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 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 216 202
Rank change year-on-year -46 -14 +76
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 270 370 529
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.99% 1.14% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.22% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 246 404
10th Percentile £342 £375 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +9.22%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £690 £642 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 8
10th Percentile £28.53 - £23.18
25th Percentile £30.96 £23.25 £36.78
Median hourly rate £34.14 £23.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.26% -63.85% +150.00%
75th Percentile £35.75 £62.50 £69.06
90th Percentile £60.50 £64.73 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £34.14 £23.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +45.26% -63.85% +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 24,974 30,321 40,326
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.28% 93.02% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,100 19,032 28,174
10th Percentile £280 £301 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,343 1,500 1,368
10th Percentile £13.66 £14.64 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst 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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -18 170 £535 +1.90% 227
South East +7 37 £500 +2.04% 177
North of England -26 24 £450 -11.33% 49
Midlands -34 16 £475 - 30
West Midlands -26 15 £475 -5.00% 17
Yorkshire -10 14 £365 -23.16% 14
South West +30 10 £400 -33.33% 13
North West -22 9 £466 -6.90% 30
East of England -4 6 £500 +5.26% 23
North East -5 1 £520 -27.78% 5
East Midlands -7 1 - - 12
Senior Analyst
UK

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Senior Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 107 (39.63%) Social Skills
2 84 (31.11%) Finance
2 84 (31.11%) Agile
3 62 (22.96%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 51 (18.89%) SQL
5 51 (18.89%) Business Analysis
6 47 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (14.81%) Analytics
8 39 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 36 (13.33%) Microsoft
10 34 (12.59%) Workshop Facilitation
11 30 (11.11%) User Stories
12 29 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (10.37%) User Acceptance Testing
14 27 (10.00%) Migration
14 27 (10.00%) Data Modelling
14 27 (10.00%) Data Analysis
15 26 (9.63%) Power Platform
16 25 (9.26%) Python
16 25 (9.26%) ITIL
16 25 (9.26%) Azure
17 24 (8.89%) Visualisation
17 24 (8.89%) Process Improvement
17 24 (8.89%) Risk Management
17 24 (8.89%) Public Sector
17 24 (8.89%) Power BI
18 23 (8.52%) Decision-Making
18 23 (8.52%) Banking
18 23 (8.52%) Business Intelligence

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.56%) Confluence
2 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.11%) CMS
4 2 (0.74%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.22%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.48%) Endur
4 3 (1.11%) Aladdin
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle iProcurement
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.11%) Shopify
4 3 (1.11%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.37%) iTrent
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.63%) Power Platform
2 25 (9.26%) Azure
3 16 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (4.07%) AWS
5 9 (3.33%) GCP
6 7 (2.59%) dbt
6 7 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.59%) SaaS
7 5 (1.85%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.85%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.11%) BigCommerce
8 3 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.11%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (0.74%) Collibra
9 2 (0.74%) Miro
9 2 (0.74%) Slack
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.37%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.11%) Firewall
1 3 (1.11%) Wireshark
2 2 (0.74%) 5G
2 2 (0.74%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (0.74%) Intranet
2 2 (0.74%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (0.74%) SMS
2 2 (0.74%) SS7
2 2 (0.74%) VoLTE
2 2 (0.74%) VoWiFi
2 2 (0.74%) Wireless
3 1 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) FTP
3 1 (0.37%) HTTP
3 1 (0.37%) NAS
3 1 (0.37%) Network Security
3 1 (0.37%) SMTP
3 1 (0.37%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.89%) Power BI
2 9 (3.33%) Tableau
3 7 (2.59%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.85%) Metadata
5 4 (1.48%) Power Query
6 3 (1.11%) Big Data
6 3 (1.11%) MS Access
6 3 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.74%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.74%) Looker
7 2 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.37%) GIS
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.78%) JIRA
2 5 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.48%) Selenium
3 4 (1.48%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.74%) Git
4 2 (0.74%) REST Assured
4 2 (0.74%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.37%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.37%) Postman
General
1 107 (39.63%) Social Skills
2 84 (31.11%) Finance
3 62 (22.96%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.52%) Banking
6 13 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (4.81%) Retail
7 12 (4.44%) Front Office
8 9 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.96%) Marketing
10 7 (2.59%) Back Office
10 7 (2.59%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.85%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.11%) Advertising
13 3 (1.11%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.48%) Kafka
1 4 (1.48%) SOAP
2 3 (1.11%) ADO
2 3 (1.11%) Middleware
2 3 (1.11%) Playwright
2 3 (1.11%) VML
2 3 (1.11%) Web Services
2 3 (1.11%) XML
3 2 (0.74%) PySpark
4 1 (0.37%) .NET
4 1 (0.37%) EDI
4 1 (0.37%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.37%) JSON
4 1 (0.37%) LDAP
4 1 (0.37%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.37%) XML Messaging
4 1 (0.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.04%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.59%) iPad
4 7 (2.59%) iPhone
5 6 (2.22%) Derivative
5 6 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (1.85%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.85%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.48%) CMDB
7 4 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.48%) Equities
7 4 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.11%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.11%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.30%) Windows
2 7 (2.59%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.85%) Unix
4 3 (1.11%) Linux
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (31.11%) Agile
2 60 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (18.89%) Business Analysis
4 47 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (14.81%) Analytics
6 39 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 34 (12.59%) Workshop Facilitation
8 30 (11.11%) User Stories
9 29 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (10.37%) User Acceptance Testing
11 27 (10.00%) Data Analysis
11 27 (10.00%) Data Modelling
11 27 (10.00%) Migration
12 25 (9.26%) ITIL
13 24 (8.89%) Process Improvement
13 24 (8.89%) Risk Management
13 24 (8.89%) Visualisation
14 23 (8.52%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (8.52%) Decision-Making
14 23 (8.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 51 (18.89%) SQL
2 25 (9.26%) Python
3 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
4 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.11%) R
5 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.74%) Java
5 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.37%) ABAP
6 1 (0.37%) C#
6 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (7.78%) Degree
2 19 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.96%) CBAP
4 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.11%) CISSP
6 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.74%) CEH
7 2 (0.74%) CFA
7 2 (0.74%) CISM
7 2 (0.74%) ISEB
7 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CISMP
8 1 (0.37%) GCIH
8 1 (0.37%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.04%) GDPR
2 14 (5.19%) QA
3 12 (4.44%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.59%) PMO
5 6 (2.22%) SLA
6 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.48%) GRC
7 4 (1.48%) NIST
8 3 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.74%) SEPA
10 1 (0.37%) COBIT
10 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.37%) EMIR
10 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.37%) MiFID
10 1 (0.37%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (1.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 2 (0.74%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.37%) Nessus
Vendors
1 36 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.19%) Oracle
3 11 (4.07%) SAP
4 9 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.59%) Adobe
6 6 (2.22%) Google
6 6 (2.22%) Workday
7 3 (1.11%) Citrix
7 3 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.11%) Databricks
7 3 (1.11%) F5
7 3 (1.11%) Informatica
7 3 (1.11%) Qualys
7 3 (1.11%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.11%) Splunk
8 2 (0.74%) Foundry
8 2 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.74%) Palantir
8 2 (0.74%) Talend