Senior Analyst Contracts in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 164 191
Rank change year-on-year -58 +27 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 131 262 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.04% 1.47% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.58% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 194 268
10th Percentile £363 £366 £325
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £675 £743
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £26.36 - £50.50
25th Percentile £26.42 £25.25 £58.81
Median hourly rate £27.53 £28.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% -54.40% -27.75%
75th Percentile £28.60 £31.75 £64.69
90th Percentile - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.39 £19.00 £60.25
% change year-on-year +38.87% -68.46% +89.17%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in London

Senior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Analyst in London

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in London

Senior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Analyst 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 1 May 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 +6 35 £596 +22.69% 13
West London +8 2 £419 -16.25% 3
East London +9 1 - - 1
Senior Analyst
England

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 53 (40.46%) Social Skills
2 46 (35.11%) Finance
3 36 (27.48%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (22.14%) SQL
5 29 (22.14%) Agile
5 29 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (21.37%) Business Analysis
7 18 (13.74%) Banking
8 17 (12.98%) Data Analysis
9 16 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (11.45%) Python
10 15 (11.45%) Migration
10 15 (11.45%) Requirements Gathering
11 14 (10.69%) QA
12 13 (9.92%) User Acceptance Testing
12 13 (9.92%) Change Management
12 13 (9.92%) User Stories
12 13 (9.92%) Process Improvement
12 13 (9.92%) Data Quality
13 12 (9.16%) Risk Management
13 12 (9.16%) Data Modelling
14 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
14 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
14 11 (8.40%) Security Cleared
14 11 (8.40%) Degree
14 11 (8.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (8.40%) Power Platform
14 11 (8.40%) Actionable Insight
15 10 (7.63%) Workshop Facilitation

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.11%) Confluence
2 4 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.29%) Apache
4 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.58%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.05%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.53%) Shopify
2 2 (1.53%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.76%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.76%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.76%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.76%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.40%) Power Platform
2 9 (6.87%) AWS
2 9 (6.87%) Azure
3 6 (4.58%) GCP
4 2 (1.53%) BigCommerce
4 2 (1.53%) Collibra
4 2 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.53%) SaaS
4 2 (1.53%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.76%) dbt
5 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.76%) Miro
5 1 (0.76%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) 4G
1 2 (1.53%) 5G
1 2 (1.53%) Intranet
1 2 (1.53%) VoLTE
1 2 (1.53%) VoWiFi
2 1 (0.76%) DNS
2 1 (0.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) SAN
2 1 (0.76%) SMTP
2 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) Power BI
2 5 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.05%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.05%) MS Access
3 4 (3.05%) Tableau
4 3 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.53%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.53%) Big Data
5 2 (1.53%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.53%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.53%) Impala
5 2 (1.53%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (1.53%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.76%) Metadata
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.76%) Sqoop
6 1 (0.76%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 9 (6.87%) JIRA
2 4 (3.05%) QARun
2 4 (3.05%) WinRunner
3 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.76%) Postman
3 1 (0.76%) Selenium
3 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
General
1 53 (40.46%) Social Skills
2 46 (35.11%) Finance
3 36 (27.48%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.74%) Banking
5 7 (5.34%) Front Office
5 7 (5.34%) Investment Banking
5 7 (5.34%) Retail
6 6 (4.58%) Marketing
6 6 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.05%) Back Office
7 4 (3.05%) Local Government
7 4 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.53%) Advertising
9 2 (1.53%) Billing
9 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.53%) Legal
9 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.05%) FpML
1 4 (3.05%) Middleware
1 4 (3.05%) Web Services
2 3 (2.29%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (2.29%) Kafka
3 2 (1.53%) VML
4 1 (0.76%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.76%) PySpark
4 1 (0.76%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.76%) SOAP
4 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (3.82%) Management Information System
1 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.29%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.53%) Equities
4 2 (1.53%) PMI
4 2 (1.53%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.53%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.76%) NHS
5 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.87%) Windows
2 4 (3.05%) Unix
3 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 29 (22.14%) Agile
2 29 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (21.37%) Business Analysis
4 17 (12.98%) Data Analysis
5 16 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (11.45%) Migration
6 15 (11.45%) Requirements Gathering
7 13 (9.92%) Change Management
7 13 (9.92%) Process Improvement
7 13 (9.92%) User Acceptance Testing
7 13 (9.92%) User Stories
8 12 (9.16%) Data Modelling
8 12 (9.16%) Risk Management
9 11 (8.40%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (8.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (7.63%) Decision-Making
10 10 (7.63%) Target Operating Model
10 10 (7.63%) Waterfall
10 10 (7.63%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 29 (22.14%) SQL
2 15 (11.45%) Python
3 3 (2.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.29%) VBA
4 2 (1.53%) R
5 1 (0.76%) Java
5 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.40%) Degree
1 11 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) CBAP
4 3 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.53%) ACCA
5 2 (1.53%) CFA
5 2 (1.53%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.53%) OSCP
5 2 (1.53%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.76%) CEH
6 1 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.76%) CSPO
6 1 (0.76%) GCIA
6 1 (0.76%) GCIH
6 1 (0.76%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.69%) QA
2 13 (9.92%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.82%) GDPR
4 4 (3.05%) PMO
5 3 (2.29%) NIST
6 2 (1.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.76%) LOINC
7 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.76%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.76%) HDFS
2 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.53%) RSA Archer
1 2 (1.53%) SCCM
2 1 (0.76%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.34%) SAP
3 6 (4.58%) Adobe
4 5 (3.82%) Oracle
5 4 (3.05%) Citrix
5 4 (3.05%) Google
5 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.05%) Workday
6 3 (2.29%) Informatica
6 3 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.29%) Talend
7 2 (1.53%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.53%) Foundry
7 2 (1.53%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.53%) Trayport
8 1 (0.76%) Ariba
8 1 (0.76%) Commvault
8 1 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.76%) Databricks
8 1 (0.76%) Intel