Business Analyst Contracts in the North West

Business Analyst (BA)
England > North West

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the North West is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 37 48
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 100 171 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.60% 5.30% 4.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.81% 5.60% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 132 135
10th Percentile £363 £388 £350
25th Percentile £405 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £500
90th Percentile £622 £600 £575
England median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.98 -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £58.00 £26.27
% change year-on-year -61.21% +120.78% -28.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,622 3,055 3,850
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 94.64% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,725 2,198 2,821
10th Percentile £281 £300 £206
25th Percentile £394 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £560
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 138 178
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.18 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +12.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £46.51 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the North West

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in the North West

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the North West

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in the North West

Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Manchester -2 67 £485 +4.86% 24
Cheshire -8 23 £410 -8.89% 1
Merseyside +14 5 £450 +2.86% 2
Lancashire -3 4 £451 -5.00% 5
Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 West region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 37 (37.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 28 (28.00%) Business Analysis
3 27 (27.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 26 (26.00%) Social Skills
5 21 (21.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
7 19 (19.00%) Degree
8 17 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (16.00%) Public Sector
9 16 (16.00%) Agile
10 15 (15.00%) Finance
10 15 (15.00%) Use Case
11 13 (13.00%) User Stories
12 12 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (12.00%) Microsoft
13 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Office
13 11 (11.00%) Requirements Engineering
14 10 (10.00%) Customer Service
14 10 (10.00%) Business Process Modelling
14 10 (10.00%) Manufacturing
14 10 (10.00%) Project Management
14 10 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (9.00%) Six Sigma
15 9 (9.00%) Change Management
15 9 (9.00%) GAP Analysis
15 9 (9.00%) User Acceptance Testing
15 9 (9.00%) JIRA
15 9 (9.00%) Target Operating Model
16 8 (8.00%) Roadmaps
16 8 (8.00%) Business Case

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (3.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.00%) MS Visio
3 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.00%) IaaS
4 2 (2.00%) SaaS
5 1 (1.00%) Azure
5 1 (1.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.00%) Power BI
2 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.00%) Tableau
3 1 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (9.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (1.00%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 26 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 15 (15.00%) Finance
5 10 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 10 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (8.00%) Banking
7 3 (3.00%) Legal
7 3 (3.00%) Retail
7 3 (3.00%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.00%) Billing
8 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.00%) Local Government
9 1 (1.00%) Military
9 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.00%) Industry 4.0
1 5 (5.00%) IoT
1 5 (5.00%) Robotics
2 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.00%) Tandem
4 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.00%) Life Science
4 1 (1.00%) NHS
4 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 28 (28.00%) Business Analysis
3 27 (27.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 21 (21.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
6 16 (16.00%) Agile
7 15 (15.00%) Use Case
8 13 (13.00%) User Stories
9 12 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (11.00%) Requirements Engineering
11 10 (10.00%) Business Process Modelling
11 10 (10.00%) Customer Service
11 10 (10.00%) Project Management
12 9 (9.00%) Change Management
12 9 (9.00%) GAP Analysis
12 9 (9.00%) Six Sigma
12 9 (9.00%) Target Operating Model
12 9 (9.00%) User Acceptance Testing
13 8 (8.00%) BPMN
13 8 (8.00%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.00%) SQL
2 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (1.00%) Groovy
2 1 (1.00%) Java
2 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (19.00%) Degree
2 5 (5.00%) IIBA
2 5 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.00%) ISEB
4 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.00%) CBAP
5 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) QA
2 7 (7.00%) GDPR
3 6 (6.00%) Good Clinical Practice
3 6 (6.00%) GxP
4 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.00%) COREP
5 1 (1.00%) FINREP
Systems Management
1 3 (3.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.00%) Pega
2 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.00%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.00%) SAP
4 1 (1.00%) Workday