Business Data Analyst Contracts in England

Business Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Business Data Analyst daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 508 591
Rank change year-on-year +60 +83 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Business Data Analyst 19 25 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.069% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.074% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 41
10th Percentile £401 £359 £363
25th Percentile £409 £503 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +31.87%
75th Percentile £669 £625 £638
90th Percentile £748 £687 £735
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +31.15%

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 22,376 33,818 46,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.74% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,888 22,422 32,774
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 909 2,438 1,361
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.87 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.20 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.02
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -17.38% +88.21%

Business Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Data Analyst in England

Business Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Data Analyst 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 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Data Analyst in England

Business Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Data Analyst 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 15 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 +44 13 £625 +4.17% 11
Midlands +20 3 £410 +13.10%
East Midlands +12 3 £410 +13.10%
South East +46 1 £425 - 4
North of England +16 1 £400 -23.81%
North West +9 1 £400 -23.81%
Business Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Business Data 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (57.89%) Finance
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
3 8 (42.11%) Banking
3 8 (42.11%) Data Analysis
3 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
4 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
4 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (31.58%) Data Governance
5 6 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
6 5 (26.32%) Power BI
6 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
7 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (21.05%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (21.05%) Python
7 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (21.05%) Data Mapping
7 4 (21.05%) Business Analysis
8 3 (15.79%) Oracle
8 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
8 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
8 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
8 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
9 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (10.53%) Analytics
9 2 (10.53%) Data Privacy
9 2 (10.53%) Data Munging
9 2 (10.53%) Tableau

Business Data 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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) Big Data
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Tableau
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) Impala
4 1 (5.26%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) QlikView
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
2 8 (42.11%) Banking
2 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Equities
2 1 (5.26%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Data Analysis
2 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
3 6 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (31.58%) Data Governance
4 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
5 4 (21.05%) Business Analysis
5 4 (21.05%) Data Mapping
5 4 (21.05%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
7 2 (10.53%) Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.53%) Data Architecture
7 2 (10.53%) Data Munging
7 2 (10.53%) Data Privacy
7 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.53%) Forensic Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (10.53%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Sparx
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Talend
3 1 (5.26%) Veeam
3 1 (5.26%) VMware