Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in England is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 232 199
Rank change year-on-year -21 -33 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 335 314 454
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.10% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.18% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 213 348
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £543 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% -3.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 6
10th Percentile £26.11 £30.13 £56.88
25th Percentile £28.00 £41.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £33.37 £52.83 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.83% -20.26% +43.68%
75th Percentile £46.64 £64.73 £69.69
90th Percentile £67.88 - £73.75
UK median hourly rate £33.37 £52.83 £66.25
% change year-on-year -36.83% -20.26% +109.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,653 26,631 34,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 92.94% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,270 16,563 23,658
10th Percentile £291 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -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 1,769 838 1,330
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.73 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -22.58% +39.11%
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +50.00%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +12 197 £590 +2.64% 113
North of England -5 61 £403 -21.46% 36
South East -40 42 £525 +7.14% 67
Yorkshire -27 25 £410 -8.89% 6
North East +9 19 £120 -83.33% 5
North West -21 17 £450 -18.18% 25
Midlands -50 15 £500 - 41
East of England -14 12 £533 -6.17% 6
West Midlands -44 8 £500 - 26
East Midlands -13 7 - - 15
South West -7 5 £535 +12.63% 11
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 102 (30.45%) Agile
2 66 (19.70%) Business Analysis
3 60 (17.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 59 (17.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (15.52%) SQL
7 49 (14.63%) Power BI
7 49 (14.63%) Power Platform
8 44 (13.13%) User Stories
9 42 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
9 42 (12.54%) Workshop Facilitation
10 39 (11.64%) Analytics
10 39 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (11.64%) Decision-Making
10 39 (11.64%) Requirements Gathering
11 37 (11.04%) Security Cleared
12 35 (10.45%) Microsoft
13 33 (9.85%) Visualisation
14 32 (9.55%) Data Analysis
15 31 (9.25%) Migration
15 31 (9.25%) Process Improvement
15 31 (9.25%) Windows
16 30 (8.96%) JIRA
17 29 (8.66%) Azure
17 29 (8.66%) Data Modelling
18 28 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
19 27 (8.06%) Confluence
19 27 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
20 26 (7.76%) Validation
21 25 (7.46%) Actionable Insight

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 27 (8.06%) Confluence
2 9 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.60%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 27 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.88%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Endur
1 5 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.90%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.30%) iTrent
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.30%) RMDS
5 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.63%) Power Platform
2 29 (8.66%) Azure
3 16 (4.78%) AWS
3 16 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (3.88%) GCP
5 10 (2.99%) SaaS
6 7 (2.09%) Google Analytics
6 7 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.79%) Lucidchart
8 5 (1.49%) Google Tag Manager
8 5 (1.49%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.49%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.19%) dbt
9 4 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.90%) ChatGPT
10 3 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.60%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.60%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.19%) DNS
2 4 (1.19%) Firewall
3 3 (0.90%) Broadband
3 3 (0.90%) LAN
3 3 (0.90%) WAN
4 2 (0.60%) FTP
4 2 (0.60%) SSL
4 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.60%) Wireless
5 1 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.30%) HTTP
5 1 (0.30%) Internet
5 1 (0.30%) NAS
5 1 (0.30%) Network Security
5 1 (0.30%) SAN
5 1 (0.30%) SMTP
5 1 (0.30%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.30%) VLAN
5 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.63%) Power BI
2 18 (5.37%) Tableau
3 13 (3.88%) BigQuery
4 10 (2.99%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.09%) Looker
6 4 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.90%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.90%) Metadata
7 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.90%) Power Query
7 3 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.60%) BusinessObjects XI
9 1 (0.30%) Big Data
9 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.30%) GIS
9 1 (0.30%) MS Access
9 1 (0.30%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (8.96%) JIRA
2 5 (1.49%) Selenium
3 3 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.90%) SoapUI
3 3 (0.90%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.60%) Git
5 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.30%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.30%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.30%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.30%) Postman
5 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 112 (33.43%) Social Skills
2 100 (29.85%) Finance
3 79 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (14.63%) Public Sector
5 39 (11.64%) Banking
6 15 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.58%) Retail
9 10 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.69%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.09%) Front Office
11 7 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.09%) Legal
11 7 (2.09%) Local Government
12 6 (1.79%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.79%) Marketing
13 4 (1.19%) Back Office
13 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.09%) ADO
2 4 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (1.19%) Kafka
2 4 (1.19%) Middleware
3 3 (0.90%) SOAP
4 2 (0.60%) FHIR
4 2 (0.60%) Playwright
4 2 (0.60%) PySpark
5 1 (0.30%) .NET
5 1 (0.30%) EDI
5 1 (0.30%) FIXML
5 1 (0.30%) JSON
5 1 (0.30%) LDAP
5 1 (0.30%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.30%) Pandas
5 1 (0.30%) REST
5 1 (0.30%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.30%) XML
5 1 (0.30%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.07%) Onboarding
2 15 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.18%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (2.69%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (2.39%) Derivative
5 8 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.39%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.09%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.09%) iPad
6 7 (2.09%) iPhone
7 6 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.49%) NHS
8 5 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.19%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.90%) Cyberattack
10 3 (0.90%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.25%) Windows
2 7 (2.09%) Mac OS
3 6 (1.79%) Linux
4 4 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.30%) CentOS
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.30%) Unix
5 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (30.45%) Agile
2 66 (19.70%) Business Analysis
3 60 (17.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 59 (17.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (13.13%) User Stories
7 42 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (12.54%) Workshop Facilitation
8 39 (11.64%) Analytics
8 39 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (11.64%) Decision-Making
8 39 (11.64%) Requirements Gathering
9 33 (9.85%) Visualisation
10 32 (9.55%) Data Analysis
11 31 (9.25%) Migration
11 31 (9.25%) Process Improvement
12 29 (8.66%) Data Modelling
13 28 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (7.76%) Validation
15 25 (7.46%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (15.52%) SQL
2 21 (6.27%) Python
3 5 (1.49%) R
4 4 (1.19%) Java
5 3 (0.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.60%) C#
6 2 (0.60%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.30%) ABAP
7 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.30%) Korn
7 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (11.04%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.46%) Degree
2 25 (7.46%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.09%) CBAP
4 7 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.79%) CSPO
6 5 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.19%) CISSP
8 3 (0.90%) CISM
8 3 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.90%) IIBA
9 2 (0.60%) CEH
9 2 (0.60%) CFA
9 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.60%) ISEB
9 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.30%) CISMP
10 1 (0.30%) GCIH
10 1 (0.30%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.07%) QA
2 16 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.28%) PMO
4 8 (2.39%) GDPR
5 7 (2.09%) SLA
6 6 (1.79%) GRC
6 6 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.49%) NIST
8 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.60%) COBIT
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.60%) HL7
9 2 (0.60%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.60%) P3O
9 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.60%) PERC
9 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.30%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.30%) Nessus
1 1 (0.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.07%) Oracle
3 14 (4.18%) SAP
4 12 (3.58%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.28%) Splunk
6 9 (2.69%) Google
7 6 (1.79%) Databricks
7 6 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.49%) Zuora
9 3 (0.90%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.90%) F5
9 3 (0.90%) OpenLink
9 3 (0.90%) Qualys
9 3 (0.90%) SmartStream
9 3 (0.90%) Workday
10 2 (0.60%) Adobe
10 2 (0.60%) Foundry
10 2 (0.60%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.60%) VMware