Business Analysis Contracts in the North of England

Business Analysis
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 90 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +25
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Business Analysis 104 73 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.60% 1.74% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.07% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 40 80
10th Percentile £300 £362 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £521 £538 £578
90th Percentile £600 £614 £600
England median daily rate £528 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.09% -2.05% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £79.47 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £54.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +28.44% +26.74% +56.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,558 3,525 4,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.04% 83.81% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,282 2,100 3,034
10th Percentile £268 £312 £288
25th Percentile £375 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £502
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -0.35% +0.35%
75th Percentile £556 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 220 203
10th Percentile £13.26 £11.07 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.69 £17.88
Median hourly rate £22.63 £29.39 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -22.99% +5.02% +39.90%
75th Percentile £43.39 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.85 £57.28
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the North of England

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the North of England

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Business Analysis

Business Analysis
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -5 55 £441 -11.90% 124
Yorkshire +10 43 £475 -5.00% 68
North East +2 6 £450 +21.62% 35
Business Analysis
England

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 29 (27.88%) Confluence
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (16.35%) MS Visio
2 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (9.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.96%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.96%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.96%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.96%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.96%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.96%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.65%) Azure
2 7 (6.73%) AWS
2 7 (6.73%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.81%) GCP
4 4 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (3.85%) Azure AI
4 4 (3.85%) Google Gemini
4 4 (3.85%) Lucidchart
5 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.88%) SaaS
6 2 (1.92%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.96%) dbt
7 1 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.96%) Figma
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.96%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) Firewall
1 2 (1.92%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.96%) HTTP
2 1 (0.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) Power BI
1 7 (6.73%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.85%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.92%) Tableau
4 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.96%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.96%) GIS
4 1 (0.96%) Metadata
4 1 (0.96%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.96%) Parquet
4 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (26.92%) JIRA
2 12 (11.54%) Git
General
1 41 (39.42%) Social Skills
2 32 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (30.77%) Finance
3 14 (13.46%) Banking
3 14 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.58%) Legal
5 10 (9.62%) Manufacturing
6 8 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.85%) Automotive
8 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.85%) Retail
9 3 (2.88%) Local Government
9 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.92%) Law
11 1 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (72.12%) Analyst
2 73 (70.19%) Business Analyst
3 11 (10.58%) Senior
4 8 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 8 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
4 8 (7.69%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
5 5 (4.81%) Developer
6 4 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (3.85%) Business Manager
6 4 (3.85%) Lead
6 4 (3.85%) Lead Business Analyst
6 4 (3.85%) Project Analyst
6 4 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (3.85%) Technical Business Analyst
7 3 (2.88%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (2.88%) Migration Analyst
7 3 (2.88%) Payments Analyst
7 3 (2.88%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) .NET
2 7 (6.73%) ASP.NET Web API
2 7 (6.73%) CSS
2 7 (6.73%) HTML
2 7 (6.73%) jQuery
3 5 (4.81%) Compass CSS Framework
4 4 (3.85%) OAuth
4 4 (3.85%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.85%) SAML
4 4 (3.85%) Streamlit
4 4 (3.85%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.88%) OpenID
6 2 (1.92%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.92%) JSON
6 2 (1.92%) Kafka
7 1 (0.96%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.96%) OLE
7 1 (0.96%) RESTful
7 1 (0.96%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.62%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.81%) CMDB
5 4 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.88%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.92%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.92%) NHS
7 2 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.96%) EPoS
8 1 (0.96%) Equities
8 1 (0.96%) PMI
8 1 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Android
1 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (55.77%) Agile
2 31 (29.81%) Requirements Gathering
3 30 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 21 (20.19%) User Stories
6 21 (20.19%) Workshop Facilitation
7 18 (17.31%) Decision-Making
7 18 (17.31%) Project Management
8 16 (15.38%) Scrum
9 15 (14.42%) Change Management
9 15 (14.42%) GAP Analysis
10 14 (13.46%) Migration
11 12 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (11.54%) Data Analysis
11 12 (11.54%) Process Improvement
11 12 (11.54%) Use Case
11 12 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
12 11 (10.58%) Six Sigma
13 10 (9.62%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.69%) C#
1 8 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 7 (6.73%) Python
3 6 (5.77%) SQL
4 3 (2.88%) Scala
5 2 (1.92%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (21.15%) Degree
2 10 (9.62%) CBAP
3 5 (4.81%) IIBA
3 5 (4.81%) ISEB
4 2 (1.92%) CSPO
4 2 (1.92%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.92%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) ACCA
5 1 (0.96%) CIPD
5 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.96%) PMP
5 1 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) GDPR
2 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.92%) COBIT
3 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.92%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.92%) PSD2
3 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.92%) SEPA
4 1 (0.96%) Basel III
4 1 (0.96%) GRC
4 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.96%) NIST
4 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.81%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.92%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.92%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.58%) ServiceNow
3 10 (9.62%) SAP
4 7 (6.73%) GoldenSource
5 2 (1.92%) Dell
5 2 (1.92%) IBM
5 2 (1.92%) IBM Sterling
5 2 (1.92%) Veritas
6 1 (0.96%) Alibaba
6 1 (0.96%) Ariba
6 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.96%) Databricks
6 1 (0.96%) ESRI
6 1 (0.96%) Okta
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle
6 1 (0.96%) Pega
6 1 (0.96%) Progress