CBAP Contracts

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 577 670
Rank change year-on-year +91 +93 +142
Contract jobs citing CBAP 33 23 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.053% 0.072%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.37% 0.17% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 24
10th Percentile £309 £316 £411
25th Percentile £375 £363 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% -32.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £519 £688
90th Percentile £671 £668 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £436 £375 £443
% change year-on-year +16.27% -15.26% +1.15%

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 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

CBAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CBAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CBAP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CBAP.

Daily rate trend for CBAP in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CBAP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CBAP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CBAP.

Hourly rate trend for CBAP in the UK

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Top 11 Contract 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 30 April 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 +73 31 £494 +23.44% 14
London +49 23 £625 +4.17% 9
UK excluding London +50 8 £436 +16.27% 4
North of England +27 5 £300 -20.00% 1
Yorkshire +14 4 £406 +8.33%
Work from Home +44 3 £447 -10.60% 9
Midlands +22 2 £499 +24.63%
West Midlands +16 1 £550 +57.14%
North West +11 1 £268 - 1
East Midlands +8 1 £447 -0.67%
Scotland - 1 £425 -

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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 11 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) MS Visio
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (3.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Endur
2 1 (3.03%) Actimize
2 1 (3.03%) Aligne
2 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.03%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) Azure
1 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) Tableau
3 1 (3.03%) GIS
3 1 (3.03%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 15 (45.45%) JIRA
General
1 26 (78.79%) Social Skills
2 20 (60.61%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (51.52%) Finance
4 5 (15.15%) Marketing
5 4 (12.12%) Banking
5 4 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
7 2 (6.06%) Local Government
8 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (87.88%) Business Analyst
2 27 (81.82%) Analyst
3 7 (21.21%) Senior
3 7 (21.21%) Senior Analyst
3 7 (21.21%) Senior Business Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Finance Business Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Financial Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Lead
4 4 (12.12%) Lead Business Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Business Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Business Finance Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Business Finance Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Financial Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) HR Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) HR Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Transformation Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) GIS Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) PMI
2 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.03%) PDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (84.85%) Business Analysis
2 24 (72.73%) Agile
3 17 (51.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (39.39%) User Stories
6 12 (36.36%) Risk Management
7 11 (33.33%) Data Analysis
7 11 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (30.30%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (27.27%) Process Improvement
9 9 (27.27%) Scrum
9 9 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (27.27%) Use Case
10 8 (24.24%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (24.24%) Analytics
10 8 (24.24%) Migration
10 8 (24.24%) Target Operating Model
10 8 (24.24%) Waterfall
11 7 (21.21%) Acceptance Criteria
11 7 (21.21%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) SQL
2 3 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (69.70%) Degree
2 12 (36.36%) PMI Certification
3 5 (15.15%) CISSP
3 5 (15.15%) IIBA
4 4 (12.12%) CISA
4 4 (12.12%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
5 3 (9.09%) PMP
6 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
7 1 (3.03%) ACCA
7 1 (3.03%) CIMA
7 1 (3.03%) CIPFA
7 1 (3.03%) CISM
7 1 (3.03%) CRISC
7 1 (3.03%) ICAEW
7 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (3.03%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (3.03%) SAS Certification
7 1 (3.03%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (15.15%) NIST
2 4 (12.12%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 4 (12.12%) SOC 2
3 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.06%) EMIR
3 2 (6.06%) MiFID
4 1 (3.03%) PSD2
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.06%) Workday
3 1 (3.03%) Adobe
3 1 (3.03%) Civica
3 1 (3.03%) ESRI
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.03%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow