Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 201 171
Rank change year-on-year -7 -30 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 225 154 259
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.23% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 1.32% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 99 186
10th Percentile £375 £363 £369
25th Percentile £453 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £647 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £703 £663
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile £30.37 £26.36 -
25th Percentile £31.63 £26.42 £25.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.53 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -3.42% -33.72%
75th Percentile - £28.60 £31.75
90th Percentile £32.30 - -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £27.53 £23.50
% change year-on-year +16.26% +17.13% -42.74%

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 17,689 11,709 16,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 93.43% 93.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 7,935 11,918
10th Percentile £358 £338 £325
25th Percentile £436 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 173 325
10th Percentile £18.21 £19.25 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% +22.26% -24.37%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.50 £46.48
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.75 £66.80
England median hourly rate £45.50 £29.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.90% -26.68% -12.11%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -24 31 £550 -4.35% 8
East London 0 2 £495 - 2
West London -27 1 £600 +43.28% 3
South London - 1 - - 4
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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 (29.33%) Agile
2 64 (28.44%) User Stories
3 53 (23.56%) Business Analysis
4 50 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (21.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 44 (19.56%) Microsoft
7 41 (18.22%) Workshop Facilitation
8 39 (17.33%) Decision-Making
9 36 (16.00%) DevOps
9 36 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 35 (15.56%) Azure
11 34 (15.11%) QA
11 34 (15.11%) Salesforce
12 33 (14.67%) Acceptance Criteria
13 30 (13.33%) SAP
13 30 (13.33%) Validation
14 29 (12.89%) SQL
15 27 (12.00%) Degree
15 27 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (11.56%) Actionable Insight
16 26 (11.56%) User Acceptance Testing
17 22 (9.78%) Waterfall
18 21 (9.33%) Data Modelling
19 19 (8.44%) Analytics
19 19 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
19 19 (8.44%) Data Analysis
19 19 (8.44%) Data Governance
19 19 (8.44%) Migration
20 18 (8.00%) BPMN
20 18 (8.00%) 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 11 (4.89%) Confluence
2 3 (1.33%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) Appian
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Endur
1 5 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.78%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.78%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.33%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.33%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (1.33%) Dynamics SL
3 3 (1.33%) Infor CloudSuite
3 3 (1.33%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.33%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.89%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.89%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.56%) Azure
2 18 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.22%) GCP
5 4 (1.78%) AWS
5 4 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.33%) GitHub
6 3 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.89%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (0.89%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (0.44%) AppsFlyer
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.44%) Miro
8 1 (0.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.67%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.00%) Power BI
2 13 (5.78%) Tableau
3 4 (1.78%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.78%) Metadata
4 3 (1.33%) Looker
4 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.89%) Power Query
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.44%) Big Data
6 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.44%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.44%) Essbase
6 1 (0.44%) Flink
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.44%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 18 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (0.89%) Selenium
3 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.44%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.44%) Postman
3 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 76 (33.78%) Finance
2 65 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 40 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.67%) Banking
5 20 (8.89%) Front Office
6 14 (6.22%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (5.33%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.44%) Retail
9 8 (3.56%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.56%) Legal
10 7 (3.11%) Marketing
11 6 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.22%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.78%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.33%) Local Government
14 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.89%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.56%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.78%) Middleware
2 4 (1.78%) VML
2 4 (1.78%) XML
3 3 (1.33%) NumPy
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.33%) Pandas
4 2 (0.89%) ADO
4 2 (0.89%) Kafka
4 2 (0.89%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.89%) Web Services
5 1 (0.44%) Django
5 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.44%) JSON
5 1 (0.44%) OAuth
5 1 (0.44%) REST
5 1 (0.44%) SAML
5 1 (0.44%) SOAP
5 1 (0.44%) Spring
5 1 (0.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (2.67%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.67%) Fixed Income
3 6 (2.67%) PMI
4 5 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.33%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.89%) Derivative
7 2 (0.89%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.89%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.44%) Equities
8 1 (0.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.22%) Windows
2 4 (1.78%) Unix
3 1 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.33%) Agile
2 64 (28.44%) User Stories
3 53 (23.56%) Business Analysis
4 50 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (21.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 41 (18.22%) Workshop Facilitation
7 39 (17.33%) Decision-Making
8 36 (16.00%) DevOps
8 36 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 33 (14.67%) Acceptance Criteria
10 30 (13.33%) Validation
11 27 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (11.56%) Actionable Insight
12 26 (11.56%) User Acceptance Testing
13 22 (9.78%) Waterfall
14 21 (9.33%) Data Modelling
15 19 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (8.44%) Data Analysis
15 19 (8.44%) Data Governance
15 19 (8.44%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.89%) SQL
2 13 (5.78%) Python
3 3 (1.33%) Java
4 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.89%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (12.00%) Degree
2 18 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.33%) CBAP
5 8 (3.56%) IIBA
5 8 (3.56%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.22%) CSPO
7 4 (1.78%) PMP
8 3 (1.33%) CISSP
8 3 (1.33%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.89%) APMP
9 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.44%) ACCA
10 1 (0.44%) CIMA
10 1 (0.44%) CISM
10 1 (0.44%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.44%) GIAC
10 1 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.11%) QA
2 13 (5.78%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.33%) GDPR
4 3 (1.33%) IFRS
4 3 (1.33%) PMO
5 2 (0.89%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.44%) Basel III
6 1 (0.44%) EMIR
6 1 (0.44%) GAAP
6 1 (0.44%) GRC
6 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.44%) NIST
6 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (0.44%) Grafana
1 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.44%) Kibana
1 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.44%) QRadar
1 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.11%) Salesforce
3 30 (13.33%) SAP
4 11 (4.89%) Oracle
5 7 (3.11%) Charles River
6 5 (2.22%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.22%) Databricks
6 5 (2.22%) Workday
7 4 (1.78%) IFS
7 4 (1.78%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.78%) Splunk
8 3 (1.33%) Adaptive Insights
8 3 (1.33%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.33%) Epicor
8 3 (1.33%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.33%) Infor
8 3 (1.33%) QAD
8 3 (1.33%) Qualys
8 3 (1.33%) Sage
8 3 (1.33%) Zuora