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 28 February 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 248 203
Rank change year-on-year +15 -45 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 402 262 441
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 1.02% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.10% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 172 337
10th Percentile £338 £358 £350
25th Percentile £405 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £623 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 5
10th Percentile £26.11 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £28.60 £13.50
Median hourly rate £38.11 £42.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +203.57% -77.60%
75th Percentile £41.94 £57.50 £15.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £64.73 £38.25
UK median hourly rate £38.28 £42.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -9.93% +183.33% -76.00%

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 32,663 23,861 35,129
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.91% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,724 15,180 23,561
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,100 745 2,165
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.24 £13.23
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.40 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% -0.71% -12.50%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +34 240 £543 -1.36% 43
North of England -9 74 £410 -8.89% 28
South East -51 41 £590 +15.12% 48
North West -13 36 £425 -2.19% 22
Midlands -45 21 £463 -7.50% 21
North East - 20 £120 - 3
Yorkshire -51 18 £450 - 3
East of England -13 17 £550 -2.22% 6
East Midlands - 11 £500 - 8
West Midlands -50 10 £295 -41.00% 13
South West -28 8 £450 -5.26% 7
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 February 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.

1 106 (26.37%) Agile
2 87 (21.64%) Business Analysis
3 85 (21.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 80 (19.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 77 (19.15%) Requirements Gathering
6 72 (17.91%) User Stories
7 63 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (15.42%) SQL
9 58 (14.43%) Security Cleared
10 55 (13.68%) Workshop Facilitation
11 54 (13.43%) Decision-Making
12 45 (11.19%) Degree
12 45 (11.19%) Microsoft
12 45 (11.19%) SC Cleared
13 44 (10.95%) Power BI
13 44 (10.95%) Power Platform
14 42 (10.45%) Actionable Insight
14 42 (10.45%) Business Intelligence
14 42 (10.45%) Migration
15 40 (9.95%) Azure
15 40 (9.95%) Data Modelling
16 39 (9.70%) Data Analysis
16 39 (9.70%) JIRA
16 39 (9.70%) Mentoring
17 38 (9.45%) Validation
18 37 (9.20%) DevOps
19 36 (8.96%) Analytics
19 36 (8.96%) Process Improvement
20 34 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
21 33 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement

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 (7.46%) Confluence
2 9 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 34 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (5.22%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.24%) Endur
2 5 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.75%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.50%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.25%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.25%) RMDS
5 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 44 (10.95%) Power Platform
2 40 (9.95%) Azure
3 16 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (3.73%) AWS
5 10 (2.49%) GCP
5 10 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (1.74%) Google Analytics
6 7 (1.74%) SaaS
7 6 (1.49%) Lucidchart
8 5 (1.24%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (0.75%) ChatGPT
9 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (0.75%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.50%) dbt
10 2 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.50%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.50%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.24%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.49%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.24%) DNS
3 5 (1.24%) Firewall
4 4 (1.00%) LAN
4 4 (1.00%) WAN
5 3 (0.75%) Broadband
6 1 (0.25%) FTP
6 1 (0.25%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.25%) SSL
6 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.25%) VLAN
6 1 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.95%) Power BI
2 17 (4.23%) Tableau
3 12 (2.99%) BigQuery
4 8 (1.99%) Looker
4 8 (1.99%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.24%) Metadata
6 4 (1.00%) Power Query
7 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.50%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (0.50%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.50%) GIS
8 2 (0.50%) MS Access
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.25%) Flink
9 1 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 39 (9.70%) JIRA
2 3 (0.75%) Selenium
3 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.25%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.25%) Git
4 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.25%) Postman
4 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.25%) Subversion
4 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 132 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 114 (28.36%) Finance
3 87 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.94%) Public Sector
5 44 (10.95%) Banking
6 19 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.23%) Front Office
7 13 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.74%) Legal
8 11 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.49%) Retail
10 9 (2.24%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.99%) Local Government
12 7 (1.74%) General Ledger
12 7 (1.74%) Marketing
13 6 (1.49%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.24%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (1.99%) Middleware
3 4 (1.00%) ADO
3 4 (1.00%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.00%) XML
4 3 (0.75%) FHIR
5 2 (0.50%) JSON
5 2 (0.50%) Kafka
5 2 (0.50%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.50%) Web Services
6 1 (0.25%) FIXML
6 1 (0.25%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.25%) NumPy
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.25%) Pandas
6 1 (0.25%) Playwright
6 1 (0.25%) REST
6 1 (0.25%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.47%) Cyber Threat
1 22 (5.47%) Onboarding
2 14 (3.48%) Product Ownership
3 11 (2.74%) Cyber Defence
4 10 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.49%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.99%) NHS
7 7 (1.74%) PMI
8 6 (1.49%) Derivative
8 6 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.00%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.00%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.75%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.50%) CSOC
11 2 (0.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.72%) Windows
2 10 (2.49%) Linux
3 5 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.00%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (26.37%) Agile
2 87 (21.64%) Business Analysis
3 85 (21.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 80 (19.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 77 (19.15%) Requirements Gathering
6 72 (17.91%) User Stories
7 63 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (13.68%) Workshop Facilitation
9 54 (13.43%) Decision-Making
10 42 (10.45%) Actionable Insight
10 42 (10.45%) Business Intelligence
10 42 (10.45%) Migration
11 40 (9.95%) Data Modelling
12 39 (9.70%) Data Analysis
12 39 (9.70%) Mentoring
13 38 (9.45%) Validation
14 37 (9.20%) DevOps
15 36 (8.96%) Analytics
15 36 (8.96%) Process Improvement
16 33 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 62 (15.42%) SQL
2 19 (4.73%) Python
3 4 (1.00%) VBA
4 3 (0.75%) Java
4 3 (0.75%) R
5 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.50%) Korn
5 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.25%) C#
6 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 45 (11.19%) Degree
2 45 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.98%) CBAP
4 16 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.74%) IIBA
6 8 (1.99%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.24%) CISM
8 5 (1.24%) CISSP
8 5 (1.24%) CSPO
8 5 (1.24%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.75%) ACCA
10 3 (0.75%) CIMA
10 3 (0.75%) PMP
11 2 (0.50%) APMP
11 2 (0.50%) CFA
11 2 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.96%) QA
2 21 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.23%) PMO
4 8 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.74%) GDPR
6 4 (1.00%) GRC
6 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.75%) HL7
7 3 (0.75%) IFRS
7 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.75%) SLA
8 2 (0.50%) Basel III
8 2 (0.50%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.50%) NIST
8 2 (0.50%) PERC
9 1 (0.25%) COBIT
9 1 (0.25%) CRD IV
9 1 (0.25%) GAAP
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 10 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (0.50%) Terraform
2 1 (0.25%) BladeLogic
2 1 (0.25%) Grafana
2 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.25%) Kibana
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.25%) Nessus
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 45 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.96%) SAP
3 28 (6.97%) Salesforce
4 18 (4.48%) Oracle
5 13 (3.23%) Splunk
6 8 (1.99%) Google
7 7 (1.74%) Bloomberg
7 7 (1.74%) Databricks
8 6 (1.49%) Charles River
8 6 (1.49%) Zuora
9 5 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.00%) Refinitiv
11 3 (0.75%) Adobe
11 3 (0.75%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.75%) SmartStream
11 3 (0.75%) Workday
12 2 (0.50%) Ariba
12 2 (0.50%) Citrix
12 2 (0.50%) OpenLink
12 2 (0.50%) Reuters