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 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 230 173
Rank change year-on-year +36 -57 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 246 127 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.00% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 1.07% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 89 188
10th Percentile £375 £361 £361
25th Percentile £463 £413 £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 £725 £725 £675
England median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.75% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 1
10th Percentile £26.11 £26.36 -
25th Percentile £26.84 £26.42 £25.25
Median hourly rate £31.75 £27.53 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -3.42% -54.40%
75th Percentile £32.00 £28.60 £31.75
90th Percentile £32.08 - -
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 16,249 11,912 16,648
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 93.50% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,831 8,175 12,033
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £442
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 £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 145 342
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.08 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.88 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +26.56% -20.99%
75th Percentile £63.16 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.50 £64.45
England median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year +43.14% -9.26% -22.22%

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 24 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 24 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 -1 41 £625 +4.82% 10
East London 0 3 £473 - 2
West London -24 1 - - 1
South London - 1 - - 4
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 72 (29.27%) Agile
2 69 (28.05%) User Stories
3 61 (24.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 49 (19.92%) Business Analysis
5 48 (19.51%) Requirements Gathering
6 45 (18.29%) SQL
7 40 (16.26%) Workshop Facilitation
8 39 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 37 (15.04%) DevOps
9 37 (15.04%) Microsoft
10 36 (14.63%) Acceptance Criteria
10 36 (14.63%) Salesforce
11 35 (14.23%) Azure
11 35 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (14.23%) Validation
12 34 (13.82%) Decision-Making
13 31 (12.60%) QA
14 28 (11.38%) Actionable Insight
15 27 (10.98%) JIRA
16 26 (10.57%) SAP
16 26 (10.57%) Waterfall
17 25 (10.16%) Degree
17 25 (10.16%) Security Cleared
18 24 (9.76%) Migration
19 22 (8.94%) Data Modelling
19 22 (8.94%) User Acceptance Testing
20 21 (8.54%) Data Analysis
20 21 (8.54%) SC Cleared
21 20 (8.13%) AI
22 19 (7.72%) Data Validation

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 18 (7.32%) Confluence
2 6 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.22%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.81%) 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 18 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (4.47%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.25%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.22%) Algo Collateral
4 3 (1.22%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.22%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.22%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (1.22%) Endur
4 3 (1.22%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.22%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.81%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.23%) Azure
2 17 (6.91%) Power Platform
3 11 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.85%) AWS
5 6 (2.44%) GCP
5 6 (2.44%) Lucidchart
5 6 (2.44%) SaaS
6 4 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.22%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.22%) GitHub
7 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.81%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.81%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.81%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.44%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.63%) Broadband
3 2 (0.81%) DNS
4 1 (0.41%) FTP
4 1 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.91%) Power BI
2 13 (5.28%) Tableau
3 5 (2.03%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.22%) Looker
5 3 (1.22%) Metadata
6 2 (0.81%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.41%) Big Data
7 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
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 27 (10.98%) 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 79 (32.11%) Finance
2 71 (28.86%) Social Skills
3 52 (21.14%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.01%) Banking
5 19 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.28%) Front Office
6 13 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.47%) Retail
9 9 (3.66%) Legal
10 8 (3.25%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.85%) Marketing
12 6 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.44%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.44%) Local Government
13 4 (1.63%) General Ledger
14 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.81%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.25%) FIX Protocol
1 8 (3.25%) Middleware
2 4 (1.63%) VML
2 4 (1.63%) XML
3 3 (1.22%) NumPy
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.22%) Pandas
4 2 (0.81%) ADO
4 2 (0.81%) Kafka
4 2 (0.81%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.81%) Web Services
5 1 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
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%) Playwright
5 1 (0.41%) REST
5 1 (0.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.07%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.44%) PMI
6 5 (2.03%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.63%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.22%) Derivative
8 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.41%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.41%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.44%) Windows
2 4 (1.63%) Unix
3 1 (0.41%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (29.27%) Agile
2 69 (28.05%) User Stories
3 61 (24.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 49 (19.92%) Business Analysis
5 48 (19.51%) Requirements Gathering
6 40 (16.26%) Workshop Facilitation
7 39 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 37 (15.04%) DevOps
9 36 (14.63%) Acceptance Criteria
10 35 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (14.23%) Validation
11 34 (13.82%) Decision-Making
12 28 (11.38%) Actionable Insight
13 26 (10.57%) Waterfall
14 24 (9.76%) Migration
15 22 (8.94%) Data Modelling
15 22 (8.94%) User Acceptance Testing
16 21 (8.54%) Data Analysis
17 20 (8.13%) AI
18 19 (7.72%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 45 (18.29%) SQL
2 15 (6.10%) Python
3 3 (1.22%) R
4 2 (0.81%) Java
5 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (10.16%) Degree
1 25 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.54%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.91%) CBAP
4 10 (4.07%) CSPO
4 10 (4.07%) IIBA
5 8 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.25%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.03%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.63%) PMP
8 2 (0.81%) APMP
8 2 (0.81%) CISSP
8 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) CISM
9 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.41%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) GIAC
9 1 (0.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.60%) QA
2 10 (4.07%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.03%) PMO
3 5 (2.03%) SLA
4 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.22%) IFRS
6 2 (0.81%) GDPR
7 1 (0.41%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.41%) Basel III
7 1 (0.41%) EMIR
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%) MiFID
7 1 (0.41%) PERC
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.81%) 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 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.63%) Salesforce
3 26 (10.57%) SAP
4 12 (4.88%) Oracle
5 8 (3.25%) Zuora
6 7 (2.85%) Bloomberg
6 7 (2.85%) Charles River
7 5 (2.03%) Databricks
7 5 (2.03%) Workday
8 4 (1.63%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.63%) Refinitiv
8 4 (1.63%) Splunk
9 3 (1.22%) Adaptive Insights
9 3 (1.22%) Adobe
9 3 (1.22%) Anaplan
9 3 (1.22%) Epicor
9 3 (1.22%) IFS
9 3 (1.22%) Sage
9 3 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.22%) SmartStream