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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 485 566
Rank change year-on-year -82 +81 +118
Contract jobs citing CBAP 56 32 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.051%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.37% 0.36% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 14 16
10th Percentile £407 £309 £294
25th Percentile £422 £375 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £388
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +18.97% -38.00%
75th Percentile £583 £606 £481
90th Percentile £675 £671 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £436 £375
% change year-on-year +19.27% +16.27% -15.26%

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 15,137 9,008 13,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.01% 30.75% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,063 5,719 8,249
10th Percentile £350 £293 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -2.23% -2.36%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,107 499 1,023
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.48 £13.69
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.61 £17.50
Median hourly rate £43.69 £45.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +17.94% -29.34%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.10 £80.67 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £48.31 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.56% +20.78% -20.00%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -98 54 £520 +5.32% 2
London -34 43 £500 -20.00% 1
Work from Home -15 13 £495 +10.63%
UK excluding London -90 12 £520 +19.27% 2
West Midlands -57 4 £528 -4.09% 1
Midlands -60 4 £528 +5.82% 1
North of England -70 3 £530 +76.67%
Scotland +5 2 £436 +2.59%
Yorkshire -54 2 £530 +30.46%
South West - 2 £404 -
North West -42 1 £555 +107.09%
South East - 1 - - 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 19 (33.93%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (21.43%) MS Visio
3 10 (17.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (5.36%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (8.93%) NetSuite
2 4 (7.14%) Endur
3 2 (3.57%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (1.79%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.07%) Lucidchart
2 8 (14.29%) SaaS
3 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.14%) Azure
5 2 (3.57%) AWS
6 1 (1.79%) Apigee
6 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.79%) GCP
6 1 (1.79%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) Tableau
3 1 (1.79%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Postman
General
1 36 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 30 (53.57%) Finance
3 13 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (23.21%) Banking
4 6 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.79%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.79%) Legal
8 1 (1.79%) Local Government
8 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (96.43%) Analyst
2 52 (92.86%) Business Analyst
3 19 (33.93%) Senior
3 19 (33.93%) Senior Analyst
3 19 (33.93%) Senior Business Analyst
4 6 (10.71%) Service Analyst
5 5 (8.93%) Operations Analyst
5 5 (8.93%) Operations Business Analyst
5 5 (8.93%) Senior Operations Analyst
5 5 (8.93%) Service Operations Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Lead
6 4 (7.14%) Lead Business Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Agile Business Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Banking Business Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Business IT Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) IT Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) IT Business Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) FHIR
1 1 (1.79%) JSON
1 1 (1.79%) OAuth
1 1 (1.79%) REST
1 1 (1.79%) RESTful
1 1 (1.79%) SOAP
1 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (35.71%) PMI
2 9 (16.07%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Derivative
5 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) AIX
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Solaris
1 2 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (83.93%) Agile
2 39 (69.64%) Business Analysis
3 36 (64.29%) User Stories
4 29 (51.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (48.21%) Requirements Gathering
5 27 (48.21%) Workshop Facilitation
6 25 (44.64%) Waterfall
7 18 (32.14%) Use Case
8 17 (30.36%) Acceptance Criteria
8 17 (30.36%) Project Management
8 17 (30.36%) SDLC
9 16 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (26.79%) DevOps
11 14 (25.00%) Migration
11 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (23.21%) Decision-Making
12 13 (23.21%) Project Delivery
12 13 (23.21%) Validation
13 12 (21.43%) Data Modelling
13 12 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) SQL
2 2 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (57.14%) Degree
2 23 (41.07%) PMI Certification
3 20 (35.71%) IIBA
4 8 (14.29%) ISEB
4 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 8 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 6 (10.71%) CSPO
6 5 (8.93%) PMP
7 2 (3.57%) CAPM
7 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.79%) CFA
8 1 (1.79%) CISM
8 1 (1.79%) CISSP
8 1 (1.79%) CITP
8 1 (1.79%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) QA
2 3 (5.36%) GDPR
3 2 (3.57%) GRC
3 2 (3.57%) ISO 8583
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.57%) NIST
3 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.57%) PSD2
3 2 (3.57%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.79%) Basel III
4 1 (1.79%) COREP
4 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.79%) FINREP
4 1 (1.79%) HL7
4 1 (1.79%) MiFID
4 1 (1.79%) PMO
4 1 (1.79%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) Salesforce
2 5 (8.93%) Zuora
3 2 (3.57%) Ariba
3 2 (3.57%) Databricks
3 2 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.79%) Google
4 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) TOWER Software
4 1 (1.79%) Wolters Kluwer