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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 31 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Business Analyst 190 312 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.12% 5.54% 5.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.42% 5.81% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 248 309
10th Percentile £362 £363 £350
25th Percentile £405 £418 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +5.69%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £520
90th Percentile £588 £629 £568
England median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +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% +0.18%
75th Percentile - - £22.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £60.25 £26.14
% change year-on-year -62.66% +130.53% -28.40%

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 4,298 5,373 6,936
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 95.47% 96.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,705 3,761 5,082
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £388 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £688 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 158 292
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.18 £11.21
25th Percentile £12.53 £17.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £29.65 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -29.95% +55.68% +7.18%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.30 £33.96
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.21 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

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 20 May 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 20 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
North West -9 102 £475 - 28
Yorkshire -12 77 £475 -5.00% 26
North East +8 10 £425 -14.14% 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 20 May 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 66 (34.74%) Requirements Gathering
2 64 (33.68%) Social Skills
3 56 (29.47%) Business Analysis
4 53 (27.89%) Agile
5 43 (22.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 34 (17.89%) User Stories
6 34 (17.89%) Workshop Facilitation
7 32 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (16.84%) Degree
8 30 (15.79%) Finance
9 26 (13.68%) Waterfall
10 25 (13.16%) Public Sector
11 24 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (10.53%) Requirements Workshops
13 17 (8.95%) Acceptance Criteria
14 16 (8.42%) GAP Analysis
14 16 (8.42%) Project Management
14 16 (8.42%) Scrum
15 14 (7.37%) Data Analysis
15 14 (7.37%) Microsoft
15 14 (7.37%) SDLC
15 14 (7.37%) JIRA
15 14 (7.37%) Use Case
16 13 (6.84%) Product Ownership
16 13 (6.84%) Power Platform
16 13 (6.84%) User Acceptance Testing
16 13 (6.84%) Power BI
16 13 (6.84%) ERP
16 13 (6.84%) MS Visio
16 13 (6.84%) Change Management

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 (3.16%) Confluence
2 3 (1.58%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) LiveLink
Applications
1 13 (6.84%) MS Visio
2 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.68%) SAP PM
3 4 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 13 (6.84%) Power Platform
2 6 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (3.16%) SaaS
3 5 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.58%) IaaS
5 1 (0.53%) AWS
5 1 (0.53%) Azure
5 1 (0.53%) Collibra
5 1 (0.53%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.58%) WAN
2 1 (0.53%) Internet
2 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.84%) Power BI
2 4 (2.11%) Tableau
3 3 (1.58%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.58%) GIS
4 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.05%) EDRMS
4 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.53%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (7.37%) JIRA
2 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.53%) PyCharm
2 1 (0.53%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 64 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.79%) Finance
3 25 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.32%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.21%) Retail
8 7 (3.68%) Banking
8 7 (3.68%) Legal
9 3 (1.58%) Billing
9 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Games
10 2 (1.05%) Local Government
10 2 (1.05%) Marketing
10 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.58%) .NET
2 1 (0.53%) OAuth
2 1 (0.53%) OpenID
2 1 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (2.63%) Industry 4.0
3 5 (2.63%) IoT
3 5 (2.63%) Robotics
4 3 (1.58%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.05%) NHS
5 2 (1.05%) Tandem
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%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.53%) Life Science
6 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.53%) PMI
6 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.53%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (34.74%) Requirements Gathering
2 56 (29.47%) Business Analysis
3 53 (27.89%) Agile
4 43 (22.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (17.89%) User Stories
5 34 (17.89%) Workshop Facilitation
6 32 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (13.68%) Waterfall
8 20 (10.53%) Requirements Workshops
9 17 (8.95%) Acceptance Criteria
10 16 (8.42%) GAP Analysis
10 16 (8.42%) Project Management
10 16 (8.42%) Scrum
11 14 (7.37%) Data Analysis
11 14 (7.37%) SDLC
11 14 (7.37%) Use Case
12 13 (6.84%) Change Management
12 13 (6.84%) ERP
12 13 (6.84%) User Acceptance Testing
13 12 (6.32%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.11%) Python
2 3 (1.58%) C#
2 3 (1.58%) SQL
3 2 (1.05%) Java
3 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 32 (16.84%) Degree
2 9 (4.74%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.16%) CBAP
4 5 (2.63%) IIBA
4 5 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.58%) HNC
7 2 (1.05%) ISEB
8 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.68%) GDPR
2 6 (3.16%) Good Clinical Practice
2 6 (3.16%) GxP
3 5 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.63%) QA
4 2 (1.05%) GRC
5 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (1.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (7.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.26%) SAP
3 6 (3.16%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.58%) ESRI
6 2 (1.05%) Capita
6 2 (1.05%) FNZ
6 2 (1.05%) Workday
7 1 (0.53%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.53%) F5
7 1 (0.53%) Pega
7 1 (0.53%) Sage
7 1 (0.53%) Splunk