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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 508 578
Rank change year-on-year -21 +70 +158
Contract jobs citing CBAP 55 36 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.061%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.44% 0.35% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 26 17
10th Percentile £398 £403 £298
25th Percentile £405 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £425 £460
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -7.61% -23.33%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £588
90th Percentile £678 £594 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £425 £538
% change year-on-year -4.71% -20.93% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 12,411 10,172 13,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 29.75% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,063 6,239 8,279
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,013 485 733
10th Percentile £16.35 £19.72 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £52.31 £66.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.59 £51.90
% change year-on-year -44.83% -12.16% +16.11%

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 December 2025.

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 11 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 December 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 -9 52 £500 +14.29% 11
London +13 42 £525 +13.51% 10
Work from Home +7 11 £489 - 8
UK excluding London -43 10 £405 -4.71% 9
North West -23 4 £405 -1.82% 1
North of England -48 4 £405 -17.97% 1
Midlands -40 3 £402 -23.43% 1
South East -22 2 £404 +0.88% 7
East Midlands - 2 £401 -
Scotland +1 1 £447 +20.40%
West Midlands -34 1 £450 -14.29% 1

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 24 (43.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (27.27%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.45%) Notion
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.82%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Endur
1 6 (10.91%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (9.09%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.82%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (1.82%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.55%) Azure
2 7 (12.73%) Lucidchart
2 7 (12.73%) Power Platform
2 7 (12.73%) SaaS
3 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.45%) AWS
5 1 (1.82%) Apigee
5 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) Kong
5 1 (1.82%) Miro
5 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.82%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) LAN
1 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) Power BI
2 6 (10.91%) Tableau
3 1 (1.82%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.82%) KNIME
3 1 (1.82%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 26 (47.27%) JIRA
2 3 (5.45%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.82%) Postman
General
1 36 (65.45%) Social Skills
2 32 (58.18%) Finance
3 24 (43.64%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (25.45%) Banking
5 9 (16.36%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.27%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) Marketing
8 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (98.18%) Analyst
2 52 (94.55%) Business Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) Payments Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) Payments Business Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) Senior
3 8 (14.55%) Senior Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) Senior Business Analyst
4 6 (10.91%) Service Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Endur Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Endur Business Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) OpenLink Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) OpenLink Business Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Operations Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Operations Business Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Senior Operations Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Service Operations Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) IT Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Product Business Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.45%) .NET
2 2 (3.64%) Kafka
2 2 (3.64%) OAuth
2 2 (3.64%) XML
3 1 (1.82%) ADO
3 1 (1.82%) JSON
3 1 (1.82%) LDAP
3 1 (1.82%) PySpark
3 1 (1.82%) REST
3 1 (1.82%) RESTful
3 1 (1.82%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.82%) SAML
3 1 (1.82%) SOAP
3 1 (1.82%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (49.09%) PMI
2 21 (38.18%) Product Ownership
3 9 (16.36%) Onboarding
4 7 (12.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (9.09%) Management Information System
6 3 (5.45%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (5.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.82%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.82%) Derivative
8 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.82%) Life Science
8 1 (1.82%) LIMS
8 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) AIX
1 1 (1.82%) Linux
1 1 (1.82%) Solaris
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (85.45%) Agile
2 36 (65.45%) Business Analysis
3 27 (49.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (49.09%) User Stories
4 25 (45.45%) Requirements Gathering
5 22 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 19 (34.55%) Workshop Facilitation
7 17 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (30.91%) Scrum
7 17 (30.91%) User Acceptance Testing
8 15 (27.27%) Use Case
9 14 (25.45%) Validation
9 14 (25.45%) Waterfall
10 13 (23.64%) Project Delivery
11 11 (20.00%) Regulatory Change
12 9 (16.36%) Data Analysis
12 9 (16.36%) Kanban
13 8 (14.55%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 8 (14.55%) DevOps
13 8 (14.55%) KYC
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) SQL
2 5 (9.09%) Python
3 3 (5.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (52.73%) PMI Certification
2 20 (36.36%) Degree
3 9 (16.36%) CSPO
4 6 (10.91%) IIBA
4 6 (10.91%) ISEB
5 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.45%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.45%) PMP
6 2 (3.64%) CFA
6 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.82%) CAPM
7 1 (1.82%) CISSP
7 1 (1.82%) CITP
7 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.82%) QA
2 8 (14.55%) PCI DSS
2 8 (14.55%) PSD2
3 6 (10.91%) ISO 8583
4 4 (7.27%) GDPR
4 4 (7.27%) ISO 20022
5 3 (5.45%) SEPA
6 2 (3.64%) GRC
7 1 (1.82%) AIFMD
7 1 (1.82%) Basel III
7 1 (1.82%) COREP
7 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.82%) FINREP
7 1 (1.82%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.82%) IFRS
7 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.82%) MiFID
7 1 (1.82%) NIST
7 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 5 (9.09%) Zuora
3 3 (5.45%) SAP
4 2 (3.64%) Ariba
4 2 (3.64%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.64%) IBM
4 2 (3.64%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.82%) ComArch
5 1 (1.82%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.82%) Databricks
5 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Murex
5 1 (1.82%) Okta
5 1 (1.82%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.82%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.82%) Wolters Kluwer
5 1 (1.82%) Xceptor