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 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 200 181
Rank change year-on-year -34 -19 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 228 174 223
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.28% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.38% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 116 161
10th Percentile £373 £358 £375
25th Percentile £463 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +6.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £703 £750 £642
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 £32.74 £23.50
% change year-on-year -2.25% +39.30% -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 18,816 12,608 15,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 92.96% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,240 8,489 10,694
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £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 345 208 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -12.66% -11.24%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.23 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.48% -43.94% +8.04%

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 16 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 16 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 -22 31 £550 -10.57% 25
West London -19 1 £600 +41.18% 5
South London - 1 - - 4
East London - 1 - - 2
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 67 (29.39%) Agile
2 63 (27.63%) Business Analysis
3 60 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (25.00%) User Stories
5 48 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
6 45 (19.74%) Requirements Gathering
7 42 (18.42%) Decision-Making
8 41 (17.98%) Microsoft
9 37 (16.23%) Acceptance Criteria
9 37 (16.23%) SQL
10 35 (15.35%) Analytics
10 35 (15.35%) Azure
10 35 (15.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (11.84%) Salesforce
12 26 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (11.40%) Power BI
12 26 (11.40%) Power Platform
13 25 (10.96%) Actionable Insight
13 25 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (10.96%) DevOps
13 25 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (10.53%) Data Analysis
14 24 (10.53%) Python
14 24 (10.53%) SAP
15 23 (10.09%) Data Modelling
16 22 (9.65%) Data Quality
16 22 (9.65%) QA
16 22 (9.65%) User Acceptance Testing
16 22 (9.65%) Validation
17 21 (9.21%) 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 (6.58%) Confluence
2 3 (1.32%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) Appian
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.51%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.63%) Endur
2 4 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.75%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.32%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.32%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (1.32%) Dynamics SL
3 3 (1.32%) Infor CloudSuite
3 3 (1.32%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.32%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.88%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.88%) 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 35 (15.35%) Azure
2 26 (11.40%) Power Platform
3 11 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.07%) AWS
4 7 (3.07%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 6 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.63%) GCP
6 5 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.19%) SaaS
6 5 (2.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 5 (2.19%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.32%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (1.32%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.32%) Miro
9 2 (0.88%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.88%) PaaS
10 1 (0.44%) GitHub
10 1 (0.44%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) Broadband
1 1 (0.44%) Firewall
1 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.44%) Network Security
1 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.40%) Power BI
2 17 (7.46%) Tableau
3 5 (2.19%) Metadata
4 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.75%) Looker
5 3 (1.32%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.88%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.44%) Big Data
7 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.44%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.44%) Essbase
7 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.44%) Power Query
7 1 (0.44%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (9.21%) 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 (30.26%) Finance
2 66 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 51 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.09%) Banking
5 18 (7.89%) Front Office
6 13 (5.70%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.82%) Marketing
8 11 (4.82%) Retail
9 7 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.07%) Legal
10 6 (2.63%) Advertising
10 6 (2.63%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.63%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.19%) Local Government
12 3 (1.32%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.75%) VML
2 3 (1.32%) ADO
2 3 (1.32%) JSON
2 3 (1.32%) NumPy
2 3 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.32%) Pandas
2 3 (1.32%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.88%) OAuth
3 2 (0.88%) SAML
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.44%) Django
4 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.44%) Kafka
4 1 (0.44%) OpenID
4 1 (0.44%) Playwright
4 1 (0.44%) REST
4 1 (0.44%) SOAP
4 1 (0.44%) Spring
4 1 (0.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.07%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.19%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.32%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.44%) Derivative
8 1 (0.44%) Equities
8 1 (0.44%) Life Science
8 1 (0.44%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.63%) Windows
2 2 (0.88%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (29.39%) Agile
2 63 (27.63%) Business Analysis
3 60 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (25.00%) User Stories
5 48 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
6 45 (19.74%) Requirements Gathering
7 42 (18.42%) Decision-Making
8 37 (16.23%) Acceptance Criteria
9 35 (15.35%) Analytics
9 35 (15.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (10.96%) Actionable Insight
11 25 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (10.96%) DevOps
11 25 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (10.53%) Data Analysis
13 23 (10.09%) Data Modelling
14 22 (9.65%) User Acceptance Testing
14 22 (9.65%) Validation
15 20 (8.77%) AI
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.23%) SQL
2 24 (10.53%) Python
3 5 (2.19%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.32%) R
5 2 (0.88%) Java
6 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.44%) Korn
6 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.44%) LookML
Qualifications
1 17 (7.46%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.14%) Degree
4 7 (3.07%) CISSP
5 5 (2.19%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (2.19%) CSPO
6 3 (1.32%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (1.32%) OSCP
7 2 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.88%) CCSP
7 2 (0.88%) CEH
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.88%) GCIH
7 2 (0.88%) IIBA
7 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.88%) PMP
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.65%) Data Quality
1 22 (9.65%) QA
2 8 (3.51%) PMO
3 6 (2.63%) NIST
4 5 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.75%) GDPR
6 2 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.88%) GRC
6 2 (0.88%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) EMIR
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.44%) IFRS
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.44%) MiFID
7 1 (0.44%) P3O
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (0.88%) 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 41 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.84%) Salesforce
3 24 (10.53%) SAP
4 8 (3.51%) Oracle
5 6 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (2.63%) Google
5 6 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.19%) Databricks
6 5 (2.19%) Workday
7 4 (1.75%) Amplitude
7 4 (1.75%) IFS
7 4 (1.75%) Qualys
7 4 (1.75%) Splunk
8 3 (1.32%) Adobe
8 3 (1.32%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.32%) Epicor
8 3 (1.32%) Infor
8 3 (1.32%) QAD
8 3 (1.32%) Sage
8 3 (1.32%) Zuora