Business Analysis Contracts

Business Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Business Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 116 102
Rank change year-on-year -16 -14 -8
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 630 837 1,453
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.15% 1.92% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.23% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 575 1,031
10th Percentile £363 £387 £400
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% +1.94%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £788 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 15
10th Percentile £36.35 £18.35 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.50 £19.60 £39.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £59.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.78% -5.60% +17.92%
75th Percentile £66.00 £82.81 £66.00
90th Percentile £84.74 £86.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £36.13 £66.00
% change year-on-year +74.38% -45.26% +37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analysis over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis 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 0 549 £525 -2.78% 596
London +3 357 £600 +5.63% 350
UK excluding London -5 245 £460 -3.16% 325
Work from Home -16 238 £550 +2.33% 308
North of England +3 69 £453 -4.63% 72
Scotland -14 52 £430 -4.44% 13
North West +9 47 £456 -4.00% 43
Midlands +8 40 £525 +10.53% 49
West Midlands +18 33 £525 +10.53% 35
South East +8 30 £488 -7.14% 109
South West +36 24 £444 -22.83% 45
East of England +24 20 £500 +16.96% 26
Yorkshire 0 19 £469 -4.29% 21
Northern Ireland 0 9 £363 +8.21% 13
East Midlands -7 7 £358 -20.44% 12
North East 0 3 £350 -5.41% 8
Wales -1 1 £438 -14.63% 3
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Business Analysis
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 55 (8.73%) Confluence
2 13 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.11%) WebSphere
4 6 (0.95%) CMS
5 5 (0.79%) SAS
6 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.32%) Apache
8 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.32%) Drupal
8 2 (0.32%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.16%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 63 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 49 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (5.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.48%) Trello
7 2 (0.32%) Notepad++
7 2 (0.32%) Open Workbench
8 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (5.08%) Aladdin
2 14 (2.22%) thinkFolio
3 13 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.95%) Endur
5 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.63%) Shopify
6 3 (0.48%) Actimize
6 3 (0.48%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.48%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.32%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.16%) ContrOCC
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.16%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 47 (7.46%) Power Platform
2 40 (6.35%) Azure
3 25 (3.97%) AWS
4 11 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (1.59%) SaaS
6 7 (1.11%) Lucidchart
7 6 (0.95%) GCP
7 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (0.79%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (0.79%) Miro
8 5 (0.79%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.63%) Azure AI
9 4 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.63%) GitHub
9 4 (0.63%) Google Gemini
9 4 (0.63%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.48%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.79%) Firewall
1 5 (0.79%) Network Security
1 5 (0.79%) SD-WAN
1 5 (0.79%) SSL
2 3 (0.48%) Intranet
2 3 (0.48%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.32%) HTTP
3 2 (0.32%) Internet
3 2 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.32%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) IPsec
4 1 (0.16%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.16%) MQTT
4 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.98%) Power BI
2 22 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (2.86%) Tableau
4 13 (2.06%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
5 7 (1.11%) DB2
6 6 (0.95%) Data Mining
6 6 (0.95%) Metadata
7 5 (0.79%) Big Data
7 5 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.63%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.63%) Parquet
9 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.48%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.48%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.48%) QlikView
10 2 (0.32%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 86 (13.65%) JIRA
2 5 (0.79%) Git
3 4 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.48%) Eclipse
4 3 (0.48%) GitLab
4 3 (0.48%) Maven
5 2 (0.32%) MagicDraw
5 2 (0.32%) XMLSpy
6 1 (0.16%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
General
1 251 (39.84%) Finance
2 248 (39.37%) Social Skills
3 136 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.95%) Banking
5 68 (10.79%) Front Office
5 68 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 43 (6.83%) Presentation Skills
7 29 (4.60%) Legal
8 23 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (3.33%) Retail
10 17 (2.70%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.54%) Back Office
12 15 (2.38%) Investment Banking
12 15 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (2.22%) Local Government
13 14 (2.22%) Marketing
13 14 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 452 (71.75%) Analyst
2 425 (67.46%) Business Analyst
3 62 (9.84%) Senior
4 52 (8.25%) Senior Analyst
5 50 (7.94%) Business Manager
6 48 (7.62%) Senior Business Analyst
7 45 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
8 44 (6.98%) Technical Business Analyst
9 43 (6.83%) Architect
10 36 (5.71%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 26 (4.13%) Data Analyst
12 25 (3.97%) Project Manager
13 24 (3.81%) Data Business Analyst
14 21 (3.33%) Developer
14 21 (3.33%) Financial Analyst
15 20 (3.17%) Finance Business Analyst
16 18 (2.86%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
17 17 (2.70%) Project Analyst
18 14 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
19 13 (2.06%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.75%) JSON
2 10 (1.59%) XML
3 8 (1.27%) SAML
4 7 (1.11%) Web Services
5 6 (0.95%) REST
6 5 (0.79%) .NET
6 5 (0.79%) FpML
6 5 (0.79%) React
7 4 (0.63%) CSS
7 4 (0.63%) HTML
7 4 (0.63%) JDBC
7 4 (0.63%) Kafka
7 4 (0.63%) LDAP
7 4 (0.63%) OAuth
7 4 (0.63%) ODBC
7 4 (0.63%) PyTorch
7 4 (0.63%) SOAP
7 4 (0.63%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.48%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.48%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.94%) Fixed Income
2 43 (6.83%) Derivative
3 36 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 35 (5.56%) Hedge funds
4 35 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 34 (5.40%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.38%) CMDB
7 13 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.75%) PMI
10 10 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.27%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.95%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.95%) Equities
14 6 (0.95%) IoT
14 6 (0.95%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.79%) Market Risk
15 5 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.95%) Unix
2 4 (0.63%) Linux
3 3 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (43.65%) Agile
2 178 (28.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 142 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (19.68%) Requirements Gathering
5 113 (17.94%) User Stories
6 110 (17.46%) Project Management
7 90 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
8 83 (13.17%) Data Analysis
9 80 (12.70%) Decision-Making
9 80 (12.70%) Workshop Facilitation
10 74 (11.75%) Analytics
10 74 (11.75%) Business Intelligence
11 72 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 61 (9.68%) Change Management
13 60 (9.52%) Migration
14 59 (9.37%) Process Improvement
15 58 (9.21%) Roadmaps
16 57 (9.05%) Scrum
16 57 (9.05%) Waterfall
17 56 (8.89%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 111 (17.62%) SQL
2 70 (11.11%) Python
3 14 (2.22%) Java
4 6 (0.95%) R
5 5 (0.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.63%) C#
6 4 (0.63%) PHP
7 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.48%) Scala
7 3 (0.48%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.32%) Bash
8 2 (0.32%) Lua
8 2 (0.32%) Perl
9 1 (0.16%) ABAP
9 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 101 (16.03%) Degree
2 58 (9.21%) Security Cleared
3 43 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.44%) CBAP
5 19 (3.02%) IIBA
6 17 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.27%) ISEB
9 6 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.95%) CCA
9 6 (0.95%) CISSP
9 6 (0.95%) PMP
10 4 (0.63%) CISA
10 4 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.48%) ACCA
11 3 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.32%) CEH
12 2 (0.32%) CFA
12 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.97%) QA
2 23 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.33%) GDPR
4 11 (1.75%) NIST
5 7 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (1.11%) GRC
5 7 (1.11%) MiFID
5 7 (1.11%) PMO
6 6 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.63%) EMIR
8 4 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
9 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.32%) Basel III
10 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (1.75%) Docker
2 10 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.32%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.32%) NetBackup
3 2 (0.32%) Rancher
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.16%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 54 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.71%) SAP
3 31 (4.92%) BISAM
4 27 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.70%) Charles River
6 17 (2.70%) Oracle
7 15 (2.38%) SimCorp
8 14 (2.22%) Calypso
9 9 (1.43%) ION Trading
10 8 (1.27%) Murex
11 7 (1.11%) VMware
12 6 (0.95%) Adobe
12 6 (0.95%) IBM
13 5 (0.79%) Google
13 5 (0.79%) Informatica
13 5 (0.79%) OpenText
13 5 (0.79%) Qualtrics
14 4 (0.63%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.63%) Workday