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 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 213 158
Rank change year-on-year +40 -55 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 226 150 289
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.53% 1.08% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.15% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 102 226
10th Percentile £375 £363 £374
25th Percentile £450 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £737 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £28.60 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% -45.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £28.15 - £53.75
90th Percentile £31.82 - -
England median hourly rate £38.11 £42.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -10.34% -27.66% +1.29%

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 13,717 13,002 17,150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 93.61% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,100 8,336 12,388
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 143 315
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.58 £19.03
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.77% -12.59%
75th Percentile £63.10 £52.47 £51.25
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.68 £67.20
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%

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 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 30 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 -1 35 £621 +3.42% 15
West London -20 3 £350 - 1
East London -1 2 £473 +11.18%
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 65 (28.76%) Agile
2 58 (25.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (22.57%) SQL
4 46 (20.35%) Requirements Gathering
4 46 (20.35%) User Stories
5 45 (19.91%) Business Analysis
6 42 (18.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 39 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (14.16%) Decision-Making
8 32 (14.16%) Validation
8 32 (14.16%) Workshop Facilitation
9 31 (13.72%) Microsoft
9 31 (13.72%) Waterfall
10 28 (12.39%) DevOps
11 27 (11.95%) Security Cleared
12 26 (11.50%) Actionable Insight
13 25 (11.06%) Azure
13 25 (11.06%) Data Analysis
14 24 (10.62%) Degree
14 24 (10.62%) Migration
15 23 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (10.18%) JIRA
15 23 (10.18%) Power BI
15 23 (10.18%) Power Platform
15 23 (10.18%) SC Cleared
15 23 (10.18%) Visualisation
16 22 (9.73%) Acceptance Criteria
16 22 (9.73%) Business Intelligence
17 21 (9.29%) QA
18 20 (8.85%) Mentoring

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 (6.64%) Confluence
2 5 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) SAS
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 20 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.98%) MS Visio
4 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.21%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.77%) Endur
3 3 (1.33%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.44%) RMDS
5 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.06%) Azure
2 23 (10.18%) Power Platform
3 12 (5.31%) AWS
4 11 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.98%) GCP
6 6 (2.65%) Lucidchart
6 6 (2.65%) SaaS
7 3 (1.33%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.33%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.33%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.88%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.88%) dbt
8 2 (0.88%) GitHub
8 2 (0.88%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.88%) Serverless
9 1 (0.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.65%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (1.33%) Broadband
3 2 (0.88%) DNS
3 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.44%) FTP
4 1 (0.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.44%) LAN
4 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.44%) SSL
4 1 (0.44%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.44%) VPN
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.18%) Power BI
2 17 (7.52%) Tableau
3 11 (4.87%) BigQuery
4 10 (4.42%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.21%) Looker
6 3 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.88%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.44%) Big Data
8 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.44%) GIS
8 1 (0.44%) Metadata
8 1 (0.44%) Power Query
8 1 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (10.18%) JIRA
2 3 (1.33%) Selenium
3 2 (0.88%) Git
3 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.88%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.44%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.44%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.44%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 87 (38.50%) Social Skills
2 81 (35.84%) Finance
3 51 (22.57%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (15.93%) Banking
5 26 (11.50%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.31%) Front Office
7 10 (4.42%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.54%) Legal
10 7 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.65%) Local Government
12 5 (2.21%) Retail
13 4 (1.77%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.77%) Marketing
14 3 (1.33%) Back Office
15 2 (0.88%) Electronics
15 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.98%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (3.54%) Middleware
3 4 (1.77%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.77%) XML
4 2 (0.88%) ADO
4 2 (0.88%) Kafka
4 2 (0.88%) Playwright
4 2 (0.88%) Web Services
5 1 (0.44%) FHIR
5 1 (0.44%) FIXML
5 1 (0.44%) JSON
5 1 (0.44%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.44%) NumPy
5 1 (0.44%) Pandas
5 1 (0.44%) PySpark
5 1 (0.44%) REST
5 1 (0.44%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.44%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.44%) SOAP
5 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.08%) Onboarding
2 9 (3.98%) Cyber Defence
2 9 (3.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.54%) Derivative
3 8 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.10%) PMI
5 6 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.77%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.88%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.88%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (0.88%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.44%) Equities
9 1 (0.44%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.87%) Windows
2 4 (1.77%) Unix
3 2 (0.88%) Linux
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (28.76%) Agile
2 58 (25.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 46 (20.35%) Requirements Gathering
3 46 (20.35%) User Stories
4 45 (19.91%) Business Analysis
5 42 (18.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 39 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (14.16%) Decision-Making
7 32 (14.16%) Validation
7 32 (14.16%) Workshop Facilitation
8 31 (13.72%) Waterfall
9 28 (12.39%) DevOps
10 26 (11.50%) Actionable Insight
11 25 (11.06%) Data Analysis
12 24 (10.62%) Migration
13 23 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (10.18%) Visualisation
14 22 (9.73%) Acceptance Criteria
14 22 (9.73%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (8.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 51 (22.57%) SQL
2 15 (6.64%) Python
3 4 (1.77%) Java
3 4 (1.77%) R
4 1 (0.44%) C#
4 1 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 27 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.62%) Degree
3 23 (10.18%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.96%) CBAP
5 10 (4.42%) IIBA
6 9 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.54%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.21%) CSPO
9 4 (1.77%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.33%) PMP
11 2 (0.88%) APMP
11 2 (0.88%) CFA
11 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.44%) AAT
12 1 (0.44%) ACCA
12 1 (0.44%) CCAB
12 1 (0.44%) CIMA
12 1 (0.44%) CIPFA
12 1 (0.44%) CISMP
12 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.29%) QA
2 9 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.77%) GRC
3 4 (1.77%) PMO
4 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.33%) GDPR
4 3 (1.33%) IFRS
4 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.33%) NIST
4 3 (1.33%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) COBIT
5 2 (0.88%) ISO 31000
5 2 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.44%) Basel III
6 1 (0.44%) GAAP
6 1 (0.44%) HL7
6 1 (0.44%) ITGC
6 1 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.44%) PERC
6 1 (0.44%) SOX 404
System Software
1 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.44%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.44%) Nessus
1 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (13.72%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.85%) Salesforce
3 14 (6.19%) Oracle
3 14 (6.19%) SAP
4 10 (4.42%) Splunk
5 6 (2.65%) Charles River
6 5 (2.21%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.21%) Databricks
6 5 (2.21%) Zuora
7 4 (1.77%) Google
7 4 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.33%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.33%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.33%) SmartStream
9 2 (0.88%) Adobe
9 2 (0.88%) Citrix
9 2 (0.88%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.44%) Computacenter
10 1 (0.44%) Murex
10 1 (0.44%) VMware