Business Analyst Contracts

Business Analyst (BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 36 40 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 2,310 4,444 4,865
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.13% 5.72% 5.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.49% 6.01% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,662 3,223 3,655
10th Percentile £400 £390 £363
25th Percentile £450 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +4.59% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £703 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £457 £438
% change year-on-year +3.94% +4.46% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 22
10th Percentile £25.82 £4.00 £23.39
25th Percentile £36.25 £8.18 £24.46
Median hourly rate £57.00 £33.25 £41.30
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -19.49% +44.91%
75th Percentile £69.39 £56.56 £51.50
90th Percentile £76.83 £58.23 £57.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.78 £20.72 £25.31
% change year-on-year +207.82% -18.14% -15.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 42,101 73,991 85,535
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 95.16% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,377 51,591 59,848
10th Percentile £293 £313 £301
25th Percentile £413 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% +7.37%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £613
90th Percentile £743 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,500 1,747 2,223
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £30.00 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% +48.63% -12.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.00 £45.89
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £17.98
% change year-on-year +78.00% +39.04% -10.10%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analyst over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analyst in the UK

Business Analyst
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 Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. 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 +3 2,021 £525 - 337
London +6 1,350 £550 -4.35% 178
Work from Home +10 945 £515 +3.00% 152
UK excluding London -11 755 £475 +3.94% 187
North of England -4 214 £500 +5.26% 56
South East -19 160 £500 +7.82% 33
North West +3 122 £495 +10.00% 26
Midlands +3 113 £475 +5.56% 25
Scotland -17 104 £430 - 26
West Midlands +9 91 £475 +5.56% 16
Yorkshire -9 78 £515 +3.00% 26
South West -27 78 £500 +1.01% 22
East of England -2 58 £450 -7.69% 10
North East +45 22 £477 +0.42% 4
East Midlands -7 21 £482 +7.11% 9
Wales +7 18 £450 - 7
Northern Ireland +15 14 £400 +48.15% 9
Isle of Man - 7 £475 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 December 2023, 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 Business Analyst in the job title.

1 774 (33.51%) Agile
2 703 (30.43%) Finance
3 638 (27.62%) Business Analysis
4 597 (25.84%) Social Skills
5 425 (18.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 384 (16.62%) Requirements Gathering
7 371 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
8 346 (14.98%) User Stories
9 260 (11.26%) Banking
10 256 (11.08%) Degree
11 252 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
12 226 (9.78%) SQL
13 214 (9.26%) Migration
13 214 (9.26%) Project Management
13 214 (9.26%) Public Sector
13 214 (9.26%) Workshop Facilitation
14 203 (8.79%) Data Analysis
15 181 (7.84%) JIRA
16 178 (7.71%) Change Management
17 173 (7.49%) Security Cleared
18 166 (7.19%) User Acceptance Testing
19 158 (6.84%) Scrum
20 142 (6.15%) Business Case
21 135 (5.84%) Business Intelligence
22 133 (5.76%) QA
23 131 (5.67%) Microsoft
23 131 (5.67%) Product Ownership
24 130 (5.63%) SC Cleared
25 128 (5.54%) GAP Analysis
25 128 (5.54%) Power Platform

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 99 (4.29%) Confluence
2 63 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.48%) CMS
4 5 (0.22%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.22%) Skype for Business
5 4 (0.17%) Apache
5 4 (0.17%) SAS
6 2 (0.087%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.087%) MTS
6 2 (0.087%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.043%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.043%) Appian
7 1 (0.043%) govService
7 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.043%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.043%) WordPress
Applications
1 115 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (3.98%) MS Visio
3 76 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
4 62 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.48%) Trello
6 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.043%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.043%) InVision
9 1 (0.043%) Lectora
9 1 (0.043%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 47 (2.03%) Endur
2 46 (1.99%) Loan IQ
3 36 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 32 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.65%) SAP CO
5 15 (0.65%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
7 11 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 8 (0.35%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.30%) Aligne
10 6 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.22%) SAP BPC
11 5 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
11 5 (0.22%) SAP SD
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.17%) SAP MM
12 4 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 128 (5.54%) Power Platform
2 116 (5.02%) Azure
3 67 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
4 50 (2.16%) AWS
5 41 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (1.13%) SaaS
8 23 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 15 (0.65%) Power Automate
10 14 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
11 12 (0.52%) Snowflake
12 10 (0.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 9 (0.39%) GCP
14 6 (0.26%) GitHub
14 6 (0.26%) Google Docs
15 5 (0.22%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 5 (0.22%) WhatsApp
16 4 (0.17%) Figma
16 4 (0.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.39%) LAN
1 9 (0.39%) SD-WAN
1 9 (0.39%) WAN
2 8 (0.35%) Intranet
3 6 (0.26%) Internet
4 4 (0.17%) Firewall
4 4 (0.17%) FIX Connectivity
5 3 (0.13%) 4G
5 3 (0.13%) 5G
6 2 (0.087%) Broadband
6 2 (0.087%) Network Security
6 2 (0.087%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.043%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.043%) DNS
7 1 (0.043%) GSM
7 1 (0.043%) LTE
7 1 (0.043%) SAN
7 1 (0.043%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.043%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.28%) Power BI
2 46 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (1.39%) Tableau
4 26 (1.13%) Big Data
5 19 (0.82%) Relational Database
6 16 (0.69%) SQL Server
7 15 (0.65%) Power Query
7 15 (0.65%) SAP HANA
8 11 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (0.26%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.22%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.17%) Metadata
13 4 (0.17%) MS Access
13 4 (0.17%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.17%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (0.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 181 (7.84%) JIRA
2 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.17%) Balsamiq
3 4 (0.17%) Eclipse
3 4 (0.17%) TeamCity
3 4 (0.17%) Visual Studio Team System
4 3 (0.13%) Git
4 3 (0.13%) Postman
4 3 (0.13%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.087%) GitLab
5 2 (0.087%) JIRA Agile
5 2 (0.087%) MSI
5 2 (0.087%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.087%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.043%) Rational Software Modeler
6 1 (0.043%) RequisitePro
6 1 (0.043%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 703 (30.43%) Finance
2 597 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 371 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (11.26%) Banking
5 214 (9.26%) Public Sector
6 116 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
8 89 (3.85%) Front Office
9 82 (3.55%) Investment Banking
10 75 (3.25%) Retail
11 68 (2.94%) Legal
12 55 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (2.29%) Marketing
14 47 (2.03%) Manufacturing
15 46 (1.99%) Back Office
16 35 (1.52%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.30%) Law
18 28 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (1.04%) Local Government
20 22 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.00%) XML
2 17 (0.74%) .NET
3 16 (0.69%) HTML
4 14 (0.61%) JSON
5 10 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (0.35%) Web Services
7 7 (0.30%) ADO
7 7 (0.30%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (0.26%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.26%) CSS
8 6 (0.26%) Node.js
8 6 (0.26%) React
9 5 (0.22%) Ajax
9 5 (0.22%) Apache Camel
9 5 (0.22%) Swagger
9 5 (0.22%) XHTML
10 4 (0.17%) FIXML
10 4 (0.17%) Middleware
10 4 (0.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 131 (5.67%) Product Ownership
2 58 (2.51%) Onboarding
3 55 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 46 (1.99%) Derivative
5 38 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 33 (1.43%) Market Risk
7 30 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 28 (1.21%) Fixed Income
9 25 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.00%) CMDB
10 23 (1.00%) Equities
11 22 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.74%) Cloud Native
15 17 (0.74%) PMI
16 16 (0.69%) Credit Risk
16 16 (0.69%) NHS
17 15 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (0.78%) Windows
2 13 (0.56%) Linux
3 8 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.26%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.17%) Unix
6 2 (0.087%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (33.51%) Agile
2 638 (27.62%) Business Analysis
3 425 (18.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 384 (16.62%) Requirements Gathering
5 346 (14.98%) User Stories
6 252 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
7 214 (9.26%) Migration
7 214 (9.26%) Project Management
7 214 (9.26%) Workshop Facilitation
8 203 (8.79%) Data Analysis
9 178 (7.71%) Change Management
10 166 (7.19%) User Acceptance Testing
11 158 (6.84%) Scrum
12 142 (6.15%) Business Case
13 135 (5.84%) Business Intelligence
14 128 (5.54%) GAP Analysis
15 126 (5.45%) Acceptance Criteria
15 126 (5.45%) CRM
15 126 (5.45%) Waterfall
16 124 (5.37%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 226 (9.78%) SQL
2 42 (1.82%) Python
3 19 (0.82%) Java
4 15 (0.65%) VBA
5 9 (0.39%) PL/SQL
5 9 (0.39%) T-SQL
6 8 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (0.35%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.22%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.17%) C#
8 4 (0.17%) R
9 2 (0.087%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.043%) ABAP
10 1 (0.043%) Bash
10 1 (0.043%) XPath
10 1 (0.043%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 256 (11.08%) Degree
2 173 (7.49%) Security Cleared
3 130 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 34 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 27 (1.17%) CBAP
6 23 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 18 (0.78%) ISEB
8 17 (0.74%) IIBA
9 10 (0.43%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.26%) ACCA
11 6 (0.26%) PMP
12 5 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.22%) MBA
13 4 (0.17%) CIMA
14 3 (0.13%) CISSP
14 3 (0.13%) CSPO
14 3 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.087%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.76%) QA
2 65 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 27 (1.17%) EMIR
4 23 (1.00%) MiFID
5 20 (0.87%) GDPR
6 13 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.52%) PMO
8 11 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 11 (0.48%) IFRS
8 11 (0.48%) NIST
9 10 (0.43%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.43%) Dodd-Frank
9 10 (0.43%) SLA
10 9 (0.39%) IFRS 17
11 8 (0.35%) COREP
11 8 (0.35%) FINREP
12 7 (0.30%) SEPA
13 6 (0.26%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.26%) ISO 8583
13 6 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.087%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.043%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.087%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.043%) SCCM
Vendors
1 131 (5.67%) Microsoft
2 106 (4.59%) SAP
3 89 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 61 (2.64%) Oracle
5 52 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 19 (0.82%) OpenLink
7 17 (0.74%) Google
7 17 (0.74%) IBM
8 14 (0.61%) Alteryx
9 10 (0.43%) Atlassian
9 10 (0.43%) Workday
10 9 (0.39%) Bloomberg
10 9 (0.39%) ION Trading
11 8 (0.35%) Pega
11 8 (0.35%) Trayport
12 7 (0.30%) Charles River
12 7 (0.30%) Citrix
13 6 (0.26%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.26%) Murex
13 6 (0.26%) Virgin Media