Payments Business Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The median Business Analyst - Payments (Payments BA) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £358, 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 325 392 453
Rank change year-on-year +67 +61 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Payments Business Analyst 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.010% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.010% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £284 - £529
25th Percentile £306 £485 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £490 £563
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% -12.89% +50.00%
75th Percentile £467 £495 £584
90th Percentile £493 - £586
UK median daily rate £461 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -29.08% -3.70% +17.39%

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%

Payments Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Payments Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

Payments 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 Payments Business 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 - 3 £358 -
Scotland +12 2 £475 -3.06%
North West - 2 £313 -
South East - 2 £398 - 1
South West +30 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £447 -
East Midlands - 1 £317 -
Midlands - 1 £317 -
Payments Business Analyst
UK

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

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

1 6 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Review
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (11.11%) Traceability Matrix
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (11.11%) Business Case

Payments 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 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (11.11%) Business Case
3 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Journey Map
3 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (11.11%) Journey Map
3 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 1 (11.11%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft