Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 204 146
Rank change year-on-year +26 -58 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 209 169 301
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 1.18% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.26% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 122 235
10th Percentile £375 £363 £391
25th Percentile £443 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £731 £700
England median daily rate £500 £535 £563
% change year-on-year -6.54% -4.89% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53.38
25th Percentile - - £56.56
Median hourly rate £26.11 - £63.75
75th Percentile £28.15 - £71.56
90th Percentile £31.82 - £75.13
England median hourly rate £38.11 £52.83 £66.25
% change year-on-year -27.87% -20.26% +43.68%

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 13,226 13,363 16,977
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 93.40% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,788 8,620 12,244
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £559
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.61% -3.62%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £799 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 149 224
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.58 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £31.57 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £59.69 £53.75 £54.34
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year -21.43% -21.83% +33.66%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 35 £621 +3.42% 29
West London -15 3 £350 -
East London 0 2 £473 -7.80%
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 January 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 66 (31.58%) Agile
2 52 (24.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 48 (22.97%) SQL
4 44 (21.05%) Business Analysis
5 40 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (18.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 38 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
7 38 (18.18%) User Stories
8 33 (15.79%) Decision-Making
9 30 (14.35%) Workshop Facilitation
10 29 (13.88%) Validation
11 28 (13.40%) Microsoft
12 24 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (11.48%) Data Analysis
12 24 (11.48%) Power BI
12 24 (11.48%) Power Platform
12 24 (11.48%) Visualisation
12 24 (11.48%) Waterfall
13 23 (11.00%) Actionable Insight
13 23 (11.00%) Degree
14 22 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (10.53%) Data Modelling
14 22 (10.53%) JIRA
15 20 (9.57%) Analytics
15 20 (9.57%) Process Improvement
16 19 (9.09%) AI
16 19 (9.09%) Mentoring
16 19 (9.09%) Migration
16 19 (9.09%) Security Cleared
17 18 (8.61%) Acceptance Criteria

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 15 (7.18%) Confluence
2 5 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) SAS
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 18 (8.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (4.78%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.39%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.91%) Endur
3 3 (1.44%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.96%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.96%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.48%) RMDS
5 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.48%) Power Platform
2 17 (8.13%) Azure
3 12 (5.74%) AWS
4 9 (4.31%) GCP
5 8 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.87%) Lucidchart
6 6 (2.87%) SaaS
7 3 (1.44%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.44%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.44%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.96%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.96%) dbt
8 2 (0.96%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.96%) Miro
8 2 (0.96%) Serverless
9 1 (0.48%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.87%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (1.44%) Broadband
3 2 (0.96%) DNS
3 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) FTP
4 1 (0.48%) Internet
4 1 (0.48%) LAN
4 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.48%) SSL
4 1 (0.48%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.48%) WAN
4 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.48%) Power BI
2 15 (7.18%) Tableau
3 11 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 10 (4.78%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.91%) Looker
6 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.96%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.96%) Metadata
7 2 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.48%) Big Data
8 1 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.48%) GIS
8 1 (0.48%) Power Query
8 1 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (0.96%) Git
2 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.96%) Selenium
2 2 (0.96%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.48%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.48%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.48%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 78 (37.32%) Social Skills
2 74 (35.41%) Finance
3 54 (25.84%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (18.18%) Banking
5 29 (13.88%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.22%) Front Office
7 11 (5.26%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.35%) Local Government
11 6 (2.87%) Legal
11 6 (2.87%) Retail
12 5 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.91%) Marketing
14 3 (1.44%) Back Office
15 2 (0.96%) Electronics
15 2 (0.96%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.83%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (2.39%) Middleware
3 4 (1.91%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (1.44%) XML
5 2 (0.96%) ADO
5 2 (0.96%) Kafka
6 1 (0.48%) FHIR
6 1 (0.48%) FIXML
6 1 (0.48%) JSON
6 1 (0.48%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.48%) NumPy
6 1 (0.48%) Pandas
6 1 (0.48%) Playwright
6 1 (0.48%) PySpark
6 1 (0.48%) REST
6 1 (0.48%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.48%) SOAP
6 1 (0.48%) Web Services
6 1 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.70%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.31%) Cyber Defence
3 8 (3.83%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.35%) Derivative
4 7 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (3.35%) PMI
4 7 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.87%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.44%) iPad
7 3 (1.44%) iPhone
7 3 (1.44%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.96%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (0.96%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.96%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.48%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.70%) Windows
2 4 (1.91%) Unix
3 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.96%) Linux
5 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.58%) Agile
2 52 (24.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (21.05%) Business Analysis
4 40 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (18.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 38 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
6 38 (18.18%) User Stories
7 33 (15.79%) Decision-Making
8 30 (14.35%) Workshop Facilitation
9 29 (13.88%) Validation
10 24 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (11.48%) Data Analysis
10 24 (11.48%) Visualisation
10 24 (11.48%) Waterfall
11 23 (11.00%) Actionable Insight
12 22 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (10.53%) Data Modelling
13 20 (9.57%) Analytics
13 20 (9.57%) Process Improvement
14 19 (9.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.97%) SQL
2 14 (6.70%) Python
3 4 (1.91%) R
4 3 (1.44%) Java
5 1 (0.48%) C#
5 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 23 (11.00%) Degree
2 19 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.66%) CBAP
5 8 (3.83%) PMI Certification
6 7 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.35%) IIBA
7 5 (2.39%) CSPO
8 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.44%) PMP
9 2 (0.96%) APMP
9 2 (0.96%) CFA
9 2 (0.96%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.48%) AAT
10 1 (0.48%) CIMA
10 1 (0.48%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.48%) CISMP
10 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.13%) QA
2 10 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.91%) GRC
3 4 (1.91%) PMO
4 3 (1.44%) GDPR
4 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.44%) NIST
4 3 (1.44%) SLA
5 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.96%) COBIT
5 2 (0.96%) ISO 31000
5 2 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.48%) HL7
6 1 (0.48%) ITGC
6 1 (0.48%) MiFID
6 1 (0.48%) PERC
6 1 (0.48%) SOX 404
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.48%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.48%) Nessus
Vendors
1 28 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.22%) Oracle
3 12 (5.74%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.78%) SAP
4 10 (4.78%) Splunk
5 5 (2.39%) Bloomberg
5 5 (2.39%) Charles River
5 5 (2.39%) Databricks
5 5 (2.39%) Zuora
6 4 (1.91%) Google
7 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.44%) SmartStream
8 2 (0.96%) Adobe
8 2 (0.96%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.96%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.48%) Intel
9 1 (0.48%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.48%) Radianz
9 1 (0.48%) Snow
9 1 (0.48%) Tenable