Business Analyst Contracts in Northamptonshire

Business Analyst (BA)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in Northamptonshire is £358, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 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
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 39 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 12.91% 4.48% 2.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.40% 4.74% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 11 3
10th Percentile £315 £356 £365
25th Percentile £333 £356 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £387 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -3.25% -13.51%
75th Percentile £360 £400 £444
90th Percentile £388 £414 £470
East Midlands median daily rate £358 £400 £469
% change year-on-year -10.50% -14.67% +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 291 253 180
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.36% 94.40% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 194 135
10th Percentile £268 £353 £213
25th Percentile £346 £376 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% -6.32% +2.70%
75th Percentile £450 £550 £544
90th Percentile £525 £600 £591
East Midlands median daily rate £403 £449 £475
% change year-on-year -10.36% -5.47% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £17.57 - £11.39
25th Percentile - £11.83 £11.67
Median hourly rate £21.39 £12.22 £13.18
Median % change year-on-year +75.04% -7.25% -62.36%
75th Percentile - £22.13 £27.14
90th Percentile £38.20 £42.03 £49.86
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £24.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -10.88% +14.29% +6.79%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in Northamptonshire

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in Northamptonshire

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in Northamptonshire

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in Northamptonshire

Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Northampton +8 39 £358 -7.49% 10
Business Analyst
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 Northamptonshire region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 21 (53.85%) Finance
2 20 (51.28%) Agile
3 16 (41.03%) Banking
4 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 12 (30.77%) Scrum
5 12 (30.77%) Business Analysis
5 12 (30.77%) Waterfall
6 11 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
8 9 (23.08%) CRM
8 9 (23.08%) Kanban
8 9 (23.08%) Decision-Making
9 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.51%) SDLC
9 8 (20.51%) User Stories
9 8 (20.51%) SQL
9 8 (20.51%) Project Management
9 8 (20.51%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (17.95%) Business Case
10 7 (17.95%) Customer Experience
10 7 (17.95%) Risk Management
10 7 (17.95%) Change Management
10 7 (17.95%) Salesforce
10 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (15.38%) Microservices
11 6 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
12 5 (12.82%) Feasibility Study
12 5 (12.82%) Workshop Facilitation
12 5 (12.82%) Epics

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 4 (10.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.56%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) Azure
1 4 (10.26%) GCP
2 3 (7.69%) AWS
2 3 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.56%) GitHub
3 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Big Data
1 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.56%) Metadata
1 1 (2.56%) Power BI
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (53.85%) Finance
2 16 (41.03%) Banking
3 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 11 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.82%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Marketing
7 2 (5.13%) Legal
8 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) LDAP
1 3 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.56%) Derivative
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) Agile
2 12 (30.77%) Business Analysis
2 12 (30.77%) Scrum
2 12 (30.77%) Waterfall
3 10 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (23.08%) CRM
4 9 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 9 (23.08%) Kanban
5 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.51%) Project Management
5 8 (20.51%) Requirements Gathering
5 8 (20.51%) SDLC
5 8 (20.51%) User Stories
6 7 (17.95%) Business Case
6 7 (17.95%) Change Management
6 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (17.95%) Customer Experience
6 7 (17.95%) Risk Management
7 6 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (15.38%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.56%) BC Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) COREP
2 2 (5.13%) FINREP
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.13%) DocuSign
4 1 (2.56%) Databricks
4 1 (2.56%) Google