Business Analyst Contracts in England

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in England is £511, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 46 35
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,411 1,398 2,334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.10% 4.20% 5.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.56% 4.53% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 1,029 1,750
10th Percentile £357 £375 £405
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £538 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +0.66% +5.74%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £625
90th Percentile £772 £731 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 9
10th Percentile £30.56 £26.50 £26.78
25th Percentile £32.67 £35.67 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.75 £50.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -20.00% +98.41%
75th Percentile £61.25 £72.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £78.75 £80.90
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £46.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.41% -26.00% +122.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,356 30,888 41,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 92.86% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,377 20,261 29,558
10th Percentile £285 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,342 1,792 1,303
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.25 £14.67
25th Percentile £17.48 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% +7.14% +63.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst 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 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in England

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst 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 August 2025.

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 August 2025. 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 +5 951 £575 - 416
North of England -3 184 £426 -14.80% 166
Midlands +2 102 £375 -16.67% 83
North West +5 101 £429 -14.30% 88
South East +20 92 £481 -3.12% 155
Yorkshire +4 77 £409 -13.89% 53
East Midlands +23 52 £358 -10.50% 30
West Midlands -19 51 £475 +3.26% 53
South West +31 33 £469 +10.35% 40
East of England -10 22 £450 - 40
North East -5 6 £500 +25.00% 31
Business Analyst
UK

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, Business Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 566 (40.11%) Agile
2 554 (39.26%) Finance
3 544 (38.55%) Social Skills
4 451 (31.96%) Business Analysis
5 346 (24.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 306 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
7 288 (20.41%) Requirements Gathering
8 255 (18.07%) User Stories
9 250 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
10 225 (15.95%) SQL
11 218 (15.45%) Banking
12 207 (14.67%) Workshop Facilitation
13 201 (14.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 198 (14.03%) User Acceptance Testing
15 188 (13.32%) Data Analysis
16 153 (10.84%) JIRA
17 150 (10.63%) Migration
18 143 (10.13%) Project Management
19 140 (9.92%) Degree
20 138 (9.78%) Scrum
21 136 (9.64%) Decision-Making
22 134 (9.50%) Microsoft
23 130 (9.21%) Waterfall
24 128 (9.07%) Confluence
25 127 (9.00%) GAP Analysis
26 126 (8.93%) Analytics
27 118 (8.36%) Change Management
28 115 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
29 114 (8.08%) Front Office
30 111 (7.87%) Process Improvement

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 128 (9.07%) Confluence
2 26 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.35%) CMS
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.14%) SAS
7 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.071%) Camunda
8 1 (0.071%) JBoss
8 1 (0.071%) Mule
Applications
1 92 (6.52%) MS Visio
2 82 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (3.12%) Aladdin
2 35 (2.48%) Endur
3 22 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (1.35%) thinkFolio
5 15 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.50%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.43%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.43%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.28%) ION Anvil
9 4 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.28%) Shopify
10 3 (0.21%) MultiFonds
10 3 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.21%) SAP GTS
10 3 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
11 2 (0.14%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (7.02%) Azure
2 79 (5.60%) Power Platform
3 44 (3.12%) AWS
4 43 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (1.84%) SaaS
6 23 (1.63%) GCP
7 22 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (1.35%) Lucidchart
8 19 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (1.20%) Miro
10 13 (0.92%) Entra ID
10 13 (0.92%) PowerApps
11 12 (0.85%) Snowflake
12 10 (0.71%) Figma
13 8 (0.57%) Azure AKS
14 7 (0.50%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (0.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (0.50%) Power Automate
14 7 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.35%) Intranet
2 3 (0.21%) ATM
2 3 (0.21%) Firewall
2 3 (0.21%) Network Security
3 2 (0.14%) VoIP
4 1 (0.071%) DNS
4 1 (0.071%) GPRS
4 1 (0.071%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.071%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.071%) LAN
4 1 (0.071%) SNMP
4 1 (0.071%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.96%) Power BI
2 28 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (1.84%) Tableau
4 10 (0.71%) Relational Database
5 9 (0.64%) Metadata
5 9 (0.64%) SQL Server
6 8 (0.57%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.50%) Star Schema
8 6 (0.43%) GIS
9 5 (0.35%) Data Mart
9 5 (0.35%) MS Access
9 5 (0.35%) Power Query
10 3 (0.21%) Big Data
10 3 (0.21%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.21%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.21%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 153 (10.84%) JIRA
2 6 (0.43%) Postman
3 4 (0.28%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.14%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.14%) Git
4 2 (0.14%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.071%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.071%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.071%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.071%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.071%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 554 (39.26%) Finance
2 544 (38.55%) Social Skills
3 306 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (15.45%) Banking
5 114 (8.08%) Front Office
6 77 (5.46%) Public Sector
7 61 (4.32%) Back Office
8 55 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
9 51 (3.61%) Investment Banking
10 48 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 44 (3.12%) Retail
12 43 (3.05%) Legal
13 42 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
14 40 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (2.27%) Financial Institution
16 30 (2.13%) Marketing
17 29 (2.06%) Manufacturing
18 28 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
19 20 (1.42%) Telecoms
20 19 (1.35%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.70%) XML
2 14 (0.99%) JSON
3 10 (0.71%) ADO
3 10 (0.71%) SAML
4 9 (0.64%) OAuth
5 8 (0.57%) OpenID
5 8 (0.57%) REST
5 8 (0.57%) SailPoint
6 6 (0.43%) Web Services
7 5 (0.35%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.28%) DCOM
8 4 (0.28%) FpML
8 4 (0.28%) LDAP
8 4 (0.28%) SOAP
8 4 (0.28%) Swagger
9 3 (0.21%) Gherkin
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.21%) RAML
9 3 (0.21%) VML
10 2 (0.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 87 (6.17%) Product Ownership
2 74 (5.24%) Onboarding
3 72 (5.10%) Derivative
4 64 (4.54%) Fixed Income
5 40 (2.83%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.76%) Hedge funds
7 31 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (2.20%) Reinsurance
8 26 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 25 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 22 (1.56%) Market Risk
12 21 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 18 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.13%) Equities
15 15 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (0.99%) PMI
17 13 (0.92%) Data Centre
17 13 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
18 11 (0.78%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.43%) Windows
2 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.14%) Linux
3 2 (0.14%) VMS
4 1 (0.071%) AIX
4 1 (0.071%) Solaris
4 1 (0.071%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (40.11%) Agile
2 451 (31.96%) Business Analysis
3 346 (24.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 288 (20.41%) Requirements Gathering
5 255 (18.07%) User Stories
6 250 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
7 207 (14.67%) Workshop Facilitation
8 201 (14.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 198 (14.03%) User Acceptance Testing
10 188 (13.32%) Data Analysis
11 150 (10.63%) Migration
12 143 (10.13%) Project Management
13 138 (9.78%) Scrum
14 136 (9.64%) Decision-Making
15 130 (9.21%) Waterfall
16 127 (9.00%) GAP Analysis
17 126 (8.93%) Analytics
18 118 (8.36%) Change Management
19 115 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
20 111 (7.87%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 225 (15.95%) SQL
2 93 (6.59%) Python
3 9 (0.64%) C#
4 7 (0.50%) VBA
5 5 (0.35%) Java
5 5 (0.35%) R
6 2 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.14%) Korn
6 2 (0.14%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.071%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.071%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.071%) Magik
7 1 (0.071%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 140 (9.92%) Degree
2 91 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 60 (4.25%) SC Cleared
4 41 (2.91%) CBAP
5 19 (1.35%) PMI Certification
6 17 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 14 (0.99%) IIBA
8 13 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (0.64%) ACCA
9 9 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.64%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.57%) ISEB
11 7 (0.50%) CIMA
12 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.43%) PMP
13 3 (0.21%) CISSP
13 3 (0.21%) CRISC
13 3 (0.21%) FFIEC
13 3 (0.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (0.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.60%) QA
2 48 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 37 (2.62%) GDPR
4 36 (2.55%) MiFID
5 30 (2.13%) EMIR
6 13 (0.92%) SEPA
7 12 (0.85%) GRC
7 12 (0.85%) NIST
8 11 (0.78%) Dodd-Frank
9 10 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.57%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.57%) Basel III
12 7 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.43%) COREP
14 5 (0.35%) PMO
14 5 (0.35%) PSD2
14 5 (0.35%) Solvency II
15 4 (0.28%) IFRS
System Software
1 19 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (0.85%) Kubernetes
2 10 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.43%) Terraform
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.21%) SCCM
5 2 (0.14%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.071%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.071%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 134 (9.50%) Microsoft
2 68 (4.82%) SAP
3 66 (4.68%) Salesforce
4 51 (3.61%) Oracle
5 41 (2.91%) ServiceNow
6 32 (2.27%) BISAM
7 31 (2.20%) Charles River
8 22 (1.56%) Calypso
9 21 (1.49%) Murex
9 21 (1.49%) OpenLink
10 20 (1.42%) SimCorp
11 14 (0.99%) Google
11 14 (0.99%) ION Trading
12 13 (0.92%) Workday
13 10 (0.71%) Adobe
14 8 (0.57%) Guidewire
15 7 (0.50%) Alibaba
15 7 (0.50%) Concur
15 7 (0.50%) Duck Creek
15 7 (0.50%) Temenos