Data Business Analyst Contracts in England

Data Business Analyst (Data BA)
UK > England

The median Data Business Analyst (Data BA) daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 406 429
Rank change year-on-year +25 +23 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Data Business Analyst 104 136 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.39% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 118 189
10th Percentile £400 £405 £412
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £681 £625 £600
90th Percentile £738 £679 £688
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.88 - -

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Business Analyst in England

Data Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Business Analyst in England

Data Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Business Analyst in England

Data Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Business Analyst in England

Data 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 Data Business Analyst 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 +5 73 £650 +15.56% 24
South East +51 13 £525 -5.41% 6
North of England +17 7 £463 -7.50% 3
Midlands +25 6 £475 +18.75% 6
North West +17 5 £417 -16.70% 3
South West +48 3 £525 +82.61%
West Midlands +15 3 £475 +11.76% 5
East Midlands +12 3 £358 -4.53% 1
Yorkshire +6 2 £463 -8.19%
East of England +25 1 - - 1
Data Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data 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 Data Business Analyst in the job title.

1 43 (41.35%) Finance
2 35 (33.65%) Agile
3 34 (32.69%) Social Skills
4 31 (29.81%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (29.81%) Data Analysis
5 27 (25.96%) SQL
5 27 (25.96%) Data Governance
5 27 (25.96%) Analytics
6 24 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (22.12%) Business Analysis
7 23 (22.12%) Power Platform
8 22 (21.15%) Banking
8 22 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (21.15%) User Stories
8 22 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
9 21 (20.19%) Power BI
9 21 (20.19%) Migration
10 18 (17.31%) Azure
10 18 (17.31%) Requirements Gathering
11 17 (16.35%) Data Modelling
12 16 (15.38%) Project Management
13 15 (14.42%) Product Ownership
13 15 (14.42%) Decision-Making
14 14 (13.46%) Data Management
14 14 (13.46%) Data Mapping
15 13 (12.50%) Visualisation
15 13 (12.50%) Data Analytics
15 13 (12.50%) Investment Management
15 13 (12.50%) Validation
15 13 (12.50%) Data Warehouse

Data 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 7 (6.73%) Confluence
2 2 (1.92%) SAS
2 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.77%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.12%) Power Platform
2 18 (17.31%) Azure
3 4 (3.85%) AWS
3 4 (3.85%) GCP
3 4 (3.85%) Snowflake
4 3 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (2.88%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.92%) Collibra
6 1 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.96%) GitHub
6 1 (0.96%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.96%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.19%) Power BI
2 13 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (9.62%) Data Lake
4 7 (6.73%) Tableau
5 3 (2.88%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.92%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.96%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.96%) Impala
7 1 (0.96%) Looker
7 1 (0.96%) Metadata
7 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.96%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 12 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 43 (41.35%) Finance
2 34 (32.69%) Social Skills
3 22 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (21.15%) Banking
4 10 (9.62%) Front Office
5 7 (6.73%) Investment Banking
5 7 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.81%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.81%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.92%) Back Office
7 2 (1.92%) Legal
7 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.92%) Retail
8 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Electronics
8 1 (0.96%) Marketing
8 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.96%) ADO
1 1 (0.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.42%) Product Ownership
2 12 (11.54%) Derivative
3 11 (10.58%) Fixed Income
3 11 (10.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (9.62%) Equities
5 8 (7.69%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.88%) Pricing Data
8 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.92%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.96%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 1 (0.96%) IoT
9 1 (0.96%) Life Science
9 1 (0.96%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.96%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.96%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.65%) Agile
2 31 (29.81%) Data Analysis
2 31 (29.81%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (25.96%) Analytics
3 27 (25.96%) Data Governance
4 24 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (22.12%) Business Analysis
6 22 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (21.15%) User Stories
7 21 (20.19%) Migration
8 18 (17.31%) Requirements Gathering
9 17 (16.35%) Data Modelling
10 16 (15.38%) Project Management
11 15 (14.42%) Decision-Making
12 14 (13.46%) Data Management
12 14 (13.46%) Data Mapping
13 13 (12.50%) Data Analytics
13 13 (12.50%) Investment Management
13 13 (12.50%) Validation
13 13 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.96%) SQL
2 7 (6.73%) Python
3 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (10.58%) Degree
2 8 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.88%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.88%) PMP
3 3 (2.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.92%) CBAP
4 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) CAPM
5 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.96%) IIBA
5 1 (0.96%) ISEB
5 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.96%) MBA
5 1 (0.96%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.69%) QA
3 6 (5.77%) GDPR
4 5 (4.81%) EMIR
4 5 (4.81%) MiFID
5 4 (3.85%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.96%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.96%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (0.96%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.85%) Informatica
3 3 (2.88%) Bloomberg
3 3 (2.88%) Palantir
4 2 (1.92%) IBM
4 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.92%) SAP
5 1 (0.96%) Aderant
5 1 (0.96%) Databricks
5 1 (0.96%) Dell
5 1 (0.96%) Google
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle
5 1 (0.96%) Progress
5 1 (0.96%) Splunk
5 1 (0.96%) Veritas
5 1 (0.96%) Workday