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 £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 58 45
Rank change year-on-year -36 -13 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 114 206 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.00% 3.63% 4.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 3.84% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 160 280
10th Percentile £370 £363 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% +2.74%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £588 £619 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.08% -3.37%
England median hourly rate £25.25 £62.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -59.60% +140.38% -40.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 5,241 5,360 7,425
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 94.57% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,082 3,707 5,075
10th Percentile £234 £213 £210
25th Percentile £400 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £590
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 543 236 313
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.51
25th Percentile £18.43 £22.34 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - +138.10% -16.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £62.10
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

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 8 June 2024.

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 8 June 2024. 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 -33 67 £500 +4.17% 8
Berkshire -42 37 £555 +6.73% 6
Hampshire 0 24 £473 -6.90% 6
Surrey +13 21 £425 -11.46% 6
Buckinghamshire +21 19 £428 -3.12%
Oxfordshire +8 11 £475 -7.99% 2
West Sussex +5 1 £425 +9.68% 2
Kent 0 1 £450 -5.26% 2
M4 Corridor - 1 £598 -
Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, 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 35 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 33 (28.95%) Business Analysis
3 27 (23.68%) Agile
4 26 (22.81%) User Stories
5 25 (21.93%) Finance
6 22 (19.30%) Requirements Gathering
7 20 (17.54%) Project Management
8 17 (14.91%) SAP
8 17 (14.91%) Manufacturing
8 17 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (14.04%) User Acceptance Testing
9 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (11.40%) ERP
10 13 (11.40%) JIRA
11 12 (10.53%) Degree
11 12 (10.53%) Business Case
11 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (9.65%) Acceptance Criteria
12 11 (9.65%) Data Analysis
13 10 (8.77%) MS Visio
13 10 (8.77%) Change Management
13 10 (8.77%) Confluence
13 10 (8.77%) Product Ownership
14 9 (7.89%) E-Commerce
15 8 (7.02%) Telecoms
15 8 (7.02%) Scrum
15 8 (7.02%) Security Cleared
15 8 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
15 8 (7.02%) Impact Assessments
16 7 (6.14%) Product Backlog

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 10 (8.77%) Confluence
2 3 (2.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.77%) MS Visio
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) SAP MDG
2 3 (2.63%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (1.75%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.88%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.88%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.51%) Azure
1 4 (3.51%) SaaS
1 4 (3.51%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 3 (2.63%) AWS
2 3 (2.63%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.63%) Power BI
2 2 (1.75%) Power Query
2 2 (1.75%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 13 (11.40%) JIRA
General
1 35 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.93%) Finance
3 17 (14.91%) Manufacturing
4 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.02%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.14%) Retail
7 6 (5.26%) Automotive
7 6 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.39%) Banking
8 5 (4.39%) Marketing
9 4 (3.51%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (2.63%) French Language
11 1 (0.88%) Billing
11 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Local Government
11 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.75%) HTML
1 2 (1.75%) JSON
1 2 (1.75%) XML
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.77%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.39%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.39%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.63%) IoT
4 3 (2.63%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.75%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.88%) EPoS
6 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.95%) Business Analysis
2 27 (23.68%) Agile
3 26 (22.81%) User Stories
4 22 (19.30%) Requirements Gathering
5 20 (17.54%) Project Management
6 17 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (14.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (11.40%) ERP
9 12 (10.53%) Business Case
10 11 (9.65%) Acceptance Criteria
10 11 (9.65%) Data Analysis
11 10 (8.77%) Change Management
12 9 (7.89%) E-Commerce
13 8 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (7.02%) Impact Assessments
13 8 (7.02%) Scrum
14 7 (6.14%) CRM
14 7 (6.14%) Process Improvement
14 7 (6.14%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.14%) SQL
2 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.88%) JCL
3 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (10.53%) Degree
2 8 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.14%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.51%) ISEB
5 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) CBAP
6 1 (0.88%) CSPO
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) GDPR
2 3 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (14.91%) SAP
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.51%) Adobe
3 4 (3.51%) Oracle
4 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.75%) Workday
6 1 (0.88%) Apple