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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 80 107
Rank change year-on-year -45 +27 -20
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 422 402 414
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.27% 3.28% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 3.56% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 272 282
10th Percentile £374 £407 £406
25th Percentile £450 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £675
90th Percentile £758 £799 £763
England median daily rate £500 £537 £528
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.85% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £31.45 £71.63 -
25th Percentile £31.75 £74.06 £41.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £78.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.73% +85.29% -19.43%
75th Percentile £44.25 £84.06 £43.75
90th Percentile £51.15 £86.88 -
England median hourly rate £44.69 £64.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.72% +51.76% -35.61%

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 16,527 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.38 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -24 64 £550 -12.00% 35
West London -17 9 £285 -15.56% 9
East London -1 2 £625 +15.74% 11
South London -13 1 £450 -5.26% 1
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 36 (8.53%) Confluence
2 13 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.18%) SAS
4 4 (0.95%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 37 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (7.35%) MS Visio
3 30 (7.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.13%) Loan IQ
2 5 (1.18%) Actimize
2 5 (1.18%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.18%) Endur
3 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.71%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.24%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.24%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (10.66%) Power Platform
2 31 (7.35%) Azure
3 16 (3.79%) AWS
4 9 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (1.90%) SaaS
6 7 (1.66%) Entra ID
6 7 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (0.95%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.95%) Snowflake
9 4 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.71%) Figma
10 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.71%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.47%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.47%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.95%) Network Security
2 2 (0.47%) Broadband
2 2 (0.47%) Firewall
2 2 (0.47%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) IPsec
3 1 (0.24%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.24%) SSL
3 1 (0.24%) VPN
3 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.24%) Power BI
2 14 (3.32%) Tableau
3 11 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.18%) Metadata
4 5 (1.18%) Power Query
5 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.71%) Data Mart
6 3 (0.71%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.47%) QlikView
7 2 (0.47%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.24%) Looker
8 1 (0.24%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.24%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 55 (13.03%) JIRA
2 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.47%) Git
2 2 (0.47%) Moq
2 2 (0.47%) Postman
3 1 (0.24%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.24%) Mocha
3 1 (0.24%) MSTest
3 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.24%) Selenium
3 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.24%) TestNG
3 1 (0.24%) tSQLt
3 1 (0.24%) WinAutomation
General
1 204 (48.34%) Finance
2 179 (42.42%) Social Skills
3 101 (23.93%) Banking
4 91 (21.56%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (9.00%) Front Office
6 35 (8.29%) Investment Banking
7 34 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (7.82%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (7.58%) Legal
10 29 (6.87%) Public Sector
11 24 (5.69%) Retail
12 20 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (4.03%) Financial Institution
13 17 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.13%) Marketing
15 6 (1.42%) Back Office
15 6 (1.42%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (0.95%) Private Banking
16 4 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 303 (71.80%) Analyst
2 287 (68.01%) Business Analyst
3 60 (14.22%) Senior
4 51 (12.09%) Senior Analyst
5 47 (11.14%) Senior Business Analyst
6 24 (5.69%) Banking Analyst
7 23 (5.45%) Banking Business Analyst
8 18 (4.27%) Lead
8 18 (4.27%) Technical Business Analyst
9 17 (4.03%) Technical Analyst
10 15 (3.55%) Consultant
10 15 (3.55%) Project Manager
11 14 (3.32%) Data Business Analyst
12 13 (3.08%) Transformation Analyst
13 12 (2.84%) Insurance Business Analyst
13 12 (2.84%) Product Analyst
13 12 (2.84%) Risk Business Analyst
14 11 (2.61%) Developer
14 11 (2.61%) Product Owner
14 11 (2.61%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.90%) Pandas
1 8 (1.90%) VML
2 5 (1.18%) .NET
2 5 (1.18%) NumPy
3 4 (0.95%) Middleware
3 4 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.95%) SailPoint
4 3 (0.71%) ADO
4 3 (0.71%) CSS
4 3 (0.71%) HTML
4 3 (0.71%) JSON
4 3 (0.71%) REST
5 2 (0.47%) Django
5 2 (0.47%) OAuth
5 2 (0.47%) PySpark
5 2 (0.47%) Web Services
5 2 (0.47%) XML
6 1 (0.24%) pytest
6 1 (0.24%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.56%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.50%) Fixed Income
3 18 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.08%) Derivative
4 13 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.13%) CMDB
6 9 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.13%) PMI
7 8 (1.90%) Credit Risk
7 8 (1.90%) Reinsurance
8 7 (1.66%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.66%) Market Risk
8 7 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.42%) Tandem
10 5 (1.18%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.18%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.71%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.24%) Android
1 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (41.71%) Agile
2 153 (36.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 108 (25.59%) Requirements Gathering
3 108 (25.59%) User Stories
4 98 (23.22%) Workshop Facilitation
5 91 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (21.09%) User Acceptance Testing
7 80 (18.96%) Acceptance Criteria
8 67 (15.88%) Project Management
9 58 (13.74%) Project Delivery
9 58 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 56 (13.27%) AI
11 55 (13.03%) Decision-Making
11 55 (13.03%) Migration
12 52 (12.32%) Data Modelling
12 52 (12.32%) Validation
13 51 (12.09%) Use Case
14 48 (11.37%) Data Analysis
14 48 (11.37%) Waterfall
15 44 (10.43%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.17%) SQL
2 32 (7.58%) Python
3 6 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (0.95%) C#
4 4 (0.95%) Java
4 4 (0.95%) VBA
5 3 (0.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
5 3 (0.71%) R
6 2 (0.47%) Korn
7 1 (0.24%) SOQL
7 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.09%) SC Cleared
3 47 (11.14%) Degree
4 21 (4.98%) CBAP
5 19 (4.50%) IIBA
6 11 (2.61%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.42%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.18%) CSPO
9 5 (1.18%) ISEB
10 4 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.71%) FFIEC
11 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.71%) PMP
12 2 (0.47%) CFA
12 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.87%) QA
3 13 (3.08%) PMO
4 12 (2.84%) GDPR
5 10 (2.37%) ISO 20022
6 9 (2.13%) GRC
7 8 (1.90%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.66%) NIST
9 6 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.95%) COBIT
10 4 (0.95%) EMIR
10 4 (0.95%) MiFID
11 3 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.71%) SLA
11 3 (0.71%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.47%) GxP
12 2 (0.47%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.47%) PSD2
12 2 (0.47%) SEPA
12 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.47%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) RACF
3 1 (0.24%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.18%) SCCM
2 3 (0.71%) Terraform
3 2 (0.47%) Control-M
4 1 (0.24%) logstash
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 54 (12.80%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.98%) Salesforce
3 17 (4.03%) ServiceNow
4 13 (3.08%) Murex
4 13 (3.08%) Oracle
5 11 (2.61%) SAP
6 9 (2.13%) Databricks
7 4 (0.95%) Avaloq
7 4 (0.95%) Bloomberg
7 4 (0.95%) OpenLink
7 4 (0.95%) Workday
8 3 (0.71%) BT
8 3 (0.71%) Calypso
8 3 (0.71%) LexisNexis
8 3 (0.71%) Pega
8 3 (0.71%) PeopleSoft
8 3 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.47%) Charles River
9 2 (0.47%) Google
9 2 (0.47%) IBM