Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 219 164
Rank change year-on-year +36 -55 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 243 130 267
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.04% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.12% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 89 193
10th Percentile £375 £363 £365
25th Percentile £463 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £675
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 1
10th Percentile £26.11 £26.36 -
25th Percentile £26.84 £26.42 £25.25
Median hourly rate £31.75 £27.53 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -3.42% -54.40%
75th Percentile £32.00 £28.60 £31.75
90th Percentile £32.08 - -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £26.45 £19.00
% change year-on-year +20.98% +39.21% -68.46%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,488 11,637 16,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 93.41% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,954 7,971 11,960
10th Percentile £350 £346 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £681
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 145 331
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +26.00% -22.54%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.75 £44.25
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.40 £36.58
% change year-on-year +54.61% -16.88% -17.86%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Senior Analyst job vacancy trend in London

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in London

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in London

Senior Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in London

Senior Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Central London -8 39 £625 +5.49% 20
East London -4 3 £473 -
West London -27 2 £600 +43.28%
South London - 1 - - 6
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 London region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 74 (30.45%) Agile
2 72 (29.63%) User Stories
3 59 (24.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 51 (20.99%) Business Analysis
4 51 (20.99%) Requirements Gathering
5 41 (16.87%) Workshop Facilitation
6 40 (16.46%) DevOps
6 40 (16.46%) Microsoft
7 39 (16.05%) Salesforce
7 39 (16.05%) SQL
7 39 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 38 (15.64%) Azure
9 37 (15.23%) Acceptance Criteria
10 35 (14.40%) Decision-Making
10 35 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (13.58%) QA
12 32 (13.17%) Validation
13 29 (11.93%) SAP
14 28 (11.52%) Actionable Insight
14 28 (11.52%) Waterfall
15 26 (10.70%) Degree
15 26 (10.70%) JIRA
16 25 (10.29%) Security Cleared
17 24 (9.88%) User Acceptance Testing
18 22 (9.05%) Migration
19 21 (8.64%) Data Modelling
19 21 (8.64%) SC Cleared
20 19 (7.82%) AI
20 19 (7.82%) Confluence
20 19 (7.82%) Data Analysis

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 19 (7.82%) Confluence
2 5 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.23%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Appian
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 16 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (4.12%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.29%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.65%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.65%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.23%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.23%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.23%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (1.23%) Endur
4 3 (1.23%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.23%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.82%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.82%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 38 (15.64%) Azure
2 15 (6.17%) Power Platform
3 12 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.47%) AWS
4 6 (2.47%) GCP
4 6 (2.47%) SaaS
5 5 (2.06%) Lucidchart
6 4 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.23%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.23%) GitHub
7 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.82%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.82%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.82%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.47%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.65%) Broadband
3 2 (0.82%) DNS
4 1 (0.41%) FTP
4 1 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.17%) Power BI
2 12 (4.94%) Tableau
3 5 (2.06%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.23%) Looker
5 3 (1.23%) Metadata
6 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.41%) Big Data
7 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.41%) Flink
7 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.41%) GIS
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 26 (10.70%) JIRA
2 2 (0.82%) Selenium
3 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.41%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.41%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.41%) GitLab
3 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.41%) Postman
3 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (32.10%) Finance
2 70 (28.81%) Social Skills
3 49 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.11%) Banking
5 19 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.35%) Front Office
7 12 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.53%) Retail
9 9 (3.70%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.70%) Legal
10 7 (2.88%) Marketing
11 6 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.47%) Local Government
12 5 (2.06%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.65%) General Ledger
14 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.82%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.29%) FIX Protocol
1 8 (3.29%) Middleware
2 4 (1.65%) VML
2 4 (1.65%) XML
3 3 (1.23%) ADO
3 3 (1.23%) Kafka
3 3 (1.23%) NumPy
3 3 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.23%) Pandas
4 2 (0.82%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.82%) Web Services
5 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.41%) JSON
5 1 (0.41%) OAuth
5 1 (0.41%) Playwright
5 1 (0.41%) REST
5 1 (0.41%) SAML
5 1 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.47%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.47%) PMI
5 5 (2.06%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.06%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.82%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.41%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.41%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.41%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.41%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.47%) Windows
2 4 (1.65%) Unix
3 1 (0.41%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.45%) Agile
2 72 (29.63%) User Stories
3 59 (24.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 51 (20.99%) Business Analysis
4 51 (20.99%) Requirements Gathering
5 41 (16.87%) Workshop Facilitation
6 40 (16.46%) DevOps
7 39 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 37 (15.23%) Acceptance Criteria
9 35 (14.40%) Decision-Making
9 35 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (13.17%) Validation
11 28 (11.52%) Actionable Insight
11 28 (11.52%) Waterfall
12 24 (9.88%) User Acceptance Testing
13 22 (9.05%) Migration
14 21 (8.64%) Data Modelling
15 19 (7.82%) AI
15 19 (7.82%) Data Analysis
15 19 (7.82%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 39 (16.05%) SQL
2 11 (4.53%) Python
3 3 (1.23%) Java
4 2 (0.82%) R
5 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (10.70%) Degree
2 25 (10.29%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.64%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.00%) CBAP
5 10 (4.12%) CSPO
6 9 (3.70%) IIBA
7 8 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.29%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.65%) PMP
9 3 (1.23%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.82%) APMP
10 2 (0.82%) CISSP
10 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.41%) CISM
11 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.41%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.41%) GIAC
11 1 (0.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.58%) QA
2 12 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.06%) SLA
4 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.65%) IFRS
4 4 (1.65%) PMO
5 2 (0.82%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.41%) Basel III
6 1 (0.41%) EMIR
6 1 (0.41%) GAAP
6 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.41%) MiFID
6 1 (0.41%) PERC
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (0.41%) Grafana
1 1 (0.41%) Kibana
1 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 39 (16.05%) Salesforce
3 29 (11.93%) SAP
4 11 (4.53%) Oracle
5 8 (3.29%) Zuora
6 7 (2.88%) Bloomberg
6 7 (2.88%) Charles River
7 5 (2.06%) Databricks
7 5 (2.06%) Splunk
7 5 (2.06%) Workday
8 4 (1.65%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.65%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.23%) Adaptive Insights
9 3 (1.23%) Adobe
9 3 (1.23%) Anaplan
9 3 (1.23%) Epicor
9 3 (1.23%) IFS
9 3 (1.23%) Infor
9 3 (1.23%) Sage
9 3 (1.23%) ServiceNow