Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South East

Business Analyst (BA)
England > South East

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the South East is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 75 81
Rank change year-on-year -23 +6 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 115 82 138
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.09% 2.78% 2.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.29% 2.99% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 65 118
10th Percentile £332 £339 £375
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £559
90th Percentile £575 £571 £609
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,024 2,741 5,232
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 92.79% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,159 1,812 3,170
10th Percentile £300 £245 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £613 £603 £611
90th Percentile £700 £665 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 150 450
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.25 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.37 £21.30 £18.32
Median hourly rate £47.50 £41.55 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.33% -7.68% -
75th Percentile £81.05 £63.75 £62.35
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.05 £76.56
England median hourly rate £41.77 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +21.07% +6.15% -24.14%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Business Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the South East

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the South East

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the South East over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the South East

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Analyst job vacancies in the South East

Business Analyst
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 Analyst within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 March 2026. 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 -16 64 £500 +2.56% 22
Berkshire -29 37 £463 -5.13% 13
Hampshire -15 31 £500 +8.11% 3
Buckinghamshire -15 17 £350 -33.33% 6
Oxfordshire -7 10 £525 +2.44% 3
Surrey -8 10 £515 +8.42% 12
West Sussex -10 5 £463 +8.82% 2
Kent -7 2 £500 +21.21% 3
Business Analyst
England

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 31 March 2026, Business Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 49 (42.61%) Business Analysis
2 47 (40.87%) Workshop Facilitation
3 40 (34.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 33 (28.70%) Agile
5 26 (22.61%) Requirements Gathering
5 26 (22.61%) User Stories
6 19 (16.52%) Security Cleared
6 19 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (13.91%) Process Improvement
8 15 (13.04%) SC Cleared
9 14 (12.17%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (11.30%) Decision-Making
10 13 (11.30%) JIRA
11 12 (10.43%) Project Management
12 11 (9.57%) Business Case
12 11 (9.57%) MS Visio
12 11 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (8.70%) Acceptance Criteria
13 10 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
13 10 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (8.70%) Impact Assessments
13 10 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 10 (8.70%) Migration
13 10 (8.70%) Project Delivery
13 10 (8.70%) Use Case
14 9 (7.83%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (7.83%) Data Modelling
14 9 (7.83%) GDPR
14 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.09%) Confluence
2 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) Appian
Applications
1 11 (9.57%) MS Visio
2 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (2.61%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.74%) Eloqua
2 2 (1.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.48%) Power Platform
2 3 (2.61%) Azure
2 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (2.61%) Lucidchart
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.74%) AWS
3 2 (1.74%) Miro
3 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (0.87%) iPaaS
4 1 (0.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (0.87%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) Intranet
1 1 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.48%) Power BI
2 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.74%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.74%) OLAP
4 1 (0.87%) Big Data
4 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.87%) MS Access
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (0.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (11.30%) JIRA
2 2 (1.74%) Balsamiq
General
1 35 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.00%) Finance
4 13 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.43%) Marketing
5 12 (10.43%) Telecoms
6 9 (7.83%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (6.96%) Manufacturing
8 6 (5.22%) Retail
9 4 (3.48%) Banking
9 4 (3.48%) Legal
10 3 (2.61%) Advertising
10 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.74%) Electronics
12 1 (0.87%) Automotive
12 1 (0.87%) Billing
12 1 (0.87%) Law
12 1 (0.87%) Local Government
12 1 (0.87%) Military
12 1 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.48%) ADO
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.22%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.48%) NHS
4 4 (3.48%) SCADA
5 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.61%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.74%) PMI
6 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.87%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.87%) CMDB
7 1 (0.87%) IVR
7 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (42.61%) Business Analysis
2 47 (40.87%) Workshop Facilitation
3 40 (34.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 33 (28.70%) Agile
5 26 (22.61%) Requirements Gathering
5 26 (22.61%) User Stories
6 19 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (13.91%) Process Improvement
8 14 (12.17%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (11.30%) Decision-Making
10 12 (10.43%) Project Management
11 11 (9.57%) Business Case
11 11 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (8.70%) Acceptance Criteria
12 10 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (8.70%) Impact Assessments
12 10 (8.70%) Migration
12 10 (8.70%) Project Delivery
12 10 (8.70%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.22%) Degree
5 3 (2.61%) CBAP
6 2 (1.74%) ISEB
6 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.87%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (7.83%) GDPR
3 7 (6.09%) NIST
4 6 (5.22%) QA
5 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.61%) ISO 8583
6 3 (2.61%) PMO
7 2 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.74%) PSD2
8 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.87%) GRC
8 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (7.83%) Salesforce
2 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.09%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.48%) Oracle
4 4 (3.48%) SAP
5 3 (2.61%) Adobe
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Ariba
7 1 (0.87%) BT
7 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.87%) Openreach
7 1 (0.87%) Planon