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 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 481 561
Rank change year-on-year -106 +80 +90
Contract jobs citing CBAP 54 42 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.056%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.35% 0.47% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £421 £300 £319
25th Percentile £446 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% - -32.00%
75th Percentile £564 £550 £506
90th Percentile £675 £663 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £325 £375
% change year-on-year +61.54% -13.33% -15.26%

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 15,473 8,923 12,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.63% 31.03% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,267 5,624 8,010
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -1.84% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £619 £645
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.28% +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,134 519 1,084
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.86 £13.74
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.39 £18.00
Median hourly rate £48.05 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.85% -18.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £78.37 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +48.21% -21.71% -18.12%

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 29 May 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 13 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 29 May 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 -114 50 £520 +12.80% 8
London -63 37 £515 -14.17% 3
Work from Home -21 15 £469 +4.92% 3
UK excluding London -99 14 £525 +61.54% 7
Midlands -57 4 £528 +11.05%
West Midlands -58 4 £528 +2.93%
Scotland -2 3 £425 +58.88% 1
North of England -77 3 £530 +76.67% 2
Yorkshire -58 2 £530 +69.60% 1
South West - 2 £404 -
North West -33 1 £555 +107.09% 1
South East - 1 - - 3
East of England - 1 - - 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 20 (37.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (37.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (25.93%) MS Visio
3 12 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (18.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (5.56%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.85%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (1.85%) Endur
2 1 (1.85%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.85%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.96%) Azure
1 7 (12.96%) Lucidchart
1 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
2 5 (9.26%) SaaS
3 4 (7.41%) AWS
4 1 (1.85%) Apigee
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.85%) Figma
4 1 (1.85%) GCP
4 1 (1.85%) Kong
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.85%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) Power BI
2 4 (7.41%) Tableau
3 1 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.85%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.85%) Metadata
3 1 (1.85%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 20 (37.04%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Postman
General
1 36 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 29 (53.70%) Finance
3 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (22.22%) Banking
5 6 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
7 4 (7.41%) Financial Institution
8 3 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.85%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.85%) Law
10 1 (1.85%) Legal
10 1 (1.85%) Local Government
10 1 (1.85%) Police
10 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (96.30%) Analyst
2 49 (90.74%) Business Analyst
3 17 (31.48%) Senior
3 17 (31.48%) Senior Analyst
3 17 (31.48%) Senior Business Analyst
4 3 (5.56%) Lead
4 3 (5.56%) Lead Business Analyst
4 3 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
4 3 (5.56%) Operations Business Analyst
4 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 3 (5.56%) Senior Operations Analyst
4 3 (5.56%) Service Analyst
4 3 (5.56%) Service Operations Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Business IT Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (3.70%) IT Business Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Product Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) FHIR
2 1 (1.85%) JSON
2 1 (1.85%) OAuth
2 1 (1.85%) REST
2 1 (1.85%) RESTful
2 1 (1.85%) SOAP
2 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.63%) PMI
2 6 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.85%) Derivative
5 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.85%) LIMS
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) AIX
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
1 2 (3.70%) Solaris
1 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (79.63%) Agile
2 36 (66.67%) User Stories
3 35 (64.81%) Business Analysis
4 28 (51.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 27 (50.00%) Waterfall
5 27 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 19 (35.19%) SDLC
7 18 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
8 17 (31.48%) Project Management
9 16 (29.63%) Migration
9 16 (29.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (27.78%) DevOps
10 15 (27.78%) Use Case
11 14 (25.93%) Decision-Making
12 13 (24.07%) Data Modelling
12 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (24.07%) Validation
13 12 (22.22%) BPMN
13 12 (22.22%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (66.67%) Degree
2 21 (38.89%) IIBA
2 21 (38.89%) PMI Certification
3 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
4 7 (12.96%) ISEB
4 7 (12.96%) PMP
5 4 (7.41%) CSPO
6 3 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (3.70%) CAPM
7 2 (3.70%) CISSP
7 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.85%) CEH
8 1 (1.85%) CFA
8 1 (1.85%) CISM
8 1 (1.85%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.85%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.37%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) GDPR
3 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.56%) NIST
4 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.70%) HL7
4 2 (3.70%) SNOMED CT
4 2 (3.70%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.85%) Basel III
5 1 (1.85%) COREP
5 1 (1.85%) FINREP
5 1 (1.85%) GRC
5 1 (1.85%) MiFID
5 1 (1.85%) PMO
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Databricks
2 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.56%) Zuora
3 1 (1.85%) Ariba
3 1 (1.85%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (1.85%) Google
3 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle
3 1 (1.85%) SAP
3 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.85%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.85%) Wolters Kluwer