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 17 April 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 44 40
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,750 1,150 1,666
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.45% 4.71% 4.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.82% 5.08% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,237 804 1,221
10th Percentile £357 £371 £393
25th Percentile £420 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 7
10th Percentile £46.42 - -
25th Percentile £60.24 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £68.75 £32.82 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.51% +45.84% -61.21%
75th Percentile £76.00 £50.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £77.65 £56.75 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £32.82 £28.00
% change year-on-year +98.08% +17.20% -51.72%

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 36,323 22,654 34,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.69% 92.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,825 15,139 23,065
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 860 2,374
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -5.00% -21.59%
75th Percentile £67.31 £64.81 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.42
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.20% -12.02% -22.22%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -1 1,063 £537 -2.36% 152
North of England 0 275 £429 +0.94% 106
Midlands -10 155 £468 -3.86% 58
Yorkshire 0 126 £500 +11.11% 45
North West -9 125 £400 -2.44% 34
West Midlands 0 122 £475 -5.00% 39
South East -19 119 £500 +3.90% 71
South West +5 89 £450 -10.00% 28
North East +13 40 £425 +6.25% 28
East Midlands -21 31 £410 - 19
East of England -27 24 £488 +14.04% 32
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 April 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 (33.71%) Agile
2 542 (30.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 507 (28.97%) Business Analysis
4 461 (26.34%) Requirements Gathering
5 418 (23.89%) User Stories
6 416 (23.77%) Workshop Facilitation
7 354 (20.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 278 (15.89%) User Acceptance Testing
9 266 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
10 253 (14.46%) JIRA
11 244 (13.94%) Security Cleared
12 242 (13.83%) Acceptance Criteria
13 240 (13.71%) Migration
14 207 (11.83%) SC Cleared
15 201 (11.49%) Confluence
16 198 (11.31%) SQL
17 166 (9.49%) Process Improvement
18 163 (9.31%) Validation
19 160 (9.14%) Data Analysis
20 157 (8.97%) Microsoft
21 151 (8.63%) Decision-Making
22 147 (8.40%) GAP Analysis
23 144 (8.23%) Degree
24 143 (8.17%) Scrum
25 141 (8.06%) Data Modelling
26 138 (7.89%) MS Visio
27 132 (7.54%) DevOps
28 123 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
29 122 (6.97%) Azure
29 122 (6.97%) Power Platform

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
1 201 (11.49%) Confluence
2 32 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.97%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Apache
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.057%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 138 (7.89%) MS Visio
2 109 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.17%) Notion
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) Sketch
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 20 (1.14%) Endur
2 17 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.91%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.34%) Summit
6 5 (0.29%) Findur
6 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.29%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.23%) Actimize
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%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 122 (6.97%) Azure
1 122 (6.97%) Power Platform
2 69 (3.94%) AWS
3 37 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
6 24 (1.37%) Lucidchart
7 21 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 18 (1.03%) GitHub
9 17 (0.97%) Miro
10 16 (0.91%) GCP
10 16 (0.91%) Snowflake
11 15 (0.86%) SaaS
12 11 (0.63%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.51%) Figma
14 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (0.51%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 7 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.23%) Network Security
2 3 (0.17%) Internet
2 3 (0.17%) Wireless
3 2 (0.11%) Broadband
3 2 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.11%) DNS
3 2 (0.11%) Firewall
3 2 (0.11%) Intranet
3 2 (0.11%) NAS
3 2 (0.11%) X.25
4 1 (0.057%) SONET
4 1 (0.057%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (5.71%) Power BI
2 39 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (2.00%) Tableau
4 28 (1.60%) Metadata
5 14 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.40%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.34%) Big Data
7 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.17%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.17%) Power Query
10 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.11%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.11%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 253 (14.46%) JIRA
2 17 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 14 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (0.46%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.11%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.057%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.057%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.057%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 614 (35.09%) Finance
1 614 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 416 (23.77%) Analytical Skills
3 268 (15.31%) Banking
4 171 (9.77%) Public Sector
5 133 (7.60%) Documentation Skills
6 82 (4.69%) Retail
7 77 (4.40%) Front Office
8 62 (3.54%) Investment Banking
9 61 (3.49%) Legal
9 61 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
10 49 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (2.17%) Marketing
12 35 (2.00%) Financial Institution
13 34 (1.94%) Back Office
14 31 (1.77%) Telecoms
15 30 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.20%) Local Government
17 18 (1.03%) Manufacturing
18 16 (0.91%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.83%) REST
2 27 (1.54%) XML
3 17 (0.97%) JSON
4 16 (0.91%) SOAP
5 12 (0.69%) ADO
5 12 (0.69%) Middleware
5 12 (0.69%) Swagger
6 11 (0.63%) VML
7 10 (0.57%) OAuth
8 9 (0.51%) FHIR
9 7 (0.40%) JWT
9 7 (0.40%) OpenAPI
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.34%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.29%) .NET
11 5 (0.29%) NumPy
11 5 (0.29%) Pandas
11 5 (0.29%) SAML
12 4 (0.23%) HTML
13 3 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 154 (8.80%) Product Ownership
2 56 (3.20%) Onboarding
3 43 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
4 42 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 41 (2.34%) Derivative
5 41 (2.34%) Fixed Income
6 40 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 26 (1.49%) Credit Risk
8 26 (1.49%) NHS
9 25 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.31%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.09%) PMI
13 18 (1.03%) Equities
13 18 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (0.97%) Market Risk
15 16 (0.91%) Hedge funds
15 16 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 12 (0.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.80%) Linux
1 14 (0.80%) Windows
2 7 (0.40%) Unix
3 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.29%) VMS
4 3 (0.17%) Android
5 2 (0.11%) AIX
5 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.057%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (33.71%) Agile
2 542 (30.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 507 (28.97%) Business Analysis
4 461 (26.34%) Requirements Gathering
5 418 (23.89%) User Stories
6 416 (23.77%) Workshop Facilitation
7 354 (20.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 278 (15.89%) User Acceptance Testing
9 266 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
10 242 (13.83%) Acceptance Criteria
11 240 (13.71%) Migration
12 166 (9.49%) Process Improvement
13 163 (9.31%) Validation
14 160 (9.14%) Data Analysis
15 151 (8.63%) Decision-Making
16 147 (8.40%) GAP Analysis
17 143 (8.17%) Scrum
18 141 (8.06%) Data Modelling
19 132 (7.54%) DevOps
20 123 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 198 (11.31%) SQL
2 44 (2.51%) Python
3 10 (0.57%) Korn
4 7 (0.40%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.34%) VBA
6 5 (0.29%) Java
7 4 (0.23%) R
8 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.11%) C#
9 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.057%) ABAP
10 1 (0.057%) C++
10 1 (0.057%) COBOL
10 1 (0.057%) Groovy
10 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 244 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 207 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 144 (8.23%) Degree
4 51 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (2.80%) CBAP
6 42 (2.40%) IIBA
7 27 (1.54%) PMI Certification
8 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (0.80%) CSPO
9 12 (0.69%) PMP
10 9 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.46%) ISEB
12 6 (0.34%) CFA
12 6 (0.34%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.29%) MBA
14 4 (0.23%) ACCA
15 3 (0.17%) CIMA
16 2 (0.11%) APMP
16 2 (0.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 2 (0.11%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.89%) QA
2 88 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 53 (3.03%) GDPR
4 25 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.14%) MiFID
6 19 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.09%) NIST
7 14 (0.80%) EMIR
8 11 (0.63%) GRC
8 11 (0.63%) PMO
9 10 (0.57%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.57%) PSD2
10 9 (0.51%) HL7
11 8 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.46%) ISO 8583
12 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.34%) Basel III
13 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
14 5 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.057%) RACF
3 1 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (0.86%) Ansible
2 8 (0.46%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.11%) Control-M
3 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.11%) Terraform
4 1 (0.057%) Grafana
4 1 (0.057%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.057%) Kibana
4 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.057%) SCCM
4 1 (0.057%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 157 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 102 (5.83%) Salesforce
3 77 (4.40%) SAP
4 55 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 53 (3.03%) Oracle
6 31 (1.77%) Murex
7 21 (1.20%) Bloomberg
8 18 (1.03%) Databricks
9 16 (0.91%) Adobe
10 15 (0.86%) Workday
11 13 (0.74%) Pega
11 13 (0.74%) Sonatype
12 12 (0.69%) Splunk
13 11 (0.63%) Avaloq
13 11 (0.63%) Google
13 11 (0.63%) Guidewire
13 11 (0.63%) OpenLink
14 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 8 (0.46%) MuleSoft
16 7 (0.40%) OneTrust