Senior Analyst Contracts 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 23 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 195 248
Rank change year-on-year -78 +53 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 216 446 522
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.91% 1.23% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.32% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 310 393
10th Percentile £361 £358 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
75th Percentile £576 £615 £631
90th Percentile £675 £664 £725
UK median daily rate £478 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -8.04% -1.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 6
10th Percentile £22.69 - £22.63
25th Percentile £25.74 £13.50 £28.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £23.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -56.40% +65.62%
75th Percentile £28.60 £27.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £40.16 £37.90 £64.38
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £24.50 £52.75
% change year-on-year +7.96% -53.55% +65.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,000 33,716 45,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.79% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,637 22,379 32,182
10th Percentile £290 £283 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.82% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 882 2,449 1,335
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £61.09 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% -18.89% +88.21%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in England

Senior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Analyst in England

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in England

Senior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Analyst in England

Senior Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Analyst in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

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 23 May 2025. 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 -46 134 £525 -4.55% 406
North of England -8 24 £472 -5.60% 201
South East +32 20 £400 -20.00% 324
South West +44 15 £400 -33.33% 99
North West -17 15 £469 -6.20% 97
West Midlands +1 12 £500 +6.67% 102
Midlands -3 12 £500 +11.11% 184
Yorkshire +19 9 £488 -6.25% 82
East of England +1 4 £463 -11.90% 118
Senior Analyst
UK

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Senior Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 78 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 66 (30.56%) Finance
3 55 (25.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (25.00%) SQL
5 53 (24.54%) Agile
6 52 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (17.13%) Business Analysis
9 26 (12.04%) Risk Management
10 25 (11.57%) Microsoft
11 24 (11.11%) Data Analysis
12 23 (10.65%) Degree
12 23 (10.65%) User Acceptance Testing
12 23 (10.65%) Waterfall
13 22 (10.19%) Migration
14 21 (9.72%) Change Management
14 21 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (9.72%) Python
14 21 (9.72%) Banking
14 21 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (9.26%) Logistics
15 20 (9.26%) Data Modelling
16 19 (8.80%) JIRA
16 19 (8.80%) Security Cleared
17 18 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 18 (8.33%) Process Improvement
17 18 (8.33%) Validation
17 18 (8.33%) Management Information System
17 18 (8.33%) Decision-Making
18 17 (7.87%) Workshop Facilitation

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.63%) Confluence
2 5 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.85%) SAS
4 3 (1.39%) CMS
4 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.93%) Apache
5 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.93%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) CICS
Applications
1 16 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.24%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle iProcurement
1 2 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.93%) Shopify
1 2 (0.93%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.46%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.46%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.46%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.46%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 16 (7.41%) Power Platform
2 15 (6.94%) Azure
3 9 (4.17%) AWS
4 7 (3.24%) GCP
5 6 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.31%) SaaS
7 4 (1.85%) dbt
7 4 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.39%) Collibra
8 3 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.39%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.93%) BigCommerce
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.46%) Miro
10 1 (0.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.85%) 5G
1 4 (1.85%) VoLTE
1 4 (1.85%) VoWiFi
2 3 (1.39%) Wireshark
3 2 (0.93%) 4G
3 2 (0.93%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (0.93%) Intranet
3 2 (0.93%) SIGTRAN
3 2 (0.93%) SMS
3 2 (0.93%) SS7
4 1 (0.46%) Broadband
4 1 (0.46%) DNS
4 1 (0.46%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.46%) HTTP
4 1 (0.46%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) SDH
4 1 (0.46%) SMTP
4 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.94%) Power BI
2 7 (3.24%) MS Access
3 5 (2.31%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.31%) Tableau
4 4 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.85%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.39%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.93%) Big Data
6 2 (0.93%) Data Mart
6 2 (0.93%) Metadata
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.46%) Looker
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.46%) Power Query
7 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.46%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.46%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 19 (8.80%) JIRA
2 4 (1.85%) QARun
2 4 (1.85%) WinRunner
3 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.93%) SoapUI
3 2 (0.93%) TestRail
3 2 (0.93%) Toad
4 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.46%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.46%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.46%) Postman
4 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 78 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 66 (30.56%) Finance
3 52 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.72%) Banking
5 12 (5.56%) Front Office
6 11 (5.09%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.17%) Marketing
7 9 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.31%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.31%) Retail
11 4 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.85%) Local Government
12 3 (1.39%) Back Office
12 3 (1.39%) Law
12 3 (1.39%) Legal
12 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.93%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.24%) Middleware
1 7 (3.24%) Web Services
2 5 (2.31%) XML
3 4 (1.85%) Kafka
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.93%) SOAP
4 2 (0.93%) VML
5 1 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.46%) FpML
5 1 (0.46%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.46%) ISPF
5 1 (0.46%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.24%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.78%) CMDB
4 6 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.85%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.39%) Derivative
6 3 (1.39%) Equities
6 3 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.39%) NHS
6 3 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.93%) PMI
7 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.87%) Windows
2 8 (3.70%) Unix
3 4 (1.85%) Linux
4 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.46%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (25.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 53 (24.54%) Agile
3 48 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (17.13%) Business Analysis
5 26 (12.04%) Risk Management
6 24 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 23 (10.65%) User Acceptance Testing
7 23 (10.65%) Waterfall
8 22 (10.19%) Migration
9 21 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (9.72%) Change Management
9 21 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (9.26%) Data Modelling
10 20 (9.26%) Logistics
11 18 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (8.33%) Decision-Making
11 18 (8.33%) Process Improvement
11 18 (8.33%) Validation
12 17 (7.87%) User Stories
12 17 (7.87%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 54 (25.00%) SQL
2 21 (9.72%) Python
3 3 (1.39%) Java
3 3 (1.39%) PL/SQL
3 3 (1.39%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.39%) VBA
4 2 (0.93%) R
5 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.46%) JCL
5 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (10.65%) Degree
2 19 (8.80%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.17%) CBAP
5 4 (1.85%) ACCA
5 4 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.39%) CIMA
6 3 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.93%) CCNA
7 2 (0.93%) CEH
7 2 (0.93%) CFA
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.93%) CISSP
7 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.93%) ISEB
7 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.93%) OSCP
7 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.87%) GDPR
2 13 (6.02%) QA
3 12 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.24%) PMO
5 3 (1.39%) NIST
6 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.93%) GRC
6 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) COBIT
7 1 (0.46%) COSO
7 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.46%) ITGC
7 1 (0.46%) LOINC
7 1 (0.46%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.46%) SEPA
7 1 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.93%) CSIRT
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.93%) SCCM
2 1 (0.46%) CA Endevor
2 1 (0.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (0.46%) Nessus
2 1 (0.46%) Nmap
2 1 (0.46%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 25 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.94%) Oracle
3 11 (5.09%) SAP
4 10 (4.63%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.24%) Citrix
6 6 (2.78%) Adobe
6 6 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.31%) Google
7 5 (2.31%) Workday
8 3 (1.39%) Informatica
8 3 (1.39%) Talend
9 2 (0.93%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.93%) FireEye
9 2 (0.93%) Foundry
9 2 (0.93%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.93%) LogRhythm
9 2 (0.93%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.93%) Splunk
9 2 (0.93%) Trayport
9 2 (0.93%) webMethods