Business Analyst Contracts

Business Analyst (BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 42 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 1,533 1,796 2,855
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.13% 4.09% 5.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.56% 4.41% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,050 1,261 2,098
10th Percentile £355 £363 £400
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £624 £615 £600
90th Percentile £744 £713 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £446 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 13
10th Percentile £21.86 £20.77 £21.98
25th Percentile £25.79 £21.01 £27.98
Median hourly rate £34.11 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% -29.17% +130.77%
75th Percentile £50.90 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £68.00 £69.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.73 £20.77 £62.50
% change year-on-year +47.95% -66.77% +186.96%

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 27,555 40,760 52,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.89% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,702 26,110 36,551
10th Percentile £290 £280 £313
25th Percentile £402 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,184 2,977 1,489
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.37 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.17 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% -16.67% +76.47%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.85 £76.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.45% +102.95%

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 19 June 2025.

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 19 June 2025.

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 19 June 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 +3 1,308 £518 -1.29% 2,769
London +8 868 £575 +2.22% 1,465
Work from Home -1 539 £514 -6.59% 1,142
UK excluding London +11 537 £446 -1.00% 1,522
North of England -5 173 £413 -13.16% 403
Scotland +12 108 £430 -1.15% 120
North West +10 101 £419 -11.84% 224
Midlands +8 87 £438 -2.78% 248
South East +22 82 £488 +2.63% 355
Yorkshire +6 64 £413 -13.16% 150
West Midlands +2 48 £500 +11.11% 143
South West +38 41 £460 -3.16% 162
East Midlands +16 39 £375 -14.29% 105
East of England -3 24 £440 +3.53% 136
Wales +7 13 £458 +8.93% 45
Northern Ireland +4 12 £475 +18.75% 57
North East -5 8 £400 - 29
Channel Islands - 2 £463 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 2025, 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.

1 559 (36.46%) Finance
2 558 (36.40%) Social Skills
3 544 (35.49%) Agile
4 491 (32.03%) Business Analysis
5 377 (24.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 344 (22.44%) Analytical Skills
7 306 (19.96%) Requirements Gathering
8 291 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
9 284 (18.53%) User Stories
10 222 (14.48%) Data Analysis
11 220 (14.35%) SQL
12 213 (13.89%) Workshop Facilitation
13 209 (13.63%) Banking
14 203 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
15 194 (12.65%) JIRA
16 180 (11.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 156 (10.18%) Project Management
18 148 (9.65%) Migration
19 144 (9.39%) Confluence
20 141 (9.20%) Degree
21 138 (9.00%) Change Management
21 138 (9.00%) Decision-Making
22 136 (8.87%) Process Improvement
23 134 (8.74%) GAP Analysis
24 129 (8.41%) Microsoft
24 129 (8.41%) Analytics
25 126 (8.22%) Front Office
26 121 (7.89%) Scrum
27 119 (7.76%) Asset Management
28 116 (7.57%) Business Intelligence

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
1 144 (9.39%) Confluence
2 20 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.26%) CMS
3 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.26%) SAS
4 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.065%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.065%) Camunda
Applications
1 109 (7.11%) MS Visio
2 96 (6.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
4 51 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.78%) Trello
6 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 49 (3.20%) Aladdin
2 28 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (1.50%) Endur
4 19 (1.24%) thinkFolio
5 17 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.52%) Loan IQ
7 7 (0.46%) SAP FI
8 6 (0.39%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.39%) Shopify
8 6 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
9 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.26%) ION Anvil
10 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.20%) MultiFonds
11 3 (0.20%) SAP SD
12 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
12 2 (0.13%) SAP GTS
12 2 (0.13%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 107 (6.98%) Azure
2 75 (4.89%) Power Platform
3 48 (3.13%) AWS
4 43 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (1.96%) SaaS
6 24 (1.57%) GCP
7 17 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (1.11%) Miro
8 16 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (0.85%) Lucidchart
10 11 (0.72%) Entra ID
11 10 (0.65%) PowerApps
12 8 (0.52%) Snowflake
13 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (0.39%) Azure AKS
14 6 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (0.33%) GitHub
15 5 (0.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (0.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 5 (0.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.33%) Intranet
2 3 (0.20%) ATM
2 3 (0.20%) WAN
3 2 (0.13%) Firewall
3 2 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.13%) VoIP
4 1 (0.065%) DNS
4 1 (0.065%) GPRS
4 1 (0.065%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.065%) LAN
4 1 (0.065%) Network Security
4 1 (0.065%) NGN
4 1 (0.065%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (4.24%) Power BI
2 36 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (1.44%) Tableau
4 9 (0.59%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.46%) SQL Server
5 7 (0.46%) Star Schema
6 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.39%) GIS
6 6 (0.39%) Metadata
7 5 (0.33%) Data Mart
7 5 (0.33%) MS Access
8 4 (0.26%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.20%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.20%) Data Hub
9 3 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.20%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.20%) SAP BW
9 3 (0.20%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 194 (12.65%) JIRA
2 4 (0.26%) Postman
2 4 (0.26%) SoapUI
3 3 (0.20%) Git
4 2 (0.13%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.13%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.065%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.065%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.065%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.065%) MLflow
General
1 559 (36.46%) Finance
2 558 (36.40%) Social Skills
3 344 (22.44%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (13.63%) Banking
5 126 (8.22%) Front Office
6 111 (7.24%) Public Sector
7 72 (4.70%) Retail
8 51 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
9 49 (3.20%) Investment Banking
10 46 (3.00%) Back Office
11 43 (2.80%) Legal
12 38 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 34 (2.22%) Financial Institution
14 33 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.83%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.63%) Marketing
18 23 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
19 22 (1.44%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (0.91%) XML
2 12 (0.78%) JSON
3 9 (0.59%) REST
4 8 (0.52%) ADO
4 8 (0.52%) SailPoint
4 8 (0.52%) Web Services
5 7 (0.46%) SAML
6 6 (0.39%) OAuth
6 6 (0.39%) OpenID
7 5 (0.33%) FpML
8 4 (0.26%) DCOM
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.26%) VML
9 3 (0.20%) LDAP
9 3 (0.20%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.20%) RAML
10 2 (0.13%) HTML
10 2 (0.13%) Middleware
10 2 (0.13%) Murex MxML
10 2 (0.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.89%) Derivative
3 72 (4.70%) Fixed Income
4 61 (3.98%) Onboarding
5 44 (2.87%) Hedge funds
6 40 (2.61%) Management Information System
7 26 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 22 (1.44%) Market Risk
10 22 (1.44%) Reinsurance
11 20 (1.30%) Equities
12 18 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 17 (1.11%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.91%) CMDB
14 14 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.72%) Data Centre
16 11 (0.72%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.52%) Windows
2 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.065%) Linux
4 1 (0.065%) VMS
4 1 (0.065%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (35.49%) Agile
2 491 (32.03%) Business Analysis
3 377 (24.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 306 (19.96%) Requirements Gathering
5 291 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
6 284 (18.53%) User Stories
7 222 (14.48%) Data Analysis
8 213 (13.89%) Workshop Facilitation
9 203 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
10 180 (11.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 156 (10.18%) Project Management
12 148 (9.65%) Migration
13 138 (9.00%) Change Management
13 138 (9.00%) Decision-Making
14 136 (8.87%) Process Improvement
15 134 (8.74%) GAP Analysis
16 129 (8.41%) Analytics
17 121 (7.89%) Scrum
18 119 (7.76%) Asset Management
19 116 (7.57%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 220 (14.35%) SQL
2 92 (6.00%) Python
3 7 (0.46%) VBA
4 6 (0.39%) Java
4 6 (0.39%) R
5 3 (0.20%) PL/SQL
5 3 (0.20%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.13%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.065%) ABAP
7 1 (0.065%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.065%) C#
7 1 (0.065%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.065%) Magik
Qualifications
1 141 (9.20%) Degree
2 100 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 66 (4.31%) SC Cleared
4 39 (2.54%) CBAP
5 24 (1.57%) IIBA
6 18 (1.17%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 8 (0.52%) ACCA
9 7 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.46%) ISEB
9 7 (0.46%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.39%) PMP
11 5 (0.33%) CIMA
12 4 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 3 (0.20%) CISSP
13 3 (0.20%) CRISC
13 3 (0.20%) SAFe Agilist
14 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.15%) QA
2 46 (3.00%) MiFID
3 45 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.35%) EMIR
5 28 (1.83%) GDPR
6 13 (0.85%) Dodd-Frank
6 13 (0.85%) NIST
7 12 (0.78%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.65%) SEPA
9 9 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.52%) Basel III
10 8 (0.52%) PMO
11 7 (0.46%) COREP
11 7 (0.46%) GRC
11 7 (0.46%) GxP
11 7 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.26%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.20%) FINREP
System Software
1 17 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (0.52%) Kubernetes
1 8 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.26%) Terraform
3 3 (0.20%) Cisco UCCX
3 3 (0.20%) SCCM
4 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.13%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.065%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 129 (8.41%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.41%) SAP
3 57 (3.72%) Salesforce
4 41 (2.67%) Oracle
5 39 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 38 (2.48%) BISAM
7 26 (1.70%) Charles River
8 22 (1.44%) Murex
9 21 (1.37%) Calypso
9 21 (1.37%) SimCorp
10 16 (1.04%) ION Trading
11 14 (0.91%) Adobe
11 14 (0.91%) OpenLink
12 11 (0.72%) Google
12 11 (0.72%) Virgin Media
12 11 (0.72%) Workday
13 10 (0.65%) Databricks
14 8 (0.52%) Duck Creek
15 6 (0.39%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.39%) Palantir