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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 87 112
Rank change year-on-year -33 +25 -22
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 414 379 397
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.33% 3.07% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 3.32% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 258 280
10th Percentile £363 £408 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £564
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.43% -6.04%
75th Percentile £650 £748 £650
90th Percentile £740 £825 £750
England median daily rate £500 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -6.54% -0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £31.45 - -
25th Percentile £31.75 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - -
75th Percentile £44.25 - -
90th Percentile £51.15 - -
England median hourly rate £34.87 £63.00 £46.87
% change year-on-year -44.65% +34.41% -27.33%

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 15,715 11,404 15,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.26% 92.24% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,518 7,710 11,153
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 175 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.45
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -13 66 £575 -4.17% 50
West London -16 9 £285 -15.56% 17
East London -5 2 £625 +2.88% 13
North London -1 1 £500 -9.09% 1
South London -14 1 £450 -5.26% 4
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 (9.90%) Confluence
2 13 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.97%) Jupyter
3 4 (0.97%) SAS
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (10.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (8.70%) MS Visio
3 35 (8.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (2.66%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.72%) Notion
7 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.38%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.69%) Endur
3 6 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.97%) Actimize
4 4 (0.97%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.72%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.48%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
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%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (13.04%) Power Platform
2 28 (6.76%) Azure
3 15 (3.62%) AWS
4 9 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (1.93%) SaaS
6 6 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (1.45%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.21%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.21%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (0.97%) ChatGPT
8 4 (0.97%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.72%) Figma
9 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (0.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) Broadband
1 2 (0.48%) Firewall
1 2 (0.48%) Internet
2 1 (0.24%) IPsec
2 1 (0.24%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.24%) NAS
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 45 (10.87%) Power BI
2 17 (4.11%) Tableau
3 8 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.93%) Metadata
4 5 (1.21%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.72%) Power Query
6 2 (0.48%) Big Data
6 2 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.48%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.24%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.24%) KDB
7 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 61 (14.73%) JIRA
2 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.48%) ERwin
2 2 (0.48%) Git
2 2 (0.48%) Moq
3 1 (0.24%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.24%) Hudson
3 1 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.24%) Selenium
3 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.24%) TestNG
3 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.24%) WinAutomation
General
1 201 (48.55%) Finance
2 185 (44.69%) Social Skills
3 94 (22.71%) Banking
4 90 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (8.94%) Presentation Skills
6 36 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 35 (8.45%) Front Office
8 34 (8.21%) Investment Banking
9 32 (7.73%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (5.56%) Retail
12 21 (5.07%) Legal
13 19 (4.59%) Financial Institution
14 17 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.93%) Back Office
16 7 (1.69%) Marketing
17 6 (1.45%) Telecoms
18 5 (1.21%) Manufacturing
19 4 (0.97%) Local Government
19 4 (0.97%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 309 (74.64%) Analyst
2 286 (69.08%) Business Analyst
3 54 (13.04%) Senior
4 48 (11.59%) Senior Analyst
5 44 (10.63%) Senior Business Analyst
6 18 (4.35%) Banking Analyst
6 18 (4.35%) Lead
6 18 (4.35%) Transformation Analyst
7 17 (4.11%) Banking Business Analyst
7 17 (4.11%) Migration Analyst
7 17 (4.11%) Technical Business Analyst
8 16 (3.86%) Data Business Analyst
8 16 (3.86%) Technical Analyst
9 15 (3.62%) Developer
10 14 (3.38%) Consultant
10 14 (3.38%) Project Manager
11 12 (2.90%) Risk Business Analyst
12 11 (2.66%) Financial Analyst
12 11 (2.66%) Risk Analyst
12 11 (2.66%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.17%) VML
2 8 (1.93%) Pandas
3 5 (1.21%) NumPy
3 5 (1.21%) XML
4 4 (0.97%) .NET
4 4 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.72%) ADO
5 3 (0.72%) JSON
5 3 (0.72%) Middleware
6 2 (0.48%) CSS
6 2 (0.48%) Django
6 2 (0.48%) HTML
6 2 (0.48%) OAuth
6 2 (0.48%) PySpark
6 2 (0.48%) REST
6 2 (0.48%) Web Services
7 1 (0.24%) JWT
7 1 (0.24%) LangChain
7 1 (0.24%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.24%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.56%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
3 16 (3.86%) Fixed Income
4 12 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.42%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.42%) PMI
5 10 (2.42%) Tandem
6 9 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.17%) CMDB
6 9 (2.17%) Credit Risk
6 9 (2.17%) Derivative
7 8 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.93%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.93%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.69%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.45%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.45%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.24%) Android
1 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (44.93%) Agile
2 157 (37.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 115 (27.78%) User Stories
4 104 (25.12%) Requirements Gathering
5 99 (23.91%) Workshop Facilitation
6 91 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (21.26%) User Acceptance Testing
8 78 (18.84%) Acceptance Criteria
9 73 (17.63%) Project Management
10 71 (17.15%) Migration
11 62 (14.98%) Project Delivery
12 60 (14.49%) AI
13 57 (13.77%) Decision-Making
14 55 (13.29%) Data Modelling
14 55 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 53 (12.80%) Use Case
16 52 (12.56%) Waterfall
17 50 (12.08%) GAP Analysis
18 48 (11.59%) Data Analysis
18 48 (11.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.46%) SQL
2 31 (7.49%) Python
3 5 (1.21%) C#
3 5 (1.21%) Java
4 4 (0.97%) JavaScript
4 4 (0.97%) PL/SQL
4 4 (0.97%) VBA
5 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.72%) R
6 1 (0.24%) ABAP
6 1 (0.24%) C++
6 1 (0.24%) SOQL
6 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.84%) Degree
3 48 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.28%) CBAP
5 22 (5.31%) IIBA
6 12 (2.90%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.21%) CSPO
8 5 (1.21%) ISEB
8 5 (1.21%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.72%) CFA
9 3 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.72%) PMP
10 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.48%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.73%) QA
3 11 (2.66%) GDPR
3 11 (2.66%) PMO
4 8 (1.93%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.69%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.45%) GRC
6 6 (1.45%) MiFID
7 5 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.21%) NIST
7 5 (1.21%) SLA
8 4 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.97%) EMIR
9 3 (0.72%) COBIT
10 2 (0.48%) Basel III
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.48%) PSD2
10 2 (0.48%) SEPA
10 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.24%) SOC 1
System Software
1 2 (0.48%) Docker
1 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.24%) RACF
2 1 (0.24%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (1.21%) SCCM
2 3 (0.72%) 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 59 (14.25%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.07%) Salesforce
3 17 (4.11%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.62%) SAP
5 14 (3.38%) Oracle
6 13 (3.14%) Murex
7 6 (1.45%) Databricks
8 4 (0.97%) Avaloq
8 4 (0.97%) Calypso
8 4 (0.97%) OpenLink
8 4 (0.97%) Workday
9 3 (0.72%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.72%) BT
9 3 (0.72%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.48%) Charles River
10 2 (0.48%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.48%) IBM
10 2 (0.48%) LexisNexis
10 2 (0.48%) Sparx