Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends 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 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 220 201
Rank change year-on-year -54 -19 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 297 340 478
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.11% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.19% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 227 367
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £631
90th Percentile £706 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 7
10th Percentile £29.26 - £47.17
25th Percentile £31.65 £23.25 £56.88
Median hourly rate £34.63 £23.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.34% -63.85% +150.00%
75th Percentile £50.21 £54.24 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.00 £64.73 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £34.63 £23.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +47.34% -63.85% +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 27,471 28,532 37,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.99% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,625 17,415 25,662
10th Percentile £281 £300 £294
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -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 1,664 1,067 1,428
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.87
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.94
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.93% +53.13%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.30% -19.82% +60.06%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +12 188 £575 +4.55% 199
North of England -24 42 £420 -13.85% 44
South East -31 36 £520 +5.05% 76
Yorkshire -29 18 £375 -16.67% 7
Midlands -52 15 £488 -2.50% 31
North East +2 12 £113 -84.31% 5
North West -24 12 £463 -15.91% 32
West Midlands -50 9 £488 -2.50% 18
East Midlands -12 6 - - 13
South West -4 4 £495 +7.03% 8
East of England -22 4 £533 -4.91% 17
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 November 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 93 (31.31%) Agile
2 63 (21.21%) Business Analysis
3 56 (18.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 54 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 50 (16.84%) Analytics
6 48 (16.16%) SQL
7 47 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (13.80%) Power Platform
9 40 (13.47%) Power BI
10 38 (12.79%) Workshop Facilitation
11 34 (11.45%) User Stories
12 33 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (11.11%) Microsoft
12 33 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
12 33 (11.11%) Visualisation
13 32 (10.77%) Migration
14 31 (10.44%) Business Intelligence
15 29 (9.76%) Data Analysis
16 28 (9.43%) Azure
16 28 (9.43%) Data Modelling
17 27 (9.09%) Security Cleared
18 26 (8.75%) Decision-Making
18 26 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
18 26 (8.75%) Windows
19 25 (8.42%) Process Improvement
19 25 (8.42%) Python
20 24 (8.08%) JIRA
21 23 (7.74%) Scrum
22 22 (7.41%) Actionable Insight
22 22 (7.41%) DevOps

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 21 (7.07%) Confluence
2 7 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) SAS
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 19 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.02%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Endur
2 4 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.35%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.01%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.67%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.67%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.34%) RMDS
5 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (13.80%) Power Platform
2 28 (9.43%) Azure
3 19 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (5.39%) AWS
5 11 (3.70%) GCP
6 7 (2.36%) dbt
7 6 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.02%) PowerApps
7 6 (2.02%) SaaS
8 5 (1.68%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.01%) ChatGPT
10 3 (1.01%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.67%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 2 (0.67%) Google Analytics
11 2 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.67%) Serverless
11 2 (0.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.68%) Firewall
2 2 (0.67%) DNS
2 2 (0.67%) LAN
2 2 (0.67%) SSL
2 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.67%) WAN
2 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.67%) Wireless
3 1 (0.34%) Broadband
3 1 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.34%) FTP
3 1 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.34%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) NAS
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.34%) SAN
3 1 (0.34%) SMTP
3 1 (0.34%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.34%) VLAN
3 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.47%) Power BI
2 16 (5.39%) Tableau
3 9 (3.03%) BigQuery
3 9 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.68%) Metadata
5 4 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.01%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.01%) Looker
6 3 (1.01%) Power Query
7 2 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.67%) Big Data
7 2 (0.67%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.34%) MS Access
8 1 (0.34%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (8.08%) JIRA
2 6 (2.02%) Selenium
3 4 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.01%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.67%) Git
5 2 (0.67%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.67%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.34%) Postman
6 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 114 (38.38%) Social Skills
2 96 (32.32%) Finance
3 73 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (13.13%) Public Sector
5 33 (11.11%) Banking
6 18 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.38%) Retail
8 11 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.37%) Front Office
9 10 (3.37%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.36%) Marketing
10 7 (2.36%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.02%) Back Office
11 6 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.68%) Legal
12 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.35%) Local Government
14 3 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.68%) ADO
2 4 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (1.01%) Kafka
3 3 (1.01%) Playwright
3 3 (1.01%) SOAP
4 2 (0.67%) FHIR
4 2 (0.67%) PySpark
5 1 (0.34%) .NET
5 1 (0.34%) EDI
5 1 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.34%) JSON
5 1 (0.34%) LDAP
5 1 (0.34%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.34%) NumPy
5 1 (0.34%) Pandas
5 1 (0.34%) REST
5 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.34%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.34%) XML
5 1 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.39%) Onboarding
1 16 (5.39%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.03%) Derivative
3 7 (2.36%) Cyber Defence
3 7 (2.36%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (2.36%) iPad
3 7 (2.36%) iPhone
4 6 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.68%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.68%) Market Risk
5 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.35%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.35%) NHS
6 4 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.01%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.75%) Windows
2 7 (2.36%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.01%) Linux
3 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.67%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) CentOS
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (31.31%) Agile
2 63 (21.21%) Business Analysis
3 56 (18.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 54 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 50 (16.84%) Analytics
6 47 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (12.79%) Workshop Facilitation
8 34 (11.45%) User Stories
9 33 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
9 33 (11.11%) Visualisation
10 32 (10.77%) Migration
11 31 (10.44%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (9.76%) Data Analysis
13 28 (9.43%) Data Modelling
14 26 (8.75%) Decision-Making
14 26 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
15 25 (8.42%) Process Improvement
16 23 (7.74%) Scrum
17 22 (7.41%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 48 (16.16%) SQL
2 25 (8.42%) Python
3 4 (1.35%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.35%) R
4 3 (1.01%) Java
5 2 (0.67%) C#
5 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.67%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.34%) ABAP
6 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.34%) Korn
6 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.40%) Degree
2 19 (6.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.68%) CBAP
5 4 (1.35%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.01%) CISSP
6 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.01%) ISEB
7 2 (0.67%) CEH
7 2 (0.67%) CFA
7 2 (0.67%) CISM
7 2 (0.67%) IIBA
7 2 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CISMP
8 1 (0.34%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.40%) QA
2 12 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.69%) GDPR
3 8 (2.69%) PMO
4 6 (2.02%) GRC
4 6 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.02%) SLA
5 5 (1.68%) NIST
6 3 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.67%) COBIT
7 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.67%) HL7
7 2 (0.67%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (0.67%) P3O
7 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.67%) SEPA
8 1 (0.34%) EMIR
System Software
1 6 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (0.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 2 (0.67%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.34%) BladeLogic
2 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.34%) Nessus
2 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.72%) Oracle
3 13 (4.38%) SAP
4 8 (2.69%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.69%) Splunk
5 7 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.02%) Databricks
7 4 (1.35%) Google
7 4 (1.35%) Workday
8 3 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.01%) F5
8 3 (1.01%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.01%) Qualys
8 3 (1.01%) SmartStream
9 2 (0.67%) Foundry
9 2 (0.67%) Palantir
9 2 (0.67%) VMware
10 1 (0.34%) Capita
10 1 (0.34%) Computacenter
10 1 (0.34%) IBM Sterling