Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 264 194
Rank change year-on-year +32 -70 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 440 217 442
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 0.89% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 0.97% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 152 306
10th Percentile £363 £363 £358
25th Percentile £422 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £628 £588 £615
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +4.62% -7.05% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 9
10th Percentile £27.43 £22.69 -
25th Percentile £28.42 £25.74 £13.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.45 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% +15.00% -61.83%
75th Percentile £41.94 £28.60 £27.00
90th Percentile £47.58 £40.16 £37.90
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.45 £24.50
% change year-on-year +20.98% +7.96% -59.34%

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 37,960 22,434 33,770
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.38% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,575 14,905 22,421
10th Percentile £319 £295 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,608 926 2,442
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.92
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.73% -17.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.45% -23.29% -18.89%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +24 230 £550 +4.76% 75
North of England -9 77 £449 -4.98% 44
South East -32 54 £500 +25.00% 61
Midlands -32 44 £513 +2.50% 12
North West -23 31 £410 -12.58% 22
North East - 26 £575 - 4
East of England -9 25 £500 +8.11% 13
West Midlands -39 24 £475 -5.00% 10
Yorkshire -44 21 £480 -1.54% 18
East Midlands - 20 £600 - 2
South West -44 8 £488 +21.88% 15
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 121 (27.50%) Agile
2 92 (20.91%) User Stories
3 87 (19.77%) Business Analysis
4 82 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 70 (15.91%) Requirements Gathering
5 70 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 68 (15.45%) Decision-Making
7 63 (14.32%) Security Cleared
7 63 (14.32%) Workshop Facilitation
8 62 (14.09%) Degree
9 60 (13.64%) Microsoft
10 55 (12.50%) DevOps
11 53 (12.05%) Azure
11 53 (12.05%) SQL
12 52 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (11.82%) SAP
13 48 (10.91%) Data Modelling
14 45 (10.23%) Acceptance Criteria
14 45 (10.23%) Actionable Insight
15 44 (10.00%) QA
16 42 (9.55%) Salesforce
17 40 (9.09%) Migration
18 39 (8.86%) Power BI
18 39 (8.86%) Power Platform
19 38 (8.64%) Process Improvement
19 38 (8.64%) Validation
20 37 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
20 37 (8.41%) SC Cleared
21 36 (8.18%) Data Analysis
21 36 (8.18%) Mentoring

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 (6.36%) Confluence
2 6 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.91%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.45%) Appian
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.55%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (4.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.82%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.91%) Endur
3 4 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.68%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.68%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (0.68%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.68%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.45%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.23%) Primavera
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 53 (12.05%) Azure
2 39 (8.86%) Power Platform
3 18 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (2.27%) AWS
4 10 (2.27%) SaaS
5 9 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (1.82%) GCP
7 6 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.14%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.14%) Lucidchart
9 4 (0.91%) Google Tag Manager
10 3 (0.68%) GitHub
10 3 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.45%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.36%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (0.91%) DNS
4 3 (0.68%) Broadband
4 3 (0.68%) Firewall
5 2 (0.45%) LAN
5 2 (0.45%) WAN
6 1 (0.23%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.86%) Power BI
2 18 (4.09%) Tableau
3 9 (2.05%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.82%) BigQuery
4 8 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.59%) Power Query
6 6 (1.36%) Looker
7 4 (0.91%) Metadata
8 2 (0.45%) Big Data
8 2 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.45%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.23%) GIS
9 1 (0.23%) MS Access
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (7.73%) JIRA
2 3 (0.68%) GitLab
2 3 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.45%) MLflow
3 2 (0.45%) Selenium
3 2 (0.45%) 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%) Postman
4 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 120 (27.27%) Finance
2 118 (26.82%) Social Skills
3 88 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.73%) Banking
6 16 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.18%) Front Office
8 14 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.95%) Retail
10 11 (2.50%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.50%) Legal
10 11 (2.50%) Marketing
11 10 (2.27%) Local Government
12 8 (1.82%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.14%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.14%) Military
14 4 (0.91%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (1.59%) Middleware
3 5 (1.14%) ADO
4 4 (0.91%) VML
4 4 (0.91%) XML
5 3 (0.68%) Kafka
5 3 (0.68%) NumPy
5 3 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.68%) Pandas
6 2 (0.45%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.45%) Web Services
7 1 (0.23%) FHIR
7 1 (0.23%) JSON
7 1 (0.23%) OAuth
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.23%) Playwright
7 1 (0.23%) REST
7 1 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (0.23%) SAML
7 1 (0.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.86%) Cyber Threat
2 17 (3.86%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.64%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.36%) PMI
9 5 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (1.14%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.91%) Cyberattack
10 4 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.91%) NHS
11 2 (0.45%) CSOC
11 2 (0.45%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.95%) Windows
2 8 (1.82%) Linux
3 4 (0.91%) Unix
4 3 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (27.50%) Agile
2 92 (20.91%) User Stories
3 87 (19.77%) Business Analysis
4 82 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 70 (15.91%) Requirements Gathering
5 70 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 68 (15.45%) Decision-Making
7 63 (14.32%) Workshop Facilitation
8 55 (12.50%) DevOps
9 52 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (10.91%) Data Modelling
11 45 (10.23%) Acceptance Criteria
11 45 (10.23%) Actionable Insight
12 40 (9.09%) Migration
13 38 (8.64%) Process Improvement
13 38 (8.64%) Validation
14 37 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (8.18%) Data Analysis
15 36 (8.18%) Mentoring
16 33 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 53 (12.05%) SQL
2 19 (4.32%) Python
3 6 (1.36%) R
3 6 (1.36%) VBA
4 5 (1.14%) Java
5 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.23%) Korn
7 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.23%) Ruby
7 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (14.32%) Security Cleared
2 62 (14.09%) Degree
3 37 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (4.32%) CBAP
6 12 (2.73%) ACCA
6 12 (2.73%) CIMA
7 10 (2.27%) CSPO
8 9 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.05%) IIBA
9 8 (1.82%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.14%) CISSP
11 4 (0.91%) CISM
11 4 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.91%) PMP
12 3 (0.68%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.45%) APMP
13 2 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (10.00%) QA
2 24 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.32%) PMO
4 9 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.36%) GDPR
6 4 (0.91%) IFRS
6 4 (0.91%) SLA
7 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.45%) P3O
8 2 (0.45%) PERC
9 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.23%) Basel III
9 1 (0.23%) EMIR
9 1 (0.23%) GRC
9 1 (0.23%) HL7
9 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.14%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.82%) SAP
3 42 (9.55%) Salesforce
4 12 (2.73%) Oracle
5 9 (2.05%) Splunk
6 8 (1.82%) Databricks
6 8 (1.82%) Google
6 8 (1.82%) Zuora
7 7 (1.59%) Bloomberg
7 7 (1.59%) Charles River
8 5 (1.14%) Civica
8 5 (1.14%) Guidewire
8 5 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.14%) Workday
9 4 (0.91%) IFS
9 4 (0.91%) Orchard
9 4 (0.91%) Refinitiv
10 3 (0.68%) Adobe
10 3 (0.68%) QAD
10 3 (0.68%) Sage