Business Analytics Contracts in England

Business Analytics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Business Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 514 595
Rank change year-on-year +54 +81 +69
Contract jobs citing Business Analytics 25 28 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.075% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.087% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 47
10th Percentile £413 £348 £385
25th Percentile £450 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.61% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £564 £675
90th Percentile £794 £773 £753
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £32.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £21.64 -
% change year-on-year +48.11% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Business Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Business Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Business Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analytics in England

Business Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analytics in England

Business Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analytics in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analytics in England

Business Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analytics in England

Business Analytics
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 Analytics within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +36 18 £575 +27.78% 128
South East +45 2 - - 35
North of England +20 2 £450 +38.46% 27
Yorkshire +8 1 £425 +30.77% 9
North West - 1 £475 - 14
Business Analytics
UK

Business Analytics
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 2 (8.00%) CMS
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (12.00%) dbt
3 3 (12.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Power BI
2 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.00%) Metadata
2 4 (16.00%) Tableau
3 2 (8.00%) Data Vault
3 2 (8.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.00%) Big Data
4 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.00%) Data Mart
4 1 (4.00%) Pentaho
4 1 (4.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) ERwin
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
2 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Front Office
5 3 (12.00%) Legal
5 3 (12.00%) Marketing
5 3 (12.00%) Retail
6 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (8.00%) Military
6 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.00%) Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Consultant
2 3 (12.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Data Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Data Modeller
3 2 (8.00%) Development Specialist
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Strategy Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Customer Insight Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Data Governance Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Governance Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Insight Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Report Writer
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Administrator
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) PySpark
3 1 (4.00%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Market Risk
2 2 (8.00%) Learning Management System
2 2 (8.00%) Life Science
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Analytics
2 17 (68.00%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (44.00%) Data Modelling
3 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (28.00%) ETL
5 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (16.00%) Data Analytics
6 4 (16.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (16.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (16.00%) Data Management
6 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (16.00%) Data Science
6 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.00%) Data Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (12.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe
2 1 (4.00%) Databricks
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Reuters