CBAP Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for CBAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 131 131
Rank change year-on-year -28 0 -
Contract jobs citing CBAP 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.096% 0.079% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.28% 0.27% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £401 £513 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £426 £538 £625
90th Percentile £440 - -
England median daily rate £514 £425 £460
% change year-on-year +20.94% -7.61% -23.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

CBAP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,087 729 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.90% 28.68% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 437 492
10th Percentile £258 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year - -0.70% +1.72%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £670 £717 £687
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 31 42
10th Percentile £16.92 £17.00 £17.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.15 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.27 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +5.13% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £32.60 £52.50 £68.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.21% -7.50% +16.67%

CBAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CBAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

CBAP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

CBAP
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CBAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CBAP

CBAP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CBAP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 December 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
East Midlands - 2 £401 -
West Midlands -30 1 £450 -14.29% 5
CBAP
England

CBAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Lucidchart
General
1 3 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Payments Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PMI
2 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) KYC
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Change
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CAPM
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO 8583
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (66.67%) PSD2
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft