Confluence
26 139 (7.98%) Scrum
27 124 (7.12%) Impact Assessments
28 122 (7.00%) GAP Analysis
29 121 (6.95%) Project Delivery
30 119 (6.83%) DevOps

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
1 140 (8.04%) Confluence
2 23 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.46%) CMS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.17%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.057%) Camunda
7 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.057%) Moodle
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.057%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.057%) Totara
Applications
1 86 (4.94%) MS Visio
2 62 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.23%) Notion
5 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.057%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.057%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.57%) Endur
4 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.52%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.23%) HFM
10 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.17%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.17%) Findur
11 3 (0.17%) Primavera
11 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 149 (8.55%) Azure
2 109 (6.26%) Power Platform
3 70 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (2.76%) AWS
5 46 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
6 31 (1.78%) SaaS
7 26 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 22 (1.26%) Snowflake
9 21 (1.21%) Lucidchart
10 20 (1.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 18 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (1.03%) Miro
12 13 (0.75%) GCP
13 12 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.63%) Entra ID
14 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (0.57%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
17 8 (0.46%) IBM Blueworks
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.34%) Network Security
2 5 (0.29%) 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%) 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%) PBX
6 1 (0.057%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.057%) SNMP
6 1 (0.057%) SSH
6 1 (0.057%) SSL
6 1 (0.057%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (5.34%) Power BI
2 39 (2.24%) Metadata
3 32 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.03%) Tableau
5 15 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.34%) Data Mining
7 6 (0.34%) GIS
7 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.17%) Big Data
9 3 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (0.17%) Looker
9 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 206 (11.83%) JIRA
2 2 (0.11%) Balsamiq
2 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.11%) GitLab
2 2 (0.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 615 (35.30%) Finance
2 570 (32.72%) Social Skills
3 386 (22.16%) Analytical Skills
4 245 (14.06%) Banking
5 137 (7.86%) Documentation Skills
6 135 (7.75%) Public Sector
7 109 (6.26%) Retail
8 91 (5.22%) Front Office
9 66 (3.79%) Investment Banking
10 65 (3.73%) Legal
11 48 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 42 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.95%) Back Office
14 32 (1.84%) Local Government
15 30 (1.72%) Financial Institution
15 30 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
16 27 (1.55%) Marketing
17 26 (1.49%) Billing
18 24 (1.38%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (0.92%) Middleware
3 15 (0.86%) JSON
4 13 (0.75%) XML
5 11 (0.63%) ADO
6 7 (0.40%) SailPoint
7 5 (0.29%) Terraform
8 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.23%) FHIR
8 4 (0.23%) Gherkin
8 4 (0.23%) NumPy
8 4 (0.23%) Pandas
8 4 (0.23%) STL
8 4 (0.23%) VML
9 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.17%) Swagger
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.11%) REST
10 2 (0.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 169 (9.70%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.99%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.10%) Derivative
4 43 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 36 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 36 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 34 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 30 (1.72%) Fixed Income
9 26 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.38%) Reference Data
11 22 (1.26%) Operational Technology
12 21 (1.21%) Credit Risk
13 19 (1.09%) Equities
14 18 (1.03%) Market Risk
15 16 (0.92%) Hedge funds
16 15 (0.86%) FMCG
16 15 (0.86%) NHS
16 15 (0.86%) Taxonomies
17 14 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.92%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
3 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.057%) Linux
4 1 (0.057%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (38.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 632 (36.28%) Business Analysis
3 584 (33.52%) Requirements Gathering
4 560 (32.15%) Agile
5 511 (29.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 455 (26.12%) User Stories
7 337 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
8 333 (19.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 291 (16.70%) Acceptance Criteria
10 231 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
11 208 (11.94%) Process Improvement
12 204 (11.71%) Validation
13 193 (11.08%) Migration
14 188 (10.79%) AI
15 180 (10.33%) Data Analysis
16 173 (9.93%) Decision-Making
17 153 (8.78%) Data Modelling
18 143 (8.21%) Requirements Workshops
19 139 (7.98%) Scrum
20 124 (7.12%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 195 (11.19%) SQL
2 31 (1.78%) Python
3 15 (0.86%) Korn
4 8 (0.46%) Java
5 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.17%) R
7 2 (0.11%) C#
7 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.11%) VBA
8 1 (0.057%) ABAP
8 1 (0.057%) C
8 1 (0.057%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.057%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.057%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 147 (8.44%) Degree
2 145 (8.32%) Security Cleared
3 114 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 41 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (1.95%) IIBA
6 27 (1.55%) CBAP
7 25 (1.44%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.32%) ACCA
9 22 (1.26%) CIMA
10 16 (0.92%) PMP
11 12 (0.69%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.69%) FFIEC
12 10 (0.57%) ISEB
13 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.34%) CSPO
15 6 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 3 (0.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (6.66%) Data Quality
2 89 (5.11%) QA
3 26 (1.49%) GDPR
4 23 (1.32%) NIST
5 17 (0.98%) MiFID
6 14 (0.80%) IFRS
7 13 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.69%) COBIT
8 12 (0.69%) GRC
9 11 (0.63%) EMIR
9 11 (0.63%) PMO
10 10 (0.57%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.40%) Basel III
13 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.29%) SEPA
15 4 (0.23%) FINREP
15 4 (0.23%) ISO 15022
16 3 (0.17%) COREP
System Software
1 13 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
1 3 (0.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.057%) Autotask
2 1 (0.057%) Control-M
2 1 (0.057%) Grafana
2 1 (0.057%) Kibana
Vendors
1 177 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.37%) SAP
3 110 (6.31%) Salesforce
4 59 (3.39%) Oracle
4 59 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 33 (1.89%) Murex
6 26 (1.49%) Databricks
7 19 (1.09%) Workday
8 18 (1.03%) CyberArk
9 15 (0.86%) IBM
10 13 (0.75%) Bloomberg
10 13 (0.75%) Guidewire
11 10 (0.57%) Pega
12 8 (0.46%) Charles River
12 8 (0.46%) IFS
12 8 (0.46%) OpenLink
13 7 (0.40%) Infor
13 7 (0.40%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.34%) Ariba
14 6 (0.34%) Informatica