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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 89 106
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 -19
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 590 419 383
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.92% 3.11% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 3.36% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 271 236
10th Percentile £397 £406 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £641 £725 £691
90th Percentile £749 £788 £806
England median daily rate £525 £539 £535
% change year-on-year -2.51% +0.65% -2.73%
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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -31 62 £544 -13.00% 60
West London -14 12 £443 -11.50% 26
North London +3 4 £550 +25.00% 3
South London - 3 £596 - 4
East London - 2 £550 - 7
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 59 (10.00%) Confluence
2 21 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.85%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.51%) Apache
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 35 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.24%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 18 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.85%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.85%) Endur
4 4 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.51%) Actimize
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.51%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 2 (0.34%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.34%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.34%) Summit
7 1 (0.17%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.17%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 66 (11.19%) Power Platform
2 61 (10.34%) Azure
3 33 (5.59%) Dynamics 365
4 25 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (3.56%) AWS
6 19 (3.22%) SaaS
7 16 (2.71%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (2.54%) PowerApps
9 12 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (1.53%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.36%) GitHub
12 7 (1.19%) GCP
12 7 (1.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.02%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.02%) OCI
14 5 (0.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 5 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.85%) 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 45 (7.63%) Power BI
2 20 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.03%) Metadata
4 6 (1.02%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.02%) Tableau
5 5 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.85%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.68%) Power Query
6 4 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.51%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.51%) QlikView
8 2 (0.34%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.34%) Parquet
8 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (12.54%) JIRA
2 8 (1.36%) Git
3 3 (0.51%) GitLab
3 3 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.51%) Mocha
4 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.34%) Moq
4 2 (0.34%) 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
1 289 (48.98%) Finance
2 241 (40.85%) Social Skills
3 161 (27.29%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (22.54%) Banking
5 66 (11.19%) Public Sector
6 50 (8.47%) Front Office
7 46 (7.80%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (6.78%) Investment Banking
9 32 (5.42%) Legal
10 27 (4.58%) Local Government
10 27 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (3.90%) Retail
12 20 (3.39%) Financial Institution
13 17 (2.88%) Marketing
14 13 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.03%) General Ledger
16 11 (1.86%) Back Office
17 10 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (1.36%) Law
19 7 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 395 (66.95%) Analyst
2 373 (63.22%) Business Analyst
3 95 (16.10%) Senior
4 70 (11.86%) Senior Analyst
5 66 (11.19%) Senior Business Analyst
6 31 (5.25%) Consultant
6 31 (5.25%) Lead
7 28 (4.75%) Finance Business Analyst
7 28 (4.75%) Financial Analyst
8 26 (4.41%) Data Business Analyst
8 26 (4.41%) Technical Analyst
9 25 (4.24%) Technical Business Analyst
10 22 (3.73%) Banking Analyst
10 22 (3.73%) Banking Business Analyst
10 22 (3.73%) Data Analyst
11 16 (2.71%) Project Manager
11 16 (2.71%) Risk Business Analyst
12 15 (2.54%) Business IT Analyst
12 15 (2.54%) Insurance Business Analyst
12 15 (2.54%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.53%) JSON
2 8 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (1.19%) CSS
3 7 (1.19%) HTML
3 7 (1.19%) OAuth
4 6 (1.02%) .NET
4 6 (1.02%) ADO
4 6 (1.02%) Middleware
4 6 (1.02%) REST
4 6 (1.02%) SailPoint
4 6 (1.02%) Terraform
4 6 (1.02%) XML
5 5 (0.85%) RESTful
6 4 (0.68%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (0.68%) NumPy
6 4 (0.68%) Pandas
6 4 (0.68%) Smart Contracts
6 4 (0.68%) VML
7 3 (0.51%) Django
8 2 (0.34%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 80 (13.56%) Product Ownership
2 35 (5.93%) Onboarding
3 29 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (4.75%) Derivative
5 21 (3.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 20 (3.39%) Fixed Income
7 19 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.54%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.54%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.03%) Market Risk
11 11 (1.86%) Credit Risk
12 10 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.53%) Cloud Native
13 9 (1.53%) Reference Data
14 7 (1.19%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.19%) Equities
14 7 (1.19%) Life Science
15 5 (0.85%) CMDB
15 5 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.51%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (46.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 247 (41.86%) Agile
3 213 (36.10%) Requirements Gathering
4 166 (28.14%) Workshop Facilitation
5 160 (27.12%) User Stories
6 147 (24.92%) User Acceptance Testing
7 131 (22.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 117 (19.83%) AI
9 115 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (17.80%) Acceptance Criteria
11 90 (15.25%) Process Improvement
12 87 (14.75%) Validation
13 82 (13.90%) Decision-Making
14 81 (13.73%) Migration
15 77 (13.05%) Project Delivery
16 71 (12.03%) Scrum
17 69 (11.69%) Analytics
18 64 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
18 64 (10.85%) Data Analysis
18 64 (10.85%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 113 (19.15%) SQL
2 42 (7.12%) Python
3 13 (2.20%) JavaScript
4 9 (1.53%) C#
5 8 (1.36%) Java
6 7 (1.19%) Korn
7 6 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.68%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.68%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.68%) VBA
9 3 (0.51%) R
10 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.34%) 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%) Go
11 1 (0.17%) Ruby
11 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 84 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 65 (11.02%) Degree
4 19 (3.22%) IIBA
5 13 (2.20%) PMI Certification
5 13 (2.20%) PMP
6 12 (2.03%) CBAP
7 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.36%) FFIEC
9 7 (1.19%) ACCA
9 7 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.19%) CIMA
10 6 (1.02%) CSPO
11 5 (0.85%) ISEB
11 5 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.68%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.51%) CISM
13 3 (0.51%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.25%) QA
3 14 (2.37%) GDPR
3 14 (2.37%) PMO
4 13 (2.20%) NIST
5 11 (1.86%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.53%) COBIT
6 9 (1.53%) ISO 20022
7 8 (1.36%) IFRS
8 7 (1.19%) EMIR
9 6 (1.02%) GRC
9 6 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.68%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.68%) MiFID
12 3 (0.51%) GxP
12 3 (0.51%) WCAG
13 2 (0.34%) Basel III
13 2 (0.34%) SLA
13 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (1.19%) Docker
2 6 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (0.51%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 101 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.24%) Oracle
2 25 (4.24%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.73%) Murex
4 21 (3.56%) SAP
5 13 (2.20%) Bloomberg
6 11 (1.86%) Databricks
6 11 (1.86%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.85%) CyberArk
7 5 (0.85%) Google
7 5 (0.85%) Workday
8 3 (0.51%) Ariba
8 3 (0.51%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.51%) Calypso
8 3 (0.51%) Charles River
8 3 (0.51%) IBM
8 3 (0.51%) OpenLink
8 3 (0.51%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (0.34%) Adobe
9 2 (0.34%) Citrix