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 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 260 209
Rank change year-on-year +6 -51 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 427 254 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 0.98% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.07% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 174 287
10th Percentile £370 £333 £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 £625 £581 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -2.50% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 14
10th Percentile £28.21 £24.54 £13.50
25th Percentile £30.15 £26.35 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% +21.70% -42.74%
75th Percentile £32.70 £34.95 £25.81
90th Percentile £41.94 £38.15 £30.33
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £28.60 £23.50
% change year-on-year +11.89% +21.70% -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 40,541 23,799 34,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.15% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,820 15,556 22,692
10th Percentile £325 £293 £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 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,915 1,109 2,587
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.00 £12.87
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.98 £16.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -28.75% -8.95%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.80 £75.00 £74.52
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.75% -28.67% -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 2 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Analyst in England over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 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 -24 219 £575 +9.52% 119
North of England -40 57 £483 +5.92% 39
South East -30 55 £500 - 56
Midlands -9 53 £500 - 25
West Midlands -42 29 £475 -5.00% 16
North West -38 24 £428 -6.25% 30
East Midlands - 24 £500 - 9
East of England -3 22 £435 -5.95% 12
North East - 18 £575 - 3
Yorkshire -39 16 £530 +13.67% 7
South West -31 15 £590 +47.50% 25
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 117 (27.40%) Agile
2 93 (21.78%) Business Analysis
3 85 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 78 (18.27%) User Stories
5 74 (17.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 71 (16.63%) Requirements Gathering
7 68 (15.93%) Decision-Making
8 63 (14.75%) Microsoft
9 60 (14.05%) Security Cleared
9 60 (14.05%) Workshop Facilitation
10 51 (11.94%) Azure
11 50 (11.71%) Degree
12 49 (11.48%) DevOps
12 49 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (11.24%) SAP
14 47 (11.01%) SQL
15 46 (10.77%) Data Modelling
16 45 (10.54%) Actionable Insight
17 44 (10.30%) Acceptance Criteria
17 44 (10.30%) QA
18 41 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
19 40 (9.37%) Power Platform
20 38 (8.90%) Business Intelligence
20 38 (8.90%) Power BI
21 36 (8.43%) Analytics
22 35 (8.20%) Process Improvement
22 35 (8.20%) Salesforce
23 33 (7.73%) Data Analysis
23 33 (7.73%) Migration
23 33 (7.73%) SC Cleared

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 (5.15%) Confluence
2 4 (0.94%) OpenEdge
2 4 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.47%) Appian
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 29 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.04%) MS Visio
3 12 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.41%) Endur
2 6 (1.41%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.70%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.70%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.70%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.70%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.70%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.47%) Loan IQ
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 FS
7 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 51 (11.94%) Azure
2 40 (9.37%) Power Platform
3 16 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (1.87%) AWS
4 8 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.17%) GCP
5 5 (1.17%) Power Automate
5 5 (1.17%) SaaS
6 3 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (0.70%) Snowflake
6 3 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.47%) Azure Functions
7 2 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.47%) GitHub
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.47%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.23%) Broadband
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) LAN
3 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.90%) Power BI
2 20 (4.68%) Tableau
3 9 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.87%) Power Query
4 8 (1.87%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.17%) Metadata
6 4 (0.94%) Looker
7 3 (0.70%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.70%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.47%) Big Data
8 2 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
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 27 (6.32%) JIRA
2 4 (0.94%) Postman
2 4 (0.94%) Selenium
3 3 (0.70%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.70%) GitLab
3 3 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.47%) MLflow
4 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.47%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 119 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 116 (27.17%) Finance
3 87 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.15%) Banking
6 16 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (3.75%) Retail
7 15 (3.51%) Front Office
7 15 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (3.04%) Local Government
8 13 (3.04%) Marketing
8 13 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.81%) Legal
10 11 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.11%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.94%) Advertising
14 4 (0.94%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.94%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.94%) ADO
1 4 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (0.94%) VML
2 3 (0.70%) Middleware
2 3 (0.70%) NumPy
2 3 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (0.70%) Pandas
3 2 (0.47%) Gherkin
3 2 (0.47%) Kafka
3 2 (0.47%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.23%) Django
4 1 (0.23%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.23%) OAuth
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (0.23%) REST
4 1 (0.23%) SAML
4 1 (0.23%) SOAP
4 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.23%) Web Services
4 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.68%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.87%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.17%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.94%) FMCG
10 4 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.94%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.70%) CSOC
11 3 (0.70%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.70%) PMI
11 3 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.11%) Windows
2 6 (1.41%) Linux
3 2 (0.47%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (27.40%) Agile
2 93 (21.78%) Business Analysis
3 85 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 78 (18.27%) User Stories
5 74 (17.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 71 (16.63%) Requirements Gathering
7 68 (15.93%) Decision-Making
8 60 (14.05%) Workshop Facilitation
9 49 (11.48%) DevOps
9 49 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (10.77%) Data Modelling
11 45 (10.54%) Actionable Insight
12 44 (10.30%) Acceptance Criteria
13 41 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (8.90%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (8.43%) Analytics
16 35 (8.20%) Process Improvement
17 33 (7.73%) Data Analysis
17 33 (7.73%) Migration
18 31 (7.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 47 (11.01%) SQL
2 27 (6.32%) Python
3 7 (1.64%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.41%) VBA
5 5 (1.17%) Bash
5 5 (1.17%) Java
5 5 (1.17%) Perl
5 5 (1.17%) R
6 4 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.47%) C#
7 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.47%) 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 60 (14.05%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.71%) Degree
3 33 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.04%) ACCA
5 13 (3.04%) CIMA
6 12 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.34%) CBAP
8 7 (1.64%) IIBA
9 6 (1.41%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.17%) CSPO
10 5 (1.17%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.94%) CISSP
11 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.70%) ISEB
12 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.70%) PMP
13 2 (0.47%) CISM
13 2 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (10.30%) QA
2 21 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.92%) PMO
3 10 (2.34%) GDPR
4 8 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.70%) IFRS
5 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.47%) GRC
6 2 (0.47%) NIST
6 2 (0.47%) P3O
6 2 (0.47%) SLA
6 2 (0.47%) WCAG
7 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.23%) Basel III
7 1 (0.23%) EMIR
7 1 (0.23%) GAAP
7 1 (0.23%) HL7
7 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (1.17%) Docker
2 4 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.47%) 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 63 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.24%) SAP
3 35 (8.20%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.28%) Oracle
5 12 (2.81%) Workday
6 9 (2.11%) Databricks
7 6 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.17%) Civica
8 5 (1.17%) Splunk
9 4 (0.94%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.94%) Guidewire
9 4 (0.94%) IFS
9 4 (0.94%) Orchard
9 4 (0.94%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.94%) Tanium
9 4 (0.94%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.70%) Adaptive Insights
10 3 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.70%) Trend Micro
10 3 (0.70%) Zuora