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 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 222 200
Rank change year-on-year -26 -22 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 342 312 451
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 1.09% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.17% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 212 347
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -4.89% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 6
10th Percentile £26.11 £30.13 £56.88
25th Percentile £28.00 £41.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £52.83 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.64% -20.26% +43.68%
75th Percentile £41.94 £64.73 £69.69
90th Percentile £66.45 - £73.75
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £52.83 £66.25
% change year-on-year -35.64% -20.26% +109.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 29,026 26,600 34,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 92.93% 93.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,504 16,539 23,627
10th Percentile £296 £300 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,775 836 1,432
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.74 £14.93
25th Percentile £18.47 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.00 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% -26.67% +46.39%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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 +9 196 £590 +2.64% 127
North of England -16 66 £400 -15.79% 37
South East -33 42 £525 +7.14% 73
Yorkshire -22 26 £445 -1.11% 8
North East +7 20 £120 -83.33% 4
North West -18 20 £425 -22.73% 25
Midlands -56 15 £500 - 36
East of England -15 13 £559 -1.54% 4
West Midlands -47 8 £500 - 28
South West -8 7 £495 +4.21% 10
East Midlands -14 7 - - 8
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, 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.

1 101 (29.53%) Agile
2 68 (19.88%) Business Analysis
3 63 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 59 (17.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 54 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (15.50%) SQL
7 49 (14.33%) Power BI
7 49 (14.33%) Power Platform
8 45 (13.16%) User Stories
9 44 (12.87%) Workshop Facilitation
10 43 (12.57%) Requirements Gathering
11 42 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
12 40 (11.70%) Decision-Making
13 39 (11.40%) Security Cleared
14 38 (11.11%) Analytics
15 37 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (9.65%) Data Analysis
16 33 (9.65%) Microsoft
16 33 (9.65%) Visualisation
16 33 (9.65%) Windows
17 31 (9.06%) Migration
18 30 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
18 30 (8.77%) Data Modelling
18 30 (8.77%) JIRA
18 30 (8.77%) Process Improvement
19 28 (8.19%) Azure
19 28 (8.19%) SC Cleared
19 28 (8.19%) Validation
20 27 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
21 26 (7.60%) Actionable Insight

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 (7.02%) Confluence
2 9 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.58%) SAS
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 27 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.09%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) Endur
1 5 (1.46%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.88%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (0.88%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.29%) iTrent
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.29%) RMDS
5 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.33%) Power Platform
2 28 (8.19%) Azure
3 15 (4.39%) AWS
3 15 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (3.80%) GCP
5 8 (2.34%) SaaS
6 7 (2.05%) Google Analytics
6 7 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.75%) Lucidchart
8 5 (1.46%) Google Tag Manager
8 5 (1.46%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.46%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.17%) dbt
9 4 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.88%) ChatGPT
10 3 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.58%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.58%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.05%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.46%) DNS
2 5 (1.46%) Firewall
3 3 (0.88%) Broadband
3 3 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (0.88%) LAN
3 3 (0.88%) WAN
4 2 (0.58%) FTP
4 2 (0.58%) SSL
4 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.58%) Wireless
5 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.29%) HTTP
5 1 (0.29%) Internet
5 1 (0.29%) NAS
5 1 (0.29%) SAN
5 1 (0.29%) SMTP
5 1 (0.29%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.29%) VLAN
5 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.33%) Power BI
2 18 (5.26%) Tableau
3 14 (4.09%) BigQuery
4 11 (3.22%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.05%) Looker
6 3 (0.88%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.88%) Power Query
6 3 (0.88%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.58%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.58%) Metadata
8 1 (0.29%) Big Data
8 1 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.29%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.29%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (8.77%) JIRA
2 5 (1.46%) Selenium
3 3 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.88%) SoapUI
3 3 (0.88%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.58%) Git
5 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.29%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.29%) Postman
5 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 113 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 100 (29.24%) Finance
3 80 (23.39%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (14.91%) Public Sector
5 40 (11.70%) Banking
6 14 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.51%) Retail
8 10 (2.92%) Front Office
8 10 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.34%) Local Government
10 7 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.75%) General Ledger
11 6 (1.75%) Legal
12 5 (1.46%) Marketing
13 4 (1.17%) Back Office
13 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.05%) ADO
2 5 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.17%) Kafka
3 4 (1.17%) Middleware
4 3 (0.88%) SOAP
4 3 (0.88%) XML
5 2 (0.58%) FHIR
5 2 (0.58%) PySpark
6 1 (0.29%) EDI
6 1 (0.29%) FIXML
6 1 (0.29%) JSON
6 1 (0.29%) LDAP
6 1 (0.29%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.29%) Playwright
6 1 (0.29%) REST
6 1 (0.29%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.29%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.29%) Web Services
6 1 (0.29%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.85%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.68%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (2.34%) Derivative
5 8 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.05%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.75%) iPad
7 6 (1.75%) iPhone
7 6 (1.75%) NHS
8 5 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.17%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.17%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.65%) Windows
2 8 (2.34%) Linux
3 6 (1.75%) Mac OS
4 5 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.88%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) CentOS
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (29.53%) Agile
2 68 (19.88%) Business Analysis
3 63 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 59 (17.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 54 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (13.16%) User Stories
7 44 (12.87%) Workshop Facilitation
8 43 (12.57%) Requirements Gathering
9 42 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
10 40 (11.70%) Decision-Making
11 38 (11.11%) Analytics
12 37 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (9.65%) Data Analysis
13 33 (9.65%) Visualisation
14 31 (9.06%) Migration
15 30 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
15 30 (8.77%) Data Modelling
15 30 (8.77%) Process Improvement
16 28 (8.19%) Validation
17 26 (7.60%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.50%) SQL
2 21 (6.14%) Python
3 4 (1.17%) Java
3 4 (1.17%) R
4 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.29%) ABAP
6 1 (0.29%) C#
6 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.29%) Korn
6 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (11.40%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.19%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.60%) Degree
4 10 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.05%) CBAP
6 6 (1.75%) CSPO
6 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.46%) CISSP
8 4 (1.17%) CISM
8 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.88%) IIBA
10 2 (0.58%) CEH
10 2 (0.58%) CFA
10 2 (0.58%) ISEB
10 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.29%) CISMP
11 1 (0.29%) GCIH
11 1 (0.29%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.09%) QA
3 11 (3.22%) PMO
4 8 (2.34%) GDPR
5 7 (2.05%) SLA
6 6 (1.75%) GRC
6 6 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.46%) NIST
8 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.58%) COBIT
9 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.58%) HL7
9 2 (0.58%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.58%) P3O
9 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.58%) PERC
9 2 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.29%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.29%) Nessus
1 1 (0.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (9.65%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.26%) Oracle
3 16 (4.68%) SAP
4 12 (3.51%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.51%) Splunk
5 9 (2.63%) Google
6 6 (1.75%) Databricks
6 6 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.46%) Zuora
8 4 (1.17%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.88%) Charles River
9 3 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.88%) F5
9 3 (0.88%) OpenLink
9 3 (0.88%) Qualys
9 3 (0.88%) SmartStream
9 3 (0.88%) Workday
10 2 (0.58%) Facebook
10 2 (0.58%) Foundry
10 2 (0.58%) Refinitiv