Senior Analyst Contracts 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 6 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 183 189
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 169 247 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.27% 1.40% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.49% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 175 271
10th Percentile £354 £363 £325
25th Percentile £407 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £703 £650 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £26.37 - £41.63
25th Percentile £26.45 £25.25 £42.51
Median hourly rate £28.60 £28.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% -47.22% -37.57%
75th Percentile - £31.75 £68.13
90th Percentile £33.04 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £28.60 £23.50 £42.02
% change year-on-year +21.70% -44.07% +31.93%

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 12,405 16,530 24,369
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 93.95% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,370 11,825 17,806
10th Percentile £331 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 305 278
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £20.22 £22.79
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.81 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -27.29% +9.29%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.86 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.00 £68.45 £82.33
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -30.00% -9.20% +79.82%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in London

Senior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Analyst in London

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in London

Senior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Analyst 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 6 July 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 +9 44 £575 +27.78% 96
West London +12 3 £419 -11.84% 2
East London +5 1 - - 3
Senior Analyst
England

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Senior Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 68 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 61 (36.09%) Finance
3 45 (26.63%) Agile
4 43 (25.44%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (24.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (20.71%) SQL
7 29 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (15.98%) Business Analysis
9 25 (14.79%) Migration
9 25 (14.79%) Analytics
10 24 (14.20%) User Acceptance Testing
11 22 (13.02%) Data Analysis
12 21 (12.43%) Python
12 21 (12.43%) Change Management
13 19 (11.24%) Risk Management
13 19 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (11.24%) User Stories
13 19 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (10.65%) Microsoft
14 18 (10.65%) QA
15 17 (10.06%) Data Modelling
15 17 (10.06%) System Integration Testing
16 16 (9.47%) DevOps
16 16 (9.47%) Validation
16 16 (9.47%) Azure
17 15 (8.88%) Workshop Facilitation
17 15 (8.88%) Actionable Insight
18 14 (8.28%) Test Planning
18 14 (8.28%) Process Improvement
18 14 (8.28%) Data Quality

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.14%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) Apache
2 2 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.96%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.78%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Shopify
1 3 (1.78%) Workday HCM
2 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) Endur
2 2 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.59%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.59%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.59%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.47%) Azure
2 13 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 12 (7.10%) AWS
4 9 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.33%) GCP
5 5 (2.96%) SaaS
6 4 (2.37%) dbt
6 4 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.37%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.78%) BigCommerce
7 3 (1.78%) Collibra
7 3 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.59%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.59%) Miro
9 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) 4G
1 2 (1.18%) 5G
1 2 (1.18%) Intranet
1 2 (1.18%) VoLTE
1 2 (1.18%) VoWiFi
2 1 (0.59%) DNS
2 1 (0.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.59%) HTTP
2 1 (0.59%) Network Security
2 1 (0.59%) SAN
2 1 (0.59%) SMTP
2 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.59%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.10%) Power BI
2 7 (4.14%) Tableau
3 5 (2.96%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.37%) Metadata
4 4 (2.37%) MS Access
5 3 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (1.78%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.18%) Big Data
6 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.18%) Data Mart
6 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.59%) Looker
7 1 (0.59%) Power Query
7 1 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.59%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.59%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.14%) JIRA
2 4 (2.37%) QARun
2 4 (2.37%) WinRunner
3 1 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.59%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.59%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 68 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 61 (36.09%) Finance
3 43 (25.44%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.69%) Banking
5 10 (5.92%) Front Office
5 10 (5.92%) Marketing
5 10 (5.92%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.73%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.73%) Retail
7 6 (3.55%) Back Office
8 5 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.37%) Legal
9 4 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.78%) Advertising
10 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.78%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.78%) Law
10 3 (1.78%) Local Government
11 2 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.37%) Middleware
1 4 (2.37%) Web Services
2 3 (1.78%) VML
3 2 (1.18%) Playwright
4 1 (0.59%) .NET
4 1 (0.59%) FpML
4 1 (0.59%) Kafka
4 1 (0.59%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.92%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.37%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.37%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.78%) Derivative
4 3 (1.78%) Fixed Income
4 3 (1.78%) iPad
4 3 (1.78%) iPhone
5 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.18%) Equities
5 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.18%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.73%) Windows
2 5 (2.96%) Unix
3 3 (1.78%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.63%) Agile
2 42 (24.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (15.98%) Business Analysis
5 25 (14.79%) Analytics
5 25 (14.79%) Migration
6 24 (14.20%) User Acceptance Testing
7 22 (13.02%) Data Analysis
8 21 (12.43%) Change Management
9 19 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (11.24%) Risk Management
9 19 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (11.24%) User Stories
10 17 (10.06%) Data Modelling
10 17 (10.06%) System Integration Testing
11 16 (9.47%) DevOps
11 16 (9.47%) Validation
12 15 (8.88%) Actionable Insight
12 15 (8.88%) Workshop Facilitation
13 14 (8.28%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.71%) SQL
2 21 (12.43%) Python
3 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.18%) R
3 2 (1.18%) VBA
4 1 (0.59%) C#
4 1 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (8.28%) Degree
2 13 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.92%) CBAP
4 9 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.18%) ACCA
6 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.18%) CFA
6 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.18%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.18%) OSCP
6 2 (1.18%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.59%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.59%) CSPO
7 1 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.65%) QA
2 14 (8.28%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.55%) GDPR
4 4 (2.37%) NIST
5 3 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.18%) GRC
6 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.18%) PMO
6 2 (1.18%) SEPA
7 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.59%) LOINC
7 1 (0.59%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.59%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.18%) CSIRT
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (0.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.73%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.14%) Adobe
3 7 (4.14%) SAP
4 6 (3.55%) Google
4 6 (3.55%) Workday
5 4 (2.37%) Citrix
5 4 (2.37%) Foundry
6 3 (1.78%) Informatica
6 3 (1.78%) Oracle
6 3 (1.78%) Sitecore
6 3 (1.78%) Talend
7 2 (1.18%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.18%) Palantir
8 1 (0.59%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.59%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.59%) Databricks
8 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.59%) Sparx
8 1 (0.59%) Splunk