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 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 242 204
Rank change year-on-year +6 -38 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 393 275 441
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 1.07% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.15% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 179 333
10th Percentile £338 £361 £350
25th Percentile £405 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £632 £610 £638
90th Percentile £705 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 9
10th Percentile £26.11 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £28.60 £13.50
Median hourly rate £38.11 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -19.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £62.92 £67.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £64.73 £69.00
UK median hourly rate £38.28 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -9.93% -15.00% -20.00%

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 31,731 24,013 35,082
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 93.02% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,150 15,038 23,479
10th Percentile £303 £296 £273
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,026 700 2,145
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £13.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.49 £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.93 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.03 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.11 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.05% -2.54% -9.09%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +27 236 £525 -4.55% 49
North of England -6 72 £403 -10.56% 39
South East -49 40 £595 +20.20% 54
North West -9 33 £425 -9.38% 23
Midlands -50 20 £500 - 37
North East - 20 £120 - 6
Yorkshire -41 19 £450 - 10
East of England -15 17 £550 -3.08% 10
West Midlands -53 10 £525 +5.00% 23
East Midlands - 10 £463 - 14
South West -23 7 £473 -0.53% 11
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 February 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.

1 109 (27.74%) Agile
2 87 (22.14%) Business Analysis
3 81 (20.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 76 (19.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 75 (19.08%) Requirements Gathering
6 73 (18.58%) User Stories
7 61 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (14.50%) Security Cleared
8 57 (14.50%) SQL
9 52 (13.23%) Decision-Making
9 52 (13.23%) Workshop Facilitation
10 44 (11.20%) Degree
10 44 (11.20%) SC Cleared
11 43 (10.94%) Migration
12 42 (10.69%) Power BI
12 42 (10.69%) Power Platform
13 41 (10.43%) Microsoft
14 40 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
14 40 (10.18%) Data Analysis
15 39 (9.92%) Actionable Insight
16 38 (9.67%) JIRA
16 38 (9.67%) Validation
17 37 (9.41%) Azure
17 37 (9.41%) Mentoring
18 36 (9.16%) DevOps
19 35 (8.91%) Analytics
19 35 (8.91%) Data Modelling
19 35 (8.91%) Process Improvement
20 33 (8.40%) Waterfall
21 31 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement

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 28 (7.12%) Confluence
2 9 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.51%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 31 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.58%) MS Visio
3 14 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.53%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.02%) Endur
2 4 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.76%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.51%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.25%) RMDS
5 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 42 (10.69%) Power Platform
2 37 (9.41%) Azure
3 16 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (3.82%) AWS
5 12 (3.05%) GCP
6 10 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.04%) SaaS
8 7 (1.78%) Google Analytics
9 6 (1.53%) Lucidchart
10 5 (1.27%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.76%) ChatGPT
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.76%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.51%) dbt
12 2 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.51%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.51%) Serverless
12 2 (0.51%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.29%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.53%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.27%) DNS
3 5 (1.27%) Firewall
4 4 (1.02%) LAN
4 4 (1.02%) WAN
5 3 (0.76%) Broadband
6 1 (0.25%) FTP
6 1 (0.25%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.25%) SSL
6 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.25%) VLAN
6 1 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.69%) Power BI
2 18 (4.58%) Tableau
3 14 (3.56%) BigQuery
4 10 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.04%) Looker
6 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.76%) Power Query
7 2 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.51%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.51%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.51%) GIS
7 2 (0.51%) Metadata
7 2 (0.51%) MS Access
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.25%) Flink
8 1 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (9.67%) JIRA
2 5 (1.27%) Selenium
3 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.51%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.25%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.25%) Git
4 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.25%) Postman
4 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.25%) Subversion
General
1 127 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 111 (28.24%) Finance
3 83 (21.12%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (13.49%) Public Sector
5 46 (11.70%) Banking
6 19 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (3.05%) Front Office
9 11 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.54%) Legal
11 9 (2.29%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.04%) General Ledger
12 8 (2.04%) Local Government
12 8 (2.04%) Retail
13 7 (1.78%) Marketing
14 6 (1.53%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (1.02%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.29%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (2.04%) Middleware
3 4 (1.02%) ADO
3 4 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.02%) Kafka
3 4 (1.02%) XML
4 3 (0.76%) FHIR
5 2 (0.51%) JSON
5 2 (0.51%) Playwright
5 2 (0.51%) Web Services
6 1 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.25%) FIXML
6 1 (0.25%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.25%) NumPy
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.25%) Pandas
6 1 (0.25%) REST
6 1 (0.25%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.25%) SOAP
6 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.60%) Onboarding
2 21 (5.34%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (3.56%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.29%) Cyber Defence
6 8 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.04%) NHS
6 8 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (1.78%) Derivative
7 7 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.78%) PMI
8 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.02%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.02%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.76%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.51%) CSOC
11 2 (0.51%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.12%) Windows
2 9 (2.29%) Linux
3 5 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.02%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (27.74%) Agile
2 87 (22.14%) Business Analysis
3 81 (20.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 76 (19.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 75 (19.08%) Requirements Gathering
6 73 (18.58%) User Stories
7 61 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (13.23%) Decision-Making
8 52 (13.23%) Workshop Facilitation
9 43 (10.94%) Migration
10 40 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
10 40 (10.18%) Data Analysis
11 39 (9.92%) Actionable Insight
12 38 (9.67%) Validation
13 37 (9.41%) Mentoring
14 36 (9.16%) DevOps
15 35 (8.91%) Analytics
15 35 (8.91%) Data Modelling
15 35 (8.91%) Process Improvement
16 33 (8.40%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 57 (14.50%) SQL
2 18 (4.58%) Python
3 4 (1.02%) Java
4 3 (0.76%) R
4 3 (0.76%) VBA
5 2 (0.51%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.25%) C#
6 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.25%) Korn
6 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 44 (11.20%) Degree
2 44 (11.20%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.34%) CBAP
4 15 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.80%) IIBA
6 8 (2.04%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.53%) CSPO
9 5 (1.27%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.02%) CISM
10 4 (1.02%) CISSP
10 4 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.76%) ACCA
11 3 (0.76%) CIMA
11 3 (0.76%) PMP
12 2 (0.51%) APMP
12 2 (0.51%) CFA
12 2 (0.51%) ISEB
12 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.63%) QA
2 18 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.29%) PMO
4 8 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.04%) GDPR
5 4 (1.02%) GRC
5 4 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.76%) HL7
6 3 (0.76%) IFRS
6 3 (0.76%) SLA
7 2 (0.51%) Basel III
7 2 (0.51%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.51%) NIST
7 2 (0.51%) PERC
7 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) COBIT
8 1 (0.25%) GAAP
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
8 1 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.51%) Terraform
2 1 (0.25%) BladeLogic
2 1 (0.25%) Grafana
2 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.25%) Kibana
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 41 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.63%) SAP
3 26 (6.62%) Salesforce
4 21 (5.34%) Oracle
5 13 (3.31%) Splunk
6 9 (2.29%) Google
7 7 (1.78%) Bloomberg
8 6 (1.53%) Charles River
8 6 (1.53%) Zuora
9 5 (1.27%) Databricks
9 5 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.02%) Refinitiv
11 3 (0.76%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.76%) SmartStream
12 2 (0.51%) Adobe
12 2 (0.51%) Ariba
12 2 (0.51%) Citrix
12 2 (0.51%) JD Edwards
12 2 (0.51%) OpenLink
12 2 (0.51%) Reuters