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 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 258 205
Rank change year-on-year +15 -53 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 418 231 449
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 0.94% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.01% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 156 333
10th Percentile £338 £359 £350
25th Percentile £406 £412 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £628 £619 £638
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 8
10th Percentile £26.11 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £25.44 £13.50
Median hourly rate £29.04 £28.60 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +50.53% -69.60%
75th Percentile £41.94 £43.75 £26.63
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.22 £35.03
UK median hourly rate £34.62 £28.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year +21.05% +24.35% -61.83%

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 34,524 22,954 34,992
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 93.06% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,808 15,206 23,386
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,266 799 2,282
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.05 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.99
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.25 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.91 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.41% +1.25% -23.53%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +37 244 £535 - 72
North of England -29 71 £410 -10.77% 53
South East -35 48 £570 +4.59% 51
North West -9 33 £423 -10.49% 30
Midlands -38 27 £450 -10.00% 36
North East - 20 £120 - 8
East of England -10 19 £541 +3.10% 10
Yorkshire -47 18 £463 +2.78% 15
East Midlands - 14 £456 - 14
West Midlands -60 13 £450 -10.00% 22
South West -35 8 £450 -5.26% 9
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 March 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.

1 112 (26.79%) Agile
2 86 (20.57%) Business Analysis
2 86 (20.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 79 (18.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 76 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 75 (17.94%) User Stories
6 63 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (15.07%) SQL
7 61 (14.59%) Security Cleared
8 60 (14.35%) Workshop Facilitation
9 56 (13.40%) Decision-Making
10 51 (12.20%) Degree
11 49 (11.72%) Power BI
11 49 (11.72%) Power Platform
12 48 (11.48%) Microsoft
13 46 (11.00%) Azure
13 46 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
14 45 (10.77%) Actionable Insight
14 45 (10.77%) SC Cleared
15 42 (10.05%) Data Modelling
15 42 (10.05%) DevOps
15 42 (10.05%) Migration
16 41 (9.81%) Data Analysis
17 39 (9.33%) Process Improvement
18 38 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
18 38 (9.09%) SAP
18 38 (9.09%) Validation
19 37 (8.85%) JIRA
20 36 (8.61%) Mentoring
21 35 (8.37%) Analytics

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 30 (7.18%) Confluence
2 10 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.48%) SAS
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 35 (8.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (5.26%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.44%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.72%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (0.72%) Endur
4 2 (0.48%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.24%) RMDS
5 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 49 (11.72%) Power Platform
2 46 (11.00%) Azure
3 18 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (3.59%) AWS
5 11 (2.63%) GCP
6 10 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.67%) Google Analytics
8 6 (1.44%) Lucidchart
8 6 (1.44%) SaaS
9 5 (1.20%) Google Tag Manager
10 3 (0.72%) ChatGPT
10 3 (0.72%) GitHub
10 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.72%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.48%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (0.48%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.48%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.48%) dbt
11 2 (0.48%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.48%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.91%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.44%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.20%) DNS
4 4 (0.96%) Broadband
4 4 (0.96%) Firewall
4 4 (0.96%) LAN
4 4 (0.96%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) FTP
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.72%) Power BI
2 20 (4.78%) Tableau
3 13 (3.11%) BigQuery
4 8 (1.91%) Looker
5 7 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.20%) Metadata
6 5 (1.20%) Power Query
7 4 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.48%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (0.48%) GIS
8 2 (0.48%) MS Access
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.24%) Flink
9 1 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (8.85%) JIRA
2 3 (0.72%) Selenium
3 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.48%) MLflow
3 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.24%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.24%) GitLab
4 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.24%) Postman
4 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.24%) Subversion
4 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 131 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 116 (27.75%) Finance
3 92 (22.01%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (13.40%) Public Sector
5 43 (10.29%) Banking
6 19 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.87%) Front Office
9 12 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.63%) Legal
10 11 (2.63%) Retail
11 9 (2.15%) Local Government
12 8 (1.91%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.67%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.67%) Marketing
14 6 (1.44%) General Ledger
14 6 (1.44%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.96%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.15%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (1.91%) Middleware
3 4 (0.96%) ADO
3 4 (0.96%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (0.96%) XML
4 3 (0.72%) FHIR
5 2 (0.48%) Kafka
5 2 (0.48%) REST
5 2 (0.48%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.48%) Web Services
6 1 (0.24%) FIXML
6 1 (0.24%) JSON
6 1 (0.24%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.24%) NumPy
6 1 (0.24%) OAuth
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.24%) Pandas
6 1 (0.24%) Playwright
6 1 (0.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.02%) Cyber Threat
1 21 (5.02%) Onboarding
2 13 (3.11%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.87%) Cyber Defence
4 11 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.91%) NHS
7 7 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.67%) PMI
8 6 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.20%) Derivative
10 4 (0.96%) Cyberattack
10 4 (0.96%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.48%) CSOC
11 2 (0.48%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.48%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.22%) Windows
2 9 (2.15%) Linux
3 4 (0.96%) Unix
3 4 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.24%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (26.79%) Agile
2 86 (20.57%) Business Analysis
2 86 (20.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 79 (18.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 76 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 75 (17.94%) User Stories
6 63 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (14.35%) Workshop Facilitation
8 56 (13.40%) Decision-Making
9 46 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
10 45 (10.77%) Actionable Insight
11 42 (10.05%) Data Modelling
11 42 (10.05%) DevOps
11 42 (10.05%) Migration
12 41 (9.81%) Data Analysis
13 39 (9.33%) Process Improvement
14 38 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (9.09%) Validation
15 36 (8.61%) Mentoring
16 35 (8.37%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 63 (15.07%) SQL
2 20 (4.78%) Python
3 5 (1.20%) VBA
4 3 (0.72%) Java
4 3 (0.72%) R
5 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.48%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.48%) Korn
5 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.24%) C#
6 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (14.59%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.20%) Degree
3 45 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.78%) CBAP
5 16 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.87%) IIBA
7 9 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.15%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.44%) ACCA
8 6 (1.44%) CIMA
8 6 (1.44%) CSPO
9 5 (1.20%) CISSP
9 5 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.96%) CISM
10 4 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.96%) PMP
11 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.48%) ISEB
11 2 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.37%) QA
2 23 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.35%) PMO
4 8 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.44%) GDPR
6 5 (1.20%) SLA
7 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.72%) GRC
8 3 (0.72%) HL7
8 3 (0.72%) IFRS
8 3 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.48%) Basel III
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.48%) NIST
9 2 (0.48%) PERC
10 1 (0.24%) COBIT
10 1 (0.24%) CRD IV
10 1 (0.24%) GAAP
10 1 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.72%) Docker
3 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.24%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.48%) Terraform
3 1 (0.24%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.24%) Grafana
3 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.24%) Kibana
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 48 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.09%) SAP
3 31 (7.42%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.83%) Oracle
5 13 (3.11%) Splunk
6 9 (2.15%) Databricks
7 8 (1.91%) Google
8 7 (1.67%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.44%) Charles River
9 6 (1.44%) Zuora
10 5 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.96%) Refinitiv
12 3 (0.72%) Adobe
12 3 (0.72%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.72%) SmartStream
12 3 (0.72%) Workday
13 2 (0.48%) Ariba
13 2 (0.48%) Citrix
13 2 (0.48%) JD Edwards
13 2 (0.48%) Reuters