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 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 232 194
Rank change year-on-year -14 -38 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 343 303 450
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.07% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.16% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 208 346
10th Percentile £335 £363 £354
25th Percentile £413 £417 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -5.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £684
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 6
10th Percentile £26.11 £30.13 £56.88
25th Percentile £28.00 £41.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £34.27 £52.83 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.13% -20.26% +43.68%
75th Percentile £51.35 £64.73 £69.69
90th Percentile £69.30 - £73.75
UK median hourly rate £34.27 £52.83 £66.25
% change year-on-year -35.13% -20.26% +109.59%

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 28,825 26,231 34,148
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 92.89% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,398 16,285 23,361
10th Percentile £295 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,761 824 1,427
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £14.73
25th Percentile £18.43 £21.24 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +37.32%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.31 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +41.93%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +11 200 £588 +2.17% 161
North of England -3 65 £400 -21.95% 57
South East -29 41 £525 +7.14% 96
Yorkshire -27 25 £413 -8.33% 16
North East +10 20 £120 -83.33% 6
North West -10 20 £425 -22.73% 35
Midlands -52 15 £500 - 47
East of England -14 12 £559 -1.54% 17
West Midlands -43 8 £500 - 27
South West -6 7 £495 +4.21% 23
East Midlands -16 7 - - 20
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, 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.

1 105 (30.61%) Agile
2 73 (21.28%) Business Analysis
3 68 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (16.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 56 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (15.16%) SQL
7 51 (14.87%) User Stories
8 48 (13.99%) Power BI
8 48 (13.99%) Power Platform
9 47 (13.70%) Requirements Gathering
9 47 (13.70%) Workshop Facilitation
10 42 (12.24%) Decision-Making
11 41 (11.95%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (11.37%) Security Cleared
13 38 (11.08%) Analytics
14 35 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (9.91%) Microsoft
16 33 (9.62%) Data Analysis
16 33 (9.62%) Migration
17 32 (9.33%) Degree
17 32 (9.33%) Visualisation
18 31 (9.04%) Data Modelling
18 31 (9.04%) Windows
19 30 (8.75%) JIRA
19 30 (8.75%) Process Improvement
20 29 (8.45%) Azure
20 29 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
20 29 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
20 29 (8.45%) Validation
21 28 (8.16%) 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 24 (7.00%) Confluence
2 8 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.58%) SAS
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 29 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.08%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.17%) Endur
3 3 (0.87%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (0.87%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.29%) iTrent
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.29%) RMDS
5 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (13.99%) Power Platform
2 29 (8.45%) Azure
3 15 (4.37%) AWS
3 15 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (3.79%) GCP
5 8 (2.33%) SaaS
6 7 (2.04%) Google Analytics
6 7 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.75%) Lucidchart
8 5 (1.46%) Google Tag Manager
8 5 (1.46%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.17%) dbt
9 4 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.17%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.87%) ChatGPT
10 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.58%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.04%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.46%) DNS
2 5 (1.46%) Firewall
3 3 (0.87%) Broadband
3 3 (0.87%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (0.87%) LAN
3 3 (0.87%) WAN
4 2 (0.58%) FTP
4 2 (0.58%) SSL
4 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.58%) Wireless
5 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.29%) HTTP
5 1 (0.29%) NAS
5 1 (0.29%) Network Security
5 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.29%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.29%) VLAN
5 1 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.99%) Power BI
2 18 (5.25%) Tableau
3 14 (4.08%) BigQuery
4 11 (3.21%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.04%) Looker
6 3 (0.87%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.87%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.58%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.58%) Metadata
7 2 (0.58%) Power Query
8 1 (0.29%) Big Data
8 1 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.29%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.29%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (8.75%) JIRA
2 5 (1.46%) Selenium
3 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.87%) SoapUI
3 3 (0.87%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.58%) Git
5 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.29%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.29%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.29%) Postman
5 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 116 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 99 (28.86%) Finance
3 80 (23.32%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (15.16%) Public Sector
5 43 (12.54%) Banking
6 14 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (3.50%) Retail
9 11 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.92%) Front Office
10 10 (2.92%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.33%) Local Government
13 7 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.75%) General Ledger
14 6 (1.75%) Legal
15 5 (1.46%) Marketing
16 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
16 4 (1.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.04%) ADO
2 5 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.17%) Kafka
3 4 (1.17%) Middleware
4 3 (0.87%) SOAP
4 3 (0.87%) XML
5 2 (0.58%) FHIR
5 2 (0.58%) PySpark
6 1 (0.29%) EDI
6 1 (0.29%) FIXML
6 1 (0.29%) LDAP
6 1 (0.29%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.29%) NumPy
6 1 (0.29%) Pandas
6 1 (0.29%) Playwright
6 1 (0.29%) REST
6 1 (0.29%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.29%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.83%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.66%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.62%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (2.33%) Derivative
5 8 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.75%) NHS
8 5 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.17%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.17%) iPad
9 4 (1.17%) iPhone
9 4 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.17%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.04%) Windows
2 8 (2.33%) Linux
3 5 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.17%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.87%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) CentOS
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (30.61%) Agile
2 73 (21.28%) Business Analysis
3 68 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (16.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 56 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (14.87%) User Stories
7 47 (13.70%) Requirements Gathering
7 47 (13.70%) Workshop Facilitation
8 42 (12.24%) Decision-Making
9 41 (11.95%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (11.08%) Analytics
11 35 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (9.62%) Data Analysis
12 33 (9.62%) Migration
13 32 (9.33%) Visualisation
14 31 (9.04%) Data Modelling
15 30 (8.75%) Process Improvement
16 29 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
16 29 (8.45%) Validation
17 28 (8.16%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 52 (15.16%) SQL
2 21 (6.12%) Python
3 4 (1.17%) Java
3 4 (1.17%) R
4 3 (0.87%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.29%) ABAP
6 1 (0.29%) C#
6 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.29%) Korn
6 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (11.37%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.33%) Degree
3 28 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.50%) CBAP
5 10 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.75%) CSPO
7 5 (1.46%) IIBA
8 4 (1.17%) CISSP
8 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.17%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.87%) CISM
9 3 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.58%) CFA
10 2 (0.58%) ISEB
10 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.29%) ACCA
11 1 (0.29%) PMP
11 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.96%) QA
2 16 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.92%) PMO
4 7 (2.04%) GDPR
4 7 (2.04%) SLA
5 5 (1.46%) GRC
5 5 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.17%) NIST
7 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.58%) COBIT
7 2 (0.58%) HL7
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.58%) PERC
7 2 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.29%) FINRA
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.29%) ITGC
System Software
1 8 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.29%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.29%) Nessus
1 1 (0.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.25%) Oracle
3 17 (4.96%) SAP
4 13 (3.79%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.50%) Splunk
6 9 (2.62%) Google
7 6 (1.75%) Databricks
7 6 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.46%) Zuora
9 4 (1.17%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.87%) Charles River
10 3 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.87%) F5
10 3 (0.87%) Qualys
10 3 (0.87%) SmartStream
10 3 (0.87%) Workday
11 2 (0.58%) Facebook
11 2 (0.58%) Foundry
11 2 (0.58%) Palantir
11 2 (0.58%) Refinitiv