Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 206 187
Rank change year-on-year -34 -19 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 234 175 229
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.31% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.41% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 122 157
10th Percentile £361 £351 £363
25th Percentile £453 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £545 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +2.83% -5.78%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £613
90th Percentile £725 £786 £718
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £32.23 -
25th Percentile - £32.57 -
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.14 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £32.38 £35.57 -
90th Percentile £32.60 £35.83 -
England median hourly rate £73.83 £34.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +113.23% -18.53% -35.85%

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 18,819 12,387 15,194
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 92.52% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,155 8,273 9,917
10th Percentile £363 £335 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 210 176
10th Percentile £16.94 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £24.06
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.20 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +50.74% -23.92% -9.31%
75th Percentile £65.60 £49.00 £59.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.75 £79.38
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.89%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -30 27 £600 +4.35% 74
West London -17 1 £600 +71.43% 9
South London - 1 - -
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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 87 (37.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 70 (29.91%) Business Analysis
3 65 (27.78%) Agile
3 65 (27.78%) Requirements Gathering
3 65 (27.78%) Workshop Facilitation
4 60 (25.64%) User Stories
5 52 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 50 (21.37%) Analytics
7 46 (19.66%) SQL
8 44 (18.80%) Acceptance Criteria
9 43 (18.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 38 (16.24%) Decision-Making
11 36 (15.38%) Azure
12 33 (14.10%) Data Quality
13 32 (13.68%) AI
13 32 (13.68%) Data Modelling
13 32 (13.68%) Requirements Workshops
14 29 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (12.39%) Data Analysis
15 28 (11.97%) Power BI
15 28 (11.97%) Power Platform
15 28 (11.97%) Validation
16 27 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (11.54%) Risk Management
17 25 (10.68%) Data Governance
18 24 (10.26%) DevOps
19 23 (9.83%) Process Improvement
19 23 (9.83%) Salesforce
19 23 (9.83%) User Acceptance 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 11 (4.70%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.43%) Appian
2 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.56%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Endur
2 3 (1.28%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.28%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics SL
3 2 (0.85%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.85%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.38%) Azure
2 28 (11.97%) Power Platform
3 17 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (6.41%) SaaS
5 11 (4.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 10 (4.27%) Snowflake
7 9 (3.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 8 (3.42%) PaaS
9 6 (2.56%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.14%) AWS
11 4 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.28%) dbt
12 3 (1.28%) GCP
12 3 (1.28%) Google Analytics
13 2 (0.85%) Adobe Analytics
13 2 (0.85%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.85%) Miro
14 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
14 1 (0.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) Network Security
2 1 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.43%) LAN
2 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.43%) WAN
2 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.97%) Power BI
2 14 (5.98%) Tableau
3 8 (3.42%) Metadata
4 6 (2.56%) Looker
5 5 (2.14%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.28%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.85%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.85%) Power Query
8 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.43%) Parquet
8 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.43%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (8.97%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) Selenium
2 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 77 (32.91%) Finance
2 74 (31.62%) Social Skills
3 49 (20.94%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.25%) Banking
5 20 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 18 (7.69%) Front Office
7 15 (6.41%) Legal
8 12 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (3.85%) Marketing
11 8 (3.42%) Advertising
12 7 (2.99%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.99%) Investment Banking
12 7 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.99%) Retail
13 6 (2.56%) Back Office
14 5 (2.14%) General Ledger
14 5 (2.14%) Local Government
15 4 (1.71%) Billing
15 4 (1.71%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.28%) ADO
2 2 (0.85%) JSON
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.85%) Playwright
2 2 (0.85%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Avro
3 1 (0.43%) Django
3 1 (0.43%) Kafka
3 1 (0.43%) OAuth
3 1 (0.43%) OpenID
3 1 (0.43%) SAML
3 1 (0.43%) SOAP
3 1 (0.43%) Spring
3 1 (0.43%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.43%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.39%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.42%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.42%) Taxonomies
3 7 (2.99%) Reference Data
4 4 (1.71%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.28%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.28%) Life Science
5 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.28%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.56%) Windows
2 2 (0.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (37.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 70 (29.91%) Business Analysis
3 65 (27.78%) Agile
3 65 (27.78%) Requirements Gathering
3 65 (27.78%) Workshop Facilitation
4 60 (25.64%) User Stories
5 50 (21.37%) Analytics
6 44 (18.80%) Acceptance Criteria
7 43 (18.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 38 (16.24%) Decision-Making
9 32 (13.68%) AI
9 32 (13.68%) Data Modelling
9 32 (13.68%) Requirements Workshops
10 29 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (12.39%) Data Analysis
11 28 (11.97%) Validation
12 27 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (11.54%) Risk Management
13 25 (10.68%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 46 (19.66%) SQL
2 21 (8.97%) Python
3 6 (2.56%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.85%) Java
4 2 (0.85%) Korn
4 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.85%) R
5 1 (0.43%) LookML
Qualifications
1 19 (8.12%) Degree
2 17 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.84%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.42%) CISSP
5 4 (1.71%) ACCA
5 4 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.28%) CBAP
6 3 (1.28%) CIMA
6 3 (1.28%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (1.28%) GCIH
6 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.85%) CISA
7 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.85%) CISM
7 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.85%) CSPO
7 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.10%) Data Quality
2 22 (9.40%) QA
3 9 (3.85%) NIST
4 8 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.56%) GDPR
5 6 (2.56%) PMO
6 4 (1.71%) GRC
6 4 (1.71%) IFRS
7 3 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.28%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.85%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.85%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.85%) SEPA
9 1 (0.43%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.43%) Basel III
9 1 (0.43%) EMIR
9 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.43%) P3O
System Software
1 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.43%) QRadar
Vendors
1 52 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.83%) Salesforce
3 18 (7.69%) SAP
4 10 (4.27%) Databricks
5 8 (3.42%) Oracle
6 6 (2.56%) Amplitude
6 6 (2.56%) Google
6 6 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.71%) Workday
9 3 (1.28%) Aderant
9 3 (1.28%) IFS
9 3 (1.28%) Qualys
9 3 (1.28%) Splunk
10 2 (0.85%) Adobe
10 2 (0.85%) Anaplan
10 2 (0.85%) Epicor
10 2 (0.85%) QAD
10 2 (0.85%) Sage
10 2 (0.85%) Teradata