Business Analysis Contracts in London

Business Analysis
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Business Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 110 94
Rank change year-on-year +31 -16 -16
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 425 407 688
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.30% 2.33% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 2.63% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 275 458
10th Percentile £409 £403 £425
25th Percentile £507 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £559 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -6.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £688
90th Percentile £790 £808 £825
England median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £71.63 - £35.80
25th Percentile £74.06 £41.25 £37.00
Median hourly rate £78.75 £42.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.29% +8.97% +41.82%
75th Percentile £84.06 £43.75 £41.00
90th Percentile £86.88 - £42.20
England median hourly rate £64.50 £42.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +51.76% -35.61% +133.63%

All Process and 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 11,891 15,474 22,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.21% 88.55% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,950 11,028 16,622
10th Percentile £333 £343 £372
25th Percentile £425 £446 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £587
Median % change year-on-year - -6.34% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 303 260
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.01 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.47% +11.17%
75th Percentile £50.13 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.30 £68.60 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in London

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in London.

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in London

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in London

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in London

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analysis in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 2025. 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 +17 82 £625 +7.43% 117
West London +10 3 £338 -38.64% 47
East London +6 1 £540 - 32
South London -1 1 £475 +5.56% 31
North London - 1 £440 - 13
Business Analysis
England

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (5.88%) Confluence
2 6 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.47%) Apache
3 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.47%) CMS
3 2 (0.47%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 28 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.41%) MS Visio
3 14 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.47%) Trello
7 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (10.35%) Aladdin
2 19 (4.47%) thinkFolio
3 11 (2.59%) Endur
4 4 (0.94%) Shopify
5 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.47%) Aligne
6 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.24%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.24%) MetaTrader
7 1 (0.24%) MultiFonds
7 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 32 (7.53%) Azure
2 25 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 15 (3.53%) AWS
4 7 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (0.94%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.71%) BigCommerce
8 3 (0.71%) Lucidchart
8 3 (0.71%) Miro
8 3 (0.71%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.47%) GCP
9 2 (0.47%) GitHub
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.24%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.24%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.18%) SSL
2 4 (0.94%) Firewall
3 3 (0.71%) HTTP
4 2 (0.47%) Intranet
4 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.24%) IPsec
5 1 (0.24%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.24%) MQTT
5 1 (0.24%) Network Security
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.18%) Power BI
2 17 (4.00%) Tableau
3 12 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.35%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (1.18%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.47%) Big Data
7 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.47%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.47%) Metadata
7 2 (0.47%) MS Access
7 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.47%) Power Query
7 2 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.24%) DTS
8 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (10.59%) JIRA
2 3 (0.71%) Git
3 2 (0.47%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.24%) Postman
4 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 224 (52.71%) Finance
2 184 (43.29%) Social Skills
3 97 (22.82%) Front Office
4 76 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (13.88%) Banking
6 24 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (4.94%) Public Sector
8 20 (4.71%) Investment Banking
9 19 (4.47%) Retail
10 18 (4.24%) Back Office
10 18 (4.24%) Financial Institution
11 15 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (3.53%) Legal
12 14 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (2.59%) Marketing
14 9 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.94%) Advertising
16 4 (0.94%) Law
16 4 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 318 (74.82%) Analyst
2 314 (73.88%) Business Analyst
3 53 (12.47%) Business Manager
4 43 (10.12%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 31 (7.29%) Senior
6 27 (6.35%) Senior Analyst
7 24 (5.65%) Lead
8 23 (5.41%) Data Analyst
9 22 (5.18%) Senior Business Analyst
10 20 (4.71%) Technical Analyst
10 20 (4.71%) Technical Business Analyst
11 19 (4.47%) Data Business Analyst
11 19 (4.47%) Financial Analyst
12 18 (4.24%) Consultant
12 18 (4.24%) Project Manager
13 16 (3.76%) Architect
13 16 (3.76%) Finance Business Analyst
13 16 (3.76%) Project Analyst
14 14 (3.29%) Developer
14 14 (3.29%) Lead Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.29%) XML
2 12 (2.82%) JSON
3 9 (2.12%) .NET
3 9 (2.12%) REST
4 8 (1.88%) Web Services
5 4 (0.94%) JDBC
5 4 (0.94%) LDAP
5 4 (0.94%) ODBC
5 4 (0.94%) SAML
5 4 (0.94%) SOAP
6 3 (0.71%) ADO
6 3 (0.71%) React
6 3 (0.71%) VML
6 3 (0.71%) WPF
6 3 (0.71%) WSDL
7 2 (0.47%) Murex MxML
7 2 (0.47%) Swagger
8 1 (0.24%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.24%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.24%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.88%) Derivative
2 58 (13.65%) Fixed Income
3 44 (10.35%) Hedge funds
3 44 (10.35%) Onboarding
4 27 (6.35%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (2.82%) Market Risk
7 11 (2.59%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.35%) Equities
8 10 (2.35%) PMI
9 7 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.65%) Credit Risk
9 7 (1.65%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.41%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.18%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.24%) Linux
1 1 (0.24%) Unix
1 1 (0.24%) Windows
1 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (47.29%) Agile
2 108 (25.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 88 (20.71%) Requirements Gathering
4 79 (18.59%) User Acceptance Testing
5 75 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (16.47%) Project Management
7 69 (16.24%) Data Analysis
8 66 (15.53%) Analytics
9 64 (15.06%) Asset Management
9 64 (15.06%) User Stories
10 59 (13.88%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (12.47%) Portfolio Management
12 50 (11.76%) Investment Management
12 50 (11.76%) Validation
12 50 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
13 44 (10.35%) Change Management
13 44 (10.35%) Scrum
13 44 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 41 (9.65%) Acceptance Criteria
14 41 (9.65%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 110 (25.88%) SQL
2 72 (16.94%) Python
3 9 (2.12%) Java
4 5 (1.18%) C#
4 5 (1.18%) R
5 4 (0.94%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.94%) TypeScript
5 4 (0.94%) VBA
6 3 (0.71%) Bash
6 3 (0.71%) PHP
7 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (16.00%) Degree
2 29 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.41%) CBAP
5 17 (4.00%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.88%) IIBA
7 7 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.65%) PMP
8 5 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.71%) ACCA
10 3 (0.71%) CEH
10 3 (0.71%) CISSP
10 3 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.71%) CSPO
10 3 (0.71%) ISEB
11 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.47%) CFA
11 2 (0.47%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.24%) QA
2 17 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.00%) MiFID
3 15 (3.53%) GDPR
4 14 (3.29%) EMIR
5 5 (1.18%) Dodd-Frank
5 5 (1.18%) PMO
6 3 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.71%) Basel III
6 3 (0.71%) GRC
6 3 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.71%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.71%) SEPA
7 2 (0.47%) FATCA
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 4 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 39 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.94%) BISAM
3 27 (6.35%) Charles River
4 21 (4.94%) SimCorp
5 20 (4.71%) Calypso
6 19 (4.47%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.53%) SAP
8 9 (2.12%) ION Trading
8 9 (2.12%) Murex
9 8 (1.88%) Oracle
9 8 (1.88%) Workday
10 7 (1.65%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.18%) Adobe
11 5 (1.18%) OpenText
11 5 (1.18%) Qualtrics
12 4 (0.94%) Google
12 4 (0.94%) UiPath
13 3 (0.71%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.71%) OpenLink
13 3 (0.71%) Sitecore