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 19 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 47 38
Rank change year-on-year -24 -9 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 576 1,011 1,636
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.70% 4.46% 5.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.92% 4.73% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 787 1,230
10th Percentile £355 £363 £360
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £546 £525
90th Percentile £588 £601 £575
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile - £20.25 £18.30
25th Percentile - £26.05 £18.75
Median hourly rate £20.77 £63.75 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -67.42% +192.70% -8.28%
75th Percentile £28.08 £66.25 £22.40
90th Percentile £41.23 £77.35 £30.84
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £62.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -32.00% +140.38% -42.22%

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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 19 June 2024.

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 19 June 2024.

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 19 June 2024. 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 -11 187 £475 -4.04% 48
South East -32 120 £475 -1.04% 28
North West -7 99 £475 - 24
Scotland +17 97 £450 +3.99% 12
Midlands -34 83 £450 -5.26% 26
Yorkshire -16 73 £475 -5.00% 20
West Midlands -32 54 £450 -6.98% 16
East of England -10 51 £425 -10.53% 11
South West -45 33 £481 -10.47% 13
East Midlands +4 27 £438 -5.41% 10
North East +4 14 £400 -15.79% 6
Wales +9 7 £420 -11.58% 3
Northern Ireland -13 3 £400 -9.86% 2
Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 2024, 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.

1 184 (31.94%) Business Analysis
2 159 (27.60%) Social Skills
3 152 (26.39%) Agile
4 133 (23.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 124 (21.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 109 (18.92%) Finance
7 101 (17.53%) User Stories
8 73 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
10 67 (11.63%) Project Management
10 67 (11.63%) Degree
11 63 (10.94%) Workshop Facilitation
12 62 (10.76%) Public Sector
13 55 (9.55%) Manufacturing
14 54 (9.38%) ERP
15 53 (9.20%) JIRA
16 49 (8.51%) Scrum
17 48 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
18 47 (8.16%) Change Management
19 43 (7.47%) CRM
20 42 (7.29%) Roadmaps
21 40 (6.94%) Business Case
21 40 (6.94%) Acceptance Criteria
21 40 (6.94%) Data Analysis
22 39 (6.77%) Microsoft
23 38 (6.60%) Waterfall
24 37 (6.42%) SAP
25 36 (6.25%) Use Case
25 36 (6.25%) Requirements Workshops
26 35 (6.08%) Product Ownership

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 33 (5.73%) Confluence
2 6 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.35%) SAS
5 1 (0.17%) LiveLink
Applications
1 32 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 22 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.35%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.22%) Maximo
3 6 (1.04%) SAP PM
4 5 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.87%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.69%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 30 (5.21%) Azure
2 28 (4.86%) Power Platform
3 15 (2.60%) SaaS
4 12 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (1.56%) AWS
6 8 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
8 6 (1.04%) Collibra
9 5 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (0.87%) Entra ID
9 5 (0.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 3 (0.52%) Boomi
10 3 (0.52%) IaaS
10 3 (0.52%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.35%) IBM Blueworks
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.35%) OCI
11 2 (0.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 1 (0.17%) Adobe Analytics
12 1 (0.17%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.04%) WAN
2 3 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.35%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.86%) Power BI
2 9 (1.56%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.22%) Tableau
4 6 (1.04%) Metadata
5 4 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (0.69%) GIS
6 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.52%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.35%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.35%) Power Query
7 2 (0.35%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.17%) MySQL
8 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (9.20%) JIRA
2 6 (1.04%) Eclipse
2 6 (1.04%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
General
1 159 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 109 (18.92%) Finance
3 69 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 55 (9.55%) Manufacturing
6 31 (5.38%) Banking
7 30 (5.21%) Pharmaceutical
8 23 (3.99%) Retail
9 15 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.43%) Local Government
11 12 (2.08%) Marketing
12 11 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.74%) Automotive
13 10 (1.74%) Legal
14 9 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.04%) Billing
15 6 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.87%) JSON
1 5 (0.87%) XML
2 4 (0.69%) .NET
2 4 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (0.35%) HTML
3 2 (0.35%) JSON Schema
3 2 (0.35%) Web Services
4 1 (0.17%) OAuth
4 1 (0.17%) OpenID
4 1 (0.17%) REST
4 1 (0.17%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.08%) Product Ownership
2 15 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (1.56%) IoT
4 8 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 8 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (1.39%) Management Information System
4 8 (1.39%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.22%) Wiki
6 5 (0.87%) Data Structures
6 5 (0.87%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (0.87%) Life Science
6 5 (0.87%) NHS
6 5 (0.87%) Robotics
7 4 (0.69%) LIMS
7 4 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (0.69%) Taxonomies
8 3 (0.52%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.52%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.17%) Android
1 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (31.94%) Business Analysis
2 152 (26.39%) Agile
3 133 (23.09%) Requirements Gathering
4 124 (21.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 101 (17.53%) User Stories
6 73 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (11.63%) Project Management
8 63 (10.94%) Workshop Facilitation
9 54 (9.38%) ERP
10 49 (8.51%) Scrum
11 48 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
12 47 (8.16%) Change Management
13 43 (7.47%) CRM
14 42 (7.29%) Roadmaps
15 40 (6.94%) Acceptance Criteria
15 40 (6.94%) Business Case
15 40 (6.94%) Data Analysis
16 38 (6.60%) Waterfall
17 36 (6.25%) Requirements Workshops
17 36 (6.25%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 30 (5.21%) SQL
2 15 (2.60%) Python
3 11 (1.91%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.22%) Java
5 6 (1.04%) Groovy
6 3 (0.52%) C#
7 1 (0.17%) JCL
7 1 (0.17%) R
7 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (11.63%) Degree
2 28 (4.86%) Security Cleared
3 16 (2.78%) IIBA
3 16 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.08%) CBAP
5 8 (1.39%) ISEB
6 7 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.87%) ACCA
7 5 (0.87%) CIMA
8 3 (0.52%) HNC
8 3 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.35%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.17%) APMP
10 1 (0.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.17%) CSPO
10 1 (0.17%) PMP
10 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.51%) GDPR
2 18 (3.13%) Good Clinical Practice
2 18 (3.13%) GxP
3 12 (2.08%) QA
4 8 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.52%) PMO
6 2 (0.35%) GRC
7 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) Basel III
7 1 (0.17%) COREP
7 1 (0.17%) FINREP
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) PSD2
7 1 (0.17%) SEPA
7 1 (0.17%) TARGET2
System Software
1 6 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (6.77%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.42%) SAP
3 17 (2.95%) ServiceNow
4 16 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.43%) Oracle
6 7 (1.22%) Cadence
7 6 (1.04%) IFS
8 5 (0.87%) Adobe
8 5 (0.87%) Ariba
8 5 (0.87%) Workday
9 4 (0.69%) Cognizant
10 2 (0.35%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.35%) CA
10 2 (0.35%) Capita
10 2 (0.35%) ESRI
10 2 (0.35%) F5
10 2 (0.35%) FNZ
10 2 (0.35%) Google
10 2 (0.35%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.35%) Splunk