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 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 501 574
Rank change year-on-year -46 +73 +125
Contract jobs citing CBAP 63 27 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.092% 0.058%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.44% 0.30% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 13 17
10th Percentile £402 £338 £298
25th Percentile £421 £413 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% -36.00%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £475
90th Percentile £675 £655 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £447 £375
% change year-on-year - +19.20% -15.26%
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 14,452 8,928 13,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.85% 30.34% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,498 5,622 8,401
10th Percentile £331 £285 £290
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £650
90th Percentile £723 £725 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.39% -2.43% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,081 465 1,034
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.66 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.72 £24.18 £18.15
Median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £39.44
Median % change year-on-year -32.94% +7.77% -21.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £62.47
90th Percentile £83.75 £81.80 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +25.00% -16.67%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -54 61 £520 +4.00% 4
London -17 47 £525 +5.00% 2
Work from Home -13 14 £443 -1.01% 3
UK excluding London -80 14 £447 - 4
Midlands -56 6 £461 -7.52% 1
West Midlands -58 4 £528 -4.09%
North of England -63 3 £530 +30.46%
South East - 3 £404 -
East Midlands -31 2 £401 -10.29% 1
Yorkshire -64 2 £530 +30.46%
Scotland +5 1 £447 +5.18% 2
South West - 1 £339 - 1
North West - 1 £555 -

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 20 (31.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (17.46%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (17.46%) MS Visio
3 9 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.76%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (7.94%) NetSuite
3 4 (6.35%) Endur
4 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (1.59%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.29%) Lucidchart
2 8 (12.70%) SaaS
3 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.52%) Azure
5 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.17%) AWS
7 1 (1.59%) Apigee
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.59%) GCP
7 1 (1.59%) Kong
7 1 (1.59%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) LAN
1 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Power BI
2 4 (6.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (34.92%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.59%) Postman
General
1 39 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 30 (47.62%) Finance
3 17 (26.98%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (22.22%) Banking
5 10 (15.87%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (7.94%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.59%) Legal
9 1 (1.59%) Local Government
9 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (96.83%) Analyst
2 58 (92.06%) Business Analyst
3 21 (33.33%) Senior
3 21 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 21 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
4 6 (9.52%) Payments Analyst
4 6 (9.52%) Payments Business Analyst
4 6 (9.52%) Service Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Operations Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Operations Business Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Senior Operations Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Service Operations Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Lead
6 4 (6.35%) Lead Business Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Agile Business Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Banking Business Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Endur Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Endur Business Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) OpenLink Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) OpenLink Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) .NET
2 1 (1.59%) JSON
2 1 (1.59%) OAuth
2 1 (1.59%) REST
2 1 (1.59%) RESTful
2 1 (1.59%) SOAP
2 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (38.10%) PMI
2 16 (25.40%) Product Ownership
3 7 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.59%) Derivative
7 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) AIX
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
1 2 (3.17%) Solaris
1 2 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (88.89%) Agile
2 45 (71.43%) Business Analysis
3 42 (66.67%) User Stories
4 34 (53.97%) Stakeholder Management
5 32 (50.79%) Workshop Facilitation
6 30 (47.62%) Requirements Gathering
7 27 (42.86%) Waterfall
8 22 (34.92%) Use Case
9 21 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (31.75%) Project Delivery
11 19 (30.16%) SDLC
12 18 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
12 18 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (26.98%) DevOps
14 16 (25.40%) Project Management
15 14 (22.22%) Migration
15 14 (22.22%) Scrum
15 14 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
15 14 (22.22%) Validation
16 13 (20.63%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.40%) SQL
2 4 (6.35%) Python
3 2 (3.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (52.38%) Degree
2 27 (42.86%) PMI Certification
3 20 (31.75%) IIBA
4 9 (14.29%) ISEB
5 8 (12.70%) SC Cleared
5 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
6 7 (11.11%) CSPO
7 5 (7.94%) PMP
8 2 (3.17%) CAPM
8 2 (3.17%) CFA
8 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.59%) CISM
9 1 (1.59%) CISSP
9 1 (1.59%) CITP
9 1 (1.59%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.63%) QA
2 6 (9.52%) ISO 8583
2 6 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 6 (9.52%) PSD2
3 2 (3.17%) GDPR
3 2 (3.17%) GRC
3 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.17%) NIST
3 2 (3.17%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.59%) Basel III
4 1 (1.59%) COREP
4 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) FINREP
4 1 (1.59%) IFRS
4 1 (1.59%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Salesforce
2 5 (7.94%) Zuora
3 2 (3.17%) Ariba
3 2 (3.17%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.17%) Databricks
3 2 (3.17%) SAP
3 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.59%) Calypso
4 1 (1.59%) Google
4 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.59%) Murex
4 1 (1.59%) OpenLink
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle
4 1 (1.59%) Refinitiv
4 1 (1.59%) TOWER Software
4 1 (1.59%) VMware
4 1 (1.59%) Wolters Kluwer