CBAP Contract Job Trends

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CBAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 501 544
Rank change year-on-year -140 +43 +87
Contract jobs citing CBAP 34 54 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.063% 0.16% 0.085%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% 0.53% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 30 22
10th Percentile £413 £299 £333
25th Percentile £460 £328 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% +8.82% -30.61%
75th Percentile £569 £622 £469
90th Percentile £626 £663 £524
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -27.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £59.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £59.00 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CBAP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,783 10,249 11,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.33% 31.23% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,254 6,303 7,364
10th Percentile £350 £288 £313
25th Percentile £433 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,257 823 818
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.98 £14.49
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.96 £73.75 £76.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.77 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +93.90% -47.05% -6.40%

CBAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CBAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CBAP job vacancy trend in the UK

CBAP
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CBAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CBAP

CBAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CBAP over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CBAP in the UK

CBAP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CBAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CBAP

CBAP
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CBAP within the UK over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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 -138 30 £515 +8.42% 24
London -91 17 £540 -6.09% 15
UK excluding London -83 15 £500 +11.11% 12
Work from Home -61 12 £500 +8.46% 14
South East - 6 £526 - 2
Scotland -11 3 £425 +58.88% 2
Midlands -40 3 £485 +7.78% 1
West Midlands -54 3 £485 +4.86%
East of England -28 2 - - 2
South West - 1 £469 - 2

CBAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (35.29%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.94%) Elite 3E
2 1 (2.94%) Endur
2 1 (2.94%) Primavera
2 1 (2.94%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.94%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.94%) Asana
5 1 (2.94%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.94%) Figma
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.94%) Miro
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.88%) Metadata
1 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.94%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) JIRA
General
1 21 (61.76%) Finance
2 17 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
4 9 (26.47%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (23.53%) Banking
6 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.88%) Billing
7 2 (5.88%) Law
7 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.94%) Back Office
8 1 (2.94%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.94%) French Language
8 1 (2.94%) German Language
8 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.94%) Legal
8 1 (2.94%) Multimedia
8 1 (2.94%) Police
8 1 (2.94%) Publishing
8 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (97.06%) Analyst
2 32 (94.12%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Senior Business Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Automation Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Process Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Lead Business Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Product Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Product Business Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Functional Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Operations Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) PMI
2 6 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.94%) LIMS
5 1 (2.94%) Media Streaming
5 1 (2.94%) NHS
5 1 (2.94%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.94%) Video on Demand
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 23 (67.65%) Agile
3 22 (64.71%) Business Analysis
4 19 (55.88%) Workshop Facilitation
5 16 (47.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (44.12%) User Acceptance Testing
7 13 (38.24%) Acceptance Criteria
7 13 (38.24%) Requirements Gathering
8 12 (35.29%) User Stories
9 11 (32.35%) Process Improvement
10 10 (29.41%) Use Case
11 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (26.47%) Validation
12 8 (23.53%) Scrum
12 8 (23.53%) SDLC
13 7 (20.59%) DevOps
13 7 (20.59%) Migration
14 6 (17.65%) Business Case
14 6 (17.65%) Requirements Workshops
14 6 (17.65%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) SQL
2 1 (2.94%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) Degree
2 15 (44.12%) PMI Certification
3 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
4 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 4 (11.76%) ISEB
5 4 (11.76%) PMP
5 4 (11.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (8.82%) IIBA
6 3 (8.82%) ISEB Practitioner
6 3 (8.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (5.88%) CISSP
8 1 (2.94%) CEH
8 1 (2.94%) CISM
8 1 (2.94%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.94%) CSPO
8 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
8 1 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) GDPR
2 2 (5.88%) HL7
2 2 (5.88%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.82%) CyberArk
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
3 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) Intapp
4 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.94%) Planview