Senior Business Analyst Contracts

Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA)
UK

The median Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA) daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 433 458
Rank change year-on-year +27 +25 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Business Analyst 177 282 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.51% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 203 306
10th Percentile £409 £425 £409
25th Percentile £488 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £620
90th Percentile £675 £740 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £495 £475
% change year-on-year +4.67% +4.21% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - £58.65 -
25th Percentile - £59.63 £85.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £86.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -27.75% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £87.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Business Analyst over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +29 159 £575 -4.17% 54
London +35 112 £600 - 36
Work from Home +66 68 £588 +8.80% 23
UK excluding London +27 50 £518 +4.67% 17
North of England +21 14 £525 +0.48% 5
South East +22 12 £500 -16.67% 2
East of England +25 11 £488 -26.14% 5
North West +17 11 £537 +5.04% 3
Scotland +23 6 £425 +1.80%
South West +16 4 £600 -4.00% 1
Midlands +19 3 £550 - 1
Yorkshire +15 3 £525 -4.55% 2
West Midlands +10 2 £550 - 1
East Midlands +22 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Business Analyst in the job title.

1 60 (33.90%) Agile
2 56 (31.64%) Social Skills
3 54 (30.51%) Business Analysis
4 40 (22.60%) Public Sector
5 38 (21.47%) Finance
6 36 (20.34%) User Stories
7 32 (18.08%) Requirements Gathering
8 28 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (14.69%) Use Case
10 25 (14.12%) Project Management
10 25 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
11 24 (13.56%) Acceptance Criteria
12 23 (12.99%) Security Cleared
12 23 (12.99%) Degree
13 22 (12.43%) SC Cleared
14 21 (11.86%) Scrum
15 20 (11.30%) Business Case
16 19 (10.73%) Workshop Facilitation
16 19 (10.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (10.73%) Product Ownership
17 17 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (9.04%) Migration
18 16 (9.04%) Azure
19 15 (8.47%) Waterfall
19 15 (8.47%) Process Improvement
19 15 (8.47%) Requirements Management
19 15 (8.47%) CRM
19 15 (8.47%) Roadmaps
20 14 (7.91%) Mentoring
20 14 (7.91%) Change Management

Senior 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 10 (5.65%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.13%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.95%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Endur
2 1 (0.56%) Aligne
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.56%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.04%) Azure
2 7 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (3.39%) Miro
3 6 (3.39%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.26%) SaaS
5 2 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.56%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.82%) NoSQL
1 5 (2.82%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.13%) Power BI
3 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (6.21%) JIRA
General
1 56 (31.64%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.60%) Public Sector
3 38 (21.47%) Finance
4 25 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.08%) Back Office
7 9 (5.08%) Banking
7 9 (5.08%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.39%) Local Government
9 5 (2.82%) Front Office
10 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.69%) Advertising
11 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.69%) Retail
12 2 (1.13%) Aviation
12 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.13%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.82%) SAP PI
2 2 (1.13%) Web Services
3 1 (0.56%) .NET
3 1 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.56%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.73%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.52%) Reinsurance
4 5 (2.82%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (1.69%) Derivative
5 3 (1.69%) Life Science
5 3 (1.69%) LIMS
6 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.13%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.13%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (1.13%) IoT
6 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.13%) Robotics
6 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.13%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.56%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.90%) Agile
2 54 (30.51%) Business Analysis
3 36 (20.34%) User Stories
4 32 (18.08%) Requirements Gathering
5 28 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (14.69%) Use Case
7 25 (14.12%) Project Management
8 24 (13.56%) Acceptance Criteria
9 21 (11.86%) Scrum
10 20 (11.30%) Business Case
11 19 (10.73%) Workshop Facilitation
12 17 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (9.04%) Migration
14 15 (8.47%) CRM
14 15 (8.47%) Process Improvement
14 15 (8.47%) Requirements Management
14 15 (8.47%) Roadmaps
14 15 (8.47%) Waterfall
15 14 (7.91%) Change Management
15 14 (7.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.78%) SQL
2 1 (0.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (12.99%) Degree
1 23 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.82%) CBAP
5 4 (2.26%) IIBA
5 4 (2.26%) ISEB
6 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) CSPO
7 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.39%) QA
2 5 (2.82%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.26%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.56%) EMIR
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) SEPA
Vendors
1 12 (6.78%) Microsoft
1 12 (6.78%) SAP
2 8 (4.52%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.82%) CyberSource
4 4 (2.26%) OpenLink
5 3 (1.69%) Oracle
5 3 (1.69%) Pega
6 2 (1.13%) Ariba
6 2 (1.13%) BT
7 1 (0.56%) Adobe
7 1 (0.56%) Avaya
7 1 (0.56%) Dell
7 1 (0.56%) Genesys
7 1 (0.56%) Google
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) Intel
7 1 (0.56%) Peregrine
7 1 (0.56%) Remedy
7 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.56%) Siemens