Business Analysis Contracts in Manchester

Business Analysis
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 67 81
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 11 29 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 1.91% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 2.20% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 26
10th Percentile £208 £363 £400
25th Percentile £325 £381 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £576 £538 £518
90th Percentile £627 £578 £875
North West median daily rate £456 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £38.10
25th Percentile - - £42.75
Median hourly rate - - £50.50
75th Percentile - - £58.25
90th Percentile - - £62.90
North West median hourly rate £75.40 £79.47 £50.50
% change year-on-year -5.13% +57.37% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in Manchester

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in Manchester

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in Manchester

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in Manchester

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP HR
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) EDRMS
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Law
3 3 (27.27%) Legal
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Local Government
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Business Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Procurement Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) HR Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Procurement Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Procurement Officer
4 1 (9.09%) Records Management Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Requirements Manager
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) SAP HR Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) SAP HR Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) SharePoint Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) GAP Analysis
1 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
2 2 (18.18%) Contract Negotiation
2 2 (18.18%) Data Management
2 2 (18.18%) High Availability
2 2 (18.18%) Information Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (18.18%) Release Management
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (9.09%) Data Architecture
3 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Requirements Management
3 1 (9.09%) Supplier Management
3 1 (9.09%) Supply Chain Management
3 1 (9.09%) System Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Time Management
3 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) CIPD
2 1 (9.09%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Hitachi
3 1 (9.09%) Pega