Healthcare Business Analyst Contract Job Trends

Business Analyst - Healthcare (Healthcare BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst - Healthcare (Healthcare BA) daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 - 589
Rank change year-on-year - - +208
Contract jobs requiring a Healthcare Business Analyst 9 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% - 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% - 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 6
10th Percentile £493 - £263
25th Percentile £508 - £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £363
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 - £419
90th Percentile £579 - £450
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 - £356

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 33,636 30,890 40,421
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 92.72% 93.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,275 18,962 27,109
10th Percentile £295 £300 £282
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -2.41% -2.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,972 959 1,551
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £19.15
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +41.93%
75th Percentile £58.06 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.97 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.94
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.26% +77.99%

Healthcare Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Healthcare Business Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Healthcare Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Healthcare Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Healthcare Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Healthcare Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Healthcare Business Analyst
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Healthcare Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 29 December 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 - 9 £550 - 2
London - 5 £550 - 2
UK excluding London - 4 £510 - 1
North of England - 2 £530 -
North West - 2 £530 -
South East - 1 £475 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Work from Home - 1 - -

Healthcare Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, Healthcare Business Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Healthcare Business Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (44.44%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (33.33%) BPMN
3 3 (33.33%) CRM
3 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (33.33%) Service Design
3 3 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
3 3 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (33.33%) UML
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Data Mapping
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
4 2 (22.22%) LLM
4 2 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) R
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) AWS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure
5 1 (11.11%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) Data Science
5 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme

Healthcare Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) FHIR
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (44.44%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (33.33%) BPMN
3 3 (33.33%) CRM
3 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Service Design
3 3 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
3 3 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (33.33%) UML
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Data Mapping
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
4 2 (22.22%) LLM
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) People Management
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) R
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft