Senior Analyst Contracts in Central London

Senior Analyst
London > Central London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in Central London is £593, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 101 130
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 34 34 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.70% 1.39% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 1.46% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 25
10th Percentile £387 £394 £275
25th Percentile £481 £411 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £486 £465
Median % change year-on-year +21.91% +4.52% -9.71%
75th Percentile £694 £675 £644
90th Percentile £788 £750 £860
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,853 2,328 3,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.37% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,660 2,513
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 31 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £40.00 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.33 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.82% -21.43% -

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Senior Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in Central London

Senior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Analyst in Central London

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in Central London

Senior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Analyst in Central London

Senior Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Analyst within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
City of London +12 32 £600 -5.88% 11
Senior Analyst
London

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior 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 Central London region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 16 (47.06%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 10 (29.41%) SQL
4 8 (23.53%) Data Analysis
4 8 (23.53%) Business Analysis
5 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.71%) Process Improvement
6 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
6 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (14.71%) Python
6 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
6 5 (14.71%) Banking
7 4 (11.76%) Agile
7 4 (11.76%) Asset Management
7 4 (11.76%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (11.76%) Data Governance
7 4 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
8 3 (8.82%) Portfolio Management
8 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
8 3 (8.82%) FpML
8 3 (8.82%) Migration
8 3 (8.82%) Front Office
8 3 (8.82%) Back Office
8 3 (8.82%) Project Management
8 3 (8.82%) Workflow

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
1 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
2 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.94%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.94%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.94%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.94%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.88%) Azure
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
2 1 (2.94%) AWS
2 1 (2.94%) Collibra
2 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
2 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Intranet
2 1 (2.94%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (2.94%) Tableau
2 1 (2.94%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 16 (47.06%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Banking
4 3 (8.82%) Back Office
4 3 (8.82%) Front Office
4 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Law
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Local Government
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) FpML
2 2 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.88%) Equities
2 2 (5.88%) Fixed Income
2 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Derivative
3 1 (2.94%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) PMI
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
1 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Business Analysis
1 8 (23.53%) Data Analysis
2 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
3 5 (14.71%) Process Improvement
3 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (11.76%) Agile
4 4 (11.76%) Asset Management
4 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (11.76%) Data Governance
4 4 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (8.82%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (8.82%) Data Management
5 3 (8.82%) Data Mapping
5 3 (8.82%) Investment Management
5 3 (8.82%) Migration
5 3 (8.82%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (8.82%) Project Management
5 3 (8.82%) Workflow
6 2 (5.88%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) CFA
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) ACCA
3 1 (2.94%) CBAP
3 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.82%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) SCCM
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Bloomberg
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) SAP
2 2 (5.88%) Trayport
2 2 (5.88%) Workday
3 1 (2.94%) Adobe
3 1 (2.94%) Commvault
3 1 (2.94%) Informatica
3 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.94%) VMware