Business Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Business Analyst (BA)
England > North of England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the North of England is £475 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 41 31 33
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 188 293 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.97% 5.32% 5.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.26% 5.57% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 234 312
10th Percentile £362 £363 £350
25th Percentile £404 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +5.41%
75th Percentile £524 £550 £519
90th Percentile £591 £638 £569
England median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £18.39
25th Percentile - - £19.00
Median hourly rate £20.77 £27.98 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +28.47% -3.52%
75th Percentile - - £22.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £62.50 £26.14
% change year-on-year -64.00% +139.14% -39.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,410 5,258 6,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.43% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,683 5,047
10th Percentile £263 £270 £204
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £598 £563
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 163 272
10th Percentile £11.09 £14.05 £11.35
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.61
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.70 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +45.32% +11.99%
75th Percentile £47.50 £45.62 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.60 £62.70
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analyst in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in the North of England

Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -6 99 £475 - 21
Yorkshire -9 77 £475 -5.00% 16
North East +7 11 £375 -22.28% 3
Business Analyst
England

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 61 (32.45%) Requirements Gathering
2 60 (31.91%) Social Skills
3 53 (28.19%) Business Analysis
4 48 (25.53%) Agile
5 43 (22.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (18.62%) Workshop Facilitation
7 31 (16.49%) Degree
7 31 (16.49%) User Stories
8 29 (15.43%) Finance
9 28 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (14.36%) Public Sector
11 24 (12.77%) Waterfall
12 20 (10.64%) Requirements Workshops
13 18 (9.57%) GAP Analysis
14 17 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
15 16 (8.51%) Acceptance Criteria
16 15 (7.98%) JIRA
16 15 (7.98%) Project Management
16 15 (7.98%) Migration
17 14 (7.45%) Data Analysis
18 13 (6.91%) Product Ownership
18 13 (6.91%) Power Platform
18 13 (6.91%) Change Management
18 13 (6.91%) Microsoft
18 13 (6.91%) Scrum
18 13 (6.91%) SDLC
18 13 (6.91%) Power BI
19 12 (6.38%) Target Operating Model
19 12 (6.38%) Use Case
19 12 (6.38%) Data Protection

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (3.19%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) LiveLink
Applications
1 11 (5.85%) MS Visio
2 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.19%) SAP PM
1 6 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 13 (6.91%) Power Platform
2 6 (3.19%) SaaS
3 5 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (1.60%) Azure
4 3 (1.60%) IaaS
5 1 (0.53%) AWS
5 1 (0.53%) Collibra
5 1 (0.53%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) WAN
2 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.91%) Power BI
2 4 (2.13%) Tableau
3 3 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.60%) GIS
4 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.06%) EDRMS
4 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.53%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 15 (7.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.53%) PyCharm
General
1 60 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.43%) Finance
3 27 (14.36%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.38%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.26%) Retail
8 6 (3.19%) Banking
9 4 (2.13%) Legal
10 3 (1.60%) Billing
11 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Games
11 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.06%) Local Government
11 2 (1.06%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Police
12 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.60%) .NET
2 2 (1.06%) JSON
2 2 (1.06%) JSON Schema
3 1 (0.53%) OAuth
3 1 (0.53%) OpenID
3 1 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (2.66%) Industry 4.0
3 5 (2.66%) IoT
3 5 (2.66%) Robotics
4 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.60%) NHS
5 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.53%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.53%) Life Science
6 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.53%) PMI
6 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.53%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Android
1 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (32.45%) Requirements Gathering
2 53 (28.19%) Business Analysis
3 48 (25.53%) Agile
4 43 (22.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (18.62%) Workshop Facilitation
6 31 (16.49%) User Stories
7 28 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (12.77%) Waterfall
9 20 (10.64%) Requirements Workshops
10 18 (9.57%) GAP Analysis
11 16 (8.51%) Acceptance Criteria
12 15 (7.98%) Migration
12 15 (7.98%) Project Management
13 14 (7.45%) Data Analysis
14 13 (6.91%) Change Management
14 13 (6.91%) Scrum
14 13 (6.91%) SDLC
15 12 (6.38%) Data Protection
15 12 (6.38%) Target Operating Model
15 12 (6.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.66%) SQL
2 4 (2.13%) Python
3 3 (1.60%) C#
4 2 (1.06%) Java
4 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 31 (16.49%) Degree
2 8 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.19%) CBAP
4 5 (2.66%) IIBA
5 4 (2.13%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.60%) HNC
7 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) ISEB
8 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.19%) GDPR
1 6 (3.19%) Good Clinical Practice
1 6 (3.19%) GxP
2 5 (2.66%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.66%) QA
3 2 (1.06%) GRC
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (6.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.26%) SAP
3 6 (3.19%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.60%) ESRI
6 2 (1.06%) Capita
6 2 (1.06%) F5
6 2 (1.06%) FNZ
6 2 (1.06%) Workday
7 1 (0.53%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.53%) Brio
7 1 (0.53%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.53%) Google
7 1 (0.53%) Murex
7 1 (0.53%) Pega
7 1 (0.53%) Sage
7 1 (0.53%) Splunk