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 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 207 155
Rank change year-on-year +11 -52 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 198 185 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 1.23% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.32% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 133 234
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £760 £731 £700
England median daily rate £510 £543 £563
% change year-on-year -5.99% -3.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £43.08
25th Percentile - - £46.15
Median hourly rate £26.11 - £52.50
75th Percentile £34.27 - £65.63
90th Percentile £35.31 - £72.75
England median hourly rate £33.37 £52.83 £65.00
% change year-on-year -36.83% -18.73% +74.64%

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 13,276 14,056 17,631
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 93.53% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,790 9,097 12,749
10th Percentile £345 £338 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -3.24% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 153 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.47 £17.65
25th Percentile £22.25 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.65 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.30% - -
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.86% -22.22% +40.63%

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 20 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 20 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 +4 39 £621 +3.50% 8
West London -16 3 £350 -
East London -3 1 £450 +2.27%
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 58 (29.29%) Agile
2 47 (23.74%) SQL
3 41 (20.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (19.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 35 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (17.17%) Business Analysis
7 28 (14.14%) Requirements Gathering
8 27 (13.64%) Decision-Making
8 27 (13.64%) Power BI
8 27 (13.64%) Power Platform
8 27 (13.64%) Visualisation
9 26 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (12.63%) Microsoft
11 24 (12.12%) Data Analysis
11 24 (12.12%) User Stories
12 23 (11.62%) Validation
13 21 (10.61%) Analytics
13 21 (10.61%) Workshop Facilitation
14 20 (10.10%) Data Modelling
14 20 (10.10%) Process Improvement
14 20 (10.10%) Security Cleared
15 19 (9.60%) Actionable Insight
15 19 (9.60%) JIRA
16 18 (9.09%) AI
16 18 (9.09%) Migration
17 17 (8.59%) Confluence
17 17 (8.59%) Python
17 17 (8.59%) SC Cleared
17 17 (8.59%) Scrum

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 17 (8.59%) Confluence
2 4 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 13 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.56%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Endur
1 5 (2.53%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.52%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.01%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.51%) RMDS
4 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (13.64%) Power Platform
2 16 (8.08%) Azure
3 15 (7.58%) AWS
4 9 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.55%) GCP
5 8 (4.04%) SaaS
6 6 (3.03%) Lucidchart
7 5 (2.53%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.02%) dbt
8 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.52%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.52%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.01%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.01%) Miro
10 2 (1.01%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.01%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) Broadband
2 2 (1.01%) DNS
2 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) FTP
3 1 (0.51%) Internet
3 1 (0.51%) LAN
3 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.51%) SSL
3 1 (0.51%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.51%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) WAN
3 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.64%) Power BI
2 17 (8.59%) Tableau
3 9 (4.55%) BigQuery
4 8 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.02%) Looker
6 3 (1.52%) Metadata
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.01%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.01%) Power Query
8 1 (0.51%) Big Data
8 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.51%) GIS
8 1 (0.51%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (9.60%) JIRA
2 2 (1.01%) Git
2 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.01%) Selenium
2 2 (1.01%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.51%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.51%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.51%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.51%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 74 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 72 (36.36%) Finance
3 52 (26.26%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.15%) Banking
5 26 (13.13%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.54%) Front Office
8 7 (3.54%) Legal
8 7 (3.54%) Local Government
9 6 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.03%) Retail
10 5 (2.53%) Marketing
10 5 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.02%) Back Office
11 4 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.01%) Electronics
12 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.02%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (2.02%) Middleware
2 2 (1.01%) ADO
2 2 (1.01%) Kafka
2 2 (1.01%) Playwright
3 1 (0.51%) .NET
3 1 (0.51%) FHIR
3 1 (0.51%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.51%) FIXML
3 1 (0.51%) JSON
3 1 (0.51%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.51%) NumPy
3 1 (0.51%) Pandas
3 1 (0.51%) PySpark
3 1 (0.51%) REST
3 1 (0.51%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.51%) SOAP
3 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
2 9 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.04%) Derivative
3 8 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.03%) iPad
5 6 (3.03%) iPhone
6 5 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.52%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.01%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.01%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.01%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.51%) Energy Derivatives
9 1 (0.51%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.58%) Windows
2 6 (3.03%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.01%) Linux
4 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (29.29%) Agile
2 41 (20.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (19.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 35 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (17.17%) Business Analysis
6 28 (14.14%) Requirements Gathering
7 27 (13.64%) Decision-Making
7 27 (13.64%) Visualisation
8 26 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (12.12%) Data Analysis
10 24 (12.12%) User Stories
11 23 (11.62%) Validation
12 21 (10.61%) Analytics
12 21 (10.61%) Workshop Facilitation
13 20 (10.10%) Data Modelling
13 20 (10.10%) Process Improvement
14 19 (9.60%) Actionable Insight
15 18 (9.09%) AI
15 18 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 47 (23.74%) SQL
2 17 (8.59%) Python
3 5 (2.53%) R
4 3 (1.52%) Java
5 2 (1.01%) C#
6 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.51%) Korn
Qualifications
1 20 (10.10%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.59%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.05%) Degree
4 9 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.03%) CBAP
5 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.53%) CSPO
7 3 (1.52%) IIBA
7 3 (1.52%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.01%) CFA
8 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.51%) AAT
9 1 (0.51%) ACCA
9 1 (0.51%) CCAB
9 1 (0.51%) CIMA
9 1 (0.51%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.51%) CISMP
9 1 (0.51%) ISEB
9 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.07%) QA
2 9 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.02%) GDPR
3 4 (2.02%) GRC
3 4 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.02%) NIST
4 3 (1.52%) PMO
4 3 (1.52%) SLA
5 2 (1.01%) COBIT
5 2 (1.01%) ISO 31000
5 2 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.51%) Basel III
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.51%) HL7
6 1 (0.51%) IFRS
6 1 (0.51%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.51%) ITGC
6 1 (0.51%) MiFID
6 1 (0.51%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.51%) Nessus
Vendors
1 25 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.56%) Oracle
3 10 (5.05%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.05%) Splunk
4 7 (3.54%) SAP
5 5 (2.53%) Databricks
5 5 (2.53%) Zuora
6 4 (2.02%) Google
7 3 (1.52%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.52%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.52%) SmartStream
8 2 (1.01%) Adobe
8 2 (1.01%) Foundry
8 2 (1.01%) Palantir
8 2 (1.01%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.01%) Workday
9 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.51%) Tealium
9 1 (0.51%) Tenable