Technical Business Analyst Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The median Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 328 321
Rank change year-on-year -52 -7 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 83 40 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.29% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 29 39
10th Percentile £336 £267 £363
25th Percentile £406 £300 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £380 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.71% -15.56% -
75th Percentile £613 £438 £500
90th Percentile £635 £488 £576
UK median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -76.43% - -
75th Percentile £17.25 £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £70.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -76.43% +64.71% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 25,284 13,611 16,411
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 89.96% 92.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,174 8,330 9,753
10th Percentile £304 £213 £225
25th Percentile £413 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,104 1,230 1,526
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.27 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.25 £16.17 £19.11
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.74 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% +1.18%

Technical Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Technical Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Technical Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Technical Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Business Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

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

Technical Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Technical 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 Technical Business Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 September 2026. 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 -51 35 £550 +52.78% 9
Yorkshire -28 18 £463 +66.97% 1
South East -66 17 £444 +5.03% 10
Midlands -39 15 £455 +57.63% 1
West Midlands -41 11 £471 +70.04% 1
North East - 10 £575 - 4
Scotland -20 8 £450 +63.64% 5
South West -41 7 £369 -22.37% 5
North West -45 7 £550 +39.68% 4
East Midlands -18 4 £444 +33.26%
Wales -14 1 - -
Technical Business Analyst
UK

Technical Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 September 2026, Technical 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 Technical Business Analyst in the job title.

1 35 (42.17%) User Stories
2 30 (36.14%) Agile
3 24 (28.92%) Workshop Facilitation
4 23 (27.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (24.10%) Acceptance Criteria
5 20 (24.10%) Business Analysis
6 17 (20.48%) AI
6 17 (20.48%) QA
7 16 (19.28%) Validation
8 15 (18.07%) JIRA
9 14 (16.87%) Azure
9 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (15.66%) Decision-Making
10 13 (15.66%) DevOps
10 13 (15.66%) Requirements Gathering
11 12 (14.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (14.46%) SFIA
12 11 (13.25%) Data Modelling
12 11 (13.25%) Security Cleared
12 11 (13.25%) User Acceptance Testing
13 10 (12.05%) Backlog Refinement
13 10 (12.05%) Migration
13 10 (12.05%) ServiceNow
13 10 (12.05%) SQL
14 9 (10.84%) AWS
14 9 (10.84%) Confluence
14 9 (10.84%) Data Mapping
14 9 (10.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 9 (10.84%) Sprint Planning
15 8 (9.64%) Business Case

Technical 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (10.84%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.87%) Azure
2 9 (10.84%) AWS
3 4 (4.82%) GCP
3 4 (4.82%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.61%) Lucidchart
4 3 (3.61%) SaaS
5 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.41%) Figma
5 2 (2.41%) GitHub
6 1 (1.20%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.61%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) Power BI
2 2 (2.41%) Metadata
3 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.20%) MS Access
3 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (18.07%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) Balsamiq
2 2 (2.41%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.20%) GitLab
3 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.25%) Finance
4 7 (8.43%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.23%) Police
5 6 (7.23%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.82%) Banking
6 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Automotive
7 2 (2.41%) Retail
8 1 (1.20%) Military
8 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) JSON
1 4 (4.82%) XML
2 2 (2.41%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.41%) Swagger
3 1 (1.20%) EDI
3 1 (1.20%) Handlebars
3 1 (1.20%) Middleware
3 1 (1.20%) REST
3 1 (1.20%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.61%) IVR
3 2 (2.41%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.41%) CMDB
3 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.20%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (42.17%) User Stories
2 30 (36.14%) Agile
3 24 (28.92%) Workshop Facilitation
4 23 (27.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (24.10%) Acceptance Criteria
5 20 (24.10%) Business Analysis
6 17 (20.48%) AI
7 16 (19.28%) Validation
8 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (15.66%) Decision-Making
9 13 (15.66%) DevOps
9 13 (15.66%) Requirements Gathering
10 12 (14.46%) SFIA
11 11 (13.25%) Data Modelling
11 11 (13.25%) User Acceptance Testing
12 10 (12.05%) Backlog Refinement
12 10 (12.05%) Migration
13 9 (10.84%) Data Mapping
13 9 (10.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 9 (10.84%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.05%) SQL
2 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (1.20%) Python
2 1 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (14.46%) BPSS Clearance
2 11 (13.25%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) Degree
4 3 (3.61%) CBAP
5 1 (1.20%) CCNA
5 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.20%) CISM
5 1 (1.20%) CISSP
5 1 (1.20%) CRISC
5 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.48%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (12.05%) ServiceNow
2 4 (4.82%) Blue Prism
3 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.41%) Guidewire
4 2 (2.41%) IFS
4 2 (2.41%) UiPath
5 1 (1.20%) Databricks
5 1 (1.20%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.20%) Teradata