Business Analyst Contracts in Peterborough

Business Analyst (BA)
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in Peterborough is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Peterborough 4.40% - 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.88% - 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £326
25th Percentile - - £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £456
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.95%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - £620
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £425 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +3.66% -8.89% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £20.50 - £20.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Peterborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Peterborough. 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 Peterborough with a recognized job title 68 172 164
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 74.73% 78.90% 75.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 64
10th Percentile £190 £170 £202
25th Percentile £336 £178 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £305 £350
Median % change year-on-year +41.39% -12.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £471 £569 £488
90th Percentile £597 £602 £535
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 141 83
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.14 £15.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +6.90% +7.41%
75th Percentile £17.84 £21.37 £18.50
90th Percentile £21.46 £31.13 £20.56
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year - +5.16% +13.47%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in Peterborough

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in Peterborough

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in Peterborough

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Peterborough region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) MS Visio

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Peterborough 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft