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 6 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
6 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 229 205
Rank change year-on-year -28 -24 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 318 330 457
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 1.08% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.16% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 217 351
10th Percentile £328 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% -1.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £631
90th Percentile £735 £725 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 7
10th Percentile - £21.98 £47.17
25th Percentile £28.00 £23.25 £56.88
Median hourly rate £32.74 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.98% -34.62% +105.63%
75th Percentile £38.97 £64.73 £69.38
90th Percentile £75.00 - £73.00
UK median hourly rate £32.74 £42.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -22.98% -34.62% +150.00%

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 28,364 28,410 35,800
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.92% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,196 17,553 24,633
10th Percentile £288 £300 £293
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,707 984 1,397
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.34 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.17 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.66 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +39.88%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +7 202 £588 +2.17% 89
North of England -23 49 £420 -13.85% 28
South East -34 36 £520 +6.12% 75
Yorkshire -23 22 £375 -16.67% 6
North West -22 14 £463 -15.91% 17
North East +7 13 £120 -83.33% 5
Midlands -52 13 £500 - 21
East of England -10 9 £454 -20.04% 17
East Midlands -10 7 - - 9
West Midlands -46 6 £500 - 12
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 6 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 99 (31.13%) Agile
2 66 (20.75%) Business Analysis
3 59 (18.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 59 (18.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (16.04%) SQL
6 45 (14.15%) Power BI
6 45 (14.15%) Power Platform
7 41 (12.89%) Workshop Facilitation
8 40 (12.58%) Analytics
8 40 (12.58%) User Stories
9 39 (12.26%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (11.32%) Decision-Making
11 36 (11.32%) Requirements Gathering
12 34 (10.69%) Migration
13 33 (10.38%) Data Analysis
13 33 (10.38%) Microsoft
13 33 (10.38%) Visualisation
14 31 (9.75%) Data Modelling
15 30 (9.43%) JIRA
16 28 (8.81%) Process Improvement
16 28 (8.81%) Validation
17 27 (8.49%) Security Cleared
18 26 (8.18%) Azure
18 26 (8.18%) Windows
19 25 (7.86%) Degree
20 24 (7.55%) Actionable Insight
20 24 (7.55%) Confluence
20 24 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel

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 (7.55%) Confluence
2 9 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.63%) SAS
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 24 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.77%) MS Visio
3 9 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.57%) Endur
2 4 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.26%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.94%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.31%) iTrent
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.31%) RMDS
5 1 (0.31%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.31%) Shopify
5 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (14.15%) Power Platform
2 26 (8.18%) Azure
3 18 (5.66%) AWS
4 16 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (4.40%) GCP
6 10 (3.14%) SaaS
7 6 (1.89%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.57%) Lucidchart
8 5 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.57%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.57%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.26%) dbt
9 4 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.26%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.94%) ChatGPT
10 3 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.63%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 2 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.26%) Firewall
2 2 (0.63%) DNS
2 2 (0.63%) LAN
2 2 (0.63%) SSL
2 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.63%) WAN
2 2 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.63%) Wireless
3 1 (0.31%) Broadband
3 1 (0.31%) FTP
3 1 (0.31%) HTTP
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) NAS
3 1 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) SAN
3 1 (0.31%) SMTP
3 1 (0.31%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.31%) VLAN
3 1 (0.31%) VPN
3 1 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (14.15%) Power BI
2 19 (5.97%) Tableau
3 12 (3.77%) BigQuery
4 9 (2.83%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.89%) Looker
6 5 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.57%) Metadata
7 3 (0.94%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.94%) Power Query
7 3 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.63%) Big Data
8 2 (0.63%) BusinessObjects XI
9 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (9.43%) JIRA
2 6 (1.89%) Selenium
3 4 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.94%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.63%) Git
5 2 (0.63%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.63%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.31%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (0.31%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.31%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.31%) Postman
6 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 113 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 103 (32.39%) Finance
3 78 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (14.15%) Public Sector
5 37 (11.64%) Banking
6 18 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.09%) Retail
8 12 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.14%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.52%) Front Office
11 7 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.20%) Legal
12 6 (1.89%) Back Office
12 6 (1.89%) Marketing
13 5 (1.57%) Local Government
13 5 (1.57%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.26%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.89%) ADO
2 4 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (0.94%) Kafka
3 3 (0.94%) Middleware
3 3 (0.94%) Playwright
3 3 (0.94%) SOAP
4 2 (0.63%) FHIR
4 2 (0.63%) PySpark
5 1 (0.31%) .NET
5 1 (0.31%) EDI
5 1 (0.31%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.31%) FIXML
5 1 (0.31%) JSON
5 1 (0.31%) LDAP
5 1 (0.31%) Pandas
5 1 (0.31%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.31%) VML
5 1 (0.31%) XML
5 1 (0.31%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.97%) Product Ownership
2 17 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.83%) Cyber Defence
4 8 (2.52%) Derivative
5 7 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.20%) iPad
5 7 (2.20%) iPhone
6 6 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.57%) Market Risk
7 5 (1.57%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.26%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.26%) NHS
8 4 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (0.94%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.18%) Windows
2 7 (2.20%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.94%) Linux
3 3 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.31%) CentOS
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (31.13%) Agile
2 66 (20.75%) Business Analysis
3 59 (18.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 59 (18.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (12.89%) Workshop Facilitation
6 40 (12.58%) Analytics
6 40 (12.58%) User Stories
7 39 (12.26%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (11.32%) Decision-Making
9 36 (11.32%) Requirements Gathering
10 34 (10.69%) Migration
11 33 (10.38%) Data Analysis
11 33 (10.38%) Visualisation
12 31 (9.75%) Data Modelling
13 28 (8.81%) Process Improvement
13 28 (8.81%) Validation
14 24 (7.55%) Actionable Insight
14 24 (7.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (16.04%) SQL
2 22 (6.92%) Python
3 5 (1.57%) R
4 3 (0.94%) Java
4 3 (0.94%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.63%) C#
5 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.31%) ABAP
6 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.31%) Korn
6 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (8.49%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.86%) Degree
3 21 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.83%) CBAP
6 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.57%) CSPO
8 4 (1.26%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.94%) CISSP
9 3 (0.94%) IIBA
9 3 (0.94%) ISEB
10 2 (0.63%) CEH
10 2 (0.63%) CFA
10 2 (0.63%) CISM
10 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ACCA
11 1 (0.31%) CIPFA
11 1 (0.31%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.66%) QA
2 15 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.46%) PMO
4 9 (2.83%) GDPR
5 6 (1.89%) GRC
5 6 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.57%) NIST
6 5 (1.57%) SLA
7 3 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.63%) COBIT
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.63%) HL7
8 2 (0.63%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (0.63%) P3O
8 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.63%) PERC
8 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.31%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.31%) CSIRT
1 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.31%) Nessus
1 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.03%) Oracle
3 13 (4.09%) SAP
4 12 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.83%) Google
5 9 (2.83%) Splunk
6 6 (1.89%) Databricks
6 6 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.26%) Zuora
8 3 (0.94%) Adobe
8 3 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.94%) F5
8 3 (0.94%) OpenLink
8 3 (0.94%) Qualys
8 3 (0.94%) SmartStream
8 3 (0.94%) Workday
9 2 (0.63%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.63%) Facebook
9 2 (0.63%) Foundry
9 2 (0.63%) VMware
188 Senior Analyst jobs in England