Business Analytics Contracts

Business Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Business Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Analytics 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 480 549 652
Rank change year-on-year +69 +103 +75
Contract jobs citing Business Analytics 40 33 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.076% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.088% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 53
10th Percentile £413 £363 £390
25th Percentile £431 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £577 £650
90th Percentile £706 £750 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £32.05 £21.64 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.11% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.05 £21.64 -
% change year-on-year +48.11% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Analytics 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 Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analytics in the UK

Business Analytics
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analytics 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 +54 25 £556 +23.61% 132
Work from Home +49 23 £500 +5.26% 50
London +36 18 £575 +27.78% 88
UK excluding London +66 14 £463 +2.78% 60
Scotland +20 10 £463 +1.37% 5
South East +45 2 - - 18
North of England +20 2 £450 +38.46% 9
Yorkshire +8 1 £425 +30.77% 2
North West - 1 £475 - 5

Business Analytics
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 4 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) CMS
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) Power Platform
3 7 (17.50%) Azure
4 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) OCI
4 4 (10.00%) Oracle CX
4 4 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (7.50%) dbt
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.50%) Serverless
7 1 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (22.50%) Power BI
3 6 (15.00%) Metadata
4 5 (12.50%) Tableau
5 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (7.50%) Big Data
6 3 (7.50%) Delta Lake
6 3 (7.50%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (5.00%) Data Vault
7 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
7 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.50%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) ERwin
1 1 (2.50%) Git
1 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Finance
3 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Legal
4 4 (10.00%) Marketing
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Front Office
5 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Retail
6 2 (5.00%) Military
7 1 (2.50%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Analyst
2 5 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Consultant
3 4 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Data Modeller
4 3 (7.50%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Data Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Development Specialist
5 2 (5.00%) Lead
5 2 (5.00%) Strategy Consultant
6 1 (2.50%) Business Analytics Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (2.50%) Content Designer
6 1 (2.50%) Governance Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (10.00%) Middleware
3 3 (7.50%) Kafka
3 3 (7.50%) PySpark
4 1 (2.50%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.50%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.50%) MDX
4 1 (2.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.50%) Life Science
2 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.50%) Market Risk
2 3 (7.50%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.00%) Learning Management System
3 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Android
1 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Analytics
2 26 (65.00%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (35.00%) ETL
5 13 (32.50%) Data Modelling
6 9 (22.50%) Data Governance
6 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
7 8 (20.00%) Data Science
7 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (17.50%) Data Analysis
8 7 (17.50%) Use Case
9 6 (15.00%) Data Architecture
9 6 (15.00%) Data Management
10 5 (12.50%) Data Analytics
10 5 (12.50%) Data Engineering
10 5 (12.50%) Data Integration
10 5 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (12.50%) Data Strategy
10 5 (12.50%) Risk Management
11 4 (10.00%) Human Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) SQL
2 5 (12.50%) Java
2 5 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.50%) R
3 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (32.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (12.50%) QA
3 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.00%) GDPR
5 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Oracle
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Adobe
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) Reuters