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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 518 622
Rank change year-on-year +1 +104 +176
Contract jobs citing CBAP 51 41 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.059%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.49% 0.36% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 18
10th Percentile £301 £400 £313
25th Percentile £363 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -24.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £511 £672
90th Percentile £638 £545 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £425 £600
% change year-on-year -4.71% -29.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 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 10,329 11,269 13,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.35% 29.26% 28.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,453 6,946 8,930
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 654 722
10th Percentile £17.91 £17.00 £16.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -49.19% -9.22% +21.18%
75th Percentile £45.40 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £76.00 £78.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% - +16.67%

CBAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CBAP 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 18 September 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 11 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 18 September 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 +28 47 £483 +13.53% 12
London +35 30 £600 +29.73% 8
UK excluding London -10 16 £405 -4.71% 12
Work from Home +32 10 £556 +11.93% 8
North of England -8 10 £405 -17.97% 1
North West -9 7 £405 -1.82%
Yorkshire -15 3 £313 -45.65%
East of England - 3 £450 -
West Midlands -11 2 £463 -11.90%
Midlands -19 2 £463 -11.90%
Scotland -1 1 £268 -15.75% 1

CBAP
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 14 (27.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (21.57%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Endur
2 1 (1.96%) Aligne
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 4 (7.84%) Azure
3 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.96%) AWS
4 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.96%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.96%) Miro
4 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) Power BI
2 5 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (9.80%) Tableau
3 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.96%) KNIME
3 1 (1.96%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) AdminStudio
3 1 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (58.82%) Finance
2 29 (56.86%) Social Skills
3 23 (45.10%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (15.69%) Banking
6 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.92%) Back Office
8 2 (3.92%) Legal
8 2 (3.92%) Local Government
8 2 (3.92%) Marketing
9 1 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (90.20%) Analyst
2 41 (80.39%) Business Analyst
3 8 (15.69%) Senior
3 8 (15.69%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (13.73%) Senior Business Analyst
5 6 (11.76%) Financial Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Finance Business Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Business Data Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Endur Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Endur Business Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) OpenLink Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) OpenLink Business Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Transformation Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Change Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Implementation Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Kafka
1 2 (3.92%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.96%) .NET
2 1 (1.96%) ADO
2 1 (1.96%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.96%) LDAP
2 1 (1.96%) OAuth
2 1 (1.96%) PySpark
2 1 (1.96%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.96%) SAML
2 1 (1.96%) XBRL
2 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (41.18%) PMI
2 15 (29.41%) Product Ownership
3 8 (15.69%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (7.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.96%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.96%) DTCC
6 1 (1.96%) Equities
6 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.96%) Life Science
6 1 (1.96%) LIMS
6 1 (1.96%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.96%) PDA
6 1 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.96%) AIX
3 1 (1.96%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (74.51%) Business Analysis
2 34 (66.67%) Agile
3 25 (49.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (35.29%) Data Analysis
4 18 (35.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 18 (35.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 16 (31.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (29.41%) Workshop Facilitation
7 14 (27.45%) Change Management
7 14 (27.45%) User Stories
8 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (25.49%) Validation
9 12 (23.53%) Analytics
9 12 (23.53%) Business Case
9 12 (23.53%) Waterfall
10 11 (21.57%) Use Case
11 10 (19.61%) Migration
11 10 (19.61%) Project Delivery
12 9 (17.65%) Risk Management
12 9 (17.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) SQL
2 3 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (1.96%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (54.90%) Degree
2 24 (47.06%) PMI Certification
3 5 (9.80%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.84%) PMP
5 3 (5.88%) CSPO
5 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.92%) IIBA
6 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.96%) CAPM
7 1 (1.96%) CISSP
7 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.96%) ISEB
7 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) GDPR
2 4 (7.84%) IFRS
2 4 (7.84%) ISO 20022
3 3 (5.88%) Basel III
3 3 (5.88%) IFRS 9
3 3 (5.88%) MiFID
3 3 (5.88%) PSD2
3 3 (5.88%) SEPA
4 2 (3.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.92%) COBIT
4 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.96%) AIFMD
5 1 (1.96%) FINRA
5 1 (1.96%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.96%) NIST
5 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 6 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 3 (5.88%) Alteryx
3 2 (3.92%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.92%) IBM
3 2 (3.92%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (1.96%) Calypso
4 1 (1.96%) ComArch
4 1 (1.96%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.96%) Databricks
4 1 (1.96%) Murex
4 1 (1.96%) Okta
4 1 (1.96%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.96%) SAP
4 1 (1.96%) Xceptor