Data Business Analyst Contracts

Data Business Analyst (Data BA)
UK

The median Data Business Analyst (Data BA) daily rate in the UK is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 447 464
Rank change year-on-year +40 +17 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Data Business Analyst 112 154 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.35% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.38% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 121 201
10th Percentile £396 £405 £410
25th Percentile £463 £483 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +5.47%
75th Percentile £684 £625 £600
90th Percentile £746 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.52% -0.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.74 - -
25th Percentile £22.97 - -
Median hourly rate £27.88 - -
75th Percentile £32.72 - -
90th Percentile £34.91 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.88 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Data Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Business Analyst in the UK

Data Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Business Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Data Business Analyst in the UK

Data Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Business Analyst over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Business Analyst in the UK

Data Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Business Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Data Business Analyst in the UK

Data Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Business Analyst over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Business Analyst in the UK

Data Business Analyst
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +32 104 £525 -4.55% 31
London +4 73 £650 +16.85% 20
Work from Home +41 57 £650 +13.04% 14
UK excluding London +56 32 £475 -4.52% 13
South East +48 13 £525 -5.41% 1
North of England +26 7 £463 -7.50% 3
Midlands +27 6 £475 +18.75% 6
North West +11 5 £417 -16.70% 3
South West +47 3 £525 +82.61%
West Midlands +17 3 £475 +11.76% 5
East Midlands +12 3 £358 -4.53% 1
Yorkshire +13 2 £463 -8.19%
Scotland +8 2 £600 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £375 - 2
East of England +28 1 - - 1

Data Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Data Business Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Business Analyst in the job title.

1 45 (40.18%) Finance
2 36 (32.14%) Agile
2 36 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 35 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (31.25%) Data Analysis
4 30 (26.79%) Data Governance
5 29 (25.89%) SQL
6 28 (25.00%) Analytics
7 25 (22.32%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (21.43%) Business Analysis
9 23 (20.54%) Power Platform
10 22 (19.64%) Banking
10 22 (19.64%) Migration
10 22 (19.64%) User Stories
11 21 (18.75%) Power BI
11 21 (18.75%) Data Modelling
12 19 (16.96%) Requirements Gathering
13 18 (16.07%) Azure
14 17 (15.18%) Project Management
15 16 (14.29%) Decision-Making
15 16 (14.29%) Product Ownership
16 15 (13.39%) Data Management
16 15 (13.39%) Data Quality
17 14 (12.50%) Visualisation
17 14 (12.50%) Data Mapping
17 14 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
18 13 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
18 13 (11.61%) Validation

Data Business Analyst Skill Set
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 7 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (1.79%) SAS
2 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.36%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.54%) Power Platform
2 18 (16.07%) Azure
3 4 (3.57%) AWS
3 4 (3.57%) GCP
3 4 (3.57%) Snowflake
4 3 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (2.68%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.79%) Collibra
6 1 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.89%) GitHub
6 1 (0.89%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.89%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.75%) Power BI
2 14 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.93%) Data Lake
4 7 (6.25%) Tableau
5 3 (2.68%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.79%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.89%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.89%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.89%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.89%) Impala
7 1 (0.89%) Looker
7 1 (0.89%) Metadata
7 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.89%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 12 (10.71%) JIRA
General
1 45 (40.18%) Finance
2 36 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 25 (22.32%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (19.64%) Banking
5 10 (8.93%) Front Office
6 8 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (6.25%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.46%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.46%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.79%) Back Office
9 2 (1.79%) Legal
9 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.79%) Retail
10 1 (0.89%) Automotive
10 1 (0.89%) Electronics
10 1 (0.89%) Law
10 1 (0.89%) Marketing
10 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.89%) ADO
1 1 (0.89%) PySpark
1 1 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 13 (11.61%) Derivative
3 12 (10.71%) Fixed Income
4 11 (9.82%) Equities
4 11 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (7.14%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.68%) Pricing Data
8 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.79%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.89%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 1 (0.89%) IoT
9 1 (0.89%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.89%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.14%) Agile
2 35 (31.25%) Data Analysis
2 35 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (26.79%) Data Governance
4 28 (25.00%) Analytics
5 24 (21.43%) Business Analysis
5 24 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (19.64%) Migration
6 22 (19.64%) User Stories
7 21 (18.75%) Data Modelling
8 19 (16.96%) Requirements Gathering
9 17 (15.18%) Project Management
10 16 (14.29%) Decision-Making
11 15 (13.39%) Data Management
12 14 (12.50%) Data Mapping
12 14 (12.50%) Visualisation
13 13 (11.61%) Data Analytics
13 13 (11.61%) Data Integration
13 13 (11.61%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (25.89%) SQL
2 7 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.89%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (10.71%) Degree
2 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.68%) PMP
3 3 (2.68%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.79%) CBAP
4 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.89%) CAPM
5 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.89%) IIBA
5 1 (0.89%) ISEB
5 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.89%) MBA
5 1 (0.89%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.39%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.14%) QA
3 6 (5.36%) GDPR
4 5 (4.46%) EMIR
4 5 (4.46%) MiFID
5 4 (3.57%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.79%) PMO
7 1 (0.89%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (0.89%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (0.89%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.57%) Bloomberg
2 4 (3.57%) Informatica
2 4 (3.57%) SAP
3 3 (2.68%) Palantir
4 2 (1.79%) IBM
4 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.89%) Aderant
5 1 (0.89%) Ariba
5 1 (0.89%) Databricks
5 1 (0.89%) Dell
5 1 (0.89%) Google
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle
5 1 (0.89%) Progress
5 1 (0.89%) Reuters
5 1 (0.89%) Splunk
5 1 (0.89%) Veritas
5 1 (0.89%) Workday
34 Data Business Analyst jobs Nationwide