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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 259 222
Rank change year-on-year -2 -37 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 464 274 370
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.98% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.08% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 190 246
10th Percentile £363 £343 £375
25th Percentile £431 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £598 £600
90th Percentile £675 £689 £642
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 11
10th Percentile £27.14 £28.53 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £30.96 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.14 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +31.29% -60.00%
75th Percentile £32.65 £35.75 £47.13
90th Percentile £40.73 £60.50 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £34.14 £26.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +28.81% -59.23%

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 42,792 25,414 30,698
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 91.34% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,591 16,383 19,325
10th Percentile £325 £281 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,397 1,362 1,531
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.75 £14.56
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +6.15%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.99 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.95 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -24 238 £550 +2.56% 251
Midlands -6 61 £500 +5.26% 27
North of England -38 60 £563 +25.70% 50
South East -47 48 £500 - 79
West Midlands -28 36 £475 - 17
Yorkshire -33 27 £550 +54.93% 10
East Midlands +7 25 £525 - 10
East of England -3 24 £370 -26.00% 16
South West -29 24 £613 +53.13% 11
North East -24 22 £575 +10.58% 6
North West -43 12 £525 +12.78% 34
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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.

1 138 (29.74%) Agile
2 127 (27.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (23.49%) Business Analysis
4 96 (20.69%) Workshop Facilitation
5 89 (19.18%) User Stories
6 85 (18.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 84 (18.10%) Requirements Gathering
8 76 (16.38%) Decision-Making
9 68 (14.66%) Microsoft
10 65 (14.01%) Acceptance Criteria
11 62 (13.36%) Security Cleared
12 60 (12.93%) SQL
13 59 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 58 (12.50%) Azure
15 56 (12.07%) Analytics
16 53 (11.42%) AI
16 53 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
16 53 (11.42%) QA
17 51 (10.99%) DevOps
17 51 (10.99%) Process Improvement
18 50 (10.78%) Power Platform
19 48 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
19 48 (10.34%) Power BI
20 47 (10.13%) Data Analysis
21 42 (9.05%) Degree
22 39 (8.41%) Data Modelling
22 39 (8.41%) User Acceptance Testing
22 39 (8.41%) Validation
23 37 (7.97%) Actionable Insight
23 37 (7.97%) 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 23 (4.96%) Confluence
2 6 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.86%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.65%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.43%) Appian
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.37%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.29%) Endur
3 6 (1.29%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.08%) Primavera
5 4 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.65%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.43%) Dynamics SL
7 2 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.43%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 58 (12.50%) Azure
2 50 (10.78%) Power Platform
3 32 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (3.66%) SaaS
5 14 (3.02%) AWS
6 13 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (2.59%) Power Automate
8 11 (2.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 9 (1.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 8 (1.72%) GCP
10 8 (1.72%) Serverless
10 8 (1.72%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.51%) Azure Functions
12 6 (1.29%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.29%) PaaS
13 4 (0.86%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (0.65%) ChatGPT
14 3 (0.65%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.43%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) LAN
3 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.22%) WAN
3 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.34%) Power BI
2 25 (5.39%) Tableau
3 12 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.51%) Looker
6 6 (1.29%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.08%) Power Query
8 4 (0.86%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.65%) Big Data
9 3 (0.65%) Metadata
9 3 (0.65%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.43%) GIS
10 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
10 2 (0.43%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.22%) Essbase
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.22%) PowerCenter
11 1 (0.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (7.33%) JIRA
2 8 (1.72%) Postman
2 8 (1.72%) Selenium
3 7 (1.51%) Cucumber
3 7 (1.51%) Cypress.io
3 7 (1.51%) WebDriver
4 4 (0.86%) GitLab
5 3 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.43%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.22%) Git
7 1 (0.22%) MLflow
7 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 137 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 113 (24.35%) Finance
3 102 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.85%) Public Sector
5 33 (7.11%) Banking
6 24 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (4.09%) Local Government
8 18 (3.88%) Front Office
9 17 (3.66%) Marketing
10 16 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (3.02%) Retail
13 11 (2.37%) Legal
14 9 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.72%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.51%) Advertising
16 7 (1.51%) Investment Banking
17 6 (1.29%) Manufacturing
18 5 (1.08%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.51%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.86%) ADO
2 4 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.86%) VML
3 3 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.65%) NumPy
3 3 (0.65%) Pandas
4 2 (0.43%) HTML
4 2 (0.43%) JSON
4 2 (0.43%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.43%) Playwright
4 2 (0.43%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.43%) Swagger
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.22%) Kafka
5 1 (0.22%) REST
5 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.22%) SAML
5 1 (0.22%) SOAP
5 1 (0.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.33%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.02%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (1.51%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.51%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.08%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.86%) FMCG
9 3 (0.65%) CSOC
9 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.65%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.65%) Life Science
9 3 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.37%) Windows
2 6 (1.29%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (29.74%) Agile
2 127 (27.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (23.49%) Business Analysis
4 96 (20.69%) Workshop Facilitation
5 89 (19.18%) User Stories
6 85 (18.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 84 (18.10%) Requirements Gathering
8 76 (16.38%) Decision-Making
9 65 (14.01%) Acceptance Criteria
10 59 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (12.07%) Analytics
12 53 (11.42%) AI
12 53 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
13 51 (10.99%) DevOps
13 51 (10.99%) Process Improvement
14 48 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
15 47 (10.13%) Data Analysis
16 39 (8.41%) Data Modelling
16 39 (8.41%) User Acceptance Testing
16 39 (8.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 60 (12.93%) SQL
2 35 (7.54%) Python
3 10 (2.16%) PowerShell
4 9 (1.94%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.51%) C#
5 7 (1.51%) R
6 5 (1.08%) Bash
6 5 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.08%) Perl
7 4 (0.86%) Java
8 3 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.43%) VBA
10 1 (0.22%) C++
10 1 (0.22%) Korn
10 1 (0.22%) LookML
10 1 (0.22%) Ruby
10 1 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.05%) Degree
3 37 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.80%) ACCA
6 12 (2.59%) CIMA
7 11 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.16%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.94%) CISSP
10 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.29%) CSPO
13 5 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
13 5 (1.08%) ISEB
14 4 (0.86%) CBAP
14 4 (0.86%) IIBA
14 4 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.86%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.86%) PMP
15 3 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.42%) QA
2 30 (6.47%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.96%) PMO
4 16 (3.45%) GDPR
5 14 (3.02%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.16%) NIST
8 7 (1.51%) WCAG
9 5 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.86%) GRC
10 4 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.65%) IFRS
11 3 (0.65%) P3O
12 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.43%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.43%) SEPA
13 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 4 (0.86%) Docker
2 3 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 68 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.33%) SAP
3 31 (6.68%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.45%) Oracle
5 9 (1.94%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.94%) Workday
6 8 (1.72%) Google
7 6 (1.29%) Amplitude
7 6 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (1.08%) Databricks
8 5 (1.08%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.08%) Splunk
9 4 (0.86%) Civica
9 4 (0.86%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.86%) Orchard
9 4 (0.86%) Qualys
9 4 (0.86%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.86%) Tanium
9 4 (0.86%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.65%) IFS