Digital Business Analyst Contracts

Digital Business Analyst (Digital BA)
UK

The median Digital Business Analyst (Digital BA) daily rate in the UK is £498, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 531 579
Rank change year-on-year +4 +48 +87
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Business Analyst 26 17 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.044% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.047% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 66
10th Percentile £333 £300 £400
25th Percentile £423 £320 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% -15.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £450 £537
90th Percentile £630 £632 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £320 £463
% change year-on-year +42.81% -30.81% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £32.89 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 30,099 36,157 49,488
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.88% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,017 23,284 34,166
10th Percentile £281 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,529 2,029 1,475
10th Percentile £13.59 £14.23 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +23.29% +71.36%

Digital Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Business Analyst in the UK

Digital Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Business Analyst in the UK

Digital Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Business Analyst over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Business Analyst in the UK

Digital Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Business Analyst in the UK

Digital Business Analyst
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 Digital Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 14 August 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 +19 24 £510 +20.00% 13
London +26 14 £511 +16.86% 9
UK excluding London +9 11 £457 +42.81% 8
Work from Home +15 9 £510 +20.00% 8
South West - 6 £638 -
Midlands -11 2 £448 +19.33%
East Midlands - 2 £448 -
South East +17 1 £560 +80.65% 2
North of England -14 1 £325 - 2
Scotland - 1 £429 - 1
North West - 1 £325 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 2025, Digital 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 Digital Business Analyst in the job title.

1 19 (73.08%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) Business Analysis
3 8 (30.77%) Confluence
3 8 (30.77%) User Stories
4 7 (26.92%) Azure
4 7 (26.92%) Analytics
4 7 (26.92%) JIRA
5 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (23.08%) SQL
5 6 (23.08%) DevOps
5 6 (23.08%) User Experience
5 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (19.23%) GAP Analysis
6 5 (19.23%) Requirements Management
6 5 (19.23%) Data Analysis
6 5 (19.23%) Banking
6 5 (19.23%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (19.23%) Backlog Refinement
6 5 (19.23%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
7 4 (15.38%) Power BI
7 4 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (15.38%) Business Case
7 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
7 4 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (15.38%) Finance

Digital 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 8 (30.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Trello
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (7.69%) Google Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) Figma
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) Miro
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) Metadata
2 2 (7.69%) Tableau
3 1 (3.85%) Big Data
3 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.85%) DTS
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) JIRA
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Marketing
4 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Automotive
5 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Local Government
5 1 (3.85%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (30.77%) Business Analysis
3 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) User Stories
4 7 (26.92%) Analytics
5 6 (23.08%) DevOps
5 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (23.08%) User Experience
6 5 (19.23%) Backlog Refinement
6 5 (19.23%) Data Analysis
6 5 (19.23%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (19.23%) GAP Analysis
6 5 (19.23%) Requirements Management
6 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
6 5 (19.23%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (15.38%) Business Case
7 4 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) ISEB
3 1 (3.85%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Adobe
1 2 (7.69%) Databricks
1 2 (7.69%) Google
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.85%) QAD