Technical Business Analyst Contracts

Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA)
UK

The median Technical Business Analyst (Technical BA) daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 535 482
Rank change year-on-year +87 -53 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Business Analyst 144 186 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.31% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 128 302
10th Percentile £368 £380 £400
25th Percentile £460 £447 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £575
90th Percentile £713 £625 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 £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 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

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 4 May 2024.

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 14 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 4 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 +40 100 £550 +4.76% 36
London +70 70 £550 - 19
Work from Home +124 66 £513 +2.50% 16
UK excluding London +39 36 £475 -5.00% 18
North of England +22 17 £475 -5.00% 5
Scotland +47 9 £383 - 1
Yorkshire +19 8 £525 - 2
North West +16 8 £475 -5.00% 3
South East +17 5 £475 +5.56% 6
East Midlands +22 2 £488 +2.63%
South West +19 2 £511 -10.11% 3
Midlands +16 2 £488 - 3
North East +18 1 £454 -17.45%
East of England +2 1 £350 -24.53%

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 49 (34.03%) Agile
2 36 (25.00%) Finance
2 36 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 35 (24.31%) User Stories
4 29 (20.14%) SQL
5 23 (15.97%) Requirements Gathering
6 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (15.28%) Business Analysis
7 21 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (13.89%) Degree
8 20 (13.89%) Scrum
9 18 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
10 17 (11.81%) E-Commerce
11 16 (11.11%) Azure
12 15 (10.42%) JIRA
12 15 (10.42%) Microsoft
12 15 (10.42%) Banking
13 14 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (9.72%) Data Modelling
13 14 (9.72%) Microservices
13 14 (9.72%) DevOps
13 14 (9.72%) Epics
14 13 (9.03%) Use Case
14 13 (9.03%) Security Cleared
14 13 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
14 13 (9.03%) Project Management
14 13 (9.03%) Data Analysis
15 12 (8.33%) Learning Management System
16 11 (7.64%) User Acceptance Testing
16 11 (7.64%) SAP

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 4 (2.78%) Confluence
2 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) CMS
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.47%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Shopify
2 2 (1.39%) ION Anvil
2 2 (1.39%) ION MarketView
2 2 (1.39%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.39%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Endur
3 1 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.11%) Azure
2 8 (5.56%) AWS
2 8 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 3 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (2.08%) BigCommerce
4 2 (1.39%) Lucidchart
4 2 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.69%) Apigee
5 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.69%) SaaS
5 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Intranet
1 1 (0.69%) NAS
1 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (5.56%) Power BI
3 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (3.47%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 5 (3.47%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.08%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.08%) Tableau
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.39%) Big Data
6 2 (1.39%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.39%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.69%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.69%) Impala
7 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.69%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 15 (10.42%) JIRA
2 9 (6.25%) Postman
2 9 (6.25%) SoapUI
3 6 (4.17%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.69%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 36 (25.00%) Finance
1 36 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.42%) Banking
4 8 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.78%) Retail
7 3 (2.08%) Front Office
7 3 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.39%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Back Office
9 1 (0.69%) French Language
9 1 (0.69%) Games
9 1 (0.69%) Law
9 1 (0.69%) Local Government
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.86%) SOAP
2 6 (4.17%) XML
3 5 (3.47%) Web Services
4 3 (2.08%) OAuth
4 3 (2.08%) VML
5 2 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.39%) OpenID
6 1 (0.69%) ADO
6 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.33%) Learning Management System
2 11 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.86%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.08%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.39%) EPoS
7 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.39%) Tandem
8 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.69%) CMDB
8 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.69%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.69%) Genomics
8 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.17%) Windows
2 5 (3.47%) Unix
3 3 (2.08%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.39%) Linux
5 1 (0.69%) VMS
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (34.03%) Agile
2 35 (24.31%) User Stories
3 23 (15.97%) Requirements Gathering
4 22 (15.28%) Business Analysis
4 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (13.89%) Scrum
6 18 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
7 17 (11.81%) E-Commerce
8 14 (9.72%) Data Modelling
8 14 (9.72%) DevOps
8 14 (9.72%) Epics
8 14 (9.72%) Microservices
8 14 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (9.03%) Data Analysis
9 13 (9.03%) Project Management
9 13 (9.03%) Use Case
10 11 (7.64%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (6.94%) Kanban
12 9 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.14%) SQL
2 8 (5.56%) Java
3 7 (4.86%) Python
4 5 (3.47%) PL/SQL
4 5 (3.47%) XPath
4 5 (3.47%) XQuery
5 3 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.39%) C#
6 2 (1.39%) R
6 2 (1.39%) VBA
7 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 20 (13.89%) Degree
2 13 (9.03%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.69%) MCSA
5 1 (0.69%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.78%) QA
2 3 (2.08%) MiFID
3 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.69%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.69%) HDFS
1 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.64%) SAP
3 8 (5.56%) Oracle
4 5 (3.47%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.08%) Adobe
6 3 (2.08%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.39%) Dell
7 2 (1.39%) Intel
7 2 (1.39%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.69%) Ariba
8 1 (0.69%) Cadence
8 1 (0.69%) Databricks
8 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.69%) Murex
8 1 (0.69%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.69%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.69%) Workday