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 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 215 156
Rank change year-on-year +32 -59 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 249 133 274
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.50% 1.05% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.12% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 92 207
10th Percentile £375 £363 £361
25th Percentile £450 £412 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £26.78 -
25th Percentile - £27.46 £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £28.60 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% -45.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £26.84 - £53.75
90th Percentile £28.16 - -
England median hourly rate £29.04 £28.60 £19.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% +50.53% -69.60%

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 15,418 11,866 16,882
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 93.70% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,330 8,095 12,189
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £428 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 147 339
10th Percentile £18.20 £21.13 £15.99
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.00 £52.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £68.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -23.53%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +9 44 £621 +3.50% 18
East London -2 3 £473 - 1
West London -21 1 - - 2
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 March 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 73 (29.32%) Agile
2 62 (24.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (24.10%) User Stories
4 51 (20.48%) Requirements Gathering
5 49 (19.68%) SQL
6 46 (18.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 44 (17.67%) Business Analysis
8 41 (16.47%) Workshop Facilitation
9 40 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (14.46%) DevOps
10 36 (14.46%) Microsoft
11 33 (13.25%) Decision-Making
11 33 (13.25%) Validation
12 32 (12.85%) Azure
12 32 (12.85%) Salesforce
13 31 (12.45%) Actionable Insight
14 30 (12.05%) QA
15 29 (11.65%) Security Cleared
15 29 (11.65%) Waterfall
16 28 (11.24%) Acceptance Criteria
17 27 (10.84%) Migration
18 26 (10.44%) Degree
18 26 (10.44%) JIRA
19 25 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
19 25 (10.04%) SC Cleared
20 24 (9.64%) SAP
21 23 (9.24%) Data Analysis
22 22 (8.84%) Data Modelling
22 22 (8.84%) Power BI
22 22 (8.84%) Power Platform

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 21 (8.43%) Confluence
2 6 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.80%) SAS
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 19 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (4.42%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.41%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.20%) Algo Collateral
2 3 (1.20%) Endur
2 3 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.80%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics SL
4 1 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.40%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.40%) RMDS
4 1 (0.40%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.85%) Azure
2 22 (8.84%) Power Platform
3 13 (5.22%) AWS
4 12 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (4.02%) GCP
6 6 (2.41%) Lucidchart
6 6 (2.41%) SaaS
7 3 (1.20%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.20%) GitHub
7 3 (1.20%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.20%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.80%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.80%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.80%) dbt
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.41%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.61%) Broadband
3 2 (0.80%) DNS
3 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.40%) FTP
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) SSL
4 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.84%) Power BI
2 18 (7.23%) Tableau
3 9 (3.61%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.41%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.61%) Looker
5 4 (1.61%) Metadata
6 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.80%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.40%) Big Data
8 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.40%) Flink
8 1 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.40%) GIS
8 1 (0.40%) Power Query
8 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (10.44%) JIRA
2 1 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (0.40%) Charles Proxy
2 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.40%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.40%) GitLab
2 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.40%) Postman
2 1 (0.40%) Selenium
2 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.40%) Subversion
2 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (35.74%) Social Skills
2 88 (35.34%) Finance
3 58 (23.29%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (14.86%) Banking
5 25 (10.04%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.82%) Front Office
6 12 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.02%) Legal
7 10 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.21%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.81%) Local Government
10 6 (2.41%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.41%) Marketing
10 6 (2.41%) Retail
11 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.80%) Electronics
13 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.61%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (3.21%) Middleware
3 4 (1.61%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.61%) XML
4 2 (0.80%) ADO
4 2 (0.80%) Kafka
4 2 (0.80%) REST
4 2 (0.80%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.80%) Web Services
5 1 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.40%) FIXML
5 1 (0.40%) JSON
5 1 (0.40%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.40%) NumPy
5 1 (0.40%) OAuth
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.40%) Pandas
5 1 (0.40%) Playwright
5 1 (0.40%) SAML
5 1 (0.40%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.42%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.02%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.61%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.41%) PMI
6 5 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.61%) Derivative
7 4 (1.61%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.40%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.40%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.02%) Windows
2 4 (1.61%) Unix
3 2 (0.80%) Linux
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (29.32%) Agile
2 62 (24.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (24.10%) User Stories
4 51 (20.48%) Requirements Gathering
5 46 (18.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 44 (17.67%) Business Analysis
7 41 (16.47%) Workshop Facilitation
8 40 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (14.46%) DevOps
10 33 (13.25%) Decision-Making
10 33 (13.25%) Validation
11 31 (12.45%) Actionable Insight
12 29 (11.65%) Waterfall
13 28 (11.24%) Acceptance Criteria
14 27 (10.84%) Migration
15 25 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (9.24%) Data Analysis
17 22 (8.84%) Data Modelling
18 21 (8.43%) Project Management
18 21 (8.43%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (19.68%) SQL
2 14 (5.62%) Python
3 3 (1.20%) Java
4 2 (0.80%) R
5 1 (0.40%) C#
5 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.40%) Korn
5 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (11.65%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.44%) Degree
3 25 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.83%) CBAP
5 11 (4.42%) IIBA
6 9 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.21%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.41%) CSPO
9 5 (2.01%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.61%) PMP
11 2 (0.80%) APMP
11 2 (0.80%) CFA
11 2 (0.80%) CISSP
11 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.40%) CSSLP
12 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.40%) GIAC
12 1 (0.40%) ISEB
12 1 (0.40%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.05%) QA
2 11 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.41%) PMO
4 5 (2.01%) SLA
5 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.20%) GDPR
6 3 (1.20%) IFRS
6 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.80%) Basel III
7 2 (0.80%) GRC
7 2 (0.80%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.80%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.40%) FINRA
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.40%) ITGC
8 1 (0.40%) SOX 404
System Software
1 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (0.40%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.40%) Grafana
1 1 (0.40%) Kibana
1 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.85%) Salesforce
3 24 (9.64%) SAP
4 14 (5.62%) Oracle
5 11 (4.42%) Splunk
6 7 (2.81%) Bloomberg
7 6 (2.41%) Charles River
7 6 (2.41%) Zuora
8 5 (2.01%) Databricks
9 4 (1.61%) Google
9 4 (1.61%) Refinitiv
10 3 (1.20%) Adobe
10 3 (1.20%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.20%) SmartStream
10 3 (1.20%) Workday
11 2 (0.80%) Citrix
11 2 (0.80%) Reuters
11 2 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.40%) Radianz