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 17 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
17 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 218 207
Rank change year-on-year -67 -11 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 290 342 477
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.11% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.19% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 228 365
10th Percentile £319 £363 £350
25th Percentile £412 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -5.68% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £631
90th Percentile £706 £679 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 7
10th Percentile £29.26 - £47.17
25th Percentile £31.65 £23.25 £56.88
Median hourly rate £34.63 £23.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.34% -63.85% +150.00%
75th Percentile £50.21 £54.24 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.00 £64.73 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £34.63 £23.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +47.34% -63.85% +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 27,257 28,735 37,323
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 93.01% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,480 17,554 25,817
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,651 1,077 1,437
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.22 £15.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £19.47
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -1 183 £575 +4.55% 198
North of England -26 41 £423 -13.33% 45
South East -35 35 £521 +5.30% 75
Yorkshire -26 18 £375 -16.67% 6
Midlands -47 15 £488 -2.50% 33
North West -27 12 £463 -15.91% 33
North East 0 11 £106 -85.28% 6
West Midlands -49 9 £488 -2.50% 18
East Midlands -10 6 - - 15
South West +2 4 £495 +7.03% 10
East of England -20 4 £533 -4.91% 17
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 92 (31.72%) Agile
2 60 (20.69%) Business Analysis
3 54 (18.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 51 (17.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 50 (17.24%) Analytics
6 47 (16.21%) SQL
7 45 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (13.10%) Power Platform
9 37 (12.76%) Power BI
9 37 (12.76%) Workshop Facilitation
10 34 (11.72%) User Stories
11 33 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (11.38%) Microsoft
12 32 (11.03%) Migration
13 31 (10.69%) Requirements Gathering
13 31 (10.69%) Visualisation
14 29 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (9.66%) Data Analysis
15 28 (9.66%) Data Modelling
16 27 (9.31%) Security Cleared
17 26 (8.97%) Azure
17 26 (8.97%) Decision-Making
17 26 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
18 25 (8.62%) Python
18 25 (8.62%) Windows
19 24 (8.28%) Process Improvement
20 23 (7.93%) JIRA
20 23 (7.93%) Scrum
21 21 (7.24%) Actionable Insight
21 21 (7.24%) Confluence

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 (7.24%) Confluence
2 6 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) SAS
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 18 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.07%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Endur
2 4 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.38%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.03%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.69%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.69%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.34%) RMDS
5 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (13.10%) Power Platform
2 26 (8.97%) Azure
3 17 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (5.52%) AWS
5 11 (3.79%) GCP
6 7 (2.41%) dbt
7 6 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.07%) PowerApps
7 6 (2.07%) SaaS
8 5 (1.72%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.03%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.69%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.69%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.69%) Miro
10 2 (0.69%) Serverless
10 2 (0.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.72%) Firewall
2 2 (0.69%) DNS
2 2 (0.69%) LAN
2 2 (0.69%) SSL
2 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.69%) WAN
2 2 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.69%) Wireless
3 1 (0.34%) Broadband
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%) 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 37 (12.76%) Power BI
2 16 (5.52%) Tableau
3 9 (3.10%) BigQuery
3 9 (3.10%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.72%) Metadata
5 4 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.03%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.03%) Looker
6 3 (1.03%) Power Query
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.69%) Big Data
7 2 (0.69%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.34%) MS Access
8 1 (0.34%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (7.93%) JIRA
2 6 (2.07%) Selenium
3 4 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.03%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.69%) Git
5 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.69%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.34%) Postman
6 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 111 (38.28%) Social Skills
2 95 (32.76%) Finance
3 70 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (12.41%) Public Sector
5 33 (11.38%) Banking
6 18 (6.21%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.48%) Retail
8 10 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.45%) Front Office
8 10 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.41%) Marketing
10 6 (2.07%) Back Office
10 6 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.72%) Legal
11 5 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.38%) Local Government
13 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.38%) ADO
1 4 (1.38%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (1.03%) Kafka
2 3 (1.03%) Playwright
2 3 (1.03%) SOAP
3 2 (0.69%) FHIR
3 2 (0.69%) PySpark
4 1 (0.34%) .NET
4 1 (0.34%) EDI
4 1 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.34%) JSON
4 1 (0.34%) LDAP
4 1 (0.34%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.34%) NumPy
4 1 (0.34%) Pandas
4 1 (0.34%) REST
4 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.34%) XML
4 1 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.52%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.10%) Derivative
4 7 (2.41%) Cyber Defence
4 7 (2.41%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.41%) iPad
4 7 (2.41%) iPhone
5 6 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.72%) Market Risk
6 5 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.38%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.38%) NHS
7 4 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.62%) Windows
2 7 (2.41%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.03%) Linux
3 3 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.69%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) CentOS
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (31.72%) Agile
2 60 (20.69%) Business Analysis
3 54 (18.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 51 (17.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 50 (17.24%) Analytics
6 45 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (12.76%) Workshop Facilitation
8 34 (11.72%) User Stories
9 33 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (11.03%) Migration
11 31 (10.69%) Requirements Gathering
11 31 (10.69%) Visualisation
12 29 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
13 28 (9.66%) Data Analysis
13 28 (9.66%) Data Modelling
14 26 (8.97%) Decision-Making
14 26 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
15 24 (8.28%) Process Improvement
16 23 (7.93%) Scrum
17 21 (7.24%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 47 (16.21%) SQL
2 25 (8.62%) Python
3 4 (1.38%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.38%) R
4 3 (1.03%) Java
5 2 (0.69%) C#
5 2 (0.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.34%) ABAP
6 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.34%) Korn
6 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (9.31%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.55%) Degree
2 19 (6.55%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.72%) CBAP
5 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.38%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.03%) CISSP
6 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.03%) ISEB
7 2 (0.69%) CEH
7 2 (0.69%) CFA
7 2 (0.69%) CISM
7 2 (0.69%) IIBA
7 2 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.34%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.55%) QA
2 12 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.76%) GDPR
4 7 (2.41%) PMO
5 6 (2.07%) GRC
5 6 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.07%) SLA
6 5 (1.72%) NIST
7 3 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.69%) COBIT
8 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.69%) HL7
8 2 (0.69%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (0.69%) P3O
8 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.69%) SEPA
9 1 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 2 (0.69%) 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 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.86%) Oracle
3 13 (4.48%) SAP
4 8 (2.76%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.76%) Splunk
5 7 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.07%) Databricks
7 4 (1.38%) Google
7 4 (1.38%) Workday
8 3 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.03%) F5
8 3 (1.03%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.03%) Qualys
8 3 (1.03%) SmartStream
9 2 (0.69%) Foundry
9 2 (0.69%) Palantir
9 2 (0.69%) VMware
10 1 (0.34%) Capita
10 1 (0.34%) Computacenter
10 1 (0.34%) IBM Sterling
333 Senior Analyst jobs in England