Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 196 198
Rank change year-on-year -32 +2 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 237 172 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.28% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.38% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 117 150
10th Percentile £363 £353 £375
25th Percentile £459 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% +1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £641 £641 £600
90th Percentile £701 £760 £689
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £31.63 £27.56 -
25th Percentile - £29.23 £25.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +19.30% -50.88%
75th Percentile - £35.14 £31.75
90th Percentile £32.38 £35.65 -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £34.14 £26.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +31.29% -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 18,862 12,471 15,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 92.70% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,159 8,349 10,331
10th Percentile £363 £326 £345
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 208 183
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.58
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.93% -13.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £56.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.15 £74.38
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -38 25 £550 -6.38% 40
West London -22 1 £600 +71.43% 15
South London - 1 - - 1
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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 74 (31.22%) Agile
2 73 (30.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 68 (28.69%) Business Analysis
4 66 (27.85%) User Stories
5 60 (25.32%) Workshop Facilitation
6 57 (24.05%) Requirements Gathering
7 46 (19.41%) Acceptance Criteria
8 45 (18.99%) Decision-Making
9 44 (18.57%) Microsoft
10 42 (17.72%) Analytics
10 42 (17.72%) SQL
11 38 (16.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 37 (15.61%) Azure
13 28 (11.81%) DevOps
13 28 (11.81%) Salesforce
14 27 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (11.39%) Data Analysis
14 27 (11.39%) Validation
15 26 (10.97%) AI
15 26 (10.97%) Data Modelling
15 26 (10.97%) Power BI
15 26 (10.97%) Power Platform
15 26 (10.97%) Requirements Workshops
16 25 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (10.13%) QA
17 24 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
18 23 (9.70%) Actionable Insight
18 23 (9.70%) Data Quality
19 22 (9.28%) JIRA

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 (5.49%) Confluence
2 3 (1.27%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.42%) Appian
4 1 (0.42%) CMS
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.95%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Endur
2 3 (1.27%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.27%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.84%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.84%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.84%) Dynamics SL
3 2 (0.84%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.84%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.42%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.42%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (15.61%) Azure
2 26 (10.97%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (4.64%) SaaS
4 11 (4.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 9 (3.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 7 (2.95%) AWS
7 6 (2.53%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.53%) GCP
7 6 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.53%) PaaS
7 6 (2.53%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.27%) dbt
9 3 (1.27%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.84%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.84%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.84%) Miro
11 1 (0.42%) Azure Databricks
11 1 (0.42%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) Network Security
2 1 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.42%) LAN
2 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.42%) WAN
2 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.97%) Power BI
2 14 (5.91%) Tableau
3 6 (2.53%) Looker
4 5 (2.11%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.27%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.27%) Metadata
6 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.84%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.84%) Power Query
8 1 (0.42%) Big Data
8 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.42%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.42%) Parquet
8 1 (0.42%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (9.28%) JIRA
2 1 (0.42%) GitLab
2 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.42%) Selenium
2 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
General
1 73 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 69 (29.11%) Finance
3 53 (22.36%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.39%) Banking
5 18 (7.59%) Front Office
6 14 (5.91%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (5.06%) Marketing
9 11 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (4.22%) Retail
11 8 (3.38%) Legal
12 7 (2.95%) Advertising
12 7 (2.95%) Investment Banking
13 6 (2.53%) Financial Institution
14 5 (2.11%) Back Office
14 5 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (2.11%) Local Government
14 5 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.69%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.69%) VML
2 3 (1.27%) ADO
2 3 (1.27%) NumPy
2 3 (1.27%) Pandas
3 2 (0.84%) JSON
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.84%) Playwright
3 2 (0.84%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.42%) Django
4 1 (0.42%) Kafka
4 1 (0.42%) OAuth
4 1 (0.42%) OpenID
4 1 (0.42%) REST
4 1 (0.42%) SAML
4 1 (0.42%) SOAP
4 1 (0.42%) Spring
4 1 (0.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.50%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.11%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.11%) Reference Data
4 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (1.27%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.84%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.84%) Life Science
6 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.84%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.95%) Windows
2 2 (0.84%) Linux
3 1 (0.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (31.22%) Agile
2 73 (30.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 68 (28.69%) Business Analysis
4 66 (27.85%) User Stories
5 60 (25.32%) Workshop Facilitation
6 57 (24.05%) Requirements Gathering
7 46 (19.41%) Acceptance Criteria
8 45 (18.99%) Decision-Making
9 42 (17.72%) Analytics
10 38 (16.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 28 (11.81%) DevOps
12 27 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (11.39%) Data Analysis
12 27 (11.39%) Validation
13 26 (10.97%) AI
13 26 (10.97%) Data Modelling
13 26 (10.97%) Requirements Workshops
14 25 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (17.72%) SQL
2 22 (9.28%) Python
3 5 (2.11%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.27%) R
5 2 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.84%) Java
6 1 (0.42%) Korn
6 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.42%) LookML
Qualifications
1 20 (8.44%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.02%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.33%) Degree
4 8 (3.38%) CISSP
5 6 (2.53%) CSPO
6 5 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.69%) ACCA
8 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.27%) CIMA
8 3 (1.27%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (1.27%) OSCP
8 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.27%) PMP
9 2 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.84%) CBAP
9 2 (0.84%) CISA
9 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.84%) CRISC
9 2 (0.84%) IIBA
9 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.13%) QA
2 23 (9.70%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.80%) NIST
4 8 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.95%) PMO
6 4 (1.69%) GRC
7 3 (1.27%) GDPR
7 3 (1.27%) IFRS
8 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.84%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.84%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.84%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.84%) SEPA
9 1 (0.42%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.42%) EMIR
9 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.42%) P3O
System Software
1 3 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.42%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.81%) Salesforce
3 21 (8.86%) SAP
4 8 (3.38%) Oracle
5 6 (2.53%) Amplitude
5 6 (2.53%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (2.53%) Google
5 6 (2.53%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.69%) Databricks
6 4 (1.69%) Qualys
6 4 (1.69%) Splunk
7 3 (1.27%) IFS
7 3 (1.27%) Workday
8 2 (0.84%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (0.84%) Anaplan
8 2 (0.84%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.84%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.84%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (0.84%) Litera
8 2 (0.84%) Zuora