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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 91 112
Rank change year-on-year -17 +21 -23
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 579 432 378
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.85% 3.20% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 3.46% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 280 234
10th Percentile £380 £409 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £700
90th Percentile £738 £788 £821
England median daily rate £525 £533 £536
% change year-on-year -1.41% -0.70% -2.50%
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 £55.00 £78.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.16% +85.29% -43.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £84.06 £43.75
90th Percentile - £86.88 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £75.40
% change year-on-year -21.43% -7.16% +60.50%

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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -37 58 £544 -12.30% 39
West London -10 12 £443 -11.50% 23
North London +1 4 £550 +25.00% 4
East London - 3 £550 - 7
South London - 1 £650 - 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 56 (9.67%) Confluence
2 25 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.86%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.52%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 33 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.49%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 17 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.86%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.86%) Endur
2 5 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.52%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.35%) Actimize
5 2 (0.35%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.35%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.35%) Summit
6 1 (0.17%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 64 (11.05%) Power Platform
2 58 (10.02%) Azure
3 31 (5.35%) Dynamics 365
4 23 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (3.80%) AWS
6 20 (3.45%) SaaS
7 16 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (2.76%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.59%) PowerApps
9 11 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.38%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.21%) GitHub
11 7 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (1.04%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.04%) GCP
13 5 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (0.86%) OCI
13 5 (0.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 5 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.86%) Network Security
2 1 (0.17%) DNS
2 1 (0.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.17%) SSL
2 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.43%) Power BI
2 19 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.07%) Metadata
4 7 (1.21%) Tableau
5 6 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.86%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.69%) Power Query
7 4 (0.69%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.52%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.52%) QlikView
9 2 (0.35%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.35%) Parquet
9 2 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (12.26%) JIRA
2 7 (1.21%) Git
3 3 (0.52%) Mocha
4 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.35%) GitLab
4 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.35%) Moq
4 2 (0.35%) Postman
5 1 (0.17%) Capybara
5 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.17%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.17%) MSTest
5 1 (0.17%) RSpec
5 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.17%) tSQLt
General
1 283 (48.88%) Finance
2 233 (40.24%) Social Skills
3 156 (26.94%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (22.11%) Banking
5 59 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 46 (7.94%) Front Office
7 44 (7.60%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (6.39%) Investment Banking
9 32 (5.53%) Legal
10 26 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (3.97%) Local Government
11 23 (3.97%) Retail
12 19 (3.28%) Financial Institution
13 17 (2.94%) Marketing
14 13 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.90%) Back Office
15 11 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.73%) General Ledger
17 8 (1.38%) Law
18 7 (1.21%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 392 (67.70%) Analyst
2 367 (63.39%) Business Analyst
3 90 (15.54%) Senior
4 67 (11.57%) Senior Analyst
5 63 (10.88%) Senior Business Analyst
6 30 (5.18%) Lead
7 29 (5.01%) Consultant
8 25 (4.32%) Finance Business Analyst
8 25 (4.32%) Financial Analyst
9 24 (4.15%) Data Business Analyst
9 24 (4.15%) Technical Analyst
10 23 (3.97%) Technical Business Analyst
11 22 (3.80%) Banking Analyst
11 22 (3.80%) Banking Business Analyst
12 21 (3.63%) Data Analyst
13 16 (2.76%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.59%) Insurance Business Analyst
14 15 (2.59%) Risk Business Analyst
14 15 (2.59%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
15 14 (2.42%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.38%) JSON
2 7 (1.21%) ADO
2 7 (1.21%) CSS
2 7 (1.21%) HTML
2 7 (1.21%) OAuth
2 7 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (1.04%) .NET
3 6 (1.04%) Middleware
3 6 (1.04%) REST
3 6 (1.04%) SailPoint
3 6 (1.04%) XML
4 5 (0.86%) RESTful
4 5 (0.86%) Terraform
5 4 (0.69%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (0.69%) NumPy
5 4 (0.69%) Pandas
5 4 (0.69%) VML
6 3 (0.52%) Django
6 3 (0.52%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (0.35%) Drools
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.47%) Product Ownership
2 30 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 27 (4.66%) Analytical Mindset
4 26 (4.49%) Derivative
5 20 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 19 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (3.28%) Fixed Income
7 17 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.76%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.59%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.07%) Credit Risk
10 12 (2.07%) Market Risk
11 10 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.38%) Cloud Native
12 8 (1.38%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.21%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.04%) Equities
14 6 (1.04%) Life Science
15 5 (0.86%) CMDB
15 5 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (45.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 238 (41.11%) Agile
3 202 (34.89%) Requirements Gathering
4 157 (27.12%) Workshop Facilitation
5 154 (26.60%) User Stories
6 141 (24.35%) User Acceptance Testing
7 129 (22.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 111 (19.17%) AI
9 110 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (17.62%) Acceptance Criteria
11 84 (14.51%) Process Improvement
11 84 (14.51%) Validation
12 80 (13.82%) Decision-Making
12 80 (13.82%) Migration
13 75 (12.95%) Project Delivery
14 68 (11.74%) Scrum
15 66 (11.40%) Analytics
16 65 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (10.36%) Data Analysis
18 59 (10.19%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 107 (18.48%) SQL
2 37 (6.39%) Python
3 13 (2.25%) JavaScript
4 8 (1.38%) C#
5 7 (1.21%) Java
6 6 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.04%) Korn
7 5 (0.86%) VBA
8 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.52%) R
10 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.17%) Bash
11 1 (0.17%) Bicep
11 1 (0.17%) C++
11 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.17%) Ruby
11 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 84 (14.51%) Security Cleared
2 72 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.88%) Degree
4 20 (3.45%) IIBA
5 13 (2.25%) PMI Certification
5 13 (2.25%) PMP
6 12 (2.07%) CBAP
7 9 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.38%) FFIEC
9 7 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.04%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.86%) ACCA
11 5 (0.86%) CIMA
11 5 (0.86%) CSPO
11 5 (0.86%) ISEB
12 4 (0.69%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.52%) CISM
13 3 (0.52%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.53%) QA
3 15 (2.59%) GDPR
3 15 (2.59%) PMO
4 14 (2.42%) NIST
5 10 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.55%) COBIT
6 9 (1.55%) ISO 20022
7 8 (1.38%) GRC
7 8 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.21%) EMIR
9 6 (1.04%) IFRS
10 4 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.69%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.69%) MiFID
11 3 (0.52%) GxP
11 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.52%) WCAG
12 2 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.04%) Docker
1 6 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.35%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.17%) Control-M
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 95 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.32%) Salesforce
3 24 (4.15%) Oracle
4 21 (3.63%) Murex
4 21 (3.63%) SAP
5 13 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.73%) Bloomberg
7 9 (1.55%) Databricks
8 5 (0.86%) CyberArk
9 4 (0.69%) Google
9 4 (0.69%) Workday
10 3 (0.52%) Ariba
10 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.52%) Charles River
10 3 (0.52%) IBM
10 3 (0.52%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.52%) PeopleSoft
11 2 (0.35%) Adobe
11 2 (0.35%) Calypso
11 2 (0.35%) Citrix