Product Business Analyst Contract Job Trends

Product Business Analyst (Product BA)
UK

The median Product Business Analyst (Product BA) daily rate in the UK is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 482 562
Rank change year-on-year -69 +80 +159
Contract jobs requiring a Product Business Analyst 30 38 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.12% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.13% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 37 30
10th Percentile £416 £397 £424
25th Percentile £447 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% +17.39% -18.15%
75th Percentile £626 £750 £688
90th Percentile £689 £938 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £476 £520
% change year-on-year -10.76% -8.41% +9.47%

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 33,423 29,063 39,970
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 92.68% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,125 17,795 26,676
10th Percentile £300 £289 £280
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,961 876 1,672
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.49 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.03 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +26.87%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.62 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.85% -31.97% +64.38%

Product Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Product Business Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Product Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Business Analyst over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Business Analyst in the UK

Product Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Product Business Analyst
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 -84 25 £560 -17.04% 4
London -42 21 £600 -11.11% 2
Work from Home -5 6 £615 +43.02%
UK excluding London -48 6 £425 -10.76% 2
Scotland - 3 £588 -
South East -19 2 - - 2
North of England - 1 £390 -
North West - 1 £390 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Product 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 Product Business Analyst in the job title.

1 23 (76.67%) Agile
2 12 (40.00%) User Stories
3 11 (36.67%) JIRA
3 11 (36.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 10 (33.33%) Confluence
5 9 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (20.00%) Backlog Management
6 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (20.00%) Scrum
6 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (16.67%) Product Backlog
7 5 (16.67%) SQL
7 5 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Validation
8 4 (13.33%) Business Strategy
8 4 (13.33%) Change Management
8 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
8 4 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
9 3 (10.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 3 (10.00%) Backlog Refinement
9 3 (10.00%) CBAP
9 3 (10.00%) CSPO
9 3 (10.00%) Customer Experience
9 3 (10.00%) Data Integration
9 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 3 (10.00%) DevOps
9 3 (10.00%) GitHub

Product 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 10 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (3.33%) Appian
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) GitHub
2 2 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Apigee
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) iPaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Kong
3 1 (3.33%) Miro
3 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Postman
General
1 10 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Banking
5 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
6 3 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.33%) Front Office
8 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.33%) Retail
8 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
8 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) JSON
1 1 (3.33%) Kafka
1 1 (3.33%) OAuth
1 1 (3.33%) REST
1 1 (3.33%) RESTful
1 1 (3.33%) SOAP
1 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (10.00%) Digital Media
3 3 (10.00%) Media Streaming
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.67%) Derivative
4 2 (6.67%) Market Risk
4 2 (6.67%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.33%) Equities
5 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (3.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Agile
2 12 (40.00%) User Stories
3 11 (36.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (33.33%) Business Analysis
5 9 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (20.00%) Backlog Management
6 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (20.00%) Scrum
6 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (16.67%) Product Backlog
7 5 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Validation
8 4 (13.33%) Business Strategy
8 4 (13.33%) Change Management
8 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
8 4 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (10.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 3 (10.00%) Backlog Refinement
9 3 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) CBAP
1 3 (10.00%) CSPO
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Basel III
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) EMIR
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) IFRS
2 1 (3.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) SEPA
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe
1 1 (3.33%) Bloomberg
1 1 (3.33%) IBM
1 1 (3.33%) IBM Sterling
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft