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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 255 220
Rank change year-on-year -7 -35 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 461 270 370
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.97% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.06% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 189 245
10th Percentile £357 £342 £368
25th Percentile £431 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £690 £642
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £27.67 £28.53 -
25th Percentile £31.44 £30.96 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.14 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +45.26% -63.85%
75th Percentile £32.73 £35.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £53.17 £60.50 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £34.14 £23.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +45.26% -63.85%

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 42,569 25,363 30,417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 91.35% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,370 16,372 19,015
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,430 1,358 1,485
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.75 £14.60
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.01%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -35 235 £575 +8.49% 588
Midlands +2 61 £500 +5.26% 91
North of England -41 59 £550 +22.22% 159
South East -57 48 £500 - 149
West Midlands -30 36 £475 - 59
Yorkshire -33 26 £550 +50.68% 39
East Midlands +14 25 £525 - 32
East of England -3 24 £370 - 37
South West -32 24 £613 +53.13% 29
North East -18 22 £575 +10.58% 19
North West -41 12 £525 +12.78% 103
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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.

1 136 (29.50%) Agile
2 127 (27.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (23.64%) Business Analysis
4 95 (20.61%) Workshop Facilitation
5 89 (19.31%) User Stories
6 86 (18.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 85 (18.44%) Requirements Gathering
8 75 (16.27%) Decision-Making
9 68 (14.75%) Microsoft
10 66 (14.32%) Acceptance Criteria
11 61 (13.23%) Security Cleared
12 58 (12.58%) SQL
13 57 (12.36%) Analytics
13 57 (12.36%) Azure
13 57 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (11.50%) QA
15 52 (11.28%) AI
16 50 (10.85%) DevOps
16 50 (10.85%) Power Platform
16 50 (10.85%) Process Improvement
17 48 (10.41%) Business Intelligence
17 48 (10.41%) Power BI
18 47 (10.20%) Data Analysis
19 40 (8.68%) Degree
19 40 (8.68%) User Acceptance Testing
20 39 (8.46%) Validation
21 37 (8.03%) Data Modelling
21 37 (8.03%) SC Cleared
22 36 (7.81%) 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 23 (4.99%) Confluence
2 5 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.87%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.65%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.43%) Appian
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.60%) MS Visio
3 11 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.30%) Endur
3 6 (1.30%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.08%) Primavera
5 4 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.65%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.43%) Dynamics SL
7 2 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.43%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.36%) Azure
2 50 (10.85%) Power Platform
3 32 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (3.90%) SaaS
5 15 (3.25%) AWS
6 13 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (2.60%) Power Automate
8 11 (2.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 9 (1.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 8 (1.74%) GCP
10 8 (1.74%) Serverless
10 8 (1.74%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.52%) Azure Functions
12 6 (1.30%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.30%) PaaS
13 4 (0.87%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (0.87%) ChatGPT
13 4 (0.87%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.65%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.43%) Network Security
2 2 (0.43%) WAN
2 2 (0.43%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) LAN
3 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.41%) Power BI
2 26 (5.64%) Tableau
3 12 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.30%) Looker
6 5 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.08%) Power Query
7 4 (0.87%) Data Mining
7 4 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.65%) Big Data
8 3 (0.65%) Metadata
8 3 (0.65%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.43%) GIS
9 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.43%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.22%) Essbase
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.22%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (7.38%) JIRA
2 8 (1.74%) Postman
2 8 (1.74%) Selenium
3 7 (1.52%) Cucumber
3 7 (1.52%) Cypress.io
3 7 (1.52%) WebDriver
4 4 (0.87%) GitLab
5 3 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.43%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.22%) Git
7 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 141 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 111 (24.08%) Finance
3 100 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.38%) Banking
6 24 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (4.34%) Local Government
8 19 (4.12%) Front Office
9 18 (3.90%) Marketing
10 16 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (3.04%) Retail
13 11 (2.39%) Legal
14 9 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.74%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.52%) Advertising
16 7 (1.52%) Investment Banking
17 6 (1.30%) Manufacturing
18 5 (1.08%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.52%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.87%) ADO
2 4 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.87%) VML
3 3 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.65%) NumPy
3 3 (0.65%) Pandas
4 2 (0.43%) HTML
4 2 (0.43%) JSON
4 2 (0.43%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.43%) Playwright
4 2 (0.43%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.43%) Swagger
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.22%) Kafka
5 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.22%) SAML
5 1 (0.22%) SOAP
5 1 (0.22%) Spring
5 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.38%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.47%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.04%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (1.52%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.08%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.87%) FMCG
9 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.65%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.65%) Life Science
9 3 (0.65%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.39%) Windows
2 7 (1.52%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (29.50%) Agile
2 127 (27.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (23.64%) Business Analysis
4 95 (20.61%) Workshop Facilitation
5 89 (19.31%) User Stories
6 86 (18.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 85 (18.44%) Requirements Gathering
8 75 (16.27%) Decision-Making
9 66 (14.32%) Acceptance Criteria
10 57 (12.36%) Analytics
10 57 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (11.28%) AI
13 50 (10.85%) DevOps
13 50 (10.85%) Process Improvement
14 48 (10.41%) Business Intelligence
15 47 (10.20%) Data Analysis
16 40 (8.68%) User Acceptance Testing
17 39 (8.46%) Validation
18 37 (8.03%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 58 (12.58%) SQL
2 34 (7.38%) Python
3 10 (2.17%) PowerShell
4 9 (1.95%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.52%) C#
5 7 (1.52%) R
6 5 (1.08%) Bash
6 5 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.08%) Perl
7 4 (0.87%) Java
7 4 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.43%) Korn
8 2 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.43%) VBA
9 1 (0.22%) C++
9 1 (0.22%) LookML
9 1 (0.22%) Ruby
9 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 40 (8.68%) Degree
3 37 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.60%) ACCA
6 11 (2.39%) CIMA
6 11 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.17%) CISSP
7 10 (2.17%) ISTQB
8 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.30%) CSPO
11 5 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (1.08%) ISEB
12 4 (0.87%) CBAP
12 4 (0.87%) GCIH
12 4 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.65%) IIBA
13 3 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.50%) QA
2 29 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.99%) PMO
4 16 (3.47%) GDPR
5 14 (3.04%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.17%) NIST
8 7 (1.52%) WCAG
9 4 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.87%) GRC
9 4 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.65%) IFRS
10 3 (0.65%) P3O
11 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.43%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.43%) SEPA
12 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 3 (0.65%) Active Directory
1 3 (0.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 68 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.94%) SAP
3 31 (6.72%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.47%) Oracle
5 9 (1.95%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.95%) Workday
6 8 (1.74%) Google
7 6 (1.30%) Amplitude
7 6 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (1.30%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.30%) Splunk
8 4 (0.87%) Civica
8 4 (0.87%) Clearswift
8 4 (0.87%) Databricks
8 4 (0.87%) Orchard
8 4 (0.87%) Qualys
8 4 (0.87%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.87%) Tanium
8 4 (0.87%) Tripwire
9 3 (0.65%) Trend Micro