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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 265 215
Rank change year-on-year +20 -50 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 440 240 424
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.96% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.04% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 166 289
10th Percentile £363 £352 £358
25th Percentile £421 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £625 £581 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £652
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 14
10th Percentile £28.29 £23.31 £13.50
25th Percentile £30.70 £26.03 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.53 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.13% -42.74%
75th Percentile £35.05 £30.20 £25.81
90th Percentile £41.94 £41.74 £30.33
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.53 £23.50
% change year-on-year +16.26% +17.13% -42.74%

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 40,119 23,104 34,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.25% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,696 15,170 22,649
10th Percentile £325 £293 £291
25th Percentile £417 £405 £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 £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,847 1,049 2,652
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -9.35%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.08% -27.00% -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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -6 229 £550 +5.77% 91
North of England -37 62 £450 -5.26% 35
South East -28 55 £500 +6.67% 71
Midlands -16 51 £500 - 17
West Midlands -42 28 £475 -5.00% 13
North West -34 26 £425 -6.80% 26
East of England -8 23 £500 +8.11% 9
East Midlands - 23 £500 - 4
North East - 19 £575 - 5
Yorkshire -42 18 £480 -2.78% 5
South West -29 14 £590 +47.50% 15
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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.

1 121 (27.50%) Agile
2 95 (21.59%) Business Analysis
3 89 (20.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (18.86%) User Stories
5 77 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 75 (17.05%) Requirements Gathering
7 68 (15.45%) Decision-Making
8 66 (15.00%) Microsoft
9 65 (14.77%) Workshop Facilitation
10 61 (13.86%) Security Cleared
11 57 (12.95%) Degree
12 53 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (11.82%) DevOps
14 51 (11.59%) Azure
14 51 (11.59%) SQL
15 49 (11.14%) SAP
16 47 (10.68%) Data Modelling
17 46 (10.45%) Acceptance Criteria
17 46 (10.45%) Actionable Insight
17 46 (10.45%) QA
18 39 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
19 38 (8.64%) Power Platform
19 38 (8.64%) Validation
20 36 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
20 36 (8.18%) Power BI
20 36 (8.18%) Process Improvement
20 36 (8.18%) Salesforce
21 35 (7.95%) Migration
21 35 (7.95%) SC Cleared
22 34 (7.73%) Analytics

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 (5.23%) Confluence
2 4 (0.91%) OpenEdge
2 4 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.68%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.45%) Appian
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 30 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.41%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (4.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.36%) Endur
2 6 (1.36%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.68%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.68%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.68%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.68%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.45%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.23%) Primavera
7 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 51 (11.59%) Azure
2 38 (8.64%) Power Platform
3 16 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (1.82%) AWS
4 8 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.14%) GCP
5 5 (1.14%) SaaS
6 4 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (0.91%) Power Automate
7 3 (0.68%) GitHub
7 3 (0.68%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.45%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.45%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.14%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.45%) Firewall
4 1 (0.23%) Broadband
4 1 (0.23%) DNS
4 1 (0.23%) LAN
4 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.18%) Power BI
2 19 (4.32%) Tableau
3 9 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.05%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.82%) Power Query
5 5 (1.14%) Metadata
6 4 (0.91%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.91%) Looker
7 3 (0.68%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.45%) Big Data
8 2 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.45%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.23%) Essbase
9 1 (0.23%) GIS
9 1 (0.23%) MS Access
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (6.82%) JIRA
2 4 (0.91%) Postman
2 4 (0.91%) Selenium
3 3 (0.68%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.68%) GitLab
3 3 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.45%) MLflow
4 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.45%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 121 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 119 (27.05%) Finance
3 88 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.91%) Banking
6 20 (4.55%) Front Office
7 17 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.41%) Retail
10 14 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (3.18%) Local Government
11 12 (2.73%) Legal
11 12 (2.73%) Marketing
12 10 (2.27%) Financial Institution
13 9 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.91%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.91%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.91%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.36%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (0.91%) Middleware
2 4 (0.91%) VML
3 3 (0.68%) ADO
3 3 (0.68%) NumPy
3 3 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (0.68%) Pandas
4 2 (0.45%) Gherkin
4 2 (0.45%) Kafka
4 2 (0.45%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.45%) XML
5 1 (0.23%) JSON
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.23%) REST
5 1 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.23%) SAML
5 1 (0.23%) SOAP
5 1 (0.23%) Spring
5 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.32%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.18%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
7 7 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.36%) PMI
9 5 (1.14%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.91%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.68%) CSOC
11 3 (0.68%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.68%) NHS
11 3 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.50%) Windows
2 7 (1.59%) Linux
3 4 (0.91%) Unix
4 2 (0.45%) Android
4 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (27.50%) Agile
2 95 (21.59%) Business Analysis
3 89 (20.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (18.86%) User Stories
5 77 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 75 (17.05%) Requirements Gathering
7 68 (15.45%) Decision-Making
8 65 (14.77%) Workshop Facilitation
9 53 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (11.82%) DevOps
11 47 (10.68%) Data Modelling
12 46 (10.45%) Acceptance Criteria
12 46 (10.45%) Actionable Insight
13 39 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (8.64%) Validation
15 36 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (8.18%) Process Improvement
16 35 (7.95%) Migration
17 34 (7.73%) Analytics
18 33 (7.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (11.59%) SQL
2 27 (6.14%) Python
3 7 (1.59%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.36%) VBA
5 5 (1.14%) Bash
5 5 (1.14%) Java
5 5 (1.14%) Perl
5 5 (1.14%) R
6 4 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.45%) C#
7 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.23%) C++
8 1 (0.23%) Korn
8 1 (0.23%) LookML
8 1 (0.23%) Ruby
8 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 57 (12.95%) Degree
3 35 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.41%) CBAP
6 13 (2.95%) ACCA
6 13 (2.95%) CIMA
7 11 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.05%) IIBA
8 9 (2.05%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (1.36%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.14%) CISSP
10 5 (1.14%) CSPO
10 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.14%) PMP
11 3 (0.68%) CISM
11 3 (0.68%) ISEB
11 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.45%) QA
2 21 (4.77%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.32%) PMO
4 10 (2.27%) GDPR
5 9 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.68%) IFRS
7 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 2 (0.45%) NIST
8 2 (0.45%) P3O
8 2 (0.45%) SLA
8 2 (0.45%) WCAG
9 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.23%) Basel III
9 1 (0.23%) EMIR
9 1 (0.23%) GAAP
9 1 (0.23%) HL7
9 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (1.14%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.23%) QRadar
3 1 (0.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 49 (11.14%) SAP
3 36 (8.18%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.41%) Oracle
5 11 (2.50%) Workday
6 9 (2.05%) Databricks
7 6 (1.36%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.14%) Charles River
8 5 (1.14%) Civica
8 5 (1.14%) Splunk
9 4 (0.91%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.91%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.91%) Guidewire
9 4 (0.91%) IFS
9 4 (0.91%) Orchard
9 4 (0.91%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.91%) Tanium
9 4 (0.91%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.68%) Zuora