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 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 208 185
Rank change year-on-year -22 -23 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 234 166 222
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.23% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.33% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 114 151
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £456 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +3.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £648 £614
90th Percentile £716 £775 £713
England median daily rate £540 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -10.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £31.63 £32.23 -
25th Percentile - £32.57 £25.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.14 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +19.77% -50.88%
75th Percentile - £35.57 £31.75
90th Percentile £32.38 £35.83 -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £34.63 £23.50
% change year-on-year -7.58% +47.34% -63.85%

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 18,864 12,478 15,318
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 92.79% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,207 8,342 10,099
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 200 181
10th Percentile £17.03 £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.14 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% -19.61% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.06 £76.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -32 25 £550 -6.38% 65
West London -25 1 £600 +71.43% 11
South London - 1 - - 2
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 September 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 80 (34.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 73 (31.20%) Business Analysis
3 66 (28.21%) Agile
4 63 (26.92%) User Stories
4 63 (26.92%) Workshop Facilitation
5 60 (25.64%) Requirements Gathering
6 50 (21.37%) Analytics
7 48 (20.51%) Microsoft
8 46 (19.66%) Acceptance Criteria
9 44 (18.80%) Decision-Making
9 44 (18.80%) SQL
10 42 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 36 (15.38%) Azure
12 31 (13.25%) Data Modelling
13 30 (12.82%) Data Quality
14 29 (12.39%) AI
14 29 (12.39%) Requirements Workshops
15 28 (11.97%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (11.97%) Data Analysis
15 28 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (11.97%) Validation
16 27 (11.54%) Power BI
16 27 (11.54%) Power Platform
17 26 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (10.68%) DevOps
19 24 (10.26%) Data Governance
19 24 (10.26%) Python
19 24 (10.26%) Risk Management
19 24 (10.26%) Salesforce
20 23 (9.83%) Process Improvement

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 11 (4.70%) Confluence
2 3 (1.28%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) Appian
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.99%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Endur
2 3 (1.28%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.28%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics SL
3 2 (0.85%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.85%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.43%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.38%) Azure
2 27 (11.54%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.56%) SaaS
5 10 (4.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 8 (3.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 8 (3.42%) Snowflake
7 7 (2.99%) PaaS
8 6 (2.56%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.14%) AWS
10 4 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.28%) dbt
11 3 (1.28%) GCP
11 3 (1.28%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.85%) Adobe Analytics
12 2 (0.85%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.85%) Miro
13 1 (0.43%) ChatGPT
13 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) Network Security
2 1 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.43%) LAN
2 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.43%) WAN
2 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.54%) Power BI
2 14 (5.98%) Tableau
3 7 (2.99%) Metadata
4 6 (2.56%) Looker
5 5 (2.14%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.28%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.85%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.85%) Power Query
8 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.43%) Essbase
8 1 (0.43%) Parquet
8 1 (0.43%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (8.55%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) Selenium
2 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 74 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 71 (30.34%) Finance
3 52 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.97%) Banking
5 18 (7.69%) Front Office
5 18 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.70%) Legal
7 11 (4.70%) Marketing
7 11 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.85%) Retail
9 8 (3.42%) Advertising
10 7 (2.99%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.56%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.56%) Local Government
12 5 (2.14%) Back Office
12 5 (2.14%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.71%) Billing
13 4 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.71%) VML
2 3 (1.28%) ADO
2 3 (1.28%) NumPy
2 3 (1.28%) Pandas
3 2 (0.85%) JSON
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.85%) Playwright
3 2 (0.85%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.43%) Django
4 1 (0.43%) Kafka
4 1 (0.43%) OAuth
4 1 (0.43%) OpenID
4 1 (0.43%) SAML
4 1 (0.43%) SOAP
4 1 (0.43%) Spring
4 1 (0.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.68%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.42%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.99%) Reference Data
4 6 (2.56%) Taxonomies
5 5 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.28%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.28%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.85%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.56%) Windows
2 2 (0.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (34.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 73 (31.20%) Business Analysis
3 66 (28.21%) Agile
4 63 (26.92%) User Stories
4 63 (26.92%) Workshop Facilitation
5 60 (25.64%) Requirements Gathering
6 50 (21.37%) Analytics
7 46 (19.66%) Acceptance Criteria
8 44 (18.80%) Decision-Making
9 42 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 31 (13.25%) Data Modelling
11 29 (12.39%) AI
11 29 (12.39%) Requirements Workshops
12 28 (11.97%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (11.97%) Data Analysis
12 28 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (11.97%) Validation
13 26 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (10.68%) DevOps
15 24 (10.26%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 44 (18.80%) SQL
2 24 (10.26%) Python
3 6 (2.56%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.28%) R
5 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.85%) Java
5 2 (0.85%) Korn
5 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.43%) LookML
Qualifications
1 18 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.26%) Degree
2 17 (7.26%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.42%) CISSP
4 5 (2.14%) CSPO
5 4 (1.71%) ACCA
5 4 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.28%) CBAP
6 3 (1.28%) CIMA
6 3 (1.28%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (1.28%) GCIH
6 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.85%) CISA
7 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.85%) CISM
7 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.82%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.83%) QA
3 9 (3.85%) NIST
4 8 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.56%) PMO
6 5 (2.14%) GDPR
7 4 (1.71%) GRC
8 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.28%) IFRS
9 2 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.85%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.85%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.85%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.85%) SEPA
10 1 (0.43%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.43%) EMIR
10 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.43%) P3O
System Software
1 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.43%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.26%) Salesforce
3 18 (7.69%) SAP
4 8 (3.42%) Databricks
4 8 (3.42%) Oracle
5 6 (2.56%) Amplitude
5 6 (2.56%) Google
5 6 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.71%) Workday
8 3 (1.28%) IFS
8 3 (1.28%) Qualys
8 3 (1.28%) Splunk
9 2 (0.85%) Adobe
9 2 (0.85%) Epicor
9 2 (0.85%) Infor
9 2 (0.85%) QAD
9 2 (0.85%) Sage
9 2 (0.85%) Teradata
9 2 (0.85%) Zuora