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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 85 106
Rank change year-on-year -28 +21 -6
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 509 437 392
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.54% 3.21% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 3.49% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 291 256
10th Percentile £363 £405 £395
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £566
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.01% -5.67%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £689
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
England median daily rate £520 £545 £535
% change year-on-year -4.59% +1.87% -2.73%
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 £54.50 £78.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.79% +85.29% -1.16%
75th Percentile £57.50 £84.06 £43.75
90th Percentile - £86.88 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +28.44% -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 17,865 12,538 14,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,797 8,407 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
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 295 245 209
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -11.76% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 61 £575 -8.55% 14
West London -6 11 £285 - 15
North London -1 2 - - 3
South London - 2 £550 - 5
East London - 2 £550 - 10
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 49 (9.63%) Confluence
2 22 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.98%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.79%) SAS
5 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.39%) Apache
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (5.11%) MS Visio
3 18 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 10 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.98%) Actimize
2 5 (0.98%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.79%) Endur
4 3 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.59%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.39%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.39%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.39%) 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 ERP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.20%) SunGard Martini
6 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (12.18%) Power Platform
2 52 (10.22%) Azure
3 21 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
4 20 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.54%) AWS
6 17 (3.34%) SaaS
7 14 (2.75%) Power Automate
8 12 (2.36%) PowerApps
9 11 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (1.77%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.57%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 7 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (0.98%) GCP
13 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (0.79%) Collibra
14 4 (0.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.98%) Network Security
2 3 (0.59%) Firewall
3 2 (0.39%) 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 46 (9.04%) Power BI
2 19 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.75%) Tableau
4 8 (1.57%) Metadata
5 5 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.98%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.79%) Power Query
6 4 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.59%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.59%) QlikView
7 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.39%) Big Data
8 2 (0.39%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.39%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 67 (13.16%) JIRA
2 3 (0.59%) Git
3 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.39%) Mocha
3 2 (0.39%) Moq
3 2 (0.39%) Postman
4 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.20%) Capybara
4 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.20%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.20%) GitLab
4 1 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.20%) MSTest
4 1 (0.20%) RSpec
4 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.20%) tSQLt
General
1 246 (48.33%) Finance
2 216 (42.44%) Social Skills
3 133 (26.13%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (20.83%) Banking
5 44 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 43 (8.45%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (7.47%) Front Office
8 35 (6.88%) Legal
9 31 (6.09%) Investment Banking
10 29 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (4.13%) Retail
12 19 (3.73%) Financial Institution
12 19 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.95%) Marketing
14 14 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.96%) Local Government
16 6 (1.18%) Back Office
16 6 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 351 (68.96%) Analyst
2 326 (64.05%) Business Analyst
3 79 (15.52%) Senior
4 61 (11.98%) Senior Analyst
5 56 (11.00%) Senior Business Analyst
6 28 (5.50%) Consultant
7 24 (4.72%) Lead
8 23 (4.52%) Technical Analyst
8 23 (4.52%) Technical Business Analyst
9 22 (4.32%) Data Business Analyst
10 19 (3.73%) Banking Analyst
11 18 (3.54%) Banking Business Analyst
11 18 (3.54%) Data Analyst
12 16 (3.14%) Developer
12 16 (3.14%) Project Manager
13 14 (2.75%) Finance Business Analyst
13 14 (2.75%) Financial Analyst
14 13 (2.55%) Insurance Business Analyst
14 13 (2.55%) Risk Business Analyst
15 12 (2.36%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.38%) ADO
1 7 (1.38%) JSON
2 6 (1.18%) OAuth
2 6 (1.18%) REST
2 6 (1.18%) SailPoint
3 5 (0.98%) CSS
3 5 (0.98%) HTML
3 5 (0.98%) Middleware
3 5 (0.98%) NumPy
3 5 (0.98%) Pandas
3 5 (0.98%) XML
4 4 (0.79%) .NET
4 4 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.79%) VML
5 3 (0.59%) Django
5 3 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (0.59%) RESTful
6 2 (0.39%) Drools
6 2 (0.39%) Kafka
6 2 (0.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.95%) Product Ownership
2 20 (3.93%) Fixed Income
3 18 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.54%) Derivative
3 18 (3.54%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.14%) Data Structures
5 15 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.75%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (2.16%) Market Risk
10 10 (1.96%) Reinsurance
11 9 (1.77%) CMDB
12 8 (1.57%) Credit Risk
13 6 (1.18%) AI Agents
14 5 (0.98%) Life Science
14 5 (0.98%) Reference Data
15 4 (0.79%) Equities
15 4 (0.79%) NHS
15 4 (0.79%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.39%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Android
2 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (41.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 203 (39.88%) Agile
3 151 (29.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 132 (25.93%) User Stories
5 128 (25.15%) User Acceptance Testing
6 116 (22.79%) Workshop Facilitation
7 106 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (19.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 90 (17.68%) Acceptance Criteria
10 88 (17.29%) AI
11 68 (13.36%) Validation
12 64 (12.57%) Analytics
13 63 (12.38%) Migration
14 62 (12.18%) Decision-Making
15 61 (11.98%) Project Delivery
16 59 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (11.39%) Project Management
18 57 (11.20%) Process Improvement
19 54 (10.61%) Scrum
20 52 (10.22%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 87 (17.09%) SQL
2 36 (7.07%) Python
3 9 (1.77%) Java
4 8 (1.57%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.18%) C#
5 6 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (0.98%) VBA
7 4 (0.79%) Korn
8 3 (0.59%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.59%) R
9 1 (0.20%) C++
9 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.20%) Ruby
9 1 (0.20%) SOQL
9 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 62 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 53 (10.41%) Degree
4 15 (2.95%) IIBA
5 12 (2.36%) PMI Certification
6 10 (1.96%) CBAP
6 10 (1.96%) PMP
7 8 (1.57%) FFIEC
7 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.18%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.98%) CSPO
9 5 (0.98%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.79%) ISEB
10 4 (0.79%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.39%) CISSP
12 2 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.72%) QA
3 15 (2.95%) PMO
4 14 (2.75%) GDPR
4 14 (2.75%) NIST
5 9 (1.77%) COBIT
5 9 (1.77%) ISO 20022
6 8 (1.57%) GRC
6 8 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.18%) EMIR
9 5 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.59%) GxP
10 3 (0.59%) MiFID
10 3 (0.59%) SEPA
10 3 (0.59%) SLA
10 3 (0.59%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.39%) Basel III
11 2 (0.39%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (0.79%) Docker
3 3 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) RACF
4 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (0.98%) SCCM
2 2 (0.39%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) Control-M
3 1 (0.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 74 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.11%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.34%) Oracle
3 17 (3.34%) SAP
3 17 (3.34%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.36%) Murex
5 11 (2.16%) Databricks
6 5 (0.98%) Bloomberg
6 5 (0.98%) CyberArk
6 5 (0.98%) Workday
7 4 (0.79%) IBM
8 3 (0.59%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.59%) Charles River
8 3 (0.59%) Google
8 3 (0.59%) LexisNexis
8 3 (0.59%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.59%) Pega
8 3 (0.59%) PeopleSoft
8 3 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.39%) Duck Creek