Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 264 201
Rank change year-on-year +28 -63 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 412 228 455
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 0.93% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.00% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 152 338
10th Percentile £338 £358 £350
25th Percentile £405 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £628 £628 £638
90th Percentile £675 £724 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 8
10th Percentile £26.11 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £25.44 £13.50
Median hourly rate £29.04 £28.60 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +50.53% -69.60%
75th Percentile £41.94 £43.75 £26.63
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.22 £35.03
UK median hourly rate £34.62 £28.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year +21.05% +24.35% -61.83%

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 34,044 22,768 35,064
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 93.05% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,494 15,052 23,480
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 784 2,269
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.37 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.49% - -23.29%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +31 239 £525 -1.87% 73
North of England -21 72 £410 -8.89% 46
South East -36 47 £573 +5.05% 46
North West -13 33 £423 -9.91% 29
Midlands -48 26 £438 -12.50% 33
North East - 20 £120 - 5
East of England -8 19 £541 +3.10% 8
Yorkshire -46 19 £463 +2.78% 12
West Midlands -52 13 £450 -10.00% 20
East Midlands - 13 £425 - 13
South West -21 8 £450 -5.26% 9
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 March 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.

1 109 (26.46%) Agile
2 86 (20.87%) Business Analysis
3 85 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 78 (18.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 76 (18.45%) Requirements Gathering
6 73 (17.72%) User Stories
7 64 (15.53%) SQL
8 63 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (14.81%) Security Cleared
10 58 (14.08%) Workshop Facilitation
11 53 (12.86%) Decision-Making
12 51 (12.38%) Degree
13 50 (12.14%) Power BI
13 50 (12.14%) Power Platform
14 48 (11.65%) Microsoft
15 46 (11.17%) Actionable Insight
15 46 (11.17%) Business Intelligence
16 45 (10.92%) SC Cleared
17 44 (10.68%) Azure
18 42 (10.19%) Data Modelling
19 41 (9.95%) Data Analysis
19 41 (9.95%) Migration
20 40 (9.71%) DevOps
21 38 (9.22%) Validation
22 37 (8.98%) Analytics
22 37 (8.98%) JIRA
22 37 (8.98%) Process Improvement
22 37 (8.98%) SAP
23 36 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
23 36 (8.74%) Mentoring

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 30 (7.28%) Confluence
2 10 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.49%) SAS
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 34 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (5.34%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.46%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.73%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (0.73%) Endur
4 2 (0.49%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.24%) RMDS
5 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 50 (12.14%) Power Platform
2 44 (10.68%) Azure
3 17 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (3.40%) AWS
5 10 (2.43%) GCP
5 10 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (1.70%) Google Analytics
7 6 (1.46%) Lucidchart
7 6 (1.46%) SaaS
8 5 (1.21%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (0.73%) ChatGPT
9 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (0.73%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.49%) dbt
10 2 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.49%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.94%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.46%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.21%) DNS
4 4 (0.97%) Broadband
4 4 (0.97%) Firewall
4 4 (0.97%) LAN
4 4 (0.97%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) FTP
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (12.14%) Power BI
2 20 (4.85%) Tableau
3 13 (3.16%) BigQuery
4 9 (2.18%) Looker
5 7 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.21%) Metadata
7 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.97%) Power Query
8 2 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.49%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (0.49%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.49%) GIS
8 2 (0.49%) MS Access
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.24%) Flink
9 1 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 37 (8.98%) JIRA
2 3 (0.73%) Selenium
3 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.49%) MLflow
3 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.24%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.24%) Postman
4 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.24%) Subversion
4 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 129 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 116 (28.16%) Finance
3 92 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (13.59%) Public Sector
5 43 (10.44%) Banking
6 18 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.91%) Front Office
8 12 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.67%) Legal
10 10 (2.43%) Retail
11 9 (2.18%) Local Government
12 8 (1.94%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.70%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.70%) Marketing
14 6 (1.46%) General Ledger
14 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.97%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (1.94%) Middleware
3 4 (0.97%) ADO
3 4 (0.97%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (0.97%) XML
4 3 (0.73%) FHIR
5 2 (0.49%) Kafka
5 2 (0.49%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.49%) Web Services
6 1 (0.24%) FIXML
6 1 (0.24%) JSON
6 1 (0.24%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.24%) NumPy
6 1 (0.24%) OAuth
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.24%) Pandas
6 1 (0.24%) Playwright
6 1 (0.24%) REST
6 1 (0.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.10%) Cyber Threat
1 21 (5.10%) Onboarding
2 12 (2.91%) Cyber Defence
2 12 (2.91%) Product Ownership
3 11 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (1.94%) NHS
6 7 (1.70%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.70%) PMI
7 6 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.21%) Derivative
9 4 (0.97%) Cyberattack
9 4 (0.97%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.73%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.49%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.49%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.07%) Windows
2 9 (2.18%) Linux
3 4 (0.97%) Unix
3 4 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.24%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (26.46%) Agile
2 86 (20.87%) Business Analysis
3 85 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 78 (18.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 76 (18.45%) Requirements Gathering
6 73 (17.72%) User Stories
7 63 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (14.08%) Workshop Facilitation
9 53 (12.86%) Decision-Making
10 46 (11.17%) Actionable Insight
10 46 (11.17%) Business Intelligence
11 42 (10.19%) Data Modelling
12 41 (9.95%) Data Analysis
12 41 (9.95%) Migration
13 40 (9.71%) DevOps
14 38 (9.22%) Validation
15 37 (8.98%) Analytics
15 37 (8.98%) Process Improvement
16 36 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (8.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.53%) SQL
2 21 (5.10%) Python
3 4 (0.97%) R
3 4 (0.97%) VBA
4 3 (0.73%) Java
5 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.49%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.49%) Korn
5 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.24%) C#
6 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.38%) Degree
3 45 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.85%) CBAP
5 16 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.91%) IIBA
7 9 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.18%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.21%) ACCA
8 5 (1.21%) CIMA
8 5 (1.21%) CSPO
8 5 (1.21%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.97%) CISM
9 4 (0.97%) CISSP
9 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.97%) PMP
10 3 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.49%) ISEB
11 2 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.50%) QA
2 24 (5.83%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.16%) PMO
4 8 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.46%) GDPR
6 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.97%) SLA
7 3 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.73%) GRC
7 3 (0.73%) HL7
7 3 (0.73%) IFRS
7 3 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.49%) Basel III
8 2 (0.49%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.49%) NIST
8 2 (0.49%) PERC
9 1 (0.24%) COBIT
9 1 (0.24%) CRD IV
9 1 (0.24%) GAAP
9 1 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (2.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.24%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (0.49%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.49%) Terraform
2 1 (0.24%) BladeLogic
2 1 (0.24%) Grafana
2 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.24%) Kibana
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 48 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.98%) SAP
3 31 (7.52%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.88%) Oracle
5 13 (3.16%) Splunk
6 9 (2.18%) Databricks
7 8 (1.94%) Google
8 7 (1.70%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.46%) Charles River
9 6 (1.46%) Zuora
10 4 (0.97%) Refinitiv
10 4 (0.97%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.73%) Adobe
11 3 (0.73%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.73%) SmartStream
11 3 (0.73%) Workday
12 2 (0.49%) Ariba
12 2 (0.49%) Citrix
12 2 (0.49%) JD Edwards
12 2 (0.49%) Reuters