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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 258 208
Rank change year-on-year +10 -50 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 438 243 425
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.96% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.04% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 169 289
10th Percentile £370 £350 £358
25th Percentile £424 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £625 £581 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 14
10th Percentile £28.21 £23.31 £13.50
25th Percentile £30.15 £26.03 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.53 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.13% -42.74%
75th Percentile £32.70 £30.20 £25.81
90th Percentile £41.94 £41.74 £30.33
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.53 £23.50
% change year-on-year +16.26% +17.13% -42.74%

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 40,088 23,260 34,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.28% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,631 15,261 22,669
10th Percentile £325 £293 £293
25th Percentile £418 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,855 1,061 2,606
10th Percentile £15.99 £13.85 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.87 £16.67
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.78
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -29.15% -8.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.86% -29.47% -12.79%

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 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 26 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 26 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 -3 229 £550 +5.26% 84
North of England -28 58 £469 -1.26% 34
South East -26 55 £500 - 66
Midlands -25 52 £500 - 19
West Midlands -44 28 £475 -5.00% 13
North West -31 24 £428 -6.25% 25
East Midlands - 24 £500 - 6
East of England -10 23 £500 +8.11% 7
North East - 18 £575 - 6
Yorkshire -38 17 £510 +3.29% 4
South West -31 15 £590 +47.50% 14
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 120 (27.40%) Agile
2 96 (21.92%) Business Analysis
3 88 (20.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 84 (19.18%) User Stories
5 76 (17.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 75 (17.12%) Requirements Gathering
7 68 (15.53%) Decision-Making
8 66 (15.07%) Microsoft
9 64 (14.61%) Workshop Facilitation
10 61 (13.93%) Security Cleared
11 57 (13.01%) Degree
12 53 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (11.87%) DevOps
14 51 (11.64%) Azure
15 49 (11.19%) SQL
16 48 (10.96%) SAP
17 47 (10.73%) Acceptance Criteria
18 46 (10.50%) Data Modelling
18 46 (10.50%) QA
19 45 (10.27%) Actionable Insight
20 39 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
21 38 (8.68%) Power Platform
22 37 (8.45%) Salesforce
23 36 (8.22%) Business Intelligence
23 36 (8.22%) Power BI
23 36 (8.22%) Process Improvement
23 36 (8.22%) Validation
24 35 (7.99%) Analytics
24 35 (7.99%) Migration
25 34 (7.76%) Data Analysis

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 (5.25%) Confluence
2 4 (0.91%) OpenEdge
2 4 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.68%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.46%) Appian
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 30 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.20%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.37%) Endur
2 6 (1.37%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.68%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.68%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.68%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.68%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.46%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.23%) Primavera
7 1 (0.23%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 51 (11.64%) Azure
2 38 (8.68%) Power Platform
3 16 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (1.83%) AWS
4 8 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.14%) GCP
5 5 (1.14%) SaaS
6 4 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (0.91%) Power Automate
7 3 (0.68%) GitHub
7 3 (0.68%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.46%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.46%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.46%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
1 3 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.23%) Broadband
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) LAN
3 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.22%) Power BI
2 19 (4.34%) Tableau
3 9 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.05%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.83%) Power Query
5 5 (1.14%) Metadata
6 4 (0.91%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.91%) Looker
7 3 (0.68%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.46%) Big Data
8 2 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.46%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.23%) Essbase
9 1 (0.23%) GIS
9 1 (0.23%) MS Access
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (6.85%) JIRA
2 4 (0.91%) Postman
2 4 (0.91%) Selenium
3 3 (0.68%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.68%) GitLab
3 3 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.46%) MLflow
4 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.46%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 121 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 120 (27.40%) Finance
3 87 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.94%) Banking
6 18 (4.11%) Front Office
7 17 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (3.65%) Retail
9 15 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.97%) Local Government
10 13 (2.97%) Marketing
11 12 (2.74%) Legal
12 10 (2.28%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.91%) Advertising
14 4 (0.91%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.91%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (0.91%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (0.91%) Middleware
1 4 (0.91%) VML
2 3 (0.68%) ADO
2 3 (0.68%) NumPy
2 3 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (0.68%) Pandas
3 2 (0.46%) Gherkin
3 2 (0.46%) Kafka
3 2 (0.46%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.46%) XML
4 1 (0.23%) Django
4 1 (0.23%) FHIR
4 1 (0.23%) OAuth
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (0.23%) Playwright
4 1 (0.23%) REST
4 1 (0.23%) Spring
4 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.57%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.88%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.20%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (2.28%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.83%) Data Structures
5 8 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.37%) PMI
8 5 (1.14%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.91%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.68%) CSOC
10 3 (0.68%) FMCG
10 3 (0.68%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.28%) Windows
2 6 (1.37%) Linux
3 2 (0.46%) Android
3 2 (0.46%) Unix
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (27.40%) Agile
2 96 (21.92%) Business Analysis
3 88 (20.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 84 (19.18%) User Stories
5 76 (17.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 75 (17.12%) Requirements Gathering
7 68 (15.53%) Decision-Making
8 64 (14.61%) Workshop Facilitation
9 53 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (11.87%) DevOps
11 47 (10.73%) Acceptance Criteria
12 46 (10.50%) Data Modelling
13 45 (10.27%) Actionable Insight
14 39 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (8.22%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (8.22%) Process Improvement
15 36 (8.22%) Validation
16 35 (7.99%) Analytics
16 35 (7.99%) Migration
17 34 (7.76%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 49 (11.19%) SQL
2 26 (5.94%) Python
3 7 (1.60%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.37%) VBA
5 5 (1.14%) Bash
5 5 (1.14%) Java
5 5 (1.14%) Perl
5 5 (1.14%) R
6 4 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.46%) C#
7 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.23%) C++
8 1 (0.23%) Korn
8 1 (0.23%) LookML
8 1 (0.23%) Ruby
8 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.01%) Degree
3 34 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.42%) CBAP
6 13 (2.97%) ACCA
6 13 (2.97%) CIMA
7 12 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.05%) IIBA
8 9 (2.05%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.37%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.14%) CSPO
10 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.14%) PMP
11 4 (0.91%) CISSP
12 3 (0.68%) ISEB
12 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.46%) CISM
13 2 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.50%) QA
2 21 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.34%) PMO
4 10 (2.28%) GDPR
5 8 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.68%) IFRS
6 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.46%) GRC
7 2 (0.46%) NIST
7 2 (0.46%) P3O
7 2 (0.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.46%) WCAG
8 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.23%) Basel III
8 1 (0.23%) EMIR
8 1 (0.23%) GAAP
8 1 (0.23%) HL7
8 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (1.14%) Docker
2 4 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.23%) QRadar
3 1 (0.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.96%) SAP
3 37 (8.45%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.42%) Oracle
5 12 (2.74%) Workday
6 9 (2.05%) Databricks
7 6 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.14%) Civica
8 5 (1.14%) Splunk
9 4 (0.91%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.91%) Charles River
9 4 (0.91%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.91%) Guidewire
9 4 (0.91%) IFS
9 4 (0.91%) Orchard
9 4 (0.91%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.91%) Tanium
9 4 (0.91%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.68%) Zuora