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 22 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
22 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 258 211
Rank change year-on-year +13 -47 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 436 237 430
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.95% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.03% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 163 294
10th Percentile £370 £357 £358
25th Percentile £422 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £625 £584 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £660
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 14
10th Percentile £28.29 £23.31 £13.50
25th Percentile £30.70 £26.03 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.53 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.13% -42.74%
75th Percentile £35.05 £30.20 £25.81
90th Percentile £41.94 £41.74 £30.33
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.53 £23.50
% change year-on-year +16.26% +17.13% -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 39,986 23,027 34,993
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.23% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,604 15,125 22,795
10th Percentile £325 £293 £290
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.30% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,824 1,039 2,704
10th Percentile £15.95 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -10.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.42
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.36 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.36% -27.03% -14.77%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -7 226 £550 +4.76% 73
North of England -32 63 £450 -3.33% 30
South East -30 55 £500 +6.67% 69
Midlands -20 49 £500 - 13
North West -23 27 £418 -8.44% 26
West Midlands -46 26 £475 -5.00% 9
East of England -5 23 £500 +8.11% 13
East Midlands - 23 £500 - 4
North East - 19 £575 - 2
Yorkshire -45 18 £480 -1.54% 2
South West -31 15 £558 +39.38% 18
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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.

1 118 (27.06%) Agile
2 96 (22.02%) Business Analysis
3 88 (20.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 82 (18.81%) User Stories
5 77 (17.66%) Requirements Gathering
6 75 (17.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 66 (15.14%) Decision-Making
8 64 (14.68%) Microsoft
8 64 (14.68%) Workshop Facilitation
9 63 (14.45%) Security Cleared
10 57 (13.07%) Degree
11 52 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (11.70%) DevOps
13 50 (11.47%) SAP
14 49 (11.24%) Azure
14 49 (11.24%) SQL
15 47 (10.78%) Data Modelling
16 46 (10.55%) Acceptance Criteria
16 46 (10.55%) Actionable Insight
17 44 (10.09%) QA
18 38 (8.72%) Power Platform
18 38 (8.72%) Validation
19 37 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
19 37 (8.49%) SC Cleared
20 36 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
20 36 (8.26%) Power BI
20 36 (8.26%) Process Improvement
20 36 (8.26%) Salesforce
21 35 (8.03%) Migration
22 34 (7.80%) Data Analysis

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 4 (0.92%) OpenEdge
2 4 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.69%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.46%) Appian
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 29 (6.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.67%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (4.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.38%) Endur
3 4 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.92%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.69%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.69%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (0.69%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.69%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.46%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.46%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 49 (11.24%) Azure
2 38 (8.72%) Power Platform
3 15 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (1.83%) AWS
5 7 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.15%) GCP
6 5 (1.15%) SaaS
7 4 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.69%) GitHub
8 3 (0.69%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.69%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.46%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.46%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.46%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.38%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.46%) DNS
4 2 (0.46%) Firewall
5 1 (0.23%) Broadband
5 1 (0.23%) LAN
5 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.26%) Power BI
2 19 (4.36%) Tableau
3 9 (2.06%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.83%) Power Query
5 5 (1.15%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.15%) Metadata
6 4 (0.92%) Looker
7 3 (0.69%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.46%) Big Data
8 2 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.46%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.23%) Essbase
9 1 (0.23%) GIS
9 1 (0.23%) MS Access
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (6.88%) JIRA
2 3 (0.69%) GitLab
2 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.69%) Postman
2 3 (0.69%) Selenium
3 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.46%) MLflow
3 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.23%) WebDriver
General
1 121 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 118 (27.06%) Finance
3 86 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.19%) Banking
6 21 (4.82%) Front Office
7 17 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.44%) Retail
10 13 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.98%) Local Government
11 12 (2.75%) Legal
11 12 (2.75%) Marketing
12 10 (2.29%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.15%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.92%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.92%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (0.92%) Middleware
2 4 (0.92%) VML
2 4 (0.92%) XML
3 3 (0.69%) ADO
3 3 (0.69%) NumPy
3 3 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (0.69%) Pandas
4 2 (0.46%) Kafka
4 2 (0.46%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.46%) Web Services
5 1 (0.23%) Django
5 1 (0.23%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.23%) JSON
5 1 (0.23%) REST
5 1 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.23%) SAML
5 1 (0.23%) SOAP
5 1 (0.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.59%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.36%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.44%) Security Operations Centre
4 12 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.83%) Data Structures
5 8 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.38%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.38%) PMI
8 5 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.92%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.69%) CSOC
10 3 (0.69%) NHS
10 3 (0.69%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.46%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.98%) Windows
2 8 (1.83%) Linux
3 4 (0.92%) Unix
4 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (27.06%) Agile
2 96 (22.02%) Business Analysis
3 88 (20.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 82 (18.81%) User Stories
5 77 (17.66%) Requirements Gathering
6 75 (17.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 66 (15.14%) Decision-Making
8 64 (14.68%) Workshop Facilitation
9 52 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (11.70%) DevOps
11 47 (10.78%) Data Modelling
12 46 (10.55%) Acceptance Criteria
12 46 (10.55%) Actionable Insight
13 38 (8.72%) Validation
14 37 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (8.26%) Process Improvement
16 35 (8.03%) Migration
17 34 (7.80%) Data Analysis
18 33 (7.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (11.24%) SQL
2 26 (5.96%) Python
3 7 (1.61%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.38%) VBA
5 5 (1.15%) Bash
5 5 (1.15%) Java
5 5 (1.15%) Perl
5 5 (1.15%) R
6 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.23%) C#
8 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) Korn
8 1 (0.23%) Ruby
8 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.07%) Degree
3 37 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.44%) CBAP
6 13 (2.98%) ACCA
6 13 (2.98%) CIMA
7 11 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.06%) IIBA
8 9 (2.06%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.15%) CISSP
10 5 (1.15%) CSPO
10 5 (1.15%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.15%) PMP
11 3 (0.69%) CISM
11 3 (0.69%) ISEB
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (10.09%) QA
2 19 (4.36%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.36%) PMO
3 9 (2.06%) GDPR
4 8 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.69%) IFRS
5 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.46%) GRC
6 2 (0.46%) NIST
6 2 (0.46%) P3O
6 2 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.23%) EMIR
7 1 (0.23%) GAAP
7 1 (0.23%) HL7
7 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.23%) MiFID
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.23%) QRadar
3 1 (0.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.47%) SAP
3 36 (8.26%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.67%) Oracle
5 9 (2.06%) Databricks
5 9 (2.06%) Workday
6 7 (1.61%) Charles River
7 6 (1.38%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.38%) Splunk
8 5 (1.15%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.15%) Civica
9 4 (0.92%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.92%) Guidewire
9 4 (0.92%) IFS
9 4 (0.92%) Orchard
9 4 (0.92%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.92%) Tanium
9 4 (0.92%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.69%) Zuora
167 Senior Analyst jobs in England