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 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 80 88
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 179 87 104
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.68% 2.49% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.90% 2.75% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 62 82
10th Percentile £375 £363 £340
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £555
90th Percentile £588 £598 £597
England median daily rate £508 £515 £530
% change year-on-year -1.36% -2.92% -0.56%
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 £60.00 £48.75 £58.25
% change year-on-year +23.08% -16.31% -8.63%

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 3,169 4,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 90.59% 92.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,651 2,055 2,807
10th Percentile £305 £213 £255
25th Percentile £425 £376 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £663 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 713 256 381
10th Percentile £16.04 £13.93 £15.96
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -56.15% +14.70%
75th Percentile £75.40 £58.75 £72.33
90th Percentile £87.93 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.08% -42.22% +4.65%

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 2 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 2 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 -8 101 £500 +2.56% 14
Berkshire +7 73 £500 +2.56% 5
Hampshire -13 38 £513 +2.50% 13
Surrey -9 19 £500 +9.59% 5
Buckinghamshire -35 19 £490 +14.29% 4
West Sussex -8 14 £456 +1.39% 5
Oxfordshire -16 9 £525 +31.25% 5
East Sussex -2 3 - - 3
Kent +3 1 £550 +17.33% 5
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 2 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 78 (43.58%) Business Analysis
2 65 (36.31%) Agile
3 60 (33.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (33.52%) Workshop Facilitation
4 53 (29.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 52 (29.05%) Requirements Gathering
6 36 (20.11%) Security Cleared
7 31 (17.32%) Process Improvement
8 30 (16.76%) User Stories
9 28 (15.64%) SC Cleared
10 27 (15.08%) JIRA
11 26 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (12.29%) Decision-Making
13 21 (11.73%) Acceptance Criteria
13 21 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (11.73%) User Acceptance Testing
14 19 (10.61%) Confluence
14 19 (10.61%) Salesforce
15 18 (10.06%) Microsoft
15 18 (10.06%) Migration
15 18 (10.06%) Requirements Management
16 17 (9.50%) Azure
16 17 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
16 17 (9.50%) Degree
16 17 (9.50%) Validation
16 17 (9.50%) Waterfall
17 16 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (8.94%) CRM
17 16 (8.94%) DevOps
17 16 (8.94%) ISO/IEC 27001

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 19 (10.61%) Confluence
2 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.59%) MS Visio
3 8 (4.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.56%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.68%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (1.12%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.56%) Maximo
5 1 (0.56%) Primavera
5 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.50%) Azure
2 16 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (6.70%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.59%) AWS
5 3 (1.68%) Lucidchart
5 3 (1.68%) SaaS
5 3 (1.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (1.12%) Miro
6 2 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) Intranet
1 2 (1.12%) Network Security
2 1 (0.56%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.15%) Power BI
2 3 (1.68%) Data Mining
2 3 (1.68%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.12%) OLAP
4 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.56%) GIS
4 1 (0.56%) MS Access
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 27 (15.08%) JIRA
2 2 (1.12%) Balsamiq
General
1 59 (32.96%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (28.49%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.88%) Finance
4 18 (10.06%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (9.50%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.59%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.47%) Retail
8 7 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.91%) Police
9 6 (3.35%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.35%) Legal
10 5 (2.79%) Marketing
11 4 (2.23%) Billing
12 3 (1.68%) Automotive
12 3 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.12%) Advertising
13 2 (1.12%) Back Office
13 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.12%) Military
14 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.23%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.38%) Analytical Mindset
1 15 (8.38%) Operational Technology
2 11 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.47%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.35%) SCADA
5 5 (2.79%) IVR
6 4 (2.23%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.68%) NHS
7 3 (1.68%) PMI
8 2 (1.12%) CMDB
8 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.56%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.56%) BYOD
9 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (43.58%) Business Analysis
2 65 (36.31%) Agile
3 60 (33.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (33.52%) Workshop Facilitation
4 53 (29.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 52 (29.05%) Requirements Gathering
6 31 (17.32%) Process Improvement
7 30 (16.76%) User Stories
8 26 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (12.29%) Decision-Making
10 21 (11.73%) Acceptance Criteria
10 21 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (11.73%) User Acceptance Testing
11 18 (10.06%) Migration
11 18 (10.06%) Requirements Management
12 17 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (9.50%) Validation
12 17 (9.50%) Waterfall
13 16 (8.94%) CRM
13 16 (8.94%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.64%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.50%) Degree
4 7 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.35%) CBAP
5 6 (3.35%) ISEB
6 4 (2.23%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.68%) ISEB Practitioner
7 3 (1.68%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.12%) ACCA
8 2 (1.12%) CIMA
8 2 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.56%) APMG
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) IIBA
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.59%) GDPR
3 9 (5.03%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.47%) GRC
4 8 (4.47%) NIST
4 8 (4.47%) QA
5 2 (1.12%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 5 (2.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (10.61%) Salesforce
2 18 (10.06%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.82%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.03%) SAP
5 8 (4.47%) Oracle
6 4 (2.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.68%) Adobe
7 3 (1.68%) Databricks
8 2 (1.12%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.56%) Ceridian
9 1 (0.56%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.56%) ESRI
9 1 (0.56%) IBM
9 1 (0.56%) NGA Human Resources
9 1 (0.56%) Planview
9 1 (0.56%) Workday