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 30 August 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 208 189
Rank change year-on-year -32 -19 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 230 172 229
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 1.28% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.37% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 114 164
10th Percentile £373 £357 £375
25th Percentile £450 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £495
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +7.07% -13.91%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £697 £750 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £30.37 £26.35 -
25th Percentile £31.63 £26.39 £25.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% -7.19% -33.72%
75th Percentile - £31.23 £31.75
90th Percentile £32.30 £34.09 -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £32.74 £26.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +25.90% -60.00%

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 18,896 12,518 15,218
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 92.97% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,217 8,426 10,484
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 208 192
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% -12.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.31 £50.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -32 26 £550 -6.38% 13
West London -19 1 £600 +71.43% 10
South London - 1 - -
East London - 1 - - 2
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 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 69 (30.00%) Agile
2 66 (28.70%) Business Analysis
2 66 (28.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 61 (26.52%) User Stories
4 54 (23.48%) Workshop Facilitation
5 49 (21.30%) Requirements Gathering
6 45 (19.57%) Decision-Making
7 43 (18.70%) Acceptance Criteria
8 42 (18.26%) Microsoft
9 38 (16.52%) Analytics
9 38 (16.52%) SQL
10 36 (15.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 34 (14.78%) Azure
12 27 (11.74%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (11.74%) Salesforce
13 26 (11.30%) Power BI
13 26 (11.30%) Power Platform
14 25 (10.87%) DevOps
14 25 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (10.43%) Actionable Insight
15 24 (10.43%) Data Analysis
15 24 (10.43%) Validation
16 23 (10.00%) Data Modelling
16 23 (10.00%) Data Quality
16 23 (10.00%) QA
16 23 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
17 22 (9.57%) AI
17 22 (9.57%) Python
18 21 (9.13%) SAP

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 13 (5.65%) Confluence
2 3 (1.30%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) Appian
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.48%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Endur
2 3 (1.30%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics SL
3 2 (0.87%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.87%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
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 Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (14.78%) Azure
2 26 (11.30%) Power Platform
3 12 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.91%) SaaS
4 9 (3.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 7 (3.04%) AWS
5 7 (3.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 6 (2.61%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.61%) GCP
6 6 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.17%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.74%) PaaS
9 3 (1.30%) dbt
9 3 (1.30%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.87%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.87%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.87%) Miro
11 1 (0.43%) GitHub
11 1 (0.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) Network Security
2 1 (0.43%) Broadband
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 26 (11.30%) Power BI
2 16 (6.96%) Tableau
3 6 (2.61%) Looker
4 5 (2.17%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.30%) Metadata
7 2 (0.87%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.87%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.87%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.87%) Power Query
8 1 (0.43%) Big Data
8 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.43%) Essbase
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%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) GitLab
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) Selenium
2 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 68 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 64 (27.83%) Finance
3 54 (23.48%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.00%) Banking
5 16 (6.96%) Front Office
6 14 (6.09%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (5.22%) Marketing
9 9 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.91%) Retail
10 8 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (3.04%) Advertising
11 7 (3.04%) Legal
12 6 (2.61%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.61%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.61%) Local Government
13 5 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.30%) Billing
14 3 (1.30%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.74%) VML
2 3 (1.30%) ADO
2 3 (1.30%) NumPy
2 3 (1.30%) Pandas
3 2 (0.87%) JSON
3 2 (0.87%) OAuth
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.87%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.87%) SAML
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.43%) Django
4 1 (0.43%) Kafka
4 1 (0.43%) OpenID
4 1 (0.43%) Playwright
4 1 (0.43%) REST
4 1 (0.43%) SOAP
4 1 (0.43%) Spring
4 1 (0.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.30%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.17%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.17%) Reference Data
4 4 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.30%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.87%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.87%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.43%) Equities
7 1 (0.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.04%) Windows
2 2 (0.87%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (30.00%) Agile
2 66 (28.70%) Business Analysis
2 66 (28.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 61 (26.52%) User Stories
4 54 (23.48%) Workshop Facilitation
5 49 (21.30%) Requirements Gathering
6 45 (19.57%) Decision-Making
7 43 (18.70%) Acceptance Criteria
8 38 (16.52%) Analytics
9 36 (15.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 27 (11.74%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (10.87%) DevOps
11 25 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (10.43%) Actionable Insight
12 24 (10.43%) Data Analysis
12 24 (10.43%) Validation
13 23 (10.00%) Data Modelling
13 23 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
14 22 (9.57%) AI
Programming Languages
1 38 (16.52%) SQL
2 22 (9.57%) Python
3 5 (2.17%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.30%) R
5 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.87%) Java
6 1 (0.43%) Korn
6 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.43%) LookML
Qualifications
1 20 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.26%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.09%) Degree
4 7 (3.04%) CISSP
5 5 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (2.17%) CSPO
6 3 (1.30%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (1.30%) OSCP
7 2 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.87%) ACCA
7 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.87%) CBAP
7 2 (0.87%) CCSP
7 2 (0.87%) CEH
7 2 (0.87%) CIMA
7 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.87%) GCIH
7 2 (0.87%) IIBA
7 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 23 (10.00%) QA
2 8 (3.48%) NIST
3 7 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.04%) PMO
4 3 (1.30%) GDPR
4 3 (1.30%) GRC
5 2 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.87%) IFRS
5 2 (0.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.43%) EMIR
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) P3O
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.43%) QRadar
Vendors
1 42 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.74%) Salesforce
3 21 (9.13%) SAP
4 7 (3.04%) Oracle
5 6 (2.61%) Amplitude
5 6 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (2.61%) Google
5 6 (2.61%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.74%) Databricks
6 4 (1.74%) Qualys
6 4 (1.74%) Splunk
7 3 (1.30%) IFS
7 3 (1.30%) Workday
8 2 (0.87%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (0.87%) Anaplan
8 2 (0.87%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.87%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.87%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (0.87%) Litera
8 2 (0.87%) Zuora