Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 276 207
Rank change year-on-year +46 -69 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 448 209 417
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 0.86% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 0.93% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 147 295
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £628 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £718 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 8
10th Percentile £26.11 £22.69 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £25.74 £13.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.45 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% +39.21% -68.46%
75th Percentile £41.94 £28.60 £26.63
90th Percentile £43.82 £40.16 £28.43
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.45 £23.00
% change year-on-year +20.98% +15.00% -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 37,194 22,563 34,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.55% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,225 15,022 22,706
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.31% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,523 910 2,433
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.62 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.52% -16.12% -18.03%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -18.89%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +41 245 £550 +4.76% 95
North of England -9 72 £425 -8.11% 50
South East -25 53 £500 +14.29% 69
Midlands -36 44 £513 +2.50% 20
North West -21 29 £410 -11.35% 26
Yorkshire -29 25 £493 +3.68% 13
East of England -18 24 £500 +8.11% 15
East Midlands - 23 £550 - 12
West Midlands -49 21 £500 - 7
North East - 19 £300 - 11
South West -41 8 £488 +21.88% 12
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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.

1 120 (26.79%) Agile
2 94 (20.98%) User Stories
3 87 (19.42%) Business Analysis
3 87 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 73 (16.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 73 (16.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 67 (14.96%) Security Cleared
6 64 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 63 (14.06%) Workshop Facilitation
8 62 (13.84%) SQL
9 59 (13.17%) Degree
10 56 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (12.05%) Azure
11 54 (12.05%) Microsoft
12 53 (11.83%) DevOps
13 49 (10.94%) SAP
14 47 (10.49%) Acceptance Criteria
14 47 (10.49%) Data Modelling
15 46 (10.27%) Power BI
15 46 (10.27%) Power Platform
16 45 (10.04%) Actionable Insight
17 43 (9.60%) Process Improvement
17 43 (9.60%) SC Cleared
18 42 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
18 42 (9.38%) QA
18 42 (9.38%) Salesforce
18 42 (9.38%) Validation
19 41 (9.15%) Migration
20 39 (8.71%) JIRA
21 37 (8.26%) Data Analysis

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 28 (6.25%) Confluence
2 7 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.45%) Appian
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.45%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.45%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 33 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.69%) MS Visio
3 17 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.79%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.67%) Algo Collateral
4 3 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.67%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.67%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (0.67%) Endur
4 3 (0.67%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.67%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.45%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 54 (12.05%) Azure
2 46 (10.27%) Power Platform
3 19 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (2.46%) AWS
5 9 (2.01%) GCP
5 9 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (1.79%) SaaS
7 6 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.34%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.12%) Google Tag Manager
8 5 (1.12%) Lucidchart
9 3 (0.67%) ChatGPT
9 3 (0.67%) GitHub
9 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.34%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.12%) DNS
4 4 (0.89%) Broadband
5 3 (0.67%) Firewall
6 2 (0.45%) LAN
6 2 (0.45%) WAN
7 1 (0.22%) FTP
7 1 (0.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.27%) Power BI
2 17 (3.79%) Tableau
3 9 (2.01%) BigQuery
4 7 (1.56%) Looker
4 7 (1.56%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.34%) Power Query
6 4 (0.89%) Metadata
7 2 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.45%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.45%) GIS
7 2 (0.45%) MS Access
7 2 (0.45%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.22%) Big Data
8 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (8.71%) JIRA
2 3 (0.67%) GitLab
2 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.45%) MLflow
3 2 (0.45%) Selenium
3 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.22%) Postman
4 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 118 (26.34%) Finance
2 117 (26.12%) Social Skills
3 93 (20.76%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 38 (8.48%) Banking
6 18 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (3.13%) Retail
9 13 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.68%) Front Office
10 12 (2.68%) Marketing
11 10 (2.23%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.23%) Local Government
12 9 (2.01%) Legal
13 8 (1.79%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.12%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.89%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
1 8 (1.79%) Middleware
2 6 (1.34%) ADO
3 4 (0.89%) VML
3 4 (0.89%) XML
4 3 (0.67%) Kafka
4 3 (0.67%) NumPy
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.67%) Pandas
5 2 (0.45%) FHIR
5 2 (0.45%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.45%) Web Services
6 1 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.22%) JSON
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.22%) Playwright
6 1 (0.22%) REST
6 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.22%) SAML
6 1 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.69%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.79%) Cyber Threat
2 17 (3.79%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.35%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.34%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.34%) PMI
9 5 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.12%) NHS
10 4 (0.89%) Cyberattack
10 4 (0.89%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.45%) Derivative
11 2 (0.45%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.35%) Windows
2 8 (1.79%) Linux
3 4 (0.89%) Unix
4 3 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (26.79%) Agile
2 94 (20.98%) User Stories
3 87 (19.42%) Business Analysis
3 87 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 73 (16.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 73 (16.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 64 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 63 (14.06%) Workshop Facilitation
7 56 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (11.83%) DevOps
9 47 (10.49%) Acceptance Criteria
9 47 (10.49%) Data Modelling
10 45 (10.04%) Actionable Insight
11 43 (9.60%) Process Improvement
12 42 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
12 42 (9.38%) Validation
13 41 (9.15%) Migration
14 37 (8.26%) Data Analysis
15 35 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (7.37%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (13.84%) SQL
2 21 (4.69%) Python
3 6 (1.34%) R
3 6 (1.34%) VBA
4 4 (0.89%) Java
5 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.22%) Korn
6 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.22%) Ruby
6 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.17%) Degree
3 43 (9.60%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (4.24%) CBAP
6 11 (2.46%) ACCA
6 11 (2.46%) CIMA
7 10 (2.23%) CSPO
7 10 (2.23%) IIBA
8 9 (2.01%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.79%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.12%) CISSP
10 5 (1.12%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.89%) CISM
11 4 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.89%) PMP
12 2 (0.45%) APMP
12 2 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.38%) QA
2 24 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.24%) PMO
4 9 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.12%) GDPR
5 5 (1.12%) SLA
6 4 (0.89%) IFRS
7 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.45%) HL7
7 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.45%) P3O
7 2 (0.45%) PERC
8 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.22%) Basel III
8 1 (0.22%) EMIR
8 1 (0.22%) GAAP
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.22%) MiFID
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.12%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.22%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.22%) Grafana
3 1 (0.22%) Kibana
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.94%) SAP
3 42 (9.38%) Salesforce
4 12 (2.68%) Oracle
5 10 (2.23%) Databricks
6 9 (2.01%) Google
7 8 (1.79%) Splunk
7 8 (1.79%) Zuora
8 7 (1.56%) Bloomberg
8 7 (1.56%) Charles River
9 5 (1.12%) Guidewire
9 5 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.12%) Workday
10 4 (0.89%) Refinitiv
11 3 (0.67%) Adaptive Insights
11 3 (0.67%) Adobe
11 3 (0.67%) Anaplan
11 3 (0.67%) IFS
11 3 (0.67%) Infor
11 3 (0.67%) Sage