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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 82 110
Rank change year-on-year -40 +28 -19
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 436 414 406
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.31% 3.35% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 3.63% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 282 277
10th Percentile £374 £410 £406
25th Percentile £450 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £559
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.33% -4.85%
75th Percentile £664 £738 £675
90th Percentile £756 £790 £768
England median daily rate £500 £539 £530
% change year-on-year -7.15% +1.65% -3.64%
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% -1.16%
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 16,795 11,414 15,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.28% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,181 7,654 11,105
10th Percentile £360 £343 £343
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 205 313
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +13.33% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
% change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -34 63 £575 -4.17% 10
West London -11 11 £285 -15.56% 13
East London -1 2 £625 +15.74% 12
South London -11 1 £450 -5.26%
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 (8.26%) Confluence
2 15 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.15%) SAS
4 4 (0.92%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (8.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (6.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 29 (6.65%) MS Visio
3 25 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.06%) Loan IQ
2 5 (1.15%) Actimize
2 5 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.15%) Endur
3 4 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.69%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (0.69%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.46%) Summit
6 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.23%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.23%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (10.32%) Power Platform
2 33 (7.57%) Azure
3 17 (3.90%) AWS
4 9 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (1.83%) SaaS
6 7 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.15%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (0.92%) Collibra
9 4 (0.92%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.69%) Figma
10 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.69%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.46%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) Network Security
2 2 (0.46%) Broadband
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
2 2 (0.46%) Internet
3 1 (0.23%) IPsec
3 1 (0.23%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.23%) SSL
3 1 (0.23%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.94%) Power BI
2 15 (3.44%) Tableau
3 13 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.15%) Metadata
4 5 (1.15%) Power Query
5 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.69%) Data Mart
6 3 (0.69%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.46%) QlikView
7 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.23%) KDB
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (12.61%) JIRA
2 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.46%) Git
2 2 (0.46%) Moq
2 2 (0.46%) Postman
3 1 (0.23%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.23%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.23%) Mocha
3 1 (0.23%) MSTest
3 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.23%) Selenium
3 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.23%) TestNG
3 1 (0.23%) tSQLt
3 1 (0.23%) WinAutomation
General
1 207 (47.48%) Finance
2 187 (42.89%) Social Skills
3 99 (22.71%) Banking
4 95 (21.79%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (9.17%) Front Office
6 35 (8.03%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (7.57%) Investment Banking
7 33 (7.57%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (7.11%) Public Sector
9 30 (6.88%) Legal
10 24 (5.50%) Retail
11 20 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (3.90%) Financial Institution
14 9 (2.06%) Marketing
15 6 (1.38%) Back Office
16 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
17 4 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 310 (71.10%) Analyst
2 290 (66.51%) Business Analyst
3 62 (14.22%) Senior
4 52 (11.93%) Senior Analyst
5 48 (11.01%) Senior Business Analyst
6 23 (5.28%) Banking Analyst
7 22 (5.05%) Banking Business Analyst
8 19 (4.36%) Lead
8 19 (4.36%) Technical Business Analyst
9 18 (4.13%) Consultant
9 18 (4.13%) Technical Analyst
10 17 (3.90%) Data Business Analyst
11 15 (3.44%) Project Manager
12 13 (2.98%) Insurance Business Analyst
12 13 (2.98%) Risk Business Analyst
12 13 (2.98%) Transformation Analyst
13 12 (2.75%) Developer
13 12 (2.75%) Product Analyst
13 12 (2.75%) Risk Analyst
14 11 (2.52%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.83%) Pandas
1 8 (1.83%) VML
2 5 (1.15%) .NET
2 5 (1.15%) NumPy
3 4 (0.92%) Middleware
3 4 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.92%) SailPoint
4 3 (0.69%) ADO
4 3 (0.69%) CSS
4 3 (0.69%) HTML
4 3 (0.69%) JSON
4 3 (0.69%) REST
5 2 (0.46%) Django
5 2 (0.46%) OAuth
5 2 (0.46%) PySpark
5 2 (0.46%) Web Services
5 2 (0.46%) XML
6 1 (0.23%) pytest
6 1 (0.23%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 55 (12.61%) Product Ownership
2 20 (4.59%) Fixed Income
3 18 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (3.44%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (2.98%) Derivative
6 12 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.06%) CMDB
8 9 (2.06%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.06%) PMI
8 9 (2.06%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.83%) Credit Risk
9 8 (1.83%) Market Risk
10 7 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.38%) Tandem
12 5 (1.15%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.15%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.69%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.23%) Android
1 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (41.06%) Agile
2 162 (37.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 116 (26.61%) Requirements Gathering
4 110 (25.23%) User Stories
5 98 (22.48%) Workshop Facilitation
6 95 (21.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 91 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (18.81%) Acceptance Criteria
9 67 (15.37%) Project Management
10 64 (14.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 61 (13.99%) AI
12 60 (13.76%) Validation
13 58 (13.30%) Migration
14 56 (12.84%) Project Delivery
15 54 (12.39%) Decision-Making
15 54 (12.39%) Use Case
16 51 (11.70%) Data Modelling
17 49 (11.24%) Data Analysis
18 48 (11.01%) Waterfall
19 46 (10.55%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 71 (16.28%) SQL
2 35 (8.03%) Python
3 6 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (1.38%) VBA
4 5 (1.15%) Java
5 4 (0.92%) C#
6 3 (0.69%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.69%) R
7 2 (0.46%) Korn
8 1 (0.23%) SOQL
8 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.47%) SC Cleared
3 46 (10.55%) Degree
4 19 (4.36%) CBAP
5 17 (3.90%) IIBA
6 11 (2.52%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.83%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.15%) CSPO
9 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.92%) FFIEC
9 4 (0.92%) ISEB
10 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.69%) PMP
11 2 (0.46%) CFA
11 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.11%) QA
3 13 (2.98%) GDPR
4 11 (2.52%) PMO
5 10 (2.29%) ISO 20022
6 9 (2.06%) GRC
7 8 (1.83%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.83%) NIST
8 6 (1.38%) EMIR
8 6 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.15%) COBIT
10 4 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.69%) MiFID
11 3 (0.69%) SLA
11 3 (0.69%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.46%) GxP
12 2 (0.46%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.46%) PSD2
12 2 (0.46%) SEPA
12 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.46%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) RACF
3 1 (0.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.15%) SCCM
2 3 (0.69%) Terraform
3 2 (0.46%) Control-M
4 1 (0.23%) logstash
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 57 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.05%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.90%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.44%) Murex
5 14 (3.21%) Oracle
6 12 (2.75%) SAP
7 10 (2.29%) Databricks
8 6 (1.38%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.92%) Avaloq
9 4 (0.92%) OpenLink
9 4 (0.92%) Workday
10 3 (0.69%) BT
10 3 (0.69%) Calypso
10 3 (0.69%) LexisNexis
10 3 (0.69%) Pega
10 3 (0.69%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.46%) Charles River
11 2 (0.46%) Google
11 2 (0.46%) IBM