Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 253 204
Rank change year-on-year -11 -49 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 438 277 376
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.00% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.10% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 193 256
10th Percentile £366 £344 £363
25th Percentile £430 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £600
90th Percentile £683 £663 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 10
10th Percentile £27.14 £25.85 £23.23
25th Percentile £29.04 £26.39 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £32.74 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +39.30% -42.74%
75th Percentile - £35.49 £26.88
90th Percentile £32.67 £55.60 £34.83
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £32.74 £23.50
% change year-on-year -2.25% +39.30% -42.74%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 42,268 25,250 30,900
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 91.54% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,556 16,282 20,186
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,197 1,355 1,747
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +7.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% +2.87%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in England

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in England over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in England

Senior Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in England

Senior Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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
London -31 225 £575 +9.52% 208
Midlands +2 59 £525 +10.53% 29
North of England -45 57 £563 +25.00% 66
South East -60 49 £500 - 72
West Midlands -38 33 £475 - 16
East Midlands +10 26 £525 - 13
South West -31 23 £613 +53.13% 16
Yorkshire -36 23 £550 +54.93% 20
East of England -13 21 £370 -20.00% 11
North East -18 21 £575 +10.58% 12
North West -45 14 £436 -8.21% 34
Senior Analyst
UK

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 August 2026, Senior Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 126 (28.77%) Agile
2 107 (24.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 104 (23.74%) Business Analysis
4 82 (18.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 81 (18.49%) Workshop Facilitation
6 79 (18.04%) User Stories
7 70 (15.98%) Decision-Making
7 70 (15.98%) Requirements Gathering
8 64 (14.61%) Microsoft
9 59 (13.47%) Security Cleared
10 58 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (13.01%) Acceptance Criteria
12 56 (12.79%) SQL
13 55 (12.56%) Azure
14 49 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (10.96%) Power Platform
15 48 (10.96%) Process Improvement
15 48 (10.96%) QA
16 47 (10.73%) Analytics
16 47 (10.73%) DevOps
17 46 (10.50%) Power BI
18 45 (10.27%) AI
18 45 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
19 42 (9.59%) Data Analysis
20 39 (8.90%) Degree
21 38 (8.68%) Actionable Insight
22 37 (8.45%) Data Modelling
23 36 (8.22%) SAP
24 35 (7.99%) Python
25 34 (7.76%) User Acceptance Testing

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (5.25%) Confluence
2 6 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.91%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.46%) Appian
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (6.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.20%) MS Visio
3 11 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.37%) Endur
3 6 (1.37%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.14%) Primavera
5 4 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.46%) Dynamics SL
7 2 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.46%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.23%) SAP FS
8 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.56%) Azure
2 48 (10.96%) Power Platform
3 26 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (2.51%) AWS
5 11 (2.51%) Power Automate
5 11 (2.51%) SaaS
6 8 (1.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 7 (1.60%) GCP
8 6 (1.37%) Azure Functions
8 6 (1.37%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 6 (1.37%) Serverless
8 6 (1.37%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.14%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.91%) PaaS
11 3 (0.68%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (0.68%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.68%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.23%) Broadband
2 1 (0.23%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.50%) Power BI
2 22 (5.02%) Tableau
3 12 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.37%) Looker
5 6 (1.37%) Metadata
5 6 (1.37%) Power Query
6 5 (1.14%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.68%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.68%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.46%) Big Data
8 2 (0.46%) GIS
8 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.46%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.23%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 31 (7.08%) JIRA
2 7 (1.60%) Postman
2 7 (1.60%) Selenium
3 6 (1.37%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.37%) Cypress.io
3 6 (1.37%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.68%) GitLab
4 3 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.46%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.46%) MLflow
6 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 123 (28.08%) Social Skills
2 111 (25.34%) Finance
3 100 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (11.42%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.94%) Banking
6 19 (4.34%) Local Government
7 17 (3.88%) Front Office
7 17 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.20%) Marketing
8 14 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (3.20%) Retail
9 13 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.28%) Legal
11 9 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.60%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.37%) Advertising
13 6 (1.37%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.91%) Billing
14 4 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.37%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.91%) ADO
2 4 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.91%) VML
3 3 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.68%) NumPy
3 3 (0.68%) Pandas
3 3 (0.68%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.46%) HTML
4 2 (0.46%) JSON
4 2 (0.46%) OAuth
4 2 (0.46%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.46%) SAML
4 2 (0.46%) Swagger
5 1 (0.23%) Django
5 1 (0.23%) OpenID
5 1 (0.23%) REST
5 1 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.23%) SOAP
5 1 (0.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.39%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.88%) Onboarding
3 13 (2.97%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.97%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (2.05%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.14%) Reference Data
8 4 (0.91%) FMCG
8 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.91%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.68%) CSOC
9 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.68%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.68%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.46%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.28%) Windows
2 6 (1.37%) Linux
3 2 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (28.77%) Agile
2 107 (24.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 104 (23.74%) Business Analysis
4 82 (18.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 81 (18.49%) Workshop Facilitation
6 79 (18.04%) User Stories
7 70 (15.98%) Decision-Making
7 70 (15.98%) Requirements Gathering
8 58 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (13.01%) Acceptance Criteria
10 49 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (10.96%) Process Improvement
12 47 (10.73%) Analytics
12 47 (10.73%) DevOps
13 45 (10.27%) AI
13 45 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
14 42 (9.59%) Data Analysis
15 38 (8.68%) Actionable Insight
16 37 (8.45%) Data Modelling
17 34 (7.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (12.79%) SQL
2 35 (7.99%) Python
3 10 (2.28%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.83%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.60%) R
6 6 (1.37%) C#
7 5 (1.14%) Bash
7 5 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.14%) Perl
8 4 (0.91%) Java
9 3 (0.68%) VBA
10 2 (0.46%) Korn
10 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.23%) C++
11 1 (0.23%) LookML
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (13.47%) Security Cleared
2 39 (8.90%) Degree
3 33 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.51%) ACCA
6 11 (2.51%) CIMA
7 9 (2.05%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.60%) CISSP
8 7 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (1.14%) CSPO
9 5 (1.14%) ISEB
10 4 (0.91%) CBAP
10 4 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.68%) IIBA
11 3 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.96%) QA
2 28 (6.39%) Data Quality
3 25 (5.71%) PMO
4 14 (3.20%) GDPR
5 13 (2.97%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.60%) NIST
8 6 (1.37%) WCAG
9 4 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.68%) P3O
10 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.46%) GRC
11 2 (0.46%) SLA
12 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.23%) EMIR
12 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.23%) IFRS
12 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.23%) MiFID
12 1 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (1.14%) Docker
2 4 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 64 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.22%) SAP
3 29 (6.62%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.20%) Oracle
5 10 (2.28%) Workday
6 9 (2.05%) Databricks
6 9 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.83%) Google
8 6 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.14%) Amplitude
10 4 (0.91%) Civica
10 4 (0.91%) Clearswift
10 4 (0.91%) Orchard
10 4 (0.91%) Qualys
10 4 (0.91%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.91%) Splunk
10 4 (0.91%) Tanium
10 4 (0.91%) Tripwire
11 3 (0.68%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.68%) Trend Micro