Business Analyst Contracts in the Thames Valley

Business Analyst (BA)
South East > Thames Valley

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the Thames Valley is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 70 39
Rank change year-on-year +12 -31 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 44 76 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.91% 2.83% 5.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.13% 3.03% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 61 113
10th Percentile £400 £375 £324
25th Percentile £431 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £543 £555 £538
90th Percentile £560 £588 £572
South East median daily rate £488 £475 £465
% change year-on-year +2.63% +2.15% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +32.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the Thames Valley

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in the Thames Valley

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the Thames Valley

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in the Thames Valley

Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +16 33 £488 -11.36% 15
Buckinghamshire +2 7 £494 +14.77% 18
Oxfordshire +2 4 £475 - 9
Business Analyst
South East

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 21 (47.73%) Agile
2 16 (36.36%) User Stories
3 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
4 12 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (22.73%) Business Analysis
6 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (15.91%) Azure
8 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (15.91%) JIRA
8 7 (15.91%) Finance
8 7 (15.91%) Scrum
9 6 (13.64%) Telecoms
9 6 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (11.36%) Acceptance Criteria
10 5 (11.36%) Virgin Media
10 5 (11.36%) Onboarding
10 5 (11.36%) Analytics
10 5 (11.36%) DevOps
10 5 (11.36%) SQL
10 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
11 4 (9.09%) CRM
11 4 (9.09%) Change Management
11 4 (9.09%) Use Case
11 4 (9.09%) BPMN
11 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
12 3 (6.82%) Epics

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Camunda
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.82%) SaaS
4 1 (2.27%) AWS
4 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.27%) GCP
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Power BI
2 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.27%) Impala
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) JIRA
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Finance
4 6 (13.64%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.82%) Automotive
5 3 (6.82%) Local Government
6 2 (4.55%) Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.55%) Retail
7 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) Web Services
2 1 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Life Science
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Agile
2 16 (36.36%) User Stories
3 12 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (22.73%) Business Analysis
5 8 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (15.91%) Scrum
6 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (11.36%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (11.36%) Analytics
8 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
8 5 (11.36%) DevOps
9 4 (9.09%) BPMN
9 4 (9.09%) Change Management
9 4 (9.09%) CRM
9 4 (9.09%) Use Case
9 4 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
10 3 (6.82%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) APMP
3 1 (2.27%) IIBA
3 1 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) GDPR
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Virgin Media
2 3 (6.82%) Oracle
3 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) Capita
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) Workday