Product Business Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The median Product Business Analyst (Product BA) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 386 444
Rank change year-on-year +42 +58 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Product Business Analyst 4 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.044% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.048% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £318 £386 £487
25th Percentile £353 £405 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £410 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -21.90% +21.74%
75th Percentile £468 £548 £556
90th Percentile £502 £583 -
UK median daily rate £675 £650 £538
% change year-on-year +3.85% +20.93% -14.00%

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 11,941 18,763 21,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 92.47% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,600 11,440 15,152
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 849 2,259 1,107
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.15 £36.58 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.03% -18.72% +87.50%

Product Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Product Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

Product 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 Product Business Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +43 2 £410 -25.83%
South West - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
Product Business Analyst
UK

Product Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Product 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 Product Business Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) User Stories
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Pendo
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Epics
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Straight-Through Processing
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management

Product 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Pendo
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Stories
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Epics
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Straight-Through Processing
4 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft