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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 272 213
Rank change year-on-year +8 -59 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 456 263 379
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 0.95% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.04% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 182 246
10th Percentile £350 £338 £363
25th Percentile £430 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £605 £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 42,921 25,318 29,860
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 91.25% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,434 16,345 18,286
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -3.85%
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 3,595 1,381 1,357
10th Percentile £14.68 £13.78 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.33 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -1.92%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -22 234 £575 +6.48% 464
North of England -43 62 £550 +23.60% 129
Midlands +1 57 £525 +10.53% 82
South East -50 46 £500 - 136
West Midlands -26 35 £475 - 57
Yorkshire -30 28 £550 +50.68% 41
South West -23 25 £613 +53.13% 33
North East -17 23 £575 +10.58% 16
East Midlands +3 22 £525 - 25
East of England -8 22 £370 - 24
North West -45 12 £525 +15.89% 72
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 142 (31.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 133 (29.17%) Agile
3 115 (25.22%) Business Analysis
4 103 (22.59%) Workshop Facilitation
5 95 (20.83%) Requirements Gathering
6 91 (19.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 88 (19.30%) User Stories
8 72 (15.79%) Microsoft
9 68 (14.91%) Decision-Making
10 65 (14.25%) Acceptance Criteria
10 65 (14.25%) Analytics
11 61 (13.38%) AI
12 60 (13.16%) SQL
13 59 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (12.94%) Security Cleared
14 57 (12.50%) Azure
15 55 (12.06%) QA
16 54 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (11.40%) Process Improvement
18 49 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
18 49 (10.75%) Data Analysis
18 49 (10.75%) Power Platform
19 48 (10.53%) DevOps
20 47 (10.31%) Power BI
21 42 (9.21%) Data Modelling
21 42 (9.21%) Degree
22 41 (8.99%) Validation
23 40 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
24 38 (8.33%) Data Quality
24 38 (8.33%) Requirements Workshops

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 (5.04%) Confluence
2 6 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.66%) 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 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.41%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.32%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.10%) Endur
4 5 (1.10%) Primavera
5 4 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.66%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.66%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.66%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.50%) Azure
2 49 (10.75%) Power Platform
3 32 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (4.61%) SaaS
5 14 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (2.85%) AWS
6 13 (2.85%) Power Automate
7 11 (2.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 11 (2.41%) Snowflake
8 9 (1.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 9 (1.97%) Serverless
9 8 (1.75%) Azure Functions
9 8 (1.75%) PaaS
10 6 (1.32%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (1.10%) ChatGPT
11 5 (1.10%) GCP
12 4 (0.88%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.66%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.88%) 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 47 (10.31%) Power BI
2 27 (5.92%) Tableau
3 12 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.54%) Metadata
6 6 (1.32%) Looker
7 5 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.88%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.88%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.66%) 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%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.22%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (8.11%) JIRA
2 9 (1.97%) Postman
2 9 (1.97%) Selenium
3 8 (1.75%) Cucumber
3 8 (1.75%) Cypress.io
3 8 (1.75%) WebDriver
4 3 (0.66%) Balsamiq
4 3 (0.66%) GitLab
5 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) Git
6 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 143 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 111 (24.34%) Finance
3 99 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 37 (8.11%) Banking
6 27 (5.92%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (4.39%) Local Government
8 19 (4.17%) Front Office
9 18 (3.95%) Marketing
10 15 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (3.29%) Legal
11 13 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.63%) Retail
13 9 (1.97%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.75%) Advertising
15 7 (1.54%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.54%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.10%) Billing
16 5 (1.10%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.75%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.88%) ADO
2 4 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.66%) OpenAPI
3 3 (0.66%) Swagger
3 3 (0.66%) VML
4 2 (0.44%) HTML
4 2 (0.44%) JSON
4 2 (0.44%) NumPy
4 2 (0.44%) Pandas
4 2 (0.44%) Playwright
4 2 (0.44%) SailPoint
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%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.07%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.54%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.54%) Reference Data
6 7 (1.54%) Taxonomies
7 6 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
7 6 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.10%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.88%) FMCG
9 4 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.66%) CSOC
10 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.66%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.66%) Life Science
10 3 (0.66%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.19%) Windows
2 7 (1.54%) Linux
3 2 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (31.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 133 (29.17%) Agile
3 115 (25.22%) Business Analysis
4 103 (22.59%) Workshop Facilitation
5 95 (20.83%) Requirements Gathering
6 91 (19.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 88 (19.30%) User Stories
8 68 (14.91%) Decision-Making
9 65 (14.25%) Acceptance Criteria
9 65 (14.25%) Analytics
10 61 (13.38%) AI
11 59 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 52 (11.40%) Process Improvement
14 49 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
14 49 (10.75%) Data Analysis
15 48 (10.53%) DevOps
16 42 (9.21%) Data Modelling
17 41 (8.99%) Validation
18 40 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (13.16%) SQL
2 34 (7.46%) Python
3 11 (2.41%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.19%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.75%) C#
6 5 (1.10%) Bash
6 5 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (1.10%) Perl
6 5 (1.10%) R
7 4 (0.88%) 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 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.21%) Degree
3 35 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.41%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.41%) ISTQB
6 10 (2.19%) ACCA
6 10 (2.19%) CISSP
7 9 (1.97%) CIMA
7 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.10%) CBAP
9 5 (1.10%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (1.10%) GCIH
9 5 (1.10%) ISEB
10 4 (0.88%) CSPO
10 4 (0.88%) IIBA
10 4 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (12.06%) QA
2 38 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.17%) GDPR
4 18 (3.95%) PMO
5 16 (3.51%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.19%) NIST
8 8 (1.75%) WCAG
9 4 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.88%) GRC
9 4 (0.88%) IFRS
9 4 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.66%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.66%) P3O
11 2 (0.44%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.44%) SEPA
12 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 3 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 72 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.36%) Salesforce
3 28 (6.14%) SAP
4 16 (3.51%) Oracle
5 10 (2.19%) Databricks
5 10 (2.19%) Workday
6 7 (1.54%) Google
6 7 (1.54%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.32%) Amplitude
7 6 (1.32%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (1.10%) Splunk
9 4 (0.88%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.88%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.88%) Tanium
9 4 (0.88%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.66%) Civica
10 3 (0.66%) IFS
10 3 (0.66%) Orchard
10 3 (0.66%) Trend Micro