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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 36 45
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,798 1,420 1,505
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.02% 5.23% 4.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.35% 5.69% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 975 1,088
10th Percentile £360 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 10
10th Percentile £28.21 £25.26 £21.20
25th Percentile £34.87 £27.21 £30.06
Median hourly rate £61.50 £34.11 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +80.30% -26.25% -24.49%
75th Percentile £78.55 £50.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £104.00 £69.50 £75.38
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £34.06 £50.00
% change year-on-year +76.19% -31.89% -18.37%

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 41,375 24,958 34,084
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 91.99% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,305 16,240 22,316
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,977 1,223 2,453
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.79 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.78% -29.55% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.02 £75.00 £74.91
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year +70.13% -33.88% -5.88%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -13 1,052 £550 -4.35% 158
North of England -17 273 £450 +4.53% 92
South East +4 174 £500 +2.56% 93
Midlands +3 169 £463 +8.82% 41
West Midlands +5 131 £470 -6.00% 27
North West -29 124 £425 -1.39% 35
Yorkshire -20 113 £475 +15.15% 47
South West -3 68 £438 -4.89% 29
North East -7 39 £475 -0.78% 10
East Midlands -15 36 £425 +13.33% 13
East of England -16 31 £475 +7.95% 26
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 559 (31.09%) Agile
2 544 (30.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 540 (30.03%) Business Analysis
4 476 (26.47%) Requirements Gathering
5 429 (23.86%) User Stories
6 424 (23.58%) Workshop Facilitation
7 345 (19.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 316 (17.58%) User Acceptance Testing
9 277 (15.41%) Acceptance Criteria
10 244 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
11 242 (13.46%) JIRA
12 205 (11.40%) Migration
13 201 (11.18%) Validation
14 196 (10.90%) Security Cleared
15 183 (10.18%) SQL
16 176 (9.79%) Process Improvement
17 174 (9.68%) Confluence
18 169 (9.40%) Data Analysis
19 164 (9.12%) Decision-Making
20 160 (8.90%) Azure
21 158 (8.79%) Microsoft
22 154 (8.57%) SC Cleared
23 148 (8.23%) Data Modelling
24 140 (7.79%) Degree
25 137 (7.62%) Scrum
26 134 (7.45%) DevOps
27 131 (7.29%) AI
28 128 (7.12%) Impact Assessments
29 123 (6.84%) GAP Analysis
30 117 (6.51%) Business Intelligence

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
1 174 (9.68%) Confluence
2 30 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.44%) SAS
4 6 (0.33%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.056%) Apache
7 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 116 (6.45%) MS Visio
2 87 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.17%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.056%) CATIA
8 1 (0.056%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 27 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
4 15 (0.83%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.56%) Endur
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.33%) Findur
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.33%) SAP HR
7 6 (0.33%) Summit
8 5 (0.28%) Actimize
8 5 (0.28%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.28%) Maximo
8 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.22%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 160 (8.90%) Azure
2 110 (6.12%) Power Platform
3 65 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (2.61%) AWS
5 29 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (1.39%) Lucidchart
6 25 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (1.33%) SaaS
8 19 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 19 (1.06%) Snowflake
9 16 (0.89%) Miro
10 14 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (0.67%) Figma
12 12 (0.67%) GitHub
12 12 (0.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 11 (0.61%) GCP
13 11 (0.61%) Power Automate
13 11 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.50%) Network Security
2 6 (0.33%) Intranet
2 6 (0.33%) Wireless
3 2 (0.11%) 802.11
3 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.11%) DNS
3 2 (0.11%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
3 2 (0.11%) WLAN
4 1 (0.056%) 5G
4 1 (0.056%) DNSSEC
4 1 (0.056%) Extranet
4 1 (0.056%) Firewall
4 1 (0.056%) Internet
4 1 (0.056%) PBX
4 1 (0.056%) SNMP
4 1 (0.056%) SONET
4 1 (0.056%) TETRA
4 1 (0.056%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.28%) Power BI
2 41 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (1.89%) Metadata
4 26 (1.45%) Tableau
5 17 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.33%) Data Mining
7 6 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (0.33%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.22%) Big Data
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.11%) Looker
11 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 242 (13.46%) JIRA
2 11 (0.61%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.39%) Balsamiq
5 4 (0.22%) Postman
6 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) Toad
8 1 (0.056%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
General
1 633 (35.21%) Finance
2 569 (31.65%) Social Skills
3 413 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (14.24%) Banking
5 157 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 134 (7.45%) Documentation Skills
7 97 (5.39%) Front Office
8 91 (5.06%) Retail
9 68 (3.78%) Investment Banking
10 65 (3.62%) Legal
11 51 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
13 36 (2.00%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.95%) Back Office
15 33 (1.84%) Financial Institution
16 32 (1.78%) Marketing
17 31 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
18 29 (1.61%) Local Government
19 22 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 20 (1.11%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.39%) XML
3 18 (1.00%) JSON
4 16 (0.89%) Middleware
5 15 (0.83%) ADO
6 9 (0.50%) REST
7 7 (0.39%) SOAP
8 6 (0.33%) Swagger
9 5 (0.28%) FHIR
9 5 (0.28%) NumPy
9 5 (0.28%) Pandas
9 5 (0.28%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.28%) STL
9 5 (0.28%) VML
10 4 (0.22%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.17%) EDI
11 3 (0.17%) OpenAPI
11 3 (0.17%) YAML
12 2 (0.11%) .NET
12 2 (0.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 152 (8.45%) Product Ownership
2 64 (3.56%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.28%) Derivative
4 46 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 44 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
6 42 (2.34%) Fixed Income
7 36 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 28 (1.56%) Credit Risk
10 26 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.45%) Hedge funds
11 25 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.33%) Operational Technology
13 23 (1.28%) Market Risk
14 20 (1.11%) Reference Data
15 18 (1.00%) NHS
16 17 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
17 16 (0.89%) Equities
18 15 (0.83%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.72%) Windows
2 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
2 6 (0.33%) Unix
3 5 (0.28%) Android
4 3 (0.17%) Linux
5 2 (0.11%) AIX
5 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 559 (31.09%) Agile
2 544 (30.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 540 (30.03%) Business Analysis
4 476 (26.47%) Requirements Gathering
5 429 (23.86%) User Stories
6 424 (23.58%) Workshop Facilitation
7 345 (19.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 316 (17.58%) User Acceptance Testing
9 277 (15.41%) Acceptance Criteria
10 244 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
11 205 (11.40%) Migration
12 201 (11.18%) Validation
13 176 (9.79%) Process Improvement
14 169 (9.40%) Data Analysis
15 164 (9.12%) Decision-Making
16 148 (8.23%) Data Modelling
17 137 (7.62%) Scrum
18 134 (7.45%) DevOps
19 131 (7.29%) AI
20 128 (7.12%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 183 (10.18%) SQL
2 43 (2.39%) Python
3 14 (0.78%) Korn
4 7 (0.39%) Java
5 4 (0.22%) R
6 3 (0.17%) VBA
7 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.056%) ABAP
8 1 (0.056%) C
8 1 (0.056%) C#
8 1 (0.056%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.056%) Groovy
8 1 (0.056%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.056%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.056%) Ruby
8 1 (0.056%) SOQL
8 1 (0.056%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 196 (10.90%) Security Cleared
2 154 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 140 (7.79%) Degree
4 46 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.06%) CBAP
6 29 (1.61%) IIBA
7 21 (1.17%) PMI Certification
8 13 (0.72%) ISEB
9 12 (0.67%) PMP
10 11 (0.61%) ACCA
10 11 (0.61%) CIMA
11 9 (0.50%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.44%) FFIEC
13 7 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.39%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.33%) CSPO
15 5 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 4 (0.22%) ISEB Practitioner
17 3 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 87 (4.84%) QA
3 38 (2.11%) GDPR
4 30 (1.67%) NIST
5 28 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.17%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.89%) MiFID
8 15 (0.83%) EMIR
8 15 (0.83%) GRC
9 11 (0.61%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.56%) PMO
10 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.50%) COBIT
12 7 (0.39%) Basel III
12 7 (0.39%) PSD2
12 7 (0.39%) SEPA
12 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
13 6 (0.33%) IFRS
14 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.28%) COREP
System Software
1 7 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.056%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (0.50%) Ansible
2 6 (0.33%) Terraform
3 4 (0.22%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.11%) Control-M
5 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.056%) Autotask
6 1 (0.056%) Grafana
6 1 (0.056%) Kibana
6 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.056%) SCCM
6 1 (0.056%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 158 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.28%) SAP
3 111 (6.17%) Salesforce
4 70 (3.89%) ServiceNow
5 66 (3.67%) Oracle
6 32 (1.78%) Murex
7 25 (1.39%) Databricks
8 23 (1.28%) Workday
9 16 (0.89%) Bloomberg
10 12 (0.67%) CyberArk
10 12 (0.67%) Pega
10 12 (0.67%) Splunk
11 11 (0.61%) Guidewire
11 11 (0.61%) ION Trading
12 10 (0.56%) Planon
13 9 (0.50%) Avaloq
13 9 (0.50%) OpenLink
13 9 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 8 (0.44%) IBM
14 8 (0.44%) Sonatype