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 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 266 205
Rank change year-on-year +39 -61 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 451 215 435
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 0.88% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 0.95% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 148 305
10th Percentile £363 £363 £357
25th Percentile £421 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £629 £591 £625
90th Percentile £675 £716 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +4.62% -7.14% +0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 8
10th Percentile £26.11 £22.69 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £25.74 £13.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.45 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% +39.21% -68.46%
75th Percentile £41.94 £28.60 £26.63
90th Percentile - £40.16 £28.43
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.45 £23.00
% change year-on-year +20.98% +15.00% -61.83%

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 37,544 22,663 34,086
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.56% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,357 15,087 22,604
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 922 2,444
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.00 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.90 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.26 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.32% -19.31% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £28.51 £37.34
% change year-on-year +55.24% -23.66% -17.02%

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 11 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Analyst in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Analyst 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 11 May 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 +35 242 £550 +4.76% 84
North of England -14 75 £430 -8.32% 44
South East -25 55 £500 +14.29% 63
Midlands -32 43 £500 - 11
North West -27 29 £410 -12.58% 28
East of England -10 26 £500 +8.11% 10
North East - 24 £425 - 8
Yorkshire -36 23 £493 +3.68% 8
West Midlands -48 22 £475 -5.00% 6
East Midlands - 21 £550 - 4
South West -41 8 £488 +21.88% 8
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 (27.94%) Agile
2 95 (21.06%) User Stories
3 94 (20.84%) Business Analysis
4 90 (19.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 76 (16.85%) Requirements Gathering
6 75 (16.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 68 (15.08%) Security Cleared
8 66 (14.63%) Decision-Making
9 64 (14.19%) Workshop Facilitation
10 59 (13.08%) Degree
11 56 (12.42%) Microsoft
11 56 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (12.20%) Azure
12 55 (12.20%) DevOps
12 55 (12.20%) SQL
13 51 (11.31%) SAP
14 49 (10.86%) Data Modelling
15 47 (10.42%) Acceptance Criteria
15 47 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
16 44 (9.76%) SC Cleared
17 43 (9.53%) Power BI
17 43 (9.53%) Power Platform
17 43 (9.53%) Process Improvement
18 42 (9.31%) QA
19 41 (9.09%) Salesforce
20 40 (8.87%) Migration
21 39 (8.65%) Validation
22 38 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
22 38 (8.43%) JIRA
23 36 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement

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 29 (6.43%) Confluence
2 7 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.67%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.67%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.44%) Appian
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 32 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.66%) MS Visio
3 17 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.77%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.67%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.67%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (0.67%) Endur
4 3 (0.67%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.67%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.44%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.44%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.20%) Azure
2 43 (9.53%) Power Platform
3 20 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (2.44%) AWS
5 9 (2.00%) GCP
5 9 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.00%) SaaS
6 6 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.33%) Google Analytics
7 5 (1.11%) Google Tag Manager
7 5 (1.11%) Lucidchart
8 3 (0.67%) ChatGPT
8 3 (0.67%) GitHub
8 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.44%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.55%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.33%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.11%) DNS
4 4 (0.89%) Broadband
5 3 (0.67%) Firewall
6 2 (0.44%) LAN
6 2 (0.44%) WAN
7 1 (0.22%) FTP
7 1 (0.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.53%) Power BI
2 18 (3.99%) Tableau
3 9 (2.00%) BigQuery
4 8 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.77%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.55%) Looker
6 6 (1.33%) Power Query
7 4 (0.89%) Metadata
8 2 (0.44%) Big Data
8 2 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.44%) GIS
8 2 (0.44%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.22%) MS Access
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (8.43%) JIRA
2 3 (0.67%) GitLab
2 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.44%) MLflow
3 2 (0.44%) Selenium
3 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.22%) Postman
4 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 123 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 116 (25.72%) Finance
3 93 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (11.75%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.76%) Banking
6 17 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (3.10%) Retail
8 13 (2.88%) Front Office
9 11 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.44%) Legal
9 11 (2.44%) Local Government
9 11 (2.44%) Marketing
10 8 (1.77%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.89%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.89%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.77%) FIX Protocol
1 8 (1.77%) Middleware
2 6 (1.33%) ADO
3 4 (0.89%) VML
3 4 (0.89%) XML
4 3 (0.67%) Kafka
4 3 (0.67%) NumPy
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.67%) Pandas
5 2 (0.44%) FHIR
5 2 (0.44%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.44%) Web Services
6 1 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.22%) JSON
6 1 (0.22%) OAuth
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.22%) Playwright
6 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.22%) SAML
6 1 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.66%) Product Ownership
2 18 (3.99%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.33%) PMI
10 5 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.11%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.11%) NHS
11 4 (0.89%) Cyberattack
11 4 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.44%) CSOC
12 2 (0.44%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.10%) Windows
2 8 (1.77%) Linux
3 4 (0.89%) Unix
4 3 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (27.94%) Agile
2 95 (21.06%) User Stories
3 94 (20.84%) Business Analysis
4 90 (19.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 76 (16.85%) Requirements Gathering
6 75 (16.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 66 (14.63%) Decision-Making
8 64 (14.19%) Workshop Facilitation
9 56 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (12.20%) DevOps
11 49 (10.86%) Data Modelling
12 47 (10.42%) Acceptance Criteria
12 47 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
13 43 (9.53%) Process Improvement
14 40 (8.87%) Migration
15 39 (8.65%) Validation
16 38 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (7.98%) Data Analysis
18 34 (7.54%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (12.20%) SQL
2 20 (4.43%) Python
3 6 (1.33%) R
3 6 (1.33%) VBA
4 4 (0.89%) Java
5 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.22%) Korn
6 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.22%) Ruby
6 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (15.08%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.08%) Degree
3 44 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (4.21%) CBAP
6 12 (2.66%) ACCA
6 12 (2.66%) CIMA
7 10 (2.22%) CSPO
7 10 (2.22%) IIBA
8 9 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.77%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.11%) CISSP
11 4 (0.89%) CISM
11 4 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.89%) PMP
12 3 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.44%) APMP
13 2 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.31%) QA
2 24 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.21%) PMO
4 10 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.11%) GDPR
5 5 (1.11%) SLA
6 4 (0.89%) IFRS
7 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) HL7
7 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.44%) P3O
7 2 (0.44%) PERC
8 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.22%) Basel III
8 1 (0.22%) EMIR
8 1 (0.22%) GAAP
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.22%) MiFID
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.11%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.22%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.22%) Grafana
3 1 (0.22%) Kibana
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (12.42%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.31%) SAP
3 41 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 12 (2.66%) Oracle
5 9 (2.00%) Google
6 8 (1.77%) Databricks
6 8 (1.77%) Splunk
6 8 (1.77%) Zuora
7 7 (1.55%) Bloomberg
7 7 (1.55%) Charles River
8 5 (1.11%) Guidewire
8 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.11%) Workday
9 4 (0.89%) Civica
9 4 (0.89%) Refinitiv
10 3 (0.67%) Adobe
10 3 (0.67%) Epicor
10 3 (0.67%) Orchard
10 3 (0.67%) QAD
10 3 (0.67%) Sage