Lead Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Lead Business Analyst (Lead BA)
UK > England

The median Lead Business Analyst (Lead BA) daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 468 524
Rank change year-on-year -35 +56 +142
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Business Analyst 34 28 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.097% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 26
10th Percentile £450 £470 £519
25th Percentile £500 £525 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £731 £638
90th Percentile £963 - £746
UK median daily rate £550 £569 £575
% change year-on-year -3.30% -1.09% -4.17%

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 28,730 26,847 34,730
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.95% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,314 16,727 23,863
10th Percentile £293 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -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 1,773 846 1,347
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.83 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -22.22% +40.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.93% -25.56% +50.00%

Lead Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Lead Business Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Lead Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Lead Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Business Analyst in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Business Analyst in England

Lead Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Lead 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 Lead Business Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +5 21 £600 -8.57% 1
West Midlands -25 7 £450 -20.88% 3
Midlands -33 7 £450 -18.18% 3
North of England -49 2 £488 -
North West - 2 £488 -
South East - 1 - - 2
Lead Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, Lead Business 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 Lead Business Analyst in the job title.

1 14 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (38.24%) Business Analysis
3 10 (29.41%) Requirements Gathering
4 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (14.71%) Agile
5 5 (14.71%) Data Mapping
5 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (11.76%) Data Architecture
6 4 (11.76%) JIRA
6 4 (11.76%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (11.76%) User Stories
7 3 (8.82%) Business Case
7 3 (8.82%) Business Process Modelling
7 3 (8.82%) Confluence
7 3 (8.82%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 3 (8.82%) Data Modelling
7 3 (8.82%) Pega
7 3 (8.82%) Project Management
7 3 (8.82%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (5.88%) API Design
8 2 (5.88%) API Integration
8 2 (5.88%) Change Management
8 2 (5.88%) Data Governance
8 2 (5.88%) Data Management
8 2 (5.88%) EMIR
8 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (5.88%) GAP Analysis
8 2 (5.88%) Guidewire
8 2 (5.88%) JSON

Lead Business 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 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.94%) Apigee
1 1 (2.94%) AWS
1 1 (2.94%) Azure
1 1 (2.94%) GCP
1 1 (2.94%) Kong
1 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.94%) Power BI
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Postman
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Banking
4 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Investment Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Back Office
6 1 (2.94%) Front Office
6 1 (2.94%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) JSON
1 2 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (2.94%) OAuth
2 1 (2.94%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) RESTful
2 1 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.94%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (38.24%) Business Analysis
3 10 (29.41%) Requirements Gathering
4 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (14.71%) Agile
5 5 (14.71%) Data Mapping
5 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (11.76%) Data Architecture
6 4 (11.76%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (11.76%) User Stories
7 3 (8.82%) Business Case
7 3 (8.82%) Business Process Modelling
7 3 (8.82%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 3 (8.82%) Data Modelling
7 3 (8.82%) Project Management
7 3 (8.82%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (5.88%) Change Management
8 2 (5.88%) GAP Analysis
8 2 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) CBAP
1 1 (2.94%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) EMIR
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Pega
2 2 (5.88%) Guidewire
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) eFront
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft