Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in England is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 269 214
Rank change year-on-year +9 -55 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 458 267 384
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 0.96% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.05% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 184 249
10th Percentile £352 £338 £363
25th Percentile £431 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -9.50%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £600
90th Percentile £684 £706 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 9
10th Percentile £27.67 £28.95 -
25th Percentile £31.44 £31.31 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.27 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +45.83% -63.85%
75th Percentile £32.73 £38.97 £62.50
90th Percentile £53.17 £59.16 £64.73
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £34.27 £23.50
% change year-on-year -6.62% +45.83% -63.85%

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 42,924 25,502 30,456
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 91.27% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,454 16,440 18,762
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,577 1,399 1,408
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.46 £21.34
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -27 234 £575 +4.55% 542
North of England -34 61 £550 +23.60% 138
Midlands -5 58 £525 +10.53% 77
South East -61 46 £500 - 158
West Midlands -24 36 £475 - 52
Yorkshire -29 27 £550 +50.68% 46
South West -24 25 £613 +53.13% 33
East of England -14 24 £370 - 30
North East -17 23 £575 +10.58% 13
East Midlands +5 22 £525 - 25
North West -40 12 £525 +15.89% 79
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 139 (30.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 133 (29.04%) Agile
3 116 (25.33%) Business Analysis
4 101 (22.05%) Workshop Facilitation
5 92 (20.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 90 (19.65%) Requirements Gathering
7 87 (19.00%) User Stories
8 72 (15.72%) Microsoft
9 70 (15.28%) Decision-Making
10 65 (14.19%) Acceptance Criteria
10 65 (14.19%) Analytics
11 60 (13.10%) Security Cleared
12 59 (12.88%) AI
12 59 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
12 59 (12.88%) SQL
13 55 (12.01%) Azure
13 55 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (11.57%) Process Improvement
15 52 (11.35%) QA
16 48 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
16 48 (10.48%) Data Analysis
16 48 (10.48%) Power Platform
17 46 (10.04%) DevOps
17 46 (10.04%) Power BI
18 43 (9.39%) Data Modelling
19 42 (9.17%) Degree
20 40 (8.73%) Validation
21 38 (8.30%) Mentoring
21 38 (8.30%) User Acceptance Testing
22 37 (8.08%) Data Quality

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 (5.02%) Confluence
2 5 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.87%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.66%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.44%) Appian
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.62%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.31%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.09%) Endur
3 5 (1.09%) Primavera
4 4 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.66%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.44%) Dynamics SL
6 2 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.44%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.01%) Azure
2 48 (10.48%) Power Platform
3 30 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (4.37%) SaaS
5 14 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (2.84%) AWS
6 13 (2.84%) Power Automate
7 11 (2.40%) Snowflake
8 10 (2.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 9 (1.97%) Serverless
10 8 (1.75%) Azure Functions
10 8 (1.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 7 (1.53%) PaaS
12 6 (1.31%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.09%) GCP
14 4 (0.87%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (0.87%) ChatGPT
14 4 (0.87%) PowerApps
15 3 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.87%) 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 (10.04%) Power BI
2 26 (5.68%) Tableau
3 13 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.53%) Metadata
6 6 (1.31%) Looker
7 5 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.87%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.87%) 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 35 (7.64%) 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%) GitLab
5 2 (0.44%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) Git
6 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 140 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 110 (24.02%) Finance
3 99 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (12.45%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.42%) Banking
6 26 (5.68%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (4.59%) Local Government
8 18 (3.93%) Front Office
9 17 (3.71%) Marketing
10 15 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (3.06%) Legal
11 14 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.84%) Retail
13 8 (1.75%) Advertising
13 8 (1.75%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.53%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.31%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.09%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.75%) Gherkin
2 4 (0.87%) ADO
2 4 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.87%) VML
3 3 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.66%) NumPy
3 3 (0.66%) Pandas
4 2 (0.44%) HTML
4 2 (0.44%) JSON
4 2 (0.44%) OpenAPI
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%) Kafka
5 1 (0.22%) Middleware
5 1 (0.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.22%) SAML
5 1 (0.22%) SOAP
5 1 (0.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.49%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.06%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (1.53%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.53%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.53%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.31%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (1.31%) Taxonomies
7 5 (1.09%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (0.87%) FMCG
8 4 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.66%) CSOC
9 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.66%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.66%) Life Science
9 3 (0.66%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.18%) Windows
2 7 (1.53%) Linux
3 2 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (30.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 133 (29.04%) Agile
3 116 (25.33%) Business Analysis
4 101 (22.05%) Workshop Facilitation
5 92 (20.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 90 (19.65%) Requirements Gathering
7 87 (19.00%) User Stories
8 70 (15.28%) Decision-Making
9 65 (14.19%) Acceptance Criteria
9 65 (14.19%) Analytics
10 59 (12.88%) AI
10 59 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (11.57%) Process Improvement
13 48 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (10.48%) Data Analysis
14 46 (10.04%) DevOps
15 43 (9.39%) Data Modelling
16 40 (8.73%) Validation
17 38 (8.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 59 (12.88%) SQL
2 35 (7.64%) Python
3 11 (2.40%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.18%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.75%) C#
6 5 (1.09%) Bash
6 5 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (1.09%) Perl
6 5 (1.09%) R
7 4 (0.87%) 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 60 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.17%) Degree
3 36 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.40%) ACCA
5 11 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.40%) ISTQB
6 10 (2.18%) CIMA
6 10 (2.18%) CISSP
7 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.09%) CBAP
9 5 (1.09%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (1.09%) CSPO
9 5 (1.09%) GCIH
9 5 (1.09%) ISEB
10 4 (0.87%) IIBA
10 4 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (11.35%) QA
2 37 (8.08%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.15%) GDPR
3 19 (4.15%) PMO
4 15 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.18%) NIST
7 8 (1.75%) WCAG
8 4 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.87%) GRC
8 4 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.66%) IFRS
9 3 (0.66%) 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%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 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 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.33%) SAP
3 28 (6.11%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.49%) Oracle
5 10 (2.18%) Workday
6 9 (1.97%) Databricks
7 7 (1.53%) Google
7 7 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.31%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.09%) Splunk
10 4 (0.87%) Civica
10 4 (0.87%) Clearswift
10 4 (0.87%) Orchard
10 4 (0.87%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.87%) Tanium
10 4 (0.87%) Tripwire
11 3 (0.66%) IFS
11 3 (0.66%) Trend Micro