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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 514 583
Rank change year-on-year -13 +69 +186
Contract jobs citing CBAP 59 35 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.097% 0.063%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.49% 0.33% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 26 17
10th Percentile £392 £400 £298
25th Percentile £405 £416 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £460
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -7.61% -23.33%
75th Percentile £631 £508 £588
90th Percentile £673 £556 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -4.71% -15.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £59.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 12,154 10,596 13,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.30% 29.45% 29.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,879 6,422 8,306
10th Percentile £306 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £430
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 £516 £538
% change year-on-year -3.10% -4.00% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,021 506 749
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.00 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.23 £24.18 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.25 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.03% -22.90% +18.89%
75th Percentile £45.46 £66.00 £67.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £51.90
% change year-on-year -44.11% -13.29% +15.33%

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 4 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 12 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 4 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 -3 56 £514 +20.94% 16
London +19 42 £600 +29.73% 11
UK excluding London -44 15 £405 -4.71% 11
Work from Home +13 12 £537 +92.05% 11
North West -16 6 £460 +11.39%
North of England -40 6 £460 -6.94%
Midlands -28 3 £402 -23.43% 5
East of England - 3 £450 -
South East -5 2 £404 -10.01% 5
East Midlands - 2 £401 -
Scotland +2 1 £447 +20.40% 1
West Midlands -30 1 £450 -14.29% 5

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 19 (32.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (25.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (25.42%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.39%) Notion
4 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Endur
2 6 (10.17%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (5.08%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.86%) Azure
2 6 (10.17%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.47%) Lucidchart
4 4 (6.78%) SaaS
5 2 (3.39%) AWS
6 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.69%) Miro
6 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.69%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) LAN
1 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) Power BI
2 5 (8.47%) Tableau
3 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.69%) KNIME
3 1 (1.69%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 21 (35.59%) JIRA
2 3 (5.08%) AdminStudio
2 3 (5.08%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 35 (59.32%) Social Skills
2 30 (50.85%) Finance
3 29 (49.15%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.64%) Banking
5 10 (16.95%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.08%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Back Office
8 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Legal
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (96.61%) Analyst
2 53 (89.83%) Business Analyst
3 9 (15.25%) Senior
3 9 (15.25%) Senior Analyst
4 8 (13.56%) Payments Analyst
4 8 (13.56%) Payments Business Analyst
4 8 (13.56%) Senior Business Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) Endur Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) Endur Business Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) Financial Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) OpenLink Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) OpenLink Business Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Service Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Finance Business Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Operations Business Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Service Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) .NET
2 2 (3.39%) Kafka
2 2 (3.39%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.69%) ADO
3 1 (1.69%) LDAP
3 1 (1.69%) OAuth
3 1 (1.69%) PySpark
3 1 (1.69%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.69%) SAML
3 1 (1.69%) XBRL
3 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (47.46%) PMI
2 22 (37.29%) Product Ownership
3 9 (15.25%) Onboarding
4 8 (13.56%) Management Information System
5 6 (10.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (5.08%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (5.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.69%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Life Science
8 1 (1.69%) LIMS
8 1 (1.69%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Windows
2 2 (3.39%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.69%) AIX
3 1 (1.69%) Linux
3 1 (1.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (72.88%) Business Analysis
2 42 (71.19%) Agile
3 28 (47.46%) Requirements Gathering
3 28 (47.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (40.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (38.98%) User Acceptance Testing
5 23 (38.98%) User Stories
6 20 (33.90%) Workshop Facilitation
7 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (27.12%) Project Delivery
8 16 (27.12%) Validation
9 15 (25.42%) Scrum
10 14 (23.73%) Data Analysis
11 13 (22.03%) Use Case
12 11 (18.64%) Computer Science
12 11 (18.64%) Regulatory Change
13 10 (16.95%) Analytics
13 10 (16.95%) Migration
13 10 (16.95%) Waterfall
14 9 (15.25%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.81%) SQL
2 5 (8.47%) Python
3 3 (5.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (49.15%) PMI Certification
2 22 (37.29%) Degree
3 7 (11.86%) CSPO
4 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.78%) ISEB
4 4 (6.78%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.08%) IIBA
6 2 (3.39%) CFA
6 2 (3.39%) PMP
6 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.39%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CAPM
7 1 (1.69%) CISSP
7 1 (1.69%) CITP
7 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.03%) QA
2 8 (13.56%) PCI DSS
2 8 (13.56%) PSD2
3 6 (10.17%) ISO 8583
4 4 (6.78%) ISO 20022
5 3 (5.08%) GDPR
5 3 (5.08%) SEPA
6 2 (3.39%) COBIT
7 1 (1.69%) Basel III
7 1 (1.69%) COREP
7 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.69%) FINREP
7 1 (1.69%) GRC
7 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.69%) IFRS
7 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.69%) MiFID
7 1 (1.69%) NIST
7 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
1 7 (11.86%) ServiceNow
2 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.08%) Zuora
3 2 (3.39%) IBM
3 2 (3.39%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (3.39%) SAP
4 1 (1.69%) Ariba
4 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.69%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.69%) Calypso
4 1 (1.69%) ComArch
4 1 (1.69%) Databricks
4 1 (1.69%) Murex
4 1 (1.69%) Okta
4 1 (1.69%) OpenLink
4 1 (1.69%) Refinitiv
4 1 (1.69%) VMware
4 1 (1.69%) Wolters Kluwer
4 1 (1.69%) Xceptor