Business Analyst Contracts in Northampton

Business Analyst (BA)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in Northampton is £358, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 23 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 -3
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 40 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 14.34% 5.05% 3.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.87% 5.31% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 10 1
10th Percentile £315 £356 -
25th Percentile £332 £364 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £363
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +10.34% -15.94%
75th Percentile £360 - £369
90th Percentile £388 £427 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 £400 £419
% change year-on-year -10.50% -4.48% -11.84%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Northampton with a recognized job title 269 207 91
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.42% 94.95% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 165 64
10th Percentile £268 £355 £198
25th Percentile £340 £383 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -6.32% +2.98%
75th Percentile £449 £565 £536
90th Percentile £525 £604 £600
Northamptonshire median daily rate £385 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -13.48% -6.32% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.28%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £12.22 £13.18
% change year-on-year +75.04% -7.25% -62.36%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in Northampton

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in Northampton.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in Northampton

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in Northampton over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in Northampton

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in Northampton.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in Northampton

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 28 August 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 Northampton region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 21 (52.50%) Finance
2 20 (50.00%) Agile
3 16 (40.00%) Banking
4 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
5 12 (30.00%) Scrum
5 12 (30.00%) Business Analysis
5 12 (30.00%) Waterfall
6 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
8 9 (22.50%) CRM
8 9 (22.50%) Kanban
8 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
9 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.00%) SDLC
9 8 (20.00%) User Stories
9 8 (20.00%) SQL
9 8 (20.00%) Project Management
9 8 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (17.50%) Business Case
10 7 (17.50%) Customer Experience
10 7 (17.50%) Risk Management
10 7 (17.50%) Change Management
10 7 (17.50%) Salesforce
10 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (17.50%) Acceptance Criteria
11 6 (15.00%) Microservices
11 6 (15.00%) JIRA
12 5 (12.50%) Confluence
12 5 (12.50%) ETL

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (7.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.00%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) Azure
1 4 (10.00%) GCP
2 3 (7.50%) AWS
2 3 (7.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub
3 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Big Data
1 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.50%) Metadata
1 1 (2.50%) Power BI
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (52.50%) Finance
2 16 (40.00%) Banking
3 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
4 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (7.50%) Marketing
7 2 (5.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) LDAP
1 3 (7.50%) REST
2 1 (2.50%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.50%) Derivative
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Agile
2 12 (30.00%) Business Analysis
2 12 (30.00%) Scrum
2 12 (30.00%) Waterfall
3 10 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (22.50%) CRM
4 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
4 9 (22.50%) Kanban
5 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.00%) Project Management
5 8 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 8 (20.00%) SDLC
5 8 (20.00%) User Stories
6 7 (17.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 7 (17.50%) Business Case
6 7 (17.50%) Change Management
6 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (17.50%) Customer Experience
6 7 (17.50%) Risk Management
7 6 (15.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.50%) BC Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) COREP
2 2 (5.00%) FINREP
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.00%) DocuSign
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) Google