Finance Business Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £419, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 367 409
Rank change year-on-year +19 +42 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Finance Business Analyst 16 20 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.098% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 22
10th Percentile £341 £388 -
25th Percentile £370 £463 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £461 £575 £555
90th Percentile £503 - £563
UK median daily rate £494 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.23% - -4.35%

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 13,465 18,815 21,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 92.23% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,290 11,399 14,989
10th Percentile £220 £213 £233
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,134 2,218 1,185
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.88 £13.80
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £38.35
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +5.15% +82.62%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.75% -5.88% +65.50%

Finance Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Finance Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

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

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

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

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

Finance 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 Finance Business Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 July 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 +6 6 £456 -20.65% 3
South East +36 5 £413 -8.33% 4
North West +3 3 £425 -26.09% 2
Yorkshire -5 3 £488 - 1
East of England +12 1 £375 -21.05% 1
Midlands +1 1 £356 -35.27% 1
Scotland -5 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £450 -
Wales - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £356 - 1
Finance Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, Finance 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 Finance Business Analyst in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Business Analysis
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) SAP
4 3 (18.75%) Change Management
4 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
4 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 3 (18.75%) Power BI
5 2 (12.50%) Confluence
5 2 (12.50%) Financial Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Epics
5 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Budgeting
5 2 (12.50%) NetSuite
5 2 (12.50%) JIRA
5 2 (12.50%) Azure
5 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) User Stories
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) ACCA

Finance 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (6.25%) Elite 3E
2 1 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Boomi
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 16 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Agile
1 5 (31.25%) Business Analysis
2 4 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Change Management
3 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Budgeting
4 2 (12.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Epics
4 2 (12.50%) ERP
4 2 (12.50%) Financial Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) User Stories
5 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) ACCA
1 2 (12.50%) CIMA
1 2 (12.50%) CIPFA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) Intapp
3 1 (6.25%) Sparx
3 1 (6.25%) Workday