Product Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South East

Product Business Analyst (Product BA)
England > South East

The median Product Business Analyst (Product BA) daily rate in the South East is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 151 193
Rank change year-on-year -52 +42 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Product Business Analyst 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.10% 0.067% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.073% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £445 £318 £392
25th Percentile £475 £353 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £410 £553
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% -25.83% +5.29%
75th Percentile £543 £468 £583
90th Percentile £607 £502 £586
England median daily rate £568 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -15.93% +3.85% +6.12%

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 5,405 2,752 5,090
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 91.64% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,359 1,825 3,070
10th Percentile £300 £239 £213
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £619
90th Percentile £706 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 163 483
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £25.00 £19.99 £18.32
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -31.58% -0.61%
75th Percentile £82.25 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.32 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.01% -19.15% -16.23%

Product Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Product Business Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Product Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the South East

Product Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Business Analyst job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Business Analyst job vacancies in the South East

Product Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Business Analyst in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Business Analyst in the South East

Product 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 Product Business Analyst within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hampshire -22 4 £530 +79.66%
Berkshire -26 2 £650 +23.81%
Thames Valley -38 2 £650 +23.81%
Surrey - 1 £500 - 4
Product Business Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2026, Product 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 Product Business Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Confluence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Appian
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement

Product 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Advertising
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Conceptual Models
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks