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 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 203 165
Rank change year-on-year +20 -38 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 201 187 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.42% 1.20% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 1.28% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 131 234
10th Percentile £373 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £641 £650
90th Percentile £775 £731 £700
England median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% +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 £32.74 £42.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -22.98% -34.62% +105.63%

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 13,052 14,572 18,284
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 93.66% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,666 9,460 13,218
10th Percentile £338 £338 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.77%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 154 212
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.65 £36.31
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% +0.95% +3.73%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.32 £80.75 £73.54
England median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.08% -16.67% +38.46%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 £621 +3.50% 9
West London -13 2 £350 - 2
East London -4 1 £450 +2.27%
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 December 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 (30.35%) Agile
2 45 (22.39%) SQL
2 45 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (20.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 38 (18.91%) Business Analysis
5 37 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (13.93%) Data Analysis
6 28 (13.93%) Power BI
6 28 (13.93%) Power Platform
7 27 (13.43%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (13.43%) Decision-Making
7 27 (13.43%) Visualisation
8 26 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (12.94%) Requirements Gathering
9 25 (12.44%) Analytics
9 25 (12.44%) Microsoft
10 24 (11.94%) Migration
10 24 (11.94%) Validation
11 23 (11.44%) Data Modelling
11 23 (11.44%) Workshop Facilitation
12 21 (10.45%) Security Cleared
13 19 (9.45%) Actionable Insight
13 19 (9.45%) JIRA
13 19 (9.45%) Python
13 19 (9.45%) User Stories
14 18 (8.96%) AI
14 18 (8.96%) AWS
14 18 (8.96%) Process Improvement
14 18 (8.96%) SC Cleared
14 18 (8.96%) System Integration Testing

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 (7.46%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) SAS
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.98%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.49%) Endur
2 3 (1.49%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.00%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) RMDS
4 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (13.93%) Power Platform
2 18 (8.96%) AWS
3 13 (6.47%) Azure
4 11 (5.47%) GCP
5 8 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.99%) SaaS
7 5 (2.49%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.99%) dbt
8 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.49%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.49%) Google Analytics
9 3 (1.49%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.00%) Miro
10 2 (1.00%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.00%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) Broadband
1 1 (0.50%) DNS
1 1 (0.50%) Firewall
1 1 (0.50%) Internet
1 1 (0.50%) LAN
1 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.50%) SSL
1 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.50%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.50%) VPN
1 1 (0.50%) WAN
1 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.93%) Power BI
2 18 (8.96%) Tableau
3 9 (4.48%) BigQuery
4 7 (3.48%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.99%) Looker
6 4 (1.99%) Metadata
7 2 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.00%) Big Data
7 2 (1.00%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (1.00%) Power Query
8 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.50%) GIS
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (9.45%) JIRA
2 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.49%) Selenium
3 2 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.00%) Git
3 2 (1.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.50%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.50%) Subversion
4 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 76 (37.81%) Finance
3 54 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (15.42%) Banking
5 28 (13.93%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.98%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.98%) Front Office
9 7 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.48%) Legal
9 7 (3.48%) Retail
10 6 (2.99%) Back Office
10 6 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.99%) Marketing
10 6 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.49%) Local Government
12 4 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.49%) Military
13 3 (1.49%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.99%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (1.49%) Middleware
2 3 (1.49%) Playwright
3 1 (0.50%) .NET
3 1 (0.50%) ADO
3 1 (0.50%) FHIR
3 1 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.50%) FIXML
3 1 (0.50%) JSON
3 1 (0.50%) Kafka
3 1 (0.50%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.50%) NumPy
3 1 (0.50%) Pandas
3 1 (0.50%) PySpark
3 1 (0.50%) REST
3 1 (0.50%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.50%) SOAP
3 1 (0.50%) VML
3 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.97%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.48%) Cyber Defence
2 9 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.98%) Derivative
4 6 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (2.99%) iPad
4 6 (2.99%) iPhone
5 5 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.49%) Market Risk
6 4 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.00%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (1.00%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.47%) Windows
2 6 (2.99%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (30.35%) Agile
2 45 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (20.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 38 (18.91%) Business Analysis
5 37 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (13.93%) Data Analysis
7 27 (13.43%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (13.43%) Decision-Making
7 27 (13.43%) Visualisation
8 26 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (12.94%) Requirements Gathering
9 25 (12.44%) Analytics
10 24 (11.94%) Migration
10 24 (11.94%) Validation
11 23 (11.44%) Data Modelling
11 23 (11.44%) Workshop Facilitation
12 19 (9.45%) Actionable Insight
12 19 (9.45%) User Stories
13 18 (8.96%) Process Improvement
13 18 (8.96%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (22.39%) SQL
2 19 (9.45%) Python
3 5 (2.49%) R
4 2 (1.00%) C#
4 2 (1.00%) Java
5 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 21 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.47%) Degree
4 8 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.99%) CBAP
5 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.99%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.49%) IIBA
8 2 (1.00%) CFA
8 2 (1.00%) CSPO
8 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.00%) ISEB
8 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.00%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) ACCA
9 1 (0.50%) CCAB
9 1 (0.50%) CIMA
9 1 (0.50%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.50%) CISMP
9 1 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.46%) QA
2 11 (5.47%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.49%) GDPR
4 4 (1.99%) GRC
4 4 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.99%) NIST
5 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.00%) COBIT
5 2 (1.00%) ISO 31000
5 2 (1.00%) PMO
5 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.00%) SEPA
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.50%) FINRA
6 1 (0.50%) IFRS
6 1 (0.50%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.50%) ITGC
6 1 (0.50%) PERC
6 1 (0.50%) SOX 404
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.50%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.50%) CSIRT
1 1 (0.50%) Nessus
Vendors
1 25 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.98%) Splunk
3 9 (4.48%) Oracle
4 7 (3.48%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.48%) SAP
5 5 (2.49%) Databricks
6 4 (1.99%) Google
7 3 (1.49%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.49%) SmartStream
8 2 (1.00%) Adobe
8 2 (1.00%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.00%) Foundry
8 2 (1.00%) Palantir
8 2 (1.00%) Workday
8 2 (1.00%) Zuora
9 1 (0.50%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.50%) Snow
9 1 (0.50%) Sparx
9 1 (0.50%) Tenable