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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 106 102
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 -14
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 429 332 415
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.49% 2.62% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 2.86% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 227 297
10th Percentile £382 £403 £410
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £750 £675
90th Percentile £797 £825 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £33.45 - £73.13
25th Percentile £36.75 - £83.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £85.00
75th Percentile £49.75 - £86.50
90th Percentile £53.35 - £86.80
England median hourly rate £44.44 £66.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -32.67% -22.35% +36.00%

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 15,405 11,613 15,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.35% 91.51% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,348 7,877 11,316
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 170 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.96 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £23.90 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% -1.52% -12.00%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +2 83 £550 -8.33% 33
South London -15 4 £450 -5.26% 3
East London -1 2 £625 -7.41% 12
West London -22 2 £523 +54.81% 13
North London +1 1 £500 -9.09% 3
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 41 (9.56%) Confluence
2 17 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.93%) SAS
4 3 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 48 (11.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (9.32%) MS Visio
3 37 (8.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.70%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.70%) Notion
6 3 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.47%) Sketch
8 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.26%) Endur
2 13 (3.03%) Loan IQ
3 6 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.93%) Actimize
4 4 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.70%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.70%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.23%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (14.45%) Power Platform
2 32 (7.46%) Azure
3 13 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (2.80%) AWS
4 12 (2.80%) Power Automate
5 10 (2.33%) PowerApps
6 9 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.17%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.17%) SaaS
10 4 (0.93%) Figma
10 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (0.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (0.70%) ChatGPT
11 3 (0.70%) dbt
11 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (0.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) Broadband
1 2 (0.47%) Firewall
1 2 (0.47%) Internet
1 2 (0.47%) NAS
2 1 (0.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) IPsec
2 1 (0.23%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
2 1 (0.23%) VPN
2 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.42%) Power BI
2 19 (4.43%) Tableau
3 9 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.63%) Metadata
5 4 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.47%) Big Data
7 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.47%) Power Query
7 2 (0.47%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.47%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.23%) Looker
8 1 (0.23%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.23%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 62 (14.45%) JIRA
2 4 (0.93%) ERwin
3 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.70%) Cucumber
3 3 (0.70%) Selenium
3 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.47%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.47%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.47%) Git
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.47%) Postman
4 2 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.23%) Ant
5 1 (0.23%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.23%) JUnit
5 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.23%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.23%) WinAutomation
General
1 202 (47.09%) Finance
2 196 (45.69%) Social Skills
3 98 (22.84%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (22.61%) Banking
5 40 (9.32%) Public Sector
6 38 (8.86%) Investment Banking
7 37 (8.62%) Front Office
8 33 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (6.76%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (5.83%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (5.13%) Legal
12 19 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (4.20%) Retail
14 16 (3.73%) Financial Institution
15 11 (2.56%) Back Office
16 8 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (1.63%) Marketing
17 7 (1.63%) Telecoms
18 5 (1.17%) Local Government
19 3 (0.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 317 (73.89%) Analyst
2 290 (67.60%) Business Analyst
3 56 (13.05%) Senior
4 46 (10.72%) Senior Analyst
5 42 (9.79%) Senior Business Analyst
6 19 (4.43%) Banking Analyst
7 18 (4.20%) Migration Analyst
7 18 (4.20%) Technical Analyst
7 18 (4.20%) Technical Business Analyst
7 18 (4.20%) Transformation Analyst
8 17 (3.96%) Banking Business Analyst
8 17 (3.96%) Lead
9 16 (3.73%) Data Business Analyst
9 16 (3.73%) Developer
10 15 (3.50%) Project Manager
11 14 (3.26%) Financial Analyst
12 13 (3.03%) Business IT Analyst
12 13 (3.03%) IT Analyst
12 13 (3.03%) IT Business Analyst
12 13 (3.03%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.33%) XML
2 7 (1.63%) Pandas
2 7 (1.63%) VML
3 4 (0.93%) .NET
3 4 (0.93%) NumPy
3 4 (0.93%) REST
4 3 (0.70%) JSON
4 3 (0.70%) Middleware
4 3 (0.70%) OAuth
4 3 (0.70%) PySpark
5 2 (0.47%) ADO
5 2 (0.47%) Kafka
5 2 (0.47%) SAML
5 2 (0.47%) SOAP
6 1 (0.23%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.23%) FpML
6 1 (0.23%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (0.23%) Murex MxML
6 1 (0.23%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.23%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.05%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (3.03%) PMI
4 12 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (2.56%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.33%) Credit Risk
6 10 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.33%) Tandem
7 9 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.86%) CMDB
8 8 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.86%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.63%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.63%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.40%) Derivative
10 6 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.17%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.47%) Linux
1 2 (0.47%) Windows
2 1 (0.23%) AIX
2 1 (0.23%) Android
2 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (47.09%) Agile
2 157 (36.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 117 (27.27%) User Stories
4 109 (25.41%) Requirements Gathering
5 106 (24.71%) Workshop Facilitation
6 99 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (20.98%) User Acceptance Testing
8 84 (19.58%) Project Management
9 76 (17.72%) Project Delivery
10 73 (17.02%) Migration
11 71 (16.55%) Acceptance Criteria
12 69 (16.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 58 (13.52%) Data Modelling
13 58 (13.52%) GAP Analysis
14 57 (13.29%) Use Case
15 55 (12.82%) Decision-Making
16 53 (12.35%) Waterfall
17 52 (12.12%) AI
18 51 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
19 50 (11.66%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 63 (14.69%) SQL
2 27 (6.29%) Python
3 9 (2.10%) C#
3 9 (2.10%) Java
4 5 (1.17%) VBA
5 4 (0.93%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.47%) Korn
6 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.47%) R
6 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.23%) ABAP
7 1 (0.23%) C++
7 1 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.23%) Perl
7 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.23%) SOQL
7 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 56 (13.05%) Degree
3 51 (11.89%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.53%) CBAP
5 23 (5.36%) IIBA
6 20 (4.66%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.86%) PMP
8 5 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.17%) ISEB
9 4 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.70%) CFA
10 3 (0.70%) CSPO
10 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.70%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.47%) FFIEC
12 1 (0.23%) CITP
12 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.86%) QA
2 33 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.56%) PMO
4 10 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.10%) GDPR
6 8 (1.86%) MiFID
7 6 (1.40%) ISO 20022
7 6 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.40%) NIST
8 5 (1.17%) GRC
8 5 (1.17%) SLA
9 4 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.93%) EMIR
9 4 (0.93%) PSD2
10 2 (0.47%) Basel III
10 2 (0.47%) COBIT
10 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.47%) SEPA
10 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.23%) RACF
1 1 (0.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (1.17%) SCCM
2 4 (0.93%) Terraform
3 2 (0.47%) Control-M
4 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.23%) logstash
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 68 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.36%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.96%) ServiceNow
4 13 (3.03%) Murex
5 12 (2.80%) Oracle
6 11 (2.56%) SAP
7 5 (1.17%) Avaloq
7 5 (1.17%) Databricks
8 4 (0.93%) Bloomberg
8 4 (0.93%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.93%) OpenLink
8 4 (0.93%) Sparx
9 3 (0.70%) Adobe
9 3 (0.70%) BT
9 3 (0.70%) IBM
9 3 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (0.70%) Temenos
10 2 (0.47%) LexisNexis
10 2 (0.47%) UiPath
10 2 (0.47%) Workday