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 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 477 560
Rank change year-on-year -115 +83 +104
Contract jobs citing CBAP 49 47 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.16% 0.055%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.31% 0.52% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 26 15
10th Percentile £418 £300 £318
25th Percentile £426 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% -28.00%
75th Percentile £580 £597 £505
90th Percentile £653 £663 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £449 £375
% change year-on-year +17.06% +19.60% -24.24%
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 15,694 9,122 13,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.37% 30.91% 29.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,424 5,666 8,105
10th Percentile £350 £276 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,162 576 1,113
10th Percentile £17.09 £17.71 £13.99
25th Percentile £22.63 £21.00 £18.35
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.27 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.18% -24.33% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £64.50 £63.41
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £76.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £29.27 £41.27
% change year-on-year +62.28% -29.07% -21.40%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -122 45 £530 +11.58% 10
London -57 30 £540 -13.60% 5
Work from Home -55 16 £485 +5.10% 6
UK excluding London -107 16 £525 +17.06% 6
West Midlands -51 4 £528 +2.93%
Midlands -56 4 £528 +11.05%
Scotland -11 3 £425 +58.88%
North of England -66 3 £530 +63.08% 2
South East - 3 £539 - 3
Yorkshire -57 2 £530 +69.60%
South West - 2 £404 - 1
East of England -29 1 - -
North West -38 1 £555 +4.72% 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 16 (32.65%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (26.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (24.49%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (20.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (20.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Endur
1 1 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.04%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.33%) Azure
2 4 (8.16%) AWS
3 3 (6.12%) Lucidchart
3 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Apigee
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.04%) Figma
5 1 (2.04%) GCP
5 1 (2.04%) Kong
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.04%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Power BI
2 1 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.04%) Metadata
2 1 (2.04%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (32.65%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Postman
General
1 28 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 23 (46.94%) Finance
3 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Banking
5 6 (12.24%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (12.24%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
7 3 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Billing
9 1 (2.04%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (2.04%) French Language
9 1 (2.04%) German Language
9 1 (2.04%) Law
9 1 (2.04%) Legal
9 1 (2.04%) Local Government
9 1 (2.04%) Police
Job Titles
1 47 (95.92%) Analyst
2 44 (89.80%) Business Analyst
3 15 (30.61%) Senior
3 15 (30.61%) Senior Analyst
3 15 (30.61%) Senior Business Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Lead
4 4 (8.16%) Lead Business Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Customer Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Customer Experience Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Product Business Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) FHIR
2 1 (2.04%) JSON
2 1 (2.04%) OAuth
2 1 (2.04%) REST
2 1 (2.04%) RESTful
2 1 (2.04%) SOAP
2 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.73%) PMI
2 7 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) LIMS
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) AIX
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
1 2 (4.08%) Solaris
1 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (77.55%) Agile
2 32 (65.31%) Business Analysis
3 30 (61.22%) User Stories
4 28 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (55.10%) Waterfall
6 26 (53.06%) Workshop Facilitation
7 23 (46.94%) Requirements Gathering
8 20 (40.82%) SDLC
9 19 (38.78%) Acceptance Criteria
10 17 (34.69%) Use Case
11 16 (32.65%) DevOps
11 16 (32.65%) Migration
11 16 (32.65%) Project Management
12 13 (26.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 13 (26.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (24.49%) BPMN
13 12 (24.49%) Data Modelling
13 12 (24.49%) Impact Assessments
13 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (24.49%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (4.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 38 (77.55%) Degree
2 22 (44.90%) PMI Certification
3 18 (36.73%) IIBA
4 11 (22.45%) SC Cleared
4 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
5 8 (16.33%) ISEB
6 6 (12.24%) PMP
7 4 (8.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (6.12%) Master's Degree
9 2 (4.08%) CAPM
9 2 (4.08%) CISSP
9 2 (4.08%) ISEB Practitioner
9 2 (4.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (2.04%) CEH
10 1 (2.04%) CISM
10 1 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (2.04%) CSPO
10 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) QA
2 4 (8.16%) GDPR
3 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.12%) NIST
4 2 (4.08%) HL7
4 2 (4.08%) SNOMED CT
4 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.04%) GRC
5 1 (2.04%) PMO
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.12%) Databricks
3 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.08%) SAP
4 1 (2.04%) Ariba
4 1 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.04%) TOWER Software