SC Cleared Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Security Check Clearance Business Analyst (SC Cleared BA)
UK > England

The median Security Check Clearance Business Analyst (SC Cleared BA) daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 491 531
Rank change year-on-year -6 +40 +148
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared Business Analyst 31 37 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 55
10th Percentile £424 £449 £396
25th Percentile £461 £467 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +6.28%
75th Percentile £502 £547 £584
90th Percentile £568 £676 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +6.67%

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 25,491 30,015 39,142
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.96% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,452 18,397 27,353
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,389 1,357 1,375
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £21.37 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% -0.46% +71.64%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.82% +70.19%

SC Cleared Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Business Analyst in England

SC Cleared Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

SC Cleared Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Business Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared Business Analyst in England

SC Cleared Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

SC Cleared 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 SC Cleared Business Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 1 October 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 +20 27 £475 -9.52% 3
South East - 2 £568 - 2
South West +16 1 £463 -11.27%
SC Cleared Business Analyst
UK

SC Cleared Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 October 2025, SC Cleared 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 SC Cleared Business Analyst in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 31 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
3 14 (45.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 14 (45.16%) Agile
4 13 (41.94%) Public Sector
5 10 (32.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (29.03%) User Stories
7 8 (25.81%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (22.58%) Decision-Making
8 7 (22.58%) Business Analysis
9 6 (19.35%) Data Analysis
9 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (16.13%) AWS
10 5 (16.13%) Migration
10 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
11 4 (12.90%) Law
11 4 (12.90%) Use Case
11 4 (12.90%) Performance Metrics
12 3 (9.68%) Tableau
12 3 (9.68%) Power BI
12 3 (9.68%) Data Visualisation
12 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
12 3 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
12 3 (9.68%) Test Scripting
12 3 (9.68%) JIRA
12 3 (9.68%) Visualisation
12 3 (9.68%) Azure
12 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
12 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps

SC Cleared Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills and 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 (6.45%) Confluence
1 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (6.45%) GCP
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) Collibra
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Power BI
1 3 (9.68%) Tableau
2 2 (6.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) JIRA
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 13 (41.94%) Public Sector
3 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Law
5 2 (6.45%) Finance
6 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Agile
1 14 (45.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 10 (32.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (29.03%) User Stories
4 8 (25.81%) Workshop Facilitation
5 7 (22.58%) Business Analysis
5 7 (22.58%) Decision-Making
6 6 (19.35%) Data Analysis
7 5 (16.13%) Migration
8 4 (12.90%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (12.90%) Use Case
9 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (9.68%) Data Visualisation
9 3 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
9 3 (9.68%) Test Scripting
9 3 (9.68%) Visualisation
10 2 (6.45%) GAP Analysis
10 2 (6.45%) Impact Analysis
10 2 (6.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) SQL
2 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 31 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.45%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Databricks
2 1 (3.23%) Informatica
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) SAP
2 1 (3.23%) Workday