Business Data Analyst Contracts

Business Data Analyst
UK

The median Business Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 550 639
Rank change year-on-year +46 +89 +109
Contract jobs requiring a Business Data Analyst 22 33 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.076% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.082% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 49
10th Percentile £408 £256 £300
25th Percentile £412 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% +24.66%
75th Percentile £669 £616 £650
90th Percentile £748 £676 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £445 £463
% change year-on-year -5.06% -3.78% +12.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £35.25 - -
75th Percentile £36.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 - -

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 27,094 40,274 56,187
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,701 26,219 39,262
10th Percentile £300 £276 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 2,672 1,567
10th Percentile £14.15 £12.86 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.38
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%

Business Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Data Analyst in the UK

Business Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Data Analyst in the UK

Business Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Data Analyst over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Data Analyst in the UK

Business Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Data Analyst in the UK

Business Data Analyst
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 Data Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +55 17 £525 - 16
London +36 12 £625 +8.70% 13
UK excluding London +61 9 £423 -5.06% 15
Work from Home +36 9 £650 +79.31% 10
Midlands +19 3 £410 +13.10%
East Midlands +15 3 £410 +13.10%
Scotland +13 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland -5 2 £550 +69.23% 5
South East +35 1 £425 - 8

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Business Data 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 15 (68.18%) Finance
2 13 (59.09%) Data Analysis
3 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
4 10 (45.45%) Banking
4 10 (45.45%) Data Modelling
5 9 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (36.36%) SQL
6 8 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Excel
7 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
7 7 (31.82%) Power BI
7 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
8 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (27.27%) Visualisation
8 6 (27.27%) Business Analysis
9 5 (22.73%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (22.73%) Python
9 5 (22.73%) ETL
9 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (22.73%) MS Visio
9 5 (22.73%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (22.73%) Translating Business Requirements
10 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
10 4 (18.18%) Migration
10 4 (18.18%) QA
11 3 (13.64%) JIRA
11 3 (13.64%) Data Mapping
11 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
11 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution

Business Data 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 3 (13.64%) Confluence
1 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (22.73%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.55%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
3 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Power BI
2 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.64%) Tableau
4 2 (9.09%) Big Data
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
5 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.55%) Impala
5 1 (4.55%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) QlikView
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
General
1 15 (68.18%) Finance
2 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 10 (45.45%) Banking
4 9 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
6 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Front Office
7 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.55%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
1 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.55%) Derivative
2 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Data Analysis
2 10 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
5 6 (27.27%) Business Analysis
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (27.27%) Visualisation
6 5 (22.73%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (22.73%) ETL
6 5 (22.73%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (22.73%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
7 4 (18.18%) Migration
8 3 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
8 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
8 3 (13.64%) Data Mapping
8 3 (13.64%) Process Improvement
8 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
2 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
3 2 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) Sparx
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Talend