Business Analyst Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Business Analyst (BA)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £400, 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 30 25 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 7 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.87% 2.88% 2.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.97% 3.17% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile £350 £365 £460
25th Percentile £363 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £454 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% -13.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £517 £488 £550
90th Percentile £559 £518 -
North East median daily rate £400 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -15.79% -7.32% +7.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 236 221 342
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.72% 90.95% 98.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 102 266
10th Percentile £223 £271 £311
25th Percentile £350 £377 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £555
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -9.91% +11.00%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £734
North East median daily rate £461 £475 £540
% change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 41 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% - -
75th Percentile £23.69 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £49.08 £60.00 -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
% change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in Tyne and Wear

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in Tyne and Wear

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in Tyne and Wear

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in Tyne and Wear

Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -9 7 £400 -11.89% 10
Business Analyst
North East

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) User Stories
2 4 (57.14%) Virgin Media
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (28.57%) JIRA
4 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) WCAG
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) UML
5 1 (14.29%) ERP
5 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
5 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Confluence
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Business Process Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (14.29%) Epics
5 1 (14.29%) Sprint Review
5 1 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
5 1 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (14.29%) Miro
5 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
5 1 (14.29%) User Research

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Miro
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) User Stories
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
4 1 (14.29%) Epics
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Review
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 1 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Virgin Media
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks