Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in England is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 276 215
Rank change year-on-year +10 -61 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 450 266 381
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 0.96% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.05% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 184 248
10th Percentile £354 £338 £363
25th Percentile £431 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% - -9.91%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £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 6 8
10th Percentile £27.67 £31.31 -
25th Percentile £31.44 £32.57 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.63 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +47.34% -64.53%
75th Percentile £32.73 £40.46 £63.06
90th Percentile £53.17 £63.47 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £34.63 £23.50
% change year-on-year -7.58% +47.34% -64.53%

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 42,532 25,317 30,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 91.27% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,192 16,337 18,640
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.46%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,576 1,391 1,390
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -1.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.13 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.72 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.89% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -26 230 £575 +5.50% 450
North of England -31 61 £550 +23.60% 120
Midlands -2 58 £525 +10.53% 68
South East -51 45 £500 - 123
West Midlands -24 36 £475 - 49
Yorkshire -28 27 £550 +50.68% 41
South West -22 25 £613 +53.13% 32
North East -16 23 £575 +10.58% 14
East Midlands +5 22 £525 - 19
East of England -3 22 £370 - 26
North West -51 12 £525 +15.89% 65
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 (30.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 131 (29.11%) Agile
3 113 (25.11%) Business Analysis
4 99 (22.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 91 (20.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 90 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 85 (18.89%) User Stories
8 70 (15.56%) Microsoft
9 68 (15.11%) Decision-Making
10 64 (14.22%) Analytics
11 62 (13.78%) Acceptance Criteria
12 59 (13.11%) AI
12 59 (13.11%) Security Cleared
12 59 (13.11%) SQL
13 58 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
14 55 (12.22%) Azure
15 54 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (11.56%) Process Improvement
16 52 (11.56%) QA
17 48 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
17 48 (10.67%) Data Analysis
17 48 (10.67%) Power Platform
18 46 (10.22%) DevOps
18 46 (10.22%) Power BI
19 42 (9.33%) Data Modelling
20 41 (9.11%) Degree
21 40 (8.89%) Validation
22 38 (8.44%) User Acceptance Testing
23 37 (8.22%) Data Quality
23 37 (8.22%) Mentoring

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 (5.11%) Confluence
2 5 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.67%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.44%) Appian
4 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.33%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.11%) Endur
4 5 (1.11%) Primavera
5 4 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.67%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.67%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.44%) Dynamics SL
7 2 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.44%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.22%) SAP FS
8 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.22%) Azure
2 48 (10.67%) Power Platform
3 30 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (4.22%) SaaS
5 14 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (2.89%) AWS
6 13 (2.89%) Power Automate
7 11 (2.44%) Snowflake
8 10 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 9 (2.00%) Serverless
10 8 (1.78%) Azure Functions
10 8 (1.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 7 (1.56%) PaaS
12 6 (1.33%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.11%) GCP
14 4 (0.89%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (0.89%) ChatGPT
14 4 (0.89%) PowerApps
15 3 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.89%) 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 46 (10.22%) Power BI
2 26 (5.78%) Tableau
3 12 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.56%) Metadata
6 6 (1.33%) Looker
7 5 (1.11%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.89%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.67%) Power Query
10 2 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.44%) Big Data
10 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.44%) GIS
10 2 (0.44%) Mixpanel
10 2 (0.44%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.22%) Essbase
11 1 (0.22%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (7.78%) JIRA
2 9 (2.00%) Postman
2 9 (2.00%) Selenium
3 8 (1.78%) Cucumber
3 8 (1.78%) Cypress.io
3 8 (1.78%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.67%) GitLab
5 2 (0.44%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) Git
6 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 138 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 108 (24.00%) Finance
3 97 (21.56%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (12.67%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.56%) Banking
6 26 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (4.44%) Local Government
8 18 (4.00%) Front Office
9 17 (3.78%) Marketing
10 15 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (3.11%) Legal
12 13 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.67%) Retail
14 8 (1.78%) Advertising
14 8 (1.78%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.56%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.33%) Manufacturing
17 5 (1.11%) Back Office
17 5 (1.11%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.78%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.89%) ADO
2 4 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.67%) VML
4 2 (0.44%) HTML
4 2 (0.44%) JSON
4 2 (0.44%) NumPy
4 2 (0.44%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.44%) Pandas
4 2 (0.44%) Playwright
4 2 (0.44%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.44%) Swagger
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.22%) Django
5 1 (0.22%) Kafka
5 1 (0.22%) OAuth
5 1 (0.22%) OpenID
5 1 (0.22%) SAML
5 1 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.33%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.56%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.11%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.56%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.56%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (1.33%) Taxonomies
7 5 (1.11%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.89%) FMCG
8 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.67%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.67%) Life Science
9 3 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.22%) Windows
2 7 (1.56%) Linux
3 2 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (30.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 131 (29.11%) Agile
3 113 (25.11%) Business Analysis
4 99 (22.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 91 (20.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 90 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 85 (18.89%) User Stories
8 68 (15.11%) Decision-Making
9 64 (14.22%) Analytics
10 62 (13.78%) Acceptance Criteria
11 59 (13.11%) AI
12 58 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 52 (11.56%) Process Improvement
15 48 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
15 48 (10.67%) Data Analysis
16 46 (10.22%) DevOps
17 42 (9.33%) Data Modelling
18 40 (8.89%) Validation
19 38 (8.44%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (13.11%) SQL
2 34 (7.56%) Python
3 11 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.78%) C#
6 5 (1.11%) Bash
6 5 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (1.11%) Perl
6 5 (1.11%) R
7 4 (0.89%) 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 59 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.11%) Degree
3 35 (7.78%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.44%) ISTQB
6 10 (2.22%) ACCA
6 10 (2.22%) CISSP
7 9 (2.00%) CIMA
7 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.11%) CBAP
9 5 (1.11%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (1.11%) GCIH
9 5 (1.11%) ISEB
10 4 (0.89%) CSPO
10 4 (0.89%) IIBA
10 4 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.89%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (11.56%) QA
2 37 (8.22%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.22%) GDPR
3 19 (4.22%) PMO
4 15 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.22%) NIST
7 8 (1.78%) WCAG
8 4 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.89%) GRC
8 4 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.67%) IFRS
9 3 (0.67%) P3O
10 2 (0.44%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.44%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.44%) SEPA
11 1 (0.22%) EMIR
11 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 3 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 70 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.22%) SAP
3 27 (6.00%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.56%) Oracle
5 10 (2.22%) Workday
6 9 (2.00%) Databricks
7 7 (1.56%) Google
7 7 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.33%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.11%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.11%) Splunk
10 4 (0.89%) Clearswift
10 4 (0.89%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.89%) Tanium
10 4 (0.89%) Tripwire
11 3 (0.67%) Civica
11 3 (0.67%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.67%) IFS
11 3 (0.67%) Orchard