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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 262 211
Rank change year-on-year -7 -51 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 437 279 380
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.01% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.11% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 193 258
10th Percentile £363 £344 £371
25th Percentile £431 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -10.31%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £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 42,222 25,226 30,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.56% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,437 16,285 19,969
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 3,228 1,378 1,700
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.68 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.15 £17.44 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -35 221 £575 +7.48% 186
Midlands -7 62 £500 +5.26% 23
North of England -42 55 £575 +28.49% 64
South East -64 47 £500 -1.23% 38
West Midlands -38 36 £475 - 16
East Midlands +10 26 £525 - 7
East of England -6 24 £370 -26.00% 8
Yorkshire -31 23 £550 +54.93% 20
South West -32 23 £613 +53.13% 22
North East -21 21 £575 +10.58% 7
North West -45 12 £525 +10.53% 37
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 (29.06%) Agile
2 114 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 103 (23.57%) Business Analysis
4 82 (18.76%) Workshop Facilitation
5 78 (17.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 78 (17.85%) User Stories
6 71 (16.25%) Requirements Gathering
7 70 (16.02%) Decision-Making
8 62 (14.19%) Microsoft
9 60 (13.73%) Security Cleared
10 58 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (12.81%) Acceptance Criteria
12 54 (12.36%) Azure
13 53 (12.13%) SQL
14 50 (11.44%) Process Improvement
15 48 (10.98%) QA
16 47 (10.76%) Analytics
16 47 (10.76%) Power Platform
16 47 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
17 46 (10.53%) DevOps
18 45 (10.30%) Power BI
19 44 (10.07%) AI
19 44 (10.07%) Business Intelligence
20 41 (9.38%) Data Analysis
21 40 (9.15%) Degree
22 36 (8.24%) User Acceptance Testing
23 35 (8.01%) Actionable Insight
23 35 (8.01%) Data Modelling
23 35 (8.01%) Python
24 34 (7.78%) 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 (4.81%) Confluence
2 6 (1.37%) 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 28 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.52%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.37%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.14%) Endur
4 5 (1.14%) Primavera
5 4 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
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%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 54 (12.36%) Azure
2 47 (10.76%) Power Platform
3 26 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (2.75%) AWS
4 12 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (2.52%) Power Automate
5 11 (2.52%) SaaS
6 8 (1.83%) GCP
6 8 (1.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 7 (1.60%) Serverless
8 6 (1.37%) Azure Functions
8 6 (1.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 6 (1.37%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.14%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.14%) 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
2 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.30%) Power BI
2 23 (5.26%) Tableau
3 11 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.52%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.14%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.14%) 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 (6.86%) JIRA
2 7 (1.60%) Postman
2 7 (1.60%) Selenium
3 6 (1.37%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.37%) Cypress.io
3 6 (1.37%) 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 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 108 (24.71%) Finance
3 96 (21.97%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.41%) Banking
6 19 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (4.35%) Local Government
7 16 (3.66%) Front Office
8 14 (3.20%) Marketing
8 14 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.97%) Retail
10 11 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.29%) Legal
12 9 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.83%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.60%) Advertising
15 6 (1.37%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.92%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.37%) 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 27 (6.18%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.89%) Onboarding
3 13 (2.97%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.52%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.14%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.92%) FMCG
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%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.46%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.29%) Windows
2 6 (1.37%) Linux
3 2 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (29.06%) Agile
2 114 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 103 (23.57%) Business Analysis
4 82 (18.76%) Workshop Facilitation
5 78 (17.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 78 (17.85%) User Stories
6 71 (16.25%) Requirements Gathering
7 70 (16.02%) Decision-Making
8 58 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (12.81%) Acceptance Criteria
10 50 (11.44%) Process Improvement
11 47 (10.76%) Analytics
11 47 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (10.53%) DevOps
13 44 (10.07%) AI
13 44 (10.07%) Business Intelligence
14 41 (9.38%) Data Analysis
15 36 (8.24%) User Acceptance Testing
16 35 (8.01%) Actionable Insight
16 35 (8.01%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 53 (12.13%) SQL
2 35 (8.01%) Python
3 9 (2.06%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.83%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.60%) R
6 6 (1.37%) C#
7 5 (1.14%) Bash
7 5 (1.14%) Perl
8 4 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.92%) Java
9 3 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.46%) VBA
11 1 (0.23%) C++
11 1 (0.23%) Korn
11 1 (0.23%) LookML
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.15%) Degree
3 33 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.75%) ACCA
6 12 (2.75%) CIMA
7 9 (2.06%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.60%) CISSP
8 7 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (1.14%) CSPO
9 5 (1.14%) ISEB
10 4 (0.92%) CBAP
10 4 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.69%) IIBA
11 3 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.98%) QA
2 29 (6.64%) Data Quality
3 24 (5.49%) PMO
4 15 (3.43%) GDPR
5 13 (2.97%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.60%) NIST
8 6 (1.37%) 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 (1.14%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 62 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.78%) SAP
3 27 (6.18%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.43%) Oracle
5 9 (2.06%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.06%) Workday
6 7 (1.60%) Google
7 6 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (1.37%) Databricks
8 5 (1.14%) Splunk
9 4 (0.92%) Amplitude
9 4 (0.92%) Civica
9 4 (0.92%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.92%) Orchard
9 4 (0.92%) Qualys
9 4 (0.92%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.92%) Tanium
9 4 (0.92%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.69%) IFS
10 3 (0.69%) Trend Micro