Senior Analyst Contracts 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 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 204 243
Rank change year-on-year -79 +39 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 211 426 550
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.87% 1.15% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 1.24% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 306 410
10th Percentile £363 £350 £324
25th Percentile £400 £425 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +1.94%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £631
90th Percentile £719 £669 £714
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 8
10th Percentile £19.00 - £23.18
25th Percentile £23.61 £13.50 £38.25
Median hourly rate £26.39 £19.00 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.87% -68.46% +89.17%
75th Percentile £28.60 £26.63 £64.06
90th Percentile £37.27 £28.43 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £23.00 £60.25
% change year-on-year +14.72% -61.83% +89.17%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in England

Senior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Analyst in England

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in England

Senior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Analyst in England

Senior Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -58 131 £525 -4.55% 325
South East +35 23 £438 -10.26% 95
North of England -13 21 £463 -9.71% 50
South West +53 15 £400 -33.33% 16
North West -13 14 £463 -9.71% 29
West Midlands -3 9 £500 +0.55% 36
Midlands -4 9 £500 +11.11% 52
Yorkshire +8 7 £475 +27.96% 16
East of England +8 6 £463 -15.91% 24
Senior Analyst
UK

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 69 (32.70%) Social Skills
2 62 (29.38%) Finance
3 53 (25.12%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (24.17%) Agile
5 50 (23.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (21.80%) SQL
7 44 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (18.48%) Business Analysis
9 25 (11.85%) Migration
9 25 (11.85%) Data Analysis
9 25 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (10.90%) Risk Management
11 22 (10.43%) Banking
11 22 (10.43%) User Acceptance Testing
11 22 (10.43%) Security Cleared
12 21 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 21 (9.95%) Microsoft
13 20 (9.48%) Degree
13 20 (9.48%) JIRA
14 19 (9.00%) Change Management
14 19 (9.00%) Waterfall
15 18 (8.53%) User Stories
15 18 (8.53%) Windows
15 18 (8.53%) Validation
15 18 (8.53%) QA
15 18 (8.53%) Requirements Gathering
15 18 (8.53%) Power Platform
16 17 (8.06%) Decision-Making
16 17 (8.06%) Logistics
16 17 (8.06%) Management Information System

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.21%) Confluence
2 5 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) CMS
3 4 (1.90%) SAS
4 3 (1.42%) Apache
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.95%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.47%) CICS
Applications
1 16 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.32%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.84%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.95%) Shopify
2 2 (0.95%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.47%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.53%) Power Platform
2 15 (7.11%) Azure
3 9 (4.27%) AWS
4 6 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.84%) GCP
4 6 (2.84%) SaaS
5 3 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.42%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.95%) BigCommerce
6 2 (0.95%) Collibra
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.47%) dbt
7 1 (0.47%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.47%) Miro
7 1 (0.47%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.90%) 5G
1 4 (1.90%) VoLTE
1 4 (1.90%) VoWiFi
2 3 (1.42%) Wireshark
3 2 (0.95%) 4G
3 2 (0.95%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (0.95%) DNS
3 2 (0.95%) HTTP
3 2 (0.95%) Intranet
3 2 (0.95%) SIGTRAN
3 2 (0.95%) SMS
3 2 (0.95%) SMTP
3 2 (0.95%) SS7
4 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.47%) FTP
4 1 (0.47%) Network Security
4 1 (0.47%) SDH
4 1 (0.47%) SSL
4 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.06%) Power BI
2 6 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.84%) MS Access
2 6 (2.84%) Tableau
3 4 (1.90%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Hive
5 2 (0.95%) Big Data
5 2 (0.95%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.95%) Data Mart
5 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.95%) Impala
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.47%) Metadata
6 1 (0.47%) Power Query
6 1 (0.47%) QlikView
6 1 (0.47%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 20 (9.48%) JIRA
2 4 (1.90%) QARun
2 4 (1.90%) WinRunner
3 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.95%) SoapUI
3 2 (0.95%) TestRail
3 2 (0.95%) Toad
4 1 (0.47%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.47%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.47%) Postman
4 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 69 (32.70%) Social Skills
2 62 (29.38%) Finance
3 53 (25.12%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.43%) Banking
5 14 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (4.27%) Retail
7 8 (3.79%) Marketing
8 7 (3.32%) Front Office
8 7 (3.32%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.32%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.84%) Local Government
9 6 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.90%) Back Office
10 4 (1.90%) Billing
10 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.90%) Law
11 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.42%) Legal
12 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.84%) Middleware
1 6 (2.84%) Web Services
2 5 (2.37%) XML
3 4 (1.90%) FpML
3 4 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.42%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.42%) Kafka
5 2 (0.95%) SOAP
5 2 (0.95%) VML
6 1 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.47%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.47%) ISPF
6 1 (0.47%) LDAP
6 1 (0.47%) PySpark
6 1 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.06%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.79%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.37%) CMDB
3 5 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.42%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.42%) NHS
5 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (0.95%) Equities
6 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.95%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.95%) PMI
6 2 (0.95%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.53%) Windows
2 6 (2.84%) Unix
3 5 (2.37%) Linux
4 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.47%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (24.17%) Agile
2 50 (23.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (18.48%) Business Analysis
5 25 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (11.85%) Data Analysis
5 25 (11.85%) Migration
6 23 (10.90%) Risk Management
7 22 (10.43%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (9.00%) Change Management
9 19 (9.00%) Waterfall
10 18 (8.53%) Requirements Gathering
10 18 (8.53%) User Stories
10 18 (8.53%) Validation
11 17 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (8.06%) Decision-Making
11 17 (8.06%) Logistics
12 16 (7.58%) Data Modelling
12 16 (7.58%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.80%) SQL
2 16 (7.58%) Python
3 3 (1.42%) Java
3 3 (1.42%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.42%) VBA
4 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
4 2 (0.95%) R
5 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.47%) JCL
5 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (10.43%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.48%) Degree
3 15 (7.11%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.32%) CBAP
5 3 (1.42%) ACCA
5 3 (1.42%) CISSP
5 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.95%) CCNA
6 2 (0.95%) CEH
6 2 (0.95%) CFA
6 2 (0.95%) CIMA
6 2 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.95%) GCIH
6 2 (0.95%) ISEB
6 2 (0.95%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.95%) OSCP
6 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.53%) QA
2 14 (6.64%) GDPR
3 13 (6.16%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.79%) PMO
5 3 (1.42%) NIST
6 2 (0.95%) GRC
6 2 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.47%) COBIT
7 1 (0.47%) COSO
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.47%) ITGC
7 1 (0.47%) LOINC
7 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) SEPA
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
7 1 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) HDFS
2 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.47%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.42%) SCCM
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.95%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.47%) CA Endevor
3 1 (0.47%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.47%) Nessus
3 1 (0.47%) Nmap
Vendors
1 21 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.11%) Oracle
3 11 (5.21%) SAP
4 8 (3.79%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.84%) Adobe
5 6 (2.84%) Citrix
6 5 (2.37%) Splunk
6 5 (2.37%) Workday
7 4 (1.90%) Google
7 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.42%) Darktrace
8 3 (1.42%) FireEye
8 3 (1.42%) Informatica
8 3 (1.42%) LogRhythm
8 3 (1.42%) Talend
9 2 (0.95%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.95%) Foundry
9 2 (0.95%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.95%) Trayport
9 2 (0.95%) webMethods