IT Business Analyst Contract Job Trends

IT Business Analyst (IT BA)
UK

The median IT Business Analyst (IT BA) daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 467 503
Rank change year-on-year -73 +36 +93
Contract jobs requiring an IT Business Analyst 44 52 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 32 64
10th Percentile £409 £401 £416
25th Percentile £469 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year - -3.61% -5.68%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £589
90th Percentile £664 £722 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.82 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £48.82 -

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 34,755 29,351 41,026
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.84% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,967 17,954 27,186
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +0.16% -4.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 872 2,014
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.64
Median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £38.10
Median % change year-on-year -14.72% -14.69% +9.53%
75th Percentile £60.72 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.98 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £30.98 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.07% -22.56% +33.33%

IT Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

IT Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

IT Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

IT Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Business Analyst over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IT Business Analyst in the UK

IT Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Business Analyst job vacancies in the UK

IT Business Analyst
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 24 January 2026. 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 -66 36 £500 - 20
London -9 29 £500 -16.67% 9
Work from Home -31 21 £500 - 14
UK excluding London -68 11 £475 -5.00% 19
South East -22 5 £500 -1.23% 7
Midlands -51 2 - - 8
Scotland -1 1 - - 1
South West -16 1 £438 -12.50%
East Midlands -28 1 - - 1
North West -35 1 £365 -27.00% 1
West Midlands -51 1 - - 7
North of England -65 1 £365 -27.00% 2
Wales - 1 £438 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 2026, IT 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 IT Business Analyst in the job title.

1 23 (52.27%) Business Analysis
1 23 (52.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (27.27%) Agile
3 12 (27.27%) Migration
3 12 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
4 9 (20.45%) Workshop Facilitation
5 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (18.18%) Use Case
5 8 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (18.18%) User Stories
6 7 (15.91%) JIRA
6 7 (15.91%) Project Management
6 7 (15.91%) SQL
7 6 (13.64%) Logistics
7 6 (13.64%) QA
8 5 (11.36%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (11.36%) Change Management
8 5 (11.36%) Data Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
8 5 (11.36%) Degree
8 5 (11.36%) Project Delivery
8 5 (11.36%) Validation
9 4 (9.09%) Business Case
9 4 (9.09%) Confluence
9 4 (9.09%) Data Analysis
9 4 (9.09%) Decision-Making
9 4 (9.09%) ITIL
9 4 (9.09%) Oracle
9 4 (9.09%) Scrum

IT 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.27%) Endur
1 1 (2.27%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (2.27%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.55%) SaaS
3 1 (2.27%) Azure
3 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.27%) Lucidchart
3 1 (2.27%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Power BI
2 2 (4.55%) Tableau
3 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) JIRA
General
1 19 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (13.64%) Banking
5 5 (11.36%) Telecoms
6 4 (9.09%) Front Office
7 3 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (6.82%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.55%) Back Office
8 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.55%) Retail
9 1 (2.27%) Local Government
9 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.27%) Private Banking
9 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) .NET
1 1 (2.27%) .NET Core
1 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.27%) ADO
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.27%) RESTful
1 1 (2.27%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Market Risk
1 4 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (6.82%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) Derivative
4 1 (2.27%) FMCG
4 1 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.27%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.27%) IoT
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Life Science
4 1 (2.27%) LIMS
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Business Analysis
1 23 (52.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (27.27%) Agile
3 12 (27.27%) Migration
3 12 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
4 9 (20.45%) Workshop Facilitation
5 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (18.18%) Use Case
5 8 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (18.18%) User Stories
6 7 (15.91%) Project Management
7 6 (13.64%) Logistics
8 5 (11.36%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (11.36%) Change Management
8 5 (11.36%) Data Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
8 5 (11.36%) Project Delivery
8 5 (11.36%) Validation
9 4 (9.09%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) SQL
2 3 (6.82%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) C#
3 1 (2.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) CBAP
2 3 (6.82%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.55%) CFA
3 2 (4.55%) ISEB
3 2 (4.55%) PMP
3 2 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) IIBA
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.27%) EMIR
2 1 (2.27%) GMP
2 1 (2.27%) GxP
2 1 (2.27%) MiFID
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Oracle
2 3 (6.82%) SAP
3 2 (4.55%) Ariba
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.27%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.27%) OpenLink
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) Triple Point
4 1 (2.27%) Workday