CBAP Contracts

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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 553 643
Rank change year-on-year +68 +90 +163
Contract jobs citing CBAP 37 23 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.054% 0.072%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.40% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 21
10th Percentile £284 £316 £411
25th Percentile £355 £363 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -32.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £616 £519 £688
90th Percentile £669 £668 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £375 £443
% change year-on-year +19.20% -15.26% -1.66%

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 9,140 12,835 15,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.05% 30.16% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,742 7,956 10,343
10th Percentile £281 £308 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £646 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 1,055 780
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.72 £20.47
Median hourly rate £37.25 £40.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -26.69% +24.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £79.87 £75.85 £79.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £40.30 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.95% -19.40% +42.86%

CBAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CBAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CBAP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CBAP.

Daily rate trend for CBAP in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CBAP over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CBAP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CBAP.

Hourly rate trend for CBAP in the UK

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Top 11 Contract 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 17 May 2025. 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 +76 35 £494 +23.44% 19
London +53 26 £600 - 9
UK excluding London +44 9 £447 +19.20% 12
North of England +18 5 £300 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire +13 4 £406 +8.33% 1
Work from Home +38 3 £461 -7.80% 12
Midlands +17 3 £475 +18.75% 2
West Midlands +8 2 £513 +46.43% 2
North West +17 1 £268 - 1
East Midlands +9 1 £447 -0.67%
Scotland - 1 £268 -

CBAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (35.14%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (18.92%) MS Visio
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Endur
2 1 (2.70%) Actimize
2 1 (2.70%) Aligne
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.70%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 3 (8.11%) AWS
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
2 2 (5.41%) Tableau
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) GIS
3 1 (2.70%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) JIRA
General
1 25 (67.57%) Social Skills
2 20 (54.05%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (51.35%) Finance
4 5 (13.51%) Marketing
4 5 (13.51%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Banking
6 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Local Government
8 1 (2.70%) Back Office
8 1 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (89.19%) Business Analyst
2 32 (86.49%) Analyst
3 9 (24.32%) Senior
3 9 (24.32%) Senior Analyst
3 9 (24.32%) Senior Business Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Business Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Finance Business Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Financial Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Lead
5 4 (10.81%) Lead Business Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Business Finance Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Business Finance Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Financial Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Transformation Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) HR Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) HR Business Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) ETRM Business Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Service Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) PMI
2 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.70%) DTCC
4 1 (2.70%) Equities
4 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.70%) PDA
4 1 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (83.78%) Business Analysis
2 27 (72.97%) Agile
3 18 (48.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (43.24%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (35.14%) Data Analysis
6 12 (32.43%) Risk Management
6 12 (32.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (32.43%) User Stories
7 11 (29.73%) Use Case
8 10 (27.03%) Change Management
8 10 (27.03%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (27.03%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (24.32%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (24.32%) Analytics
9 9 (24.32%) Migration
9 9 (24.32%) Process Improvement
9 9 (24.32%) Scrum
9 9 (24.32%) Waterfall
9 9 (24.32%) Workshop Facilitation
10 8 (21.62%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (72.97%) Degree
2 13 (35.14%) PMI Certification
3 6 (16.22%) IIBA
4 5 (13.51%) CISSP
5 4 (10.81%) CISA
5 4 (10.81%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
6 3 (8.11%) PMP
7 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
7 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.70%) ACCA
8 1 (2.70%) CIMA
8 1 (2.70%) CIPFA
8 1 (2.70%) CISM
8 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.70%) CSPO
8 1 (2.70%) ICAEW
8 1 (2.70%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (2.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (13.51%) NIST
2 4 (10.81%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (10.81%) GDPR
2 4 (10.81%) SOC 2
3 2 (5.41%) QA
4 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.70%) EMIR
4 1 (2.70%) FINRA
4 1 (2.70%) MiFID
4 1 (2.70%) PSD2
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.41%) Workday
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe
3 1 (2.70%) Calypso
3 1 (2.70%) Civica
3 1 (2.70%) ESRI
3 1 (2.70%) Murex
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) SAP