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 5 April 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 275 200
Rank change year-on-year +40 -75 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 434 213 434
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 0.87% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 0.94% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 144 320
10th Percentile £338 £362 £350
25th Percentile £410 £412 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £664
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 9
10th Percentile £26.11 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £23.61 £13.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.39 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.39% +14.72% -61.83%
75th Percentile £41.94 £28.60 £27.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £37.27 £36.15
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.39 £24.50
% change year-on-year +21.28% +7.69% -57.76%

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 35,775 22,632 34,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.88% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,532 15,157 23,256
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 840 2,307
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.36%
75th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.55 £76.25 £71.45
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 +38 249 £550 +4.76% 66
North of England -25 72 £410 -13.14% 53
South East -26 52 £550 +0.92% 46
North West -26 33 £423 -11.05% 30
Midlands -43 30 £450 -10.00% 38
East of England -14 22 £550 +18.92% 10
North East - 20 £120 - 7
Yorkshire -45 19 £475 +5.56% 16
West Midlands -48 15 £450 -10.00% 21
East Midlands - 15 £488 - 17
South West -28 7 £473 -0.53% 8
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 April 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.

1 116 (26.73%) Agile
2 92 (21.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (19.82%) Business Analysis
4 81 (18.66%) User Stories
5 75 (17.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 74 (17.05%) Requirements Gathering
7 62 (14.29%) SQL
8 61 (14.06%) Decision-Making
8 61 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (14.06%) Security Cleared
9 60 (13.82%) Workshop Facilitation
10 54 (12.44%) Degree
11 51 (11.75%) Microsoft
12 49 (11.29%) Azure
13 48 (11.06%) Power BI
13 48 (11.06%) Power Platform
14 45 (10.37%) Actionable Insight
14 45 (10.37%) Data Modelling
14 45 (10.37%) SC Cleared
15 44 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
15 44 (10.14%) DevOps
15 44 (10.14%) Migration
16 41 (9.45%) Data Analysis
17 40 (9.22%) Acceptance Criteria
17 40 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (9.22%) SAP
17 40 (9.22%) Validation
18 38 (8.76%) Mentoring
18 38 (8.76%) Process Improvement
18 38 (8.76%) QA

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 29 (6.68%) Confluence
2 10 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.69%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.46%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.46%) SAS
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 33 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (5.07%) MS Visio
3 17 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.69%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (0.69%) Endur
4 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.46%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.23%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 49 (11.29%) Azure
2 48 (11.06%) Power Platform
3 19 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (3.92%) AWS
5 12 (2.76%) GCP
6 10 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.84%) SaaS
8 6 (1.38%) Google Analytics
8 6 (1.38%) Lucidchart
9 5 (1.15%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (0.92%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.69%) ChatGPT
11 3 (0.69%) GitHub
11 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.46%) Adobe Analytics
12 2 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.46%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.38%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.15%) DNS
4 4 (0.92%) Broadband
5 3 (0.69%) Firewall
5 3 (0.69%) LAN
5 3 (0.69%) WAN
6 1 (0.23%) FTP
6 1 (0.23%) Internet
6 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.06%) Power BI
2 19 (4.38%) Tableau
3 12 (2.76%) BigQuery
4 8 (1.84%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.61%) Looker
6 6 (1.38%) Power Query
7 5 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.15%) Metadata
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.46%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (0.46%) GIS
8 2 (0.46%) MS Access
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.46%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.23%) Big Data
9 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (8.53%) JIRA
2 3 (0.69%) Selenium
3 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.46%) MLflow
3 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.23%) GitLab
4 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.23%) Postman
4 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 128 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 115 (26.50%) Finance
3 94 (21.66%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (12.67%) Public Sector
5 40 (9.22%) Banking
6 18 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.00%) Front Office
8 13 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.76%) Retail
10 11 (2.53%) Local Government
11 10 (2.30%) Legal
12 8 (1.84%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.84%) Marketing
13 6 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.38%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.92%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.84%) FIX Protocol
1 8 (1.84%) Middleware
2 4 (0.92%) ADO
2 4 (0.92%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (0.92%) NumPy
2 4 (0.92%) Pandas
2 4 (0.92%) XML
3 3 (0.69%) FHIR
4 2 (0.46%) Kafka
4 2 (0.46%) REST
4 2 (0.46%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.46%) VML
4 2 (0.46%) Web Services
5 1 (0.23%) FIXML
5 1 (0.23%) JSON
5 1 (0.23%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.23%) OAuth
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.23%) Playwright
5 1 (0.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.61%) Cyber Threat
1 20 (4.61%) Onboarding
2 18 (4.15%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.76%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
5 10 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.84%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.84%) NHS
8 7 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.38%) PMI
10 4 (0.92%) Cyberattack
10 4 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.92%) Derivative
10 4 (0.92%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.46%) CSOC
11 2 (0.46%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.53%) Windows
2 8 (1.84%) Linux
3 4 (0.92%) Unix
4 3 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (26.73%) Agile
2 92 (21.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (19.82%) Business Analysis
4 81 (18.66%) User Stories
5 75 (17.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 74 (17.05%) Requirements Gathering
7 61 (14.06%) Decision-Making
7 61 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (13.82%) Workshop Facilitation
9 45 (10.37%) Actionable Insight
9 45 (10.37%) Data Modelling
10 44 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
10 44 (10.14%) DevOps
10 44 (10.14%) Migration
11 41 (9.45%) Data Analysis
12 40 (9.22%) Acceptance Criteria
12 40 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (9.22%) Validation
13 38 (8.76%) Mentoring
13 38 (8.76%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 62 (14.29%) SQL
2 23 (5.30%) Python
3 6 (1.38%) VBA
4 5 (1.15%) R
5 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.46%) Java
5 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.23%) Korn
6 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.44%) Degree
3 45 (10.37%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.38%) CBAP
5 16 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.53%) IIBA
7 9 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.84%) CSPO
8 8 (1.84%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.61%) ACCA
9 7 (1.61%) CIMA
10 5 (1.15%) CISSP
10 5 (1.15%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.92%) CISM
11 4 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.92%) PMP
12 2 (0.46%) CFA
12 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.76%) QA
2 23 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.38%) PMO
4 8 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.15%) GDPR
5 5 (1.15%) SLA
6 3 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.69%) HL7
6 3 (0.69%) IFRS
6 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.46%) PERC
7 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.23%) Basel III
8 1 (0.23%) COBIT
8 1 (0.23%) FINRA
8 1 (0.23%) GAAP
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.23%) ITGC
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.69%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (0.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.22%) SAP
3 37 (8.53%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.23%) Oracle
5 13 (3.00%) Splunk
6 9 (2.07%) Databricks
7 8 (1.84%) Google
8 7 (1.61%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.38%) Charles River
9 6 (1.38%) Zuora
10 5 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.92%) Refinitiv
12 3 (0.69%) Adobe
12 3 (0.69%) Ariba
12 3 (0.69%) Civica
12 3 (0.69%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.69%) SmartStream
12 3 (0.69%) Workday
13 2 (0.46%) Citrix