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 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 272 210
Rank change year-on-year +7 -62 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 463 267 386
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.95% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.04% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 188 252
10th Percentile £350 £338 £363
25th Percentile £427 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -9.50%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £706 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 11
10th Percentile £28.51 £31.31 -
25th Percentile £31.81 £32.57 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.63 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% -18.53% -35.85%
75th Percentile £56.42 £40.46 £63.61
90th Percentile £74.77 £63.47 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £34.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year -7.58% -18.53% -35.85%

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 42,663 25,579 30,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 91.10% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,165 16,474 18,507
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,652 1,417 1,347
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.33 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.91
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.39% -3.57%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -33 240 £575 +6.98% 528
North of England -31 60 £550 +26.44% 151
Midlands -1 59 £513 +7.89% 101
South East -45 48 £500 - 159
West Midlands -23 37 £475 - 66
Yorkshire -30 26 £550 +46.67% 43
South West -16 25 £613 +53.13% 35
North East -17 23 £575 +10.58% 20
East Midlands +11 22 £525 - 35
East of England -4 21 £370 -30.52% 26
North West -39 12 £525 +15.89% 89
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 144 (31.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 135 (29.16%) Agile
3 117 (25.27%) Business Analysis
4 103 (22.25%) Workshop Facilitation
5 97 (20.95%) Requirements Gathering
6 92 (19.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 88 (19.01%) User Stories
8 77 (16.63%) Microsoft
9 67 (14.47%) Decision-Making
10 66 (14.25%) Analytics
11 64 (13.82%) Acceptance Criteria
12 63 (13.61%) Security Cleared
13 62 (13.39%) AI
13 62 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
13 62 (13.39%) SQL
14 57 (12.31%) Azure
14 57 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 54 (11.66%) QA
16 52 (11.23%) Process Improvement
17 50 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
17 50 (10.80%) Power Platform
18 48 (10.37%) Data Analysis
18 48 (10.37%) Power BI
19 47 (10.15%) DevOps
20 42 (9.07%) Data Modelling
21 41 (8.86%) Degree
21 41 (8.86%) Risk Management
21 41 (8.86%) Validation
22 40 (8.64%) User Acceptance Testing
23 39 (8.42%) Data Quality

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 (4.97%) Confluence
2 6 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.65%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.43%) Appian
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 24 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.30%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.08%) Endur
4 5 (1.08%) Primavera
5 4 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.65%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.65%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.43%) Dynamics SL
7 2 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.43%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.43%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.22%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.31%) Azure
2 50 (10.80%) Power Platform
3 32 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (4.75%) SaaS
5 14 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (2.81%) Power Automate
7 12 (2.59%) AWS
7 12 (2.59%) Snowflake
8 11 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 9 (1.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 9 (1.94%) Serverless
10 8 (1.73%) Azure Functions
10 8 (1.73%) PaaS
11 6 (1.30%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.08%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (1.08%) ChatGPT
12 5 (1.08%) GCP
13 4 (0.86%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.65%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.30%) 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 (10.37%) Power BI
2 27 (5.83%) Tableau
3 12 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.73%) Metadata
6 6 (1.30%) Looker
7 5 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.86%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.65%) Power Query
10 2 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.43%) Big Data
10 2 (0.43%) GIS
10 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
10 2 (0.43%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.22%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (8.21%) JIRA
2 9 (1.94%) Postman
2 9 (1.94%) Selenium
3 8 (1.73%) Cucumber
3 8 (1.73%) Cypress.io
3 8 (1.73%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.65%) Balsamiq
4 3 (0.65%) GitLab
5 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) Git
6 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 145 (31.32%) Social Skills
2 113 (24.41%) Finance
3 100 (21.60%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (12.53%) Public Sector
5 37 (7.99%) Banking
6 27 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (4.32%) Local Government
8 19 (4.10%) Front Office
9 18 (3.89%) Marketing
10 17 (3.67%) Legal
11 15 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.81%) Retail
13 12 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.94%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.73%) Advertising
16 7 (1.51%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.51%) Manufacturing
17 5 (1.08%) Billing
17 5 (1.08%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.73%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.86%) ADO
2 4 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.65%) OpenAPI
3 3 (0.65%) Swagger
3 3 (0.65%) VML
4 2 (0.43%) HTML
4 2 (0.43%) JSON
4 2 (0.43%) Playwright
4 2 (0.43%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.22%) Django
5 1 (0.22%) Kafka
5 1 (0.22%) NumPy
5 1 (0.22%) OAuth
5 1 (0.22%) OpenID
5 1 (0.22%) Pandas
5 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.34%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.02%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (1.73%) Mobile App
5 8 (1.73%) Taxonomies
6 7 (1.51%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.51%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (1.08%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.86%) FMCG
9 4 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.86%) Life Science
10 3 (0.65%) CSOC
10 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.65%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.65%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.38%) Windows
2 7 (1.51%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (31.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 135 (29.16%) Agile
3 117 (25.27%) Business Analysis
4 103 (22.25%) Workshop Facilitation
5 97 (20.95%) Requirements Gathering
6 92 (19.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 88 (19.01%) User Stories
8 67 (14.47%) Decision-Making
9 66 (14.25%) Analytics
10 64 (13.82%) Acceptance Criteria
11 62 (13.39%) AI
11 62 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
12 57 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 52 (11.23%) Process Improvement
14 50 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
15 48 (10.37%) Data Analysis
16 47 (10.15%) DevOps
17 42 (9.07%) Data Modelling
18 41 (8.86%) Risk Management
18 41 (8.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 62 (13.39%) SQL
2 33 (7.13%) Python
3 11 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.16%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.73%) C#
6 5 (1.08%) Bash
6 5 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.08%) Java
6 5 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (1.08%) Perl
6 5 (1.08%) R
7 2 (0.43%) Korn
7 2 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.22%) C++
8 1 (0.22%) LookML
8 1 (0.22%) Ruby
8 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 41 (8.86%) Degree
3 37 (7.99%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.59%) ISTQB
7 10 (2.16%) CISSP
8 9 (1.94%) ACCA
8 9 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.73%) CIMA
10 7 (1.51%) CompTIA CySA+
11 6 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (1.30%) GCIH
11 6 (1.30%) ISEB
12 5 (1.08%) CBAP
13 4 (0.86%) CSPO
13 4 (0.86%) IIBA
13 4 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (11.66%) QA
2 39 (8.42%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.32%) GDPR
4 16 (3.46%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.46%) PMO
5 13 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.16%) NIST
7 8 (1.73%) WCAG
8 4 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.86%) GRC
8 4 (0.86%) IFRS
8 4 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.65%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.43%) NCSC
10 2 (0.43%) P3O
10 2 (0.43%) SEPA
11 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
System Software
1 3 (0.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (0.65%) QRadar
2 2 (0.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 77 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.26%) Salesforce
3 28 (6.05%) SAP
4 17 (3.67%) Oracle
5 11 (2.38%) Databricks
6 10 (2.16%) Workday
7 7 (1.51%) Google
7 7 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.51%) Splunk
8 6 (1.30%) Amplitude
8 6 (1.30%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.86%) Clearswift
10 4 (0.86%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.86%) Tanium
10 4 (0.86%) Tripwire
11 3 (0.65%) Civica
11 3 (0.65%) Orchard
11 3 (0.65%) Qualys
11 3 (0.65%) Trend Micro