Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 209 159
Rank change year-on-year +32 -50 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 241 150 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 1.13% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 1.21% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 102 218
10th Percentile £374 £358 £378
25th Percentile £450 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £771 £691
England median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £28.60 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% -45.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £28.15 - £53.75
90th Percentile £31.82 - -
England median hourly rate £38.11 £42.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +203.57% -77.60%

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 14,505 12,417 17,065
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 93.59% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,704 8,097 12,321
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 142 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.21 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.14 £25.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +30.70% -17.99%
75th Percentile £60.19 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.72 £65.30
England median hourly rate £33.34 £36.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.04% +3.57% -12.50%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -2 40 £621 +3.50% 8
East London +4 2 £473 +18.13%
West London -23 2 - - 2
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 February 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 67 (27.80%) Agile
2 59 (24.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (22.41%) User Stories
4 53 (21.99%) SQL
5 52 (21.58%) Requirements Gathering
6 49 (20.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 45 (18.67%) Business Analysis
8 41 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (14.94%) Microsoft
10 34 (14.11%) Workshop Facilitation
11 33 (13.69%) Decision-Making
11 33 (13.69%) Validation
12 32 (13.28%) DevOps
13 30 (12.45%) Actionable Insight
13 30 (12.45%) Waterfall
14 29 (12.03%) Azure
14 29 (12.03%) Security Cleared
15 27 (11.20%) QA
16 26 (10.79%) JIRA
16 26 (10.79%) Migration
17 25 (10.37%) Degree
17 25 (10.37%) Salesforce
17 25 (10.37%) SC Cleared
18 24 (9.96%) Power BI
18 24 (9.96%) Power Platform
18 24 (9.96%) Visualisation
19 23 (9.54%) Acceptance Criteria
19 23 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
19 23 (9.54%) Data Analysis
20 22 (9.13%) Analytics

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 (7.88%) Confluence
2 5 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.83%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 20 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (4.15%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.49%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.66%) Endur
3 3 (1.24%) Algo Collateral
3 3 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.83%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.41%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.41%) RMDS
5 1 (0.41%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 29 (12.03%) Azure
2 24 (9.96%) Power Platform
3 13 (5.39%) AWS
4 12 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.32%) GCP
6 7 (2.90%) SaaS
7 6 (2.49%) Lucidchart
8 4 (1.66%) Google Analytics
9 3 (1.24%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.24%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.83%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.83%) dbt
10 2 (0.83%) GitHub
10 2 (0.83%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.49%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (1.24%) Broadband
3 2 (0.83%) DNS
3 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) FTP
4 1 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.41%) SSL
4 1 (0.41%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.41%) VPN
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
4 1 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.96%) Power BI
2 18 (7.47%) Tableau
3 10 (4.15%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.49%) Looker
6 3 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.24%) Metadata
7 2 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.83%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.83%) Power Query
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.41%) Flink
8 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.41%) GIS
8 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (10.79%) JIRA
2 2 (0.83%) Selenium
3 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
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%) Git
3 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.41%) Postman
3 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.41%) Subversion
3 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 90 (37.34%) Social Skills
2 88 (36.51%) Finance
3 55 (22.82%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (15.77%) Banking
5 26 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.98%) Front Office
7 10 (4.15%) Legal
7 10 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.73%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.49%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.49%) Local Government
11 5 (2.07%) Retail
12 4 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.66%) Marketing
13 3 (1.24%) Back Office
14 2 (0.83%) Electronics
14 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.73%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (3.32%) Middleware
3 4 (1.66%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.66%) XML
4 2 (0.83%) ADO
4 2 (0.83%) JSON
4 2 (0.83%) Kafka
4 2 (0.83%) Playwright
4 2 (0.83%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.83%) Web Services
5 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.41%) FHIR
5 1 (0.41%) FIXML
5 1 (0.41%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.41%) NumPy
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.41%) Pandas
5 1 (0.41%) REST
5 1 (0.41%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.81%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.15%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.73%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (3.32%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.90%) PMI
6 6 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.49%) Derivative
7 5 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.66%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.83%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.83%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.41%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.41%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.15%) Windows
2 4 (1.66%) Unix
3 2 (0.83%) Linux
4 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.80%) Agile
2 59 (24.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (22.41%) User Stories
4 52 (21.58%) Requirements Gathering
5 49 (20.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 45 (18.67%) Business Analysis
7 41 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (14.11%) Workshop Facilitation
9 33 (13.69%) Decision-Making
9 33 (13.69%) Validation
10 32 (13.28%) DevOps
11 30 (12.45%) Actionable Insight
11 30 (12.45%) Waterfall
12 26 (10.79%) Migration
13 24 (9.96%) Visualisation
14 23 (9.54%) Acceptance Criteria
14 23 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.54%) Data Analysis
15 22 (9.13%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (9.13%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 53 (21.99%) SQL
2 16 (6.64%) Python
3 3 (1.24%) Java
3 3 (1.24%) R
4 1 (0.41%) C#
4 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.41%) Korn
4 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (12.03%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.37%) Degree
2 25 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.47%) CBAP
4 10 (4.15%) IIBA
5 9 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.32%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.07%) CSPO
7 5 (2.07%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.24%) PMP
9 2 (0.83%) APMP
9 2 (0.83%) CFA
9 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) AAT
10 1 (0.41%) ACCA
10 1 (0.41%) CCAB
10 1 (0.41%) CIMA
10 1 (0.41%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.41%) CISM
10 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.20%) QA
2 10 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.07%) PMO
4 4 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.66%) GDPR
5 3 (1.24%) GRC
5 3 (1.24%) IFRS
5 3 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.24%) SLA
6 2 (0.83%) Basel III
6 2 (0.83%) ISO 31000
6 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.83%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.41%) ITGC
7 1 (0.41%) P3O
7 1 (0.41%) PERC
7 1 (0.41%) SOX 404
System Software
1 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.41%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.41%) Grafana
1 1 (0.41%) Kibana
1 1 (0.41%) Nessus
1 1 (0.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.37%) Salesforce
3 21 (8.71%) SAP
4 15 (6.22%) Oracle
5 10 (4.15%) Splunk
6 7 (2.90%) Bloomberg
7 6 (2.49%) Charles River
7 6 (2.49%) Databricks
7 6 (2.49%) Zuora
8 5 (2.07%) Google
9 4 (1.66%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.24%) Adobe
10 3 (1.24%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.24%) SmartStream
10 3 (1.24%) Workday
11 2 (0.83%) Citrix
11 2 (0.83%) OpenLink
11 2 (0.83%) Reuters
12 1 (0.41%) QAD