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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 92 113
Rank change year-on-year -17 +21 -24
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 565 428 379
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.82% 3.23% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 3.49% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 282 242
10th Percentile £381 £410 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £692
90th Percentile £740 £788 £811
England median daily rate £525 £525 £539
% change year-on-year - -2.55% -2.05%
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 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
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 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -35 60 £550 -12.00% 39
West London -8 12 £443 -11.50% 29
North London +4 4 £550 +25.00% 3
East London - 2 £550 - 5
South London - 1 £650 - 2
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 55 (9.73%) Confluence
2 24 (4.25%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.88%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 32 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.42%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.18%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 65 (11.50%) Power Platform
2 57 (10.09%) Azure
3 31 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
4 23 (4.07%) AWS
4 23 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.19%) SaaS
6 16 (2.83%) Power Automate
7 15 (2.65%) PowerApps
8 14 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (1.59%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.24%) GitHub
11 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (1.06%) GCP
13 5 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (0.88%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.88%) OCI
13 5 (0.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 5 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.88%) Network Security
2 1 (0.18%) DNS
2 1 (0.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (7.79%) Power BI
2 19 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.12%) Metadata
4 8 (1.42%) 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 69 (12.21%) 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
1 274 (48.50%) Finance
2 232 (41.06%) Social Skills
3 150 (26.55%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (22.12%) Banking
5 55 (9.73%) Public Sector
6 45 (7.96%) Front Office
7 42 (7.43%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (6.90%) Investment Banking
9 31 (5.49%) Legal
10 29 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (4.07%) Retail
12 22 (3.89%) Local Government
13 20 (3.54%) Financial Institution
14 15 (2.65%) Marketing
15 14 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.59%) Back Office
18 8 (1.42%) General Ledger
19 7 (1.24%) Law
19 7 (1.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 384 (67.96%) Analyst
2 359 (63.54%) Business Analyst
3 87 (15.40%) Senior
4 65 (11.50%) Senior Analyst
5 60 (10.62%) Senior Business Analyst
6 30 (5.31%) Lead
7 29 (5.13%) Consultant
8 24 (4.25%) Technical Analyst
9 23 (4.07%) Finance Business Analyst
9 23 (4.07%) Financial 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%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.65%) Insurance Business Analyst
14 15 (2.65%) Risk Business Analyst
15 14 (2.48%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
16 12 (2.12%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.42%) JSON
2 7 (1.24%) ADO
2 7 (1.24%) CSS
2 7 (1.24%) HTML
2 7 (1.24%) OAuth
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 76 (13.45%) Product Ownership
2 28 (4.96%) Onboarding
3 26 (4.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (4.07%) Derivative
5 20 (3.54%) Fixed Income
6 19 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.65%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.48%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.12%) Credit Risk
10 12 (2.12%) Market Risk
11 10 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.42%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.42%) Reinsurance
13 7 (1.24%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.06%) Cloud Native
14 6 (1.06%) Equities
14 6 (1.06%) Life Science
15 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.18%) Linux
2 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (44.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 234 (41.42%) Agile
3 194 (34.34%) Requirements Gathering
4 153 (27.08%) Workshop Facilitation
5 151 (26.73%) User Stories
6 145 (25.66%) User Acceptance Testing
7 125 (22.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 109 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (18.58%) AI
10 102 (18.05%) Acceptance Criteria
11 80 (14.16%) Process Improvement
12 79 (13.98%) Validation
13 77 (13.63%) Decision-Making
14 74 (13.10%) Migration
15 73 (12.92%) Project Delivery
16 65 (11.50%) Analytics
17 64 (11.33%) Scrum
18 63 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
19 57 (10.09%) Data Analysis
20 56 (9.91%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (18.41%) 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 82 (14.51%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.39%) 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%) CISM
13 3 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.96%) QA
3 15 (2.65%) GDPR
3 15 (2.65%) PMO
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%) 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 93 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.96%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.89%) Oracle
4 20 (3.54%) Murex
4 20 (3.54%) SAP
5 12 (2.12%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.59%) Bloomberg
6 9 (1.59%) Databricks
7 5 (0.88%) CyberArk
8 4 (0.71%) Google
8 4 (0.71%) Workday
9 3 (0.53%) Ariba
9 3 (0.53%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.53%) Charles River
9 3 (0.53%) PeopleSoft
10 2 (0.35%) Adobe
10 2 (0.35%) Calypso
10 2 (0.35%) Citrix
10 2 (0.35%) IBM
10 2 (0.35%) OpenLink