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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 548 641
Rank change year-on-year +63 +93 +83
Contract jobs citing Business Analytics 37 31 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.073% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.085% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 44
10th Percentile £413 £353 £402
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £656
90th Percentile £728 £765 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +26.67% -25.00% +11.11%
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 26,547 36,622 51,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.04% 86.09% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,007 23,613 35,611
10th Percentile £303 £300 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,109 2,439 1,690
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £15.77
Median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £59.90 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%

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 21 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 10 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 21 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
Work from Home +48 21 £500 - 165
England +35 20 £575 +27.78% 156
UK excluding London +61 16 £475 +26.67% 79
London +34 14 £575 +27.78% 93
Scotland +12 11 £456 - 5
South East +40 2 - - 24
South West +35 1 £513 - 7
North of England +21 1 £475 +46.15% 23
Wales - 1 £650 -
North West - 1 £475 - 15

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 (10.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.41%) CMS
2 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
3 6 (16.22%) Snowflake
4 5 (13.51%) GCP
5 4 (10.81%) OCI
5 4 (10.81%) Oracle CX
6 3 (8.11%) dbt
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.41%) Serverless
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (16.22%) Power BI
3 5 (13.51%) Metadata
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (8.11%) Big Data
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.41%) Delta Lake
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (5.41%) Tableau
6 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) ERwin
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Legal
4 4 (10.81%) Marketing
5 3 (8.11%) Front Office
5 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (13.51%) Analyst
1 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
2 3 (8.11%) Architect
2 3 (8.11%) Consultant
2 3 (8.11%) Data Analyst
3 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (5.41%) Data Architect
3 2 (5.41%) Data Manager
3 2 (5.41%) Data Modeller
3 2 (5.41%) Development Specialist
3 2 (5.41%) Lead
3 2 (5.41%) Senior
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (2.70%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Middleware
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (8.11%) PySpark
3 2 (5.41%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) .NET
4 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.70%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.70%) Ajax
4 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.70%) CSS
4 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.70%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.70%) HTML
4 1 (2.70%) JMS
4 1 (2.70%) Pandas
4 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.11%) Life Science
2 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.11%) Market Risk
2 3 (8.11%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (5.41%) Learning Management System
3 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) AIX
1 1 (2.70%) Android
1 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Analytics
2 25 (67.57%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (35.14%) ETL
3 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (29.73%) Data Modelling
5 10 (27.03%) Decision-Making
6 9 (24.32%) Data Governance
7 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (16.22%) Data Analysis
8 6 (16.22%) Data Management
8 6 (16.22%) Data Science
8 6 (16.22%) Use Case
9 5 (13.51%) Agile
9 5 (13.51%) Data Analytics
9 5 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (13.51%) Data Strategy
10 4 (10.81%) Data Architecture
10 4 (10.81%) Data Integration
10 4 (10.81%) Risk Management
10 4 (10.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) Java
3 4 (10.81%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.70%) R
4 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (29.73%) Data Quality
2 5 (13.51%) QA
3 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.41%) GDPR
5 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.41%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) VMware