Data Business Analyst Contracts

Data Business Analyst (Data BA)
UK

The median Data Business Analyst (Data BA) daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 481 484
Rank change year-on-year +43 +3 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Business Analyst 154 246 417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.42% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.44% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 195 342
10th Percentile £405 £410 £400
25th Percentile £487 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £522
Median % change year-on-year - +5.47% +4.30%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +8.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

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 4 May 2024.

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
Top 14 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 4 May 2024. 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 +24 135 £550 - 9
London +45 106 £550 -4.35% 7
Work from Home +83 64 £575 +9.52% 4
UK excluding London +41 29 £495 -1.00% 2
North of England +22 9 £500 -11.11% 1
South East +12 8 £555 +27.59%
North West +17 5 £500 -16.67% 1
East of England +9 5 £410 -20.00% 1
Yorkshire +20 4 £504 -10.44%
Scotland +38 3 - -
Midlands +22 3 £400 -23.81%
West Midlands +17 2 £425 -19.05%
South West +22 1 £288 -43.90%
East Midlands - 1 £375 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 71 (46.10%) Finance
2 45 (29.22%) SQL
3 44 (28.57%) Agile
4 37 (24.03%) Banking
5 36 (23.38%) Requirements Gathering
6 34 (22.08%) Social Skills
7 33 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (20.78%) Data Quality
9 29 (18.83%) Product Ownership
10 26 (16.88%) Data Governance
10 26 (16.88%) Python
11 25 (16.23%) Data Analysis
11 25 (16.23%) AWS
12 24 (15.58%) Data Management
12 24 (15.58%) Migration
13 23 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (14.94%) Data Migration
13 23 (14.94%) User Stories
13 23 (14.94%) Power Platform
14 21 (13.64%) Asset Management
15 20 (12.99%) Power BI
15 20 (12.99%) Investment Management
16 18 (11.69%) Azure
16 18 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
16 18 (11.69%) Business Analysis
17 17 (11.04%) JIRA
17 17 (11.04%) GAP Analysis
17 17 (11.04%) Bloomberg
17 17 (11.04%) Microsoft Excel
17 17 (11.04%) SharePoint

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 17 (11.04%) SharePoint
2 13 (8.44%) Confluence
3 3 (1.95%) Apache
4 2 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (11.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (9.09%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.95%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 25 (16.23%) AWS
2 23 (14.94%) Power Platform
3 18 (11.69%) Azure
4 5 (3.25%) Collibra
5 3 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.95%) Serverless
5 3 (1.95%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.30%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.65%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.65%) Datadog
7 1 (0.65%) dbt
7 1 (0.65%) GCP
7 1 (0.65%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.65%) IaaS
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.65%) SaaS
7 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.99%) Power BI
2 9 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (5.84%) Tableau
3 7 (4.55%) Big Data
4 6 (3.90%) Metadata
5 4 (2.60%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.30%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.30%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.30%) Impala
6 2 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.30%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.30%) Sqoop
7 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.65%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (11.04%) JIRA
2 4 (2.60%) Eclipse
2 4 (2.60%) PyCharm
General
1 71 (46.10%) Finance
2 37 (24.03%) Banking
3 34 (22.08%) Social Skills
4 18 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (10.39%) Front Office
6 14 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 10 (6.49%) Manufacturing
8 8 (5.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.55%) Retail
10 3 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.30%) Legal
11 2 (1.30%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Automotive
12 1 (0.65%) Back Office
12 1 (0.65%) Local Government
12 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.83%) Product Ownership
2 14 (9.09%) Equities
2 14 (9.09%) Hedge funds
3 13 (8.44%) Derivative
3 13 (8.44%) Fixed Income
3 13 (8.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.95%) IoT
6 3 (1.95%) Life Science
7 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.30%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.65%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.65%) NHS
8 1 (0.65%) Omics
8 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) VMS
1 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (28.57%) Agile
2 36 (23.38%) Requirements Gathering
3 33 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (16.88%) Data Governance
5 25 (16.23%) Data Analysis
6 24 (15.58%) Data Management
6 24 (15.58%) Migration
7 23 (14.94%) Data Migration
7 23 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (14.94%) User Stories
8 21 (13.64%) Asset Management
9 20 (12.99%) Investment Management
10 18 (11.69%) Business Analysis
11 17 (11.04%) Data Modelling
11 17 (11.04%) GAP Analysis
12 16 (10.39%) Machine Learning
12 16 (10.39%) Roadmaps
13 14 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
13 14 (9.09%) Fintech
13 14 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (29.22%) SQL
2 26 (16.88%) Python
3 4 (2.60%) Groovy
3 4 (2.60%) Java
3 4 (2.60%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.30%) R
5 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (5.19%) Degree
2 6 (3.90%) SC Cleared
2 6 (3.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.78%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.09%) QA
3 13 (8.44%) GDPR
4 4 (2.60%) Good Clinical Practice
4 4 (2.60%) GxP
5 2 (1.30%) PMO
6 1 (0.65%) Basel III
6 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.65%) MiFID
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.30%) HDFS
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Vendors
1 17 (11.04%) Bloomberg
2 12 (7.79%) BISAM
3 11 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.90%) Oracle
5 4 (2.60%) Databricks
5 4 (2.60%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.30%) Adobe
6 2 (1.30%) Google
6 2 (1.30%) SAP
6 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco
7 1 (0.65%) Dell
7 1 (0.65%) IBM
7 1 (0.65%) Informatica
7 1 (0.65%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.65%) VMware