Business Analysis Contract Job Trends in London

Business Analysis
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Business Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 125 79
Rank change year-on-year +20 -46 +1
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 419 326 539
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.94% 2.13% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 2.37% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 205 346
10th Percentile £377 £413 £400
25th Percentile £453 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £676 £713 £650
90th Percentile £808 £825 £730
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £72.50
25th Percentile - - £82.63
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +54.55%
75th Percentile - - £86.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.94 £66.00 £84.50
% change year-on-year +18.08% -21.89% +164.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,051 13,742 17,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 89.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,604 8,839 12,265
10th Percentile £341 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 165 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.80 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +8.24% -13.38%
75th Percentile £47.94 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Business Analysis job vacancy trend in London

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in London

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Business Analysis
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London -2 73 £550 -10.13% 21
West London -8 6 £500 +104.08% 34
South London -2 3 - - 26
North London +2 1 £500 -9.09% 12
Business Analysis
England

Business Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 24 (5.73%) Confluence
2 7 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 33 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (6.68%) MS Visio
3 15 (3.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.95%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.72%) Notion
8 2 (0.48%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.48%) Sketch
9 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (5.01%) Endur
2 10 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.91%) Loan IQ
3 8 (1.91%) SAP EWM
3 8 (1.91%) SAP WM
4 6 (1.43%) Workday HCM
5 5 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.72%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.72%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.48%) iTrent
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.48%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.48%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.13%) Power Platform
2 38 (9.07%) Azure
3 17 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (3.10%) Power Automate
5 12 (2.86%) PowerApps
6 11 (2.63%) AWS
6 11 (2.63%) SaaS
7 9 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.15%) Miro
8 8 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.43%) Figma
10 5 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.19%) GCP
10 5 (1.19%) Lucidchart
11 4 (0.95%) dbt
11 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.72%) ChatGPT
12 3 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
13 2 (0.48%) Commercetools
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) HTTP
1 2 (0.48%) Intranet
1 2 (0.48%) NAS
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) LAN
2 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.98%) Power BI
2 14 (3.34%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.39%) Tableau
5 8 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.67%) Redis
7 5 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.95%) Metadata
9 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.72%) Power Query
9 3 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.48%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.48%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.48%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.48%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.24%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 46 (10.98%) JIRA
2 7 (1.67%) webpack
3 5 (1.19%) Cucumber
3 5 (1.19%) Selenium
4 4 (0.95%) ERwin
4 4 (0.95%) Postman
5 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.72%) Git
5 3 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.48%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.48%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.24%) Ant
7 1 (0.24%) JUnit
7 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.24%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.24%) Toad
General
1 186 (44.39%) Finance
2 182 (43.44%) Social Skills
3 72 (17.18%) Banking
4 70 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (8.59%) Front Office
6 35 (8.35%) Presentation Skills
7 32 (7.64%) Public Sector
8 27 (6.44%) Investment Banking
9 21 (5.01%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (4.06%) Back Office
12 16 (3.82%) Marketing
12 16 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (3.58%) Legal
14 12 (2.86%) Financial Institution
15 10 (2.39%) Manufacturing
15 10 (2.39%) Retail
16 7 (1.67%) Local Government
17 6 (1.43%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 277 (66.11%) Analyst
2 254 (60.62%) Business Analyst
3 52 (12.41%) Senior
4 36 (8.59%) Senior Analyst
5 33 (7.88%) Senior Business Analyst
6 24 (5.73%) Technical Analyst
7 22 (5.25%) Consultant
7 22 (5.25%) Lead
7 22 (5.25%) Technical Business Analyst
8 21 (5.01%) Developer
9 20 (4.77%) Financial Analyst
10 18 (4.30%) Data Business Analyst
11 17 (4.06%) Endur Business Analyst
11 17 (4.06%) OpenLink Business Analyst
12 16 (3.82%) Endur Analyst
12 16 (3.82%) Insurance Business Analyst
12 16 (3.82%) OpenLink Analyst
12 16 (3.82%) Project Manager
13 15 (3.58%) Banking Analyst
13 15 (3.58%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.34%) .NET
2 13 (3.10%) XML
3 12 (2.86%) React
4 10 (2.39%) CSS
4 10 (2.39%) HTML
5 7 (1.67%) Bootstrap
5 7 (1.67%) HTML5
5 7 (1.67%) jQuery
5 7 (1.67%) Memcached
5 7 (1.67%) REST
6 5 (1.19%) PySpark
6 5 (1.19%) WPF
7 4 (0.95%) JSON
7 4 (0.95%) Swagger
8 3 (0.72%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.72%) Electron
8 3 (0.72%) JNI
8 3 (0.72%) Middleware
8 3 (0.72%) Node.js
8 3 (0.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.84%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.30%) Data Protection Act
3 16 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (3.82%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.34%) Reinsurance
5 13 (3.10%) PMI
6 12 (2.86%) Derivative
6 12 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.15%) Reference Data
8 9 (2.15%) Renewable Energy
9 8 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.91%) Equities
9 8 (1.91%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.91%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.67%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.19%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.67%) Linux
2 4 (0.95%) Unix
3 3 (0.72%) CentOS
3 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.48%) Windows
5 1 (0.24%) AIX
5 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (44.87%) Agile
2 122 (29.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 89 (21.24%) Requirements Gathering
4 87 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (17.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 72 (17.18%) User Acceptance Testing
7 71 (16.95%) User Stories
8 67 (15.99%) Workshop Facilitation
9 65 (15.51%) Project Delivery
10 58 (13.84%) Project Management
11 54 (12.89%) Analytics
12 53 (12.65%) Migration
13 48 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (11.46%) Roadmaps
14 46 (10.98%) Data Modelling
15 44 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (10.02%) GAP Analysis
17 41 (9.79%) SDLC
18 40 (9.55%) Data Analysis
18 40 (9.55%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 71 (16.95%) SQL
2 29 (6.92%) Python
3 15 (3.58%) Java
4 14 (3.34%) C#
5 9 (2.15%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.95%) Perl
6 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.95%) VBA
7 3 (0.72%) C
7 3 (0.72%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.48%) Korn
8 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.48%) Ruby
8 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.24%) ABAP
9 1 (0.24%) Bash
9 1 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.24%) R
9 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (14.08%) Degree
2 42 (10.02%) Security Cleared
3 35 (8.35%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.73%) CBAP
5 18 (4.30%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.91%) IIBA
7 7 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.67%) SAP Certification
8 6 (1.43%) ISEB
8 6 (1.43%) PMP
9 5 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.72%) ACCA
11 3 (0.72%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 3 (0.72%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.48%) CIMA
12 2 (0.48%) CISSP
12 2 (0.48%) FFIEC
12 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.83%) QA
2 20 (4.77%) GDPR
3 18 (4.30%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.86%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.91%) MiFID
5 8 (1.91%) SLA
6 6 (1.43%) EMIR
6 6 (1.43%) PMO
7 4 (0.95%) GRC
7 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.95%) NIST
8 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.72%) Basel III
8 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.72%) PSD2
8 3 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.72%) WCAG
9 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.48%) GxP
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.19%) Terraform
2 2 (0.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.68%) SAP
3 27 (6.44%) Oracle
4 23 (5.49%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.39%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.39%) Workday
6 7 (1.67%) Murex
7 6 (1.43%) Adobe
8 5 (1.19%) Google
8 5 (1.19%) OpenLink
9 4 (0.95%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.95%) Sparx
9 4 (0.95%) UiPath
10 3 (0.72%) Avaloq
10 3 (0.72%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.72%) Charles River
10 3 (0.72%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.72%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.48%) IBM
11 2 (0.48%) Temenos