Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 197 156
Rank change year-on-year +4 -41 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 201 190 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.41% 1.22% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 1.30% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 134 236
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £642 £650
90th Percentile £775 £731 £700
England median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £27.29 - £43.08
25th Percentile £29.06 - £46.15
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £35.14 - £65.63
90th Percentile £35.65 - £72.75
England median hourly rate £32.74 £42.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -22.98% -34.62% +105.63%

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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 +7 38 £621 +3.50% 11
West London -11 3 £350 - 2
East London -3 1 £450 +2.27%
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 2025, 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 61 (30.35%) Agile
2 45 (22.39%) SQL
3 43 (21.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (20.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 38 (18.91%) Business Analysis
6 37 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (13.43%) Data Analysis
7 27 (13.43%) Decision-Making
7 27 (13.43%) Power BI
7 27 (13.43%) Power Platform
7 27 (13.43%) Visualisation
8 26 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (12.94%) Requirements Gathering
8 26 (12.94%) Validation
9 24 (11.94%) Microsoft
10 23 (11.44%) Analytics
11 22 (10.95%) Data Modelling
11 22 (10.95%) Workshop Facilitation
12 21 (10.45%) Migration
12 21 (10.45%) User Stories
13 19 (9.45%) Actionable Insight
13 19 (9.45%) AI
13 19 (9.45%) JIRA
13 19 (9.45%) Process Improvement
13 19 (9.45%) Python
14 18 (8.96%) Security Cleared
14 18 (8.96%) System Integration Testing
14 18 (8.96%) Tableau
15 17 (8.46%) AWS

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 (7.46%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) SAS
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 12 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.98%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.49%) Endur
2 4 (1.99%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.49%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (1.00%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.50%) RMDS
5 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (13.43%) Power Platform
2 17 (8.46%) AWS
3 13 (6.47%) Azure
4 10 (4.98%) GCP
5 8 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.98%) SaaS
6 5 (2.49%) Lucidchart
6 5 (2.49%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.99%) dbt
7 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.49%) ChatGPT
8 3 (1.49%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.00%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.00%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.00%) Miro
9 2 (1.00%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) Broadband
1 1 (0.50%) DNS
1 1 (0.50%) Firewall
1 1 (0.50%) Internet
1 1 (0.50%) LAN
1 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.50%) SSL
1 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.50%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.50%) VPN
1 1 (0.50%) WAN
1 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.43%) Power BI
2 18 (8.96%) Tableau
3 8 (3.98%) BigQuery
4 7 (3.48%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.99%) Looker
5 4 (1.99%) Metadata
6 2 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.00%) Big Data
6 2 (1.00%) BusinessObjects XI
6 2 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.00%) Power Query
7 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.50%) GIS
7 1 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (9.45%) JIRA
2 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.49%) Selenium
3 2 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.00%) Git
3 2 (1.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.50%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.50%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.50%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.50%) Subversion
4 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (38.31%) Finance
1 77 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 54 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (15.42%) Banking
4 27 (13.43%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.98%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.98%) Front Office
8 7 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.48%) Legal
8 7 (3.48%) Retail
9 6 (2.99%) Back Office
9 6 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.49%) Local Government
10 5 (2.49%) Marketing
11 4 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.49%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.99%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (1.49%) Middleware
2 3 (1.49%) Playwright
3 1 (0.50%) .NET
3 1 (0.50%) ADO
3 1 (0.50%) FHIR
3 1 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.50%) FIXML
3 1 (0.50%) JSON
3 1 (0.50%) Kafka
3 1 (0.50%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.50%) NumPy
3 1 (0.50%) Pandas
3 1 (0.50%) PySpark
3 1 (0.50%) REST
3 1 (0.50%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.50%) SOAP
3 1 (0.50%) VML
3 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.97%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.98%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.48%) Cyber Defence
4 8 (3.98%) Derivative
5 7 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.99%) iPad
6 6 (2.99%) iPhone
7 5 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.49%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.99%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.00%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (1.00%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 2 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.47%) Windows
2 6 (2.99%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (30.35%) Agile
2 43 (21.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (20.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 38 (18.91%) Business Analysis
5 37 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (13.43%) Data Analysis
6 27 (13.43%) Decision-Making
6 27 (13.43%) Visualisation
7 26 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (12.94%) Requirements Gathering
7 26 (12.94%) Validation
8 23 (11.44%) Analytics
9 22 (10.95%) Data Modelling
9 22 (10.95%) Workshop Facilitation
10 21 (10.45%) Migration
10 21 (10.45%) User Stories
11 19 (9.45%) Actionable Insight
11 19 (9.45%) AI
11 19 (9.45%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 45 (22.39%) SQL
2 19 (9.45%) Python
3 5 (2.49%) R
4 2 (1.00%) C#
4 2 (1.00%) Java
5 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.96%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.47%) Degree
4 8 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.98%) CBAP
5 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.99%) CSPO
6 4 (1.99%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.49%) IIBA
8 2 (1.00%) CFA
8 2 (1.00%) ISEB
8 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.00%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) ACCA
9 1 (0.50%) CCAB
9 1 (0.50%) CIMA
9 1 (0.50%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.50%) CISMP
9 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.46%) QA
2 10 (4.98%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.49%) GDPR
4 4 (1.99%) GRC
4 4 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.99%) NIST
5 3 (1.49%) PMO
6 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.00%) COBIT
6 2 (1.00%) ISO 31000
6 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.00%) SEPA
7 1 (0.50%) Basel III
7 1 (0.50%) CRD IV
7 1 (0.50%) EMIR
7 1 (0.50%) HL7
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.50%) MiFID
7 1 (0.50%) P3O
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.50%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.50%) CSIRT
1 1 (0.50%) Nessus
Vendors
1 24 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.98%) Oracle
3 9 (4.48%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.48%) Splunk
4 7 (3.48%) SAP
5 5 (2.49%) Databricks
6 4 (1.99%) Google
6 4 (1.99%) Zuora
7 3 (1.49%) Adobe
7 3 (1.49%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.49%) SmartStream
8 2 (1.00%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.00%) Foundry
8 2 (1.00%) Palantir
8 2 (1.00%) Workday
9 1 (0.50%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.50%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.50%) Snow
9 1 (0.50%) Sparx