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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 84 108
Rank change year-on-year -36 +24 -13
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 454 421 407
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.36% 3.28% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 3.55% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 282 275
10th Percentile £377 £409 £403
25th Percentile £453 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £559
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.33% -6.83%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £688
90th Percentile £758 £790 £808
England median daily rate £510 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -6.42% +3.81% -4.55%
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% +8.97%
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 17,127 11,843 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.34% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,395 7,916 11,030
10th Percentile £360 £336 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.18 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

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 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 30 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 30 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 -30 60 £575 -8.00% 12
West London -8 11 £285 -15.56% 12
East London +1 2 £625 +15.74% 11
South London -5 1 £450 -5.26% 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 37 (8.15%) Confluence
2 16 (3.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.10%) SAS
4 4 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (7.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (6.17%) MS Visio
3 25 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (1.98%) Loan IQ
2 6 (1.32%) Endur
3 5 (1.10%) Actimize
3 5 (1.10%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.66%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (0.66%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.44%) Summit
6 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.22%) SunGard Martini
6 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (10.35%) Power Platform
2 36 (7.93%) Azure
3 19 (4.19%) AWS
4 13 (2.86%) SaaS
5 10 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.54%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.32%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.10%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.10%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (0.88%) Collibra
11 4 (0.88%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.66%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (0.66%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.88%) Network Security
2 2 (0.44%) Broadband
2 2 (0.44%) Firewall
2 2 (0.44%) Internet
3 1 (0.22%) IPsec
3 1 (0.22%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.22%) VPN
3 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.37%) Power BI
2 15 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (3.30%) Tableau
3 5 (1.10%) Metadata
3 5 (1.10%) Power Query
4 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.66%) Data Mart
5 3 (0.66%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.44%) QlikView
6 2 (0.44%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.22%) Looker
7 1 (0.22%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 57 (12.56%) JIRA
2 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.44%) Git
2 2 (0.44%) Moq
2 2 (0.44%) Postman
3 1 (0.22%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.22%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.22%) Mocha
3 1 (0.22%) MSTest
3 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.22%) Selenium
3 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.22%) TestNG
3 1 (0.22%) tSQLt
3 1 (0.22%) WinAutomation
General
1 212 (46.70%) Finance
2 195 (42.95%) Social Skills
3 103 (22.69%) Banking
4 102 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (10.13%) Front Office
6 34 (7.49%) Documentation Skills
6 34 (7.49%) Investment Banking
7 33 (7.27%) Legal
8 32 (7.05%) Public Sector
9 31 (6.83%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (5.07%) Retail
11 22 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (3.52%) Financial Institution
14 11 (2.42%) Marketing
15 6 (1.32%) Back Office
15 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 320 (70.48%) Analyst
2 297 (65.42%) Business Analyst
3 64 (14.10%) Senior
4 52 (11.45%) Senior Analyst
5 47 (10.35%) Senior Business Analyst
6 22 (4.85%) Banking Analyst
6 22 (4.85%) Consultant
6 22 (4.85%) Technical Business Analyst
7 21 (4.63%) Banking Business Analyst
7 21 (4.63%) Technical Analyst
8 19 (4.19%) Lead
9 18 (3.96%) Data Business Analyst
10 17 (3.74%) Project Manager
11 14 (3.08%) Risk Business Analyst
12 13 (2.86%) Developer
12 13 (2.86%) Risk Analyst
12 13 (2.86%) Transformation Analyst
13 12 (2.64%) Data Analyst
13 12 (2.64%) Insurance Business Analyst
14 11 (2.42%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.76%) Pandas
2 7 (1.54%) VML
3 5 (1.10%) .NET
3 5 (1.10%) Middleware
3 5 (1.10%) NumPy
4 4 (0.88%) ADO
4 4 (0.88%) JSON
4 4 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.88%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.66%) CSS
5 3 (0.66%) Django
5 3 (0.66%) HTML
5 3 (0.66%) REST
5 3 (0.66%) XML
6 2 (0.44%) OAuth
6 2 (0.44%) Web Services
7 1 (0.22%) EDI
7 1 (0.22%) FpML
7 1 (0.22%) SAML
7 1 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.85%) Fixed Income
3 18 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (3.52%) Data Structures
6 15 (3.30%) Derivative
7 13 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.20%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.98%) CMDB
10 9 (1.98%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.98%) Market Risk
11 8 (1.76%) Credit Risk
11 8 (1.76%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.54%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.32%) PMI
13 6 (1.32%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.32%) Tandem
14 4 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.22%) Android
1 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (40.75%) Agile
2 168 (37.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 124 (27.31%) Requirements Gathering
4 110 (24.23%) User Stories
5 101 (22.25%) User Acceptance Testing
6 97 (21.37%) Workshop Facilitation
7 96 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (17.62%) Acceptance Criteria
9 73 (16.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 71 (15.64%) AI
11 69 (15.20%) Project Management
12 64 (14.10%) Validation
13 57 (12.56%) Project Delivery
14 56 (12.33%) Migration
15 55 (12.11%) Data Modelling
16 54 (11.89%) Decision-Making
17 53 (11.67%) Use Case
18 50 (11.01%) Analytics
18 50 (11.01%) Data Analysis
19 47 (10.35%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 75 (16.52%) SQL
2 38 (8.37%) Python
3 6 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (1.32%) VBA
4 5 (1.10%) Java
5 4 (0.88%) C#
6 3 (0.66%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.66%) Korn
6 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.66%) R
7 1 (0.22%) C++
7 1 (0.22%) SOQL
7 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (12.11%) Security Cleared
2 47 (10.35%) SC Cleared
3 46 (10.13%) Degree
4 17 (3.74%) IIBA
5 15 (3.30%) CBAP
6 9 (1.98%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.76%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.10%) CSPO
10 4 (0.88%) FFIEC
10 4 (0.88%) PMP
11 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.66%) ISEB
11 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.44%) CFA
12 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.17%) QA
3 12 (2.64%) PMO
4 11 (2.42%) GDPR
5 10 (2.20%) NIST
6 9 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.98%) GRC
6 9 (1.98%) ISO 20022
7 8 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.32%) EMIR
9 5 (1.10%) COBIT
10 4 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.66%) GxP
11 3 (0.66%) MiFID
11 3 (0.66%) SLA
11 3 (0.66%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.44%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.44%) PSD2
12 2 (0.44%) SEPA
12 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.44%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) RACF
3 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.10%) SCCM
2 2 (0.44%) Control-M
2 2 (0.44%) Terraform
3 1 (0.22%) logstash
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 58 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.29%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.74%) ServiceNow
4 16 (3.52%) Murex
5 14 (3.08%) Oracle
5 14 (3.08%) SAP
6 10 (2.20%) Databricks
7 7 (1.54%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.10%) Workday
9 4 (0.88%) Avaloq
9 4 (0.88%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.66%) BT
10 3 (0.66%) Calypso
10 3 (0.66%) LexisNexis
10 3 (0.66%) Pega
10 3 (0.66%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.44%) FIS
11 2 (0.44%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.44%) OpenAI