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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 268 188
Rank change year-on-year +26 -80 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 447 230 445
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 0.94% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.02% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 160 309
10th Percentile £363 £361 £358
25th Percentile £421 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -4.65%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £613
90th Percentile £675 £664 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 13
10th Percentile £26.95 £23.31 £13.50
25th Percentile £30.15 £26.03 £15.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.53 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.13% -55.45%
75th Percentile £41.94 £30.20 £26.50
90th Percentile - £41.74 £30.80
UK median hourly rate £32.25 £27.53 £23.50
% change year-on-year +17.17% +17.13% -55.45%

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 39,391 22,646 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.37% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,290 14,886 22,782
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,775 990 2,657
10th Percentile £15.86 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.99% -24.58% -13.54%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.64 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.57% -26.29% -16.67%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +7 229 £550 +4.76% 78
North of England -25 69 £450 -4.66% 36
South East -33 61 £500 +14.29% 59
Midlands -30 47 £513 +2.50% 16
North West -16 29 £410 -12.58% 25
West Midlands -47 25 £500 - 13
East of England -2 24 £500 +8.11% 14
North East - 23 £575 - 3
East Midlands - 22 £550 - 3
Yorkshire -43 18 £450 -7.69% 8
South West -24 12 £525 +31.25% 16
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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.

1 119 (26.62%) Agile
2 94 (21.03%) Business Analysis
3 89 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 86 (19.24%) User Stories
5 78 (17.45%) Requirements Gathering
6 77 (17.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 68 (15.21%) Security Cleared
8 66 (14.77%) Decision-Making
8 66 (14.77%) Workshop Facilitation
9 64 (14.32%) Microsoft
10 58 (12.98%) Degree
11 54 (12.08%) DevOps
12 53 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (11.86%) SAP
13 52 (11.63%) Azure
14 48 (10.74%) SQL
15 47 (10.51%) Acceptance Criteria
15 47 (10.51%) Data Modelling
16 46 (10.29%) Actionable Insight
17 44 (9.84%) QA
18 40 (8.95%) SC Cleared
19 39 (8.72%) Salesforce
19 39 (8.72%) Validation
20 36 (8.05%) Migration
20 36 (8.05%) Power Platform
20 36 (8.05%) Process Improvement
21 35 (7.83%) Data Analysis
21 35 (7.83%) Mentoring
22 34 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
22 34 (7.61%) 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 26 (5.82%) Confluence
2 4 (0.89%) OpenEdge
2 4 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.45%) Appian
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
Applications
1 29 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.80%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.12%) Endur
3 4 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.89%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.67%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.67%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (0.67%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.67%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.45%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.22%) Primavera
6 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 52 (11.63%) Azure
2 36 (8.05%) Power Platform
3 16 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (1.57%) AWS
5 6 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (1.34%) SaaS
6 5 (1.12%) GCP
7 4 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.67%) GitHub
8 3 (0.67%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.45%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.45%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.45%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.34%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (0.89%) DNS
4 3 (0.67%) Broadband
4 3 (0.67%) Firewall
5 2 (0.45%) LAN
5 2 (0.45%) WAN
6 1 (0.22%) FTP
6 1 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.61%) Power BI
2 17 (3.80%) Tableau
3 9 (2.01%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.57%) Power Query
6 5 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.89%) Metadata
8 3 (0.67%) Looker
9 2 (0.45%) Big Data
9 2 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.45%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.45%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.22%) Essbase
10 1 (0.22%) GIS
10 1 (0.22%) MS Access
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (7.38%) JIRA
2 3 (0.67%) GitLab
2 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.45%) MLflow
3 2 (0.45%) Postman
3 2 (0.45%) Selenium
3 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 125 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 119 (26.62%) Finance
3 89 (19.91%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.51%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.26%) Banking
6 19 (4.25%) Front Office
7 16 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (3.13%) Local Government
9 14 (3.13%) Retail
10 12 (2.68%) Marketing
11 11 (2.46%) Legal
12 10 (2.24%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.12%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.89%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.89%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (1.12%) Middleware
3 4 (0.89%) ADO
3 4 (0.89%) VML
3 4 (0.89%) XML
4 3 (0.67%) Kafka
4 3 (0.67%) NumPy
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.67%) Pandas
5 2 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.45%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.45%) Web Services
6 1 (0.22%) FHIR
6 1 (0.22%) JSON
6 1 (0.22%) OAuth
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.22%) Playwright
6 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.22%) SAML
6 1 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.47%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.58%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (3.58%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.01%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.34%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.34%) PMI
8 5 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.89%) Cyberattack
9 4 (0.89%) NHS
10 3 (0.67%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.45%) Derivative
11 2 (0.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.36%) Windows
2 9 (2.01%) Linux
3 4 (0.89%) Unix
4 3 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (26.62%) Agile
2 94 (21.03%) Business Analysis
3 89 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 86 (19.24%) User Stories
5 78 (17.45%) Requirements Gathering
6 77 (17.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 66 (14.77%) Decision-Making
7 66 (14.77%) Workshop Facilitation
8 54 (12.08%) DevOps
9 53 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (10.51%) Acceptance Criteria
10 47 (10.51%) Data Modelling
11 46 (10.29%) Actionable Insight
12 39 (8.72%) Validation
13 36 (8.05%) Migration
13 36 (8.05%) Process Improvement
14 35 (7.83%) Data Analysis
14 35 (7.83%) Mentoring
15 34 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
15 34 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 48 (10.74%) SQL
2 21 (4.70%) Python
3 6 (1.34%) VBA
4 5 (1.12%) Java
4 5 (1.12%) R
5 4 (0.89%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.45%) Bash
7 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.45%) Perl
7 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.22%) Korn
8 1 (0.22%) Ruby
8 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.98%) Degree
3 40 (8.95%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (3.58%) CBAP
6 13 (2.91%) ACCA
6 13 (2.91%) CIMA
7 11 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.01%) IIBA
8 9 (2.01%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.34%) CISSP
9 6 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (1.34%) CSPO
10 5 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.12%) PMP
11 4 (0.89%) CISM
11 4 (0.89%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.67%) ISEB
13 2 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.84%) QA
2 19 (4.25%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.25%) PMO
3 8 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.79%) GDPR
4 5 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.89%) SLA
6 3 (0.67%) IFRS
6 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.45%) NIST
7 2 (0.45%) P3O
8 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.22%) Basel III
8 1 (0.22%) EMIR
8 1 (0.22%) GAAP
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) HL7
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.12%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.22%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.22%) Grafana
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.22%) Kibana
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 53 (11.86%) SAP
3 39 (8.72%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.80%) Oracle
5 9 (2.01%) Databricks
5 9 (2.01%) Workday
6 7 (1.57%) Charles River
6 7 (1.57%) Splunk
7 5 (1.12%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.12%) Civica
7 5 (1.12%) Guidewire
7 5 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.89%) IFS
8 4 (0.89%) Orchard
8 4 (0.89%) Zuora
9 3 (0.67%) Adaptive Insights
9 3 (0.67%) Anaplan
9 3 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.67%) Infor
9 3 (0.67%) Qualys