IIBA Contract Job Trends

International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IIBA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 534 589
Rank change year-on-year -30 +55 +175
Contract jobs citing IIBA 20 10 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.029% 0.036%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.098% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 11
10th Percentile £435 £407 £435
25th Percentile £459 £426 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £541 £534 -
90th Percentile £638 £616 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £428 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -22.27% +26.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

IIBA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,411 10,172 13,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 29.75% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,063 6,239 8,279
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,013 485 733
10th Percentile £16.35 £19.72 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £52.31 £66.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.59 £51.90
% change year-on-year -44.83% -12.16% +16.11%

IIBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IIBA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

IIBA job vacancy trend in the UK

IIBA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IIBA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IIBA

IIBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIBA over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IIBA in the UK

IIBA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IIBA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IIBA

IIBA
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 IIBA within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 -17 19 £475 -5.00% 10
London -2 13 £488 -14.10%
UK excluding London -35 7 £475 +11.11% 10
South East - 3 £475 -
Work from Home -2 2 £563 +20.84% 5
Midlands - 2 £463 - 8
West Midlands - 2 £463 - 8
Scotland +1 1 - -
South West -8 1 £500 -

IIBA
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (15.00%) Notion
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.00%) Lucidchart
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Power BI
2 4 (20.00%) Tableau
3 1 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Aviation
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Analyst
1 16 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Requirements Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Report Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Business Transformation Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Business Transformation Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Project Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Report Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) LIMS
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 11 (55.00%) Business Analysis
3 10 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 9 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 9 (45.00%) User Stories
4 9 (45.00%) Waterfall
5 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (30.00%) Project Management
6 6 (30.00%) Validation
7 5 (25.00%) Analytics
7 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (25.00%) Scrum
7 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (20.00%) BPMN
8 4 (20.00%) DevOps
8 4 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (20.00%) Use Case
8 4 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) CBAP
3 3 (15.00%) ISEB
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (10.00%) PMP
5 1 (5.00%) AAT
5 1 (5.00%) ACCA
5 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.00%) CIMA
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) EMIR
1 2 (10.00%) MiFID
2 1 (5.00%) HL7
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
2 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Sage
2 1 (5.00%) TOWER Software
2 1 (5.00%) Xceptor