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 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 41 41
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,742 1,200 1,561
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.24% 4.94% 4.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.59% 5.35% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 833 1,135
10th Percentile £356 £358 £381
25th Percentile £416 £425 £450
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 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 7
10th Percentile £28.03 £24.66 -
25th Percentile £34.87 £25.26 £20.77
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.81 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.17% +81.36% -62.66%
75th Percentile £89.70 £50.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £59.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £34.11 £28.00
% change year-on-year +83.23% +21.82% -53.53%

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 37,960 22,434 33,770
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.38% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,575 14,905 22,421
10th Percentile £319 £295 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,608 926 2,442
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.92
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.73% -17.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.45% -23.29% -18.89%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -5 1,019 £525 -8.70% 142
North of England +5 282 £429 +0.94% 84
Midlands -2 172 £473 -0.53% 34
West Midlands +13 142 £475 -5.00% 19
South East -22 139 £500 +5.26% 71
North West -7 127 £400 -4.19% 34
Yorkshire +7 123 £475 +4.11% 37
South West -13 72 £450 -5.26% 16
North East +11 49 £450 +12.50% 13
East of England -20 34 £488 +10.80% 23
East Midlands -30 29 £393 +0.77% 14
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 568 (32.61%) Agile
2 513 (29.45%) Business Analysis
3 503 (28.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 442 (25.37%) Requirements Gathering
5 430 (24.68%) User Stories
6 408 (23.42%) Workshop Facilitation
7 331 (19.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 282 (16.19%) User Acceptance Testing
9 257 (14.75%) Acceptance Criteria
10 246 (14.12%) JIRA
11 243 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
12 237 (13.61%) Security Cleared
13 225 (12.92%) Migration
14 196 (11.25%) Confluence
15 192 (11.02%) SC Cleared
16 174 (9.99%) SQL
17 160 (9.18%) Decision-Making
18 159 (9.13%) Microsoft
18 159 (9.13%) Validation
19 151 (8.67%) Data Analysis
20 149 (8.55%) Degree
21 145 (8.32%) Process Improvement
22 142 (8.15%) Data Modelling
23 141 (8.09%) Scrum
24 133 (7.63%) DevOps
25 132 (7.58%) GAP Analysis
26 131 (7.52%) Azure
27 130 (7.46%) MS Visio
28 117 (6.72%) Impact Assessments
29 114 (6.54%) Project Delivery

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
1 196 (11.25%) Confluence
2 23 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.98%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.17%) Appian
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.057%) Apache
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 130 (7.46%) MS Visio
2 100 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.29%) Notion
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.057%) CATIA
8 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 22 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 22 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.09%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.69%) Endur
4 10 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.34%) Findur
6 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.34%) Summit
7 5 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) Actimize
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.23%) Maximo
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 131 (7.52%) Azure
2 113 (6.49%) Power Platform
3 64 (3.67%) AWS
4 41 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
6 29 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (1.21%) Lucidchart
7 21 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 19 (1.09%) SaaS
9 15 (0.86%) Miro
10 14 (0.80%) GitHub
11 13 (0.75%) Snowflake
12 12 (0.69%) GCP
13 11 (0.63%) Power Automate
14 10 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 9 (0.52%) Figma
15 9 (0.52%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.34%) Network Security
1 6 (0.34%) Wireless
2 3 (0.17%) Intranet
3 2 (0.11%) 802.11
3 2 (0.11%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.11%) DNS
3 2 (0.11%) Internet
3 2 (0.11%) VPN
3 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
3 2 (0.11%) WLAN
3 2 (0.11%) X.25
4 1 (0.057%) 5G
4 1 (0.057%) Broadband
4 1 (0.057%) Extranet
4 1 (0.057%) Firewall
4 1 (0.057%) PBX
4 1 (0.057%) SONET
4 1 (0.057%) TETRA
4 1 (0.057%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.28%) Power BI
2 41 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (1.72%) Tableau
4 26 (1.49%) Metadata
5 15 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.40%) Big Data
6 7 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.23%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.17%) Power Query
11 2 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.11%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.11%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.11%) Looker
11 2 (0.11%) OLAP
12 1 (0.057%) MS Access
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 246 (14.12%) JIRA
2 13 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.40%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.057%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.057%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 615 (35.30%) Finance
2 590 (33.87%) Social Skills
3 389 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (15.21%) Banking
5 150 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 128 (7.35%) Documentation Skills
7 84 (4.82%) Front Office
8 83 (4.76%) Retail
9 68 (3.90%) Investment Banking
10 65 (3.73%) Legal
11 56 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.18%) Financial Institution
13 38 (2.18%) Marketing
14 34 (1.95%) Back Office
15 31 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (1.32%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 19 (1.09%) Law
18 19 (1.09%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.44%) XML
2 23 (1.32%) REST
3 16 (0.92%) JSON
3 16 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (0.75%) ADO
4 13 (0.75%) SOAP
5 11 (0.63%) Middleware
5 11 (0.63%) VML
6 9 (0.52%) Swagger
7 6 (0.34%) OAuth
8 5 (0.29%) FHIR
8 5 (0.29%) NumPy
8 5 (0.29%) Pandas
9 4 (0.23%) .NET
9 4 (0.23%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.23%) JWT
9 4 (0.23%) OpenAPI
9 4 (0.23%) SailPoint
10 3 (0.17%) SAML
10 3 (0.17%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 154 (8.84%) Product Ownership
2 48 (2.76%) Derivative
3 43 (2.47%) Onboarding
4 41 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 40 (2.30%) Fixed Income
5 40 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 32 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 26 (1.49%) Credit Risk
9 24 (1.38%) NHS
10 22 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.26%) Hedge funds
10 22 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 19 (1.09%) Market Risk
13 17 (0.98%) Operational Technology
13 17 (0.98%) PMI
14 14 (0.80%) Equities
14 14 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.75%) Windows
2 8 (0.46%) Linux
3 6 (0.34%) Unix
4 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.17%) Android
6 2 (0.11%) AIX
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.11%) Solaris
6 2 (0.11%) VMS
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (32.61%) Agile
2 513 (29.45%) Business Analysis
3 503 (28.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 442 (25.37%) Requirements Gathering
5 430 (24.68%) User Stories
6 408 (23.42%) Workshop Facilitation
7 331 (19.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 282 (16.19%) User Acceptance Testing
9 257 (14.75%) Acceptance Criteria
10 243 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
11 225 (12.92%) Migration
12 160 (9.18%) Decision-Making
13 159 (9.13%) Validation
14 151 (8.67%) Data Analysis
15 145 (8.32%) Process Improvement
16 142 (8.15%) Data Modelling
17 141 (8.09%) Scrum
18 133 (7.63%) DevOps
19 132 (7.58%) GAP Analysis
20 117 (6.72%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 174 (9.99%) SQL
2 40 (2.30%) Python
3 12 (0.69%) Korn
4 5 (0.29%) Java
5 4 (0.23%) R
5 4 (0.23%) VBA
6 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.17%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.11%) C#
7 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.057%) ABAP
8 1 (0.057%) C
8 1 (0.057%) Groovy
8 1 (0.057%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.057%) Ruby
8 1 (0.057%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 237 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 192 (11.02%) SC Cleared
3 149 (8.55%) Degree
4 52 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (2.81%) CBAP
6 45 (2.58%) IIBA
7 25 (1.44%) PMI Certification
8 14 (0.80%) CSPO
9 12 (0.69%) PMP
10 10 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (0.57%) ISEB
11 9 (0.52%) ACCA
12 8 (0.46%) CIMA
12 8 (0.46%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.40%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.23%) CFA
14 4 (0.23%) MBA
15 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.17%) FFIEC
15 3 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.57%) QA
2 87 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.64%) GDPR
4 24 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.38%) NIST
5 22 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.98%) EMIR
7 15 (0.86%) MiFID
8 12 (0.69%) GRC
9 9 (0.52%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.52%) PMO
9 9 (0.52%) PSD2
9 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.40%) IFRS
11 6 (0.34%) Basel III
11 6 (0.34%) COBIT
11 6 (0.34%) ISO 8583
11 6 (0.34%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.29%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.11%) Docker
2 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.057%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (0.63%) Ansible
2 5 (0.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.29%) Terraform
3 2 (0.11%) Control-M
3 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.057%) Autotask
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
1 159 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.49%) Salesforce
3 101 (5.80%) SAP
4 55 (3.16%) Oracle
5 50 (2.87%) ServiceNow
6 32 (1.84%) Murex
7 20 (1.15%) Databricks
8 19 (1.09%) Workday
9 18 (1.03%) Bloomberg
10 12 (0.69%) Splunk
11 11 (0.63%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.57%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.57%) Pega
12 10 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 10 (0.57%) Sonatype
13 9 (0.52%) Avaloq
13 9 (0.52%) Planon
14 8 (0.46%) Zuora
15 7 (0.40%) Charles River
15 7 (0.40%) Cisco