Business Analyst Contracts in the East of England

Business Analyst (BA)
England > East of England

The median Business Analyst (BA) daily rate in the East of England is £425 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 63 57 40
Rank change year-on-year -6 -17 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 50 62 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.58% 3.18% 5.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.92% 3.48% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 46 90
10th Percentile £350 £353 £324
25th Percentile £405 £414 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £498 £521 £525
90th Percentile £569 £572 £539
England median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
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
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East 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 East of England with a recognized job title 1,714 1,782 2,357
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.58% 91.38% 92.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 1,097 1,409
10th Percentile £206 £190 £181
25th Percentile £306 £315 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £650 £700 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 254 349
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £44.08 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% +175.50% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.18 £60.00
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 East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analyst in the East of England

Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analyst in the East of England

Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Analyst in the East of England

Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analyst in the East of England

Business Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East 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
Cambridgeshire 0 20 £410 -6.82% 2
Essex +14 12 £375 -16.67% 3
Hertfordshire -8 11 £450 -10.00%
Bedfordshire -4 4 £518 +6.15% 1
Norfolk +5 1 £425 -26.09%
Business Analyst
England

Business Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 East of England region featuring Business Analyst in the job title.

1 19 (38.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 18 (36.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (30.00%) Business Analysis
4 13 (26.00%) Manufacturing
4 13 (26.00%) Good Clinical Practice
4 13 (26.00%) GxP
4 13 (26.00%) Six Sigma
4 13 (26.00%) Lean Six Sigma
4 13 (26.00%) Data Governance
4 13 (26.00%) GDPR
5 12 (24.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 10 (20.00%) Local Government
6 10 (20.00%) Degree
6 10 (20.00%) CRM
7 9 (18.00%) JIRA
8 8 (16.00%) Workflow
8 8 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
8 8 (16.00%) Data Protection
8 8 (16.00%) Business Case
8 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
9 7 (14.00%) Business Process Modelling
9 7 (14.00%) Power Platform
9 7 (14.00%) Product Ownership
9 7 (14.00%) IIBA
9 7 (14.00%) Requirements Engineering
9 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Analysis
9 7 (14.00%) Power BI
9 7 (14.00%) Service Delivery
10 6 (12.00%) Agile
10 6 (12.00%) Java

Business Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.00%) SAP BPC
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (12.00%) Collibra
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
4 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.00%) Azure
5 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.00%) OCI
6 1 (2.00%) Bloomreach
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Power BI
2 6 (12.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) JIRA
2 6 (12.00%) Eclipse
2 6 (12.00%) PyCharm
General
1 19 (38.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 13 (26.00%) Manufacturing
3 10 (20.00%) Local Government
4 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (10.00%) Finance
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.00%) Life Science
2 4 (8.00%) LIMS
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) Housing Association
3 1 (2.00%) IoT
3 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (30.00%) Business Analysis
3 13 (26.00%) Data Governance
3 13 (26.00%) Lean Six Sigma
3 13 (26.00%) Six Sigma
4 12 (24.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 10 (20.00%) CRM
6 8 (16.00%) Business Case
6 8 (16.00%) Data Protection
6 8 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
6 8 (16.00%) Workflow
7 7 (14.00%) Business Process Modelling
7 7 (14.00%) Requirements Engineering
7 7 (14.00%) Service Delivery
7 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Analysis
8 6 (12.00%) Agile
8 6 (12.00%) Decision-Making
8 6 (12.00%) Project Management
9 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (8.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) Groovy
1 6 (12.00%) Java
1 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (12.00%) Python
2 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (14.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.00%) GDPR
1 13 (26.00%) Good Clinical Practice
1 13 (26.00%) GxP
2 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Optimizely
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle
2 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.00%) Ariba
3 1 (2.00%) Avaya
3 1 (2.00%) Genesys
3 1 (2.00%) Hyperion
3 1 (2.00%) Peregrine
3 1 (2.00%) Remedy
3 1 (2.00%) SAP
3 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.00%) Siemens