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 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 253 209
Rank change year-on-year -14 -44 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 434 277 386
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.01% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.10% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 192 262
10th Percentile £363 £343 £363
25th Percentile £431 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £595 £600
90th Percentile £679 £675 £642
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 10
10th Percentile £27.67 £25.85 £23.23
25th Percentile £29.59 £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 £32.49 £35.49 £26.88
90th Percentile £36.74 £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 42,206 25,233 30,946
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 91.57% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,476 16,290 20,133
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% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,208 1,360 1,737
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.55 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.79 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.46% -42.22% +6.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.38%

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 21 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Analyst in England over the 6 months to 21 August 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 21 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 -33 221 £575 +7.23% 85
Midlands -7 60 £513 +7.89% 13
North of England -44 56 £575 +27.78% 41
South East -55 49 £500 - 62
West Midlands -33 34 £475 - 7
East Midlands +7 26 £525 - 6
Yorkshire -34 23 £550 +54.93% 13
East of England +1 22 £370 -20.00% 12
South West -37 22 £613 +53.13% 11
North East -16 21 £575 +10.58% 6
North West -36 13 £486 +2.32% 22
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 (29.03%) Agile
2 108 (24.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 102 (23.50%) Business Analysis
4 81 (18.66%) Workshop Facilitation
5 78 (17.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 78 (17.97%) User Stories
6 71 (16.36%) Decision-Making
7 68 (15.67%) Requirements Gathering
8 60 (13.82%) Microsoft
8 60 (13.82%) Security Cleared
9 57 (13.13%) Acceptance Criteria
9 57 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (12.44%) SQL
11 52 (11.98%) Azure
12 48 (11.06%) Power Platform
12 48 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (11.06%) QA
13 47 (10.83%) Analytics
13 47 (10.83%) Process Improvement
14 46 (10.60%) DevOps
14 46 (10.60%) Power BI
15 45 (10.37%) AI
16 44 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
17 41 (9.45%) Data Analysis
18 39 (8.99%) Degree
19 36 (8.29%) Actionable Insight
20 35 (8.06%) Data Modelling
20 35 (8.06%) Python
20 35 (8.06%) User Acceptance Testing
21 34 (7.83%) SAP

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 (5.30%) 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
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.76%) MS Visio
3 11 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.38%) Endur
3 6 (1.38%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.15%) Primavera
5 4 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.69%) 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 52 (11.98%) Azure
2 48 (11.06%) Power Platform
3 26 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (2.76%) AWS
5 11 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (2.53%) Power Automate
5 11 (2.53%) SaaS
6 8 (1.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 7 (1.61%) GCP
7 7 (1.61%) Serverless
8 6 (1.38%) Azure Functions
8 6 (1.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 6 (1.38%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.15%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.92%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.69%) GitHub
11 3 (0.69%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.69%) Miro
11 3 (0.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) 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 (10.60%) Power BI
2 23 (5.30%) Tableau
3 12 (2.76%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.38%) Looker
6 5 (1.15%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.15%) Power Query
7 4 (0.92%) Metadata
7 4 (0.92%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.69%) Big Data
8 3 (0.69%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.69%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.46%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.46%) GIS
9 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.46%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.23%) Mixpanel
10 1 (0.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 31 (7.14%) JIRA
2 7 (1.61%) Postman
2 7 (1.61%) Selenium
3 6 (1.38%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.38%) Cypress.io
3 6 (1.38%) WebDriver
4 4 (0.92%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.46%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.46%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Git
7 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 122 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 108 (24.88%) Finance
3 96 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.75%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.76%) Banking
6 19 (4.38%) Local Government
7 18 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.92%) Front Office
9 15 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.23%) Marketing
11 13 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (3.00%) Retail
12 11 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.30%) Legal
14 9 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.61%) Advertising
15 7 (1.61%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.38%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.92%) Billing
17 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.38%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.92%) ADO
2 4 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.92%) VML
3 3 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.69%) NumPy
3 3 (0.69%) Pandas
4 2 (0.46%) HTML
4 2 (0.46%) JSON
4 2 (0.46%) OAuth
4 2 (0.46%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.46%) SailPoint
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 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.76%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (1.84%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.15%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.92%) FMCG
9 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.92%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.69%) CSOC
10 3 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.69%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.46%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.30%) 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
4 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (29.03%) Agile
2 108 (24.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 102 (23.50%) Business Analysis
4 81 (18.66%) Workshop Facilitation
5 78 (17.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 78 (17.97%) User Stories
6 71 (16.36%) Decision-Making
7 68 (15.67%) Requirements Gathering
8 57 (13.13%) Acceptance Criteria
8 57 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (10.83%) Analytics
10 47 (10.83%) Process Improvement
11 46 (10.60%) DevOps
12 45 (10.37%) AI
13 44 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
14 41 (9.45%) Data Analysis
15 36 (8.29%) Actionable Insight
16 35 (8.06%) Data Modelling
16 35 (8.06%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (12.44%) SQL
2 35 (8.06%) Python
3 9 (2.07%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.84%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.61%) R
6 6 (1.38%) C#
7 5 (1.15%) Bash
7 5 (1.15%) Perl
8 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.92%) Java
9 2 (0.46%) Korn
9 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.46%) VBA
10 1 (0.23%) C++
10 1 (0.23%) LookML
10 1 (0.23%) Ruby
10 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 39 (8.99%) Degree
3 34 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.53%) ACCA
6 11 (2.53%) CIMA
7 9 (2.07%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.38%) CISSP
10 5 (1.15%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (1.15%) CSPO
10 5 (1.15%) ISEB
11 4 (0.92%) CBAP
11 4 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.69%) IIBA
12 3 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.06%) QA
2 29 (6.68%) Data Quality
3 24 (5.53%) PMO
4 14 (3.23%) GDPR
5 13 (3.00%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.61%) NIST
8 6 (1.38%) WCAG
9 4 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.69%) P3O
11 2 (0.46%) GRC
11 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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 3 (0.69%) 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%) 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 60 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.83%) SAP
3 27 (6.22%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.46%) Oracle
5 9 (2.07%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.07%) Workday
6 8 (1.84%) Google
7 6 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (1.38%) Databricks
8 5 (1.15%) Amplitude
9 4 (0.92%) Civica
9 4 (0.92%) Clearswift
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%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.69%) Trend Micro