Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends 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 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 206 144
Rank change year-on-year +27 -62 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 233 150 291
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.55% 1.11% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.19% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 101 229
10th Percentile £375 £358 £397
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £688
England median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £28.60 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% -45.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £28.15 - £53.75
90th Percentile £31.82 - -
England median hourly rate £38.11 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.34% -19.05% -16.00%

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 13,893 12,599 17,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 93.62% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,248 8,064 12,487
10th Percentile £350 £332 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £776
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 138 334
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.65 £24.68 £19.01
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.81 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.03% +32.65% -15.73%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.88 £48.70
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.35 £65.53
England median hourly rate £31.18 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.93% - -6.67%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -3 36 £621 +3.50% 8
East London -2 2 £473 +14.55%
West London -19 2 - - 1
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 February 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 (28.76%) Agile
2 58 (24.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (21.89%) SQL
4 50 (21.46%) User Stories
5 49 (21.03%) Requirements Gathering
6 46 (19.74%) Business Analysis
6 46 (19.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 40 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.16%) Validation
9 32 (13.73%) Decision-Making
9 32 (13.73%) Workshop Facilitation
10 31 (13.30%) Microsoft
10 31 (13.30%) Waterfall
11 29 (12.45%) DevOps
11 29 (12.45%) Security Cleared
12 27 (11.59%) Actionable Insight
13 26 (11.16%) Azure
14 25 (10.73%) QA
14 25 (10.73%) SC Cleared
15 24 (10.30%) Data Analysis
15 24 (10.30%) Degree
15 24 (10.30%) Migration
16 23 (9.87%) Acceptance Criteria
16 23 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (9.87%) JIRA
16 23 (9.87%) Power BI
16 23 (9.87%) Power Platform
17 22 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
17 22 (9.44%) Salesforce
17 22 (9.44%) Visualisation

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 16 (6.87%) Confluence
2 5 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.86%) SAS
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 19 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.86%) MS Visio
4 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.15%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.72%) Endur
3 3 (1.29%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.86%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.43%) RMDS
5 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.16%) Azure
2 23 (9.87%) Power Platform
3 13 (5.58%) AWS
4 11 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.86%) GCP
6 7 (3.00%) SaaS
7 6 (2.58%) Lucidchart
8 3 (1.29%) ChatGPT
8 3 (1.29%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.29%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.86%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.86%) dbt
9 2 (0.86%) GitHub
9 2 (0.86%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.86%) Serverless
10 1 (0.43%) AppsFlyer
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.58%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (1.29%) Broadband
3 2 (0.86%) DNS
3 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.43%) FTP
4 1 (0.43%) Internet
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.43%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.87%) Power BI
2 16 (6.87%) Tableau
3 11 (4.72%) BigQuery
4 10 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.15%) Looker
6 3 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.86%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.86%) Power Query
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.43%) Flink
8 1 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.43%) GIS
8 1 (0.43%) Metadata
8 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (9.87%) JIRA
2 3 (1.29%) Selenium
3 2 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.86%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.43%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.43%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.43%) Git
4 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 89 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 83 (35.62%) Finance
3 53 (22.75%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (15.88%) Banking
5 27 (11.59%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.15%) Front Office
7 10 (4.29%) Legal
8 9 (3.86%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.58%) Local Government
11 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.72%) Marketing
13 3 (1.29%) Back Office
13 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.29%) Retail
14 2 (0.86%) Electronics
14 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.86%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (3.43%) Middleware
3 4 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.72%) XML
4 3 (1.29%) Kafka
5 2 (0.86%) ADO
5 2 (0.86%) Playwright
5 2 (0.86%) Web Services
6 1 (0.43%) FHIR
6 1 (0.43%) FIXML
6 1 (0.43%) JSON
6 1 (0.43%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.43%) NumPy
6 1 (0.43%) Pandas
6 1 (0.43%) REST
6 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.43%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.43%) SOAP
6 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.87%) Onboarding
2 9 (3.86%) Cyber Defence
2 9 (3.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (3.86%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.43%) Derivative
3 8 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.00%) PMI
5 6 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.15%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.86%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (0.86%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.86%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (0.86%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.43%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.72%) Windows
2 4 (1.72%) Unix
3 2 (0.86%) Linux
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (28.76%) Agile
2 58 (24.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (21.46%) User Stories
4 49 (21.03%) Requirements Gathering
5 46 (19.74%) Business Analysis
5 46 (19.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 40 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (14.16%) Validation
8 32 (13.73%) Decision-Making
8 32 (13.73%) Workshop Facilitation
9 31 (13.30%) Waterfall
10 29 (12.45%) DevOps
11 27 (11.59%) Actionable Insight
12 24 (10.30%) Data Analysis
12 24 (10.30%) Migration
13 23 (9.87%) Acceptance Criteria
13 23 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (9.44%) Visualisation
15 21 (9.01%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.89%) SQL
2 14 (6.01%) Python
3 4 (1.72%) Java
4 3 (1.29%) R
5 1 (0.43%) C#
5 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 29 (12.45%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.30%) Degree
4 18 (7.73%) CBAP
5 10 (4.29%) IIBA
6 9 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.43%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.15%) CSPO
8 5 (2.15%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.29%) PMP
10 2 (0.86%) APMP
10 2 (0.86%) CFA
10 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.43%) AAT
11 1 (0.43%) ACCA
11 1 (0.43%) CCAB
11 1 (0.43%) CIMA
11 1 (0.43%) CIPFA
11 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.43%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.73%) QA
2 9 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.72%) PMO
4 3 (1.29%) GDPR
4 3 (1.29%) GRC
4 3 (1.29%) IFRS
4 3 (1.29%) SLA
5 2 (0.86%) Basel III
5 2 (0.86%) ISO 31000
5 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) NIST
5 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.43%) HL7
6 1 (0.43%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.43%) ITGC
6 1 (0.43%) PERC
6 1 (0.43%) SOX 404
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.43%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.43%) Nessus
1 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.44%) Salesforce
3 17 (7.30%) SAP
4 16 (6.87%) Oracle
5 10 (4.29%) Splunk
6 6 (2.58%) Bloomberg
6 6 (2.58%) Charles River
6 6 (2.58%) Databricks
7 5 (2.15%) Zuora
8 4 (1.72%) Google
8 4 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.29%) Guidewire
9 3 (1.29%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.29%) SmartStream
10 2 (0.86%) Adobe
10 2 (0.86%) Citrix
10 2 (0.86%) OpenLink
11 1 (0.43%) Computacenter
11 1 (0.43%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.43%) VMware