Senior Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Data Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Data Analyst daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 159
Rank change year-on-year +9 +36 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Analyst 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.22% 0.048% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.051% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £500 - £539
25th Percentile £528 - £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £695
Median % change year-on-year - - +39.00%
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile £655 - -
Central London median daily rate £600 - £695
% change year-on-year - - +39.00%

All DemandTrendContract 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 1,674 1,952 2,959
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 94.35% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 1,262 2,036
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.09% +2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 11
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.87 £14.18
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.88 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -25.00% -13.25%
75th Percentile £53.50 £89.06 £47.41
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.91% -22.86% -15.66%

Senior Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Analyst in the City of London

Senior Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Analyst job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Analyst job vacancies in the City of London

Senior Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Analyst in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, Senior Data 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Workday
3 1 (25.00%) Conceptual Models
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) ER Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Collibra
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Front Office
3 1 (25.00%) Back Office
3 1 (25.00%) Star Schema
3 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Agile

Senior Data 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Collibra
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (25.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ER Studio
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Back Office
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Front Office
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Workday