Finance Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA)
England > North of England

The median Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA) daily rate in the North of England is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 157 192
Rank change year-on-year -19 +35 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Finance Business Analyst 12 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.30% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £337 £394 £420
25th Percentile £381 £422 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £442
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +18.71% -11.55%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £534
90th Percentile - - £563
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

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 3,706 3,766 4,801
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 91.83% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,459 2,087 3,242
10th Percentile £250 £273 £263
25th Percentile £370 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £663 £675
England median daily rate £512 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 233 207
10th Percentile £13.05 £15.22 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.33 £18.00 £17.60
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +44.25% +6.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.65 £70.72 £64.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -44.11% -0.46% +71.64%

Finance Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Finance Business Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Finance Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the North of England

Finance Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Finance Business Analyst job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Finance Business Analyst job vacancies in the North of England

Finance Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

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

Finance 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 Finance Business Analyst within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 October 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 - 10 £675 - 1
North West -16 2 £351 -33.10%
Finance Business Analyst
England

Finance Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 October 2025, Finance Business Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Finance Business Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) Change Management
3 5 (41.67%) Business Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Banking
4 4 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (25.00%) Credit Risk
5 3 (25.00%) Python
5 3 (25.00%) Degree
5 3 (25.00%) JIRA
5 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Anaconda
6 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
6 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 2 (16.67%) SQL
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
7 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
7 1 (8.33%) Azure
7 1 (8.33%) AWS
7 1 (8.33%) Confluence
7 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (8.33%) CMDB

Finance Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Anaconda
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Credit Risk
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Change Management
2 5 (41.67%) Business Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (8.33%) IT Asset Management
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft