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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 81 106
Rank change year-on-year -32 +25 -13
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 490 443 399
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.48% 3.27% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 3.55% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 293 266
10th Percentile £379 £405 £400
25th Percentile £461 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £566
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.01% -5.67%
75th Percentile £643 £738 £692
90th Percentile £757 £790 £825
England median daily rate £514 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -3.88% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £31.55 £71.63 -
25th Percentile £32.00 £74.06 £41.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £78.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.76% +85.29% -1.16%
75th Percentile £56.19 £84.06 £43.75
90th Percentile £56.98 £86.88 -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £64.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -15.50% +18.35% -3.54%

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 17,589 12,488 14,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,618 8,349 10,661
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 238 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.40 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -9.38% -19.16%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -30 62 £550 -12.00% 17
West London -3 12 £285 -15.56% 12
North London 0 2 - - 3
South London - 2 £550 - 3
East London - 1 £550 - 14
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 43 (8.78%) Confluence
2 19 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.82%) Jupyter
3 4 (0.82%) SAS
4 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.41%) Apache
5 2 (0.41%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (5.51%) MS Visio
3 21 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.22%) Loan IQ
3 5 (1.02%) Actimize
3 5 (1.02%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.02%) Endur
4 3 (0.61%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.41%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.41%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.41%) Summit
6 1 (0.20%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.20%) SunGard Martini
6 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (11.63%) Power Platform
2 51 (10.41%) Azure
3 21 (4.29%) AWS
4 19 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (2.65%) SaaS
6 10 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
7 9 (1.84%) Power Automate
8 8 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (1.63%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (1.43%) PowerApps
9 7 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 7 (1.43%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (0.82%) Collibra
12 4 (0.82%) GCP
13 3 (0.61%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.02%) Network Security
2 3 (0.61%) Firewall
3 2 (0.41%) Broadband
3 2 (0.41%) Internet
3 2 (0.41%) VPN
4 1 (0.20%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) IPsec
4 1 (0.20%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.18%) Power BI
2 19 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (3.47%) Tableau
4 8 (1.63%) Metadata
5 6 (1.22%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.02%) Power Query
7 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.61%) QlikView
8 3 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.41%) Big Data
9 2 (0.41%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.41%) Parquet
9 2 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 63 (12.86%) JIRA
2 2 (0.41%) Git
2 2 (0.41%) Moq
2 2 (0.41%) Postman
3 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.20%) Capybara
3 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.20%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.20%) Mocha
3 1 (0.20%) MSTest
3 1 (0.20%) RSpec
3 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.20%) tSQLt
General
1 229 (46.73%) Finance
2 205 (41.84%) Social Skills
3 119 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (19.80%) Banking
5 44 (8.98%) Front Office
6 40 (8.16%) Documentation Skills
6 40 (8.16%) Public Sector
7 35 (7.14%) Legal
8 29 (5.92%) Investment Banking
9 28 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (4.29%) Retail
11 19 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (3.27%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.65%) Marketing
15 8 (1.63%) Back Office
16 6 (1.22%) Local Government
17 5 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (1.02%) Manufacturing
17 5 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 343 (70.00%) Analyst
2 314 (64.08%) Business Analyst
3 70 (14.29%) Senior
4 54 (11.02%) Senior Analyst
5 49 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
6 25 (5.10%) Consultant
6 25 (5.10%) Technical Business Analyst
7 24 (4.90%) Technical Analyst
8 21 (4.29%) Data Business Analyst
9 20 (4.08%) Lead
10 19 (3.88%) Banking Analyst
11 18 (3.67%) Banking Business Analyst
11 18 (3.67%) Project Manager
12 16 (3.27%) Data Analyst
13 15 (3.06%) Developer
14 14 (2.86%) Risk Business Analyst
15 13 (2.65%) Risk Analyst
15 13 (2.65%) Transformation Analyst
16 12 (2.45%) Product Analyst
17 11 (2.24%) Insurance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.63%) Pandas
2 7 (1.43%) ADO
2 7 (1.43%) JSON
3 5 (1.02%) Middleware
3 5 (1.02%) NumPy
3 5 (1.02%) REST
3 5 (1.02%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.02%) XML
4 4 (0.82%) .NET
4 4 (0.82%) CSS
4 4 (0.82%) HTML
4 4 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.82%) VML
5 3 (0.61%) Django
5 3 (0.61%) Kafka
6 2 (0.41%) Drools
6 2 (0.41%) OAuth
6 2 (0.41%) RESTful
6 2 (0.41%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (13.06%) Product Ownership
2 21 (4.29%) Fixed Income
3 18 (3.67%) Derivative
3 18 (3.67%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (3.27%) Data Structures
6 15 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.24%) Market Risk
10 10 (2.04%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.63%) CMDB
12 6 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.22%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.22%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.02%) Life Science
13 5 (1.02%) Reference Data
13 5 (1.02%) Tandem
14 4 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.41%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Android
2 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (39.80%) Agile
2 194 (39.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 144 (29.39%) Requirements Gathering
4 126 (25.71%) User Stories
5 113 (23.06%) User Acceptance Testing
6 106 (21.63%) Workshop Facilitation
7 102 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (17.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 87 (17.76%) Acceptance Criteria
10 80 (16.33%) AI
11 71 (14.49%) Validation
12 66 (13.47%) Project Management
13 60 (12.24%) Migration
14 59 (12.04%) Analytics
15 57 (11.63%) Project Delivery
16 56 (11.43%) Data Modelling
16 56 (11.43%) Decision-Making
17 55 (11.22%) Use Case
18 52 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
19 50 (10.20%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 82 (16.73%) SQL
2 38 (7.76%) Python
3 7 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (1.22%) Java
5 5 (1.02%) VBA
6 4 (0.82%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.61%) C#
7 3 (0.61%) Korn
7 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.61%) R
8 1 (0.20%) C++
8 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.20%) Ruby
8 1 (0.20%) SOQL
8 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 52 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.59%) Degree
4 16 (3.27%) IIBA
5 14 (2.86%) CBAP
6 8 (1.63%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.43%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.22%) PMP
9 5 (1.02%) CSPO
9 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.82%) FFIEC
10 4 (0.82%) ISEB
11 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.61%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.41%) CISM
12 2 (0.41%) CISSP
12 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.49%) QA
3 14 (2.86%) PMO
4 13 (2.65%) GDPR
5 10 (2.04%) NIST
6 9 (1.84%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.84%) ISO 20022
7 8 (1.63%) GRC
7 8 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.22%) EMIR
9 5 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (1.02%) COBIT
10 3 (0.61%) GxP
10 3 (0.61%) MiFID
10 3 (0.61%) SEPA
10 3 (0.61%) SLA
10 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.41%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.41%) PSD2
11 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.41%) Docker
3 1 (0.20%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.02%) SCCM
2 2 (0.41%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) Control-M
3 1 (0.20%) logstash
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 68 (13.88%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.51%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.47%) Oracle
4 16 (3.27%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.06%) SAP
6 12 (2.45%) Databricks
6 12 (2.45%) Murex
7 5 (1.02%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.02%) Workday
8 4 (0.82%) CyberArk
8 4 (0.82%) IBM
9 3 (0.61%) Avaloq
9 3 (0.61%) Calypso
9 3 (0.61%) Charles River
9 3 (0.61%) LexisNexis
9 3 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.61%) OpenLink
9 3 (0.61%) Pega
9 3 (0.61%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud