Business Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 137 105
Rank change year-on-year +8 -32 -17
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 247 341 564
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.93% 1.65% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.95% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 227 412
10th Percentile £350 £363 £385
25th Percentile £405 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - -
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £575 £613 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 9
10th Percentile £35.23 - £35.00
25th Percentile £57.46 £18.35 £61.50
Median hourly rate £63.00 £48.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -27.27% +37.50%
75th Percentile £69.65 £80.59 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.26 £84.00 -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £59.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.78% -5.60% +30.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK excluding London

Business Analysis
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 Business Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +3 71 £453 -4.63% 90
Scotland -6 52 £430 -4.44% 26
North West +8 49 £456 -4.00% 59
Midlands +3 41 £513 +7.89% 59
West Midlands +22 34 £525 +10.53% 40
South East +2 30 £488 -7.14% 125
South West +29 24 £444 -21.11% 50
East of England +28 20 £500 +17.30% 31
Yorkshire +4 19 £469 -4.29% 20
Northern Ireland +2 8 £425 +26.87% 18
East Midlands -4 7 £358 -20.44% 15
North East -1 3 £350 -5.41% 11
Wales +5 1 £438 -14.63% 3
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Business Analysis
UK

Business Analysis
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 30 (12.15%) Confluence
2 9 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.43%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.81%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (14.17%) MS Visio
2 17 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.81%) Open Workbench
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (4.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.21%) SAP BPC
2 3 (1.21%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Actimize
4 1 (0.40%) ContrOCC
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.10%) Power Platform
2 16 (6.48%) Azure
3 11 (4.45%) AWS
4 9 (3.64%) SaaS
5 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.62%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (1.62%) Azure AI
6 4 (1.62%) GCP
6 4 (1.62%) Google Gemini
6 4 (1.62%) Lucidchart
7 3 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.21%) Miro
8 1 (0.40%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.40%) dbt
8 1 (0.40%) Figma
8 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.40%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.40%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.02%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.81%) Internet
2 2 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.81%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.40%) Firewall
3 1 (0.40%) Intranet
3 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.10%) Power BI
2 13 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.43%) DB2
3 6 (2.43%) Tableau
4 4 (1.62%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.21%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.81%) Big Data
6 2 (0.81%) GIS
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.40%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.40%) MySQL
7 1 (0.40%) Parquet
7 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (18.22%) JIRA
2 5 (2.02%) Git
3 2 (0.81%) GitLab
3 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.81%) Maven
General
1 100 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 77 (31.17%) Finance
3 68 (27.53%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (17.00%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.91%) Banking
6 20 (8.10%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (6.07%) Legal
8 14 (5.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (4.86%) Manufacturing
10 11 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (3.24%) Local Government
13 5 (2.02%) Automotive
13 5 (2.02%) Retail
13 5 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.62%) Law
15 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.21%) Military
15 3 (1.21%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (70.04%) Analyst
2 155 (62.75%) Business Analyst
3 27 (10.93%) Senior
4 25 (10.12%) Architect
5 23 (9.31%) Senior Business Analyst
6 22 (8.91%) Senior Analyst
6 22 (8.91%) Technical Analyst
7 19 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
8 10 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.24%) Business IT Analyst
9 8 (3.24%) IT Analyst
10 7 (2.83%) Developer
10 7 (2.83%) IT Business Analyst
10 7 (2.83%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.43%) Business Architect
11 6 (2.43%) Data Analyst
11 6 (2.43%) Data Business Analyst
11 6 (2.43%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
11 6 (2.43%) Systems Architect
12 5 (2.02%) Information Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.62%) PyTorch
1 4 (1.62%) TensorFlow
2 3 (1.21%) CSS
2 3 (1.21%) HTML
2 3 (1.21%) OAuth
2 3 (1.21%) React
2 3 (1.21%) SAML
3 2 (0.81%) Apache Camel
3 2 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (0.81%) Next.js
3 2 (0.81%) OpenID
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.40%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.40%) HTML5
4 1 (0.40%) Kafka
4 1 (0.40%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.40%) OpenTracing
4 1 (0.40%) Quarkus
4 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.91%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.67%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.45%) CMDB
4 9 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.24%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.83%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.62%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.62%) IoT
9 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.81%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.81%) Life Science
10 2 (0.81%) NHS
10 2 (0.81%) PMI
10 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.40%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.81%) Linux
1 2 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (40.49%) Agile
2 80 (32.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (21.46%) User Stories
5 48 (19.43%) Project Management
6 46 (18.62%) Decision-Making
7 44 (17.81%) Requirements Gathering
8 41 (16.60%) Workshop Facilitation
9 38 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 34 (13.77%) Business Case
10 34 (13.77%) Data Analysis
10 34 (13.77%) Roadmaps
11 30 (12.15%) Change Management
12 29 (11.74%) Scrum
13 27 (10.93%) Migration
14 26 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (10.53%) GAP Analysis
14 26 (10.53%) Waterfall
15 24 (9.72%) Data Modelling
16 23 (9.31%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.91%) SQL
2 6 (2.43%) Python
3 5 (2.02%) Java
4 3 (1.21%) Scala
5 2 (0.81%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (17.00%) Degree
2 24 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.86%) IIBA
5 8 (3.24%) CBAP
6 7 (2.83%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.83%) ISEB
7 6 (2.43%) CCA
8 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.21%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.81%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.40%) ACCA
10 1 (0.40%) APMP
10 1 (0.40%) CIMA
10 1 (0.40%) CIPD
10 1 (0.40%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.40%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
10 1 (0.40%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.45%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.05%) QA
3 5 (2.02%) NIST
4 4 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.62%) GDPR
5 3 (1.21%) PMO
6 2 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.81%) GRC
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) P3O
7 1 (0.40%) PSD2
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.05%) Docker
2 8 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.81%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.81%) NetBackup
2 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.40%) Rancher
3 1 (0.40%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 25 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.69%) SAP
3 8 (3.24%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.83%) VMware
5 6 (2.43%) Oracle
5 6 (2.43%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.21%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.21%) Ariba
6 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.21%) Hyperion
7 2 (0.81%) Databricks
7 2 (0.81%) Dell
7 2 (0.81%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (0.81%) Pega
7 2 (0.81%) Veritas
8 1 (0.40%) Adobe
8 1 (0.40%) Citrix
8 1 (0.40%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.40%) IBM
8 1 (0.40%) Reuters