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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 262 211
Rank change year-on-year -8 -51 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 435 276 380
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.00% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.09% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 191 258
10th Percentile £363 £343 £371
25th Percentile £431 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.50%
75th Percentile £638 £597 £600
90th Percentile £680 £675 £639
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 10
10th Percentile £27.67 £25.85 £23.23
25th Percentile £29.59 £26.39 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £32.74 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +39.30% -63.85%
75th Percentile £32.49 £35.49 £26.88
90th Percentile £36.74 £55.60 £34.83
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £32.74 £23.50
% change year-on-year -2.25% +39.30% -63.85%

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 42,233 25,214 30,900
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.54% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,442 16,270 19,985
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,231 1,370 1,701
10th Percentile £15.20 £13.64 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.45 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.48% -43.94% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.68% -41.51% -1.58%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -31 221 £575 +7.48% 81
Midlands -19 60 £500 +5.26% 14
North of England -34 55 £575 +27.78% 39
South East -59 47 £500 -1.23% 59
West Midlands -26 35 £475 - 9
East Midlands +6 25 £525 - 5
East of England -3 24 £370 -26.00% 10
South West -30 23 £613 +53.13% 17
Yorkshire -31 23 £550 +54.93% 13
North East -19 21 £575 +10.58% 5
North West -33 12 £525 +10.53% 21
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 August 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.

1 127 (29.20%) Agile
2 113 (25.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 102 (23.45%) Business Analysis
4 81 (18.62%) Workshop Facilitation
5 78 (17.93%) User Stories
6 76 (17.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 70 (16.09%) Decision-Making
7 70 (16.09%) Requirements Gathering
8 59 (13.56%) Microsoft
8 59 (13.56%) Security Cleared
9 57 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (12.87%) Acceptance Criteria
11 53 (12.18%) SQL
12 52 (11.95%) Azure
13 48 (11.03%) Process Improvement
14 47 (10.80%) Power Platform
14 47 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (10.80%) QA
15 46 (10.57%) Analytics
15 46 (10.57%) DevOps
16 45 (10.34%) Power BI
17 44 (10.11%) AI
17 44 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
18 41 (9.43%) Data Analysis
19 39 (8.97%) Degree
20 35 (8.05%) Actionable Insight
20 35 (8.05%) Data Modelling
20 35 (8.05%) Python
20 35 (8.05%) User Acceptance Testing
21 34 (7.82%) SAP

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 21 (4.83%) Confluence
2 6 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.92%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.69%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.46%) Appian
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.53%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.38%) Endur
3 6 (1.38%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.15%) Primavera
5 4 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.46%) Dynamics SL
7 2 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.46%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.23%) SAP FS
8 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 52 (11.95%) Azure
2 47 (10.80%) Power Platform
3 26 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (2.76%) AWS
5 11 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (2.53%) Power Automate
5 11 (2.53%) SaaS
6 8 (1.84%) GCP
6 8 (1.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 7 (1.61%) Serverless
8 6 (1.38%) Azure Functions
8 6 (1.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 6 (1.38%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.15%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.92%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.69%) GitHub
11 3 (0.69%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.69%) PaaS
12 2 (0.46%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.23%) Broadband
2 1 (0.23%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.34%) Power BI
2 23 (5.29%) Tableau
3 11 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.53%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.15%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.15%) Looker
5 4 (0.92%) Metadata
5 4 (0.92%) Power Query
6 3 (0.69%) Big Data
6 3 (0.69%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.69%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.46%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.46%) GIS
7 2 (0.46%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.23%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.23%) Parquet
8 1 (0.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 30 (6.90%) JIRA
2 7 (1.61%) Postman
2 7 (1.61%) Selenium
3 6 (1.38%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.38%) Cypress.io
3 6 (1.38%) WebDriver
4 4 (0.92%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.46%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.46%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Git
7 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
General
1 123 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 107 (24.60%) Finance
3 96 (22.07%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.21%) Banking
6 19 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (4.37%) Local Government
7 17 (3.91%) Front Office
8 15 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (3.22%) Marketing
10 13 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.99%) Retail
11 11 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (2.30%) Legal
13 9 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.61%) Advertising
16 6 (1.38%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.92%) Billing
17 4 (0.92%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.38%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.92%) ADO
2 4 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.92%) VML
3 3 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.69%) NumPy
3 3 (0.69%) Pandas
4 2 (0.46%) HTML
4 2 (0.46%) JSON
4 2 (0.46%) OAuth
4 2 (0.46%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.46%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.46%) SAML
4 2 (0.46%) Swagger
5 1 (0.23%) Django
5 1 (0.23%) OpenID
5 1 (0.23%) REST
5 1 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.23%) SOAP
5 1 (0.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.44%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 13 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (1.84%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.15%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.92%) FMCG
9 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.92%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.69%) CSOC
10 3 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.69%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.46%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.30%) Windows
2 5 (1.15%) Linux
3 2 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (29.20%) Agile
2 113 (25.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 102 (23.45%) Business Analysis
4 81 (18.62%) Workshop Facilitation
5 78 (17.93%) User Stories
6 76 (17.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 70 (16.09%) Decision-Making
7 70 (16.09%) Requirements Gathering
8 57 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (12.87%) Acceptance Criteria
10 48 (11.03%) Process Improvement
11 47 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (10.57%) Analytics
12 46 (10.57%) DevOps
13 44 (10.11%) AI
13 44 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
14 41 (9.43%) Data Analysis
15 35 (8.05%) Actionable Insight
15 35 (8.05%) Data Modelling
15 35 (8.05%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 53 (12.18%) SQL
2 35 (8.05%) Python
3 9 (2.07%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.84%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.61%) R
6 6 (1.38%) C#
7 5 (1.15%) Bash
7 5 (1.15%) Perl
8 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.92%) Java
9 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.46%) VBA
10 1 (0.23%) C++
10 1 (0.23%) Korn
10 1 (0.23%) LookML
10 1 (0.23%) Ruby
10 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 39 (8.97%) Degree
3 33 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.76%) ACCA
6 12 (2.76%) CIMA
7 9 (2.07%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.38%) CISSP
10 5 (1.15%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (1.15%) CSPO
10 5 (1.15%) ISEB
11 4 (0.92%) CBAP
11 4 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.69%) IIBA
12 3 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (10.80%) QA
2 29 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 24 (5.52%) PMO
4 14 (3.22%) GDPR
5 13 (2.99%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.61%) NIST
8 6 (1.38%) WCAG
9 4 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.69%) P3O
11 2 (0.46%) GRC
11 2 (0.46%) IFRS
11 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.46%) SLA
12 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (1.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.82%) SAP
3 27 (6.21%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.22%) Oracle
5 9 (2.07%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.07%) Workday
6 7 (1.61%) Google
7 6 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (1.38%) Databricks
8 4 (0.92%) Amplitude
8 4 (0.92%) Civica
8 4 (0.92%) Clearswift
8 4 (0.92%) Orchard
8 4 (0.92%) Qualys
8 4 (0.92%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.92%) Splunk
8 4 (0.92%) Tanium
8 4 (0.92%) Tripwire
9 3 (0.69%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.69%) Trend Micro