Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 40 52
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,722 1,432 1,278
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.72% 5.12% 3.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.04% 5.62% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,005 965
10th Percentile £363 £350 £367
25th Percentile £428 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £606 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 10
10th Percentile £29.43 £27.05 £39.73
25th Percentile £37.00 £29.35 £43.44
Median hourly rate £61.50 £31.49 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +95.30% -53.17% +41.58%
75th Percentile £76.75 £34.45 £77.81
90th Percentile £104.00 £57.10 £82.68
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £32.89 £58.25
% change year-on-year +86.99% -43.54% +7.87%

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 42,578 25,492 30,053
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 91.10% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,092 16,398 18,391
10th Percentile £325 £277 £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 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,683 1,411 1,311
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.63
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +65.84% -40.82% -4.49%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -17 991 £525 -5.62% 520
North of England -19 245 £463 +8.82% 203
South East -1 181 £500 +4.17% 186
Midlands -9 167 £450 +20.00% 123
West Midlands +15 131 £450 -5.26% 81
North West -21 113 £447 +4.32% 110
Yorkshire -22 95 £463 +12.12% 66
South West +4 87 £488 +7.25% 60
North East -18 38 £525 +31.09% 27
East Midlands -26 35 £460 +28.49% 42
East of England -30 29 £450 - 51
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 687 (39.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 649 (37.69%) Business Analysis
3 596 (34.61%) Requirements Gathering
4 549 (31.88%) Agile
5 525 (30.49%) Workshop Facilitation
6 460 (26.71%) User Stories
7 340 (19.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 335 (19.45%) User Acceptance Testing
9 301 (17.48%) Acceptance Criteria
10 231 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
11 208 (12.08%) Process Improvement
12 204 (11.85%) JIRA
12 204 (11.85%) Validation
13 198 (11.50%) SQL
14 190 (11.03%) Migration
15 187 (10.86%) AI
16 185 (10.74%) Data Analysis
17 180 (10.45%) Microsoft
18 167 (9.70%) Decision-Making
19 158 (9.18%) Security Cleared
20 152 (8.83%) Data Modelling
21 151 (8.77%) Degree
22 150 (8.71%) Requirements Workshops
23 144 (8.36%) Azure
24 141 (8.19%) Confluence
25 133 (7.72%) Impact Assessments
26 131 (7.61%) Scrum
27 130 (7.55%) GAP Analysis
27 130 (7.55%) Project Delivery
28 123 (7.14%) Data Quality

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
1 141 (8.19%) Confluence
2 23 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.46%) CMS
4 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.12%) Appian
5 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.12%) SAS
6 1 (0.058%) Apache
6 1 (0.058%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.058%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.058%) Camunda
6 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.058%) Moodle
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.058%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.058%) Totara
Applications
1 81 (4.70%) MS Visio
2 64 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Notion
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.058%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.52%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.46%) Endur
6 8 (0.46%) Maximo
6 8 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.23%) HFM
10 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.23%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
11 3 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 144 (8.36%) Azure
2 110 (6.39%) Power Platform
3 68 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (2.73%) AWS
4 47 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
5 32 (1.86%) SaaS
6 24 (1.39%) Snowflake
7 23 (1.34%) Lucidchart
7 23 (1.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 20 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (1.10%) Miro
10 18 (1.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 14 (0.81%) GCP
12 12 (0.70%) Entra ID
12 12 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (0.58%) Figma
13 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (0.52%) IBM Blueworks
14 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.41%) Network Security
2 5 (0.29%) Intranet
3 4 (0.23%) Wireless
4 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.12%) 802.11
5 2 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.12%) PBX
5 2 (0.12%) VoIP
5 2 (0.12%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) WAN
5 2 (0.12%) Wireless Security
5 2 (0.12%) WLAN
6 1 (0.058%) CTI
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) HTTP
6 1 (0.058%) LAN
6 1 (0.058%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.058%) SNMP
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
6 1 (0.058%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.52%) Power BI
2 38 (2.21%) Metadata
3 34 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 19 (1.10%) Tableau
5 7 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (0.41%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.35%) Data Mining
6 6 (0.35%) GIS
6 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.23%) Big Data
7 4 (0.23%) Looker
7 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.17%) Power Query
8 3 (0.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 204 (11.85%) JIRA
2 3 (0.17%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.12%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.12%) GitLab
3 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.058%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.058%) Rational DOORS
General
1 596 (34.61%) Finance
2 563 (32.69%) Social Skills
3 376 (21.84%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (13.94%) Banking
5 151 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 136 (7.90%) Documentation Skills
7 106 (6.16%) Retail
8 84 (4.88%) Front Office
9 64 (3.72%) Investment Banking
10 60 (3.48%) Legal
11 50 (2.90%) Manufacturing
12 47 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (1.86%) Back Office
14 32 (1.86%) Local Government
15 28 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (1.51%) Billing
16 26 (1.51%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 25 (1.45%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (0.87%) JSON
3 13 (0.75%) Middleware
3 13 (0.75%) XML
4 10 (0.58%) ADO
5 6 (0.35%) SailPoint
6 5 (0.29%) Terraform
7 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.23%) EDI
7 4 (0.23%) FHIR
7 4 (0.23%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.23%) OpenAPI
7 4 (0.23%) Swagger
8 3 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (0.17%) STL
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.12%) RESTful
9 2 (0.12%) VML
10 1 (0.058%) SAP ALE
10 1 (0.058%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 160 (9.29%) Product Ownership
2 84 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 48 (2.79%) Derivative
4 41 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 35 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (1.97%) Data Structures
6 34 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 31 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 27 (1.57%) Management Information System
9 26 (1.51%) Fixed Income
9 26 (1.51%) Reference Data
10 18 (1.05%) Equities
10 18 (1.05%) Operational Technology
10 18 (1.05%) Taxonomies
11 16 (0.93%) FMCG
11 16 (0.93%) Hedge funds
12 15 (0.87%) Credit Risk
12 15 (0.87%) Market Risk
12 15 (0.87%) NHS
13 14 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.87%) Windows
2 4 (0.23%) Android
3 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.058%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (39.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 649 (37.69%) Business Analysis
3 596 (34.61%) Requirements Gathering
4 549 (31.88%) Agile
5 525 (30.49%) Workshop Facilitation
6 460 (26.71%) User Stories
7 340 (19.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 335 (19.45%) User Acceptance Testing
9 301 (17.48%) Acceptance Criteria
10 231 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
11 208 (12.08%) Process Improvement
12 204 (11.85%) Validation
13 190 (11.03%) Migration
14 187 (10.86%) AI
15 185 (10.74%) Data Analysis
16 167 (9.70%) Decision-Making
17 152 (8.83%) Data Modelling
18 150 (8.71%) Requirements Workshops
19 133 (7.72%) Impact Assessments
20 131 (7.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 198 (11.50%) SQL
2 29 (1.68%) Python
3 15 (0.87%) Korn
4 8 (0.46%) Java
5 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.12%) C#
6 2 (0.12%) R
6 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.058%) ABAP
7 1 (0.058%) C
7 1 (0.058%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.058%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.058%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.058%) Ruby
7 1 (0.058%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 158 (9.18%) Security Cleared
2 151 (8.77%) Degree
3 123 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 47 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (1.97%) IIBA
6 28 (1.63%) CBAP
7 24 (1.39%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.34%) ACCA
9 22 (1.28%) CIMA
10 16 (0.93%) PMP
11 12 (0.70%) FFIEC
12 11 (0.64%) DV Cleared
13 10 (0.58%) ISEB
14 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.41%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
17 4 (0.23%) CSPO
17 4 (0.23%) Master's Degree
17 4 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 85 (4.94%) QA
3 22 (1.28%) GDPR
4 21 (1.22%) NIST
5 14 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.81%) IFRS
5 14 (0.81%) MiFID
6 12 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (0.70%) COBIT
7 11 (0.64%) GRC
8 10 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.58%) PMO
9 9 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.46%) EMIR
11 6 (0.35%) Basel III
11 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.29%) SEPA
13 4 (0.23%) FINREP
13 4 (0.23%) HL7
13 4 (0.23%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 14 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (0.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.058%) Autotask
3 1 (0.058%) Grafana
3 1 (0.058%) Kibana
3 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 180 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 114 (6.62%) SAP
3 102 (5.92%) Salesforce
4 59 (3.43%) Oracle
5 57 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 32 (1.86%) Murex
7 27 (1.57%) Databricks
8 18 (1.05%) CyberArk
8 18 (1.05%) Workday
9 16 (0.93%) IBM
10 13 (0.75%) Bloomberg
10 13 (0.75%) Guidewire
11 10 (0.58%) Pega
12 8 (0.46%) Charles River
12 8 (0.46%) IFS
13 7 (0.41%) Ariba
13 7 (0.41%) Infor
13 7 (0.41%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.35%) Informatica
14 6 (0.35%) ION Trading