Data Business Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The median Data Business Analyst (Data BA) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 369 395
Rank change year-on-year +62 +26 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Data Business Analyst 32 30 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.16% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 37
10th Percentile £360 £363 £293
25th Percentile £413 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% -0.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £555 £550
90th Percentile £649 £590 £595
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.74 - -
25th Percentile £22.97 - -
Median hourly rate £27.88 - -
75th Percentile £32.72 - -
90th Percentile £34.91 - -
UK median hourly rate £27.88 - -

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 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
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 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Data Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Data Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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

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

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

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

Data Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Business Analyst in the UK excluding London

Data 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 Data Business Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +51 13 £525 -5.41% 6
North of England +21 7 £463 -7.50% 3
Midlands +22 6 £475 +18.75% 7
North West +14 5 £417 -16.70% 3
South West +45 3 £525 +82.61%
East Midlands +16 3 £358 -4.53% 2
West Midlands +16 3 £475 +11.76% 5
Scotland +12 2 £600 -
Yorkshire +5 2 £463 -8.19%
Northern Ireland - 2 £375 - 1
East of England +24 1 - - 1
Data Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Data 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 Data Business Analyst in the job title.

1 14 (43.75%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 10 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (31.25%) Analytics
4 10 (31.25%) Power Platform
5 9 (28.13%) Validation
6 8 (25.00%) User Stories
6 8 (25.00%) Power BI
6 8 (25.00%) Azure
7 7 (21.88%) Data Governance
7 7 (21.88%) Data Migration
7 7 (21.88%) Data Transformation
7 7 (21.88%) Migration
7 7 (21.88%) Data Analysis
7 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
7 7 (21.88%) SQL
7 7 (21.88%) Finance
8 6 (18.75%) Business Analysis
8 6 (18.75%) Data Mapping
8 6 (18.75%) Data Integration
8 6 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
9 5 (15.63%) Confluence
9 5 (15.63%) QA
9 5 (15.63%) JIRA
9 5 (15.63%) Project Management

Data 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 5 (15.63%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Power Platform
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.13%) AWS
5 1 (3.13%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Power BI
2 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.25%) Tableau
4 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.13%) EDRMS
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.13%) Impala
4 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) JIRA
General
1 13 (40.63%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Automotive
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Electronics
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Derivative
3 1 (3.13%) Equities
3 1 (3.13%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.13%) IoT
3 1 (3.13%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Agile
2 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (31.25%) Analytics
3 10 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 9 (28.13%) Validation
5 8 (25.00%) User Stories
6 7 (21.88%) Data Analysis
6 7 (21.88%) Data Governance
6 7 (21.88%) Data Migration
6 7 (21.88%) Data Transformation
6 7 (21.88%) Migration
7 6 (18.75%) Business Analysis
7 6 (18.75%) Data Integration
7 6 (18.75%) Data Mapping
7 6 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (15.63%) ETL
8 5 (15.63%) Project Management
9 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 3 (9.38%) GDPR
4 2 (6.25%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Informatica
3 2 (6.25%) Palantir
3 2 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) Dell
4 1 (3.13%) Reuters
4 1 (3.13%) Veritas
4 1 (3.13%) Workday