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 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 507 571
Rank change year-on-year -9 +64 +150
Contract jobs citing CBAP 59 33 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.10% 0.065%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 0.34% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 24 18
10th Percentile £400 £408 £301
25th Percentile £405 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £456 £455
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +0.27% -24.17%
75th Percentile £619 £541 £578
90th Percentile £675 £621 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -4.71% -15.00% +3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 12,564 9,833 12,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.88% 29.94% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,222 5,992 8,183
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £417 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -0.05% -7.36% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 482 747
10th Percentile £16.27 £18.50 £16.27
25th Percentile £19.10 £23.70 £26.24
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £67.53
90th Percentile £76.58 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -39.40% -20.02% +20.42%

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 2 January 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 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 2 January 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 -25 56 £500 +8.11% 15
London +8 45 £525 +5.00% 13
Work from Home +10 14 £509 - 9
UK excluding London -54 11 £405 -4.71% 8
North of England -34 5 £405 -17.97% 1
North West -28 3 £405 -1.82% 1
Midlands -37 3 £402 -23.43% 1
South East -15 2 £404 +0.88% 6
Yorkshire -48 2 £530 -7.83%
East Midlands - 2 £401 -
Scotland +7 1 £447 +5.18%
West Midlands -39 1 £450 -14.29% 1

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 22 (37.29%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (28.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (22.03%) MS Visio
3 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (5.08%) Notion
5 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Endur
1 6 (10.17%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (8.47%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.69%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (1.69%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.86%) Azure
1 7 (11.86%) Lucidchart
1 7 (11.86%) Power Platform
1 7 (11.86%) SaaS
2 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.39%) AWS
4 1 (1.69%) Apigee
4 1 (1.69%) GCP
4 1 (1.69%) Kong
4 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
4 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 7 (11.86%) Power BI
2 6 (10.17%) 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 25 (42.37%) JIRA
2 3 (5.08%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.69%) Postman
General
1 38 (64.41%) Social Skills
2 33 (55.93%) Finance
3 23 (38.98%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (25.42%) Banking
5 9 (15.25%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (8.47%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (6.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
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%) Retail
8 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (98.31%) Analyst
2 56 (94.92%) Business Analyst
3 13 (22.03%) Senior
3 13 (22.03%) Senior Analyst
3 13 (22.03%) Senior Business Analyst
4 8 (13.56%) Payments Analyst
4 8 (13.56%) Payments Business Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) Service Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Endur Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Endur Business Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) OpenLink Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) OpenLink Business Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Operations Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Operations Business Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Operations Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Service Operations Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Lead
7 4 (6.78%) Lead Business Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) .NET
2 2 (3.39%) Kafka
2 2 (3.39%) XML
3 1 (1.69%) ADO
3 1 (1.69%) JSON
3 1 (1.69%) OAuth
3 1 (1.69%) PySpark
3 1 (1.69%) REST
3 1 (1.69%) RESTful
3 1 (1.69%) SOAP
3 1 (1.69%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (49.15%) PMI
2 21 (35.59%) Product Ownership
3 8 (13.56%) Onboarding
4 6 (10.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (8.47%) Management Information System
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
8 1 (1.69%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.69%) Derivative
8 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Life Science
8 1 (1.69%) LIMS
8 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) AIX
1 1 (1.69%) Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Solaris
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (86.44%) Agile
2 40 (67.80%) Business Analysis
3 33 (55.93%) User Stories
4 30 (50.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (45.76%) Requirements Gathering
6 23 (38.98%) Workshop Facilitation
7 22 (37.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 21 (35.59%) Waterfall
9 20 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (32.20%) Use Case
10 19 (32.20%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (28.81%) Scrum
12 15 (25.42%) Validation
13 14 (23.73%) Project Delivery
14 12 (20.34%) DevOps
15 11 (18.64%) Acceptance Criteria
15 11 (18.64%) Regulatory Change
16 9 (15.25%) Kanban
16 9 (15.25%) Project Management
16 9 (15.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) SQL
2 5 (8.47%) Python
3 3 (5.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 31 (52.54%) PMI Certification
2 26 (44.07%) Degree
3 9 (15.25%) CSPO
4 8 (13.56%) IIBA
5 6 (10.17%) ISEB
6 4 (6.78%) Master's Degree
7 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.08%) PMP
8 2 (3.39%) CFA
8 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.39%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.69%) CAPM
9 1 (1.69%) CISSP
9 1 (1.69%) CITP
9 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (23.73%) 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%) GRC
7 1 (1.69%) AIFMD
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%) IFRS
7 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.69%) MiFID
7 1 (1.69%) NIST
7 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Salesforce
2 5 (8.47%) Zuora
3 3 (5.08%) SAP
4 2 (3.39%) Ariba
4 2 (3.39%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.39%) IBM
4 2 (3.39%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.69%) Calypso
5 1 (1.69%) ComArch
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.69%) Murex
5 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.69%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.69%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Wolters Kluwer
5 1 (1.69%) Xceptor