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 7 June 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 210 163
Rank change year-on-year 0 -47 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 229 141 268
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.15% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.23% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 92 191
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £631
90th Percentile £725 £711 £675
England median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile £26.11 £26.36 -
25th Percentile £29.04 £26.42 £25.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.53 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -3.42% -54.40%
75th Percentile - £28.60 £31.75
90th Percentile £32.15 - -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £27.53 £23.50
% change year-on-year +16.26% +17.13% -55.45%

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 17,290 11,429 16,523
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 93.53% 93.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,417 7,726 11,916
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £434 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 161 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.23
Median hourly rate £39.25 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% +16.86% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.77
90th Percentile £76.74 £63.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £45.78 £30.00 £38.14
% change year-on-year +52.60% -21.33% -15.26%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -24 32 £550 -4.35% 24
East London -4 2 £495 - 1
West London -22 1 £600 +43.28% 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 7 June 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 67 (29.26%) User Stories
2 64 (27.95%) Agile
3 52 (22.71%) Business Analysis
3 52 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (20.52%) Requirements Gathering
5 44 (19.21%) Microsoft
6 40 (17.47%) DevOps
6 40 (17.47%) Workshop Facilitation
7 39 (17.03%) Azure
8 37 (16.16%) Salesforce
9 36 (15.72%) Decision-Making
9 36 (15.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 35 (15.28%) Acceptance Criteria
10 35 (15.28%) QA
11 31 (13.54%) SAP
12 29 (12.66%) Validation
13 28 (12.23%) Actionable Insight
13 28 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (12.23%) SQL
14 26 (11.35%) Degree
14 26 (11.35%) User Acceptance Testing
15 24 (10.48%) Waterfall
16 21 (9.17%) Migration
17 20 (8.73%) Data Modelling
17 20 (8.73%) JIRA
18 19 (8.30%) BPMN
18 19 (8.30%) Security Cleared
19 18 (7.86%) Data Analysis
19 18 (7.86%) Data Governance
20 16 (6.99%) Analytics

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 (5.68%) Confluence
2 3 (1.31%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Appian
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.62%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Endur
2 5 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.75%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.31%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.31%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.31%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (1.31%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.31%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.87%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.87%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 39 (17.03%) Azure
2 14 (6.11%) Power Platform
3 9 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.18%) GCP
5 4 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.31%) AWS
6 3 (1.31%) GitHub
6 3 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.87%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.87%) SaaS
7 2 (0.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.44%) AppsFlyer
8 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.44%) Miro
8 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.44%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.62%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (1.31%) Broadband
3 1 (0.44%) DNS
3 1 (0.44%) FTP
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.11%) Power BI
2 12 (5.24%) Tableau
3 4 (1.75%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.31%) Metadata
5 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.87%) Looker
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.44%) Big Data
6 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.44%) Essbase
6 1 (0.44%) Flink
6 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (8.73%) JIRA
2 2 (0.87%) Selenium
3 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.44%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.44%) Postman
3 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (32.75%) Finance
2 65 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 41 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.92%) Banking
5 19 (8.30%) Front Office
6 14 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.80%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.37%) Retail
9 8 (3.49%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.49%) Legal
10 7 (3.06%) Marketing
11 6 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.18%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.18%) Local Government
13 4 (1.75%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.87%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.49%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (2.18%) Middleware
3 4 (1.75%) VML
3 4 (1.75%) XML
4 3 (1.31%) ADO
4 3 (1.31%) Kafka
4 3 (1.31%) NumPy
4 3 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.31%) Pandas
5 2 (0.87%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.87%) Web Services
6 1 (0.44%) Django
6 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.44%) JSON
6 1 (0.44%) OAuth
6 1 (0.44%) Playwright
6 1 (0.44%) REST
6 1 (0.44%) SAML
6 1 (0.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.42%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.93%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (2.62%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.62%) Fixed Income
3 6 (2.62%) PMI
4 5 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.31%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.87%) Derivative
7 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.44%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.44%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.06%) Windows
2 4 (1.75%) Unix
3 1 (0.44%) Android
3 1 (0.44%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (29.26%) User Stories
2 64 (27.95%) Agile
3 52 (22.71%) Business Analysis
3 52 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (20.52%) Requirements Gathering
5 40 (17.47%) DevOps
5 40 (17.47%) Workshop Facilitation
6 36 (15.72%) Decision-Making
6 36 (15.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 35 (15.28%) Acceptance Criteria
8 29 (12.66%) Validation
9 28 (12.23%) Actionable Insight
9 28 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (11.35%) User Acceptance Testing
11 24 (10.48%) Waterfall
12 21 (9.17%) Migration
13 20 (8.73%) Data Modelling
14 19 (8.30%) BPMN
15 18 (7.86%) Data Analysis
15 18 (7.86%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.23%) SQL
2 10 (4.37%) Python
3 3 (1.31%) Java
4 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (11.35%) Degree
2 19 (8.30%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.68%) CBAP
5 8 (3.49%) IIBA
5 8 (3.49%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.62%) CSPO
7 4 (1.75%) PMP
8 3 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.31%) CISSP
8 3 (1.31%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.87%) APMP
9 2 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.44%) ACCA
10 1 (0.44%) CIMA
10 1 (0.44%) CISM
10 1 (0.44%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.28%) QA
2 11 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) SLA
4 3 (1.31%) GDPR
4 3 (1.31%) IFRS
4 3 (1.31%) PMO
5 1 (0.44%) AIFMD
5 1 (0.44%) Basel III
5 1 (0.44%) EMIR
5 1 (0.44%) GAAP
5 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) MiFID
5 1 (0.44%) NIST
5 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (0.44%) Grafana
1 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.44%) Kibana
1 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.16%) Salesforce
3 31 (13.54%) SAP
4 11 (4.80%) Oracle
5 7 (3.06%) Charles River
6 6 (2.62%) Bloomberg
7 5 (2.18%) Databricks
7 5 (2.18%) Workday
8 4 (1.75%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.75%) IFS
8 4 (1.75%) Splunk
8 4 (1.75%) Zuora
9 3 (1.31%) Adaptive Insights
9 3 (1.31%) Anaplan
9 3 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.31%) Infor
9 3 (1.31%) QAD
9 3 (1.31%) Qualys
9 3 (1.31%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.31%) ServiceNow