Payments Business Analyst Contracts in England

Business Analyst - Payments (Payments BA)
UK > England

The median Business Analyst - Payments (Payments BA) daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 519 638
Rank change year-on-year +56 +119 +92
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Business Analyst 15 22 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.060% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.065% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 7
10th Percentile £313 £436 £548
25th Percentile £358 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +3.70% +20.00%
75th Percentile - - £713
90th Percentile £743 - £738
UK median daily rate £488 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -25.00% -3.70% +17.39%

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 22,312 33,903 46,550
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 92.74% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,841 22,464 33,060
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -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 901 2,436 1,372
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.87 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £44.06
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -14.88% +91.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.85% -16.67% +88.21%

Payments Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Payments Business Analyst in England

Payments Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Payments Business Analyst in England

Payments Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payments Business Analyst in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Payments Business Analyst in England

Payments 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 Payments Business Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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 +42 8 £675 -3.57% 6
South East +50 2 £398 +16.91% 3
North of England - 2 £403 - 3
South West +41 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £447 -
East Midlands - 1 £317 -
Midlands - 1 £317 -
North West - 1 £358 - 3
Payments Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Payments 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 Payments Business Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 10 (66.67%) Banking
3 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (40.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 6 (40.00%) SEPA
5 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Confluence
7 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (20.00%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) JIRA
8 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
8 2 (13.33%) Change Management
8 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
8 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
8 2 (13.33%) Degree
8 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
9 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (6.67%) Journey Map
9 1 (6.67%) Impact Assessments
9 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
9 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
9 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 1 (6.67%) Microservices
9 1 (6.67%) GCP
9 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
9 1 (6.67%) SDLC
9 1 (6.67%) TARGET2
9 1 (6.67%) ISO 20022

Payments 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) GCP
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 10 (66.67%) Banking
3 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) Change Management
3 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (6.67%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (6.67%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (6.67%) Data Science
4 1 (6.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (6.67%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (6.67%) Journey Map
4 1 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (6.67%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) SEPA
2 1 (6.67%) ISO 20022
2 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.67%) TARGET2
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Google
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
1 1 (6.67%) Murex