Business Analyst Contracts in the South East

Business Analyst (BA)
England > South East

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the South East is £488, 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 79 93 59
Rank change year-on-year +14 -34 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 83 118 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.76% 2.12% 3.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.00% 2.30% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 98 171
10th Percentile £381 £375 £325
25th Percentile £419 £415 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +2.15% +3.33%
75th Percentile £544 £555 £538
90th Percentile £573 £596 £619
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.82 £22.50 £60.25
% change year-on-year +45.84% -62.66% +129.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the South East

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the South East

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst 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 1 May 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 +12 44 £488 -2.50% 27
Berkshire +16 33 £488 -11.36% 9
Hampshire +25 20 £450 -5.26% 15
East Sussex - 9 £613 - 3
Buckinghamshire +2 7 £494 +14.77% 12
Surrey +3 6 £475 +11.76% 8
Oxfordshire +2 4 £475 - 6
Kent +9 2 £469 +4.17% 10
West Sussex +12 1 £425 - 3
Business Analyst
England

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 32 (38.55%) Agile
2 28 (33.73%) Social Skills
3 26 (31.33%) User Stories
4 25 (30.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (19.28%) Business Analysis
5 16 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (18.07%) Requirements Gathering
7 13 (15.66%) JIRA
7 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (15.66%) Finance
8 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
9 11 (13.25%) Azure
9 11 (13.25%) Migration
9 11 (13.25%) Scrum
10 10 (12.05%) Data Modelling
10 10 (12.05%) SQL
10 10 (12.05%) Analytics
10 10 (12.05%) Acceptance Criteria
11 9 (10.84%) DevOps
11 9 (10.84%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (9.64%) Validation
12 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
13 7 (8.43%) Workshop Facilitation
13 7 (8.43%) Retail
13 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
14 6 (7.23%) Change Management
14 6 (7.23%) Telecoms
14 6 (7.23%) Microsoft

Business Analyst Skill Set
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 6 (7.23%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) Camunda
3 1 (1.20%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.20%) iTrent
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.25%) Azure
2 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.02%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.61%) SaaS
5 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.41%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.20%) AWS
6 1 (1.20%) GCP
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Slack
6 1 (1.20%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) Intranet
1 1 (1.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) Power BI
2 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.20%) Impala
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) Postman
2 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
General
1 28 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.66%) Finance
4 7 (8.43%) Retail
5 6 (7.23%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.61%) Automotive
7 3 (3.61%) Local Government
8 2 (2.41%) Banking
8 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.20%) Back Office
9 1 (1.20%) French Language
9 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Marketing
9 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) Web Services
2 1 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.20%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.20%) IoT
5 1 (1.20%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Life Science
5 1 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (38.55%) Agile
2 26 (31.33%) User Stories
3 25 (30.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (19.28%) Business Analysis
5 15 (18.07%) Requirements Gathering
6 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (13.25%) Migration
7 11 (13.25%) Scrum
8 10 (12.05%) Acceptance Criteria
8 10 (12.05%) Analytics
8 10 (12.05%) Data Modelling
9 9 (10.84%) DevOps
9 9 (10.84%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (9.64%) Validation
11 7 (8.43%) Workshop Facilitation
12 6 (7.23%) Change Management
12 6 (7.23%) Project Management
12 6 (7.23%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.02%) Degree
2 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.41%) APMP
5 1 (1.20%) IIBA
5 1 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.20%) P3O
3 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.02%) Virgin Media
3 4 (4.82%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) Palantir
4 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.20%) Capita
5 1 (1.20%) Databricks
5 1 (1.20%) Google
5 1 (1.20%) IFS
5 1 (1.20%) Workday
5 1 (1.20%) Zscaler