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 7 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 264 214
Rank change year-on-year +6 -50 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 421 257 420
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 0.97% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.05% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 176 284
10th Percentile £370 £334 £357
25th Percentile £430 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £626 £588 £591
90th Percentile £675 £663 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 14
10th Percentile £27.14 £24.54 £13.50
25th Percentile £29.04 £26.35 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% +21.70% -44.07%
75th Percentile - £34.95 £25.81
90th Percentile £32.67 £38.15 £30.33
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £28.60 £23.50
% change year-on-year +11.89% +21.70% -44.07%

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 41,004 24,478 34,552
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 92.12% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,091 15,951 22,619
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £748 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,951 1,158 2,526
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.83 £12.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.98 £16.86
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -8.69%
75th Percentile £67.70 £57.12 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.52
UK median hourly rate £42.59 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +61.03% -29.47% -12.79%

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 7 July 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
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 7 July 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 -37 216 £575 +9.52% 106
South East -37 55 £500 - 73
Midlands -17 53 £500 - 34
North of England -39 53 £483 +5.92% 52
West Midlands -43 30 £475 -5.00% 19
East Midlands - 23 £500 - 15
East of England -12 21 £500 +8.11% 17
North West -33 21 £430 -5.70% 30
South West -29 17 £590 +47.50% 24
North East - 17 £575 - 7
Yorkshire -43 16 £530 +13.67% 15
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 July 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.

1 111 (26.37%) Agile
2 87 (20.67%) Business Analysis
3 79 (18.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 75 (17.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 73 (17.34%) User Stories
6 66 (15.68%) Requirements Gathering
7 64 (15.20%) Decision-Making
8 62 (14.73%) Microsoft
9 58 (13.78%) Security Cleared
10 54 (12.83%) Workshop Facilitation
11 52 (12.35%) Azure
12 48 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (11.16%) SAP
13 47 (11.16%) SQL
14 46 (10.93%) DevOps
15 44 (10.45%) Data Modelling
15 44 (10.45%) Degree
16 43 (10.21%) Acceptance Criteria
16 43 (10.21%) Actionable Insight
17 41 (9.74%) QA
18 40 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (9.50%) Power Platform
19 38 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
19 38 (9.03%) Power BI
20 36 (8.55%) Analytics
21 35 (8.31%) Process Improvement
22 34 (8.08%) Data Analysis
23 33 (7.84%) Salesforce
24 31 (7.36%) Migration
24 31 (7.36%) Validation

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 22 (5.23%) Confluence
2 4 (0.95%) OpenEdge
2 4 (0.95%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.71%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.48%) Appian
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 27 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.85%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.24%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (4.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.43%) Endur
2 6 (1.43%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.71%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.71%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (0.71%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.71%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.48%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.48%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.24%) Primavera
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 52 (12.35%) Azure
2 40 (9.50%) Power Platform
3 16 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (2.38%) AWS
5 8 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.43%) GCP
7 5 (1.19%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.19%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.19%) SaaS
8 3 (0.71%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.71%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.48%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.48%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.48%) GitHub
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.24%) Broadband
2 1 (0.24%) DNS
2 1 (0.24%) LAN
2 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.03%) Power BI
2 20 (4.75%) Tableau
3 9 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.90%) Power Query
4 8 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.19%) Metadata
6 4 (0.95%) Looker
7 3 (0.71%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.71%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.48%) Big Data
8 2 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.48%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.24%) Essbase
9 1 (0.24%) GIS
9 1 (0.24%) MS Access
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (6.18%) JIRA
2 4 (0.95%) Postman
2 4 (0.95%) Selenium
3 3 (0.71%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.71%) GitLab
3 3 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.48%) MLflow
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.48%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 115 (27.32%) Social Skills
2 112 (26.60%) Finance
3 85 (20.19%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.51%) Banking
6 15 (3.56%) Front Office
6 15 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (3.56%) Retail
7 14 (3.33%) Local Government
7 14 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (3.09%) Marketing
9 12 (2.85%) Legal
9 12 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.90%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.95%) Advertising
13 4 (0.95%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.95%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.95%) ADO
1 4 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (0.95%) VML
2 3 (0.71%) Middleware
2 3 (0.71%) NumPy
2 3 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (0.71%) Pandas
2 3 (0.71%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.48%) Gherkin
3 2 (0.48%) Kafka
3 2 (0.48%) OAuth
3 2 (0.48%) SAML
4 1 (0.24%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.24%) JSON
4 1 (0.24%) OpenID
4 1 (0.24%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.24%) SOAP
4 1 (0.24%) Spring
4 1 (0.24%) Web Services
4 1 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.51%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.80%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.90%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
7 6 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.19%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.95%) FMCG
9 4 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.95%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.71%) CSOC
10 3 (0.71%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.71%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.48%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.90%) Windows
2 5 (1.19%) Linux
3 2 (0.48%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (26.37%) Agile
2 87 (20.67%) Business Analysis
3 79 (18.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 75 (17.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 73 (17.34%) User Stories
6 66 (15.68%) Requirements Gathering
7 64 (15.20%) Decision-Making
8 54 (12.83%) Workshop Facilitation
9 48 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (10.93%) DevOps
11 44 (10.45%) Data Modelling
12 43 (10.21%) Acceptance Criteria
12 43 (10.21%) Actionable Insight
13 40 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (8.55%) Analytics
16 35 (8.31%) Process Improvement
17 34 (8.08%) Data Analysis
18 31 (7.36%) Migration
18 31 (7.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 47 (11.16%) SQL
2 27 (6.41%) Python
3 8 (1.90%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.43%) VBA
5 5 (1.19%) Bash
5 5 (1.19%) Java
5 5 (1.19%) Perl
5 5 (1.19%) R
6 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.48%) C#
7 2 (0.48%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.24%) C++
8 1 (0.24%) Korn
8 1 (0.24%) LookML
8 1 (0.24%) Ruby
8 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.45%) Degree
3 30 (7.13%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.09%) ACCA
5 13 (3.09%) CIMA
5 13 (3.09%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.43%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.19%) CBAP
7 5 (1.19%) CISSP
7 5 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (1.19%) CSPO
7 5 (1.19%) IIBA
8 3 (0.71%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.71%) ISEB
8 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.48%) PhD
9 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.74%) QA
2 21 (4.99%) PMO
3 20 (4.75%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.38%) GDPR
6 7 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.43%) NIST
8 3 (0.71%) GRC
8 3 (0.71%) IFRS
8 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.48%) P3O
9 2 (0.48%) SLA
9 2 (0.48%) WCAG
10 1 (0.24%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.24%) Basel III
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) EMIR
10 1 (0.24%) HL7
10 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 5 (1.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.24%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.24%) Grafana
3 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.24%) Kibana
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.24%) QRadar
3 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 47 (11.16%) SAP
3 33 (7.84%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.56%) Oracle
5 12 (2.85%) Workday
6 9 (2.14%) Databricks
7 7 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.19%) Civica
8 5 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (1.19%) Google
8 5 (1.19%) Splunk
9 4 (0.95%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.95%) Guidewire
9 4 (0.95%) IFS
9 4 (0.95%) Orchard
9 4 (0.95%) Qualys
9 4 (0.95%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.95%) Tanium
9 4 (0.95%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.71%) Trend Micro