Business Analysis Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Business Analysis
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Business Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 59 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -20
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 18 15 20
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.37% 2.03% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.28% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 18
10th Percentile £375 £274 £376
25th Percentile £400 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.82% +9.55%
75th Percentile £525 £444 £500
90th Percentile £545 £476 £538
Scotland median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +4.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Business Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 662 659 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.11% 89.30% 90.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 424 529
10th Percentile £300 £303 £350
25th Percentile £381 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £626
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 16
10th Percentile £15.16 £16.75 £12.06
25th Percentile £17.18 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £16.86
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +16.19% -43.27%
75th Percentile £47.45 £26.86 £19.07
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £41.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.75
% change year-on-year -12.81% +16.14% +9.06%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Business Analysis job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Business Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in Glasgow over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in Glasgow

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Business Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (5.56%) Camunda
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.56%) Infor M3
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Boomi
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 9 (50.00%) Banking
3 8 (44.44%) Investment Banking
4 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) French Language
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Business Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Asset Management Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Big Data Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Data Modeller
3 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
3 1 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) CMDB
1 9 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (44.44%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 9 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 9 (50.00%) ITIL
3 9 (50.00%) ITSM
3 9 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 9 (50.00%) Service Management
3 9 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 9 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 8 (44.44%) Analytics
4 8 (44.44%) Change Control
4 8 (44.44%) Configuration Management
4 8 (44.44%) Data Lineage
4 8 (44.44%) Data Management
4 8 (44.44%) Data Modelling
4 8 (44.44%) Time Management
5 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (22.22%) Asset Management
7 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Ariba
2 1 (5.56%) Infor
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.56%) SAP