Business Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Business Data Analyst daily rate in England is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 491 513
Rank change year-on-year -36 +22 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Business Data Analyst 22 20 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.070% 0.069% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.074% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 29
10th Percentile £419 £300 £290
25th Percentile £453 £389 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £588 £636 £638
90th Percentile £641 £746 £676
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -

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 28,658 27,111 34,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.91% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,308 16,895 23,809
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,754 870 1,350
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £15.31
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.25 £19.62
Median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%

Business Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Business Data Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Business Data Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Business Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Data Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Data Analyst job vacancies in England

Business Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Data Analyst in England

Business Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Data Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Data Analyst job vacancies in England

Business Data 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 Data Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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 -16 10 £575 +15.00% 2
South East -12 3 £475 -6.86% 2
East of England - 3 £525 -
North of England - 3 £625 - 3
North West - 2 £625 -
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £500 - 4
Business Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Business Data 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (54.55%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) Data Modelling
3 7 (31.82%) Analytics
3 7 (31.82%) Data Analysis
3 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
3 7 (31.82%) Power BI
3 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
4 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) Business Analysis
5 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
5 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (18.18%) Azure
6 4 (18.18%) Data Mapping
6 4 (18.18%) ETL
6 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
7 3 (13.64%) AWS
7 3 (13.64%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (13.64%) Data Transformation
7 3 (13.64%) Data Validation
7 3 (13.64%) GCP
7 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (13.64%) QA
7 3 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (13.64%) SAP
7 3 (13.64%) Tableau
7 3 (13.64%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (13.64%) Validation
7 3 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (9.09%) Actionable Insight

Business Data 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 1 (4.55%) SAS
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Maximo
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Power BI
2 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.64%) Tableau
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (4.55%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.55%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
5 2 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Front Office
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.55%) CMDB
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Equities
2 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.55%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Data Modelling
2 7 (31.82%) Analytics
2 7 (31.82%) Data Analysis
2 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
3 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (22.73%) Business Analysis
4 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (18.18%) Data Mapping
5 4 (18.18%) ETL
6 3 (13.64%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (13.64%) Data Transformation
6 3 (13.64%) Data Validation
6 3 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (13.64%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (13.64%) Validation
6 3 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (9.09%) Data Migration
7 2 (9.09%) Dimensional Modelling
7 2 (9.09%) Incident Management
7 2 (9.09%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.55%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.64%) QA
3 2 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) Foundry
3 2 (9.09%) Palantir
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Workday