Business Analyst Contracts in Central London

Business Analyst (BA)
London > Central London

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in Central London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 30 39
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 174 235 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.19% 6.41% 6.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.54% 6.75% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 154 208
10th Percentile £442 £402 £400
25th Percentile £500 £464 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £618
90th Percentile £713 £788 £700
London median daily rate £563 £560 £548
% change year-on-year +0.45% +2.28% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £39.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year - -13.58% -
75th Percentile - - £41.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -22.73% +2.33% +19.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,308 3,483 4,215
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 94.93% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,608 2,364 3,175
10th Percentile £350 £325 £353
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +3.26%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £677
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 23 51
10th Percentile £20.10 £15.50 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £28.59 £61.25 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.50 £87.64 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in Central London

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in Central London

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in Central London

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in Central London

Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analyst within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
City of London +5 158 £550 -5.17% 5
West End of London +4 7 £525 +31.25% 1
City of Westminster - 5 £563 - 1
Southwark - 1 - -
Business Analyst
London

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 across the Central London region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 65 (37.36%) Finance
2 54 (31.03%) Agile
3 45 (25.86%) Business Analysis
4 44 (25.29%) Social Skills
5 41 (23.56%) User Acceptance Testing
6 35 (20.11%) GAP Analysis
7 32 (18.39%) User Stories
8 31 (17.82%) SQL
9 29 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
10 27 (15.52%) Banking
11 22 (12.64%) Validation
11 22 (12.64%) Migration
11 22 (12.64%) Workshop Facilitation
12 21 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (12.07%) QA
13 19 (10.92%) Data Analysis
14 18 (10.34%) Data Quality
15 17 (9.77%) Data Migration
15 17 (9.77%) Acceptance Criteria
16 16 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
16 16 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
17 15 (8.62%) SharePoint
17 15 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
18 14 (8.05%) SAP
18 14 (8.05%) Scrum
18 14 (8.05%) Power BI
18 14 (8.05%) Power Platform
19 13 (7.47%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (7.47%) Data Management
19 13 (7.47%) Process Improvement

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 15 (8.62%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.45%) Confluence
3 3 (1.72%) MTS
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.17%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Aligne
1 4 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.72%) Endur
2 3 (1.72%) EuroRunner
2 3 (1.72%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.57%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.57%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.57%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.05%) Power Platform
2 13 (7.47%) Azure
3 3 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (1.72%) Miro
3 3 (1.72%) SaaS
4 2 (1.15%) Google Analytics
4 2 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.15%) Smartsheet
4 2 (1.15%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (0.57%) AWS
5 1 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.57%) OCI
5 1 (0.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) 4G
1 1 (0.57%) 5G
1 1 (0.57%) Firewall
1 1 (0.57%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (0.57%) LTE
1 1 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.05%) Power BI
2 7 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (2.30%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 4 (2.30%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.30%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (4.02%) JIRA
2 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.57%) Postman
2 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
General
1 65 (37.36%) Finance
2 44 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 27 (15.52%) Banking
4 16 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.47%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (5.17%) Front Office
7 8 (4.60%) Back Office
7 8 (4.60%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.45%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.45%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.87%) Advertising
9 5 (2.87%) International Banking
9 5 (2.87%) Retail
10 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.72%) Marketing
11 3 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.15%) Legal
12 2 (1.15%) Police
13 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.45%) XML
2 2 (1.15%) .NET
2 2 (1.15%) JSON
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.15%) RESTful
2 2 (1.15%) Web Services
3 1 (0.57%) ADO
3 1 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.57%) PySpark
3 1 (0.57%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.32%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.87%) Market Risk
3 4 (2.30%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.72%) Derivative
4 3 (1.72%) Equities
4 3 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.15%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.15%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.15%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.57%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.57%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.57%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.57%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.30%) Windows
2 3 (1.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (31.03%) Agile
2 45 (25.86%) Business Analysis
3 41 (23.56%) User Acceptance Testing
4 35 (20.11%) GAP Analysis
5 32 (18.39%) User Stories
6 29 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 22 (12.64%) Migration
7 22 (12.64%) Validation
7 22 (12.64%) Workshop Facilitation
8 21 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (10.92%) Data Analysis
10 17 (9.77%) Acceptance Criteria
10 17 (9.77%) Data Migration
11 16 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (8.05%) Scrum
14 13 (7.47%) Data Management
14 13 (7.47%) Process Improvement
15 12 (6.90%) Impact Assessments
16 11 (6.32%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.82%) SQL
2 4 (2.30%) PL/SQL
2 4 (2.30%) XPath
2 4 (2.30%) XQuery
3 3 (1.72%) Python
4 2 (1.15%) Java
5 1 (0.57%) C#
5 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (6.32%) Degree
1 11 (6.32%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.02%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.57%) IIBA
3 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.07%) QA
2 18 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.30%) PMO
4 3 (1.72%) EMIR
5 2 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 14 (8.05%) SAP
2 11 (6.32%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.02%) Oracle
4 5 (2.87%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.72%) Databricks
5 3 (1.72%) GoldenSource
5 3 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.15%) Google
6 2 (1.15%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.15%) Murex
6 2 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.57%) Ariba
7 1 (0.57%) Calypso
7 1 (0.57%) Charles River
7 1 (0.57%) Citrix
7 1 (0.57%) Foundry
7 1 (0.57%) Informatica
7 1 (0.57%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.57%) Palantir
7 1 (0.57%) Tradeweb