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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 90 107
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 -23
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 595 415 384
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.93% 3.10% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 3.35% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 270 239
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £451 £488 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.02% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £711 £688
90th Percentile £738 £788 £803
England median daily rate £525 £537 £535
% change year-on-year -2.23% +0.37% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £31.65 £71.63 £44.63
25th Percentile £32.25 £74.06 £49.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £78.75 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.16% +34.04% -21.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £84.06 £67.19
90th Percentile - £86.88 £71.88
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £75.20
% change year-on-year -21.43% -6.91% +213.98%

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 18,062 12,379 14,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.57% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,844 8,171 9,350
10th Percentile £358 £325 £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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 241 178
10th Percentile £16.07 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -15.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -37 60 £525 -14.63% 66
West London -15 14 £450 -10.00% 15
North London +3 4 £550 +25.00%
South London - 3 £596 - 3
East London - 2 £550 - 8
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 65 (10.92%) Confluence
2 19 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.50%) Apache
5 2 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 38 (6.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.20%) MS Visio
3 14 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.34%) Productboard
7 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.17%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 19 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.01%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.84%) Endur
4 4 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.50%) Actimize
5 3 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.50%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 2 (0.34%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.34%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.34%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 70 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 68 (11.43%) Azure
3 34 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
4 31 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (3.53%) AWS
6 18 (3.03%) SaaS
7 15 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (2.52%) Power Automate
8 14 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 14 (2.35%) PowerApps
9 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (1.68%) Snowflake
11 9 (1.51%) GitHub
12 8 (1.34%) GCP
13 7 (1.18%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.01%) OCI
15 5 (0.84%) Miro
15 5 (0.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.84%) Network Security
2 1 (0.17%) DNS
2 1 (0.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.17%) SSL
2 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.40%) Power BI
2 24 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.03%) Metadata
4 6 (1.01%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.01%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.01%) Tableau
5 5 (0.84%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.67%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.67%) Power Query
6 4 (0.67%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.50%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.50%) QlikView
8 2 (0.34%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.34%) Parquet
8 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (13.61%) JIRA
2 8 (1.34%) Git
3 3 (0.50%) GitLab
3 3 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.50%) Mocha
4 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.34%) Moq
4 2 (0.34%) Postman
5 1 (0.17%) Capybara
5 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.17%) MSI
5 1 (0.17%) MSTest
5 1 (0.17%) RSpec
5 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.17%) tSQLt
General
1 285 (47.90%) Finance
2 243 (40.84%) Social Skills
3 168 (28.24%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (22.69%) Banking
5 73 (12.27%) Public Sector
6 49 (8.24%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (8.07%) Front Office
8 40 (6.72%) Investment Banking
9 33 (5.55%) Legal
10 29 (4.87%) Local Government
11 25 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (3.19%) Retail
13 18 (3.03%) Financial Institution
13 18 (3.03%) Marketing
14 12 (2.02%) Back Office
14 12 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.85%) General Ledger
16 9 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.34%) Law
17 8 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 400 (67.23%) Analyst
2 374 (62.86%) Business Analyst
3 96 (16.13%) Senior
4 71 (11.93%) Senior Analyst
5 68 (11.43%) Senior Business Analyst
6 32 (5.38%) Consultant
7 29 (4.87%) Lead
8 28 (4.71%) Finance Business Analyst
8 28 (4.71%) Financial Analyst
9 27 (4.54%) Data Business Analyst
9 27 (4.54%) Technical Analyst
10 24 (4.03%) Data Analyst
10 24 (4.03%) Technical Business Analyst
11 22 (3.70%) Banking Analyst
11 22 (3.70%) Banking Business Analyst
12 17 (2.86%) IT Analyst
12 17 (2.86%) Project Manager
13 16 (2.69%) Business IT Analyst
13 16 (2.69%) IT Business Analyst
14 14 (2.35%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.51%) JSON
2 8 (1.34%) ADO
2 8 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (1.18%) CSS
3 7 (1.18%) HTML
3 7 (1.18%) OAuth
4 6 (1.01%) Middleware
4 6 (1.01%) REST
4 6 (1.01%) SailPoint
4 6 (1.01%) XML
5 5 (0.84%) .NET
5 5 (0.84%) RESTful
5 5 (0.84%) Terraform
6 4 (0.67%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (0.67%) Smart Contracts
7 3 (0.50%) Django
7 3 (0.50%) NumPy
7 3 (0.50%) Pandas
7 3 (0.50%) VML
8 2 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.11%) Product Ownership
2 36 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 28 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 26 (4.37%) Derivative
5 22 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (3.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 19 (3.19%) Fixed Income
8 18 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.86%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.69%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.85%) Market Risk
12 10 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.68%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.51%) Cloud Native
13 9 (1.51%) Reference Data
14 8 (1.34%) Credit Risk
15 7 (1.18%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.18%) Life Science
16 6 (1.01%) Equities
17 5 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (49.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 251 (42.18%) Agile
3 223 (37.48%) Requirements Gathering
4 170 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
5 163 (27.39%) User Stories
6 150 (25.21%) User Acceptance Testing
7 138 (23.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 119 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (19.83%) AI
10 112 (18.82%) Acceptance Criteria
11 92 (15.46%) Process Improvement
12 91 (15.29%) Migration
13 90 (15.13%) Validation
14 87 (14.62%) Decision-Making
15 75 (12.61%) Project Delivery
16 74 (12.44%) Scrum
17 72 (12.10%) Analytics
18 69 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 69 (11.60%) Translating Business Requirements
19 64 (10.76%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 113 (18.99%) SQL
2 39 (6.55%) Python
3 13 (2.18%) JavaScript
4 8 (1.34%) C#
4 8 (1.34%) Java
5 7 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (1.18%) Korn
6 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.67%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.34%) R
7 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.34%) VBA
8 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.17%) Bash
8 1 (0.17%) C++
8 1 (0.17%) Go
8 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.17%) Ruby
8 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 86 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 70 (11.76%) Degree
4 19 (3.19%) IIBA
5 15 (2.52%) CBAP
6 14 (2.35%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.18%) PMP
8 12 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.34%) FFIEC
10 7 (1.18%) ACCA
10 7 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.18%) CIMA
11 5 (0.84%) ISEB
11 5 (0.84%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.67%) CSPO
12 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.07%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.88%) QA
3 16 (2.69%) GDPR
4 13 (2.18%) NIST
4 13 (2.18%) PMO
5 11 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.51%) COBIT
6 9 (1.51%) ISO 20022
7 8 (1.34%) IFRS
8 7 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (1.18%) EMIR
9 6 (1.01%) GRC
9 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.67%) MiFID
11 3 (0.50%) GxP
11 3 (0.50%) WCAG
12 2 (0.34%) SEPA
12 2 (0.34%) SLA
12 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (1.18%) Docker
2 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (0.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 108 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.37%) Oracle
3 25 (4.20%) Salesforce
4 22 (3.70%) SAP
5 21 (3.53%) Murex
6 14 (2.35%) Databricks
7 13 (2.18%) Bloomberg
8 11 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.01%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.01%) Google
10 5 (0.84%) Workday
11 4 (0.67%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.50%) Ariba
12 3 (0.50%) Calypso
12 3 (0.50%) Charles River
12 3 (0.50%) IBM
12 3 (0.50%) Infor
12 3 (0.50%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.50%) PeopleSoft
13 2 (0.34%) Citrix