Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in England is £531, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 259 213
Rank change year-on-year -3 -46 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 458 267 385
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 0.96% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.05% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 183 250
10th Percentile £352 £338 £363
25th Percentile £431 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -9.91%
75th Percentile £638 £603 £600
90th Percentile £675 £706 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 9
10th Percentile £27.67 £28.95 -
25th Percentile £31.44 £31.31 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.27 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +45.83% -63.85%
75th Percentile £32.73 £38.97 £62.50
90th Percentile £53.17 £59.16 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £34.27 £23.50
% change year-on-year -6.62% +45.83% -63.85%

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 42,921 25,440 30,511
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 91.33% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,465 16,413 18,833
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,560 1,395 1,422
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.76 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.44 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -3.37%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -37 233 £575 +5.50% 538
North of England -24 61 £550 +22.91% 136
Midlands -4 59 £525 +10.53% 76
South East -61 46 £500 - 155
West Midlands -17 37 £475 - 52
Yorkshire -25 27 £550 +50.68% 45
South West -21 25 £613 +53.13% 34
East of England -14 24 £370 - 28
North East -21 23 £575 +10.58% 12
East Midlands +9 22 £525 - 24
North West -50 12 £525 +15.13% 79
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 137 (29.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 133 (29.04%) Agile
3 114 (24.89%) Business Analysis
4 99 (21.62%) Workshop Facilitation
5 91 (19.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 89 (19.43%) Requirements Gathering
7 88 (19.21%) User Stories
8 71 (15.50%) Microsoft
9 70 (15.28%) Decision-Making
10 65 (14.19%) Acceptance Criteria
11 64 (13.97%) Analytics
12 61 (13.32%) Security Cleared
13 59 (12.88%) SQL
14 58 (12.66%) AI
14 58 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
15 55 (12.01%) Azure
16 53 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 53 (11.57%) Process Improvement
17 52 (11.35%) QA
18 49 (10.70%) Business Intelligence
18 49 (10.70%) Data Analysis
18 49 (10.70%) Power Platform
19 47 (10.26%) Power BI
20 46 (10.04%) DevOps
21 42 (9.17%) Data Modelling
21 42 (9.17%) Degree
22 40 (8.73%) Validation
23 38 (8.30%) Mentoring
23 38 (8.30%) User Acceptance Testing
24 37 (8.08%) 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 (5.02%) Confluence
2 5 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.87%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.66%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.44%) Appian
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.62%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.31%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.09%) Endur
3 5 (1.09%) Primavera
4 4 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.66%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.44%) Dynamics SL
6 2 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.44%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.22%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.01%) Azure
2 49 (10.70%) Power Platform
3 30 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (4.37%) SaaS
5 14 (3.06%) AWS
5 14 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (2.84%) Power Automate
7 10 (2.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 10 (2.18%) Snowflake
8 9 (1.97%) Serverless
9 8 (1.75%) Azure Functions
9 8 (1.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 7 (1.53%) PaaS
11 6 (1.31%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.09%) GCP
13 4 (0.87%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (0.87%) ChatGPT
13 4 (0.87%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.44%) Network Security
2 2 (0.44%) WAN
2 2 (0.44%) Wireshark
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%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.26%) Power BI
2 26 (5.68%) Tableau
3 13 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.31%) Looker
6 5 (1.09%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.09%) Metadata
7 4 (0.87%) Data Mining
7 4 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.66%) Power Query
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.44%) Big Data
9 2 (0.44%) GIS
9 2 (0.44%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.44%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.22%) Essbase
10 1 (0.22%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.22%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 36 (7.86%) JIRA
2 9 (1.97%) Postman
2 9 (1.97%) Selenium
3 8 (1.75%) Cucumber
3 8 (1.75%) Cypress.io
3 8 (1.75%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.66%) GitLab
5 2 (0.44%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) Git
6 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 139 (30.35%) Social Skills
2 110 (24.02%) Finance
3 99 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (12.23%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.42%) Banking
6 26 (5.68%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (4.59%) Local Government
8 18 (3.93%) Front Office
9 17 (3.71%) Marketing
10 15 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.84%) Retail
13 12 (2.62%) Legal
14 8 (1.75%) Advertising
14 8 (1.75%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.53%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (1.09%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.75%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.87%) ADO
2 4 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.87%) VML
3 3 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.66%) NumPy
3 3 (0.66%) Pandas
4 2 (0.44%) HTML
4 2 (0.44%) JSON
4 2 (0.44%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.44%) Playwright
4 2 (0.44%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.44%) Swagger
5 1 (0.22%) Django
5 1 (0.22%) Middleware
5 1 (0.22%) OAuth
5 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.22%) SAML
5 1 (0.22%) SOAP
5 1 (0.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.49%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.06%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (1.53%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.53%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.53%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.31%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.09%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.87%) FMCG
8 4 (0.87%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.66%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.66%) Life Science
9 3 (0.66%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.18%) Windows
2 7 (1.53%) Linux
3 2 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (29.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 133 (29.04%) Agile
3 114 (24.89%) Business Analysis
4 99 (21.62%) Workshop Facilitation
5 91 (19.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 89 (19.43%) Requirements Gathering
7 88 (19.21%) User Stories
8 70 (15.28%) Decision-Making
9 65 (14.19%) Acceptance Criteria
10 64 (13.97%) Analytics
11 58 (12.66%) AI
11 58 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (11.57%) Process Improvement
13 49 (10.70%) Business Intelligence
13 49 (10.70%) Data Analysis
14 46 (10.04%) DevOps
15 42 (9.17%) Data Modelling
16 40 (8.73%) Validation
17 38 (8.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 59 (12.88%) SQL
2 35 (7.64%) Python
3 11 (2.40%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.18%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.75%) C#
6 5 (1.09%) Bash
6 5 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (1.09%) Perl
6 5 (1.09%) R
7 4 (0.87%) Java
8 2 (0.44%) Korn
8 2 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.22%) C++
9 1 (0.22%) LookML
9 1 (0.22%) Ruby
9 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (13.32%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.17%) Degree
3 37 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.40%) ACCA
5 11 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.40%) ISTQB
6 10 (2.18%) CIMA
6 10 (2.18%) CISSP
7 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.09%) CBAP
9 5 (1.09%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (1.09%) CSPO
9 5 (1.09%) GCIH
9 5 (1.09%) ISEB
10 4 (0.87%) IIBA
10 4 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (11.35%) QA
2 35 (7.64%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.37%) PMO
4 18 (3.93%) GDPR
5 15 (3.28%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.18%) NIST
8 8 (1.75%) WCAG
9 4 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.87%) GRC
9 4 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.66%) IFRS
10 3 (0.66%) P3O
11 2 (0.44%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.44%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.44%) SEPA
12 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 3 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 71 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.33%) SAP
3 28 (6.11%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.49%) Oracle
5 10 (2.18%) Workday
6 8 (1.75%) Databricks
7 7 (1.53%) Google
7 7 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.31%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.09%) Splunk
10 4 (0.87%) Civica
10 4 (0.87%) Clearswift
10 4 (0.87%) Orchard
10 4 (0.87%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.87%) Tanium
10 4 (0.87%) Tripwire
11 3 (0.66%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.66%) IFS