Business Analyst Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Business Analyst (BA)
UK > Work from Home

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £513, 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 38 36 42
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 509 811 1,301
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.14% 5.29% 5.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.48% 5.65% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 562 931
10th Percentile £358 £394 £400
25th Percentile £413 £453 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £588
90th Percentile £788 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £522
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.60% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £37.46 - -
25th Percentile £42.47 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £52.63 £20.77 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +153.37% -44.98% +68.53%
75th Percentile £63.47 £50.00 £59.38
90th Percentile £68.89 - £62.75
UK median hourly rate £32.82 £28.00 £60.25
% change year-on-year +17.20% -53.53% +105.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Business Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Business Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Business Analyst trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Analyst.

Business Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Business Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Business Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Analyst.

Business Analyst hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Business Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Business Analyst hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 190 (37.33%) Finance
2 176 (34.58%) Agile
3 173 (33.99%) Business Analysis
4 152 (29.86%) Social Skills
5 101 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (18.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 91 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (16.70%) User Stories
9 77 (15.13%) Requirements Gathering
10 72 (14.15%) SQL
11 69 (13.56%) User Acceptance Testing
12 60 (11.79%) Workshop Facilitation
13 59 (11.59%) Fixed Income
13 59 (11.59%) Front Office
13 59 (11.59%) Data Analysis
14 58 (11.39%) Banking
15 57 (11.20%) JIRA
16 56 (11.00%) Investment Management
17 55 (10.81%) Asset Management
18 50 (9.82%) Derivative
19 49 (9.63%) Public Sector
20 46 (9.04%) Degree
21 45 (8.84%) Migration
21 45 (8.84%) Analytics
21 45 (8.84%) Decision-Making
21 45 (8.84%) Acceptance Criteria
22 44 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
23 42 (8.25%) Project Management
23 42 (8.25%) Hedge funds
24 40 (7.86%) Python

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 39 (7.66%) Confluence
2 8 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.59%) CMS
4 2 (0.39%) Drupal
4 2 (0.39%) SAS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 23 (4.52%) MS Visio
2 19 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.18%) Trello
5 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (6.88%) Aladdin
2 14 (2.75%) thinkFolio
3 9 (1.77%) Endur
4 7 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.79%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.79%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.39%) Actimize
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.39%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.20%) Shopify
7 1 (0.20%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 34 (6.68%) Azure
2 22 (4.32%) Power Platform
3 15 (2.95%) AWS
4 11 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (1.96%) SaaS
6 9 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (1.38%) GCP
8 6 (1.18%) PowerApps
9 5 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (0.98%) Miro
10 4 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (0.59%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (0.59%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.59%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 2 (0.39%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.20%) Intranet
2 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.14%) Power BI
2 11 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (1.96%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.18%) Tableau
5 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.39%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.20%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.20%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.20%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.20%) Looker
6 1 (0.20%) Metadata
6 1 (0.20%) MS Access
6 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 57 (11.20%) JIRA
2 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.20%) MLflow
General
1 190 (37.33%) Finance
2 152 (29.86%) Social Skills
3 101 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.59%) Front Office
5 58 (11.39%) Banking
6 49 (9.63%) Public Sector
7 26 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.34%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.95%) Financial Institution
11 14 (2.75%) Marketing
12 13 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.55%) Retail
13 9 (1.77%) Legal
14 8 (1.57%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.38%) Back Office
16 6 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.98%) Law
17 5 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.79%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (0.59%) ADO
2 3 (0.59%) HTML
2 3 (0.59%) Web Services
3 2 (0.39%) .NET
3 2 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (0.39%) REST
4 1 (0.20%) CSS
4 1 (0.20%) EDI
4 1 (0.20%) FpML
4 1 (0.20%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.20%) jQuery
4 1 (0.20%) Murex MxML
4 1 (0.20%) Plotly
4 1 (0.20%) PySpark
4 1 (0.20%) RAML
4 1 (0.20%) React
4 1 (0.20%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (11.59%) Fixed Income
2 50 (9.82%) Derivative
3 42 (8.25%) Hedge funds
4 40 (7.86%) Product Ownership
5 26 (5.11%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (2.75%) Equities
8 12 (2.36%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.38%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.18%) LIMS
12 5 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.59%) Life Science
13 3 (0.59%) Market Risk
13 3 (0.59%) NHS
13 3 (0.59%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.59%) Pricing Data
13 3 (0.59%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 2 (0.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.59%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Linux
2 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (34.58%) Agile
2 173 (33.99%) Business Analysis
3 92 (18.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 91 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (16.70%) User Stories
6 77 (15.13%) Requirements Gathering
7 69 (13.56%) User Acceptance Testing
8 60 (11.79%) Workshop Facilitation
9 59 (11.59%) Data Analysis
10 56 (11.00%) Investment Management
11 55 (10.81%) Asset Management
12 45 (8.84%) Acceptance Criteria
12 45 (8.84%) Analytics
12 45 (8.84%) Decision-Making
12 45 (8.84%) Migration
13 44 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
14 42 (8.25%) Project Management
15 39 (7.66%) Process Improvement
16 36 (7.07%) Change Management
16 36 (7.07%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (14.15%) SQL
2 40 (7.86%) Python
3 3 (0.59%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.20%) ABAP
5 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.20%) C#
5 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (9.04%) Degree
2 39 (7.66%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.18%) IIBA
4 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.98%) PMP
6 4 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.79%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.79%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.79%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.59%) MBA
8 2 (0.39%) ACCA
8 2 (0.39%) CBAP
8 2 (0.39%) CFA
8 2 (0.39%) ISEB
8 2 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.20%) CSPO
9 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.20%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.13%) QA
2 15 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.96%) MiFID
4 7 (1.38%) EMIR
5 6 (1.18%) GDPR
6 5 (0.98%) NIST
7 3 (0.59%) COREP
7 3 (0.59%) GxP
7 3 (0.59%) PMO
8 2 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.39%) FINREP
8 2 (0.39%) GRC
8 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 34 (6.68%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.09%) BISAM
3 21 (4.13%) Charles River
4 19 (3.73%) Salesforce
5 15 (2.95%) SAP
6 14 (2.75%) Calypso
6 14 (2.75%) SimCorp
7 12 (2.36%) Oracle
8 10 (1.96%) ION Trading
9 9 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.57%) OpenLink
11 6 (1.18%) Google
12 5 (0.98%) Adobe
13 4 (0.79%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.59%) Informatica
14 3 (0.59%) Palantir
15 2 (0.39%) Apple
15 2 (0.39%) Fiserv
15 2 (0.39%) PeopleSoft
15 2 (0.39%) Varonis