Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 248 200
Rank change year-on-year +12 -48 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 404 250 451
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 0.97% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.05% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 163 340
10th Percentile £338 £358 £350
25th Percentile £405 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £638
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 6
10th Percentile £26.11 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £25.44 £13.50
Median hourly rate £34.27 £28.60 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.83% +97.24% -76.80%
75th Percentile £41.94 £43.75 £21.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.22 £38.38
UK median hourly rate £34.62 £28.60 £19.00
% change year-on-year +21.05% +50.53% -68.46%

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 33,508 23,892 35,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.95% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,182 15,386 23,744
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,169 770 2,257
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.21 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.71 £36.00 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% +9.44% -20.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.22 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -1.44% +6.06% -18.67%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +34 241 £525 -4.55% 78
North of England -14 72 £410 -8.89% 41
South East -42 43 £580 +6.42% 50
North West -15 34 £423 -9.91% 24
Midlands -53 21 £463 -7.50% 30
North East - 20 £120 - 2
East of England -11 18 £550 -2.22% 9
Yorkshire -49 18 £450 - 15
East Midlands - 11 £500 - 10
West Midlands -54 10 £295 -41.00% 20
South West -26 8 £450 -5.26% 8
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 March 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.

1 106 (26.24%) Agile
2 87 (21.53%) Business Analysis
3 86 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 80 (19.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 77 (19.06%) Requirements Gathering
6 70 (17.33%) User Stories
7 63 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (15.10%) SQL
9 60 (14.85%) Security Cleared
10 54 (13.37%) Workshop Facilitation
11 53 (13.12%) Decision-Making
12 46 (11.39%) Degree
12 46 (11.39%) Power BI
12 46 (11.39%) Power Platform
13 45 (11.14%) Microsoft
13 45 (11.14%) SC Cleared
14 43 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (10.15%) Actionable Insight
15 41 (10.15%) Data Analysis
15 41 (10.15%) Migration
16 40 (9.90%) Data Modelling
17 39 (9.65%) Azure
18 38 (9.41%) Mentoring
18 38 (9.41%) Validation
19 37 (9.16%) JIRA
20 36 (8.91%) DevOps
20 36 (8.91%) Process Improvement
21 35 (8.66%) Analytics
22 34 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
23 33 (8.17%) 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 (7.18%) Confluence
2 9 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 34 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (5.45%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.74%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (0.74%) Endur
4 2 (0.50%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.25%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.25%) RMDS
5 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 46 (11.39%) Power Platform
2 39 (9.65%) Azure
3 15 (3.71%) AWS
3 15 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (2.48%) GCP
4 10 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (1.73%) Google Analytics
6 6 (1.49%) Lucidchart
6 6 (1.49%) SaaS
7 5 (1.24%) Google Tag Manager
8 3 (0.74%) ChatGPT
8 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (0.74%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.50%) dbt
9 2 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.50%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.50%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.23%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.49%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.24%) DNS
3 5 (1.24%) Firewall
4 4 (0.99%) Broadband
4 4 (0.99%) LAN
4 4 (0.99%) WAN
5 1 (0.25%) FTP
5 1 (0.25%) Internet
5 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.25%) SSL
5 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.25%) VLAN
5 1 (0.25%) VPN
5 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.39%) Power BI
2 19 (4.70%) Tableau
3 12 (2.97%) BigQuery
4 8 (1.98%) Looker
4 8 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.24%) Metadata
6 4 (0.99%) Power Query
7 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.50%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (0.50%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.50%) GIS
8 2 (0.50%) MS Access
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.25%) Flink
9 1 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 37 (9.16%) JIRA
2 3 (0.74%) Selenium
3 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.25%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.25%) Postman
4 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.25%) Subversion
4 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 132 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 114 (28.22%) Finance
3 89 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (13.37%) Public Sector
5 46 (11.39%) Banking
6 19 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.22%) Front Office
7 13 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.72%) Legal
8 11 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.48%) Retail
10 9 (2.23%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.23%) Local Government
11 7 (1.73%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.73%) Marketing
12 6 (1.49%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.49%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (1.98%) Middleware
3 4 (0.99%) ADO
3 4 (0.99%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (0.99%) XML
4 3 (0.74%) FHIR
5 2 (0.50%) JSON
5 2 (0.50%) Kafka
5 2 (0.50%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.50%) Web Services
6 1 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.25%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.25%) NumPy
6 1 (0.25%) OAuth
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.25%) Pandas
6 1 (0.25%) SAML
6 1 (0.25%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.69%) Onboarding
2 22 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.97%) Cyber Defence
5 11 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.98%) NHS
8 7 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.73%) PMI
9 6 (1.49%) Derivative
9 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.99%) Cyberattack
10 4 (0.99%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.74%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.50%) CSOC
12 2 (0.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.44%) Windows
2 10 (2.48%) Linux
3 5 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.99%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (26.24%) Agile
2 87 (21.53%) Business Analysis
3 86 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 80 (19.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 77 (19.06%) Requirements Gathering
6 70 (17.33%) User Stories
7 63 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (13.37%) Workshop Facilitation
9 53 (13.12%) Decision-Making
10 43 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
11 41 (10.15%) Actionable Insight
11 41 (10.15%) Data Analysis
11 41 (10.15%) Migration
12 40 (9.90%) Data Modelling
13 38 (9.41%) Mentoring
13 38 (9.41%) Validation
14 36 (8.91%) DevOps
14 36 (8.91%) Process Improvement
15 35 (8.66%) Analytics
16 33 (8.17%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 61 (15.10%) SQL
2 19 (4.70%) Python
3 4 (0.99%) VBA
4 3 (0.74%) Java
4 3 (0.74%) R
5 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.50%) Korn
5 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.25%) C#
6 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 46 (11.39%) Degree
3 45 (11.14%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.95%) CBAP
5 16 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.72%) IIBA
7 9 (2.23%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.98%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.24%) CISM
9 5 (1.24%) CISSP
9 5 (1.24%) CSPO
9 5 (1.24%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.74%) ACCA
11 3 (0.74%) CIMA
11 3 (0.74%) PMP
12 2 (0.50%) APMP
12 2 (0.50%) CFA
12 2 (0.50%) ISEB
12 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.92%) QA
2 22 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.22%) PMO
4 8 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.73%) GDPR
6 4 (0.99%) GRC
6 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.99%) SLA
7 3 (0.74%) HL7
7 3 (0.74%) IFRS
7 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.50%) Basel III
8 2 (0.50%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.50%) NIST
8 2 (0.50%) PERC
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.25%) ITGC
9 1 (0.25%) SOX 404
System Software
1 10 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.25%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (0.50%) Terraform
2 1 (0.25%) BladeLogic
2 1 (0.25%) Grafana
2 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.25%) Kibana
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.25%) Nessus
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 45 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.92%) SAP
3 29 (7.18%) Salesforce
4 17 (4.21%) Oracle
5 13 (3.22%) Splunk
6 8 (1.98%) Google
7 7 (1.73%) Bloomberg
7 7 (1.73%) Databricks
8 6 (1.49%) Charles River
8 6 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.49%) Zuora
9 4 (0.99%) Refinitiv
10 3 (0.74%) Adobe
10 3 (0.74%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.74%) SmartStream
10 3 (0.74%) Workday
11 2 (0.50%) Ariba
11 2 (0.50%) Citrix
11 2 (0.50%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.50%) Reuters