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 12 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
12 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 246 222
Rank change year-on-year -13 -24 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 436 286 372
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.03% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.13% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 198 253
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £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 £675 £666 £638
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 42,165 25,369 30,950
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.65% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,544 16,436 20,307
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £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 3,170 1,324 1,794
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.52 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.47 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.45% -43.94% +8.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.99% -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 12 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 12 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 -40 223 £575 +8.49% 270
Midlands -9 59 £525 +10.53% 30
North of England -38 58 £550 +22.22% 71
South East -55 50 £500 - 69
West Midlands -28 34 £475 - 23
East Midlands +17 25 £525 - 7
Yorkshire -35 23 £550 +50.68% 20
South West -30 22 £613 +53.13% 20
East of England -4 21 £370 -20.00% 8
North East -23 20 £575 +10.58% 13
North West -38 16 £436 -8.21% 39
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 123 (28.21%) Agile
2 105 (24.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 101 (23.17%) Business Analysis
4 82 (18.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 78 (17.89%) Workshop Facilitation
6 77 (17.66%) User Stories
7 70 (16.06%) Requirements Gathering
8 66 (15.14%) Decision-Making
8 66 (15.14%) Microsoft
9 57 (13.07%) Security Cleared
10 56 (12.84%) Azure
10 56 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 54 (12.39%) Acceptance Criteria
11 54 (12.39%) SQL
12 48 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (10.78%) DevOps
13 47 (10.78%) Power Platform
14 46 (10.55%) Process Improvement
14 46 (10.55%) QA
15 45 (10.32%) Analytics
15 45 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
15 45 (10.32%) Power BI
16 43 (9.86%) AI
17 42 (9.63%) Data Analysis
18 39 (8.94%) Actionable Insight
18 39 (8.94%) Data Modelling
19 38 (8.72%) Degree
19 38 (8.72%) SAP
20 35 (8.03%) User Acceptance Testing
21 33 (7.57%) Python

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 (5.28%) Confluence
2 6 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.92%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.69%) 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 30 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.21%) MS Visio
3 11 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.38%) Endur
3 6 (1.38%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.15%) Primavera
5 4 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.69%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.69%) Dynamics SL
6 3 (0.69%) Infor CloudSuite
6 3 (0.69%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.69%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
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 56 (12.84%) Azure
2 47 (10.78%) Power Platform
3 26 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (2.52%) AWS
6 10 (2.29%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.06%) SaaS
8 7 (1.61%) GCP
8 7 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 6 (1.38%) Azure Functions
9 6 (1.38%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.38%) Serverless
9 6 (1.38%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (0.92%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.69%) GitHub
12 3 (0.69%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.69%) PaaS
13 2 (0.46%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.32%) Power BI
2 22 (5.05%) Tableau
3 12 (2.75%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.61%) Power Query
6 6 (1.38%) Metadata
7 4 (0.92%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.92%) Looker
8 3 (0.69%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.69%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.46%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.46%) Big Data
9 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.23%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.23%) Parquet
10 1 (0.23%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.23%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 31 (7.11%) JIRA
2 8 (1.83%) Postman
3 7 (1.61%) Selenium
4 6 (1.38%) Cucumber
4 6 (1.38%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.38%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.69%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.46%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.46%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 126 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 113 (25.92%) Finance
3 99 (22.71%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.19%) Banking
6 18 (4.13%) Front Office
6 18 (4.13%) Local Government
7 16 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (3.67%) Retail
8 14 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.98%) Marketing
10 12 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.29%) Legal
13 9 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.83%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.38%) Advertising
15 6 (1.38%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.38%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.92%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.38%) Gherkin
2 5 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.92%) ADO
3 4 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (0.92%) VML
4 3 (0.69%) JSON
4 3 (0.69%) NumPy
4 3 (0.69%) Pandas
4 3 (0.69%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.46%) OAuth
5 2 (0.46%) OpenAPI
5 2 (0.46%) SAML
5 2 (0.46%) Swagger
6 1 (0.23%) Django
6 1 (0.23%) HTML
6 1 (0.23%) OpenID
6 1 (0.23%) REST
6 1 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.23%) SOAP
6 1 (0.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.73%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.75%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.75%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (2.06%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (2.06%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.15%) Reference Data
8 4 (0.92%) FMCG
8 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.92%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.69%) CSOC
9 3 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.69%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.29%) Windows
2 6 (1.38%) 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
1 123 (28.21%) Agile
2 105 (24.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 101 (23.17%) Business Analysis
4 82 (18.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 78 (17.89%) Workshop Facilitation
6 77 (17.66%) User Stories
7 70 (16.06%) Requirements Gathering
8 66 (15.14%) Decision-Making
9 56 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (12.39%) Acceptance Criteria
11 48 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (10.78%) DevOps
13 46 (10.55%) Process Improvement
14 45 (10.32%) Analytics
14 45 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
15 43 (9.86%) AI
16 42 (9.63%) Data Analysis
17 39 (8.94%) Actionable Insight
17 39 (8.94%) Data Modelling
18 35 (8.03%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (12.39%) SQL
2 33 (7.57%) Python
3 9 (2.06%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.61%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.61%) R
5 6 (1.38%) C#
6 5 (1.15%) Bash
6 5 (1.15%) Perl
7 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.92%) Java
8 3 (0.69%) VBA
9 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.23%) C++
10 1 (0.23%) Korn
10 1 (0.23%) LookML
10 1 (0.23%) Ruby
10 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 38 (8.72%) Degree
3 31 (7.11%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.98%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.52%) ACCA
6 11 (2.52%) CIMA
7 9 (2.06%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.61%) CISSP
8 7 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.15%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (1.15%) CSPO
9 5 (1.15%) ISEB
10 4 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.69%) OSCP
11 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.55%) QA
2 29 (6.65%) Data Quality
3 28 (6.42%) PMO
4 15 (3.44%) GDPR
5 12 (2.75%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.61%) NIST
8 6 (1.38%) WCAG
9 4 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.69%) P3O
10 3 (0.69%) 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 (1.15%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 66 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.72%) SAP
3 30 (6.88%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.67%) Oracle
5 11 (2.52%) Workday
6 9 (2.06%) Databricks
6 9 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.61%) Google
8 6 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.92%) Civica
9 4 (0.92%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.92%) IFS
9 4 (0.92%) Orchard
9 4 (0.92%) Qualys
9 4 (0.92%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.92%) Splunk
9 4 (0.92%) Tanium
9 4 (0.92%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.69%) Infor
10 3 (0.69%) Trend Micro
439 Senior Analyst jobs in England