Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends 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 17 February 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 213 151
Rank change year-on-year +34 -62 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 233 154 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.51% 1.15% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.23% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 104 222
10th Percentile £375 £359 £387
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £644 £650
90th Percentile £745 £734 £688
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £28.60 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% -45.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £28.15 - £53.75
90th Percentile £31.82 - -
England median hourly rate £38.11 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.34% -19.05% -16.00%

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 14,261 12,530 17,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 93.61% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,512 8,078 12,404
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £787
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 139 338
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.95 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.02 £24.66 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.75 £36.50 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +26.41% -17.50%
75th Percentile £59.79 £53.75 £49.68
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.47 £66.30
England median hourly rate £31.65 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.57% - -12.01%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -7 35 £621 +3.50% 8
East London -3 2 £473 +14.55%
West London -22 2 - - 2
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 February 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 (28.33%) Agile
2 57 (24.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 52 (22.32%) User Stories
4 51 (21.89%) SQL
5 50 (21.46%) Requirements Gathering
6 47 (20.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 45 (19.31%) Business Analysis
8 40 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (14.16%) Validation
10 32 (13.73%) Decision-Making
10 32 (13.73%) Microsoft
10 32 (13.73%) Workshop Facilitation
11 30 (12.88%) DevOps
11 30 (12.88%) Waterfall
12 29 (12.45%) Security Cleared
13 28 (12.02%) Actionable Insight
14 26 (11.16%) QA
15 25 (10.73%) Azure
15 25 (10.73%) Data Analysis
15 25 (10.73%) Degree
15 25 (10.73%) SC Cleared
16 24 (10.30%) Migration
17 23 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (9.87%) Power BI
17 23 (9.87%) Power Platform
17 23 (9.87%) Salesforce
17 23 (9.87%) Visualisation
18 22 (9.44%) Acceptance Criteria
18 22 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
18 22 (9.44%) 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 15 (6.44%) Confluence
2 5 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.86%) SAS
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 19 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.86%) MS Visio
4 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.15%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.72%) Endur
3 3 (1.29%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.86%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.43%) RMDS
5 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.73%) Azure
2 23 (9.87%) Power Platform
3 13 (5.58%) AWS
4 11 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.43%) GCP
6 7 (3.00%) SaaS
7 6 (2.58%) Lucidchart
8 3 (1.29%) ChatGPT
8 3 (1.29%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.29%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.86%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.86%) dbt
9 2 (0.86%) GitHub
9 2 (0.86%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.86%) Serverless
10 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.58%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (1.29%) Broadband
3 2 (0.86%) DNS
3 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.43%) FTP
4 1 (0.43%) Internet
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.43%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.87%) Power BI
2 17 (7.30%) Tableau
3 10 (4.29%) BigQuery
4 9 (3.86%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.15%) Looker
6 3 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.86%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.86%) Metadata
7 2 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.86%) Power Query
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.43%) Flink
8 1 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.43%) GIS
8 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (9.44%) JIRA
2 2 (0.86%) Selenium
3 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.43%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.43%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.43%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.43%) Postman
3 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.43%) Subversion
3 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 84 (36.05%) Finance
3 54 (23.18%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (15.88%) Banking
5 27 (11.59%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.15%) Front Office
7 10 (4.29%) Legal
7 10 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.86%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.58%) Local Government
11 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.72%) Marketing
13 3 (1.29%) Back Office
13 3 (1.29%) Retail
14 2 (0.86%) Electronics
14 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.86%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (3.43%) Middleware
3 4 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.72%) XML
4 2 (0.86%) ADO
4 2 (0.86%) JSON
4 2 (0.86%) Kafka
4 2 (0.86%) Playwright
4 2 (0.86%) Web Services
5 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.43%) FHIR
5 1 (0.43%) FIXML
5 1 (0.43%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.43%) NumPy
5 1 (0.43%) Pandas
5 1 (0.43%) REST
5 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.43%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.87%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (3.86%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.00%) Derivative
5 7 (3.00%) PMI
6 6 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.72%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.86%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (0.86%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.86%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 2 (0.86%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.29%) Windows
2 4 (1.72%) Unix
3 2 (0.86%) Linux
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (28.33%) Agile
2 57 (24.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 52 (22.32%) User Stories
4 50 (21.46%) Requirements Gathering
5 47 (20.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 45 (19.31%) Business Analysis
7 40 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.16%) Validation
9 32 (13.73%) Decision-Making
9 32 (13.73%) Workshop Facilitation
10 30 (12.88%) DevOps
10 30 (12.88%) Waterfall
11 28 (12.02%) Actionable Insight
12 25 (10.73%) Data Analysis
13 24 (10.30%) Migration
14 23 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.87%) Visualisation
15 22 (9.44%) Acceptance Criteria
15 22 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (9.01%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.89%) SQL
2 14 (6.01%) Python
3 3 (1.29%) Java
3 3 (1.29%) R
4 1 (0.43%) C#
4 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 29 (12.45%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.73%) Degree
2 25 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.73%) CBAP
4 10 (4.29%) IIBA
5 9 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.43%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.15%) CSPO
7 5 (2.15%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.29%) PMP
9 2 (0.86%) APMP
9 2 (0.86%) CFA
9 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.43%) AAT
10 1 (0.43%) ACCA
10 1 (0.43%) CCAB
10 1 (0.43%) CIMA
10 1 (0.43%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.43%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.16%) QA
2 10 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.72%) PMO
4 3 (1.29%) GDPR
4 3 (1.29%) GRC
4 3 (1.29%) IFRS
4 3 (1.29%) SLA
5 2 (0.86%) Basel III
5 2 (0.86%) ISO 31000
5 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) NIST
5 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) CRD IV
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.43%) EMIR
6 1 (0.43%) ITGC
6 1 (0.43%) PERC
6 1 (0.43%) SOX 404
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.43%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.43%) Grafana
1 1 (0.43%) Kibana
1 1 (0.43%) Nessus
1 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.87%) Salesforce
3 18 (7.73%) SAP
4 15 (6.44%) Oracle
5 10 (4.29%) Splunk
6 7 (3.00%) Bloomberg
7 6 (2.58%) Charles River
8 5 (2.15%) Databricks
8 5 (2.15%) Zuora
9 4 (1.72%) Google
9 4 (1.72%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.29%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.29%) SmartStream
11 2 (0.86%) Adobe
11 2 (0.86%) Citrix
11 2 (0.86%) OpenLink
11 2 (0.86%) Reuters
12 1 (0.43%) Ariba
12 1 (0.43%) Radianz