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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 99 90
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 804 1,384 2,528
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 2.42% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.69% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 971 1,826
10th Percentile £375 £400 £394
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £800 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 6
10th Percentile - £35.00 £24.02
25th Percentile £18.35 £47.56 £28.44
Median hourly rate £36.13 £64.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.99% +65.38% +47.28%
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% +79.17%

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Top 16 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 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
England -26 677 £525 -4.55% 306
London -18 398 £555 -7.58% 149
Work from Home +12 328 £538 +2.38% 131
UK excluding London -33 321 £475 -1.04% 181
North of England +9 86 £475 -5.00% 49
South East -28 66 £500 +5.26% 42
Scotland +1 62 £450 +3.15% 12
North West +3 56 £475 -4.04% 27
Midlands -21 49 £458 -8.50% 36
South West -11 32 £553 +0.45% 28
East of England +3 27 £426 -14.75% 9
Yorkshire +5 26 £490 -2.00% 17
West Midlands -29 26 £475 -6.17% 25
East Midlands +29 23 £450 -2.70% 11
North East +14 3 £370 -7.50% 5
Wales +7 3 £513 +7.89% 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 6 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.50%) Apache
4 4 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.37%) CMS
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.12%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (4.60%) MS Visio
3 23 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.62%) Aligne
3 10 (1.24%) SAP PM
4 8 (1.00%) Endur
5 7 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.75%) Magento
6 6 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (0.75%) SAP Hybris
7 4 (0.50%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.50%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.37%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (10.07%) Azure
2 44 (5.47%) Power Platform
3 42 (5.22%) AWS
4 37 (4.60%) SaaS
5 30 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (1.99%) 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 8 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (0.87%) Adobe Analytics
14 7 (0.87%) Azure Functions
14 7 (0.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 6 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
16 5 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (0.62%) Azure Key Vault
16 5 (0.62%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.87%) WAN
2 6 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (0.62%) SDH
3 5 (0.62%) SSH
4 4 (0.50%) Junos
5 3 (0.37%) Firewall
5 3 (0.37%) Internet
5 3 (0.37%) Intranet
5 3 (0.37%) PBX
5 3 (0.37%) Skype
5 3 (0.37%) VoIP
6 2 (0.25%) NAS
6 2 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.12%) DKIM
7 1 (0.12%) DMARC
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 36 (4.48%) Power BI
2 15 (1.87%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.62%) Big Data
3 13 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 11 (1.37%) SAP HANA
6 10 (1.24%) Tableau
7 7 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.87%) Hadoop
7 7 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.62%) OLTP
9 4 (0.50%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.50%) Impala
10 3 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.37%) GIS
10 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.37%) Presto
10 3 (0.37%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 60 (7.46%) JIRA
2 7 (0.87%) Git
2 7 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (0.75%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (0.62%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.62%) JUnit
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
7 1 (0.12%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 308 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 243 (30.22%) Finance
3 174 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (13.18%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.83%) Banking
6 57 (7.09%) Presentation Skills
7 48 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
8 36 (4.48%) Manufacturing
9 31 (3.86%) Retail
10 30 (3.73%) Front Office
11 28 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
12 27 (3.36%) Investment Banking
12 27 (3.36%) Legal
13 22 (2.74%) Telecoms
14 18 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (1.99%) Local Government
15 16 (1.99%) Marketing
16 12 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.49%) Law
17 11 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 494 (61.44%) Analyst
2 441 (54.85%) Business Analyst
3 76 (9.45%) Senior
4 69 (8.58%) Project Manager
5 60 (7.46%) Senior Analyst
6 53 (6.59%) Architect
6 53 (6.59%) Senior Business Analyst
7 37 (4.60%) Lead
8 36 (4.48%) Financial Analyst
9 34 (4.23%) Consultant
10 32 (3.98%) Developer
11 29 (3.61%) IT Analyst
12 28 (3.48%) Technical Analyst
12 28 (3.48%) Technical Business Analyst
13 27 (3.36%) Business IT Analyst
13 27 (3.36%) Finance Business Analyst
14 26 (3.23%) IT Business Analyst
15 24 (2.99%) SAP Analyst
16 20 (2.49%) Data Business Analyst
17 19 (2.36%) Business Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.49%) XML
2 18 (2.24%) .NET
3 16 (1.99%) Web Services
4 15 (1.87%) JSON
5 9 (1.12%) HTML
5 9 (1.12%) WPF
6 8 (1.00%) CSS
7 6 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.62%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.62%) ARM Templates
8 5 (0.62%) Hibernate
8 5 (0.62%) J2EE
8 5 (0.62%) JPA
8 5 (0.62%) Kafka
8 5 (0.62%) REST
8 5 (0.62%) SOAP
8 5 (0.62%) Spring
9 4 (0.50%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (0.50%) PySpark
9 4 (0.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.59%) Product Ownership
2 44 (5.47%) Management Information System
3 19 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (1.87%) Onboarding
4 15 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.49%) Virtual Team
6 10 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.24%) Derivative
6 10 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (1.24%) IoT
7 9 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
7 9 (1.12%) Solar Panel
8 8 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.00%) CMDB
8 8 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.00%) NHS
8 8 (1.00%) Reinsurance
9 7 (0.87%) Fixed Income
9 7 (0.87%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.37%) Unix
2 9 (1.12%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.75%) Linux
3 6 (0.75%) Windows
4 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (36.69%) Agile
2 188 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 187 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 168 (20.90%) Project Management
5 153 (19.03%) User Stories
6 149 (18.53%) Requirements Gathering
7 106 (13.18%) Scrum
8 93 (11.57%) Acceptance Criteria
9 91 (11.32%) Change Management
10 87 (10.82%) Roadmaps
11 76 (9.45%) Data Analysis
11 76 (9.45%) Project Delivery
12 75 (9.33%) Workshop Facilitation
13 72 (8.96%) Analytics
14 71 (8.83%) Migration
14 71 (8.83%) User Acceptance Testing
15 66 (8.21%) Business Case
15 66 (8.21%) DevOps
16 64 (7.96%) Decision-Making
17 61 (7.59%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 69 (8.58%) SQL
2 27 (3.36%) Python
3 23 (2.86%) C#
3 23 (2.86%) Java
4 14 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.12%) Perl
6 8 (1.00%) Swift
7 6 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.50%) VBA
9 2 (0.25%) Lua
9 2 (0.25%) PHP
10 1 (0.12%) Bash
10 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 138 (17.16%) Degree
2 92 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 74 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.36%) CBAP
5 16 (1.99%) IIBA
6 14 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.37%) APMP
7 11 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 10 (1.24%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.87%) CCNP
10 7 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.87%) HND
10 7 (0.87%) ISEB
10 7 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.62%) ACCA
12 5 (0.62%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.09%) QA
2 18 (2.24%) GDPR
3 17 (2.11%) GxP
4 12 (1.49%) Good Clinical Practice
5 11 (1.37%) PMO
6 9 (1.12%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.75%) EMIR
9 6 (0.75%) NIST
10 5 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.50%) MiFID
11 4 (0.50%) P3O
11 4 (0.50%) SEPA
11 4 (0.50%) SLA
12 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.37%) GAAP
12 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) HDFS
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 99 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.71%) SAP
3 34 (4.23%) Oracle
4 31 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 16 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.37%) Adobe
7 9 (1.12%) Bloomberg
7 9 (1.12%) Cadence
8 8 (1.00%) Cisco
8 8 (1.00%) Okta
9 7 (0.87%) IBM
9 7 (0.87%) Juniper
9 7 (0.87%) Nokia
10 6 (0.75%) Google
10 6 (0.75%) ION Trading
10 6 (0.75%) VMware
11 5 (0.62%) Ariba
11 5 (0.62%) Hyperion
11 5 (0.62%) MarketAxess
11 5 (0.62%) Tradeweb