Business Systems Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business System Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business System Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425, 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 321 381 415
Rank change year-on-year +60 +34 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Business Systems Analyst 13 13 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.063% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.068% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 36
10th Percentile £308 £358 £348
25th Percentile £356 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £544 £542
90th Percentile £713 £563 £608
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £28.80 - -
25th Percentile £29.26 - -
Median hourly rate £30.26 - -
75th Percentile £31.02 - -
90th Percentile £31.32 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.26 £53.00 -
% change year-on-year -42.91% - -

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 Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Business Systems Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Business Systems 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 Systems 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 - 4 £375 - 5
North West - 3 £375 - 2
South East +37 2 £400 -20.00% 17
Midlands +15 2 £575 +27.78% 4
Scotland +11 2 £300 -42.86% 4
East of England +34 1 £700 +33.33% 6
East Midlands +13 1 - - 3
West Midlands +11 1 £575 +27.78% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
South West - 1 £675 -
Business Systems Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Business Systems 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 Systems Analyst in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Business Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 4 (30.77%) Confluence
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) User Stories
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
3 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Backlog Management
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Scrum
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) MS Visio
4 2 (15.38%) Toad
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (15.38%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (15.38%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Impact Assessments

Business Systems 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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Lucidchart
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Toad
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) General Ledger
3 1 (7.69%) Local Government
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OpenID
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Business Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) User Stories
3 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (23.08%) Backlog Management
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Scrum
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (15.38%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Target Operating Model
4 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Capita
1 1 (7.69%) Liquidlogic
1 1 (7.69%) SAP