Risk Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The median Risk Business Analyst (Risk BA) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 344 387
Rank change year-on-year -42 +43 +104
Contract jobs requiring a Risk Business Analyst 6 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.020% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.022% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £368 - £450
25th Percentile £380 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £356 £600
Median % change year-on-year +47.47% -40.67% -27.27%
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £688 £750
% change year-on-year -12.73% -8.33% -

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 16,533 13,703 18,229
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 92.36% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,143 8,169 11,841
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £373 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,668 777 1,255
10th Percentile £13.88 £15.30 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.26 £18.73
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +84.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.51 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.20 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.64% -26.67% +45.77%

Risk Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Risk Business Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Risk Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Risk Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Risk Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

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

Risk 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 Risk Business Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Yorkshire -38 3 £675 -
North of England -51 3 £675 +89.61%
South East - 2 £380 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £525 -
Risk Business Analyst
UK

Risk Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Risk Business Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Risk Business Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (33.33%) Anaconda
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Categorisation
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Wireframes

Risk Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Anaconda
2 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Categorisation
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk