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 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 441 478
Rank change year-on-year +27 +37 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Business Analyst 170 286 434
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.48% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.50% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 201 299
10th Percentile £406 £420 £409
25th Percentile £488 £463 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +0.70% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - £54.15 -
25th Percentile - £56.63 £85.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.25 £86.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.01% -30.35% -
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 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +39 150 £588 - 37
London +35 104 £605 +0.83% 21
Work from Home +58 64 £588 +6.82% 22
UK excluding London +25 53 £504 +0.70% 18
North of England +26 14 £525 +0.48% 2
North West +13 11 £537 +5.04%
South East +13 11 £465 -19.13% 3
East of England +24 10 £525 -20.45% 4
Scotland +20 10 £418 -
Midlands +29 4 £529 -3.91% 4
South West +15 4 £600 -
West Midlands +24 3 £550 - 3
Yorkshire +21 3 £525 -4.55% 2
East Midlands +11 1 £450 -23.40% 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 55 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 53 (31.18%) Agile
2 53 (31.18%) Business Analysis
3 37 (21.76%) Public Sector
4 32 (18.82%) User Stories
5 29 (17.06%) Finance
5 29 (17.06%) Requirements Gathering
6 24 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (12.94%) Project Management
7 22 (12.94%) Security Cleared
8 21 (12.35%) Degree
8 21 (12.35%) Scrum
8 21 (12.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (11.76%) Use Case
9 20 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (11.76%) SC Cleared
10 19 (11.18%) Workshop Facilitation
11 18 (10.59%) Business Case
11 18 (10.59%) Acceptance Criteria
11 18 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (10.59%) Product Ownership
12 16 (9.41%) Roadmaps
13 15 (8.82%) Change Management
14 14 (8.24%) Process Improvement
14 14 (8.24%) Mentoring
15 13 (7.65%) CRM
16 11 (6.47%) Microsoft
16 11 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 10 (5.88%) Waterfall
17 10 (5.88%) JIRA

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 8 (4.71%) Confluence
2 3 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.18%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.53%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.59%) Aligne
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.59%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.59%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (5.29%) Azure
2 6 (3.53%) Power Platform
3 5 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.76%) SaaS
5 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.18%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.59%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.59%) Miro
6 1 (0.59%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.59%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.18%) Power BI
2 1 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.59%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 55 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.76%) Public Sector
3 29 (17.06%) Finance
4 21 (12.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.29%) Banking
6 9 (5.29%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.53%) Local Government
9 5 (2.94%) Front Office
10 4 (2.35%) Back Office
10 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.76%) Advertising
11 3 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.76%) Retail
12 2 (1.18%) German Language
12 2 (1.18%) Marketing
12 2 (1.18%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.59%) VML
1 1 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.59%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.71%) Reinsurance
3 6 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.76%) Derivative
5 3 (1.76%) Life Science
5 3 (1.76%) LIMS
6 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.18%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (1.18%) IoT
6 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.18%) Robotics
6 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.18%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.59%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.18%) Agile
1 53 (31.18%) Business Analysis
2 32 (18.82%) User Stories
3 29 (17.06%) Requirements Gathering
4 24 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (12.94%) Project Management
6 21 (12.35%) Scrum
7 20 (11.76%) Use Case
8 19 (11.18%) Workshop Facilitation
9 18 (10.59%) Acceptance Criteria
9 18 (10.59%) Business Case
9 18 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.41%) Roadmaps
11 15 (8.82%) Change Management
12 14 (8.24%) Mentoring
12 14 (8.24%) Process Improvement
13 13 (7.65%) CRM
14 11 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (5.88%) Data Modelling
15 10 (5.88%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.35%) Degree
3 20 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.35%) IIBA
6 3 (1.76%) ISEB
7 2 (1.18%) CBAP
7 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) CSPO
8 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.76%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (1.76%) QA
2 1 (0.59%) EMIR
2 1 (0.59%) MiFID
2 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.59%) SEPA
Vendors
1 11 (6.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.12%) SAP
2 7 (4.12%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.35%) OpenLink
4 3 (1.76%) Oracle
4 3 (1.76%) Pega
5 2 (1.18%) Ariba
5 2 (1.18%) BT
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe
6 1 (0.59%) Dell
6 1 (0.59%) Google
6 1 (0.59%) IBM
6 1 (0.59%) Intel
6 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.59%) Sitecore