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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 91 107
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -32
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 627 423 383
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.08% 3.18% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 3.44% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 279 240
10th Percentile £380 £392 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +2.61% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £778 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £38.33 £71.63 £44.63
25th Percentile £47.44 £74.06 £49.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £78.75 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.16% +34.04% -30.47%
75th Percentile £57.50 £84.06 £67.19
90th Percentile - £86.88 £71.88
England median hourly rate £65.75 £70.00 £75.20
% change year-on-year -6.07% -6.91% +7.43%

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 18,128 12,293 14,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.49% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,864 8,121 9,276
10th Percentile £360 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
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 342 242 178
10th Percentile £15.90 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.81 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -27 70 £576 -6.30% 55
West London -12 14 £450 -10.00% 12
North London - 4 £550 - 4
South London - 3 £596 - 6
East London - 3 £506 - 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 73 (11.64%) Confluence
2 21 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.32%) Apache
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.32%) CMS
4 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 44 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.83%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.48%) Productboard
8 1 (0.16%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.16%) Notion
Business Applications
1 18 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.80%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.48%) Endur
5 3 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.48%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 2 (0.32%) Actimize
6 2 (0.32%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.32%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.32%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 74 (11.80%) Azure
2 70 (11.16%) Power Platform
3 34 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (5.42%) Dynamics 365
4 23 (3.67%) AWS
5 20 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (3.19%) SaaS
6 14 (2.23%) Power Automate
6 14 (2.23%) PowerApps
7 13 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
7 13 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (1.75%) GitHub
9 10 (1.59%) Snowflake
10 8 (1.28%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.12%) GCP
11 7 (1.12%) Miro
12 6 (0.96%) OCI
12 6 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 5 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (0.80%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.80%) Network Security
2 1 (0.16%) DNS
2 1 (0.16%) Firewall
2 1 (0.16%) SSL
2 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (7.97%) Power BI
2 24 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (3.19%) Metadata
4 8 (1.28%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.12%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.12%) Tableau
6 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.64%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.64%) Power Query
7 4 (0.64%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.48%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (0.48%) QlikView
9 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.32%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.32%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 89 (14.19%) JIRA
2 9 (1.44%) Git
3 4 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.48%) GitLab
4 3 (0.48%) Mocha
5 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.32%) Moq
5 2 (0.32%) Postman
6 1 (0.16%) Capybara
6 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.16%) Gradle
6 1 (0.16%) Maven
6 1 (0.16%) MSI
6 1 (0.16%) MSTest
6 1 (0.16%) RSpec
6 1 (0.16%) tSQLt
General
1 297 (47.37%) Finance
2 256 (40.83%) Social Skills
3 185 (29.51%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (23.76%) Banking
5 87 (13.88%) Public Sector
6 58 (9.25%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (7.50%) Front Office
8 44 (7.02%) Investment Banking
9 34 (5.42%) Local Government
10 33 (5.26%) Legal
11 19 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (2.87%) Retail
13 17 (2.71%) Financial Institution
14 15 (2.39%) Back Office
14 15 (2.39%) Marketing
15 12 (1.91%) General Ledger
15 12 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.28%) Law
17 8 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 417 (66.51%) Analyst
2 387 (61.72%) Business Analyst
3 100 (15.95%) Senior
4 73 (11.64%) Senior Analyst
5 72 (11.48%) Senior Business Analyst
6 33 (5.26%) Consultant
7 31 (4.94%) Lead
8 28 (4.47%) Technical Analyst
9 27 (4.31%) Data Business Analyst
9 27 (4.31%) Finance Business Analyst
9 27 (4.31%) Financial Analyst
10 26 (4.15%) Data Analyst
11 24 (3.83%) Technical Business Analyst
12 22 (3.51%) Banking Analyst
12 22 (3.51%) Banking Business Analyst
13 21 (3.35%) Project Manager
14 16 (2.55%) IT Analyst
15 15 (2.39%) Business IT Analyst
15 15 (2.39%) Developer
15 15 (2.39%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.44%) JSON
2 8 (1.28%) ADO
2 8 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (1.12%) CSS
3 7 (1.12%) HTML
3 7 (1.12%) OAuth
3 7 (1.12%) RESTful
3 7 (1.12%) Terraform
4 6 (0.96%) .NET
4 6 (0.96%) REST
4 6 (0.96%) SailPoint
4 6 (0.96%) XML
5 5 (0.80%) Middleware
6 4 (0.64%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (0.64%) Smart Contracts
7 3 (0.48%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.48%) Django
7 3 (0.48%) Spring
7 3 (0.48%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.32%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 79 (12.60%) Product Ownership
2 36 (5.74%) Onboarding
3 34 (5.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 25 (3.99%) Derivative
4 25 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 19 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.71%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.55%) Fixed Income
9 15 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.91%) Market Risk
10 12 (1.91%) Taxonomies
11 11 (1.75%) Reference Data
12 10 (1.59%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.59%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.59%) Credit Risk
12 10 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.12%) Life Science
13 7 (1.12%) Reinsurance
13 7 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.16%) Linux
2 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (52.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 260 (41.47%) Agile
3 244 (38.92%) Requirements Gathering
4 192 (30.62%) Workshop Facilitation
5 174 (27.75%) User Stories
6 153 (24.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 149 (23.76%) User Acceptance Testing
8 129 (20.57%) Acceptance Criteria
9 126 (20.10%) AI
10 125 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (15.95%) Process Improvement
12 96 (15.31%) Validation
13 95 (15.15%) Decision-Making
14 92 (14.67%) Migration
15 81 (12.92%) Project Delivery
16 80 (12.76%) Scrum
17 78 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
18 76 (12.12%) Translating Business Requirements
19 70 (11.16%) Analytics
20 68 (10.85%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 116 (18.50%) SQL
2 38 (6.06%) Python
3 15 (2.39%) JavaScript
4 11 (1.75%) Java
5 9 (1.44%) C#
6 7 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (1.12%) Korn
7 4 (0.64%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.64%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.48%) VBA
9 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.16%) Bash
9 1 (0.16%) C++
9 1 (0.16%) Go
9 1 (0.16%) R
9 1 (0.16%) Ruby
9 1 (0.16%) Swift
9 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 93 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 82 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 71 (11.32%) Degree
4 18 (2.87%) IIBA
5 15 (2.39%) CBAP
6 14 (2.23%) PMP
7 13 (2.07%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.28%) FFIEC
10 7 (1.12%) ACCA
10 7 (1.12%) CIMA
11 6 (0.96%) ISEB
12 5 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.64%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.64%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.48%) CISM
14 3 (0.48%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 38 (6.06%) QA
3 18 (2.87%) GDPR
4 13 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.07%) NIST
5 11 (1.75%) PMO
6 9 (1.44%) COBIT
7 8 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (1.28%) IFRS
7 8 (1.28%) ISO 20022
8 7 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.96%) EMIR
9 6 (0.96%) GRC
10 4 (0.64%) ISO 15022
11 3 (0.48%) GxP
11 3 (0.48%) MiFID
11 3 (0.48%) WCAG
12 2 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.32%) SEPA
12 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (1.44%) Docker
2 6 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (0.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 120 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.31%) Oracle
3 24 (3.83%) SAP
4 23 (3.67%) Murex
4 23 (3.67%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.07%) Bloomberg
5 13 (2.07%) Databricks
6 9 (1.44%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.12%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.96%) CyberArk
8 6 (0.96%) Google
8 6 (0.96%) IBM
9 5 (0.80%) Workday
10 4 (0.64%) Ariba
11 3 (0.48%) Infor
11 3 (0.48%) PeopleSoft
12 2 (0.32%) Adobe
12 2 (0.32%) Calypso
12 2 (0.32%) Citrix
12 2 (0.32%) SGI