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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 97 108
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 -19
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 420 354 393
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.40% 2.78% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 3.02% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 240 279
10th Percentile £377 £405 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £675
90th Percentile £785 £825 £763
England median daily rate £500 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -6.54% -0.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
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 £34.38 £66.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -47.92% -5.71% +11.55%

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 15,557 11,724 15,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.03% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,420 7,969 11,310
10th Percentile £355 £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 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 170 331
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.66 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £23.05 £19.96
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +19.22% -25.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -7 75 £563 -6.25% 30
South London -10 4 £450 -5.26% 2
West London -23 3 £523 +54.81% 13
East London -3 2 £625 -7.41% 13
North London +1 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 48 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (9.52%) MS Visio
3 38 (9.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.71%) Notion
6 3 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (3.10%) Loan IQ
2 11 (2.62%) Endur
3 6 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.95%) Actimize
4 4 (0.95%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.95%) 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%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.24%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (14.76%) Power Platform
2 28 (6.67%) Azure
3 13 (3.10%) AWS
4 12 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (2.62%) Power Automate
6 9 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (2.14%) PowerApps
7 8 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.19%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (1.19%) SaaS
10 4 (0.95%) Figma
10 4 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (0.95%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.71%) ChatGPT
11 3 (0.71%) dbt
11 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
11 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 51 (12.14%) Power BI
2 18 (4.29%) Tableau
3 9 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.67%) Metadata
5 5 (1.19%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.71%) Power Query
7 2 (0.48%) Big Data
7 2 (0.48%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.48%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.24%) Data Mart
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%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 62 (14.76%) JIRA
2 4 (0.95%) 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%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.48%) Selenium
3 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.24%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.24%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.24%) Git
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%) WinAutomation
General
1 206 (49.05%) Finance
2 190 (45.24%) Social Skills
3 98 (23.33%) Banking
4 91 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (9.29%) Presentation Skills
6 38 (9.05%) Front Office
7 37 (8.81%) Investment Banking
8 35 (8.33%) Public Sector
9 29 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (5.00%) Retail
12 19 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (4.05%) Financial Institution
13 17 (4.05%) Legal
14 9 (2.14%) Back Office
15 8 (1.90%) Marketing
16 7 (1.67%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.95%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 310 (73.81%) Analyst
2 284 (67.62%) Business Analyst
3 56 (13.33%) Senior
4 49 (11.67%) Senior Analyst
5 45 (10.71%) Senior Business Analyst
6 20 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
7 19 (4.52%) Migration Analyst
8 18 (4.29%) Banking Business Analyst
8 18 (4.29%) Data Business Analyst
8 18 (4.29%) Technical Business Analyst
8 18 (4.29%) Transformation Analyst
9 17 (4.05%) Lead
9 17 (4.05%) Technical Analyst
10 15 (3.57%) Developer
11 14 (3.33%) Financial Analyst
11 14 (3.33%) Project Manager
12 13 (3.10%) Data Analyst
12 13 (3.10%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
13 12 (2.86%) Finance Business Analyst
13 12 (2.86%) Product 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 59 (14.05%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (3.10%) Fixed Income
4 11 (2.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (2.62%) PMI
5 10 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.38%) Tandem
6 9 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.14%) Credit Risk
6 9 (2.14%) Derivative
7 8 (1.90%) CMDB
7 8 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
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%) 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
1 196 (46.67%) Agile
2 156 (37.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 116 (27.62%) User Stories
4 102 (24.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 100 (23.81%) Workshop Facilitation
6 91 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (20.95%) User Acceptance Testing
8 78 (18.57%) Project Management
9 73 (17.38%) Acceptance Criteria
10 72 (17.14%) Migration
11 69 (16.43%) Project Delivery
12 59 (14.05%) Data Modelling
12 59 (14.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 57 (13.57%) GAP Analysis
14 56 (13.33%) Decision-Making
15 53 (12.62%) AI
15 53 (12.62%) Use Case
16 52 (12.38%) Business Intelligence
17 51 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (12.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 67 (15.95%) SQL
2 28 (6.67%) Python
3 7 (1.67%) C#
3 7 (1.67%) Java
4 5 (1.19%) VBA
5 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.71%) R
6 2 (0.48%) Korn
6 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.24%) ABAP
7 1 (0.24%) C++
7 1 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.24%) Perl
7 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.24%) SOQL
7 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.67%) Degree
3 47 (11.19%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.43%) CBAP
5 22 (5.24%) 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
10 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.71%) CFA
10 3 (0.71%) ISEB
10 3 (0.71%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.48%) FFIEC
11 2 (0.48%) PMP
12 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.33%) QA
2 33 (7.86%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.86%) PMO
4 10 (2.38%) GDPR
5 9 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.43%) MiFID
7 5 (1.19%) GRC
7 5 (1.19%) ISO 20022
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 64 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.48%) Salesforce
3 18 (4.29%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.86%) Murex
4 12 (2.86%) Oracle
5 11 (2.62%) SAP
6 6 (1.43%) Databricks
7 5 (1.19%) Avaloq
8 4 (0.95%) Bloomberg
8 4 (0.95%) Calypso
8 4 (0.95%) Sparx
9 3 (0.71%) BT
9 3 (0.71%) IBM
9 3 (0.71%) OpenLink
9 3 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (0.71%) Temenos
10 2 (0.48%) Adobe
10 2 (0.48%) Charles River
10 2 (0.48%) Google
10 2 (0.48%) Pega