Business Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Business Analyst (BA)
England > North of England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the North of England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 40 31
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 0
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 135 194 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.10% 4.07% 5.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.39% 4.37% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 132 248
10th Percentile £346 £363 £382
25th Percentile £358 £405 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -4.52% +7.57%
75th Percentile £508 £528 £550
90th Percentile £550 £588 £608
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.26 - -
Median hourly rate £31.52 £20.77 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +51.76% -25.77% +31.98%
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
England median hourly rate £32.82 £22.50 £60.25
% change year-on-year +45.84% -62.66% +129.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Contract 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 Analyst within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +8 93 £425 -10.53% 41
Yorkshire -27 34 £450 -6.25% 16
North East -4 8 £400 -15.79% 6
Business Analyst
England

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 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 North of England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 62 (45.93%) Agile
2 47 (34.81%) Business Analysis
3 39 (28.89%) Social Skills
4 38 (28.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (23.70%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (22.96%) Finance
8 28 (20.74%) User Stories
9 27 (20.00%) JIRA
10 26 (19.26%) Change Management
11 25 (18.52%) Requirements Gathering
12 23 (17.04%) Workshop Facilitation
13 22 (16.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (15.56%) Degree
15 20 (14.81%) Migration
16 19 (14.07%) GAP Analysis
16 19 (14.07%) Confluence
16 19 (14.07%) Public Sector
17 18 (13.33%) Business Case
18 17 (12.59%) User Acceptance Testing
18 17 (12.59%) Scrum
18 17 (12.59%) Banking
18 17 (12.59%) Data Analysis
19 14 (10.37%) Microsoft
19 14 (10.37%) Process Improvement
19 14 (10.37%) Decision-Making
20 13 (9.63%) Waterfall
21 12 (8.89%) SAP
21 12 (8.89%) MS Visio

Business Analyst Skill Set
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 19 (14.07%) Confluence
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (8.89%) MS Visio
2 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.96%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (5.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.44%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.74%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.74%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.74%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.41%) Power Platform
2 6 (4.44%) Azure
3 3 (2.22%) AWS
3 3 (2.22%) Entra ID
3 3 (2.22%) Lucidchart
4 2 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.48%) GCP
4 2 (1.48%) Miro
4 2 (1.48%) SaaS
5 1 (0.74%) Boomi
5 1 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) GPRS
1 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.74%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.41%) Power BI
2 5 (3.70%) Tableau
3 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.74%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.74%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.74%) GIS
4 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.74%) Parquet
4 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 39 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.70%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (22.96%) Finance
4 19 (14.07%) Public Sector
5 17 (12.59%) Banking
6 6 (4.44%) Legal
6 6 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.96%) Automotive
9 3 (2.22%) Law
9 3 (2.22%) Local Government
9 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Marketing
10 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Retail
10 2 (1.48%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Games
11 1 (0.74%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.74%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.74%) JSON
1 1 (0.74%) OAuth
1 1 (0.74%) OpenID
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.74%) RAML
1 1 (0.74%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.93%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.19%) CMDB
3 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.48%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.74%) Life Science
5 1 (0.74%) LIMS
5 1 (0.74%) NHS
5 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.74%) PMI
5 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (45.93%) Agile
2 47 (34.81%) Business Analysis
3 38 (28.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (20.74%) User Stories
6 26 (19.26%) Change Management
7 25 (18.52%) Requirements Gathering
8 23 (17.04%) Workshop Facilitation
9 22 (16.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (14.81%) Migration
12 19 (14.07%) GAP Analysis
13 18 (13.33%) Business Case
14 17 (12.59%) Data Analysis
14 17 (12.59%) Scrum
14 17 (12.59%) User Acceptance Testing
15 14 (10.37%) Decision-Making
15 14 (10.37%) Process Improvement
16 13 (9.63%) Waterfall
17 11 (8.15%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (15.56%) Degree
2 9 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.70%) CBAP
4 5 (3.70%) ISEB
5 4 (2.96%) IIBA
6 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.48%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CIPD
7 1 (0.74%) CISA
7 1 (0.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.74%) CSPO
7 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.74%) PMP
7 1 (0.74%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.70%) GDPR
2 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.48%) COREP
2 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.48%) FINREP
2 2 (1.48%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) GxP
3 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.74%) PSD2
3 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.48%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.48%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 14 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.89%) SAP
3 9 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.70%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.48%) Ariba
5 2 (1.48%) Dell
5 2 (1.48%) Oracle
5 2 (1.48%) Varonis
5 2 (1.48%) Verint
5 2 (1.48%) Veritas
6 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.74%) Civica
6 1 (0.74%) Databricks
6 1 (0.74%) ESRI
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) Intapp
6 1 (0.74%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.74%) Sage
6 1 (0.74%) Workday