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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 128 84
Rank change year-on-year +28 -44 -7
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 428 289 503
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.92% 2.11% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 2.33% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 186 352
10th Percentile £363 £413 £409
25th Percentile £450 £470 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £561 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -2.39% -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £650
90th Percentile £813 £825 £725
England median daily rate £500 £530 £544
% change year-on-year -5.66% -2.57% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £79.38
25th Percentile - - £82.94
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +44.68%
75th Percentile - - £86.50
90th Percentile - - £86.60
England median hourly rate £77.94 £66.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +18.08% -22.35% +44.68%

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 13,335 12,405 16,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.04% 90.46% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,836 7,879 11,756
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 155 323
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.08 £24.66 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +16.67% -19.40%
75th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.20 £79.50 £72.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.92%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -3 81 £550 -8.33% 31
West London -12 7 £500 +104.08% 12
South London -6 3 - - 2
North London +5 1 £500 -9.09% 1
East London -5 1 £700 +9.80% 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 30 (7.01%) Confluence
2 8 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 45 (10.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (7.71%) MS Visio
3 30 (7.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.70%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.70%) Notion
6 3 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.47%) Sketch
8 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (4.44%) Endur
2 13 (3.04%) Loan IQ
3 9 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (1.87%) SAP WM
5 7 (1.64%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.93%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.70%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.47%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.47%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
9 1 (0.23%) iTrent
9 1 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (14.49%) Power Platform
2 37 (8.64%) Azure
3 18 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (3.04%) AWS
5 12 (2.80%) Power Automate
6 11 (2.57%) PowerApps
7 10 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (2.10%) SaaS
9 7 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.40%) dbt
11 5 (1.17%) GCP
11 5 (1.17%) Lucidchart
11 5 (1.17%) Miro
12 4 (0.93%) Figma
12 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (0.70%) ChatGPT
13 3 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
14 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) Broadband
1 2 (0.47%) Internet
1 2 (0.47%) Intranet
1 2 (0.47%) NAS
2 1 (0.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) LAN
2 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (12.15%) Power BI
2 10 (2.34%) Tableau
3 9 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.40%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.40%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.17%) Metadata
6 4 (0.93%) Power Query
7 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.70%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.47%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.47%) Redis
9 1 (0.23%) KNIME
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 52 (12.15%) JIRA
2 4 (0.93%) ERwin
3 3 (0.70%) Cucumber
3 3 (0.70%) Postman
3 3 (0.70%) Selenium
3 3 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.47%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.47%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.47%) Git
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.47%) webpack
5 1 (0.23%) Ant
5 1 (0.23%) Hudson
5 1 (0.23%) JUnit
5 1 (0.23%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.23%) TestNG
5 1 (0.23%) Toad
General
1 192 (44.86%) Finance
2 186 (43.46%) Social Skills
3 85 (19.86%) Banking
4 74 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (8.64%) Presentation Skills
6 35 (8.18%) Public Sector
7 33 (7.71%) Investment Banking
8 32 (7.48%) Front Office
9 25 (5.84%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (3.50%) Legal
13 14 (3.27%) Back Office
14 13 (3.04%) Financial Institution
14 13 (3.04%) Retail
15 12 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (2.80%) Marketing
16 8 (1.87%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.64%) Local Government
17 7 (1.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 299 (69.86%) Analyst
2 269 (62.85%) Business Analyst
3 59 (13.79%) Senior
4 47 (10.98%) Senior Analyst
5 43 (10.05%) Senior Business Analyst
6 23 (5.37%) Technical Analyst
7 21 (4.91%) Technical Business Analyst
8 20 (4.67%) Banking Analyst
8 20 (4.67%) Consultant
9 19 (4.44%) Banking Business Analyst
10 17 (3.97%) Lead
11 16 (3.74%) Developer
11 16 (3.74%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.50%) Endur Business Analyst
12 15 (3.50%) Financial Analyst
12 15 (3.50%) Migration Analyst
12 15 (3.50%) OpenLink Business Analyst
13 14 (3.27%) Data Business Analyst
13 14 (3.27%) IT Analyst
13 14 (3.27%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.57%) XML
2 9 (2.10%) .NET
3 7 (1.64%) PySpark
3 7 (1.64%) REST
4 5 (1.17%) CSS
4 5 (1.17%) HTML
4 5 (1.17%) React
4 5 (1.17%) VML
5 4 (0.93%) JSON
6 3 (0.70%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.70%) Electron
6 3 (0.70%) JNI
6 3 (0.70%) Middleware
6 3 (0.70%) Node.js
7 2 (0.47%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.47%) HTML5
7 2 (0.47%) Kafka
7 2 (0.47%) Pandas
7 2 (0.47%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.08%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
2 17 (3.97%) PMI
3 13 (3.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.80%) Renewable Energy
4 12 (2.80%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.10%) Credit Risk
6 8 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.87%) Reinsurance
6 8 (1.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 7 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.64%) Tandem
8 6 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.40%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.40%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.17%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.93%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.64%) Linux
2 4 (0.93%) Unix
3 3 (0.70%) CentOS
3 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.47%) Windows
5 1 (0.23%) AIX
5 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (47.66%) Agile
2 144 (33.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (25.47%) Requirements Gathering
4 95 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (21.26%) User Stories
6 89 (20.79%) Workshop Facilitation
7 81 (18.93%) Project Delivery
8 79 (18.46%) User Acceptance Testing
9 76 (17.76%) Project Management
10 75 (17.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 72 (16.82%) Migration
12 58 (13.55%) Data Modelling
13 56 (13.08%) GAP Analysis
14 55 (12.85%) Waterfall
15 52 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
16 51 (11.92%) Acceptance Criteria
16 51 (11.92%) Use Case
17 50 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
18 47 (10.98%) SDLC
19 46 (10.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 72 (16.82%) SQL
2 32 (7.48%) Python
3 14 (3.27%) Java
4 9 (2.10%) C#
4 9 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.93%) Perl
5 4 (0.93%) VBA
6 3 (0.70%) C
6 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.47%) Korn
7 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.23%) ABAP
8 1 (0.23%) C++
8 1 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.23%) Jython
8 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.23%) R
8 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (15.65%) Degree
2 52 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 47 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 35 (8.18%) CBAP
5 23 (5.37%) PMI Certification
6 20 (4.67%) IIBA
7 9 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.10%) ISEB
8 7 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.64%) PMP
8 7 (1.64%) SAP Certification
9 6 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.93%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.47%) CFA
12 1 (0.23%) CISSP
12 1 (0.23%) CITP
12 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.35%) QA
2 21 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.21%) GDPR
4 9 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.87%) PMO
6 7 (1.64%) MiFID
7 4 (0.93%) EMIR
7 4 (0.93%) GRC
7 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.93%) NIST
7 4 (0.93%) SLA
8 3 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.70%) PSD2
8 3 (0.70%) WCAG
9 2 (0.47%) Basel III
9 2 (0.47%) FATCA
9 2 (0.47%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.64%) Terraform
2 1 (0.23%) Control-M
2 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) logstash
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 60 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.14%) Salesforce
2 22 (5.14%) SAP
3 18 (4.21%) Oracle
4 11 (2.57%) Murex
5 10 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.40%) OpenLink
6 6 (1.40%) Workday
7 5 (1.17%) Bloomberg
8 4 (0.93%) Avaloq
8 4 (0.93%) Sparx
9 3 (0.70%) Adobe
9 3 (0.70%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.70%) BT
9 3 (0.70%) Google
9 3 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.70%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.70%) Temenos
10 2 (0.47%) IBM
10 2 (0.47%) UiPath