Business Analyst Contracts in London

Business Analyst (BA)
England > London

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 32 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 806 1,057 1,601
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.49% 6.05% 6.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.96% 6.47% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 767 1,143
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +2.09%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £669
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £523 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £22.83 £28.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £25.19 £39.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -15.04% +39.51%
75th Percentile £57.50 £69.75 £62.31
90th Percentile - £72.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £34.11 £22.50 £60.25
% change year-on-year +51.60% -62.66% +130.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,586 16,333 24,623
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 93.45% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,924 11,811 17,900
10th Percentile £349 £325 £363
25th Percentile £429 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 318 280
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.09 £20.07 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.05 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.32 £80.23
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in London

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in London

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in London

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in London

Business Analyst
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 Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 19 May 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 +2 162 £600 +9.09% 19
West London +16 11 £412 -31.29% 3
East London +14 3 £540 +19.34% 3
North London 0 3 £440 +3.53%
South London -2 2 £508 -4.47% 4
Business Analyst
England

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Business Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 344 (42.68%) Finance
2 290 (35.98%) Agile
3 283 (35.11%) Business Analysis
4 272 (33.75%) Social Skills
5 163 (20.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 157 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
6 157 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
7 142 (17.62%) Requirements Gathering
8 137 (17.00%) SQL
9 124 (15.38%) Front Office
10 121 (15.01%) User Stories
11 111 (13.77%) User Acceptance Testing
12 108 (13.40%) Banking
13 103 (12.78%) Data Analysis
14 98 (12.16%) Asset Management
15 96 (11.91%) Degree
16 88 (10.92%) Workshop Facilitation
17 83 (10.30%) Project Management
17 83 (10.30%) Python
18 79 (9.80%) Process Improvement
19 78 (9.68%) Fixed Income
20 77 (9.55%) Decision-Making
21 75 (9.31%) Derivative
21 75 (9.31%) Analytics
21 75 (9.31%) Investment Management
22 74 (9.18%) Migration
23 73 (9.06%) JIRA
24 70 (8.68%) Business Intelligence
25 69 (8.56%) Risk Management
25 69 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement

Business Analyst Skill Set
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 46 (5.71%) Confluence
2 9 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.62%) CMS
4 3 (0.37%) SAS
5 2 (0.25%) Drupal
5 2 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) Smallworld
Applications
1 44 (5.46%) MS Visio
2 33 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.37%) Trello
6 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (5.46%) Aladdin
2 24 (2.98%) Endur
3 18 (2.23%) thinkFolio
4 14 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.99%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.62%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.62%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.50%) Shopify
9 3 (0.37%) Actimize
9 3 (0.37%) ION Anvil
9 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.25%) MultiFonds
10 2 (0.25%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.25%) SAP WM
11 1 (0.12%) Exchequer
11 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
11 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft Financials
11 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 44 (5.46%) Azure
2 37 (4.59%) Power Platform
3 19 (2.36%) AWS
4 13 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (1.12%) Lucidchart
6 9 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (0.87%) GCP
7 7 (0.87%) Snowflake
8 5 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (0.62%) GitHub
8 5 (0.62%) PowerApps
8 5 (0.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (0.50%) Miro
9 4 (0.50%) SaaS
9 4 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (0.37%) BigCommerce
10 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.25%) Collibra
11 2 (0.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.62%) Network Security
2 3 (0.37%) Intranet
3 1 (0.12%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.85%) Power BI
2 13 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.49%) Data Lake
3 12 (1.49%) Tableau
4 5 (0.62%) MS Access
4 5 (0.62%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.62%) Star Schema
5 3 (0.37%) Power Query
5 3 (0.37%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.25%) Data Mart
6 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.12%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.12%) DTS
7 1 (0.12%) GIS
7 1 (0.12%) Metadata
7 1 (0.12%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 73 (9.06%) JIRA
2 3 (0.37%) Postman
2 3 (0.37%) SoapUI
3 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.25%) Git
3 2 (0.25%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.12%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
General
1 344 (42.68%) Finance
2 272 (33.75%) Social Skills
3 157 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (15.38%) Front Office
5 108 (13.40%) Banking
6 44 (5.46%) Public Sector
7 38 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
8 33 (4.09%) Retail
9 32 (3.97%) Back Office
10 28 (3.47%) Financial Institution
11 27 (3.35%) Investment Banking
12 26 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (2.85%) Marketing
14 21 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (2.61%) Legal
15 12 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.99%) Law
17 8 (0.99%) Local Government
17 8 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.74%) XML
2 8 (0.99%) JSON
3 7 (0.87%) FpML
4 5 (0.62%) ADO
4 5 (0.62%) SailPoint
5 4 (0.50%) Web Services
6 3 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (0.37%) REST
6 3 (0.37%) VML
7 2 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.25%) Murex MxML
7 2 (0.25%) RESTful
8 1 (0.12%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.12%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.12%) Plotly
8 1 (0.12%) Prophet
8 1 (0.12%) PySpark
8 1 (0.12%) React
8 1 (0.12%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 78 (9.68%) Fixed Income
2 75 (9.31%) Derivative
3 57 (7.07%) Hedge funds
4 43 (5.33%) Product Ownership
5 42 (5.21%) Onboarding
6 33 (4.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 31 (3.85%) Equities
8 20 (2.48%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.36%) Market Risk
10 12 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 11 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.24%) Reference Data
13 9 (1.12%) DTCC
14 8 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.87%) Reinsurance
16 6 (0.74%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.74%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.99%) Apple iOS
2 5 (0.62%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) Linux
3 1 (0.12%) Unix
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
3 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (35.98%) Agile
2 283 (35.11%) Business Analysis
3 163 (20.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 157 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (17.62%) Requirements Gathering
6 121 (15.01%) User Stories
7 111 (13.77%) User Acceptance Testing
8 103 (12.78%) Data Analysis
9 98 (12.16%) Asset Management
10 88 (10.92%) Workshop Facilitation
11 83 (10.30%) Project Management
12 79 (9.80%) Process Improvement
13 77 (9.55%) Decision-Making
14 75 (9.31%) Analytics
14 75 (9.31%) Investment Management
15 74 (9.18%) Migration
16 70 (8.68%) Business Intelligence
17 69 (8.56%) Risk Management
17 69 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 58 (7.20%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (17.00%) SQL
2 83 (10.30%) Python
3 5 (0.62%) Java
3 5 (0.62%) VBA
4 4 (0.50%) R
5 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.25%) MATLAB
6 2 (0.25%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.12%) Magik
Qualifications
1 96 (11.91%) Degree
2 59 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 50 (6.20%) SC Cleared
4 23 (2.85%) CBAP
5 10 (1.24%) PMI Certification
6 7 (0.87%) CISSP
6 7 (0.87%) IIBA
7 6 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.62%) CISA
8 5 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.62%) PMP
9 4 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.37%) ACCA
10 3 (0.37%) CFA
10 3 (0.37%) CRISC
11 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.25%) CISM
11 2 (0.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.47%) QA
2 33 (4.09%) MiFID
3 28 (3.47%) EMIR
4 15 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.86%) GDPR
5 12 (1.49%) Dodd-Frank
6 10 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.12%) NIST
8 7 (0.87%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.74%) PMO
9 6 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.62%) SEPA
11 4 (0.50%) Basel III
11 4 (0.50%) COREP
11 4 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.25%) GRC
13 2 (0.25%) IFRS
13 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (0.37%) Cisco UCCX
2 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.33%) Salesforce
3 37 (4.59%) BISAM
4 36 (4.47%) SAP
5 25 (3.10%) Charles River
6 20 (2.48%) Calypso
6 20 (2.48%) SimCorp
7 18 (2.23%) Oracle
8 16 (1.99%) OpenLink
9 14 (1.74%) ION Trading
10 13 (1.61%) Murex
11 10 (1.24%) Adobe
12 9 (1.12%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.74%) Workday
14 5 (0.62%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.62%) Databricks
15 4 (0.50%) Cisco
15 4 (0.50%) Duck Creek
15 4 (0.50%) HubSpot
15 4 (0.50%) Virgin Media