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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 272 203
Rank change year-on-year +38 -69 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 432 218 440
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 0.89% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 0.96% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 148 326
10th Percentile £338 £361 £350
25th Percentile £412 £412 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £628 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £716 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 9
10th Percentile £26.11 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £25.74 £13.50
Median hourly rate £29.04 £28.60 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +24.35% -61.83%
75th Percentile £41.94 £43.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £57.50 £36.15
UK median hourly rate £34.62 £28.60 £24.50
% change year-on-year +21.05% +16.73% -57.76%

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 35,057 22,720 34,933
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.93% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,082 15,205 23,344
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 £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,308 839 2,296
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.96
25th Percentile £19.90 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.92 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.60% +6.15% -23.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.25 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -24.36%

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 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 29 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 29 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 +39 252 £550 +2.80% 66
North of England -17 71 £410 -12.58% 53
South East -24 50 £570 +4.59% 46
North West -24 33 £423 -11.05% 30
Midlands -44 29 £450 -10.00% 38
East of England -16 21 £541 +8.25% 10
North East - 20 £120 - 7
Yorkshire -50 18 £463 +2.78% 16
West Midlands -47 15 £450 -10.00% 21
East Midlands - 14 £488 - 17
South West -30 7 £473 -0.53% 8
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 116 (26.85%) Agile
2 91 (21.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (20.14%) Business Analysis
4 79 (18.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 77 (17.82%) User Stories
6 76 (17.59%) Requirements Gathering
7 63 (14.58%) SQL
8 62 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (14.35%) Security Cleared
9 61 (14.12%) Workshop Facilitation
10 59 (13.66%) Decision-Making
11 52 (12.04%) Degree
12 51 (11.81%) Microsoft
12 51 (11.81%) Power BI
12 51 (11.81%) Power Platform
13 50 (11.57%) Azure
14 47 (10.88%) Business Intelligence
15 46 (10.65%) SC Cleared
16 45 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
16 45 (10.42%) DevOps
17 44 (10.19%) Data Modelling
18 42 (9.72%) Migration
19 41 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
20 40 (9.26%) Data Analysis
21 39 (9.03%) SAP
22 38 (8.80%) Mentoring
22 38 (8.80%) Process Improvement
22 38 (8.80%) Validation
23 37 (8.56%) JIRA
23 37 (8.56%) QA

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 29 (6.71%) Confluence
2 10 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.46%) SAS
4 1 (0.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.23%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 34 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.32%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.39%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.69%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (0.69%) Endur
4 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.46%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.23%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 51 (11.81%) Power Platform
2 50 (11.57%) Azure
3 20 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (3.70%) AWS
5 13 (3.01%) GCP
6 10 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.62%) Google Analytics
7 7 (1.62%) SaaS
8 6 (1.39%) Lucidchart
9 5 (1.16%) Google Tag Manager
10 3 (0.69%) ChatGPT
10 3 (0.69%) GitHub
10 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.69%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.46%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (0.46%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.46%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.46%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.46%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.62%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.39%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.16%) DNS
4 4 (0.93%) Broadband
4 4 (0.93%) Firewall
5 3 (0.69%) LAN
5 3 (0.69%) WAN
6 1 (0.23%) FTP
6 1 (0.23%) Internet
6 1 (0.23%) VLAN
6 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.81%) Power BI
2 20 (4.63%) Tableau
3 13 (3.01%) BigQuery
4 8 (1.85%) Looker
5 7 (1.62%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.39%) Power Query
7 5 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.16%) Metadata
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.46%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (0.46%) GIS
8 2 (0.46%) MS Access
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.46%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.23%) Flink
9 1 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 37 (8.56%) JIRA
2 3 (0.69%) Selenium
3 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.46%) MLflow
3 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.23%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.23%) GitLab
4 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.23%) Postman
4 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 131 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 119 (27.55%) Finance
3 94 (21.76%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 42 (9.72%) Banking
6 19 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.78%) Front Office
9 12 (2.78%) Retail
10 10 (2.31%) Legal
10 10 (2.31%) Local Government
11 9 (2.08%) Marketing
12 8 (1.85%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.39%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.39%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
1 8 (1.85%) Middleware
2 4 (0.93%) ADO
2 4 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (0.93%) XML
3 3 (0.69%) FHIR
4 2 (0.46%) Kafka
4 2 (0.46%) NumPy
4 2 (0.46%) Pandas
4 2 (0.46%) REST
4 2 (0.46%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.46%) Web Services
5 1 (0.23%) FIXML
5 1 (0.23%) JSON
5 1 (0.23%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.23%) OAuth
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.23%) SAML
5 1 (0.23%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.86%) Cyber Threat
2 19 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
4 12 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.85%) NHS
8 7 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.39%) PMI
10 4 (0.93%) Cyberattack
10 4 (0.93%) Derivative
10 4 (0.93%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.69%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.46%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.79%) Windows
2 8 (1.85%) Linux
3 4 (0.93%) Unix
3 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (26.85%) Agile
2 91 (21.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (20.14%) Business Analysis
4 79 (18.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 77 (17.82%) User Stories
6 76 (17.59%) Requirements Gathering
7 62 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (14.12%) Workshop Facilitation
9 59 (13.66%) Decision-Making
10 47 (10.88%) Business Intelligence
11 45 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
11 45 (10.42%) DevOps
12 44 (10.19%) Data Modelling
13 42 (9.72%) Migration
14 41 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (9.26%) Data Analysis
16 38 (8.80%) Mentoring
16 38 (8.80%) Process Improvement
16 38 (8.80%) Validation
17 36 (8.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 63 (14.58%) SQL
2 21 (4.86%) Python
3 6 (1.39%) VBA
4 4 (0.93%) R
5 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.46%) Java
5 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.23%) Korn
6 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 52 (12.04%) Degree
3 46 (10.65%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.40%) CBAP
5 16 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.78%) IIBA
7 9 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.85%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.62%) CSPO
10 6 (1.39%) ACCA
10 6 (1.39%) CIMA
11 5 (1.16%) CISSP
11 5 (1.16%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.93%) CISM
12 4 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.93%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.93%) PMP
13 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.46%) ISEB
13 2 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.56%) QA
2 23 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.17%) PMO
4 8 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.39%) GDPR
6 5 (1.16%) SLA
7 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.69%) GRC
8 3 (0.69%) HL7
8 3 (0.69%) IFRS
8 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.46%) Basel III
9 2 (0.46%) NIST
9 2 (0.46%) PERC
10 1 (0.23%) COBIT
10 1 (0.23%) CRD IV
10 1 (0.23%) GAAP
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.69%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.23%) RACF
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 51 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.03%) SAP
3 36 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.47%) Oracle
5 13 (3.01%) Splunk
6 10 (2.31%) Databricks
7 9 (2.08%) Google
8 7 (1.62%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.39%) Charles River
9 6 (1.39%) Zuora
10 5 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.93%) Refinitiv
12 3 (0.69%) Adobe
12 3 (0.69%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.69%) SmartStream
12 3 (0.69%) Workday
13 2 (0.46%) Ariba
13 2 (0.46%) Citrix
13 2 (0.46%) JD Edwards