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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 75 88
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 170 94 96
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.54% 2.66% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.76% 2.94% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 68 77
10th Percentile £400 £363 £323
25th Percentile £428 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £497
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.12% -0.65%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £555
90th Percentile £588 £583 £588
England median daily rate £520 £511 £530
% change year-on-year +1.83% -3.65% -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £97.77 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £104.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £106.40 - -
England median hourly rate £56.75 £34.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +66.91% -32.00% -16.67%

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 6,167 3,194 4,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 90.53% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 2,064 2,714
10th Percentile £305 £205 £250
25th Percentile £425 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £637
90th Percentile £720 £663 £691
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 739 278 369
10th Percentile £15.72 £13.75 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.43 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +108.45% -56.15% +14.70%
75th Percentile £71.25 £57.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £86.61 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +63.46% -42.22% +6.95%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -10 98 £500 +11.11% 17
Berkshire +6 69 £500 +2.56% 7
Hampshire -15 35 £525 +5.00% 10
Buckinghamshire -35 21 £490 +16.67% 8
Surrey -13 17 £500 +9.59% 7
West Sussex -9 13 £450 - 2
Oxfordshire -25 8 £525 +31.25% 2
East Sussex -3 3 - - 1
Kent -4 1 £550 +12.82% 6
Home Counties - 1 £650 -
Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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 75 (44.12%) Business Analysis
2 60 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (34.12%) Agile
3 58 (34.12%) Workshop Facilitation
4 50 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 48 (28.24%) Requirements Gathering
6 34 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 31 (18.24%) Process Improvement
8 27 (15.88%) Cybersecurity
9 26 (15.29%) SC Cleared
10 25 (14.71%) JIRA
10 25 (14.71%) User Stories
11 21 (12.35%) User Acceptance Testing
12 20 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
12 20 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (10.59%) Confluence
13 18 (10.59%) Decision-Making
13 18 (10.59%) Salesforce
14 17 (10.00%) Microsoft
14 17 (10.00%) Requirements Management
14 17 (10.00%) Validation
15 16 (9.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 15 (8.82%) Azure
16 15 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
16 15 (8.82%) CRM
16 15 (8.82%) Degree
16 15 (8.82%) Impact Assessments
16 15 (8.82%) Waterfall
17 14 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (8.24%) Defect Management

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 18 (10.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 10 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 7 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.59%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.59%) Primavera
4 1 (0.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.82%) Azure
2 14 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (7.65%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.88%) AWS
5 3 (1.76%) SaaS
5 3 (1.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (1.18%) Miro
6 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.59%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) Network Security
2 1 (0.59%) Intranet
2 1 (0.59%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.06%) Power BI
2 2 (1.18%) GIS
3 1 (0.59%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 25 (14.71%) JIRA
General
1 56 (32.94%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 29 (17.06%) Finance
4 18 (10.59%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.29%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.71%) Retail
8 7 (4.12%) Police
9 6 (3.53%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.53%) Legal
10 4 (2.35%) Billing
10 4 (2.35%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.18%) Automotive
11 2 (1.18%) Back Office
11 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.18%) Marketing
11 2 (1.18%) Military
12 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
1 5 (2.94%) Terraform
2 2 (1.18%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.82%) Analytical Mindset
1 15 (8.82%) Operational Technology
2 9 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.53%) SCADA
5 5 (2.94%) IVR
6 4 (2.35%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.76%) NHS
7 3 (1.76%) PMI
8 2 (1.18%) CMDB
8 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.59%) Blog
9 1 (0.59%) BYOD
9 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.59%) Life Science
9 1 (0.59%) LIMS
9 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.59%) Robotics
9 1 (0.59%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (44.12%) Business Analysis
2 60 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (34.12%) Agile
3 58 (34.12%) Workshop Facilitation
4 50 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 48 (28.24%) Requirements Gathering
6 31 (18.24%) Process Improvement
7 27 (15.88%) Cybersecurity
8 25 (14.71%) User Stories
9 21 (12.35%) User Acceptance Testing
10 20 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
10 20 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (10.59%) Decision-Making
12 17 (10.00%) Requirements Management
12 17 (10.00%) Validation
13 15 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (8.82%) CRM
13 15 (8.82%) Impact Assessments
13 15 (8.82%) Waterfall
14 14 (8.24%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.82%) Degree
4 7 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.53%) CBAP
5 6 (3.53%) ISEB
6 4 (2.35%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.76%) ISEB Practitioner
7 3 (1.76%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.18%) ACCA
8 2 (1.18%) CIMA
8 2 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.59%) APMG
9 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.59%) IIBA
9 1 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.29%) GDPR
3 8 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.71%) GRC
3 8 (4.71%) NIST
4 7 (4.12%) QA
5 2 (1.18%) PMO
6 1 (0.59%) NCSC
6 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 18 (10.59%) Salesforce
2 17 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.65%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.88%) SAP
5 5 (2.94%) Oracle
6 3 (1.76%) Databricks
7 2 (1.18%) ESRI
7 2 (1.18%) IBM
7 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.18%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.59%) Ceridian
8 1 (0.59%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.59%) NGA Human Resources
8 1 (0.59%) Pega
8 1 (0.59%) Planview
8 1 (0.59%) Workday