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 £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 395 432
Rank change year-on-year +8 +37 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Data Business Analyst 102 136 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.37% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.40% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 118 174
10th Percentile £360 £405 £413
25th Percentile £425 £487 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £656 £623 £605
90th Percentile £738 £675 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
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 £20.50 - -

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 22,371 33,770 45,838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.77% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,864 22,424 32,556
10th Percentile £296 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 926 2,441 1,340
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.05
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.38% -18.89% +88.21%

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 21 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 21 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 +2 68 £615 +11.82% 17
South East +47 13 £519 -6.53% 2
North of England +20 8 £450 -10.00% 7
Midlands +20 7 £379 -5.25% 6
North West +10 6 £400 -20.00% 3
West Midlands +12 4 £438 +2.94% 5
South West +39 3 £468 +38.52%
East Midlands +13 3 £358 -4.53% 1
Yorkshire +12 2 £463 -8.19% 4
East of England +22 1 - - 2
Data Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 41 (40.20%) Finance
2 37 (36.27%) Agile
3 35 (34.31%) Social Skills
4 31 (30.39%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (30.39%) Data Analysis
4 31 (30.39%) SQL
5 27 (26.47%) Data Governance
6 26 (25.49%) Business Analysis
7 25 (24.51%) Business Intelligence
7 25 (24.51%) Analytics
7 25 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (23.53%) User Stories
9 22 (21.57%) Power Platform
10 21 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (19.61%) Power BI
12 19 (18.63%) Banking
13 18 (17.65%) Migration
13 18 (17.65%) Data Modelling
14 17 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
14 17 (16.67%) Azure
14 17 (16.67%) Decision-Making
15 15 (14.71%) Requirements Gathering
15 15 (14.71%) Project Management
16 13 (12.75%) Validation
16 13 (12.75%) Data Management
16 13 (12.75%) Product Ownership
17 12 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
17 12 (11.76%) ETL
17 12 (11.76%) Data Mapping
17 12 (11.76%) Data Integration

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 (6.86%) Confluence
2 3 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.96%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.88%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 22 (21.57%) Power Platform
2 17 (16.67%) Azure
3 5 (4.90%) Snowflake
4 4 (3.92%) AWS
4 4 (3.92%) GCP
5 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (2.94%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.96%) Collibra
7 1 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.98%) GitHub
7 1 (0.98%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.98%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.61%) Power BI
2 17 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.84%) Data Lake
3 8 (7.84%) Tableau
4 3 (2.94%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.96%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.98%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.98%) Impala
6 1 (0.98%) Looker
6 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (10.78%) JIRA
General
1 41 (40.20%) Finance
2 35 (34.31%) Social Skills
3 25 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (18.63%) Banking
5 8 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.86%) Front Office
6 7 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.88%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.90%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.96%) Back Office
10 2 (1.96%) Legal
10 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.96%) Retail
11 1 (0.98%) Automotive
11 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.98%) Law
11 1 (0.98%) Military
11 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.98%) ADO
1 1 (0.98%) OLE
1 1 (0.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.82%) Derivative
3 8 (7.84%) Fixed Income
3 8 (7.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (6.86%) Equities
5 6 (5.88%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.92%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.96%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.98%) IoT
9 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.98%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.98%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (36.27%) Agile
2 31 (30.39%) Data Analysis
2 31 (30.39%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (26.47%) Data Governance
4 26 (25.49%) Business Analysis
5 25 (24.51%) Analytics
5 25 (24.51%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (23.53%) User Stories
7 21 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (17.65%) Data Modelling
8 18 (17.65%) Migration
9 17 (16.67%) Decision-Making
10 15 (14.71%) Project Management
10 15 (14.71%) Requirements Gathering
11 13 (12.75%) Data Management
11 13 (12.75%) Validation
12 12 (11.76%) Data Integration
12 12 (11.76%) Data Mapping
12 12 (11.76%) ETL
13 11 (10.78%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.39%) SQL
2 8 (7.84%) Python
3 2 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.98%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (10.78%) Degree
2 9 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.94%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.96%) CBAP
4 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.96%) PMP
5 1 (0.98%) CAPM
5 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) IIBA
5 1 (0.98%) ISEB
5 1 (0.98%) MBA
5 1 (0.98%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.78%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.84%) QA
3 6 (5.88%) GDPR
4 4 (3.92%) MiFID
5 3 (2.94%) Dodd-Frank
5 3 (2.94%) EMIR
6 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.98%) Basel III
6 1 (0.98%) IFRS
6 1 (0.98%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.98%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (0.98%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (0.98%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.94%) Informatica
2 3 (2.94%) Palantir
3 2 (1.96%) IBM
3 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.98%) Aderant
4 1 (0.98%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.98%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.98%) Dell
4 1 (0.98%) FIS
4 1 (0.98%) Google
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle
4 1 (0.98%) Progress
4 1 (0.98%) SAP
4 1 (0.98%) Splunk
4 1 (0.98%) Veeam
4 1 (0.98%) Veritas
4 1 (0.98%) VMware
4 1 (0.98%) Workday