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 £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 28 32
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 195 337 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.12% 5.67% 5.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.43% 5.96% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 259 315
10th Percentile £363 £374 £360
25th Percentile £405 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £519
90th Percentile £588 £600 £568
England median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - £18.29
25th Percentile - - £18.75
Median hourly rate £20.77 £27.98 £21.20
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +31.98% -2.48%
75th Percentile - - £22.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £58.00 £26.14
% change year-on-year -61.21% +121.92% -28.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,401 5,652 7,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 95.14% 97.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 4,004 5,184
10th Percentile £256 £275 £200
25th Percentile £380 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 177 300
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.16 £11.15
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.58 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.75 £30.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.75% +66.16% +3.35%
75th Percentile £45.87 £49.40 £29.31
90th Percentile £57.75 £66.00 £50.08
England median hourly rate £34.21 £43.63 £22.29
% change year-on-year -21.59% +95.74% -0.58%

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 16 April 2024.

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
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 16 April 2024. 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 -14 100 £475 +1.06% 33
Yorkshire -12 82 £475 -5.00% 7
North East +19 13 £465 -7.10% 1
Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, 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 68 (34.87%) Requirements Gathering
1 68 (34.87%) Social Skills
2 63 (32.31%) Agile
3 55 (28.21%) Business Analysis
4 44 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (22.56%) User Stories
5 40 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (17.44%) Degree
7 33 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (16.41%) Workshop Facilitation
9 29 (14.87%) Finance
10 25 (12.82%) Waterfall
11 24 (12.31%) Public Sector
12 19 (9.74%) Requirements Workshops
12 19 (9.74%) JIRA
12 19 (9.74%) Use Case
12 19 (9.74%) Microsoft
13 18 (9.23%) Product Ownership
14 17 (8.72%) Acceptance Criteria
15 16 (8.21%) Data Analysis
15 16 (8.21%) Change Management
15 16 (8.21%) Power BI
15 16 (8.21%) Power Platform
16 15 (7.69%) Project Management
16 15 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
16 15 (7.69%) Banking
17 14 (7.18%) Scrum
17 14 (7.18%) MS Visio
17 14 (7.18%) Business Process Modelling
18 13 (6.67%) GAP Analysis

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 5 (2.56%) Confluence
2 3 (1.54%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.18%) MS Visio
3 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.59%) SAP PM
3 4 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.21%) Power Platform
2 6 (3.08%) SaaS
3 5 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.54%) Azure
5 3 (1.54%) IaaS
6 2 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.51%) AWS
7 1 (0.51%) Collibra
7 1 (0.51%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.21%) Power BI
2 4 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.05%) Tableau
3 3 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.54%) GIS
4 2 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.51%) Big Data
5 1 (0.51%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (9.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.51%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.51%) PyCharm
2 1 (0.51%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 68 (34.87%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.87%) Finance
4 24 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.69%) Banking
6 13 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.59%) Retail
9 5 (2.56%) Legal
9 5 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.54%) Law
10 3 (1.54%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Police
12 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.54%) .NET
2 2 (1.03%) Web Services
3 1 (0.51%) OAuth
3 1 (0.51%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.56%) Industry 4.0
2 5 (2.56%) IoT
2 5 (2.56%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.56%) Robotics
3 4 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.03%) NHS
5 2 (1.03%) Tandem
6 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.51%) BBC
6 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.51%) Life Science
6 1 (0.51%) PMI
6 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.51%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.87%) Requirements Gathering
2 63 (32.31%) Agile
3 55 (28.21%) Business Analysis
4 44 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (22.56%) User Stories
5 40 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (16.41%) Workshop Facilitation
7 25 (12.82%) Waterfall
8 19 (9.74%) Requirements Workshops
8 19 (9.74%) Use Case
9 17 (8.72%) Acceptance Criteria
10 16 (8.21%) Change Management
10 16 (8.21%) Data Analysis
11 15 (7.69%) Project Management
12 14 (7.18%) Business Process Modelling
12 14 (7.18%) Scrum
13 13 (6.67%) GAP Analysis
14 12 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (6.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (6.15%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.05%) Python
1 4 (2.05%) SQL
2 3 (1.54%) C#
3 2 (1.03%) Java
3 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 34 (17.44%) Degree
2 10 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.08%) CBAP
3 6 (3.08%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.56%) IIBA
5 4 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.54%) HNC
7 2 (1.03%) ISEB
8 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.64%) QA
2 7 (3.59%) GDPR
3 6 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.08%) Good Clinical Practice
3 6 (3.08%) GxP
4 2 (1.03%) GRC
5 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) COREP
5 1 (0.51%) FINREP
Systems Management
1 3 (1.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (9.74%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.15%) SAP
3 6 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.56%) Pega
5 3 (1.54%) ESRI
5 3 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.03%) Capita
6 2 (1.03%) Cognizant
6 2 (1.03%) FNZ
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle
7 1 (0.51%) Sage
7 1 (0.51%) Splunk