Business Analyst Contracts in Cheshire

Business Analyst (BA)
North West > Cheshire

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in Cheshire is £410 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 32 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 23 26 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.28% 5.12% 5.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.47% 5.60% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 18
10th Percentile £335 £396 £369
25th Percentile £384 £421 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £548 £429
Median % change year-on-year -25.11% +27.77% -9.79%
75th Percentile £500 £680 £511
90th Percentile £645 £723 £538
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £27.98 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year - +28.47% -
North West median hourly rate - £27.98 £21.78
% change year-on-year - +28.47% -60.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 514 464 518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 91.34% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 313 286
10th Percentile £282 £278 £192
25th Percentile £375 £400 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 26 30
10th Percentile £13.49 £14.13 £12.48
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £25.57 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% +14.18% +11.25%
75th Percentile £39.44 £35.00 £33.51
90th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £59.18
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £30.00 £24.10
% change year-on-year +9.65% +24.48% +33.89%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in Cheshire

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in Cheshire

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analyst in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in Cheshire

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in Cheshire

Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Macclesfield -9 11 £410 -3.53%
Chester - 6 £436 -
Warrington +3 1 - - 2
Knutsford -12 1 £375 -44.85%
Business Analyst
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Cheshire region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 13 (56.52%) Requirements Gathering
2 11 (47.83%) Business Analysis
3 10 (43.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (39.13%) Manufacturing
4 9 (39.13%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (39.13%) Degree
5 7 (30.43%) Six Sigma
5 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
6 6 (26.09%) GDPR
6 6 (26.09%) Good Clinical Practice
6 6 (26.09%) GxP
6 6 (26.09%) Lean Six Sigma
6 6 (26.09%) Data Protection
6 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
7 5 (21.74%) Requirements Engineering
7 5 (21.74%) IIBA
7 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Analysis
7 5 (21.74%) Use Case
7 5 (21.74%) Requirements Analysis
7 5 (21.74%) Change Management
7 5 (21.74%) Workflow
7 5 (21.74%) Finance
7 5 (21.74%) Business Process Modelling
8 4 (17.39%) Power BI
8 4 (17.39%) Industry 4.0
8 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
8 4 (17.39%) Business Case
8 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
8 4 (17.39%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.70%) Tableau
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.35%) PyCharm
General
1 9 (39.13%) Manufacturing
1 9 (39.13%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 4 (17.39%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Industry 4.0
1 4 (17.39%) IoT
1 4 (17.39%) Robotics
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Requirements Gathering
2 11 (47.83%) Business Analysis
3 10 (43.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (30.43%) Six Sigma
5 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
5 6 (26.09%) Data Protection
5 6 (26.09%) Lean Six Sigma
6 5 (21.74%) Business Process Modelling
6 5 (21.74%) Change Management
6 5 (21.74%) Requirements Analysis
6 5 (21.74%) Requirements Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Analysis
6 5 (21.74%) Use Case
6 5 (21.74%) Workflow
7 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (17.39%) Business Case
7 4 (17.39%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 4 (17.39%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Groovy
1 1 (4.35%) Java
1 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
1 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) IIBA
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) GDPR
1 6 (26.09%) Good Clinical Practice
1 6 (26.09%) GxP
2 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft