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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 108 89
Rank change year-on-year 0 -19 -7
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 419 324 442
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.56% 2.52% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 2.76% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 221 316
10th Percentile £369 £400 £413
25th Percentile £447 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £738 £678
90th Percentile £800 £825 £763
England median daily rate £500 £536 £538
% change year-on-year -6.76% -0.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £79.38
25th Percentile £53.25 - £82.94
Median hourly rate £54.50 £75.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.33% -11.76% +73.47%
75th Percentile £55.75 - £86.50
90th Percentile - - £86.60
England median hourly rate £58.94 £66.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -10.70% -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 14,705 11,729 16,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.08% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,847 11,501
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 163 342
10th Percentile £18.11 £20.09 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.89 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +19.00% -17.37%
75th Percentile £57.00 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £72.00 £77.00 £69.43
England median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%

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 17 March 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
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 17 March 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 +5 82 £550 -8.33% 35
South London -15 4 £450 -6.49% 1
West London -20 3 £599 +105.58% 15
North London 0 1 £500 -9.09% 1
East London -4 1 £700 +15.23% 11
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 (9.79%) Confluence
2 14 (3.34%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (0.72%) SAS
4 1 (0.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 48 (11.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (9.07%) MS Visio
3 36 (8.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (6.21%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (3.10%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.72%) Notion
6 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.48%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.48%) Sketch
8 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (3.82%) Endur
2 13 (3.10%) Loan IQ
3 6 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.72%) Actimize
5 3 (0.72%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.72%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.24%) iTrent
7 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.24%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (15.04%) Power Platform
2 36 (8.59%) Azure
3 18 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (2.86%) Power Automate
5 11 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.63%) PowerApps
6 9 (2.15%) AWS
6 9 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (1.67%) SaaS
8 6 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.19%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.95%) dbt
10 4 (0.95%) Figma
10 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.72%) ChatGPT
11 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (0.72%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) Broadband
1 2 (0.48%) Firewall
1 2 (0.48%) Internet
1 2 (0.48%) NAS
2 1 (0.24%) HTTP
2 1 (0.24%) IPsec
2 1 (0.24%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.24%) LAN
2 1 (0.24%) Network Security
2 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
2 1 (0.24%) VPN
2 1 (0.24%) WAN
2 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (12.41%) Power BI
2 19 (4.53%) Tableau
3 8 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.91%) Metadata
4 4 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.72%) Power Query
5 3 (0.72%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.48%) Big Data
6 2 (0.48%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.48%) Looker
6 2 (0.48%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.48%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 68 (16.23%) JIRA
2 4 (0.95%) ERwin
3 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
3 3 (0.72%) Selenium
3 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.48%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.48%) Git
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.48%) Postman
4 2 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.24%) Ant
5 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.24%) JUnit
5 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.24%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.24%) WinAutomation
General
1 201 (47.97%) Finance
2 190 (45.35%) Social Skills
3 97 (23.15%) Banking
4 88 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (10.50%) Public Sector
6 39 (9.31%) Investment Banking
7 33 (7.88%) Front Office
8 31 (7.40%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (6.92%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (4.30%) Legal
13 12 (2.86%) Back Office
13 12 (2.86%) Retail
14 10 (2.39%) Financial Institution
15 9 (2.15%) Marketing
16 8 (1.91%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 6 (1.43%) Local Government
19 3 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 310 (73.99%) Analyst
2 279 (66.59%) Business Analyst
3 54 (12.89%) Senior
4 46 (10.98%) Senior Analyst
5 42 (10.02%) Senior Business Analyst
6 21 (5.01%) Banking Analyst
7 19 (4.53%) Banking Business Analyst
7 19 (4.53%) Technical Analyst
8 18 (4.30%) Migration Analyst
8 18 (4.30%) Technical Business Analyst
9 17 (4.06%) Developer
10 16 (3.82%) Data Business Analyst
10 16 (3.82%) Transformation Analyst
11 14 (3.34%) Lead
11 14 (3.34%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
12 13 (3.10%) Business IT Analyst
12 13 (3.10%) Financial Analyst
12 13 (3.10%) IT Analyst
12 13 (3.10%) IT Business Analyst
12 13 (3.10%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.63%) XML
2 6 (1.43%) .NET
2 6 (1.43%) REST
3 5 (1.19%) VML
4 4 (0.95%) Pandas
4 4 (0.95%) PySpark
5 3 (0.72%) ADO
5 3 (0.72%) JSON
5 3 (0.72%) Middleware
5 3 (0.72%) OAuth
6 2 (0.48%) Kafka
6 2 (0.48%) SAML
6 2 (0.48%) SOAP
7 1 (0.24%) EDI
7 1 (0.24%) FpML
7 1 (0.24%) NumPy
7 1 (0.24%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.24%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.24%) Spring
7 1 (0.24%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.17%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (3.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (3.58%) PMI
4 10 (2.39%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.39%) Renewable Energy
4 10 (2.39%) Tandem
5 9 (2.15%) Credit Risk
5 9 (2.15%) Fixed Income
5 9 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.15%) Reinsurance
6 8 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.91%) CMDB
6 8 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (1.43%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.19%) Derivative
9 5 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.72%) Linux
2 2 (0.48%) Windows
3 1 (0.24%) AIX
3 1 (0.24%) Android
3 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (47.49%) Agile
2 150 (35.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 118 (28.16%) Requirements Gathering
4 107 (25.54%) User Stories
5 102 (24.34%) Workshop Facilitation
6 95 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (21.72%) User Acceptance Testing
8 82 (19.57%) Project Management
9 76 (18.14%) Migration
9 76 (18.14%) Project Delivery
10 75 (17.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 62 (14.80%) Acceptance Criteria
12 61 (14.56%) Data Modelling
13 59 (14.08%) GAP Analysis
14 58 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 57 (13.60%) Waterfall
16 54 (12.89%) Use Case
17 52 (12.41%) Decision-Making
18 50 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
19 46 (10.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 65 (15.51%) SQL
2 28 (6.68%) Python
3 11 (2.63%) Java
4 9 (2.15%) C#
5 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.72%) VBA
7 2 (0.48%) Korn
7 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.24%) ABAP
8 1 (0.24%) C++
8 1 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.24%) Perl
8 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.24%) R
8 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.24%) SOQL
8 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (14.32%) Degree
2 58 (13.84%) Security Cleared
3 54 (12.89%) SC Cleared
4 32 (7.64%) CBAP
5 22 (5.25%) IIBA
5 22 (5.25%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.91%) ISEB
6 8 (1.91%) PMP
7 7 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.72%) CFA
9 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.72%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.48%) FFIEC
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.31%) QA
2 33 (7.88%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.63%) GDPR
4 10 (2.39%) PMO
5 9 (2.15%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.91%) NIST
7 7 (1.67%) MiFID
8 6 (1.43%) GRC
8 6 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.19%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.95%) EMIR
10 4 (0.95%) SLA
11 3 (0.72%) PSD2
11 3 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.48%) COBIT
12 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.48%) SEPA
12 2 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.24%) RACF
1 1 (0.24%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.19%) SCCM
2 4 (0.95%) Terraform
3 1 (0.24%) Control-M
3 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.24%) logstash
3 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.49%) Salesforce
3 17 (4.06%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.58%) Oracle
5 14 (3.34%) Murex
6 12 (2.86%) SAP
7 5 (1.19%) Avaloq
7 5 (1.19%) OpenLink
8 4 (0.95%) Bloomberg
8 4 (0.95%) Databricks
8 4 (0.95%) Sparx
9 3 (0.72%) Adobe
9 3 (0.72%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.72%) BT
9 3 (0.72%) Google
9 3 (0.72%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.72%) IBM
9 3 (0.72%) Temenos
10 2 (0.48%) Calypso
10 2 (0.48%) Pega