Technical Business Analyst Contracts

Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA)
UK

The median Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA) daily rate in the UK is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 439 532
Rank change year-on-year +27 +93 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 109 143 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.33% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.35% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 84 128
10th Percentile £366 £400 £400
25th Percentile £412 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £581 £601 £575
90th Percentile £688 £713 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.32% -5.00% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Technical Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Business Analyst in the UK

Technical Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Business Analyst in the UK

Technical Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Business Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Business Analyst in the UK

Technical Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Business Analyst in the UK

Technical Business Analyst
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +52 95 £504 -8.41% 51
London +25 57 £525 -4.55% 40
UK excluding London +73 44 £469 -1.32% 20
Work from Home 0 25 £450 -14.29% 32
North of England +16 13 £494 +3.95% 1
South East +51 11 £450 -2.70% 12
Scotland +14 8 £279 -38.00% 1
Yorkshire +8 7 £518 -1.43%
North West +15 6 £375 -21.05% 1
Midlands +25 5 £606 +24.36% 2
South West +48 4 £456 -10.76% 3
West Midlands - 4 £750 - 2
East of England +31 2 - - 2
East Midlands +9 1 £463 -5.13%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Business Analyst in the job title.

1 44 (40.37%) Agile
1 44 (40.37%) Business Analysis
2 38 (34.86%) Social Skills
3 31 (28.44%) Finance
4 29 (26.61%) User Stories
5 27 (24.77%) Requirements Gathering
6 25 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (19.27%) Scrum
7 21 (19.27%) Migration
7 21 (19.27%) SQL
7 21 (19.27%) JIRA
8 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (16.51%) Data Modelling
11 17 (15.60%) Data Analysis
12 15 (13.76%) Validation
12 15 (13.76%) Banking
12 15 (13.76%) Azure
13 14 (12.84%) Confluence
13 14 (12.84%) Security Cleared
13 14 (12.84%) Project Management
13 14 (12.84%) Acceptance Criteria
13 14 (12.84%) Decision-Making
14 12 (11.01%) Workshop Facilitation
14 12 (11.01%) GAP Analysis
14 12 (11.01%) Degree
14 12 (11.01%) DevOps
15 11 (10.09%) Power Platform
16 10 (9.17%) Wireframes
16 10 (9.17%) Use Case

Technical 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 14 (12.84%) Confluence
2 4 (3.67%) CMS
3 2 (1.83%) Drupal
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (5.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (5.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.92%) Shopify
2 1 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.76%) Azure
2 11 (10.09%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.59%) AWS
4 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.67%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.67%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.83%) GCP
5 2 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.92%) Azure API Management
6 1 (0.92%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.92%) GitHub
6 1 (0.92%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.92%) Miro
6 1 (0.92%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) Intranet
1 1 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) Power BI
2 4 (3.67%) Tableau
3 2 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.92%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.92%) Power Query
4 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (19.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.83%) Postman
2 2 (1.83%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.92%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.92%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.92%) MLflow
General
1 38 (34.86%) Social Skills
2 31 (28.44%) Finance
3 19 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.76%) Banking
5 10 (9.17%) Front Office
6 8 (7.34%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.67%) Retail
9 3 (2.75%) French Language
9 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.75%) Legal
9 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.75%) Marketing
10 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.92%) Back Office
11 1 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.92%) Electronics
11 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.59%) Web Services
1 5 (4.59%) XML
2 4 (3.67%) RESTful
3 3 (2.75%) JSON
4 2 (1.83%) SOAP
5 1 (0.92%) .NET
5 1 (0.92%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.92%) ADO
5 1 (0.92%) FpML
5 1 (0.92%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.92%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.42%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.59%) CMDB
3 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.83%) Derivative
4 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.83%) IVR
4 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.83%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.83%) PMI
5 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.92%) Equities
5 1 (0.92%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.92%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (40.37%) Agile
1 44 (40.37%) Business Analysis
2 29 (26.61%) User Stories
3 27 (24.77%) Requirements Gathering
4 25 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (19.27%) Migration
5 21 (19.27%) Scrum
6 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.51%) Data Modelling
8 17 (15.60%) Data Analysis
9 15 (13.76%) Validation
10 14 (12.84%) Acceptance Criteria
10 14 (12.84%) Decision-Making
10 14 (12.84%) Project Management
11 12 (11.01%) DevOps
11 12 (11.01%) GAP Analysis
11 12 (11.01%) Workshop Facilitation
12 10 (9.17%) Process Improvement
12 10 (9.17%) Use Case
12 10 (9.17%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.27%) SQL
2 8 (7.34%) Python
3 2 (1.83%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.01%) Degree
3 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.59%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.67%) CBAP
6 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.83%) IIBA
6 2 (1.83%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.83%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.83%) MiFID
3 2 (1.83%) PMO
4 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.92%) EMIR
4 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.75%) Oracle
3 3 (2.75%) SAP
4 2 (1.83%) Databricks
4 2 (1.83%) Genesys
4 2 (1.83%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.92%) Adobe
5 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.92%) Ceridian
5 1 (0.92%) Fiserv
5 1 (0.92%) Google
5 1 (0.92%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.92%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.92%) Murex
5 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.92%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.92%) Workday
5 1 (0.92%) Zscaler
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