Data Business Analyst Contracts in the South East

Data Business Analyst (Data BA)
England > South East

The median Data Business Analyst (Data BA) daily rate in the South East is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 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
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 195 199
Rank change year-on-year +47 +4 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Data Business Analyst 13 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.39% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.15% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 10
10th Percentile £371 £479 £263
25th Percentile £403 £544 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £555 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.29% +8.29% +1.74%
75th Percentile £613 - £547
90th Percentile £656 £558 £553
England median daily rate £475 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.50 - £60.00

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 3,045 5,174 5,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 92.41% 94.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,968 3,055 3,844
10th Percentile £213 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £605
90th Percentile £660 £696 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 503 250
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £21.09
Median hourly rate £27.88 £54.88 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.19% +9.75% +137.81%
75th Percentile £60.56 £70.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £74.81
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.55% -6.98% +70.01%

Data Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Business Analyst in the South East

Data Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Business Analyst in the South East

Data Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Business Analyst in the South East over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Business Analyst in the South East

Data Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Business Analyst in the South East

Data 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 Data Business Analyst within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 July 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 +13 5 £513 -7.66%
Hampshire - 4 £478 - 1
Buckinghamshire +10 3 £625 +56.25%
East Sussex - 2 £638 - 1
West Sussex - 2 £438 -
Berkshire +22 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £400 -
Data Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 2025, Data 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 Data Business Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) Power Platform
2 7 (53.85%) User Stories
3 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
3 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) Power BI
3 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 5 (38.46%) Analytics
4 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (38.46%) QA
4 5 (38.46%) Azure
5 4 (30.77%) Data Transformation
5 4 (30.77%) Validation
5 4 (30.77%) Wireframes
5 4 (30.77%) Business Process Modelling
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (23.08%) Lean Software Development
6 3 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (23.08%) Sprint Review
6 3 (23.08%) User Research
6 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
6 3 (23.08%) Migration
6 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) Project Management
6 3 (23.08%) ETL

Data 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Power Platform
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) Impala
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) User Stories
3 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
4 5 (38.46%) Analytics
4 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (30.77%) Business Process Modelling
5 4 (30.77%) Data Transformation
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Validation
5 4 (30.77%) Wireframes
6 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (23.08%) Lean Software Development
6 3 (23.08%) Migration
6 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (23.08%) Sprint Review
6 3 (23.08%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.69%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Palantir
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Workday