Senior Business Analyst Contracts

Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA)
UK

The median Senior Business Analyst (Senior BA) daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 435 483
Rank change year-on-year -2 +48 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Business Analyst 166 271 419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.49% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.52% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 195 297
10th Percentile £406 £432 £413
25th Percentile £484 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -3.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £625
90th Percentile £660 £762 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -1.01% +2.25% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £85.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £86.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -27.75% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £87.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Senior Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Business Analyst over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Business Analyst in the UK

Senior Business Analyst
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +25 150 £550 -8.33% 32
London +18 100 £600 -4.00% 19
Work from Home +71 67 £575 - 21
UK excluding London +18 53 £506 -1.01% 12
South East +19 14 £500 -23.08% 4
North of England +11 14 £525 - 2
East of England +11 12 £450 -10.00% 3
North West +7 11 £537 +2.78% 2
Scotland +28 6 £425 -0.23% 1
South West +10 4 £600 +2.13%
Midlands +15 3 £550 - 1
Yorkshire +7 3 £525 -8.70%
West Midlands +5 2 £550 -
East Midlands +12 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Business Analyst in the job title.

1 64 (38.55%) Agile
2 54 (32.53%) Business Analysis
3 53 (31.93%) Social Skills
4 40 (24.10%) Finance
5 37 (22.29%) Public Sector
6 35 (21.08%) User Stories
7 34 (20.48%) Requirements Gathering
8 31 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
9 28 (16.87%) Use Case
10 26 (15.66%) Project Management
11 23 (13.86%) Acceptance Criteria
12 22 (13.25%) Business Case
13 21 (12.65%) Scrum
13 21 (12.65%) Degree
13 21 (12.65%) Security Cleared
14 20 (12.05%) SC Cleared
14 20 (12.05%) Workshop Facilitation
15 19 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (10.84%) Product Ownership
16 18 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (10.24%) Process Improvement
18 16 (9.64%) Azure
18 16 (9.64%) Migration
19 15 (9.04%) CRM
19 15 (9.04%) Waterfall
20 14 (8.43%) Mentoring
20 14 (8.43%) User Acceptance Testing
20 14 (8.43%) Change Management
21 13 (7.83%) GAP Analysis

Senior 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 9 (5.42%) Confluence
2 3 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.61%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Endur
1 2 (1.20%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.60%) Aligne
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.60%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.64%) Azure
2 7 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (3.61%) Miro
3 6 (3.61%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.01%) SaaS
5 2 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.20%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.60%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.01%) NoSQL
1 5 (3.01%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.20%) Power BI
3 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.02%) JIRA
General
1 53 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 40 (24.10%) Finance
3 37 (22.29%) Public Sector
4 28 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (6.63%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.42%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.82%) Banking
9 6 (3.61%) Back Office
9 6 (3.61%) Local Government
10 5 (3.01%) Front Office
11 4 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.81%) Advertising
12 3 (1.81%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.81%) Retail
13 2 (1.20%) Aviation
13 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.20%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.01%) SAP PI
2 2 (1.20%) Web Services
3 1 (0.60%) .NET
3 1 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.60%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.84%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.82%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.82%) Reinsurance
3 5 (3.01%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (1.81%) Derivative
4 3 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.81%) Life Science
4 3 (1.81%) LIMS
4 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.20%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (1.20%) IoT
5 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.20%) Robotics
5 2 (1.20%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (38.55%) Agile
2 54 (32.53%) Business Analysis
3 35 (21.08%) User Stories
4 34 (20.48%) Requirements Gathering
5 31 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (16.87%) Use Case
7 26 (15.66%) Project Management
8 23 (13.86%) Acceptance Criteria
9 22 (13.25%) Business Case
10 21 (12.65%) Scrum
11 20 (12.05%) Workshop Facilitation
12 19 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (10.24%) Process Improvement
14 16 (9.64%) Migration
15 15 (9.04%) CRM
15 15 (9.04%) Waterfall
16 14 (8.43%) Change Management
16 14 (8.43%) Mentoring
16 14 (8.43%) User Acceptance Testing
17 13 (7.83%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.63%) SQL
2 1 (0.60%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (12.65%) Degree
1 21 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.61%) CBAP
5 4 (2.41%) IIBA
5 4 (2.41%) ISEB
6 3 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.60%) CSPO
7 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.61%) QA
2 5 (3.01%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.41%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.20%) SEPA
5 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.60%) EMIR
5 1 (0.60%) MiFID
Vendors
1 11 (6.63%) SAP
2 10 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.42%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.01%) CyberSource
5 3 (1.81%) Oracle
5 3 (1.81%) Pega
6 2 (1.20%) Ariba
6 2 (1.20%) BT
6 2 (1.20%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.60%) Adobe
7 1 (0.60%) Avaya
7 1 (0.60%) Dell
7 1 (0.60%) Genesys
7 1 (0.60%) Google
7 1 (0.60%) Intel
7 1 (0.60%) Peregrine
7 1 (0.60%) Remedy
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.60%) Siemens
7 1 (0.60%) Sitecore