Finance Business Analyst Contracts

Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA)
UK

The median Business Analyst - Finance (Finance BA) daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 523 521
Rank change year-on-year +74 -2 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Finance Business Analyst 122 165 354
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.29% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.31% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 130 273
10th Percentile £450 £420 £400
25th Percentile £500 £486 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £700 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +6.38%

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
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 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Finance Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance Business Analyst over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance Business Analyst in the UK

Finance Business Analyst
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance Business Analyst within the UK 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
England +66 111 £550 - 9
London +80 100 £550 -4.35% 3
Work from Home +102 56 £625 +16.28% 3
UK excluding London +41 15 £525 +0.96% 6
Scotland - 5 £525 -
North of England +22 4 £575 +21.12% 1
North West +21 3 £575 +4.55% 1
Midlands +14 3 £550 +2.33% 2
West Midlands +14 3 £550 +2.33% 2
South East +32 2 £500 -4.76% 2
Yorkshire +4 1 - -
East of England +3 1 £425 -20.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Finance 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 Finance Business Analyst in the job title.

1 122 (100.00%) Finance
2 47 (38.52%) Agile
3 42 (34.43%) SQL
4 38 (31.15%) Banking
5 34 (27.87%) Asset Management
6 33 (27.05%) Product Ownership
7 32 (26.23%) Investment Management
8 31 (25.41%) Social Skills
9 29 (23.77%) Derivative
9 29 (23.77%) Front Office
10 28 (22.95%) Python
11 27 (22.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 27 (22.13%) Fixed Income
11 27 (22.13%) Equities
11 27 (22.13%) Business Analysis
11 27 (22.13%) AWS
11 27 (22.13%) Hedge funds
12 26 (21.31%) Machine Learning
12 26 (21.31%) Artificial Intelligence
13 20 (16.39%) ERP
14 19 (15.57%) Investment Banking
14 19 (15.57%) User Stories
15 18 (14.75%) Roadmaps
16 17 (13.93%) Migration
17 16 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
17 16 (13.11%) GAP Analysis
17 16 (13.11%) SAP
17 16 (13.11%) Requirements Gathering
18 15 (12.30%) Bloomberg
18 15 (12.30%) User Acceptance Testing

Finance 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 5 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.64%) Apache
2 2 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Aladdin
2 6 (4.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (3.28%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.82%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.82%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.82%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.82%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.82%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 27 (22.13%) AWS
2 7 (5.74%) Azure
3 4 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (3.28%) Miro
4 3 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.46%) SaaS
5 2 (1.64%) dbt
5 2 (1.64%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.82%) Collibra
6 1 (0.82%) IaaS
6 1 (0.82%) OCI
6 1 (0.82%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.92%) NoSQL
1 6 (4.92%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Arrow
2 2 (1.64%) Dremio
2 2 (1.64%) Power BI
2 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (1.64%) Tableau
3 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Ignite
3 1 (0.82%) Big Data
3 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.82%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (2.46%) JIRA
General
1 122 (100.00%) Finance
2 38 (31.15%) Banking
3 31 (25.41%) Social Skills
4 29 (23.77%) Front Office
5 19 (15.57%) Investment Banking
6 10 (8.20%) Public Sector
7 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.28%) Back Office
8 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.28%) Retail
9 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.82%) Billing
10 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.82%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.82%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.10%) SAP PI
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.05%) Product Ownership
2 29 (23.77%) Derivative
3 27 (22.13%) Equities
3 27 (22.13%) Fixed Income
3 27 (22.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (22.13%) Hedge funds
4 6 (4.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.64%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.82%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (38.52%) Agile
2 34 (27.87%) Asset Management
3 32 (26.23%) Investment Management
4 27 (22.13%) Business Analysis
5 26 (21.31%) Artificial Intelligence
5 26 (21.31%) Machine Learning
6 20 (16.39%) ERP
7 19 (15.57%) User Stories
8 18 (14.75%) Roadmaps
9 17 (13.93%) Migration
10 16 (13.11%) GAP Analysis
10 16 (13.11%) Requirements Gathering
10 16 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (12.30%) Analytics
11 15 (12.30%) User Acceptance Testing
12 13 (10.66%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (10.66%) Fintech
12 13 (10.66%) Portfolio Management
12 13 (10.66%) Product Management
13 11 (9.02%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 42 (34.43%) SQL
2 28 (22.95%) Python
3 1 (0.82%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (5.74%) ACCA
1 7 (5.74%) CIMA
2 6 (4.92%) Degree
3 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) QA
2 5 (4.10%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.10%) ISO 20022
2 5 (4.10%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.28%) EMIR
3 4 (3.28%) MiFID
4 1 (0.82%) PMO
Vendors
1 16 (13.11%) SAP
2 15 (12.30%) Bloomberg
3 12 (9.84%) BISAM
4 11 (9.02%) Oracle
5 5 (4.10%) CyberSource
6 2 (1.64%) Cadence
6 2 (1.64%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.82%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.82%) Ariba
7 1 (0.82%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.82%) Splunk
7 1 (0.82%) Workday