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 5 July 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 198 182
Rank change year-on-year -32 -16 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 217 169 247
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 1.27% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.36% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 109 175
10th Percentile £375 £354 £363
25th Percentile £500 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £703 £650
England median daily rate £535 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £30.37 £26.37 -
25th Percentile £31.63 £26.45 £25.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.60 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% +0.35% -33.72%
75th Percentile - - £31.75
90th Percentile £32.30 £33.04 -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £28.60 £23.50
% change year-on-year +11.89% +21.70% -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 18,021 12,401 16,556
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 93.39% 93.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 8,365 11,850
10th Percentile £358 £332 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 189 307
10th Percentile £17.69 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.50 £23.45 £20.24
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +15.07% -25.52%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.68
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.00 £68.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -8.57%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -28 31 £575 - 27
East London 0 1 - - 3
West London -23 1 £600 +43.28% 2
South London - 1 - - 2
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 56 (25.81%) Agile
2 53 (24.42%) User Stories
3 48 (22.12%) Business Analysis
4 44 (20.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 41 (18.89%) Microsoft
5 41 (18.89%) Requirements Gathering
6 37 (17.05%) Azure
6 37 (17.05%) Decision-Making
6 37 (17.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 33 (15.21%) Workshop Facilitation
8 32 (14.75%) Salesforce
9 30 (13.82%) DevOps
10 29 (13.36%) Acceptance Criteria
10 29 (13.36%) QA
10 29 (13.36%) SAP
11 27 (12.44%) SQL
12 23 (10.60%) Actionable Insight
13 22 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (10.14%) User Acceptance Testing
13 22 (10.14%) Validation
14 21 (9.68%) Analytics
14 21 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (9.68%) Data Modelling
15 20 (9.22%) Data Analysis
15 20 (9.22%) Power BI
15 20 (9.22%) Power Platform
16 19 (8.76%) Data Governance
17 18 (8.29%) Security Cleared
18 16 (7.37%) Python
19 15 (6.91%) 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 10 (4.61%) Confluence
2 3 (1.38%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.46%) Appian
4 1 (0.46%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.30%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.76%) Endur
2 4 (1.84%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.84%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.38%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.38%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (1.38%) Dynamics SL
3 3 (1.38%) Infor CloudSuite
3 3 (1.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.38%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.92%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.92%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.46%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 37 (17.05%) Azure
2 20 (9.22%) Power Platform
3 7 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.76%) AWS
4 6 (2.76%) GCP
5 5 (2.30%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.92%) GitHub
7 2 (0.92%) Google Workspace
7 2 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (0.92%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.46%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.46%) AppsFlyer
8 1 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.46%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.46%) Miro
8 1 (0.46%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.22%) Power BI
2 14 (6.45%) Tableau
3 4 (1.84%) Metadata
4 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.38%) Looker
5 2 (0.92%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.92%) Power Query
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.46%) Big Data
6 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.46%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.46%) Essbase
6 1 (0.46%) Flink
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.46%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (0.92%) Selenium
3 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.46%) GitLab
3 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.46%) Postman
3 1 (0.46%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 69 (31.80%) Finance
2 63 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 41 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.37%) Banking
5 15 (6.91%) Front Office
6 12 (5.53%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.61%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.61%) Retail
8 9 (4.15%) Legal
9 8 (3.69%) Marketing
10 7 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.76%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.84%) Advertising
12 4 (1.84%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.84%) Local Government
13 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.84%) VML
2 3 (1.38%) ADO
2 3 (1.38%) Middleware
2 3 (1.38%) NumPy
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.38%) Pandas
2 3 (1.38%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.92%) Kafka
3 2 (0.92%) OAuth
3 2 (0.92%) SAML
4 1 (0.46%) Django
4 1 (0.46%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.46%) JSON
4 1 (0.46%) OpenID
4 1 (0.46%) REST
4 1 (0.46%) SOAP
4 1 (0.46%) Spring
4 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.46%) Web Services
4 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (2.76%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.30%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.84%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.92%) Derivative
7 2 (0.92%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.92%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.46%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.46%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.46%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.46%) Equities
8 1 (0.46%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.46%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (25.81%) Agile
2 53 (24.42%) User Stories
3 48 (22.12%) Business Analysis
4 44 (20.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 41 (18.89%) Requirements Gathering
6 37 (17.05%) Decision-Making
6 37 (17.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 33 (15.21%) Workshop Facilitation
8 30 (13.82%) DevOps
9 29 (13.36%) Acceptance Criteria
10 23 (10.60%) Actionable Insight
11 22 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (10.14%) User Acceptance Testing
11 22 (10.14%) Validation
12 21 (9.68%) Analytics
12 21 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (9.68%) Data Modelling
13 20 (9.22%) Data Analysis
14 19 (8.76%) Data Governance
15 15 (6.91%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.44%) SQL
2 16 (7.37%) Python
3 3 (1.38%) Java
3 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.46%) LookML
5 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (8.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.91%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.99%) Degree
4 5 (2.30%) CISSP
4 5 (2.30%) CSPO
5 4 (1.84%) IIBA
6 3 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.38%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.92%) CBAP
8 1 (0.46%) ACCA
8 1 (0.46%) CIMA
8 1 (0.46%) CISM
8 1 (0.46%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.46%) GIAC
8 1 (0.46%) OSCP
8 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.36%) QA
2 14 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.30%) NIST
3 5 (2.30%) PMO
4 3 (1.38%) GDPR
4 3 (1.38%) IFRS
5 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.92%) GRC
5 2 (0.92%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.46%) Basel III
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.46%) EMIR
6 1 (0.46%) GAAP
6 1 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.46%) MiFID
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Grafana
1 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.46%) Kibana
1 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.46%) QRadar
1 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 32 (14.75%) Salesforce
3 29 (13.36%) SAP
4 9 (4.15%) Oracle
5 6 (2.76%) Workday
6 5 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (2.30%) Databricks
6 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.84%) IFS
7 4 (1.84%) Qualys
7 4 (1.84%) Splunk
8 3 (1.38%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.38%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.38%) Epicor
8 3 (1.38%) Google
8 3 (1.38%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.38%) Infor
8 3 (1.38%) QAD
8 3 (1.38%) Sage
8 3 (1.38%) Zuora