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 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 258 194
Rank change year-on-year +18 -64 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 412 232 455
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 0.94% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.01% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 154 340
10th Percentile £338 £359 £350
25th Percentile £406 £420 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £628 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £721 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 8
10th Percentile £26.11 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £25.44 £13.50
Median hourly rate £35.49 £28.60 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.09% +50.53% -69.60%
75th Percentile £41.94 £43.75 £26.63
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.22 £35.03
UK median hourly rate £38.28 £28.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year +33.85% +24.35% -61.83%

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 33,895 22,860 35,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.04% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,384 15,072 23,528
10th Percentile £310 £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 £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 779 2,277
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.38 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.44 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £33.00 £32.90
% change year-on-year +8.21% +0.32% -22.60%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +31 241 £525 -4.55% 69
North of England -17 73 £410 -8.89% 37
South East -32 45 £575 +5.50% 46
North West -12 34 £423 -9.91% 23
Midlands -37 25 £450 -10.00% 32
North East - 20 £120 - 5
East of England -17 19 £541 -1.59% 6
Yorkshire -44 19 £463 +2.78% 9
West Midlands -58 13 £450 -10.00% 19
East Midlands - 12 £463 - 13
South West -25 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 17 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.

1 109 (26.46%) Agile
2 88 (21.36%) Business Analysis
3 86 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 79 (19.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 78 (18.93%) Requirements Gathering
6 72 (17.48%) User Stories
7 64 (15.53%) SQL
8 63 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (15.05%) Security Cleared
10 58 (14.08%) Workshop Facilitation
11 54 (13.11%) Decision-Making
12 51 (12.38%) Degree
13 48 (11.65%) Microsoft
13 48 (11.65%) Power BI
13 48 (11.65%) Power Platform
14 46 (11.17%) SC Cleared
15 45 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
16 44 (10.68%) Actionable Insight
17 43 (10.44%) Data Modelling
18 42 (10.19%) Azure
19 41 (9.95%) Migration
20 40 (9.71%) Data Analysis
21 38 (9.22%) DevOps
21 38 (9.22%) Mentoring
21 38 (9.22%) Validation
22 37 (8.98%) JIRA
22 37 (8.98%) Process Improvement
23 36 (8.74%) Analytics
23 36 (8.74%) SAP
24 35 (8.50%) 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 29 (7.04%) Confluence
2 10 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.49%) SAS
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 34 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (5.34%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.46%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.73%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (0.73%) Endur
4 2 (0.49%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.24%) RMDS
5 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 48 (11.65%) Power Platform
2 42 (10.19%) Azure
3 15 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (3.40%) AWS
5 10 (2.43%) GCP
5 10 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (1.70%) Google Analytics
7 6 (1.46%) Lucidchart
7 6 (1.46%) SaaS
8 5 (1.21%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (0.73%) ChatGPT
9 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (0.73%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.49%) dbt
10 2 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.49%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.18%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.46%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.21%) DNS
3 5 (1.21%) Firewall
4 4 (0.97%) Broadband
4 4 (0.97%) LAN
4 4 (0.97%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) FTP
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.65%) Power BI
2 19 (4.61%) Tableau
3 13 (3.16%) BigQuery
4 9 (2.18%) Looker
5 7 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.21%) Metadata
7 4 (0.97%) Power Query
8 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.49%) BusinessObjects XI
9 2 (0.49%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.49%) GIS
9 2 (0.49%) MS Access
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.24%) Flink
10 1 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 37 (8.98%) JIRA
2 3 (0.73%) Selenium
3 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.49%) MLflow
3 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.24%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.24%) Postman
4 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.24%) Subversion
4 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 128 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 115 (27.91%) Finance
3 91 (22.09%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (13.11%) Public Sector
5 43 (10.44%) Banking
6 18 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.16%) Front Office
7 13 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.67%) Legal
9 11 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.43%) Retail
11 9 (2.18%) Local Government
12 8 (1.94%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.70%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.70%) Marketing
14 6 (1.46%) General Ledger
14 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.97%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (1.94%) Middleware
3 4 (0.97%) ADO
3 4 (0.97%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (0.97%) XML
4 3 (0.73%) FHIR
5 2 (0.49%) Kafka
5 2 (0.49%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.49%) Web Services
6 1 (0.24%) FIXML
6 1 (0.24%) JSON
6 1 (0.24%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.24%) NumPy
6 1 (0.24%) OAuth
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.24%) Pandas
6 1 (0.24%) Playwright
6 1 (0.24%) REST
6 1 (0.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.34%) Cyber Threat
2 21 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.91%) Cyber Defence
3 12 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.94%) NHS
7 7 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.70%) PMI
8 6 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.21%) Derivative
10 4 (0.97%) Cyberattack
10 4 (0.97%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.73%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.49%) CSOC
12 2 (0.49%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.31%) Windows
2 10 (2.43%) Linux
3 5 (1.21%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.97%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (26.46%) Agile
2 88 (21.36%) Business Analysis
3 86 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 79 (19.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 78 (18.93%) Requirements Gathering
6 72 (17.48%) User Stories
7 63 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (14.08%) Workshop Facilitation
9 54 (13.11%) Decision-Making
10 45 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
11 44 (10.68%) Actionable Insight
12 43 (10.44%) Data Modelling
13 41 (9.95%) Migration
14 40 (9.71%) Data Analysis
15 38 (9.22%) DevOps
15 38 (9.22%) Mentoring
15 38 (9.22%) Validation
16 37 (8.98%) Process Improvement
17 36 (8.74%) Analytics
18 35 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.53%) SQL
2 21 (5.10%) Python
3 4 (0.97%) VBA
4 3 (0.73%) Java
4 3 (0.73%) R
5 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.49%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.49%) Korn
5 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.24%) C#
6 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.38%) Degree
3 46 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.85%) CBAP
5 16 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.91%) IIBA
7 9 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.18%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.21%) ACCA
8 5 (1.21%) CIMA
8 5 (1.21%) CISM
8 5 (1.21%) CISSP
8 5 (1.21%) CSPO
8 5 (1.21%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.97%) PMP
10 2 (0.49%) CFA
10 2 (0.49%) ISEB
10 2 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.25%) QA
2 24 (5.83%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.16%) PMO
4 8 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.46%) GDPR
6 4 (0.97%) GRC
6 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.97%) SLA
7 3 (0.73%) HL7
7 3 (0.73%) IFRS
7 3 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.49%) Basel III
8 2 (0.49%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.49%) NIST
8 2 (0.49%) PERC
9 1 (0.24%) COBIT
9 1 (0.24%) CRD IV
9 1 (0.24%) GAAP
9 1 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 10 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.24%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (0.49%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.49%) Terraform
2 1 (0.24%) BladeLogic
2 1 (0.24%) Grafana
2 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.24%) Kibana
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 48 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.74%) SAP
3 31 (7.52%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.88%) Oracle
5 13 (3.16%) Splunk
6 9 (2.18%) Databricks
7 8 (1.94%) Google
8 7 (1.70%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.46%) Charles River
9 6 (1.46%) Zuora
10 5 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.97%) Refinitiv
12 3 (0.73%) Adobe
12 3 (0.73%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.73%) SmartStream
12 3 (0.73%) Workday
13 2 (0.49%) Ariba
13 2 (0.49%) Citrix
13 2 (0.49%) JD Edwards
13 2 (0.49%) Reuters