Business Analysis Contracts

Business Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 103 90
Rank change year-on-year -19 -13 +7
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 804 1,342 2,506
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.87% 2.39% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 2.67% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 940 1,819
10th Percentile £375 £400 £398
25th Percentile £430 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £619
90th Percentile £700 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 6
10th Percentile - £35.00 £24.02
25th Percentile £18.35 £47.56 £26.43
Median hourly rate £36.13 £64.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -43.99% +82.98% +10.88%
75th Percentile £81.33 £69.00 £50.63
90th Percentile £84.22 £70.00 £62.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.13 £66.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -45.26% +53.49% +65.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analysis over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England -20 684 £530 -3.64% 284
London -13 412 £550 -8.33% 161
Work from Home +6 323 £538 +2.38% 147
UK excluding London -30 312 £475 - 138
North of England +9 84 £475 -4.04% 32
South East -34 62 £500 +5.26% 26
Scotland -7 58 £450 - 13
North West +9 54 £475 -5.00% 16
Midlands -10 49 £458 -8.50% 31
South West -8 32 £553 -5.56% 21
Yorkshire +12 26 £490 +5.95% 10
East of England -2 26 £425 -12.82% 9
West Midlands -33 26 £475 -6.17% 19
East Midlands +24 23 £450 -4.00% 12
North East +12 3 £370 -7.50% 6
Wales +4 3 £513 +7.89% 4
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 3

Business Analysis
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 31 (3.86%) Confluence
2 13 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.00%) Apache
4 6 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.50%) SAS
6 3 (0.37%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.25%) CMS
7 2 (0.25%) LiveLink
8 1 (0.12%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.12%) Camunda
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 47 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (4.23%) MS Visio
4 22 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.62%) Aligne
3 9 (1.12%) SAP PM
4 6 (0.75%) Endur
4 6 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
4 6 (0.75%) SAP Hybris
5 5 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.50%) Magento
6 4 (0.50%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.50%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.25%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (10.20%) Azure
2 47 (5.85%) Power Platform
3 43 (5.35%) AWS
4 37 (4.60%) SaaS
5 28 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (1.74%) Serverless
9 13 (1.62%) PaaS
10 12 (1.49%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.24%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (0.87%) Adobe Analytics
13 7 (0.87%) Azure Functions
13 7 (0.87%) dbt
13 7 (0.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 6 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
15 5 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.62%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.87%) WAN
2 6 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
2 6 (0.75%) SSH
3 5 (0.62%) SDH
4 4 (0.50%) Junos
5 3 (0.37%) Firewall
5 3 (0.37%) Internet
5 3 (0.37%) PBX
5 3 (0.37%) Skype
5 3 (0.37%) VoIP
6 2 (0.25%) Intranet
6 2 (0.25%) NAS
6 2 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.12%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) MPLS
7 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.85%) Power BI
2 17 (2.11%) Big Data
3 16 (1.99%) Tableau
4 15 (1.87%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.24%) Hadoop
8 7 (0.87%) Apache Hive
8 7 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.87%) SAP HANA
9 6 (0.75%) Apache Arrow
9 6 (0.75%) Dremio
10 5 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.62%) OLTP
11 4 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.50%) Impala
12 3 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.37%) GIS
12 3 (0.37%) Presto
Development Applications
1 61 (7.59%) JIRA
2 10 (1.24%) Git
3 7 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (0.75%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.75%) JUnit
4 6 (0.75%) Visual Studio Team System
5 4 (0.50%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.50%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.25%) Moq
6 2 (0.25%) NUnit
6 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.12%) Balsamiq
General
1 303 (37.69%) Social Skills
2 247 (30.72%) Finance
3 174 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (13.43%) Public Sector
5 78 (9.70%) Banking
6 56 (6.97%) Presentation Skills
7 51 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
8 35 (4.35%) Front Office
8 35 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 31 (3.86%) Investment Banking
10 29 (3.61%) Retail
11 28 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
12 27 (3.36%) Legal
13 22 (2.74%) Telecoms
14 17 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (1.99%) Local Government
16 15 (1.87%) Marketing
17 13 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 10 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
19 9 (1.12%) Police
Job Titles
1 496 (61.69%) Analyst
2 443 (55.10%) Business Analyst
3 79 (9.83%) Senior
4 61 (7.59%) Project Manager
4 61 (7.59%) Senior Analyst
5 54 (6.72%) Senior Business Analyst
6 52 (6.47%) Architect
7 38 (4.73%) Lead
8 37 (4.60%) Financial Analyst
9 34 (4.23%) Developer
10 33 (4.10%) Consultant
11 30 (3.73%) Finance Business Analyst
11 30 (3.73%) IT Analyst
12 28 (3.48%) Business IT Analyst
13 27 (3.36%) IT Business Analyst
14 24 (2.99%) Technical Analyst
14 24 (2.99%) Technical Business Analyst
15 23 (2.86%) SAP Analyst
16 20 (2.49%) Business Systems Analyst
16 20 (2.49%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.49%) XML
2 18 (2.24%) .NET
3 17 (2.11%) Web Services
4 16 (1.99%) JSON
5 9 (1.12%) WPF
6 8 (1.00%) HTML
7 7 (0.87%) CSS
8 6 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (0.75%) Hibernate
8 6 (0.75%) J2EE
8 6 (0.75%) JPA
8 6 (0.75%) REST
8 6 (0.75%) SOAP
8 6 (0.75%) Spring
9 5 (0.62%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.62%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.62%) Kafka
10 4 (0.50%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.50%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (0.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.97%) Product Ownership
2 38 (4.73%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.24%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (1.87%) Derivative
5 15 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.49%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.37%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.24%) IoT
9 10 (1.24%) NHS
9 10 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
10 9 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.12%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.12%) Solar Panel
11 8 (1.00%) CMDB
11 8 (1.00%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.87%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.49%) Unix
2 9 (1.12%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.87%) Linux
4 6 (0.75%) Windows
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (37.56%) Agile
2 190 (23.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 184 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
4 161 (20.02%) Project Management
5 155 (19.28%) User Stories
6 149 (18.53%) Requirements Gathering
7 102 (12.69%) Scrum
8 96 (11.94%) Acceptance Criteria
9 90 (11.19%) Roadmaps
10 88 (10.95%) Change Management
11 84 (10.45%) Workshop Facilitation
12 80 (9.95%) Analytics
13 77 (9.58%) User Acceptance Testing
14 73 (9.08%) Migration
15 70 (8.71%) Data Analysis
16 68 (8.46%) Project Delivery
17 66 (8.21%) Decision-Making
18 65 (8.08%) DevOps
19 61 (7.59%) Business Case
20 60 (7.46%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 77 (9.58%) SQL
2 35 (4.35%) Python
3 23 (2.86%) C#
3 23 (2.86%) Java
4 13 (1.62%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.24%) Perl
6 8 (1.00%) Swift
7 6 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.50%) VBA
9 3 (0.37%) R
10 2 (0.25%) Lua
10 2 (0.25%) PHP
11 1 (0.12%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.12%) Bash
11 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (17.91%) Degree
2 97 (12.06%) Security Cleared
3 80 (9.95%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.49%) CBAP
5 17 (2.11%) IIBA
6 14 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 11 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 8 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.87%) APMP
9 7 (0.87%) CCNP
9 7 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (0.87%) HND
9 7 (0.87%) ISEB
9 7 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.62%) ACCA
11 5 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.09%) QA
2 17 (2.11%) GDPR
2 17 (2.11%) GxP
3 12 (1.49%) Good Clinical Practice
4 11 (1.37%) PMO
5 9 (1.12%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.87%) EMIR
7 7 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.75%) NIST
9 5 (0.62%) MiFID
10 4 (0.50%) P3O
10 4 (0.50%) SEPA
10 4 (0.50%) SLA
11 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.37%) GAAP
11 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (0.62%) HDFS
1 5 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (1.12%) Terraform
2 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 67 (8.33%) SAP
3 31 (3.86%) Oracle
3 31 (3.86%) ServiceNow
4 20 (2.49%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.37%) Adobe
6 10 (1.24%) Cadence
7 9 (1.12%) Bloomberg
8 8 (1.00%) Okta
9 7 (0.87%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.87%) Cisco
9 7 (0.87%) IBM
9 7 (0.87%) Juniper
9 7 (0.87%) Nokia
10 6 (0.75%) Ariba
10 6 (0.75%) Google
10 6 (0.75%) ION Trading
10 6 (0.75%) VMware
11 5 (0.62%) MarketAxess
11 5 (0.62%) Tradeweb