Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in England is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 270 221
Rank change year-on-year +17 -49 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 464 267 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.97% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.06% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 183 241
10th Percentile £354 £339 £363
25th Percentile £430 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -10.71%
75th Percentile £638 £611 £600
90th Percentile £675 £706 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 9
10th Percentile £27.67 £28.95 -
25th Percentile £31.44 £31.31 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.27 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +45.83% -63.85%
75th Percentile £32.73 £38.97 £62.50
90th Percentile £53.17 £59.16 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £34.27 £23.50
% change year-on-year -6.62% +45.83% -63.85%

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 42,935 25,205 29,932
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.31% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,501 16,241 18,594
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.98%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,554 1,371 1,420
10th Percentile £14.85 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.70 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% -3.37%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -26 238 £575 +4.55% 468
Midlands -6 60 £513 +7.89% 73
North of England -43 60 £550 +22.91% 127
South East -53 47 £500 - 140
West Midlands -18 37 £475 - 50
Yorkshire -33 27 £550 +50.68% 40
East of England -10 24 £370 - 29
South West -22 24 £613 +53.13% 34
East Midlands +2 23 £525 - 23
North East -17 22 £575 +10.58% 10
North West -46 12 £525 +15.13% 77
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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.

1 136 (29.31%) Agile
1 136 (29.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 114 (24.57%) Business Analysis
3 99 (21.34%) Workshop Facilitation
4 93 (20.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 90 (19.40%) User Stories
6 89 (19.18%) Requirements Gathering
7 74 (15.95%) Microsoft
8 73 (15.73%) Decision-Making
9 66 (14.22%) Acceptance Criteria
10 63 (13.58%) Analytics
11 61 (13.15%) Security Cleared
12 60 (12.93%) SQL
13 58 (12.50%) Azure
14 57 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
15 56 (12.07%) AI
15 56 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (11.64%) QA
17 53 (11.42%) Process Improvement
18 51 (10.99%) Power Platform
19 50 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
20 49 (10.56%) DevOps
20 49 (10.56%) Power BI
21 48 (10.34%) Data Analysis
22 41 (8.84%) Data Modelling
23 40 (8.62%) Degree
23 40 (8.62%) Validation
24 38 (8.19%) Mentoring
24 38 (8.19%) User Acceptance Testing
25 37 (7.97%) JIRA

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 24 (5.17%) Confluence
2 5 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.86%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.65%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.43%) Appian
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 11 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.29%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.08%) Endur
4 5 (1.08%) Primavera
5 4 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.65%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.65%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.43%) Dynamics SL
7 2 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.43%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 58 (12.50%) Azure
2 51 (10.99%) Power Platform
3 32 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (4.09%) SaaS
5 14 (3.02%) AWS
5 14 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (2.80%) Power Automate
7 12 (2.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 10 (2.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (2.16%) Snowflake
9 9 (1.94%) Serverless
10 8 (1.72%) Azure Functions
11 7 (1.51%) GCP
11 7 (1.51%) PaaS
12 6 (1.29%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.86%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (0.86%) ChatGPT
13 4 (0.86%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.43%) Network Security
2 2 (0.43%) WAN
2 2 (0.43%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) LAN
3 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.56%) Power BI
2 26 (5.60%) Tableau
3 13 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.29%) Looker
6 5 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.08%) Metadata
7 4 (0.86%) Data Mining
7 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.86%) Power Query
8 3 (0.65%) Big Data
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.43%) GIS
9 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.43%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.43%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.22%) Essbase
10 1 (0.22%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (7.97%) JIRA
2 9 (1.94%) Postman
2 9 (1.94%) Selenium
3 8 (1.72%) Cucumber
3 8 (1.72%) Cypress.io
3 8 (1.72%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.65%) GitLab
5 2 (0.43%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) Git
6 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 141 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 112 (24.14%) Finance
3 102 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.33%) Banking
6 25 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (4.53%) Local Government
8 18 (3.88%) Front Office
8 18 (3.88%) Marketing
9 15 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.80%) Retail
12 12 (2.59%) Legal
13 8 (1.72%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.51%) Advertising
14 7 (1.51%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.08%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.72%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.86%) ADO
2 4 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.86%) VML
3 3 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.65%) NumPy
3 3 (0.65%) Pandas
4 2 (0.43%) HTML
4 2 (0.43%) JSON
4 2 (0.43%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.43%) Playwright
4 2 (0.43%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.43%) Swagger
5 1 (0.22%) Django
5 1 (0.22%) Middleware
5 1 (0.22%) OAuth
5 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.22%) SAML
5 1 (0.22%) SOAP
5 1 (0.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.54%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.16%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (1.51%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.51%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.51%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.86%) FMCG
8 4 (0.86%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.65%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.65%) Life Science
9 3 (0.65%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.16%) Windows
2 7 (1.51%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (29.31%) Agile
1 136 (29.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 114 (24.57%) Business Analysis
3 99 (21.34%) Workshop Facilitation
4 93 (20.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 90 (19.40%) User Stories
6 89 (19.18%) Requirements Gathering
7 73 (15.73%) Decision-Making
8 66 (14.22%) Acceptance Criteria
9 63 (13.58%) Analytics
10 57 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (12.07%) AI
11 56 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (11.42%) Process Improvement
13 50 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
14 49 (10.56%) DevOps
15 48 (10.34%) Data Analysis
16 41 (8.84%) Data Modelling
17 40 (8.62%) Validation
18 38 (8.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 60 (12.93%) SQL
2 36 (7.76%) Python
3 11 (2.37%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.16%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.72%) C#
6 6 (1.29%) R
7 5 (1.08%) Bash
7 5 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.08%) Perl
8 4 (0.86%) Java
9 2 (0.43%) Korn
9 2 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.22%) C++
10 1 (0.22%) LookML
10 1 (0.22%) Ruby
10 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (13.15%) Security Cleared
2 40 (8.62%) Degree
3 37 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.37%) ACCA
5 11 (2.37%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.37%) ISTQB
6 10 (2.16%) CIMA
6 10 (2.16%) CISSP
7 9 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (1.08%) CSPO
9 5 (1.08%) GCIH
9 5 (1.08%) ISEB
10 4 (0.86%) CBAP
10 4 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) IIBA
11 3 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (11.64%) QA
2 34 (7.33%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.74%) PMO
4 18 (3.88%) GDPR
5 15 (3.23%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.16%) NIST
8 8 (1.72%) WCAG
9 4 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.86%) GRC
9 4 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.65%) IFRS
10 3 (0.65%) P3O
11 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.43%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.43%) SEPA
12 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 3 (0.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 74 (15.95%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 30 (6.47%) SAP
4 16 (3.45%) Oracle
5 10 (2.16%) Workday
6 8 (1.72%) Databricks
6 8 (1.72%) Google
6 8 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.29%) Amplitude
7 6 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (1.29%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.29%) Splunk
8 4 (0.86%) Civica
8 4 (0.86%) Clearswift
8 4 (0.86%) Orchard
8 4 (0.86%) Qualys
8 4 (0.86%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.86%) Tanium
8 4 (0.86%) Tripwire
9 3 (0.65%) Trend Micro