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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 118 102
Rank change year-on-year -4 -16 -11
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 657 815 1,414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.26% 1.89% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 2.20% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 563 996
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.57%
75th Percentile £644 £619 £645
90th Percentile £788 £700 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 15
10th Percentile £34.11 - £35.00
25th Percentile £53.41 £18.35 £49.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £36.13 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.38% -42.65% +31.25%
75th Percentile £66.00 £81.33 £68.00
90th Percentile - £84.22 £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 26,416 37,097 52,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.93% 86.26% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,973 23,888 36,212
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,082 2,438 1,719
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.00 £16.23
Median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +8 571 £535 -0.47% 761
London +16 374 £600 +6.67% 414
UK excluding London +2 254 £463 -2.63% 475
Work from Home -7 247 £550 +2.33% 458
North of England +6 70 £456 -4.00% 107
Scotland -3 54 £430 -4.44% 30
North West +11 48 £463 -2.63% 67
Midlands +10 43 £500 +5.26% 63
West Midlands +25 36 £525 +10.53% 44
South East +11 29 £488 -2.50% 162
South West +37 25 £450 -21.74% 56
East of England +19 21 £500 +16.96% 45
Yorkshire +8 19 £469 -4.29% 28
Northern Ireland +2 11 £538 +60.45% 19
East Midlands -7 7 £358 -20.44% 16
North East -6 3 £350 -5.41% 12
Wales +2 1 £438 -14.63% 7
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 62 (9.44%) Confluence
2 15 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.07%) WebSphere
4 6 (0.91%) CMS
5 5 (0.76%) SAS
6 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.30%) Apache
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.30%) Drupal
8 2 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.15%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 66 (10.05%) MS Visio
2 51 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.46%) Trello
7 2 (0.30%) Notepad++
7 2 (0.30%) Open Workbench
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (5.78%) Aladdin
2 18 (2.74%) thinkFolio
3 11 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.22%) Endur
5 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.61%) Shopify
6 3 (0.46%) Actimize
6 3 (0.46%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.46%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.15%) ContrOCC
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.15%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 47 (7.15%) Azure
1 47 (7.15%) Power Platform
2 28 (4.26%) AWS
3 12 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (1.52%) SaaS
5 7 (1.07%) GCP
5 7 (1.07%) Lucidchart
6 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (0.76%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (0.76%) Miro
8 4 (0.61%) Azure AI
8 4 (0.61%) GitHub
8 4 (0.61%) Google Gemini
8 4 (0.61%) PowerApps
8 4 (0.61%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.46%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.76%) Firewall
1 5 (0.76%) Network Security
1 5 (0.76%) SD-WAN
1 5 (0.76%) SSL
2 3 (0.46%) Intranet
2 3 (0.46%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.30%) HTTP
3 2 (0.30%) Internet
3 2 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.30%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) IPsec
4 1 (0.15%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.15%) MQTT
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.70%) Power BI
2 24 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (2.89%) Tableau
4 13 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.07%) DB2
6 6 (0.91%) Data Mining
6 6 (0.91%) Metadata
7 5 (0.76%) Big Data
7 5 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (0.76%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.61%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.61%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.61%) Parquet
9 3 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.46%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.46%) QlikView
10 2 (0.30%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 95 (14.46%) JIRA
2 6 (0.91%) Git
3 4 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.46%) Eclipse
4 3 (0.46%) GitLab
4 3 (0.46%) Maven
5 2 (0.30%) MagicDraw
5 2 (0.30%) XMLSpy
6 1 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.15%) IntelliJ
General
1 269 (40.94%) Finance
2 265 (40.33%) Social Skills
3 144 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (12.33%) Front Office
5 73 (11.11%) Banking
6 69 (10.50%) Public Sector
7 43 (6.54%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (4.72%) Legal
9 24 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.89%) Retail
11 18 (2.74%) Financial Institution
12 16 (2.44%) Back Office
12 16 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (2.28%) Investment Banking
13 15 (2.28%) Marketing
14 14 (2.13%) Local Government
14 14 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 479 (72.91%) Analyst
2 449 (68.34%) Business Analyst
3 62 (9.44%) Senior
4 55 (8.37%) Business Manager
5 52 (7.91%) Senior Analyst
6 48 (7.31%) Technical Analyst
7 47 (7.15%) Senior Business Analyst
8 46 (7.00%) Technical Business Analyst
9 41 (6.24%) Architect
9 41 (6.24%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 29 (4.41%) Data Analyst
11 27 (4.11%) Data Business Analyst
12 26 (3.96%) Project Manager
13 21 (3.20%) Developer
14 20 (3.04%) Financial Analyst
15 19 (2.89%) Finance Business Analyst
15 19 (2.89%) Lead
16 18 (2.74%) Consultant
16 18 (2.74%) Project Analyst
16 18 (2.74%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.83%) JSON
2 11 (1.67%) XML
3 8 (1.22%) SAML
4 7 (1.07%) REST
4 7 (1.07%) Web Services
5 5 (0.76%) .NET
5 5 (0.76%) React
6 4 (0.61%) CSS
6 4 (0.61%) FpML
6 4 (0.61%) HTML
6 4 (0.61%) JDBC
6 4 (0.61%) Kafka
6 4 (0.61%) LDAP
6 4 (0.61%) OAuth
6 4 (0.61%) ODBC
6 4 (0.61%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.61%) SOAP
6 4 (0.61%) TensorFlow
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Avro
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.52%) Fixed Income
2 50 (7.61%) Derivative
3 42 (6.39%) Onboarding
4 40 (6.09%) Hedge funds
5 37 (5.63%) Management Information System
5 37 (5.63%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.44%) CMDB
7 15 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.13%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.83%) PMI
10 10 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.37%) Market Risk
12 8 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.22%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.07%) Equities
13 7 (1.07%) Reference Data
14 6 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.91%) Credit Risk
14 6 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.91%) Unix
2 2 (0.30%) Linux
3 1 (0.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (44.14%) Agile
2 182 (27.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 147 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
4 130 (19.79%) Requirements Gathering
5 114 (17.35%) Project Management
5 114 (17.35%) User Stories
6 101 (15.37%) Data Analysis
7 96 (14.61%) User Acceptance Testing
8 84 (12.79%) Workshop Facilitation
9 82 (12.48%) Decision-Making
10 80 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
11 79 (12.02%) Analytics
11 79 (12.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 67 (10.20%) Change Management
13 66 (10.05%) Migration
14 62 (9.44%) Scrum
15 60 (9.13%) Roadmaps
15 60 (9.13%) Waterfall
16 59 (8.98%) Asset Management
17 58 (8.83%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 126 (19.18%) SQL
2 77 (11.72%) Python
3 14 (2.13%) Java
4 6 (0.91%) R
5 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.61%) C#
6 4 (0.61%) PHP
7 3 (0.46%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.46%) Scala
7 3 (0.46%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.30%) Bash
8 2 (0.30%) Lua
8 2 (0.30%) Perl
9 1 (0.15%) ABAP
9 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 117 (17.81%) Degree
2 57 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 42 (6.39%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.87%) CBAP
5 20 (3.04%) IIBA
6 19 (2.89%) PMI Certification
7 13 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.37%) ISEB
8 9 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.07%) PMP
10 6 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.91%) CCA
10 6 (0.91%) CISSP
11 4 (0.61%) CISA
11 4 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.46%) ACCA
12 3 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.30%) CEH
13 2 (0.30%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.41%) QA
2 27 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.20%) GDPR
4 11 (1.67%) MiFID
4 11 (1.67%) NIST
5 9 (1.37%) EMIR
6 8 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.07%) PMO
8 6 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.91%) GRC
9 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.61%) Dodd-Frank
10 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.30%) Basel III
12 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (1.67%) Docker
2 10 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.30%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.30%) NetBackup
3 2 (0.30%) Rancher
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.15%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 61 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.48%) BISAM
3 34 (5.18%) SAP
4 28 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.35%) Charles River
6 20 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 20 (3.04%) SimCorp
7 18 (2.74%) Calypso
8 16 (2.44%) Oracle
9 9 (1.37%) ION Trading
9 9 (1.37%) Murex
10 6 (0.91%) Adobe
10 6 (0.91%) IBM
11 5 (0.76%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.76%) Google
11 5 (0.76%) Informatica
11 5 (0.76%) OpenText
11 5 (0.76%) Qualtrics
11 5 (0.76%) VMware
12 4 (0.61%) Workday