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 17 April 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 230 171
Rank change year-on-year +34 -59 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 244 121 257
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.41% 0.96% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 1.02% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 83 193
10th Percentile £375 £363 £388
25th Percentile £450 £431 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £718 £725 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile - £26.36 -
25th Percentile £26.11 £26.42 £25.25
Median hourly rate £30.27 £27.53 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.97% -3.42% -54.40%
75th Percentile £32.00 £28.60 £31.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £26.39 £19.00
% change year-on-year +21.28% +38.87% -67.24%

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 16,086 11,843 16,724
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 93.49% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,735 8,116 12,083
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £440
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 £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 142 346
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.21 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £19.94
Median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +26.56% -20.99%
75th Percentile £63.08 £50.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.88 £64.77
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.21
% change year-on-year +38.46% -5.00% -21.59%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +7 42 £623 +3.83% 19
East London -2 3 £473 - 1
West London -24 1 - -
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 April 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 (29.92%) Agile
2 70 (28.69%) User Stories
3 62 (25.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (21.72%) Requirements Gathering
5 47 (19.26%) SQL
6 46 (18.85%) Business Analysis
7 42 (17.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 41 (16.80%) Workshop Facilitation
9 37 (15.16%) DevOps
9 37 (15.16%) Microsoft
10 36 (14.75%) Salesforce
11 35 (14.34%) Azure
12 34 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (13.52%) Acceptance Criteria
13 33 (13.52%) Decision-Making
13 33 (13.52%) Validation
14 32 (13.11%) QA
15 28 (11.48%) Actionable Insight
15 28 (11.48%) JIRA
15 28 (11.48%) Migration
15 28 (11.48%) Waterfall
16 26 (10.66%) Degree
17 24 (9.84%) SAP
17 24 (9.84%) Security Cleared
18 23 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
19 21 (8.61%) Confluence
19 21 (8.61%) Data Analysis
19 21 (8.61%) Data Modelling
19 21 (8.61%) SC Cleared
20 20 (8.20%) Project Management

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 (8.61%) Confluence
2 6 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.23%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.82%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Appian
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 17 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (4.51%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.23%) Algo Collateral
2 3 (1.23%) Endur
2 3 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.82%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics SL
4 1 (0.41%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.41%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.34%) Azure
2 18 (7.38%) Power Platform
3 11 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.69%) AWS
4 9 (3.69%) GCP
5 6 (2.46%) Lucidchart
5 6 (2.46%) SaaS
6 3 (1.23%) ChatGPT
6 3 (1.23%) GitHub
6 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (0.82%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.82%) dbt
7 2 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.82%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (0.82%) Serverless
7 2 (0.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.46%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.64%) Broadband
3 2 (0.82%) DNS
4 1 (0.41%) FTP
4 1 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.38%) Power BI
2 16 (6.56%) Tableau
3 8 (3.28%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.05%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.23%) Looker
5 3 (1.23%) Metadata
6 2 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.82%) BusinessObjects XI
6 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.41%) Big Data
7 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.41%) Flink
7 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.41%) GIS
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 28 (11.48%) JIRA
2 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (0.41%) Charles Proxy
2 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.41%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.41%) GitLab
2 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.41%) Postman
2 1 (0.41%) Selenium
2 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 81 (33.20%) Finance
2 74 (30.33%) Social Skills
3 51 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.11%) Banking
5 20 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.74%) Front Office
7 12 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.69%) Legal
9 9 (3.69%) Retail
10 7 (2.87%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.87%) Local Government
10 7 (2.87%) Marketing
11 6 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.46%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.82%) iGaming
13 2 (0.82%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.28%) FIX Protocol
1 8 (3.28%) Middleware
2 4 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (1.64%) XML
3 3 (1.23%) ADO
3 3 (1.23%) NumPy
3 3 (1.23%) Pandas
3 3 (1.23%) VML
4 2 (0.82%) Kafka
4 2 (0.82%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.82%) Web Services
5 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.41%) FHIR
5 1 (0.41%) JSON
5 1 (0.41%) OAuth
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.41%) Playwright
5 1 (0.41%) REST
5 1 (0.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.15%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.46%) PMI
6 5 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.64%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.23%) Derivative
8 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.41%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.41%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.69%) Windows
2 4 (1.64%) Unix
3 1 (0.41%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (29.92%) Agile
2 70 (28.69%) User Stories
3 62 (25.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (21.72%) Requirements Gathering
5 46 (18.85%) Business Analysis
6 42 (17.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 41 (16.80%) Workshop Facilitation
8 37 (15.16%) DevOps
9 34 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (13.52%) Acceptance Criteria
10 33 (13.52%) Decision-Making
10 33 (13.52%) Validation
11 28 (11.48%) Actionable Insight
11 28 (11.48%) Migration
11 28 (11.48%) Waterfall
12 23 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
13 21 (8.61%) Data Analysis
13 21 (8.61%) Data Modelling
14 20 (8.20%) Project Management
15 19 (7.79%) AI
Programming Languages
1 47 (19.26%) SQL
2 15 (6.15%) Python
3 3 (1.23%) R
4 2 (0.82%) Java
5 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (10.66%) Degree
2 24 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.97%) CBAP
5 10 (4.10%) IIBA
6 9 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.69%) CSPO
7 8 (3.28%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.05%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.64%) PMP
10 2 (0.82%) APMP
10 2 (0.82%) CFA
10 2 (0.82%) CISSP
10 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.41%) CISM
11 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.41%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.41%) GIAC
11 1 (0.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.11%) QA
2 9 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.05%) PMO
3 5 (2.05%) SLA
4 4 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.23%) IFRS
6 2 (0.82%) GDPR
7 1 (0.41%) Basel III
7 1 (0.41%) FINRA
7 1 (0.41%) GAAP
7 1 (0.41%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.41%) PERC
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (0.41%) Grafana
1 1 (0.41%) Kibana
1 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.75%) Salesforce
3 24 (9.84%) SAP
4 11 (4.51%) Oracle
5 7 (2.87%) Bloomberg
6 6 (2.46%) Charles River
6 6 (2.46%) Zuora
7 5 (2.05%) Databricks
8 4 (1.64%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.64%) Refinitiv
8 4 (1.64%) Splunk
9 3 (1.23%) Adobe
9 3 (1.23%) Google
9 3 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.23%) SmartStream
9 3 (1.23%) Workday
10 2 (0.82%) Citrix
10 2 (0.82%) Reuters
10 2 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.41%) Facebook