Agile Business Analyst Contracts

Agile Business Analyst (Agile BA)
UK

The median Agile Business Analyst (Agile BA) daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 600 583
Rank change year-on-year +64 -17 -13
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Business Analyst 43 84 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.100% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 60 220
10th Percentile £425 £398 £400
25th Percentile £485 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £613 £600 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Agile Business Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Business Analyst over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile Business Analyst in the UK

Agile Business Analyst
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Business Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +57 33 £575 +4.55%
Work from Home +102 24 £520 -0.95%
London +75 24 £600 +9.09%
UK excluding London +30 12 £500 -
Scotland +36 3 £500 +17.65%
Midlands +27 3 £550 -
North of England +24 3 £520 -5.45%
Yorkshire +18 3 £520 -5.45%
South East +5 3 £500 -4.76%
West Midlands +16 2 £569 -
East Midlands - 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Agile 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 Agile Business Analyst in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Agile
2 23 (53.49%) User Stories
3 19 (44.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (34.88%) Business Analysis
4 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
5 12 (27.91%) Acceptance Criteria
6 11 (25.58%) Requirements Gathering
6 11 (25.58%) Product Ownership
6 11 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (23.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (20.93%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (20.93%) Scrum
9 8 (18.60%) CRM
9 8 (18.60%) Requirements Management
9 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (16.28%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (16.28%) SDLC
10 7 (16.28%) SaaS
10 7 (16.28%) JIRA
11 6 (13.95%) Manufacturing
11 6 (13.95%) PaaS
11 6 (13.95%) AWS
11 6 (13.95%) Business Process Mapping
11 6 (13.95%) Business Case
12 5 (11.63%) Epics
12 5 (11.63%) Business Process Modelling
12 5 (11.63%) Confluence
12 5 (11.63%) Kanban
12 5 (11.63%) Data Migration
12 5 (11.63%) Migration

Agile 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 5 (11.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.33%) SAP PM
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) SaaS
2 6 (13.95%) AWS
2 6 (13.95%) PaaS
3 4 (9.30%) Azure
4 1 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.33%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.33%) Miro
4 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Balsamiq
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (16.28%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (13.95%) Manufacturing
6 4 (9.30%) Marketing
6 4 (9.30%) Retail
7 3 (6.98%) Banking
7 3 (6.98%) Finance
8 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.33%) Automotive
9 1 (2.33%) Back Office
9 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.33%) Legal
9 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.98%) IoT
2 3 (6.98%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.33%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) Online Banking
3 1 (2.33%) PMI
3 1 (2.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Agile
2 23 (53.49%) User Stories
3 19 (44.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (34.88%) Business Analysis
5 12 (27.91%) Acceptance Criteria
6 11 (25.58%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (20.93%) Scrum
7 9 (20.93%) Workshop Facilitation
8 8 (18.60%) CRM
8 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (18.60%) Requirements Management
9 7 (16.28%) SDLC
10 6 (13.95%) Business Case
10 6 (13.95%) Business Process Mapping
11 5 (11.63%) Business Process Modelling
11 5 (11.63%) Data Migration
11 5 (11.63%) Epics
11 5 (11.63%) Kanban
11 5 (11.63%) Migration
12 4 (9.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) CSPO
3 1 (2.33%) CBAP
3 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) SAP
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe
2 1 (2.33%) Google
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft