Financial Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Business Analyst - Financial
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Analyst - Financial daily rate in the UK excluding London is £374, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 366 415
Rank change year-on-year +10 +49 +77
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Business Analyst 14 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.091% 0.045% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.048% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 7
10th Percentile £320 £371 £401
25th Percentile £339 £375 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £423 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -6.01% -10.10%
75th Percentile £436 £472 £494
90th Percentile £563 £575 £530
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -13.04%

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 13,882 16,547 20,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 92.27% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,532 9,572 13,610
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £679 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,271 1,426 1,206
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.83
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +2.68% +99.20%
75th Percentile £51.85 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Financial Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Financial Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Financial Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Financial Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Financial Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

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

Financial Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Financial Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Financial Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Financial 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 Financial Business Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 -22 10 £388 -32.61%
Yorkshire - 8 £675 -
East Midlands -2 2 £350 -17.16% 1
North West -13 2 £351 -38.91%
Midlands -18 2 £350 -17.16% 1
South West - 1 £450 -
Wales - 1 - -
Financial Business Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, Financial 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 Financial Business Analyst in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) Business Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (21.43%) JIRA
5 3 (21.43%) Banking
5 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
6 2 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (14.29%) Data Flow Diagram
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (14.29%) Marketing
6 2 (14.29%) Degree
6 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
6 2 (14.29%) Project Management
6 2 (14.29%) CRM
6 2 (14.29%) SQL
6 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
6 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 2 (14.29%) Credit Risk
6 2 (14.29%) Azure
6 2 (14.29%) Confluence
6 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
6 2 (14.29%) SDLC
6 2 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making

Financial 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (7.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 14 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Marketing
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Anaconda
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Credit Risk
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) CMDB
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Change Management
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) CRM
5 2 (14.29%) Data Flow Diagram
5 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (7.14%) Data Modelling
6 1 (7.14%) IT Asset Management
6 1 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) HP
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Sparx