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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 489 568
Rank change year-on-year -99 +79 +84
Contract jobs citing CBAP 45 49 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.16% 0.059%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.28% 0.53% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 16
10th Percentile £417 £297 £313
25th Percentile £424 £347 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% +5.88% -32.00%
75th Percentile £574 £625 £503
90th Percentile £638 £663 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £447 £375
% change year-on-year +17.45% +19.20% -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 15,823 9,233 13,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.31% 30.96% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,544 5,740 8,094
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £614 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.40% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,167 599 1,124
10th Percentile £17.22 £17.76 £13.99
25th Percentile £22.72 £20.00 £19.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.00% -27.65%
75th Percentile £72.52 £63.13 £63.88
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £75.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.84 £28.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +74.43% -32.53% -20.95%

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 19 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 19 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 -116 41 £528 +11.05% 10
London -71 27 £533 -14.80% 4
UK excluding London -106 16 £525 +17.45% 8
Work from Home -29 15 £485 +5.10% 6
Midlands -55 4 £528 +14.43%
West Midlands -57 4 £528 +11.05%
Scotland -7 3 £425 +58.88%
North of England -74 3 £530 +63.08% 2
South East - 3 £539 - 4
Yorkshire -63 2 £530 +69.60%
South West - 2 £404 - 2
East of England -30 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 12 (26.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Endur
1 1 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.22%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) AWS
2 3 (6.67%) Lucidchart
2 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.22%) Figma
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.22%) Miro
4 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.22%) Metadata
2 1 (2.22%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 26 (57.78%) Social Skills
2 20 (44.44%) Finance
3 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 6 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Billing
7 1 (2.22%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.22%) French Language
7 1 (2.22%) German Language
7 1 (2.22%) Law
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Local Government
7 1 (2.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (97.78%) Analyst
2 41 (91.11%) Business Analyst
3 15 (33.33%) Senior
3 15 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 15 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Lead
4 3 (6.67%) Lead Business Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Agile Business Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Customer Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Customer Experience Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Software Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Web Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Web Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) PMI
2 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) LIMS
4 1 (2.22%) NHS
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) AIX
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
1 2 (4.44%) Solaris
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (75.56%) Agile
2 29 (64.44%) Business Analysis
3 27 (60.00%) User Stories
4 25 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (53.33%) Waterfall
5 24 (53.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 23 (51.11%) Requirements Gathering
7 18 (40.00%) SDLC
8 16 (35.56%) Acceptance Criteria
9 15 (33.33%) Use Case
10 14 (31.11%) Migration
10 14 (31.11%) Project Management
11 13 (28.89%) DevOps
12 12 (26.67%) Impact Assessments
12 12 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (24.44%) Project Delivery
13 11 (24.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 11 (24.44%) User Acceptance Testing
14 10 (22.22%) BPMN
14 10 (22.22%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) SQL
2 2 (4.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 35 (77.78%) Degree
2 21 (46.67%) PMI Certification
3 16 (35.56%) IIBA
4 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 6 (13.33%) ISEB
5 6 (13.33%) PMP
6 4 (8.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
8 2 (4.44%) CAPM
8 2 (4.44%) CISSP
8 2 (4.44%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (4.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (2.22%) CEH
9 1 (2.22%) CISM
9 1 (2.22%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) GDPR
2 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (4.44%) HL7
3 2 (4.44%) SNOMED CT
3 2 (4.44%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.22%) PMO
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Databricks
3 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow