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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 125 78
Rank change year-on-year +29 -47 -2
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 404 286 522
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.86% 2.04% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 2.26% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 182 350
10th Percentile £387 £413 £412
25th Percentile £450 £466 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £816 £800 £713
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £79.38
25th Percentile - - £82.94
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +44.68%
75th Percentile - - £86.50
90th Percentile - - £86.60
England median hourly rate £77.94 £66.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +18.08% -22.35% +112.50%

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 12,887 12,677 16,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,501 8,101 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 258
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.52
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 11 January 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
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 11 January 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 -5 74 £595 -0.83% 27
West London -11 6 £500 +104.08% 13
South London -6 3 - - 6
North London +3 1 £500 -9.09%
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 24 (5.94%) Confluence
2 7 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 37 (9.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (7.67%) MS Visio
3 21 (5.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.74%) Notion
7 2 (0.50%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.50%) Sketch
7 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (4.70%) Endur
2 8 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.98%) Loan IQ
2 8 (1.98%) SAP EWM
2 8 (1.98%) SAP WM
3 6 (1.49%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.50%) iTrent
5 2 (0.50%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.50%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.50%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.25%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (14.11%) Power Platform
2 35 (8.66%) Azure
3 18 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (2.97%) Power Automate
5 11 (2.72%) PowerApps
5 11 (2.72%) SaaS
6 10 (2.48%) AWS
7 9 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.49%) Miro
10 5 (1.24%) dbt
10 5 (1.24%) GCP
10 5 (1.24%) Lucidchart
11 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.74%) ChatGPT
12 3 (0.74%) Figma
12 3 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
13 2 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.50%) Intranet
1 2 (0.50%) NAS
2 1 (0.25%) HTTP
2 1 (0.25%) LAN
2 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.88%) Power BI
2 10 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.23%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.23%) Tableau
4 6 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.24%) Metadata
5 5 (1.24%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.24%) Redis
6 4 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.74%) Power Query
7 3 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.50%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.50%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.50%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 42 (10.40%) JIRA
2 5 (1.24%) webpack
3 4 (0.99%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.99%) ERwin
3 4 (0.99%) Postman
3 4 (0.99%) Selenium
4 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.74%) Git
4 3 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.50%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.50%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.25%) Ant
6 1 (0.25%) Hudson
6 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.25%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.25%) TestNG
6 1 (0.25%) Toad
General
1 181 (44.80%) Finance
2 179 (44.31%) Social Skills
3 74 (18.32%) Banking
4 70 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (9.41%) Presentation Skills
6 35 (8.66%) Front Office
7 32 (7.92%) Investment Banking
8 31 (7.67%) Public Sector
9 25 (6.19%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (5.69%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (3.96%) Legal
13 14 (3.47%) Back Office
13 14 (3.47%) Financial Institution
13 14 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (3.22%) Marketing
15 10 (2.48%) Retail
16 9 (2.23%) Manufacturing
17 7 (1.73%) Local Government
18 5 (1.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 277 (68.56%) Analyst
2 255 (63.12%) Business Analyst
3 57 (14.11%) Senior
4 44 (10.89%) Senior Analyst
5 41 (10.15%) Senior Business Analyst
6 25 (6.19%) Technical Analyst
7 23 (5.69%) Technical Business Analyst
8 20 (4.95%) Banking Analyst
8 20 (4.95%) Consultant
9 18 (4.46%) Banking Business Analyst
9 18 (4.46%) Lead
10 17 (4.21%) Developer
11 16 (3.96%) Financial Analyst
11 16 (3.96%) Insurance Business Analyst
12 15 (3.71%) Endur Analyst
12 15 (3.71%) Endur Business Analyst
12 15 (3.71%) OpenLink Analyst
12 15 (3.71%) OpenLink Business Analyst
12 15 (3.71%) Project Manager
13 14 (3.47%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.97%) XML
2 10 (2.48%) .NET
3 8 (1.98%) CSS
3 8 (1.98%) HTML
3 8 (1.98%) React
4 7 (1.73%) REST
5 6 (1.49%) PySpark
6 5 (1.24%) Bootstrap
6 5 (1.24%) HTML5
6 5 (1.24%) jQuery
6 5 (1.24%) Memcached
7 4 (0.99%) JSON
7 4 (0.99%) VML
8 3 (0.74%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.74%) Electron
8 3 (0.74%) JNI
8 3 (0.74%) Middleware
8 3 (0.74%) Node.js
8 3 (0.74%) Swagger
8 3 (0.74%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.86%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.70%) PMI
3 15 (3.71%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.48%) Reinsurance
7 9 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.23%) Renewable Energy
7 9 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (1.49%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.49%) Derivative
10 6 (1.49%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.49%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.24%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.24%) Equities
11 5 (1.24%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.73%) Linux
2 4 (0.99%) Unix
3 3 (0.74%) CentOS
3 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.50%) Windows
5 1 (0.25%) AIX
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (46.29%) Agile
2 136 (33.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 94 (23.27%) Requirements Gathering
4 92 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (20.30%) User Stories
6 78 (19.31%) Workshop Facilitation
7 72 (17.82%) User Acceptance Testing
8 70 (17.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 66 (16.34%) Project Delivery
10 65 (16.09%) Project Management
11 57 (14.11%) Migration
12 49 (12.13%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (11.88%) Data Modelling
14 46 (11.39%) GAP Analysis
15 44 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (10.89%) Waterfall
16 43 (10.64%) Acceptance Criteria
16 43 (10.64%) Analytics
16 43 (10.64%) SDLC
17 41 (10.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 67 (16.58%) SQL
2 26 (6.44%) Python
3 15 (3.71%) Java
4 12 (2.97%) C#
5 9 (2.23%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.99%) Perl
7 3 (0.74%) C
7 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.74%) VB.NET
7 3 (0.74%) VBA
8 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.50%) Korn
9 1 (0.25%) ABAP
9 1 (0.25%) C++
9 1 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.25%) Jython
9 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.25%) R
9 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (15.35%) Degree
2 46 (11.39%) Security Cleared
3 40 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 32 (7.92%) CBAP
5 25 (6.19%) PMI Certification
6 14 (3.47%) IIBA
7 10 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.23%) ISEB
9 7 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.73%) PMP
9 7 (1.73%) SAP Certification
10 6 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.50%) ACCA
12 2 (0.50%) CFA
12 2 (0.50%) CIMA
12 2 (0.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 2 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.90%) QA
2 18 (4.46%) GDPR
3 16 (3.96%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.98%) MiFID
6 7 (1.73%) PMO
7 6 (1.49%) SLA
8 5 (1.24%) EMIR
9 4 (0.99%) GRC
9 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.99%) NIST
10 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.74%) PSD2
10 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.74%) WCAG
11 2 (0.50%) Basel III
11 2 (0.50%) GxP
11 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.50%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.49%) Terraform
2 1 (0.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 48 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.19%) SAP
3 24 (5.94%) Oracle
4 23 (5.69%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.23%) Murex
7 8 (1.98%) Workday
8 5 (1.24%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.24%) OpenLink
9 4 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.99%) Avaloq
9 4 (0.99%) Google
9 4 (0.99%) Sparx
10 3 (0.74%) Adobe
10 3 (0.74%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.74%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.74%) UiPath
11 2 (0.50%) Charles River
11 2 (0.50%) IBM
11 2 (0.50%) Temenos