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 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 263 201
Rank change year-on-year +21 -62 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 445 225 446
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 0.92% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.00% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 157 310
10th Percentile £363 £361 £358
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.68% -4.42%
75th Percentile £625 £581 £609
90th Percentile £675 £668 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 12
10th Percentile £27.16 £23.31 £13.50
25th Percentile £30.70 £26.03 £14.63
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 £26.63
90th Percentile £51.35 £41.74 £31.28
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.53 £23.50
% change year-on-year +18.07% +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 39,165 22,521 34,505
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.41% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 14,805 22,602
10th Percentile £325 £289 £288
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,761 973 2,623
10th Percentile £15.84 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £29.33 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.32% -25.75% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.73% -25.33% -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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -1 228 £550 +4.76% 80
North of England -21 74 £447 -5.30% 31
South East -21 58 £500 +14.29% 55
Midlands -28 46 £525 +5.00% 16
North West -19 30 £410 -12.58% 19
West Midlands -47 25 £500 - 12
North East - 25 £575 - 2
East of England -11 24 £500 +8.11% 18
East Midlands - 21 £600 - 4
Yorkshire -48 20 £450 -7.69% 10
South West -29 11 £488 +21.88% 20
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 (26.74%) Agile
2 93 (20.90%) Business Analysis
3 88 (19.78%) User Stories
4 85 (19.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 76 (17.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 74 (16.63%) Requirements Gathering
7 67 (15.06%) Decision-Making
8 65 (14.61%) Microsoft
8 65 (14.61%) Workshop Facilitation
9 64 (14.38%) Security Cleared
10 60 (13.48%) Degree
11 54 (12.13%) DevOps
12 53 (11.91%) Azure
12 53 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (11.69%) SAP
14 47 (10.56%) Acceptance Criteria
15 46 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
15 46 (10.34%) Data Modelling
15 46 (10.34%) SQL
16 44 (9.89%) QA
17 39 (8.76%) Power Platform
17 39 (8.76%) Salesforce
18 38 (8.54%) SC Cleared
18 38 (8.54%) Validation
19 37 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
19 37 (8.31%) Migration
19 37 (8.31%) Power BI
19 37 (8.31%) Process Improvement
20 35 (7.87%) Data Analysis
20 35 (7.87%) Mentoring

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 (5.84%) Confluence
2 4 (0.90%) OpenEdge
2 4 (0.90%) 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 31 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.82%) MS Visio
3 14 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (4.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.12%) Endur
3 4 (0.90%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.90%) 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 Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (11.91%) Azure
2 39 (8.76%) Power Platform
3 16 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (1.57%) AWS
5 6 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (1.35%) GCP
5 6 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.35%) SaaS
6 3 (0.67%) GitHub
6 3 (0.67%) Snowflake
6 3 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (0.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.45%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.45%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.45%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.35%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (0.90%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.31%) Power BI
2 17 (3.82%) Tableau
3 9 (2.02%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.57%) Power Query
6 6 (1.35%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.90%) Looker
7 4 (0.90%) Metadata
8 2 (0.45%) Big Data
8 2 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.45%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.45%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.22%) Essbase
9 1 (0.22%) GIS
9 1 (0.22%) MS Access
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (7.42%) JIRA
2 3 (0.67%) GitLab
2 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.45%) MLflow
3 2 (0.45%) Selenium
3 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.22%) Postman
4 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 125 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 119 (26.74%) Finance
3 89 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.74%) Banking
6 19 (4.27%) Front Office
7 16 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.92%) Local Government
9 13 (2.92%) Retail
10 12 (2.70%) Marketing
11 11 (2.47%) Legal
12 10 (2.25%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.35%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.12%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.90%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.80%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (1.12%) Middleware
3 4 (0.90%) ADO
3 4 (0.90%) VML
3 4 (0.90%) 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%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.45%) Web Services
6 1 (0.22%) Django
6 1 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.22%) FHIR
6 1 (0.22%) OAuth
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.22%) Playwright
6 1 (0.22%) REST
6 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.49%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.27%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.60%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (3.60%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.35%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.35%) PMI
8 5 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (0.90%) Cyberattack
9 4 (0.90%) NHS
10 3 (0.67%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.45%) Derivative
11 2 (0.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.15%) Windows
2 8 (1.80%) Linux
3 4 (0.90%) 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 (26.74%) Agile
2 93 (20.90%) Business Analysis
3 88 (19.78%) User Stories
4 85 (19.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 76 (17.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 74 (16.63%) Requirements Gathering
7 67 (15.06%) Decision-Making
8 65 (14.61%) Workshop Facilitation
9 54 (12.13%) DevOps
10 53 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (10.56%) Acceptance Criteria
12 46 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
12 46 (10.34%) Data Modelling
13 38 (8.54%) Validation
14 37 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (8.31%) Migration
14 37 (8.31%) Process Improvement
15 35 (7.87%) Data Analysis
15 35 (7.87%) Mentoring
16 33 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 46 (10.34%) SQL
2 19 (4.27%) Python
3 6 (1.35%) VBA
4 5 (1.12%) Java
4 5 (1.12%) R
5 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.22%) Korn
7 1 (0.22%) Ruby
7 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 60 (13.48%) Degree
3 38 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.37%) CBAP
6 13 (2.92%) ACCA
6 13 (2.92%) CIMA
7 9 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.02%) IIBA
7 9 (2.02%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.35%) CISSP
8 6 (1.35%) CSPO
9 5 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.12%) PMP
10 4 (0.90%) CISM
11 3 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.67%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.45%) APMP
12 2 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.89%) QA
2 20 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.27%) PMO
4 9 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.80%) GDPR
6 4 (0.90%) SLA
7 3 (0.67%) IFRS
7 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.45%) P3O
9 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.22%) Basel III
9 1 (0.22%) EMIR
9 1 (0.22%) GAAP
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.22%) MiFID
9 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (1.57%) 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 65 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.69%) SAP
3 39 (8.76%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.82%) Oracle
5 9 (2.02%) Databricks
5 9 (2.02%) 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 (0.90%) Google
8 4 (0.90%) IFS
8 4 (0.90%) Orchard
8 4 (0.90%) Zuora
9 3 (0.67%) Ariba
9 3 (0.67%) Infor
9 3 (0.67%) QAD
9 3 (0.67%) Qualys