Financial Services Business Analyst Contracts

Business Analyst - Financial Services (Financial Services BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst - Financial Services (Financial Services BA) daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 569 623
Rank change year-on-year +29 +54 +116
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Services Business Analyst 13 27 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.064% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.069% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 57
10th Percentile £363 £331 £450
25th Percentile £447 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +5.26% -12.92%
75th Percentile £475 £605 £569
90th Percentile £526 £725 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £383 - £538
% change year-on-year - - -2.27%

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 29,882 39,182 52,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 93.03% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,009 25,295 36,541
10th Percentile £285 £288 £310
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,416 2,570 1,574
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.50 £19.02
Median hourly rate £25.28 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.81% -5.88% +65.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.72 £39.03
% change year-on-year -38.24% +4.34% +85.83%

Financial Services Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Services Business Analyst in the UK

Financial Services Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Services Business Analyst in the UK

Financial Services Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Services Business Analyst over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Services Business Analyst in the UK

Financial Services Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Financial Services Business Analyst in the UK

Financial Services Business Analyst
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Services Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 18 July 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 +45 11 £449 -18.45% 1
London +16 7 £461 -16.18% 1
UK excluding London - 5 £383 - 1
North of England - 3 £315 -
Work from Home +19 2 £540 -1.82% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North West - 1 £315 -
South West - 1 £450 -
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, Financial Services 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 Financial Services Business Analyst in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Change Management
3 4 (30.77%) Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (15.38%) JIRA
5 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
6 1 (7.69%) Portfolio Management
6 1 (7.69%) Project Governance
6 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
6 1 (7.69%) Business Transformation
6 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.69%) IT Asset Management
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
6 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (7.69%) SDLC
6 1 (7.69%) Power BI
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Business Process Modelling

Financial Services 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.69%) Miro
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 13 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
1 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Equities
1 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Change Management
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.69%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Journey Map
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (7.69%) Journey Map
4 1 (7.69%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (7.69%) Project Governance
4 1 (7.69%) Regulatory Change
4 1 (7.69%) Time Management
4 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
1 1 (7.69%) Duck Creek
1 1 (7.69%) HP
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Sparx