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 29 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
29 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 255 207
Rank change year-on-year -5 -48 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 448 278 381
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.00% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.09% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 191 260
10th Percentile £365 £343 £375
25th Percentile £443 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.91%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £642
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £486
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.88% -11.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 11
10th Percentile £27.67 £25.85 -
25th Percentile £29.59 £26.39 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £32.74 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +25.90% -60.00%
75th Percentile £32.49 £35.49 £47.13
90th Percentile £36.74 £55.60 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £32.74 £26.50
% change year-on-year -2.25% +23.53% -59.23%

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 42,428 25,399 30,679
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.54% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,511 16,402 19,718
10th Percentile £325 £281 £302
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,254 1,363 1,634
10th Percentile £15.15 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £20.74
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -28 230 £575 +8.49% 256
Midlands -3 61 £500 +5.26% 20
North of England -35 57 £575 +29.21% 68
South East -59 47 £500 - 77
West Midlands -19 35 £488 +2.63% 13
East Midlands +11 26 £525 - 7
Yorkshire -34 25 £550 +54.93% 19
East of England -5 24 £370 -26.00% 12
South West -26 24 £613 +53.13% 24
North East -17 21 £575 +10.58% 8
North West -53 12 £525 +10.53% 41
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 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.

1 129 (28.79%) Agile
2 116 (25.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 106 (23.66%) Business Analysis
4 86 (19.20%) Workshop Facilitation
5 83 (18.53%) User Stories
6 81 (18.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 75 (16.74%) Requirements Gathering
8 73 (16.29%) Decision-Making
9 65 (14.51%) Microsoft
10 64 (14.29%) Security Cleared
11 61 (13.62%) Acceptance Criteria
12 59 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (12.50%) SQL
14 55 (12.28%) Azure
15 50 (11.16%) Analytics
16 49 (10.94%) Power Platform
16 49 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
16 49 (10.94%) Process Improvement
16 49 (10.94%) QA
17 47 (10.49%) Business Intelligence
17 47 (10.49%) DevOps
17 47 (10.49%) Power BI
18 46 (10.27%) AI
19 42 (9.38%) Data Analysis
20 41 (9.15%) Degree
21 37 (8.26%) SC Cleared
21 37 (8.26%) User Acceptance Testing
22 36 (8.04%) Actionable Insight
22 36 (8.04%) Data Modelling
23 35 (7.81%) Python

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 22 (4.91%) Confluence
2 6 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.89%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.67%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.45%) Appian
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.68%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.34%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.12%) Endur
4 5 (1.12%) Primavera
5 4 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.45%) Dynamics SL
7 2 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.45%) 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 Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.28%) Azure
2 49 (10.94%) Power Platform
3 27 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (2.90%) AWS
4 13 (2.90%) SaaS
5 12 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (2.46%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 8 (1.79%) GCP
9 7 (1.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 7 (1.56%) Serverless
10 6 (1.34%) Azure Functions
10 6 (1.34%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.34%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.89%) PaaS
11 4 (0.89%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.67%) dbt
12 3 (0.67%) GitHub
12 3 (0.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.45%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) Broadband
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%) WAN
3 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.49%) Power BI
2 24 (5.36%) Tableau
3 11 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.46%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.56%) Looker
5 6 (1.34%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.12%) Power Query
7 3 (0.67%) Big Data
7 3 (0.67%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.67%) Metadata
7 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.67%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.45%) GIS
8 2 (0.45%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.45%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.22%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 31 (6.92%) JIRA
2 7 (1.56%) Postman
2 7 (1.56%) Selenium
3 6 (1.34%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.34%) Cypress.io
3 6 (1.34%) WebDriver
4 4 (0.89%) GitLab
5 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.45%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.45%) MLflow
7 1 (0.22%) Git
7 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 126 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 107 (23.88%) Finance
3 100 (22.32%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.47%) Banking
6 21 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (4.46%) Local Government
8 16 (3.57%) Front Office
9 15 (3.35%) Marketing
9 15 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.90%) Retail
11 12 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (2.23%) Legal
13 9 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.79%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.56%) Advertising
16 6 (1.34%) Investment Banking
17 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.89%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.34%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.89%) ADO
2 4 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.89%) VML
3 3 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.67%) NumPy
3 3 (0.67%) Pandas
4 2 (0.45%) HTML
4 2 (0.45%) JSON
4 2 (0.45%) OAuth
4 2 (0.45%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.45%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.45%) SAML
4 2 (0.45%) Swagger
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.22%) Django
5 1 (0.22%) Kafka
5 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.22%) SOAP
5 1 (0.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 13 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.23%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.56%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.12%) Reference Data
8 4 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.89%) FMCG
8 4 (0.89%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.67%) CSOC
9 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.67%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.67%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.45%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.46%) Windows
2 6 (1.34%) Linux
3 2 (0.45%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (28.79%) Agile
2 116 (25.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 106 (23.66%) Business Analysis
4 86 (19.20%) Workshop Facilitation
5 83 (18.53%) User Stories
6 81 (18.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 75 (16.74%) Requirements Gathering
8 73 (16.29%) Decision-Making
9 61 (13.62%) Acceptance Criteria
10 59 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (11.16%) Analytics
12 49 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (10.94%) Process Improvement
13 47 (10.49%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (10.49%) DevOps
14 46 (10.27%) AI
15 42 (9.38%) Data Analysis
16 37 (8.26%) User Acceptance Testing
17 36 (8.04%) Actionable Insight
17 36 (8.04%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 56 (12.50%) SQL
2 35 (7.81%) Python
3 10 (2.23%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.79%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.56%) R
6 6 (1.34%) C#
7 5 (1.12%) Bash
7 5 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.12%) Perl
8 4 (0.89%) Java
9 3 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.45%) VBA
11 1 (0.22%) C++
11 1 (0.22%) Korn
11 1 (0.22%) LookML
11 1 (0.22%) Ruby
11 1 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.15%) Degree
3 37 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.68%) ACCA
6 12 (2.68%) CIMA
7 9 (2.01%) ISTQB
8 8 (1.79%) CISSP
9 7 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.12%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (1.12%) CSPO
10 5 (1.12%) ISEB
11 4 (0.89%) CBAP
11 4 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.67%) IIBA
12 3 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.94%) QA
2 30 (6.70%) Data Quality
3 23 (5.13%) PMO
4 15 (3.35%) GDPR
5 13 (2.90%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (2.01%) NIST
8 6 (1.34%) WCAG
9 4 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.67%) GRC
10 3 (0.67%) P3O
10 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.45%) IFRS
11 2 (0.45%) SLA
12 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
12 1 (0.22%) EMIR
12 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 5 (1.12%) Docker
2 3 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 65 (14.51%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.59%) SAP
3 28 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.35%) Oracle
5 9 (2.01%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.01%) Workday
6 8 (1.79%) Google
7 6 (1.34%) Amplitude
7 6 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (1.34%) Databricks
8 5 (1.12%) Splunk
9 4 (0.89%) Civica
9 4 (0.89%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.89%) Orchard
9 4 (0.89%) Qualys
9 4 (0.89%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.89%) Tanium
9 4 (0.89%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.67%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.67%) IFS
413 Senior Analyst jobs in England