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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 70 93
Rank change year-on-year -20 +23 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 140 80 116
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.33% 2.73% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 2.99% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 60 98
10th Percentile £355 £361 £356
25th Percentile £418 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +1.32% -2.06%
75th Percentile £543 £539 £538
90th Percentile £588 £580 £588
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
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 £62.50 £40.81 £22.50
% change year-on-year +53.17% +81.36% -64.00%

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 5,507 2,673 5,175
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 91.14% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,390 1,794 3,079
10th Percentile £300 £225 £234
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
England median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 164 513
10th Percentile £15.08 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £24.25 £16.95 £18.32
Median hourly rate £50.24 £33.47 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.12% -30.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80.17 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.35 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.43% -21.79% -16.67%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -19 73 £500 +2.56% 15
Berkshire -13 50 £500 +2.56% 11
Hampshire -14 35 £525 +16.67% 2
Surrey -12 15 £500 +21.21% 2
Buckinghamshire -31 14 £350 -34.02% 4
West Sussex -11 9 £450 +5.88%
Oxfordshire -19 9 £525 +10.53% 1
East Sussex -7 3 - -
Kent -7 1 £550 +17.33% 3
Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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 54 (38.57%) Business Analysis
2 50 (35.71%) Agile
3 49 (35.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 45 (32.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 34 (24.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (22.14%) Requirements Gathering
7 28 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 24 (17.14%) User Stories
9 23 (16.43%) JIRA
10 22 (15.71%) Process Improvement
11 21 (15.00%) SC Cleared
12 18 (12.86%) Confluence
13 17 (12.14%) Azure
13 17 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (11.43%) Acceptance Criteria
14 16 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (11.43%) Decision-Making
14 16 (11.43%) DevOps
15 14 (10.00%) Migration
16 13 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
16 13 (9.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 13 (9.29%) Microsoft
17 12 (8.57%) Data Modelling
17 12 (8.57%) MS Visio
17 12 (8.57%) Salesforce
17 12 (8.57%) Scrum
17 12 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
17 12 (8.57%) Waterfall
18 11 (7.86%) Analytics
18 11 (7.86%) Degree

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 (12.86%) Confluence
2 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) Appian
Applications
1 12 (8.57%) MS Visio
2 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.14%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (1.43%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.14%) Azure
2 16 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (7.14%) AWS
4 9 (6.43%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.14%) Lucidchart
5 3 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.14%) SaaS
5 3 (2.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (1.43%) Miro
6 2 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Intranet
1 1 (0.71%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.71%) Power BI
2 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.43%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.43%) OLAP
4 1 (0.71%) Big Data
4 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.71%) MS Access
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (0.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (16.43%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Balsamiq
General
1 48 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
2 44 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 26 (18.57%) Finance
4 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.57%) Manufacturing
6 10 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (7.14%) Marketing
7 7 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.29%) Aerospace
8 6 (4.29%) Legal
9 5 (3.57%) Retail
10 4 (2.86%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.14%) Advertising
11 3 (2.14%) Automotive
11 3 (2.14%) Military
12 2 (1.43%) Back Office
12 2 (1.43%) Banking
12 2 (1.43%) Electronics
12 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.71%) Agriculture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.86%) ADO
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 13 (9.29%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.57%) Operational Technology
3 6 (4.29%) NHS
3 6 (4.29%) SCADA
4 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.14%) IVR
7 2 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.71%) Blog
8 1 (0.71%) CMDB
8 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Life Science
8 1 (0.71%) LIMS
8 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (38.57%) Business Analysis
2 50 (35.71%) Agile
3 49 (35.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 45 (32.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 34 (24.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (22.14%) Requirements Gathering
7 24 (17.14%) User Stories
8 22 (15.71%) Process Improvement
9 17 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (11.43%) Acceptance Criteria
10 16 (11.43%) Decision-Making
10 16 (11.43%) DevOps
11 14 (10.00%) Migration
12 13 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (8.57%) Data Modelling
13 12 (8.57%) Scrum
13 12 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
13 12 (8.57%) Waterfall
14 11 (7.86%) Analytics
14 11 (7.86%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.86%) Degree
4 10 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.71%) ACCA
5 1 (0.71%) APMG
5 1 (0.71%) CBAP
5 1 (0.71%) CIMA
5 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.71%) IIBA
5 1 (0.71%) ISEB
5 1 (0.71%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (7.86%) GDPR
3 7 (5.00%) NIST
4 6 (4.29%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.57%) GRC
6 4 (2.86%) QA
7 2 (1.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.71%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 5 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.57%) Salesforce
3 9 (6.43%) SAP
4 7 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.86%) Oracle
5 4 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (2.14%) Adobe
6 3 (2.14%) Databricks
7 2 (1.43%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.71%) Ariba
8 1 (0.71%) Ceridian
8 1 (0.71%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.71%) NGA Human Resources