Agile Business Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Business Analyst (Agile BA)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Agile Business Analyst (Agile BA) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £510, 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 325 386 429
Rank change year-on-year +61 +43 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Business Analyst 11 13 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.063% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.068% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 22
10th Percentile £350 £445 £380
25th Percentile £383 £478 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +9.47% -
75th Percentile £551 £563 £575
90th Percentile £602 £588 -
UK median daily rate £388 £550 £494
% change year-on-year -29.55% +11.39% -1.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Agile Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Agile Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Agile Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Business Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Agile Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Agile Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Business Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Agile Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Business Analyst within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +21 6 £350 -33.01%
South West +47 2 £638 +10.87%
South East +46 2 £543 +2.07% 2
Yorkshire +6 2 £495 -5.26%
North East - 2 £350 -
North West - 2 - -
Scotland +11 1 - -
Agile Business Analyst
UK

Agile Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Agile 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 UK excluding London region featuring Agile Business Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) User Stories
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
4 4 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
5 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (27.27%) Finance
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
6 2 (18.18%) Military
6 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (18.18%) Virgin Media
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Epics
6 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
7 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 1 (9.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 1 (9.09%) Model Validation
7 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (9.09%) UX Research
7 1 (9.09%) Pendo
7 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 1 (9.09%) Coaching
7 1 (9.09%) User Experience
7 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (9.09%) SDLC
7 1 (9.09%) Straight-Through Processing

Agile Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (9.09%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) Pendo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) User Stories
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
5 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
5 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (18.18%) Epics
7 1 (9.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 1 (9.09%) Business Process Modelling
7 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (9.09%) Minimum Viable Product
7 1 (9.09%) Model Validation
7 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) UX Research
7 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CBAP
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Virgin Media
2 1 (9.09%) ESRI
2 1 (9.09%) SAP