Business Analysis Contracts in the South West

Business Analysis
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Business Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 119 113
Rank change year-on-year +33 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 24 34 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.42% 1.07% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.28% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 45
10th Percentile £318 £425 £402
25th Percentile £396 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.83% +4.55% +17.33%
75th Percentile £541 £688 £650
90th Percentile £663 £708 £935
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £66.80
25th Percentile £61.50 - £68.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £75.40 £62.75
% change year-on-year -16.44% +20.15% +0.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Business Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,648 3,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 82.98% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 1,690 2,398
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 335 334
10th Percentile £18.36 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.61 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the South West

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the South West

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the South West

Business Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Bristol +13 7 £450 -33.33% 12
Wiltshire +40 6 £563 +25.00% 10
Somerset +2 4 £720 +35.85% 9
Devon +16 2 £335 - 5
Gloucestershire +12 2 £463 -15.91% 9
Dorset +3 1 £392 - 4
Business Analysis
England

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.17%) DB2
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 15 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (50.00%) Finance
3 7 (29.17%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (8.33%) Local Government
6 2 (8.33%) Military
6 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (4.17%) Electronics
7 1 (4.17%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.17%) Marketing
7 1 (4.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Analyst
2 12 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Architect
4 5 (20.83%) Business Architect
5 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
6 3 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Business Systems Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Information Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Information Systems Architect
7 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
7 1 (4.17%) IT Services Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Oracle Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) CSS
1 1 (4.17%) CSS3
1 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.17%) HTML
1 1 (4.17%) HTML5
1 1 (4.17%) Jest
1 1 (4.17%) Kafka
1 1 (4.17%) Middleware
1 1 (4.17%) OpenTracing
1 1 (4.17%) React
1 1 (4.17%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Business Case
2 8 (33.33%) Project Management
3 7 (29.17%) Decision-Making
4 6 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 6 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
5 5 (20.83%) Process Management
5 5 (20.83%) Scorecard
5 5 (20.83%) User Stories
6 4 (16.67%) Agile
6 4 (16.67%) Business Process Modelling
6 4 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
6 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.67%) Use Case
7 3 (12.50%) Change Management
7 3 (12.50%) ERP
7 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) IIBA
4 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.17%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Foundry
3 1 (4.17%) Liquidlogic
3 1 (4.17%) QAD
3 1 (4.17%) SAP