Business Analysis Contracts in England

Business Analysis
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Business Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Analysis over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 101 90
Rank change year-on-year -23 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 671 1,175 2,024
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.84% 2.44% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 2.71% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 813 1,465
10th Percentile £372 £411 £394
25th Percentile £425 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.87%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £813 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 4
10th Percentile - £36.60 £23.12
25th Percentile £18.35 £61.25 £25.13
Median hourly rate £46.87 £66.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.98% +63.98% +50.47%
75th Percentile £82.81 £70.00 £57.69
90th Percentile £84.67 - £66.13
UK median hourly rate £36.13 £64.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year -43.99% +65.38% +47.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Business Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in England

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in England.

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in England

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in England

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in England

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analysis in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analysis in England

Business Analysis
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London -19 393 £555 -7.58% 134
North of England +12 86 £475 -5.00% 53
South East -14 65 £488 +2.63% 37
North West +9 56 £475 -4.04% 26
Midlands -15 49 £458 -8.50% 36
South West -13 32 £553 +0.45% 27
East of England -4 27 £426 -14.75% 10
Yorkshire +1 26 £490 -2.00% 20
West Midlands -26 26 £475 -6.17% 26
East Midlands +26 23 £450 -2.70% 10
North East +14 3 £370 -7.50% 7
Business Analysis
UK

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (3.87%) Confluence
2 11 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.60%) Apache
4 4 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (4.77%) MS Visio
4 17 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.94%) Aligne
3 10 (1.49%) SAP PM
4 8 (1.19%) Endur
5 6 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.89%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (0.89%) SAP Hybris
6 5 (0.75%) Magento
7 4 (0.60%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.45%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.45%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.45%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.30%) Loan IQ
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.30%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.30%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 67 (9.99%) Azure
2 40 (5.96%) AWS
3 38 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 34 (5.07%) SaaS
5 24 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (2.38%) Serverless
8 13 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (1.94%) PaaS
9 11 (1.64%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (1.34%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.04%) Adobe Analytics
12 7 (1.04%) Azure Functions
12 7 (1.04%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 6 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (0.75%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.04%) WAN
2 6 (0.89%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (0.75%) SDH
3 5 (0.75%) SSH
4 4 (0.60%) Junos
5 3 (0.45%) Firewall
5 3 (0.45%) Internet
5 3 (0.45%) Intranet
5 3 (0.45%) PBX
5 3 (0.45%) Skype
5 3 (0.45%) VoIP
6 2 (0.30%) NAS
6 2 (0.30%) SMS
7 1 (0.15%) DKIM
7 1 (0.15%) DMARC
7 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.15%) LAN
7 1 (0.15%) MPLS
7 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.62%) Power BI
2 13 (1.94%) Big Data
2 13 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.79%) SQL Server
4 11 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.34%) SAP HANA
6 8 (1.19%) Tableau
7 7 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.04%) Hadoop
7 7 (1.04%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.75%) OLTP
9 4 (0.60%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.60%) Impala
10 3 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.45%) GIS
10 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.45%) Presto
10 3 (0.45%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 48 (7.15%) JIRA
2 7 (1.04%) Git
2 7 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (0.75%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.75%) JUnit
5 4 (0.60%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.30%) Moq
6 2 (0.30%) NUnit
6 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.15%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 252 (37.56%) Social Skills
2 211 (31.45%) Finance
3 155 (23.10%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 62 (9.24%) Banking
6 54 (8.05%) Presentation Skills
7 39 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
8 35 (5.22%) Manufacturing
9 29 (4.32%) Front Office
10 28 (4.17%) Retail
11 26 (3.87%) Investment Banking
12 23 (3.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 22 (3.28%) Legal
14 20 (2.98%) Telecoms
15 15 (2.24%) Local Government
15 15 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.94%) Marketing
17 12 (1.79%) Law
18 11 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 9 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 407 (60.66%) Analyst
2 367 (54.69%) Business Analyst
3 67 (9.99%) Senior
4 59 (8.79%) Project Manager
5 53 (7.90%) Senior Analyst
6 48 (7.15%) Architect
7 46 (6.86%) Senior Business Analyst
8 31 (4.62%) Developer
9 29 (4.32%) Consultant
10 28 (4.17%) Financial Analyst
11 25 (3.73%) Lead
12 24 (3.58%) IT Analyst
13 22 (3.28%) Business IT Analyst
14 21 (3.13%) Finance Business Analyst
14 21 (3.13%) IT Business Analyst
14 21 (3.13%) SAP Analyst
14 21 (3.13%) Technical Analyst
14 21 (3.13%) Technical Business Analyst
15 18 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (2.53%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.83%) XML
2 18 (2.68%) .NET
3 15 (2.24%) JSON
4 13 (1.94%) Web Services
5 9 (1.34%) HTML
5 9 (1.34%) WPF
6 8 (1.19%) CSS
7 6 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.75%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.75%) ARM Templates
8 5 (0.75%) Hibernate
8 5 (0.75%) J2EE
8 5 (0.75%) JPA
8 5 (0.75%) Kafka
8 5 (0.75%) REST
8 5 (0.75%) SOAP
8 5 (0.75%) Spring
9 4 (0.60%) ASP.NET
9 4 (0.60%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (0.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.86%) Product Ownership
2 35 (5.22%) Management Information System
3 14 (2.09%) Onboarding
4 12 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.49%) Derivative
5 10 (1.49%) IoT
5 10 (1.49%) Virtual Team
6 9 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
6 9 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.34%) Solar Panel
7 8 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.04%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.04%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.04%) Reinsurance
9 6 (0.89%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.89%) NHS
10 5 (0.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.64%) Unix
2 9 (1.34%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.89%) Linux
3 6 (0.89%) Windows
4 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (35.17%) Agile
2 170 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
3 157 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 142 (21.16%) Project Management
5 129 (19.23%) Requirements Gathering
6 111 (16.54%) User Stories
7 82 (12.22%) Scrum
8 79 (11.77%) Acceptance Criteria
9 73 (10.88%) Change Management
10 67 (9.99%) Migration
11 65 (9.69%) Project Delivery
11 65 (9.69%) Workshop Facilitation
12 60 (8.94%) Data Analysis
12 60 (8.94%) Roadmaps
13 59 (8.79%) User Acceptance Testing
14 57 (8.49%) Business Case
14 57 (8.49%) DevOps
15 55 (8.20%) Analytics
15 55 (8.20%) Decision-Making
16 52 (7.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 58 (8.64%) SQL
2 23 (3.43%) C#
3 22 (3.28%) Java
3 22 (3.28%) Python
4 14 (2.09%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.19%) Swift
6 7 (1.04%) Perl
7 5 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.60%) VBA
9 2 (0.30%) Lua
9 2 (0.30%) PHP
10 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (17.88%) Degree
2 77 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 59 (8.79%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.53%) CBAP
5 15 (2.24%) IIBA
6 14 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 8 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.04%) APMP
9 7 (1.04%) CCNP
9 7 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.04%) HND
9 7 (1.04%) ISEB
9 7 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.89%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.60%) JNCIA
13 3 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.00%) QA
2 17 (2.53%) GxP
3 15 (2.24%) GDPR
4 12 (1.79%) Good Clinical Practice
5 8 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.19%) PMO
6 6 (0.89%) EMIR
6 6 (0.89%) NIST
7 5 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.60%) MiFID
9 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.45%) GAAP
9 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.45%) P3O
9 3 (0.45%) SEPA
9 3 (0.45%) SLA
10 2 (0.30%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) HDFS
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (1.34%) Terraform
2 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.84%) SAP
3 28 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 25 (3.73%) Oracle
5 12 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.49%) Adobe
7 9 (1.34%) Bloomberg
8 8 (1.19%) Cisco
8 8 (1.19%) Okta
9 7 (1.04%) IBM
9 7 (1.04%) Juniper
9 7 (1.04%) Nokia
10 6 (0.89%) ION Trading
10 6 (0.89%) VMware
11 5 (0.75%) Ariba
11 5 (0.75%) Hyperion
11 5 (0.75%) MarketAxess
11 5 (0.75%) Tradeweb
12 4 (0.60%) Avaya
12 4 (0.60%) NEC