Business IT Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Business IT Analyst
UK > England

The median Business IT Analyst daily rate in England is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 437 458
Rank change year-on-year -109 +21 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Business IT Analyst 38 42 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.097% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.19% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 32 56
10th Percentile £463 £357 £425
25th Percentile £488 £407 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £539 £613
90th Percentile £638 £656 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - £48.82 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -34.91% +20.00%

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 36,264 22,599 34,610
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.70% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,792 15,123 23,074
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £410 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.82% -0.98% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,409 853 2,358
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.50 £12.90
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -5.00% -21.47%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £41.26 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.97% -10.00% -21.40%

Business IT Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Business IT Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Business IT Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Business IT Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business IT Analyst in England over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business IT Analyst in England

Business IT Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Business IT 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 IT Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 13 April 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 -46 29 £500 +17.30% 4
South East -46 7 £530 -1.40% 4
Midlands -73 2 - - 7
North of England -75 2 £440 -12.00% 2
East Midlands -36 1 - - 5
North West -45 1 £365 -27.00% 1
West Midlands -73 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £515 - 1
Business IT Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 April 2026, Business IT 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 IT Analyst in the job title.

1 18 (47.37%) Business Analysis
2 15 (39.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (28.95%) Requirements Gathering
4 10 (26.32%) Agile
4 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (26.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (18.42%) Project Management
6 6 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (15.79%) Business Case
6 6 (15.79%) Data Modelling
6 6 (15.79%) JIRA
6 6 (15.79%) Migration
6 6 (15.79%) Project Delivery
6 6 (15.79%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
7 5 (13.16%) MS Visio
7 5 (13.16%) SQL
7 5 (13.16%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (13.16%) User Stories
7 5 (13.16%) Waterfall
8 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis
8 4 (10.53%) Degree
8 4 (10.53%) Logistics
8 4 (10.53%) QA
8 4 (10.53%) Requirements Management
8 4 (10.53%) Scrum
8 4 (10.53%) Validation
8 4 (10.53%) Wireframes
9 3 (7.89%) BPMN
9 3 (7.89%) Business Process Modelling

Business IT 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 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) MS Visio
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.63%) Endur
1 1 (2.63%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (2.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (2.63%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.26%) AWS
1 2 (5.26%) Azure
1 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.63%) GitHub
2 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (13.16%) Banking
5 4 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.26%) Front Office
6 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Back Office
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) .NET
1 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
1 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.63%) pytest
1 1 (2.63%) RESTful
1 1 (2.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
1 3 (7.89%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.26%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.63%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.63%) Derivative
3 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.63%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.63%) IoT
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) PMI
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) Business Analysis
2 15 (39.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (28.95%) Requirements Gathering
4 10 (26.32%) Agile
4 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (26.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (18.42%) Project Management
6 6 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (15.79%) Business Case
6 6 (15.79%) Data Modelling
6 6 (15.79%) Migration
6 6 (15.79%) Project Delivery
6 6 (15.79%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (13.16%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (13.16%) User Stories
7 5 (13.16%) Waterfall
8 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis
8 4 (10.53%) Requirements Management
8 4 (10.53%) Scrum
8 4 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) SQL
2 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) CBAP
3 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) IIBA
4 1 (2.63%) ISEB
4 1 (2.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) COREP
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) EMIR
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
3 1 (2.63%) MiFID
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.63%) Databricks
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle
2 1 (2.63%) Planon
2 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.63%) SAP