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 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 191 159
Rank change year-on-year -5 -32 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 185 203 313
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.33% 1.30% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.38% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 142 247
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £663 £625 £648
90th Percentile £775 £731 £712
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £32.23 - £43.08
25th Percentile £32.57 - £46.15
Median hourly rate £34.14 - £52.50
75th Percentile £35.57 - £65.63
90th Percentile £35.83 - £72.75
England median hourly rate £34.98 £33.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -49.23% +150.00%

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 12,869 14,724 19,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 93.99% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,538 9,507 13,876
10th Percentile £333 £338 £344
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 153 219
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.30
25th Percentile £21.75 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -3.23% +19.23%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.31 £80.75 £74.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -5 34 £615 +14.95% 101
West London -10 3 £350 - 4
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 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 56 (30.27%) Agile
2 39 (21.08%) SQL
3 36 (19.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (18.92%) Analytics
4 35 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 34 (18.38%) Business Analysis
6 28 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (14.59%) Data Analysis
8 24 (12.97%) Microsoft
9 23 (12.43%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (12.43%) Migration
9 23 (12.43%) Workshop Facilitation
10 22 (11.89%) Decision-Making
10 22 (11.89%) Power BI
10 22 (11.89%) Power Platform
10 22 (11.89%) Visualisation
11 21 (11.35%) Data Modelling
11 21 (11.35%) Python
12 20 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
12 20 (10.81%) User Stories
13 18 (9.73%) Actionable Insight
13 18 (9.73%) QA
13 18 (9.73%) Validation
14 17 (9.19%) Risk Management
15 16 (8.65%) Azure
15 16 (8.65%) Requirements Gathering
15 16 (8.65%) System Integration Testing
15 16 (8.65%) Tableau
16 15 (8.11%) 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 11 (5.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.54%) SAS
2 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.16%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.70%) Endur
2 3 (1.62%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.62%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.54%) RMDS
4 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.54%) Shopify
4 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.89%) Power Platform
2 16 (8.65%) Azure
3 15 (8.11%) AWS
4 11 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (5.95%) GCP
5 5 (2.70%) Snowflake
6 4 (2.16%) dbt
6 4 (2.16%) SaaS
7 3 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.08%) Collibra
8 2 (1.08%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.08%) Miro
8 2 (1.08%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.08%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.08%) Serverless
9 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) Firewall
1 1 (0.54%) LAN
1 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.54%) SSL
1 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.54%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.54%) VPN
1 1 (0.54%) WAN
1 1 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.89%) Power BI
2 16 (8.65%) Tableau
3 9 (4.86%) BigQuery
4 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.70%) Metadata
7 3 (1.62%) Big Data
7 3 (1.62%) Looker
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.08%) Power Query
9 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects XI
9 1 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (7.03%) JIRA
2 3 (1.62%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.62%) Selenium
3 2 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.08%) Git
3 2 (1.08%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.54%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.54%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.54%) Subversion
4 1 (0.54%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (40.54%) Finance
1 75 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 47 (25.41%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (16.22%) Banking
4 20 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.49%) Front Office
6 11 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.41%) Investment Banking
8 8 (4.32%) Back Office
9 6 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.24%) Marketing
9 6 (3.24%) Retail
10 5 (2.70%) Legal
11 4 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.62%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.62%) Local Government
12 3 (1.62%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.16%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (1.62%) Playwright
3 2 (1.08%) Kafka
4 1 (0.54%) .NET
4 1 (0.54%) ADO
4 1 (0.54%) FHIR
4 1 (0.54%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.54%) FIXML
4 1 (0.54%) JSON
4 1 (0.54%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.54%) NumPy
4 1 (0.54%) Pandas
4 1 (0.54%) PySpark
4 1 (0.54%) REST
4 1 (0.54%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.54%) SOAP
4 1 (0.54%) VML
4 1 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.41%) Onboarding
1 10 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.86%) Derivative
3 7 (3.78%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (3.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.24%) iPad
4 6 (3.24%) iPhone
5 5 (2.70%) Market Risk
6 4 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.62%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.08%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.08%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.08%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (1.08%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.03%) Windows
2 6 (3.24%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.27%) Agile
2 36 (19.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (18.92%) Analytics
3 35 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 34 (18.38%) Business Analysis
5 28 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.59%) Data Analysis
7 23 (12.43%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (12.43%) Migration
7 23 (12.43%) Workshop Facilitation
8 22 (11.89%) Decision-Making
8 22 (11.89%) Visualisation
9 21 (11.35%) Data Modelling
10 20 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
10 20 (10.81%) User Stories
11 18 (9.73%) Actionable Insight
11 18 (9.73%) Validation
12 17 (9.19%) Risk Management
13 16 (8.65%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (21.08%) SQL
2 21 (11.35%) Python
3 4 (2.16%) R
4 2 (1.08%) C#
4 2 (1.08%) Java
5 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.54%) Korn
5 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (7.57%) Degree
1 14 (7.57%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.95%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.70%) CBAP
5 4 (2.16%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.08%) CFA
7 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.08%) IIBA
7 2 (1.08%) ISEB
7 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.54%) ACCA
8 1 (0.54%) CCAB
8 1 (0.54%) CIMA
8 1 (0.54%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.54%) CISMP
8 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.73%) QA
2 9 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.70%) GDPR
4 4 (2.16%) GRC
4 4 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.16%) NIST
5 2 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.08%) COBIT
5 2 (1.08%) ISO 31000
5 2 (1.08%) PMO
5 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.08%) SEPA
6 1 (0.54%) Basel III
6 1 (0.54%) CRD IV
6 1 (0.54%) EMIR
6 1 (0.54%) FINRA
6 1 (0.54%) HL7
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.54%) MiFID
6 1 (0.54%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.54%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (0.54%) CSIRT
1 1 (0.54%) Nessus
Vendors
1 24 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.41%) Oracle
3 8 (4.32%) SAP
3 8 (4.32%) Splunk
4 6 (3.24%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.16%) Databricks
5 4 (2.16%) Google
6 3 (1.62%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.62%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.62%) SmartStream
6 3 (1.62%) Workday
7 2 (1.08%) Foundry
7 2 (1.08%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.08%) Palantir
8 1 (0.54%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.54%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.54%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.54%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.54%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.54%) Trayport