Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 207 164
Rank change year-on-year +15 -43 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 197 186 305
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 1.18% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 1.26% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 132 242
10th Percentile £365 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +0.88% +8.57%
75th Percentile £650 £632 £649
90th Percentile £770 £731 £700
England median daily rate £505 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -3.35% -5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £27.29 - £43.08
25th Percentile £29.06 - £46.15
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £35.14 - £65.63
90th Percentile £35.65 - £72.75
England median hourly rate £34.14 £23.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +45.26% -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 13,086 14,820 18,801
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 93.71% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,679 9,611 13,623
10th Percentile £333 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.48% -1.91%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £790 £792
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 160 225
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.23
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £37.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.48% -0.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £49.50 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.20 £80.79 £73.71
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +2 38 £615 +5.35% 56
West London -11 2 £350 - 2
East London -1 1 £450 +2.27% 1
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, 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 61 (30.96%) Agile
2 41 (20.81%) Business Analysis
2 41 (20.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 40 (20.30%) SQL
3 40 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (16.75%) Analytics
5 31 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (13.71%) Data Analysis
7 26 (13.20%) Power BI
7 26 (13.20%) Power Platform
7 26 (13.20%) Visualisation
8 25 (12.69%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (12.69%) Migration
8 25 (12.69%) Requirements Gathering
9 24 (12.18%) Decision-Making
9 24 (12.18%) Microsoft
9 24 (12.18%) User Stories
9 24 (12.18%) Workshop Facilitation
10 23 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (10.66%) Data Modelling
12 20 (10.15%) Actionable Insight
12 20 (10.15%) User Acceptance Testing
13 19 (9.64%) Security Cleared
13 19 (9.64%) Validation
14 18 (9.14%) Process Improvement
14 18 (9.14%) Python
15 17 (8.63%) AI
15 17 (8.63%) Azure
15 17 (8.63%) QA
16 16 (8.12%) JIRA

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 12 (6.09%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) SAS
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.54%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.54%) Endur
2 3 (1.52%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.02%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.51%) RMDS
4 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.51%) Shopify
4 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (13.20%) Power Platform
2 17 (8.63%) Azure
3 15 (7.61%) AWS
4 12 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (5.08%) GCP
6 5 (2.54%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.03%) dbt
7 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.03%) SaaS
8 3 (1.52%) ChatGPT
8 3 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.02%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.02%) Miro
9 2 (1.02%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.02%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.02%) Serverless
10 1 (0.51%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) Broadband
1 1 (0.51%) DNS
1 1 (0.51%) Firewall
1 1 (0.51%) Internet
1 1 (0.51%) LAN
1 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.51%) SSL
1 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.51%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.51%) VPN
1 1 (0.51%) WAN
1 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.20%) Power BI
2 16 (8.12%) Tableau
3 8 (4.06%) BigQuery
4 7 (3.55%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.03%) Metadata
7 3 (1.52%) Looker
8 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.02%) Big Data
8 2 (1.02%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (1.02%) Power Query
9 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.51%) GIS
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.51%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (8.12%) JIRA
2 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.52%) Selenium
3 2 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.02%) Git
3 2 (1.02%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.51%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.51%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.51%) Subversion
4 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 73 (37.06%) Finance
3 51 (25.89%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.23%) Banking
5 28 (14.21%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.08%) Front Office
7 10 (5.08%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.55%) Legal
8 7 (3.55%) Retail
9 6 (3.05%) Back Office
9 6 (3.05%) Marketing
9 6 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.54%) Local Government
11 4 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.52%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.03%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (1.52%) Playwright
3 1 (0.51%) .NET
3 1 (0.51%) ADO
3 1 (0.51%) FHIR
3 1 (0.51%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.51%) FIXML
3 1 (0.51%) JSON
3 1 (0.51%) Kafka
3 1 (0.51%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.51%) Middleware
3 1 (0.51%) NumPy
3 1 (0.51%) Pandas
3 1 (0.51%) PySpark
3 1 (0.51%) REST
3 1 (0.51%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.51%) SOAP
3 1 (0.51%) VML
3 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.58%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.06%) Derivative
4 7 (3.55%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.05%) iPad
5 6 (3.05%) iPhone
6 5 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.54%) Market Risk
7 4 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.02%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.02%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.02%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 2 (1.02%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.60%) Windows
2 6 (3.05%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (30.96%) Agile
2 41 (20.81%) Business Analysis
2 41 (20.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 40 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (16.75%) Analytics
5 31 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (13.71%) Data Analysis
7 26 (13.20%) Visualisation
8 25 (12.69%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (12.69%) Migration
8 25 (12.69%) Requirements Gathering
9 24 (12.18%) Decision-Making
9 24 (12.18%) User Stories
9 24 (12.18%) Workshop Facilitation
10 23 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (10.66%) Data Modelling
12 20 (10.15%) Actionable Insight
12 20 (10.15%) User Acceptance Testing
13 19 (9.64%) Validation
14 18 (9.14%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.30%) SQL
2 18 (9.14%) Python
3 4 (2.03%) R
4 2 (1.02%) C#
4 2 (1.02%) Java
5 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.51%) Korn
5 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.12%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.09%) Degree
4 8 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.03%) CBAP
6 4 (2.03%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.52%) IIBA
8 2 (1.02%) CFA
8 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.02%) ISEB
8 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.51%) AAT
9 1 (0.51%) ACCA
9 1 (0.51%) CCAB
9 1 (0.51%) CIMA
9 1 (0.51%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.51%) CISMP
9 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.63%) QA
2 9 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.03%) GDPR
3 4 (2.03%) GRC
3 4 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.03%) NIST
4 2 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.02%) COBIT
4 2 (1.02%) ISO 31000
4 2 (1.02%) PMO
4 2 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.02%) SEPA
5 1 (0.51%) Basel III
5 1 (0.51%) CRD IV
5 1 (0.51%) EMIR
5 1 (0.51%) FINRA
5 1 (0.51%) HL7
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.51%) ITGC
5 1 (0.51%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.51%) CSIRT
1 1 (0.51%) Nessus
Vendors
1 24 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.57%) Oracle
3 8 (4.06%) Splunk
4 7 (3.55%) SAP
5 5 (2.54%) Databricks
5 5 (2.54%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.52%) Google
6 3 (1.52%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.52%) SmartStream
6 3 (1.52%) Workday
7 2 (1.02%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.02%) Foundry
7 2 (1.02%) Palantir
8 1 (0.51%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.51%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.51%) Snow
8 1 (0.51%) Sparx
8 1 (0.51%) Trayport