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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 468 553
Rank change year-on-year -108 +85 +120
Contract jobs citing CBAP 57 34 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.058%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.37% 0.38% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 14 14
10th Percentile £408 £309 £316
25th Percentile £434 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +8.47% -32.00%
75th Percentile £545 £606 £519
90th Percentile £660 £671 £668
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 15,304 9,016 13,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.09% 30.78% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,172 5,686 8,192
10th Percentile £345 £286 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £708 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 515 1,079
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.59 £17.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -25.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.68 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £79.48 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +18.75% -2.30% -17.66%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -86 55 £515 +4.30% 5
London -43 43 £500 -20.00% 5
Work from Home -21 12 £495 +10.63% 2
UK excluding London -99 12 £520 +19.27% 3
West Midlands -57 4 £528 -4.09%
Midlands -72 4 £528 +5.82%
North of England -58 3 £530 +76.67%
Scotland +1 2 £436 +2.59% 1
Yorkshire -53 2 £530 +30.46%
South West - 2 £404 -
North West -37 1 £555 +107.09%
South East - 1 - - 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 21 (36.84%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (38.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (22.81%) MS Visio
3 12 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (17.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (5.26%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (8.77%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.51%) Endur
2 2 (3.51%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.75%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (1.75%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.79%) Lucidchart
2 8 (14.04%) SaaS
3 7 (12.28%) Power Platform
4 6 (10.53%) Azure
5 3 (5.26%) AWS
6 1 (1.75%) Apigee
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.75%) GCP
6 1 (1.75%) Kong
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) Power BI
2 4 (7.02%) Tableau
3 1 (1.75%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.75%) Metadata
3 1 (1.75%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 21 (36.84%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) Postman
General
1 38 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 32 (56.14%) Finance
3 15 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (24.56%) Banking
5 6 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Financial Institution
6 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.75%) Law
8 1 (1.75%) Legal
8 1 (1.75%) Local Government
8 1 (1.75%) Police
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (96.49%) Analyst
2 52 (91.23%) Business Analyst
3 19 (33.33%) Senior
3 19 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 19 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
4 6 (10.53%) Service Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Operations Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Operations Business Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Senior Operations Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Service Operations Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Lead
6 4 (7.02%) Lead Business Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Banking Business Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Business IT Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) IT Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) IT Business Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) FHIR
1 1 (1.75%) JSON
1 1 (1.75%) OAuth
1 1 (1.75%) REST
1 1 (1.75%) RESTful
1 1 (1.75%) SOAP
1 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (35.09%) PMI
2 9 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.77%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.75%) Derivative
5 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) AIX
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
1 2 (3.51%) Solaris
1 2 (3.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (84.21%) Agile
2 39 (68.42%) User Stories
3 37 (64.91%) Business Analysis
4 31 (54.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (47.37%) Requirements Gathering
5 27 (47.37%) Workshop Facilitation
6 26 (45.61%) Waterfall
7 19 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
8 18 (31.58%) Use Case
9 17 (29.82%) Project Management
9 17 (29.82%) SDLC
10 15 (26.32%) DevOps
10 15 (26.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (26.32%) Validation
11 14 (24.56%) Decision-Making
11 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (24.56%) Project Delivery
12 13 (22.81%) Data Modelling
12 13 (22.81%) Migration
12 13 (22.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.32%) SQL
2 2 (3.51%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (59.65%) Degree
2 23 (40.35%) PMI Certification
3 21 (36.84%) IIBA
4 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
5 7 (12.28%) ISEB
6 6 (10.53%) CSPO
7 5 (8.77%) PMP
8 3 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (3.51%) CAPM
9 2 (3.51%) CISSP
9 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.75%) CEH
10 1 (1.75%) CFA
10 1 (1.75%) CISM
10 1 (1.75%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.75%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
2 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.26%) NIST
3 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) GRC
3 2 (3.51%) ISO 8583
3 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.51%) PSD2
3 2 (3.51%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.75%) Basel III
4 1 (1.75%) COREP
4 1 (1.75%) FINREP
4 1 (1.75%) HL7
4 1 (1.75%) MiFID
4 1 (1.75%) PMO
4 1 (1.75%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Salesforce
2 5 (8.77%) Zuora
3 3 (5.26%) Databricks
4 2 (3.51%) Ariba
4 2 (3.51%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.75%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.75%) Wolters Kluwer