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 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 497 511
Rank change year-on-year -146 +14 +111
Contract jobs citing CBAP 36 56 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.17% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.21% 0.55% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 35 27
10th Percentile £408 £302 £370
25th Percentile £450 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -27.66%
75th Percentile £563 £619 £505
90th Percentile £614 £663 £553
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £405 £425
% change year-on-year +23.46% -4.71% -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 16,845 10,168 11,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.41% 31.28% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,289 6,291 7,134
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £628 £622 £638
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,265 820 723
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.98 £15.18
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £48.18
Median % change year-on-year +89.03% -47.80% -12.40%
75th Percentile £72.50 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £86.70 £72.50 £76.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -49.70% -

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -147 30 £515 +5.10% 33
London -89 17 £540 -10.00% 22
UK excluding London -102 15 £500 +23.46% 11
Work from Home -43 14 £490 -11.87% 15
South East - 6 £526 - 5
Scotland -21 3 £425 +58.88%
West Midlands -48 3 £485 +4.86%
Midlands -48 3 £485 +4.86%
East of England -22 2 - - 1
South West - 1 £469 - 3

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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (22.22%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.78%) Elite 3E
2 1 (2.78%) Endur
2 1 (2.78%) Primavera
2 1 (2.78%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.78%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.33%) Miro
4 2 (5.56%) Lucidchart
4 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) Asana
5 1 (2.78%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.78%) Figma
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.56%) Metadata
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.78%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 23 (63.89%) Finance
2 19 (52.78%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 9 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (22.22%) Banking
6 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (5.56%) Billing
8 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (5.56%) Law
8 2 (5.56%) Local Government
8 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.78%) Back Office
9 1 (2.78%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (2.78%) French Language
9 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.78%) Legal
9 1 (2.78%) Multimedia
9 1 (2.78%) Publishing
9 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (97.22%) Analyst
2 34 (94.44%) Business Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Automation Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Process Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Lead Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Product Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Product Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Salesforce Business Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Commercial Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Commercial Business Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Operations Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) PMI
2 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.78%) LIMS
5 1 (2.78%) Media Streaming
5 1 (2.78%) NHS
5 1 (2.78%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.78%) Video on Demand
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Agile
2 24 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 24 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (58.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 17 (47.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (41.67%) Acceptance Criteria
5 15 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (38.89%) User Stories
7 13 (36.11%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (30.56%) Process Improvement
9 10 (27.78%) Use Case
10 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (25.00%) Validation
11 8 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
11 8 (22.22%) Scrum
11 8 (22.22%) SDLC
12 7 (19.44%) DevOps
12 7 (19.44%) Impact Assessments
12 7 (19.44%) Migration
13 6 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (50.00%) Degree
2 15 (41.67%) PMI Certification
3 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
5 5 (13.89%) IIBA
6 4 (11.11%) ISEB
6 4 (11.11%) PMP
6 4 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (8.33%) ISEB Practitioner
7 3 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (5.56%) CISSP
9 1 (2.78%) CEH
9 1 (2.78%) CISM
9 1 (2.78%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (2.78%) CSPO
9 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
9 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) GDPR
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) HL7
2 2 (5.56%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.33%) CyberArk
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
3 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) Intapp
4 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.78%) Planview