Business Analysis Contracts in the South East

Business Analysis
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Business Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 144 109
Rank change year-on-year +18 -35 -29
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 28 63 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.90% 1.11% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.34% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 37 74
10th Percentile £388 £343 £402
25th Percentile £403 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £550
90th Percentile £550 £588 £650
England median daily rate £545 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £26.78
25th Percentile - - £33.98
Median hourly rate - £18.35 £46.98
Median % change year-on-year - -60.94% -41.28%
75th Percentile - - £58.98
90th Percentile - - £65.59
England median hourly rate £64.50 £42.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +51.76% -35.61% +133.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Business Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,844 4,690 5,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.07% 82.64% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,770 2,720 3,506
10th Percentile £250 £256 £250
25th Percentile £393 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £666 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 460 235
10th Percentile £13.43 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.20 £21.45
Median hourly rate £24.33 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.78% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.14 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the South East

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the South East

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in the South East over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the South East

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the South East

Business Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Thames Valley +7 18 £463 -7.50% 80
Berkshire +8 13 £475 -13.64% 48
Hampshire +25 6 £525 +10.53% 30
Buckinghamshire +8 5 £405 -5.81% 22
Surrey +14 3 £443 +4.12% 16
West Sussex - 1 £450 - 18
Business Analysis
England

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.57%) CMS
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) Serverless
3 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) Intranet
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) git-flow
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Automotive
4 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.14%) Marketing
4 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Analyst
2 16 (57.14%) Business Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Data Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Business IT Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) IT Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) IT Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Product Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Project Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) IoT
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Agile
1 12 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (32.14%) Project Management
3 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (21.43%) Project Delivery
4 6 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
4 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.29%) CRM
5 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 4 (14.29%) Product Management
5 4 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (14.29%) User Stories
5 4 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (10.71%) Change Management
6 3 (10.71%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) IIBA
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GRC
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) VMware
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft