Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 206 180
Rank change year-on-year -26 -26 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 225 184 233
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 1.34% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.44% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 120 171
10th Percentile £363 £362 £375
25th Percentile £453 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £734 £714 £638
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £30.37 £26.35 -
25th Percentile £31.63 £26.39 £25.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% -7.19% -33.72%
75th Percentile - £31.23 £31.75
90th Percentile £32.30 £34.09 -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £33.37 £23.50
% change year-on-year -4.10% +41.99% -42.74%

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 18,770 12,756 15,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 92.95% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,276 8,635 10,898
10th Percentile £363 £325 £344
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 203 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.75
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.83 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -9.28% -11.44%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.69 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.08% -42.22% +4.65%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -25 31 £550 -4.35% 34
West London -18 1 £600 +20.00% 3
South London - 1 - - 3
East London - 1 - - 1
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 66 (29.33%) Agile
2 62 (27.56%) Business Analysis
3 56 (24.89%) User Stories
4 55 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 45 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 45 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 40 (17.78%) Decision-Making
6 40 (17.78%) Microsoft
7 36 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 34 (15.11%) Acceptance Criteria
8 34 (15.11%) Azure
8 34 (15.11%) SQL
9 33 (14.67%) Analytics
10 27 (12.00%) Salesforce
11 26 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (11.56%) SAP
12 25 (11.11%) QA
13 24 (10.67%) Actionable Insight
13 24 (10.67%) Data Modelling
13 24 (10.67%) Power BI
13 24 (10.67%) Power Platform
13 24 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (10.22%) DevOps
14 23 (10.22%) User Acceptance Testing
15 22 (9.78%) Data Analysis
15 22 (9.78%) Python
16 21 (9.33%) Data Quality
17 20 (8.89%) Validation
18 18 (8.00%) AI

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 (5.78%) Confluence
2 3 (1.33%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) Appian
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.56%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Endur
2 4 (1.78%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.78%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.33%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.33%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (1.33%) Dynamics SL
3 3 (1.33%) Infor CloudSuite
3 3 (1.33%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.33%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.44%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (15.11%) Azure
2 24 (10.67%) Power Platform
3 8 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.11%) AWS
5 6 (2.67%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.67%) GCP
6 5 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 5 (2.22%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.33%) SaaS
8 3 (1.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.89%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.44%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.44%) GitHub
10 1 (0.44%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.44%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.67%) Power BI
2 15 (6.67%) Tableau
3 5 (2.22%) Metadata
4 4 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.33%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.89%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.89%) Looker
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.89%) Power Query
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.44%) Big Data
7 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.44%) Essbase
7 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.44%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (7.11%) JIRA
2 1 (0.44%) GitLab
2 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.44%) Postman
2 1 (0.44%) Selenium
2 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
General
1 69 (30.67%) Finance
2 67 (29.78%) Social Skills
3 51 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.67%) Banking
5 18 (8.00%) Front Office
6 14 (6.22%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (4.44%) Marketing
8 10 (4.44%) Retail
9 8 (3.56%) Legal
10 7 (3.11%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.67%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.22%) Advertising
12 5 (2.22%) Local Government
13 4 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.33%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.89%) Billing
15 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.78%) VML
2 3 (1.33%) ADO
2 3 (1.33%) JSON
2 3 (1.33%) NumPy
2 3 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.33%) Pandas
2 3 (1.33%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.89%) Kafka
3 2 (0.89%) OAuth
3 2 (0.89%) SAML
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.44%) Django
4 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.44%) OpenID
4 1 (0.44%) REST
4 1 (0.44%) SOAP
4 1 (0.44%) Spring
4 1 (0.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.22%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.67%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.78%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.78%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.44%) Derivative
8 1 (0.44%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.44%) Equities
8 1 (0.44%) Life Science
8 1 (0.44%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.67%) Windows
2 2 (0.89%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.33%) Agile
2 62 (27.56%) Business Analysis
3 56 (24.89%) User Stories
4 55 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 45 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 45 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 40 (17.78%) Decision-Making
7 36 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 34 (15.11%) Acceptance Criteria
9 33 (14.67%) Analytics
10 26 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (10.67%) Actionable Insight
11 24 (10.67%) Data Modelling
11 24 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.22%) DevOps
12 23 (10.22%) User Acceptance Testing
13 22 (9.78%) Data Analysis
14 20 (8.89%) Validation
15 18 (8.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 34 (15.11%) SQL
2 22 (9.78%) Python
3 4 (1.78%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.33%) R
5 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.89%) Java
6 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.44%) LookML
Qualifications
1 18 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.56%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.33%) Degree
4 7 (3.11%) CISSP
5 5 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (2.22%) CSPO
6 3 (1.33%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (1.33%) OSCP
7 2 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.89%) CCSP
7 2 (0.89%) CEH
7 2 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.89%) GCIH
7 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.44%) CISM
8 1 (0.44%) GIAC
8 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.11%) QA
2 21 (9.33%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.11%) PMO
4 6 (2.67%) NIST
5 5 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.78%) GDPR
7 2 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.89%) GRC
7 2 (0.89%) SLA
8 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.44%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.44%) Basel III
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.44%) EMIR
8 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.44%) IFRS
8 1 (0.44%) MiFID
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (1.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.44%) Grafana
2 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.44%) Kibana
2 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 40 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.00%) Salesforce
3 26 (11.56%) SAP
4 8 (3.56%) Oracle
5 6 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.22%) Databricks
6 5 (2.22%) Workday
7 4 (1.78%) Google
7 4 (1.78%) IFS
7 4 (1.78%) Qualys
7 4 (1.78%) Splunk
8 3 (1.33%) Adaptive Insights
8 3 (1.33%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.33%) Epicor
8 3 (1.33%) Infor
8 3 (1.33%) QAD
8 3 (1.33%) Sage
8 3 (1.33%) Zuora
9 2 (0.89%) Amplitude