Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £539, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 184 165
Rank change year-on-year -23 -19 +82
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 170 213 351
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.26% 1.31% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.39% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 149 279
10th Percentile £353 £375 £348
25th Percentile £429 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £643 £613 £650
90th Percentile £775 £703 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £563
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +9.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £44.19
25th Percentile £29.23 £25.25 £48.91
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £58.02
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -50.88% +55.88%
75th Percentile £35.14 £31.75 £68.39
90th Percentile £35.65 - £73.85
England median hourly rate £34.27 £23.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +45.83% -63.85% +150.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,486 15,331 20,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.03% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,366 10,240 15,087
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 180 230
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.48 £18.15
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.26
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £36.94
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -5.25% +15.44%
75th Percentile £51.81 £56.38 £63.44
90th Percentile £66.54 £72.19 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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
Central London +5 39 £588 +23.68% 66
West London -5 3 £350 -30.00% 1
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 London region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 66 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 59 (34.71%) Finance
3 51 (30.00%) Agile
4 39 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 38 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (18.24%) Business Analysis
7 30 (17.65%) SQL
8 28 (16.47%) Analytics
9 25 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (12.94%) Microsoft
10 22 (12.94%) Data Analysis
10 22 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (11.18%) Banking
11 19 (11.18%) Workshop Facilitation
12 18 (10.59%) Decision-Making
12 18 (10.59%) Public Sector
12 18 (10.59%) User Stories
12 18 (10.59%) Data Modelling
12 18 (10.59%) Python
12 18 (10.59%) Azure
13 17 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
13 17 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (10.00%) Migration
13 17 (10.00%) Risk Management
14 16 (9.41%) Change Management
15 15 (8.82%) Process Improvement
16 14 (8.24%) Power Platform
16 14 (8.24%) Front Office
16 14 (8.24%) Validation
16 14 (8.24%) ITIL

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (4.71%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) Apache
2 2 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Endur
2 3 (1.76%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.76%) Shopify
3 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.18%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.59%) Azure
2 14 (8.24%) Power Platform
3 10 (5.88%) AWS
3 10 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.71%) GCP
5 5 (2.94%) SaaS
6 4 (2.35%) dbt
6 4 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.35%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.76%) BigCommerce
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (1.18%) Collibra
8 2 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.18%) Miro
8 2 (1.18%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.18%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.59%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) Intranet
2 1 (0.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.59%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.59%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.65%) Power BI
2 8 (4.71%) Tableau
3 6 (3.53%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.35%) Metadata
6 3 (1.76%) Big Data
7 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.18%) Looker
7 2 (1.18%) Power Query
7 2 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (5.88%) JIRA
2 3 (1.76%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.76%) Selenium
3 2 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.18%) Git
3 2 (1.18%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.59%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.59%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.59%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 59 (34.71%) Finance
3 38 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.18%) Banking
5 18 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 14 (8.24%) Front Office
7 9 (5.29%) Retail
8 8 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (4.12%) Back Office
10 6 (3.53%) Marketing
11 5 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.94%) Investment Banking
12 4 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.76%) Advertising
13 3 (1.76%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.76%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.18%) Law
14 2 (1.18%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.76%) Playwright
1 3 (1.76%) VML
2 2 (1.18%) Kafka
3 1 (0.59%) .NET
3 1 (0.59%) JSON
3 1 (0.59%) PySpark
3 1 (0.59%) SOAP
3 1 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.12%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.53%) iPad
3 6 (3.53%) iPhone
4 5 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.94%) Derivative
4 5 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.35%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.35%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.76%) Equities
6 3 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.18%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.18%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (1.18%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.29%) Windows
2 6 (3.53%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (30.00%) Agile
2 39 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (18.24%) Business Analysis
4 28 (16.47%) Analytics
5 25 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 22 (12.94%) Data Analysis
6 22 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.18%) Workshop Facilitation
8 18 (10.59%) Data Modelling
8 18 (10.59%) Decision-Making
8 18 (10.59%) User Stories
9 17 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (10.00%) Migration
9 17 (10.00%) Risk Management
9 17 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (9.41%) Change Management
11 15 (8.82%) Process Improvement
12 14 (8.24%) ITIL
12 14 (8.24%) Validation
12 14 (8.24%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.65%) SQL
2 18 (10.59%) Python
3 2 (1.18%) R
4 1 (0.59%) C#
4 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.59%) Java
4 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (6.47%) Degree
2 9 (5.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.94%) CBAP
4 5 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.18%) CFA
5 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.18%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.59%) CCAB
6 1 (0.59%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.59%) CISM
6 1 (0.59%) CISMP
6 1 (0.59%) ISEB
6 1 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.59%) OSCP
6 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.65%) QA
2 9 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.53%) GDPR
4 3 (1.76%) GRC
4 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.76%) NIST
5 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.18%) SEPA
6 1 (0.59%) COBIT
6 1 (0.59%) EMIR
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.59%) MiFID
6 1 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.59%) CSIRT
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.59%) Nessus
Vendors
1 22 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.71%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.12%) Adobe
3 7 (4.12%) SAP
4 6 (3.53%) Oracle
5 5 (2.94%) Google
6 4 (2.35%) Workday
7 3 (1.76%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.76%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.76%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.18%) Databricks
8 2 (1.18%) Foundry
8 2 (1.18%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.18%) Informatica
8 2 (1.18%) Palantir
8 2 (1.18%) Talend
9 1 (0.59%) Snow
9 1 (0.59%) Sparx
9 1 (0.59%) Splunk
9 1 (0.59%) Tenable