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 13 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
13 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 213 196
Rank change year-on-year -67 -17 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 294 353 474
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.14% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.22% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 235 363
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £411 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £603 £631
90th Percentile £706 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 7
10th Percentile £31.45 - £47.17
25th Percentile £33.14 £23.25 £56.88
Median hourly rate £34.98 £33.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -49.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £58.47 £63.06 £69.38
90th Percentile £79.00 £64.73 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £34.98 £33.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -49.23% +150.00%

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 27,530 28,855 36,759
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 93.00% 93.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,691 17,644 25,457
10th Percentile £281 £300 £296
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
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 1,638 1,081 1,411
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.05 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +60.48%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 13 November 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 -10 186 £575 +4.55% 197
North of England -26 41 £423 -13.33% 46
South East -36 36 £520 +4.00% 80
Yorkshire -25 18 £375 -16.67% 7
Midlands -54 15 £500 - 31
North West -27 12 £463 -15.91% 33
North East -1 11 £106 -85.28% 6
West Midlands -48 10 £500 - 17
East Midlands -7 5 - - 14
South West -1 4 £495 +7.03% 14
East of England -21 4 £533 -4.91% 16
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 November 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 93 (31.63%) Agile
2 58 (19.73%) Business Analysis
3 54 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 53 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 51 (17.35%) SQL
6 48 (16.33%) Analytics
7 47 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (12.93%) Workshop Facilitation
9 37 (12.59%) Power Platform
10 36 (12.24%) Power BI
11 33 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (11.22%) Microsoft
11 33 (11.22%) Migration
11 33 (11.22%) User Stories
12 31 (10.54%) Visualisation
13 30 (10.20%) Requirements Gathering
14 29 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (9.86%) Data Analysis
14 29 (9.86%) Data Modelling
15 28 (9.52%) Python
16 27 (9.18%) Security Cleared
17 26 (8.84%) Decision-Making
17 26 (8.84%) User Acceptance Testing
17 26 (8.84%) Windows
18 25 (8.50%) Azure
18 25 (8.50%) Process Improvement
19 23 (7.82%) JIRA
19 23 (7.82%) Scrum
20 22 (7.48%) ITIL
20 22 (7.48%) Waterfall

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 21 (7.14%) Confluence
2 6 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) SAS
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 19 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.04%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.70%) Endur
1 5 (1.70%) Oracle EBS R12
1 5 (1.70%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.02%) Algo Collateral
2 3 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.68%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.68%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.34%) RMDS
4 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (12.59%) Power Platform
2 25 (8.50%) Azure
3 17 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (5.10%) AWS
5 12 (4.08%) GCP
6 7 (2.38%) dbt
7 6 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.04%) PowerApps
7 6 (2.04%) SaaS
8 5 (1.70%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.02%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.68%) Collibra
10 2 (0.68%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.68%) Miro
10 2 (0.68%) Serverless
10 2 (0.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.70%) Firewall
2 2 (0.68%) DNS
2 2 (0.68%) LAN
2 2 (0.68%) SSL
2 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.68%) WAN
2 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.68%) Wireless
3 1 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.34%) FTP
3 1 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.34%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) NAS
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.34%) SAN
3 1 (0.34%) SMTP
3 1 (0.34%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.34%) VLAN
3 1 (0.34%) VPN
3 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.24%) Power BI
2 17 (5.78%) Tableau
3 10 (3.40%) BigQuery
4 9 (3.06%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.04%) Metadata
6 4 (1.36%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.02%) Big Data
7 3 (1.02%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.02%) Looker
7 3 (1.02%) Power Query
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.68%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.68%) MS Access
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (7.82%) JIRA
2 6 (2.04%) Selenium
3 4 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.02%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.68%) Git
5 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.68%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.34%) Postman
6 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 114 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 98 (33.33%) Finance
3 70 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 34 (11.56%) Banking
6 18 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.42%) Retail
8 11 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.74%) Front Office
9 10 (3.40%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.38%) Back Office
11 7 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.38%) Marketing
12 6 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.04%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.70%) Legal
13 5 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.02%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.36%) ADO
1 4 (1.36%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (1.36%) Kafka
2 3 (1.02%) Playwright
2 3 (1.02%) SOAP
3 2 (0.68%) PySpark
4 1 (0.34%) .NET
4 1 (0.34%) EDI
4 1 (0.34%) FHIR
4 1 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.34%) FIXML
4 1 (0.34%) JSON
4 1 (0.34%) LDAP
4 1 (0.34%) Middleware
4 1 (0.34%) Pandas
4 1 (0.34%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.34%) VML
4 1 (0.34%) Web Services
4 1 (0.34%) XML
4 1 (0.34%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.78%) Onboarding
1 17 (5.78%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.06%) Derivative
3 7 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
3 7 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (2.38%) iPad
3 7 (2.38%) iPhone
4 6 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.70%) Market Risk
5 5 (1.70%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.36%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.02%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.02%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.84%) Windows
2 7 (2.38%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.02%) Linux
3 3 (1.02%) Unix
3 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.34%) CentOS
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (31.63%) Agile
2 58 (19.73%) Business Analysis
3 54 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 53 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (16.33%) Analytics
6 47 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (12.93%) Workshop Facilitation
8 33 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (11.22%) Migration
8 33 (11.22%) User Stories
9 31 (10.54%) Visualisation
10 30 (10.20%) Requirements Gathering
11 29 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (9.86%) Data Analysis
11 29 (9.86%) Data Modelling
12 26 (8.84%) Decision-Making
12 26 (8.84%) User Acceptance Testing
13 25 (8.50%) Process Improvement
14 23 (7.82%) Scrum
15 22 (7.48%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.35%) SQL
2 28 (9.52%) Python
3 5 (1.70%) R
4 4 (1.36%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.02%) Java
5 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.68%) C#
6 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.34%) ABAP
7 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.34%) Korn
7 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (9.18%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.46%) Degree
2 19 (6.46%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.70%) CBAP
5 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.36%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.02%) CISSP
6 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.02%) ISEB
6 3 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.68%) CEH
7 2 (0.68%) CFA
7 2 (0.68%) CISM
7 2 (0.68%) IIBA
7 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CIMA
8 1 (0.34%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.46%) QA
2 12 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.40%) GDPR
4 7 (2.38%) PMO
5 6 (2.04%) GRC
5 6 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.04%) SLA
6 5 (1.70%) NIST
7 3 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.68%) COBIT
8 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.68%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (0.68%) P3O
8 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.68%) SEPA
9 1 (0.34%) Basel III
9 1 (0.34%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (1.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.68%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 2 (0.68%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.34%) BladeLogic
2 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.34%) Nessus
2 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.12%) Oracle
3 13 (4.42%) SAP
4 8 (2.72%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.72%) Splunk
5 7 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.04%) Databricks
7 5 (1.70%) Google
8 4 (1.36%) Workday
9 3 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.02%) F5
9 3 (1.02%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.02%) Qualys
9 3 (1.02%) SmartStream
10 2 (0.68%) Foundry
10 2 (0.68%) Palantir
10 2 (0.68%) VMware
11 1 (0.34%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.34%) Aruba
11 1 (0.34%) HubSpot
332 Senior Analyst jobs in England