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 25 February 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 243 205
Rank change year-on-year +11 -38 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 405 265 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 1.04% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.11% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 173 335
10th Percentile £338 £358 £350
25th Percentile £405 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £628 £615 £638
90th Percentile £698 £723 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 5
10th Percentile £26.11 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £28.60 £13.50
Median hourly rate £38.11 £42.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +203.57% -77.60%
75th Percentile £41.94 £62.92 £15.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £64.73 £38.25
UK median hourly rate £38.28 £42.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -9.93% +183.33% -76.00%

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 32,400 23,779 34,819
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 92.96% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,562 15,077 23,339
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £410 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,076 723 2,145
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £13.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.50 £36.50 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% +6.57% -14.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.67 £75.20 £71.82
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -10.88%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +24 241 £530 -3.64% 45
North of England -7 75 £410 -8.89% 34
South East -52 42 £590 +17.71% 51
North West -13 37 £423 -2.76% 24
Midlands -48 21 £500 - 28
North East - 20 £120 - 5
Yorkshire -48 18 £450 - 5
East of England -11 17 £550 -2.22% 9
East Midlands - 11 £500 - 10
West Midlands -55 10 £525 +5.00% 18
South West -27 8 £450 -5.26% 6
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 February 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.

1 109 (26.91%) Agile
2 89 (21.98%) Business Analysis
3 84 (20.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 81 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 78 (19.26%) Requirements Gathering
6 73 (18.02%) User Stories
7 65 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (15.56%) SQL
9 58 (14.32%) Security Cleared
10 55 (13.58%) Workshop Facilitation
11 54 (13.33%) Decision-Making
12 46 (11.36%) Degree
12 46 (11.36%) Microsoft
12 46 (11.36%) Power BI
12 46 (11.36%) Power Platform
13 45 (11.11%) SC Cleared
14 44 (10.86%) Business Intelligence
15 43 (10.62%) Migration
16 42 (10.37%) Actionable Insight
17 41 (10.12%) JIRA
18 40 (9.88%) Azure
18 40 (9.88%) Data Analysis
19 39 (9.63%) Analytics
19 39 (9.63%) Data Modelling
19 39 (9.63%) Mentoring
20 38 (9.38%) Validation
21 37 (9.14%) DevOps
22 36 (8.89%) Process Improvement
23 34 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
24 32 (7.90%) Confluence

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 32 (7.90%) Confluence
2 9 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.49%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 34 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (5.19%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.48%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.99%) Endur
3 4 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.74%) Algo Collateral
5 2 (0.49%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.25%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.25%) RMDS
6 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 46 (11.36%) Power Platform
2 40 (9.88%) Azure
3 16 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (3.70%) AWS
5 11 (2.72%) GCP
6 10 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.98%) Google Analytics
7 8 (1.98%) SaaS
8 6 (1.48%) Lucidchart
9 5 (1.23%) Google Tag Manager
10 3 (0.74%) ChatGPT
10 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.74%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.74%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.49%) dbt
11 2 (0.49%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.49%) GitHub
11 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.49%) Serverless
11 2 (0.49%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.48%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.23%) DNS
3 5 (1.23%) Firewall
4 4 (0.99%) LAN
4 4 (0.99%) WAN
5 3 (0.74%) Broadband
6 1 (0.25%) FTP
6 1 (0.25%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.25%) SSL
6 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.25%) VLAN
6 1 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.36%) Power BI
2 19 (4.69%) Tableau
3 13 (3.21%) BigQuery
4 9 (2.22%) Looker
5 8 (1.98%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.23%) Power Query
7 4 (0.99%) Metadata
8 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.49%) BusinessObjects XI
9 2 (0.49%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.49%) GIS
9 2 (0.49%) MS Access
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.25%) Flink
10 1 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 41 (10.12%) JIRA
2 4 (0.99%) Selenium
3 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
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%) Git
4 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.25%) Postman
4 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.25%) Subversion
4 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 113 (27.90%) Finance
3 89 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.84%) Public Sector
5 45 (11.11%) Banking
6 19 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.96%) Front Office
9 11 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.47%) Legal
10 10 (2.47%) Retail
11 9 (2.22%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.98%) General Ledger
12 8 (1.98%) Local Government
13 7 (1.73%) Marketing
14 6 (1.48%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.48%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.99%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.22%) 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
4 3 (0.74%) Kafka
5 2 (0.49%) JSON
5 2 (0.49%) Playwright
5 2 (0.49%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.49%) Web Services
6 1 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.25%) FIXML
6 1 (0.25%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.25%) NumPy
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.25%) Pandas
6 1 (0.25%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.43%) Cyber Threat
2 21 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.72%) Cyber Defence
5 10 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.47%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.98%) NHS
8 7 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.73%) PMI
9 6 (1.48%) Derivative
9 6 (1.48%) 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 (0.49%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.49%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.67%) Windows
2 10 (2.47%) Linux
3 5 (1.23%) 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
1 109 (26.91%) Agile
2 89 (21.98%) Business Analysis
3 84 (20.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 81 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 78 (19.26%) Requirements Gathering
6 73 (18.02%) User Stories
7 65 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (13.58%) Workshop Facilitation
9 54 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 44 (10.86%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (10.62%) Migration
12 42 (10.37%) Actionable Insight
13 40 (9.88%) Data Analysis
14 39 (9.63%) Analytics
14 39 (9.63%) Data Modelling
14 39 (9.63%) Mentoring
15 38 (9.38%) Validation
16 37 (9.14%) DevOps
17 36 (8.89%) Process Improvement
18 32 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 63 (15.56%) SQL
2 20 (4.94%) Python
3 4 (0.99%) VBA
4 3 (0.74%) Java
4 3 (0.74%) R
5 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.49%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.49%) Korn
5 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.25%) C#
6 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (14.32%) Security Cleared
2 46 (11.36%) Degree
3 45 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.19%) CBAP
5 16 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.72%) IIBA
7 8 (1.98%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.48%) CSPO
10 5 (1.23%) CISM
10 5 (1.23%) CISSP
10 5 (1.23%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.74%) ACCA
12 3 (0.74%) CIMA
12 3 (0.74%) PMP
13 2 (0.49%) CFA
13 2 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.49%) ISEB
13 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.90%) QA
2 20 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.96%) PMO
4 8 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.98%) GDPR
5 4 (0.99%) GRC
5 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.74%) HL7
6 3 (0.74%) IFRS
6 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.74%) SLA
7 2 (0.49%) Basel III
7 2 (0.49%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.49%) NIST
7 2 (0.49%) PERC
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) CRD IV
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.25%) P3O
8 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (0.49%) 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 46 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.90%) SAP
3 28 (6.91%) Salesforce
4 19 (4.69%) Oracle
5 13 (3.21%) Splunk
6 9 (2.22%) Google
7 8 (1.98%) Databricks
8 7 (1.73%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.48%) Charles River
9 6 (1.48%) Zuora
10 5 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.99%) Refinitiv
12 3 (0.74%) Adobe
12 3 (0.74%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.74%) SmartStream
12 3 (0.74%) Workday
13 2 (0.49%) Ariba
13 2 (0.49%) Citrix
13 2 (0.49%) OpenLink
13 2 (0.49%) Reuters