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 15 October 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 210 204
Rank change year-on-year -62 -6 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 276 391 499
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.22% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.31% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 256 387
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £631
90th Percentile £750 £663 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 7
10th Percentile £31.31 - £47.17
25th Percentile £32.57 £23.25 £56.88
Median hourly rate £34.63 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -34.62% +150.00%
75th Percentile £40.46 £63.61 £69.38
90th Percentile £63.47 £64.73 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £34.63 £42.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -18.53% -34.62% +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 25,652 29,884 38,247
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 93.07% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,521 18,263 26,654
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
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 1,445 1,248 1,407
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £15.23
25th Percentile £17.33 £21.25 £19.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +66.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.56%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -27 180 £550 +2.80% 154
South East -25 33 £506 +2.27% 124
North of England -25 26 £390 -22.00% 44
Midlands -37 16 £475 - 27
Yorkshire -13 15 £375 -16.67% 13
West Midlands -34 14 £475 -5.00% 11
South West +8 8 £400 -13.51% 13
North West -22 7 £450 -12.20% 26
East of England -13 5 £533 +1.43% 4
North East -8 4 £106 -85.28% 6
East Midlands -5 2 - - 16
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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.

1 114 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 87 (31.52%) Finance
3 86 (31.16%) Agile
4 71 (25.72%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (21.38%) Business Analysis
6 49 (17.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 48 (17.39%) SQL
8 46 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 46 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (15.58%) Analytics
10 39 (14.13%) Workshop Facilitation
11 34 (12.32%) Microsoft
11 34 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (10.87%) User Stories
13 28 (10.14%) Python
13 28 (10.14%) Data Modelling
13 28 (10.14%) Power Platform
13 28 (10.14%) Decision-Making
13 28 (10.14%) Public Sector
14 27 (9.78%) Power BI
14 27 (9.78%) Process Improvement
15 26 (9.42%) Visualisation
15 26 (9.42%) Banking
16 25 (9.06%) Migration
16 25 (9.06%) Data Analysis
16 25 (9.06%) Azure
17 24 (8.70%) Waterfall
17 24 (8.70%) Actionable Insight
18 23 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
18 23 (8.33%) ITIL

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 18 (6.52%) Confluence
2 4 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) Apache
3 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.36%) CMS
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.17%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.81%) Endur
1 5 (1.81%) Oracle EBS R12
1 5 (1.81%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.09%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.09%) Shopify
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.72%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.36%) iTrent
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.36%) RMDS
4 1 (0.36%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 28 (10.14%) Power Platform
2 25 (9.06%) Azure
3 16 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (5.43%) AWS
5 10 (3.62%) GCP
6 7 (2.54%) dbt
6 7 (2.54%) SaaS
7 6 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.17%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.81%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.09%) BigCommerce
9 3 (1.09%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.72%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (0.72%) Collibra
10 2 (0.72%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.72%) Miro
10 2 (0.72%) Slack
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.81%) Firewall
2 2 (0.72%) SSL
2 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.72%) Wireless
3 1 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) FTP
3 1 (0.36%) HTTP
3 1 (0.36%) LAN
3 1 (0.36%) NAS
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) SAN
3 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.36%) SMTP
3 1 (0.36%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.36%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.36%) VLAN
3 1 (0.36%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) WAN
3 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.78%) Power BI
2 12 (4.35%) Tableau
3 8 (2.90%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.17%) Metadata
6 4 (1.45%) Looker
6 4 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.09%) Big Data
7 3 (1.09%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.09%) Power Query
7 3 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.72%) MS Access
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.61%) JIRA
2 5 (1.81%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.45%) Selenium
3 4 (1.45%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.72%) Git
4 2 (0.72%) REST Assured
4 2 (0.72%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.36%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.36%) Postman
5 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 114 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 87 (31.52%) Finance
3 71 (25.72%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 26 (9.42%) Banking
6 20 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (5.07%) Retail
8 12 (4.35%) Front Office
9 9 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.17%) Back Office
10 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.17%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.17%) Marketing
10 6 (2.17%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.81%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.45%) Legal
13 3 (1.09%) Advertising
13 3 (1.09%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.45%) Kafka
1 4 (1.45%) SOAP
2 3 (1.09%) ADO
2 3 (1.09%) Playwright
2 3 (1.09%) VML
3 2 (0.72%) Middleware
3 2 (0.72%) PySpark
3 2 (0.72%) Web Services
3 2 (0.72%) XML
4 1 (0.36%) .NET
4 1 (0.36%) EDI
4 1 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.36%) FIXML
4 1 (0.36%) JSON
4 1 (0.36%) LDAP
4 1 (0.36%) NumPy
4 1 (0.36%) Pandas
4 1 (0.36%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.36%) XML Messaging
4 1 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.16%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.90%) Derivative
5 7 (2.54%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.54%) iPad
5 7 (2.54%) iPhone
6 5 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.81%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.81%) Market Risk
6 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.81%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.45%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.45%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.09%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.61%) Windows
2 7 (2.54%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.45%) Linux
3 4 (1.45%) Unix
4 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (31.16%) Agile
2 59 (21.38%) Business Analysis
3 49 (17.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 43 (15.58%) Analytics
6 39 (14.13%) Workshop Facilitation
7 34 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (10.87%) User Stories
9 28 (10.14%) Data Modelling
9 28 (10.14%) Decision-Making
10 27 (9.78%) Process Improvement
11 26 (9.42%) Visualisation
12 25 (9.06%) Data Analysis
12 25 (9.06%) Migration
13 24 (8.70%) Actionable Insight
13 24 (8.70%) Waterfall
14 23 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (8.33%) ITIL
14 23 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (17.39%) SQL
2 28 (10.14%) Python
3 4 (1.45%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.45%) R
4 3 (1.09%) Java
4 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.72%) C#
5 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.36%) ABAP
6 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.36%) Korn
6 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (7.97%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.88%) Degree
3 14 (5.07%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.54%) CBAP
4 7 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.09%) CISSP
6 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.09%) ISEB
6 3 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.72%) CEH
7 2 (0.72%) CISM
7 2 (0.72%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.36%) ACCA
8 1 (0.36%) CFA
8 1 (0.36%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.36%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.80%) GDPR
2 15 (5.43%) QA
3 14 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.54%) PMO
5 6 (2.17%) GRC
5 6 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.17%) SLA
6 5 (1.81%) NIST
7 4 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.72%) COBIT
8 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.72%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (0.72%) P3O
8 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.72%) SEPA
9 1 (0.36%) CRD IV
9 1 (0.36%) EMIR
System Software
1 4 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 2 (0.72%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.36%) BladeLogic
2 1 (0.36%) Nessus
2 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.80%) Oracle
3 15 (5.43%) SAP
4 9 (3.26%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.26%) Splunk
5 7 (2.54%) Google
5 7 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.45%) Adobe
6 4 (1.45%) Databricks
6 4 (1.45%) Workday
7 3 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.09%) F5
7 3 (1.09%) Informatica
7 3 (1.09%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.09%) Qualys
7 3 (1.09%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.72%) Citrix
8 2 (0.72%) Foundry
8 2 (0.72%) Talend
8 2 (0.72%) VMware