Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in England is £531, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 272 216
Rank change year-on-year +14 -56 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 464 270 377
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.97% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.06% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 187 248
10th Percentile £354 £341 £371
25th Percentile £430 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £603 £600
90th Percentile £679 £706 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 9
10th Percentile £27.67 £28.95 -
25th Percentile £31.44 £31.31 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.27 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +45.83% -63.85%
75th Percentile £32.73 £38.97 £62.50
90th Percentile £53.17 £59.16 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £34.27 £23.50
% change year-on-year -6.62% +45.83% -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 42,725 25,379 30,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.37% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,394 16,363 19,081
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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 3,515 1,370 1,471
10th Percentile £14.91 £13.75 £14.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +73.38% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.99 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -25 238 £575 +6.48% 492
Midlands -7 60 £513 +7.89% 74
North of England -31 60 £550 +22.91% 108
South East -51 47 £500 - 139
West Midlands -26 37 £475 - 46
Yorkshire -33 27 £550 +50.68% 27
East of England -8 24 £370 - 27
South West -21 24 £613 +53.13% 26
East Midlands +4 23 £525 - 28
North East -21 22 £575 +10.58% 10
North West -44 12 £525 +15.13% 71
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 137 (29.53%) Agile
2 132 (28.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 112 (24.14%) Business Analysis
4 97 (20.91%) Workshop Facilitation
5 90 (19.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 89 (19.18%) Requirements Gathering
7 88 (18.97%) User Stories
8 73 (15.73%) Decision-Making
9 71 (15.30%) Microsoft
10 66 (14.22%) Acceptance Criteria
11 61 (13.15%) Security Cleared
12 60 (12.93%) SQL
13 59 (12.72%) Analytics
14 57 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
15 56 (12.07%) Azure
16 55 (11.85%) AI
17 54 (11.64%) QA
18 52 (11.21%) Process Improvement
19 50 (10.78%) Power Platform
20 49 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
21 48 (10.34%) Data Analysis
21 48 (10.34%) DevOps
21 48 (10.34%) Power BI
22 41 (8.84%) Data Modelling
23 40 (8.62%) Degree
23 40 (8.62%) Validation
24 39 (8.41%) User Acceptance Testing
25 38 (8.19%) Mentoring
26 37 (7.97%) SC Cleared

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 (4.96%) Confluence
2 5 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.86%) 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 27 (5.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 11 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 13 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.29%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.08%) Endur
3 5 (1.08%) Primavera
4 4 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.65%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.43%) Dynamics SL
6 2 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.43%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 56 (12.07%) Azure
2 50 (10.78%) Power Platform
3 31 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (4.09%) SaaS
5 14 (3.02%) AWS
5 14 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (2.80%) Power Automate
7 12 (2.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 10 (2.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (2.16%) Snowflake
9 9 (1.94%) Serverless
10 8 (1.72%) Azure Functions
11 7 (1.51%) GCP
11 7 (1.51%) PaaS
12 6 (1.29%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.86%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (0.86%) ChatGPT
13 4 (0.86%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.65%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.86%) 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 (10.34%) Power BI
2 26 (5.60%) Tableau
3 13 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.29%) Looker
6 5 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.08%) Metadata
7 4 (0.86%) Data Mining
7 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.86%) Power Query
8 3 (0.65%) Big Data
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.43%) GIS
9 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.43%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.43%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.22%) Parquet
10 1 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 36 (7.76%) JIRA
2 9 (1.94%) Postman
2 9 (1.94%) Selenium
3 8 (1.72%) Cucumber
3 8 (1.72%) Cypress.io
3 8 (1.72%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.65%) GitLab
5 2 (0.43%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) Git
6 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 139 (29.96%) Social Skills
2 111 (23.92%) Finance
3 101 (21.77%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 33 (7.11%) Banking
6 25 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (4.53%) Local Government
8 18 (3.88%) Front Office
8 18 (3.88%) Marketing
9 15 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.80%) Retail
12 12 (2.59%) Legal
13 8 (1.72%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.51%) Advertising
14 7 (1.51%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.08%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.72%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.86%) ADO
2 4 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.86%) 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 35 (7.54%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (1.51%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.51%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.08%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.86%) FMCG
9 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.65%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.65%) Life Science
9 3 (0.65%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.65%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.37%) Windows
2 7 (1.51%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (29.53%) Agile
2 132 (28.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 112 (24.14%) Business Analysis
4 97 (20.91%) Workshop Facilitation
5 90 (19.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 89 (19.18%) Requirements Gathering
7 88 (18.97%) User Stories
8 73 (15.73%) Decision-Making
9 66 (14.22%) Acceptance Criteria
10 59 (12.72%) Analytics
11 57 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (11.85%) AI
13 52 (11.21%) Process Improvement
14 49 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
15 48 (10.34%) Data Analysis
15 48 (10.34%) DevOps
16 41 (8.84%) Data Modelling
17 40 (8.62%) Validation
18 39 (8.41%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (12.93%) SQL
2 35 (7.54%) Python
3 10 (2.16%) JavaScript
3 10 (2.16%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.72%) C#
5 6 (1.29%) R
6 5 (1.08%) Bash
6 5 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.08%) Perl
7 4 (0.86%) Java
7 4 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.43%) Korn
8 2 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.22%) C++
9 1 (0.22%) LookML
9 1 (0.22%) Ruby
9 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (13.15%) Security Cleared
2 40 (8.62%) Degree
3 37 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.59%) ACCA
6 11 (2.37%) CIMA
6 11 (2.37%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.37%) ISTQB
7 9 (1.94%) CISSP
7 9 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (1.08%) CSPO
9 5 (1.08%) ISEB
10 4 (0.86%) CBAP
10 4 (0.86%) GCIH
10 4 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) IIBA
11 3 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (11.64%) QA
2 34 (7.33%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.74%) PMO
4 18 (3.88%) GDPR
5 15 (3.23%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.16%) NIST
8 8 (1.72%) WCAG
9 4 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.86%) GRC
9 4 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.65%) IFRS
10 3 (0.65%) P3O
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
2 2 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 71 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 31 (6.68%) SAP
4 16 (3.45%) Oracle
5 10 (2.16%) Workday
6 8 (1.72%) Google
6 8 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.51%) Databricks
8 6 (1.29%) Amplitude
8 6 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (1.29%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.29%) Splunk
9 4 (0.86%) Civica
9 4 (0.86%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.86%) Orchard
9 4 (0.86%) Qualys
9 4 (0.86%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.86%) Tanium
9 4 (0.86%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.65%) IFS