Agile Business Analyst Contracts

Agile Business Analyst (Agile BA)
UK

The median Agile Business Analyst (Agile BA) daily rate in the UK is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 541 635
Rank change year-on-year +47 +94 -39
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Business Analyst 26 41 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.094% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.10% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 54
10th Percentile - £431 £372
25th Percentile £340 £485 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +11.39% -1.25%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £575
90th Percentile £649 £613 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -1.92% +9.47% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Agile Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Agile Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Business Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Business Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Business Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +43 17 £525 -4.55% 3
Work from Home +32 14 £340 -35.70%
UK excluding London +61 11 £510 -1.92% 2
London +24 7 £525 -8.70% 1
North of England +21 6 £350 -33.01%
South West +47 2 £638 +10.87%
South East +46 2 £543 +2.07% 2
Yorkshire +6 2 £495 -5.26%
North East - 2 £350 -
North West - 2 - -
Scotland +11 1 - -

Agile Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Agile 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 featuring Agile Business Analyst in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Agile
2 19 (73.08%) User Stories
3 14 (53.85%) Acceptance Criteria
4 11 (42.31%) Public Sector
4 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
4 11 (42.31%) Scrum
4 11 (42.31%) JIRA
5 10 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (38.46%) Confluence
5 10 (38.46%) Workshop Facilitation
5 10 (38.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 8 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
6 8 (30.77%) User Experience
6 8 (30.77%) Product Ownership
7 7 (26.92%) Process Improvement
7 7 (26.92%) Kanban
8 6 (23.08%) UX Design
8 6 (23.08%) GAP Analysis
8 6 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 5 (19.23%) Service Design
9 5 (19.23%) User Research
9 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (19.23%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (19.23%) Business Analysis
9 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (15.38%) Waterfall
10 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
10 4 (15.38%) Epics
10 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making

Agile Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (38.46%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Trello
2 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.85%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Miro
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Pendo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) JIRA
General
1 11 (42.31%) Public Sector
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Private Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Agile
2 19 (73.08%) User Stories
3 14 (53.85%) Acceptance Criteria
4 11 (42.31%) Scrum
5 10 (38.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 10 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (38.46%) Workshop Facilitation
6 8 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
6 8 (30.77%) User Experience
7 7 (26.92%) Kanban
7 7 (26.92%) Process Improvement
8 6 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (23.08%) GAP Analysis
8 6 (23.08%) UX Design
9 5 (19.23%) Business Analysis
9 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (19.23%) Service Design
9 5 (19.23%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (19.23%) User Research
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) CBAP
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Virgin Media
2 1 (3.85%) ESRI
2 1 (3.85%) SAP