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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 87 111
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 -19
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 565 432 384
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.81% 3.23% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 3.49% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 284 246
10th Percentile £381 £410 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.80% -4.58%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £806
England median daily rate £525 £528 £538
% change year-on-year -0.47% -1.86% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £31.65 £71.63 -
25th Percentile £32.25 £74.06 £41.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £78.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.16% +85.29% -27.97%
75th Percentile £57.50 £84.06 £43.75
90th Percentile - £86.88 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £66.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +5.26% +54.65%

All Process & 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 17,877 12,377 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,691 8,233 9,872
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 194
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.89 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 1 September 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analysis in London over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analysis in London

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 1 September 2026. 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 -38 60 £550 -12.00% 24
West London -6 12 £443 -26.25% 32
North London +3 4 £550 +25.00% 5
East London - 2 £550 - 14
South London - 1 £650 - 7
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 57 (10.09%) Confluence
2 23 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.88%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.18%) CMS
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 32 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.78%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 17 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.06%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.71%) Endur
4 3 (0.53%) Actimize
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.53%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.35%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.35%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.35%) Summit
6 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.18%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.18%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 66 (11.68%) Power Platform
2 58 (10.27%) Azure
3 31 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
4 24 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (3.72%) AWS
6 18 (3.19%) SaaS
7 16 (2.83%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.65%) PowerApps
9 13 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
11 9 (1.59%) Snowflake
12 8 (1.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (1.24%) GitHub
13 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (1.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 5 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (0.88%) Entra ID
15 5 (0.88%) GCP
15 5 (0.88%) OCI
15 5 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.18%) DNS
2 1 (0.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.14%) Power BI
2 19 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.95%) Metadata
4 10 (1.77%) Tableau
5 6 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.88%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.71%) Power Query
7 4 (0.71%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.53%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.53%) QlikView
9 2 (0.35%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.35%) Parquet
9 2 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (12.74%) JIRA
2 5 (0.88%) Git
3 3 (0.53%) Mocha
4 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.35%) GitLab
4 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.35%) Moq
4 2 (0.35%) Postman
5 1 (0.18%) Capybara
5 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.18%) MSTest
5 1 (0.18%) RSpec
5 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.18%) tSQLt
General
1 275 (48.67%) Finance
2 230 (40.71%) Social Skills
3 151 (26.73%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (22.30%) Banking
5 54 (9.56%) Public Sector
6 45 (7.96%) Front Office
7 42 (7.43%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (6.90%) Investment Banking
9 29 (5.13%) Legal
9 29 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (4.07%) Retail
11 21 (3.72%) Financial Institution
12 20 (3.54%) Local Government
13 16 (2.83%) Marketing
14 14 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.59%) Back Office
17 8 (1.42%) General Ledger
18 7 (1.24%) Law
18 7 (1.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 385 (68.14%) Analyst
2 359 (63.54%) Business Analyst
3 88 (15.58%) Senior
4 66 (11.68%) Senior Analyst
5 61 (10.80%) Senior Business Analyst
6 29 (5.13%) Consultant
7 28 (4.96%) Lead
8 24 (4.25%) Finance Business Analyst
8 24 (4.25%) Financial Analyst
8 24 (4.25%) Technical Analyst
9 23 (4.07%) Technical Business Analyst
10 22 (3.89%) Data Business Analyst
11 21 (3.72%) Data Analyst
12 20 (3.54%) Banking Analyst
12 20 (3.54%) Banking Business Analyst
13 16 (2.83%) Insurance Business Analyst
14 15 (2.65%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.65%) Risk Business Analyst
15 14 (2.48%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
16 13 (2.30%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.42%) JSON
1 8 (1.42%) OAuth
2 7 (1.24%) ADO
2 7 (1.24%) CSS
2 7 (1.24%) HTML
2 7 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (1.06%) .NET
3 6 (1.06%) Middleware
3 6 (1.06%) REST
3 6 (1.06%) SailPoint
3 6 (1.06%) XML
4 5 (0.88%) RESTful
4 5 (0.88%) Terraform
5 4 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (0.71%) NumPy
5 4 (0.71%) Pandas
5 4 (0.71%) VML
6 3 (0.53%) Django
7 2 (0.35%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.35%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.81%) Product Ownership
2 27 (4.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 27 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.07%) Derivative
4 20 (3.54%) Fixed Income
5 19 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.48%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.12%) Credit Risk
9 12 (2.12%) Market Risk
10 9 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.59%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.42%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.24%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.06%) Equities
13 6 (1.06%) Life Science
14 5 (0.88%) CMDB
14 5 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.35%) Windows
2 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (44.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 234 (41.42%) Agile
3 190 (33.63%) Requirements Gathering
4 152 (26.90%) User Stories
4 152 (26.90%) Workshop Facilitation
5 145 (25.66%) User Acceptance Testing
6 123 (21.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 110 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (18.41%) Acceptance Criteria
9 103 (18.23%) AI
10 80 (14.16%) Process Improvement
11 79 (13.98%) Validation
12 76 (13.45%) Decision-Making
13 75 (13.27%) Migration
14 72 (12.74%) Project Delivery
15 65 (11.50%) Analytics
15 65 (11.50%) Scrum
16 63 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (10.44%) Data Analysis
18 56 (9.91%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (18.23%) SQL
2 35 (6.19%) Python
3 13 (2.30%) JavaScript
4 8 (1.42%) C#
5 7 (1.24%) Java
6 6 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.06%) Korn
7 5 (0.88%) VBA
8 4 (0.71%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.53%) R
10 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.18%) Bash
11 1 (0.18%) Bicep
11 1 (0.18%) C++
11 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.18%) Ruby
11 1 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 79 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 64 (11.33%) Degree
4 20 (3.54%) IIBA
5 13 (2.30%) PMI Certification
5 13 (2.30%) PMP
6 12 (2.12%) CBAP
7 9 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.42%) FFIEC
9 7 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.06%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.88%) ACCA
11 5 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.88%) CIMA
11 5 (0.88%) CSPO
11 5 (0.88%) ISEB
12 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.53%) CISSP
13 3 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.08%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.96%) QA
3 15 (2.65%) PMO
4 14 (2.48%) GDPR
4 14 (2.48%) NIST
5 11 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.59%) COBIT
7 8 (1.42%) GRC
7 8 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.24%) EMIR
8 7 (1.24%) ISO 20022
9 6 (1.06%) IFRS
10 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.71%) MiFID
11 3 (0.53%) GxP
11 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.53%) WCAG
12 2 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.35%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (1.06%) Docker
1 6 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) RACF
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.35%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.18%) Control-M
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 92 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.31%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.89%) Oracle
4 20 (3.54%) Murex
5 19 (3.36%) SAP
6 11 (1.95%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.59%) Bloomberg
7 9 (1.59%) Databricks
8 5 (0.88%) CyberArk
9 4 (0.71%) Workday
10 3 (0.53%) Ariba
10 3 (0.53%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.53%) Charles River
10 3 (0.53%) Google
10 3 (0.53%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.35%) Adobe
11 2 (0.35%) Calypso
11 2 (0.35%) Citrix
11 2 (0.35%) Infor