Business Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 67 46
Rank change year-on-year +10 -21 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 487 588 1,101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.81% 2.84% 4.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.14% 3.07% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 422 855
10th Percentile £350 £351 £363
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £588 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 8
10th Percentile £21.86 - £20.25
25th Percentile £25.26 - £26.05
Median hourly rate £31.52 £20.77 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +51.76% -67.42% +184.60%
75th Percentile £49.38 £33.08 £66.25
90th Percentile £51.38 £55.23 £77.35
UK median hourly rate £32.82 £28.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +17.20% -51.72% +97.38%

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 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
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 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

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 Business Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 -13 136 £425 -10.53% 64
Scotland +11 111 £434 -3.67% 18
North West +4 94 £425 -10.53% 44
South East +7 83 £488 +2.63% 128
Midlands +10 71 £475 +9.83% 54
South West +41 48 £500 -3.61% 43
West Midlands +15 46 £500 +11.11% 32
Yorkshire -26 34 £450 -5.26% 15
East Midlands +9 25 £390 -6.02% 19
East of England +15 24 £430 +1.18% 35
Northern Ireland +3 13 £348 -5.44% 8
North East -9 8 £400 -15.79% 6
Wales +3 5 £425 +1.19% 4
Channel Islands - 2 £463 - 1
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 UK excluding London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 173 (35.52%) Agile
2 159 (32.65%) Social Skills
3 155 (31.83%) Business Analysis
4 137 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 121 (24.85%) Analytical Skills
6 115 (23.61%) Finance
7 106 (21.77%) User Stories
8 101 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
9 96 (19.71%) Requirements Gathering
10 73 (14.99%) Workshop Facilitation
11 70 (14.37%) JIRA
12 69 (14.17%) Public Sector
13 66 (13.55%) Data Analysis
14 58 (11.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 53 (10.88%) Banking
15 53 (10.88%) Microsoft
16 52 (10.68%) Degree
17 51 (10.47%) Migration
18 50 (10.27%) Business Case
19 49 (10.06%) Change Management
20 45 (9.24%) MS Visio
20 45 (9.24%) Decision-Making
21 43 (8.83%) User Acceptance Testing
21 43 (8.83%) GAP Analysis
21 43 (8.83%) Waterfall
21 43 (8.83%) Security Cleared
22 41 (8.42%) Confluence
23 39 (8.01%) Analytics
24 38 (7.80%) Scrum
25 36 (7.39%) Project Management

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 41 (8.42%) Confluence
2 10 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Camunda
5 1 (0.21%) CMS
Applications
1 45 (9.24%) MS Visio
2 32 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.23%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.41%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.21%) iTrent
5 1 (0.21%) Maximo
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.21%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 32 (6.57%) Azure
1 32 (6.57%) Power Platform
2 16 (3.29%) SaaS
3 15 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (1.85%) AWS
5 8 (1.64%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.23%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (0.82%) Miro
9 3 (0.62%) GCP
9 3 (0.62%) Lucidchart
9 3 (0.62%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.41%) Apple Pay
10 2 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.41%) IBM Blueworks
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle CX
10 2 (0.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.21%) GPRS
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
2 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.21%) NGN
2 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.34%) Power BI
2 14 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.44%) Tableau
4 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.62%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.41%) GIS
7 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.21%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.21%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.21%) Impala
7 1 (0.21%) KDB
7 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Parquet
7 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 70 (14.37%) JIRA
2 1 (0.21%) Git
2 1 (0.21%) Postman
2 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
General
1 159 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 121 (24.85%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (23.61%) Finance
4 69 (14.17%) Public Sector
5 53 (10.88%) Banking
6 20 (4.11%) Manufacturing
7 19 (3.90%) Retail
8 12 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.26%) Legal
9 11 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.26%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.05%) Local Government
11 7 (1.44%) Automotive
11 7 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.44%) Marketing
12 6 (1.23%) Back Office
12 6 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.03%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
1 5 (1.03%) Web Services
2 4 (0.82%) REST
3 2 (0.41%) HTML
3 2 (0.41%) Middleware
3 2 (0.41%) RESTful
4 1 (0.21%) .NET
4 1 (0.21%) ADO
4 1 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.21%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.21%) JSON
4 1 (0.21%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.21%) OAuth
4 1 (0.21%) OpenID
4 1 (0.21%) RAML
4 1 (0.21%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.21%) SAML
4 1 (0.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.34%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.90%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.26%) CMDB
5 10 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.64%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.82%) Derivative
8 4 (0.82%) Digital Wallet
8 4 (0.82%) LIMS
9 3 (0.62%) Life Science
9 3 (0.62%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.41%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.41%) IoT
10 2 (0.41%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (35.52%) Agile
2 155 (31.83%) Business Analysis
3 137 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 106 (21.77%) User Stories
5 101 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (19.71%) Requirements Gathering
7 73 (14.99%) Workshop Facilitation
8 66 (13.55%) Data Analysis
9 58 (11.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 51 (10.47%) Migration
11 50 (10.27%) Business Case
12 49 (10.06%) Change Management
13 45 (9.24%) Decision-Making
14 43 (8.83%) GAP Analysis
14 43 (8.83%) User Acceptance Testing
14 43 (8.83%) Waterfall
15 39 (8.01%) Analytics
16 38 (7.80%) Scrum
17 36 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (7.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (7.19%) SQL
2 2 (0.41%) Java
3 1 (0.21%) C#
3 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (10.68%) Degree
2 43 (8.83%) Security Cleared
3 19 (3.90%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.29%) IIBA
5 15 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.23%) CBAP
6 6 (1.23%) ISEB
7 5 (1.03%) CCA
8 2 (0.41%) APMP
8 2 (0.41%) CSPO
8 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.21%) ACCA
9 1 (0.21%) CIMA
9 1 (0.21%) CIPD
9 1 (0.21%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.21%) CISA
9 1 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.21%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.49%) QA
2 15 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.46%) GDPR
4 4 (0.82%) FINREP
4 4 (0.82%) NIST
5 3 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.62%) COREP
5 3 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.62%) PMO
6 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.41%) Basel III
6 2 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) GxP
7 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) NCSC
7 1 (0.21%) P3O
7 1 (0.21%) PSD2
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.41%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (0.41%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 53 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.37%) SAP
3 17 (3.49%) ServiceNow
4 14 (2.87%) Oracle
5 10 (2.05%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.05%) Virgin Media
6 4 (0.82%) Ariba
6 4 (0.82%) Google
7 3 (0.62%) IBM
7 3 (0.62%) Informatica
8 2 (0.41%) Adobe
8 2 (0.41%) Apple
8 2 (0.41%) Civica
8 2 (0.41%) Dell
8 2 (0.41%) Fiserv
8 2 (0.41%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.41%) Palantir
8 2 (0.41%) Verint
8 2 (0.41%) Veritas
8 2 (0.41%) Workday