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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 94 109
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 -21
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 420 353 400
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.37% 2.81% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 3.05% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 239 282
10th Percentile £366 £408 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £747 £675
90th Percentile £775 £825 £750
England median daily rate £500 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £31.45 - -
25th Percentile £31.75 - £83.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £85.00
75th Percentile £44.25 - £86.50
90th Percentile £51.15 - -
England median hourly rate £33.44 £63.00 £72.70
% change year-on-year -46.92% -13.34% +15.85%

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 15,684 11,567 15,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.64% 92.16% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,506 7,851 11,317
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -4 72 £575 -4.17% 26
West London -22 4 £404 +19.63% 15
South London -14 3 £450 -5.26% 3
East London -4 2 £625 -7.41% 12
North London 0 1 £500 -9.09% 2
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 (9.76%) Confluence
2 16 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.95%) Jupyter
3 4 (0.95%) SAS
4 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (9.29%) MS Visio
3 37 (8.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.71%) Notion
7 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.33%) Loan IQ
2 10 (2.38%) Endur
3 6 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.95%) Actimize
4 4 (0.95%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.71%) 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%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.24%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 27 (6.43%) Azure
3 13 (3.10%) AWS
4 12 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.38%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (1.90%) PowerApps
9 7 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.43%) SaaS
11 5 (1.19%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (0.95%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.71%) ChatGPT
13 3 (0.71%) dbt
13 3 (0.71%) Figma
13 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
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%) Network Security
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
2 1 (0.24%) VPN
2 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.67%) Power BI
2 17 (4.05%) Tableau
3 9 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.67%) Metadata
5 5 (1.19%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.71%) Power Query
7 2 (0.48%) Big Data
7 2 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.48%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.24%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.24%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 62 (14.76%) JIRA
2 3 (0.71%) ERwin
3 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.48%) Selenium
4 1 (0.24%) Ant
4 1 (0.24%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.24%) Git
4 1 (0.24%) Hudson
4 1 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.24%) Postman
4 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.24%) TestNG
4 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.24%) WinAutomation
General
1 210 (50.00%) Finance
2 192 (45.71%) Social Skills
3 98 (23.33%) Banking
4 94 (22.38%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (9.05%) Presentation Skills
6 37 (8.81%) Front Office
6 37 (8.81%) Investment Banking
7 34 (8.10%) Public Sector
8 31 (7.38%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (5.48%) Retail
11 19 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (4.29%) Financial Institution
12 18 (4.29%) Legal
13 9 (2.14%) Back Office
14 8 (1.90%) Marketing
15 7 (1.67%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (1.19%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.95%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 312 (74.29%) Analyst
2 288 (68.57%) Business Analyst
3 54 (12.86%) Senior
4 48 (11.43%) Senior Analyst
5 43 (10.24%) Senior Business Analyst
6 19 (4.52%) Banking Analyst
6 19 (4.52%) Migration Analyst
7 18 (4.29%) Lead
8 17 (4.05%) Banking Business Analyst
8 17 (4.05%) Technical Business Analyst
8 17 (4.05%) Transformation Analyst
9 16 (3.81%) Data Business Analyst
9 16 (3.81%) Technical Analyst
10 15 (3.57%) Financial Analyst
11 14 (3.33%) Developer
11 14 (3.33%) Project Manager
12 13 (3.10%) Consultant
12 13 (3.10%) Finance Business Analyst
12 13 (3.10%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
13 12 (2.86%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.14%) VML
2 8 (1.90%) Pandas
3 6 (1.43%) XML
4 5 (1.19%) NumPy
5 4 (0.95%) Middleware
6 3 (0.71%) .NET
6 3 (0.71%) ADO
6 3 (0.71%) JSON
6 3 (0.71%) OAuth
6 3 (0.71%) PySpark
6 3 (0.71%) REST
7 2 (0.48%) Kafka
7 2 (0.48%) SAML
7 2 (0.48%) SOAP
8 1 (0.24%) FpML
8 1 (0.24%) Murex MxML
8 1 (0.24%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.24%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.24%) Spring
8 1 (0.24%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.10%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.33%) Fixed Income
4 11 (2.62%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (2.62%) PMI
5 10 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.38%) Tandem
6 9 (2.14%) Credit Risk
6 9 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.90%) CMDB
7 8 (1.90%) Derivative
7 8 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.67%) Reference Data
8 7 (1.67%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.19%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.19%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) AIX
2 1 (0.24%) Android
2 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (46.19%) Agile
2 158 (37.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 119 (28.33%) User Stories
4 102 (24.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 100 (23.81%) Workshop Facilitation
6 94 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
8 77 (18.33%) Project Management
9 75 (17.86%) Acceptance Criteria
10 72 (17.14%) Migration
11 68 (16.19%) Project Delivery
12 59 (14.05%) Data Modelling
13 58 (13.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 56 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
15 55 (13.10%) AI
15 55 (13.10%) Decision-Making
16 54 (12.86%) Use Case
17 53 (12.62%) Waterfall
18 50 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
19 49 (11.67%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 68 (16.19%) SQL
2 28 (6.67%) Python
3 7 (1.67%) Java
4 6 (1.43%) C#
5 4 (0.95%) VBA
6 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.71%) R
7 2 (0.48%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.48%) Korn
7 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.24%) ABAP
8 1 (0.24%) C++
8 1 (0.24%) Perl
8 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.24%) SOQL
8 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.90%) Degree
3 47 (11.19%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.43%) CBAP
5 21 (5.00%) IIBA
6 13 (3.10%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.19%) CSPO
9 4 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.95%) ISEB
9 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.71%) CFA
10 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.71%) PMP
11 2 (0.48%) FFIEC
12 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.33%) QA
2 34 (8.10%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.62%) PMO
4 10 (2.38%) GDPR
5 8 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.43%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.43%) MiFID
7 5 (1.19%) GRC
7 5 (1.19%) SLA
8 4 (0.95%) EMIR
8 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.95%) NIST
8 4 (0.95%) PSD2
9 3 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.48%) Basel III
10 2 (0.48%) COBIT
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.48%) SEPA
10 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.24%) RACF
1 1 (0.24%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (1.19%) SCCM
2 4 (0.95%) Terraform
3 2 (0.48%) Control-M
4 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.24%) logstash
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 63 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.48%) Salesforce
3 18 (4.29%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.33%) Oracle
5 13 (3.10%) SAP
6 12 (2.86%) Murex
7 6 (1.43%) Databricks
8 5 (1.19%) Avaloq
9 4 (0.95%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.95%) Calypso
9 4 (0.95%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.71%) BT
10 3 (0.71%) IBM
10 3 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.71%) Sparx
10 3 (0.71%) Temenos
10 3 (0.71%) Workday
11 2 (0.48%) Charles River
11 2 (0.48%) Infor
11 2 (0.48%) LexisNexis