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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 258 218
Rank change year-on-year +4 -40 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 459 275 374
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 0.99% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.08% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 190 250
10th Percentile £363 £343 £375
25th Percentile £431 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £689 £642
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 11
10th Percentile £27.14 £28.12 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £30.61 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +30.77% -60.00%
75th Percentile £32.65 £36.00 £47.13
90th Percentile £40.73 £65.40 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £34.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +28.30% -59.23%

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 42,799 25,409 30,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.33% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,597 16,371 19,349
10th Percentile £325 £281 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
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 3,391 1,355 1,537
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.67 £14.56
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +8.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 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 11 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 11 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 -26 235 £575 +7.23% 239
Midlands -4 60 £513 +7.89% 23
North of England -35 60 £563 +25.70% 48
South East -48 47 £500 - 78
West Midlands -27 35 £488 +2.63% 14
Yorkshire -27 27 £550 +54.93% 9
East Midlands +11 25 £525 - 9
East of England -14 24 £370 -26.00% 15
South West -34 24 £613 +53.13% 12
North East -25 22 £575 +10.58% 6
North West -37 12 £525 +12.78% 33
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 (29.63%) Agile
2 125 (27.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (23.75%) Business Analysis
4 93 (20.26%) Workshop Facilitation
5 89 (19.39%) User Stories
6 84 (18.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 81 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
8 76 (16.56%) Decision-Making
9 67 (14.60%) Microsoft
10 65 (14.16%) Acceptance Criteria
11 62 (13.51%) Security Cleared
12 58 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (12.42%) Azure
13 57 (12.42%) SQL
14 56 (12.20%) Analytics
15 52 (11.33%) AI
15 52 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
15 52 (11.33%) QA
16 51 (11.11%) Process Improvement
17 50 (10.89%) DevOps
17 50 (10.89%) Power Platform
18 48 (10.46%) Business Intelligence
18 48 (10.46%) Power BI
19 44 (9.59%) Data Analysis
20 42 (9.15%) Degree
21 39 (8.50%) User Acceptance Testing
22 37 (8.06%) Actionable Insight
22 37 (8.06%) SC Cleared
23 36 (7.84%) Data Modelling
23 36 (7.84%) Validation

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 (5.01%) Confluence
2 6 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.87%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.65%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.44%) Appian
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.40%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.31%) Endur
3 6 (1.31%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.09%) Primavera
5 4 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
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 (0.44%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.44%) Dynamics SL
7 2 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.44%) 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 Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.42%) Azure
2 50 (10.89%) Power Platform
3 31 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (3.70%) SaaS
5 14 (3.05%) AWS
6 12 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (2.40%) Power Automate
7 11 (2.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 9 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 8 (1.74%) GCP
9 8 (1.74%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.53%) Serverless
11 6 (1.31%) Azure Functions
11 6 (1.31%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.31%) PaaS
12 4 (0.87%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (0.65%) ChatGPT
13 3 (0.65%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.44%) Network Security
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%) WAN
3 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.46%) Power BI
2 25 (5.45%) Tableau
3 11 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.53%) Looker
5 6 (1.31%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.09%) Power Query
7 4 (0.87%) Data Mining
7 4 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.65%) Big Data
8 3 (0.65%) Metadata
8 3 (0.65%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.44%) GIS
9 2 (0.44%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.44%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.22%) Essbase
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.22%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (7.19%) JIRA
2 7 (1.53%) Postman
2 7 (1.53%) Selenium
3 6 (1.31%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.31%) Cypress.io
3 6 (1.31%) WebDriver
4 4 (0.87%) GitLab
5 3 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.44%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.22%) Git
7 1 (0.22%) MLflow
7 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 135 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 110 (23.97%) Finance
3 101 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.54%) Banking
6 24 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (4.14%) Local Government
8 18 (3.92%) Front Office
9 17 (3.70%) Marketing
10 16 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (3.05%) Retail
12 11 (2.40%) Legal
13 9 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.53%) Advertising
14 7 (1.53%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.53%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.09%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.31%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.87%) ADO
2 4 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.87%) VML
3 3 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.65%) NumPy
3 3 (0.65%) Pandas
4 2 (0.44%) HTML
4 2 (0.44%) JSON
4 2 (0.44%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.44%) Playwright
4 2 (0.44%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.44%) Swagger
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.22%) Kafka
5 1 (0.22%) REST
5 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.22%) SAML
5 1 (0.22%) SOAP
5 1 (0.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.49%) Onboarding
3 13 (2.83%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (1.53%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.53%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.31%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.09%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.09%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.87%) FMCG
9 3 (0.65%) CSOC
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%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.40%) Windows
2 6 (1.31%) Linux
3 2 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (29.63%) Agile
2 125 (27.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (23.75%) Business Analysis
4 93 (20.26%) Workshop Facilitation
5 89 (19.39%) User Stories
6 84 (18.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 81 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
8 76 (16.56%) Decision-Making
9 65 (14.16%) Acceptance Criteria
10 58 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (12.20%) Analytics
12 52 (11.33%) AI
12 52 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
13 51 (11.11%) Process Improvement
14 50 (10.89%) DevOps
15 48 (10.46%) Business Intelligence
16 44 (9.59%) Data Analysis
17 39 (8.50%) User Acceptance Testing
18 37 (8.06%) Actionable Insight
19 36 (7.84%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 57 (12.42%) SQL
2 35 (7.63%) Python
3 10 (2.18%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.53%) R
6 6 (1.31%) C#
7 5 (1.09%) Bash
7 5 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.09%) Perl
8 4 (0.87%) Java
9 3 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.44%) VBA
11 1 (0.22%) C++
11 1 (0.22%) Korn
11 1 (0.22%) LookML
11 1 (0.22%) Ruby
11 1 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.15%) Degree
3 37 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.61%) ACCA
6 11 (2.40%) CIMA
6 11 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.96%) CISSP
7 9 (1.96%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.31%) CSPO
10 5 (1.09%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (1.09%) ISEB
11 4 (0.87%) CBAP
11 4 (0.87%) IIBA
11 4 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.87%) PMP
12 3 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (11.33%) QA
2 29 (6.32%) Data Quality
3 23 (5.01%) PMO
4 15 (3.27%) GDPR
5 13 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.18%) NIST
7 6 (1.31%) WCAG
8 5 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.87%) GRC
9 4 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.65%) P3O
11 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.44%) IFRS
11 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.44%) SEPA
12 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 4 (0.87%) Docker
2 3 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (0.87%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 67 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.41%) SAP
3 31 (6.75%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.49%) Oracle
5 9 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.96%) Workday
6 8 (1.74%) Google
7 6 (1.31%) Amplitude
7 6 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (1.09%) Databricks
8 5 (1.09%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.09%) Splunk
9 4 (0.87%) Civica
9 4 (0.87%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.87%) Orchard
9 4 (0.87%) Qualys
9 4 (0.87%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.87%) Tanium
9 4 (0.87%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.65%) IFS