Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £535, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 205 156
Rank change year-on-year +27 -49 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 241 153 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.52% 1.14% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.22% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 105 217
10th Percentile £375 £360 £376
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £760 £688
England median daily rate £500 £524 £550
% change year-on-year -4.53% -4.77% +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 14,699 12,578 16,979
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.64% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,859 8,208 12,273
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.01%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 144 334
10th Percentile £18.14 £21.22 £15.96
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £19.01
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year - +22.81% -18.57%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £34.52
% change year-on-year -2.78% +4.30% -13.71%

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 27 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 27 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 -3 39 £621 +3.50% 3
East London +1 2 £473 +18.13% 1
West London -20 2 - - 2
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 68 (28.22%) Agile
2 60 (24.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (22.41%) User Stories
4 52 (21.58%) Requirements Gathering
4 52 (21.58%) SQL
5 48 (19.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 45 (18.67%) Business Analysis
7 41 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (14.52%) Microsoft
8 35 (14.52%) 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 29 (12.03%) Azure
12 29 (12.03%) Security Cleared
13 27 (11.20%) QA
14 26 (10.79%) JIRA
14 26 (10.79%) Migration
15 25 (10.37%) Degree
15 25 (10.37%) Salesforce
15 25 (10.37%) SC Cleared
16 23 (9.54%) Acceptance Criteria
16 23 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (9.54%) Data Modelling
17 22 (9.13%) Data Analysis
17 22 (9.13%) Power BI
17 22 (9.13%) Power Platform
17 22 (9.13%) Visualisation

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 5 (2.07%) 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 22 (9.13%) Power Platform
3 13 (5.39%) AWS
4 12 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.90%) GCP
5 7 (2.90%) SaaS
6 6 (2.49%) Lucidchart
7 3 (1.24%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.24%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.24%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.83%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.83%) dbt
8 2 (0.83%) GitHub
8 2 (0.83%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 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 22 (9.13%) Power BI
2 16 (6.64%) Tableau
3 9 (3.73%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.07%) Looker
6 4 (1.66%) Metadata
7 3 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.83%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.41%) Flink
9 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.41%) GIS
9 1 (0.41%) Power Query
9 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 89 (36.93%) Finance
3 54 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (15.35%) Banking
5 26 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.39%) Front Office
7 11 (4.56%) Legal
8 10 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.73%) Investment Banking
9 9 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.49%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.49%) Local Government
12 5 (2.07%) Retail
13 4 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.66%) Marketing
14 3 (1.24%) Back Office
15 2 (0.83%) Electronics
15 2 (0.83%) Law
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 11 (4.56%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.73%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.90%) PMI
6 6 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.49%) Derivative
7 5 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.66%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.83%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.83%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.41%) Marketing Technology
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 68 (28.22%) Agile
2 60 (24.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (22.41%) User Stories
4 52 (21.58%) Requirements Gathering
5 48 (19.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 45 (18.67%) Business Analysis
7 41 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (14.52%) 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 23 (9.54%) Acceptance Criteria
13 23 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (9.54%) Data Modelling
14 22 (9.13%) Data Analysis
14 22 (9.13%) Visualisation
15 21 (8.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.58%) SQL
2 15 (6.22%) 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%) CCAB
10 1 (0.41%) CIMA
10 1 (0.41%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.41%) CISSP
10 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.41%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.20%) QA
2 11 (4.56%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.41%) FINRA
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.41%) ITGC
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 35 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.37%) Salesforce
3 20 (8.30%) 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%) Zuora
8 5 (2.07%) Databricks
9 4 (1.66%) 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