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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 249 216
Rank change year-on-year -1 -33 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 440 289 385
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.05% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.15% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 198 261
10th Percentile £370 £350 £363
25th Percentile £430 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £663 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 11
10th Percentile £27.14 £25.97 £23.00
25th Percentile £29.04 £26.42 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £33.37 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +41.99% -44.07%
75th Percentile - £41.38 £26.75
90th Percentile £32.67 £65.75 £31.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £33.37 £23.50
% change year-on-year -4.10% +41.99% -44.07%

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 41,522 25,227 31,663
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 91.72% 92.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,267 16,394 20,893
10th Percentile £329 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,038 1,280 1,957
10th Percentile £15.99 £13.74 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.13 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.56 £26.02 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.08% -39.49% -1.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.62 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.02 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +73.38% -40.82% -1.88%

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 July 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
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 July 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 -34 218 £600 +14.29% 105
Midlands -12 62 £525 +7.69% 28
North of England -39 59 £500 +5.26% 34
South East -50 51 £500 - 53
West Midlands -37 36 £525 +7.69% 16
East Midlands +13 26 £525 - 12
East of England -1 24 £370 -20.00% 6
South West -30 22 £619 +54.69% 18
North East -27 20 £575 +10.58% 5
North West -38 20 £428 -10.00% 17
Yorkshire -39 20 £488 +8.94% 12
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 119 (27.05%) Agile
2 102 (23.18%) Business Analysis
3 92 (20.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 84 (19.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 74 (16.82%) User Stories
6 72 (16.36%) Requirements Gathering
7 71 (16.14%) Workshop Facilitation
8 64 (14.55%) Decision-Making
9 59 (13.41%) Microsoft
10 57 (12.95%) Security Cleared
11 54 (12.27%) Azure
11 54 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (11.36%) Acceptance Criteria
12 50 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (11.14%) SQL
14 45 (10.23%) DevOps
14 45 (10.23%) QA
15 44 (10.00%) Process Improvement
16 43 (9.77%) Power Platform
17 42 (9.55%) Actionable Insight
17 42 (9.55%) Data Analysis
17 42 (9.55%) Data Modelling
17 42 (9.55%) SAP
18 41 (9.32%) Analytics
18 41 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
18 41 (9.32%) Power BI
19 40 (9.09%) Degree
20 37 (8.41%) AI
21 36 (8.18%) User Acceptance Testing
22 32 (7.27%) 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 23 (5.23%) Confluence
2 6 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.91%) OpenEdge
4 3 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.45%) Appian
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (5.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.41%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.36%) Endur
3 6 (1.36%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (1.14%) Primavera
5 3 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.68%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.68%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.68%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.68%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.23%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 54 (12.27%) Azure
2 43 (9.77%) Power Platform
3 22 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (2.50%) AWS
4 11 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (1.82%) Power Automate
6 7 (1.59%) GCP
6 7 (1.59%) SaaS
7 5 (1.14%) Azure Functions
7 5 (1.14%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.14%) Serverless
7 5 (1.14%) Snowflake
8 4 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (0.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (0.68%) GitHub
9 3 (0.68%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.45%) Figma
10 2 (0.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.32%) Power BI
2 21 (4.77%) Tableau
3 11 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.82%) Power Query
6 6 (1.36%) Metadata
7 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.68%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.68%) Looker
7 3 (0.68%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.45%) Big Data
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.23%) Essbase
9 1 (0.23%) Flink
9 1 (0.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 28 (6.36%) JIRA
2 7 (1.59%) Postman
3 6 (1.36%) Selenium
4 5 (1.14%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.14%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.14%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.68%) GitLab
5 3 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.45%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.45%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 124 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 114 (25.91%) Finance
3 99 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.68%) Banking
6 18 (4.09%) Local Government
7 17 (3.86%) Front Office
8 15 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.41%) Retail
9 14 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.95%) Marketing
11 12 (2.73%) Legal
12 11 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (2.05%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.14%) Advertising
16 4 (0.91%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.91%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.91%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.14%) Gherkin
1 5 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.91%) ADO
2 4 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (0.91%) VML
3 3 (0.68%) JSON
3 3 (0.68%) NumPy
3 3 (0.68%) Pandas
3 3 (0.68%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.45%) Kafka
4 2 (0.45%) OAuth
4 2 (0.45%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.45%) SAML
4 2 (0.45%) Swagger
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.23%) REST
5 1 (0.23%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.23%) SOAP
5 1 (0.23%) Spring
5 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.77%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.73%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.05%) Cyber Defence
6 8 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.91%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.91%) FMCG
10 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.91%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.91%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.68%) CSOC
11 3 (0.68%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.05%) Windows
2 6 (1.36%) Linux
3 2 (0.45%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (27.05%) Agile
2 102 (23.18%) Business Analysis
3 92 (20.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 84 (19.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 74 (16.82%) User Stories
6 72 (16.36%) Requirements Gathering
7 71 (16.14%) Workshop Facilitation
8 64 (14.55%) Decision-Making
9 54 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (11.36%) Acceptance Criteria
10 50 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (10.23%) DevOps
12 44 (10.00%) Process Improvement
13 42 (9.55%) Actionable Insight
13 42 (9.55%) Data Analysis
13 42 (9.55%) Data Modelling
14 41 (9.32%) Analytics
14 41 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
15 37 (8.41%) AI
16 36 (8.18%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (11.14%) SQL
2 32 (7.27%) Python
3 8 (1.82%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.59%) R
5 5 (1.14%) Bash
5 5 (1.14%) C#
5 5 (1.14%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.14%) Perl
6 4 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.91%) Java
7 3 (0.68%) VBA
8 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.23%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) Korn
9 1 (0.23%) LookML
9 1 (0.23%) Ruby
9 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (12.95%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.09%) Degree
3 31 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.95%) ACCA
5 13 (2.95%) CIMA
5 13 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.05%) ISTQB
7 7 (1.59%) CISSP
7 7 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (1.14%) CSPO
9 5 (1.14%) ISEB
10 4 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.68%) CBAP
11 3 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.68%) OSCP
12 2 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.23%) QA
2 27 (6.14%) PMO
3 26 (5.91%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.95%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.73%) GDPR
6 10 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.59%) NIST
8 5 (1.14%) WCAG
9 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.45%) GRC
10 2 (0.45%) P3O
10 2 (0.45%) SLA
11 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
11 1 (0.23%) Basel III
11 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.23%) EMIR
11 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.23%) IFRS
11 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (1.14%) Docker
2 4 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) Grafana
2 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.23%) Kibana
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.55%) SAP
3 29 (6.59%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.86%) Oracle
5 12 (2.73%) Workday
6 9 (2.05%) Databricks
6 9 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (1.36%) Google
8 5 (1.14%) Civica
9 4 (0.91%) Clearswift
9 4 (0.91%) IFS
9 4 (0.91%) Orchard
9 4 (0.91%) Qualys
9 4 (0.91%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.91%) Splunk
9 4 (0.91%) Tanium
9 4 (0.91%) Tripwire
10 3 (0.68%) Adaptive Insights
10 3 (0.68%) Zuora