Data Business Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Data Business Analyst (Data BA)
England > North of England

The median Data Business Analyst (Data BA) daily rate in the North of England is £379, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 171 185
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Data Business Analyst 14 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.16% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 8
10th Percentile £296 £478 £482
25th Percentile £302 £483 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.05% -10.87% +16.46%
75th Percentile £478 £600 £648
90th Percentile £488 £615 £721
England median daily rate £475 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -13.64% -6.78% +12.38%

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 3,529 4,271 5,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 92.41% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 2,643 3,557
10th Percentile £254 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £386 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% -3.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £643 £655 £680
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 382 194
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.45 £14.58
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.03 £17.47
Median hourly rate £22.32 £24.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% +10.53% +9.76%
75th Percentile £47.12 £47.88 £43.39
90th Percentile £75.24 £68.63 £53.24
England median hourly rate £27.59 £40.33 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.59% -6.22% +70.01%

Data Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Business Analyst in the North of England

Data Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Business Analyst in the North of England

Data Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Business Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Business Analyst in the North of England

Data Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Business Analyst in the North of England

Data 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 Data Business Analyst within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Yorkshire +1 9 £355 -29.53% 1
North West +10 5 £379 -36.83% 1
Data Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, Data 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 Data Business Analyst in the job title.

1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (42.86%) Confluence
1 6 (42.86%) Analytics
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 5 (35.71%) Visualisation
2 5 (35.71%) MS Visio
2 5 (35.71%) Data Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Quantitative Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (28.57%) Data Centre Operations
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Business Case
4 3 (21.43%) Data Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 3 (21.43%) Facilities Management
4 3 (21.43%) Finance
5 2 (14.29%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) JIRA
5 2 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling

Data 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 6 (42.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (35.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Lucidchart
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Analytics
2 5 (35.71%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (35.71%) Data Analysis
2 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Visualisation
3 4 (28.57%) Business Case
3 4 (28.57%) Data Centre Operations
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Quantitative Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
4 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Data Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) Facilities Management
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (14.29%) Model Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (7.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Dell
2 1 (7.14%) Veeam
2 1 (7.14%) Veritas
2 1 (7.14%) VMware