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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 501 565
Rank change year-on-year -116 +64 +86
Contract jobs citing CBAP 40 51 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.16% 0.069%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.25% 0.53% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 28 19
10th Percentile £413 £298 £302
25th Percentile £459 £328 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £449 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +5.53% -32.00%
75th Percentile £576 £562 £488
90th Percentile £626 £663 £555
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £449 £375
% change year-on-year +11.48% +19.60% -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 16,144 9,706 12,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.28% 30.77% 29.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,766 6,036 8,026
10th Percentile £350 £277 £310
25th Percentile £425 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £522 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.62% -0.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £705 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,173 649 1,106
10th Percentile £17.45 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.46 £20.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £51.44 £27.94 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +84.11% -31.75% -26.70%
75th Percentile £72.54 £59.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +97.47% -41.12% -19.87%

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 July 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 4 July 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 -127 36 £523 +10.00% 11
London -76 21 £545 -9.17% 7
UK excluding London -93 17 £500 +11.48% 6
Work from Home -48 12 £500 +8.46% 8
South East - 5 £500 - 2
Midlands -53 4 £528 +14.43%
West Midlands -60 4 £528 +11.05%
Scotland -9 3 £425 +58.88%
East of England -30 2 - -
South West - 2 £404 - 2
North West -43 1 £555 +6.32% 1
North of England -83 1 £555 +32.54% 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 (30.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (22.50%) MS Visio
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Elite 3E
2 1 (2.50%) Endur
2 1 (2.50%) Primavera
2 1 (2.50%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (7.50%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) Lucidchart
4 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.50%) Figma
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.50%) Miro
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.50%) Metadata
2 1 (2.50%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) JIRA
General
1 22 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (50.00%) Finance
3 14 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (17.50%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (12.50%) Banking
5 5 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Billing
6 2 (5.00%) Law
6 2 (5.00%) Legal
6 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Back Office
7 1 (2.50%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.50%) French Language
7 1 (2.50%) German Language
7 1 (2.50%) Local Government
7 1 (2.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (95.00%) Analyst
2 36 (90.00%) Business Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Lead
5 2 (5.00%) Lead Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Salesforce Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Performance Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 15 (37.50%) PMI
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.50%) LIMS
5 1 (2.50%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) AIX
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
1 2 (5.00%) Solaris
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) Agile
2 23 (57.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (55.00%) Business Analysis
4 21 (52.50%) Workshop Facilitation
5 18 (45.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 17 (42.50%) User Stories
7 15 (37.50%) Waterfall
8 13 (32.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
9 12 (30.00%) SDLC
10 11 (27.50%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (25.00%) Migration
11 10 (25.00%) Use Case
12 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
12 9 (22.50%) GAP Analysis
12 9 (22.50%) Project Management
13 8 (20.00%) DevOps
13 8 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
13 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 27 (67.50%) Degree
2 19 (47.50%) PMI Certification
3 13 (32.50%) IIBA
4 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
5 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 7 (17.50%) PMP
7 6 (15.00%) ISEB
8 4 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (5.00%) CAPM
9 2 (5.00%) CISSP
9 2 (5.00%) ISEB Practitioner
9 2 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
10 1 (2.50%) CEH
10 1 (2.50%) CISM
10 1 (2.50%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) GDPR
2 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.50%) NIST
3 2 (5.00%) HL7
3 2 (5.00%) SNOMED CT
3 2 (5.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.50%) PMO
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.50%) Databricks
4 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.50%) Google
5 1 (2.50%) Intapp
5 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.50%) Planview
5 1 (2.50%) SAP