Senior Analyst Contracts in the City of London

Senior Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 101 139
Rank change year-on-year +10 +38 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 32 26 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.82% 1.19% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 1.25% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 20
10th Percentile £438 £375 £258
25th Percentile £513 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.38% +12.98%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £645
90th Percentile £788 £835 £841
Central London median daily rate £593 £486 £495
% change year-on-year +21.91% -1.82% -3.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,084 3,467
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 95.07% 95.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 1,480 2,358
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £561 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% -6.46% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.38% +4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.67%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in the City of London

Senior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Analyst in the City of London

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in the City of London

Senior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Analyst in the City of London

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 3 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 City of London region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 16 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (28.13%) SQL
4 8 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 8 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.63%) Process Improvement
6 5 (15.63%) Data Quality
6 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (15.63%) Python
6 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
6 5 (15.63%) Banking
7 4 (12.50%) Asset Management
7 4 (12.50%) Agile
7 4 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (12.50%) Data Governance
7 4 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (9.38%) FpML
8 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
8 3 (9.38%) Migration
8 3 (9.38%) Workflow
8 3 (9.38%) Front Office
8 3 (9.38%) Back Office
8 3 (9.38%) Project Management
8 3 (9.38%) Portfolio Management
8 3 (9.38%) Investment Management

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Workday HCM
2 1 (3.13%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.13%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.13%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.13%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) Azure
2 1 (3.13%) Collibra
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
2 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Metadata
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (3.13%) Tableau
2 1 (3.13%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 16 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Back Office
4 3 (9.38%) Front Office
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) FpML
2 2 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (6.25%) Equities
2 2 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Derivative
3 1 (3.13%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) PMI
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Business Analysis
1 8 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
3 5 (15.63%) Process Improvement
3 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (12.50%) Agile
4 4 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 4 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (9.38%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (9.38%) Data Management
5 3 (9.38%) Data Mapping
5 3 (9.38%) Investment Management
5 3 (9.38%) Migration
5 3 (9.38%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (9.38%) Project Management
5 3 (9.38%) Workflow
6 2 (6.25%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) VBA
4 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) CFA
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) ACCA
3 1 (3.13%) CBAP
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Bloomberg
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) SAP
2 2 (6.25%) Trayport
2 2 (6.25%) Workday
3 1 (3.13%) Adobe
3 1 (3.13%) Commvault
3 1 (3.13%) Informatica
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.13%) VMware