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 31 May 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 164 189
Rank change year-on-year -44 +25 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 141 272 359
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.15% 1.56% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.67% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 193 266
10th Percentile £363 £375 £325
25th Percentile £455 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £650
90th Percentile £720 £675 £763
England median daily rate £500 £524 £538
% change year-on-year -4.58% -2.51% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £26.36 - £48.48
25th Percentile £26.42 £25.25 £56.69
Median hourly rate £27.53 £28.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% -54.40% -27.75%
75th Percentile £28.60 £31.75 £64.06
90th Percentile - - £64.63
England median hourly rate £27.53 £23.50 £52.75
% change year-on-year +17.13% -55.45% +65.62%

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 11,456 16,326 24,227
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.54% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,770 11,799 17,668
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 321 276
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £17.99
25th Percentile £24.30 £20.02 £22.72
Median hourly rate £31.67 £27.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.17% -23.61% +2.86%
75th Percentile £49.94 £46.48 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.08 £65.03 £82.38
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 39 £575 +21.05% 17
West London +8 3 £419 -16.25% 2
East London +15 1 - - 1
Senior Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 58 (41.13%) Social Skills
2 50 (35.46%) Finance
3 39 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (24.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (23.40%) SQL
6 32 (22.70%) Agile
7 28 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (18.44%) Business Analysis
9 22 (15.60%) Data Analysis
10 20 (14.18%) Analytics
11 19 (13.48%) User Stories
11 19 (13.48%) Python
12 16 (11.35%) Banking
13 15 (10.64%) User Acceptance Testing
13 15 (10.64%) Migration
13 15 (10.64%) Risk Management
13 15 (10.64%) Data Modelling
14 14 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (9.93%) Change Management
14 14 (9.93%) Azure
14 14 (9.93%) Process Improvement
14 14 (9.93%) Actionable Insight
15 13 (9.22%) DevOps
15 13 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
16 12 (8.51%) Microsoft
16 12 (8.51%) QA
16 12 (8.51%) Degree
16 12 (8.51%) Data Quality
16 12 (8.51%) Workshop Facilitation
17 11 (7.80%) Requirements Gathering

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 6 (4.26%) Confluence
2 3 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.42%) Apache
3 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.26%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Workday HCM
2 2 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.42%) Shopify
3 1 (0.71%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.71%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.71%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.71%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.71%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.93%) Azure
2 9 (6.38%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.67%) AWS
4 7 (4.96%) GCP
5 6 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.13%) Collibra
6 3 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.42%) BigCommerce
7 2 (1.42%) dbt
7 2 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.42%) SaaS
7 2 (1.42%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.71%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) 4G
1 2 (1.42%) 5G
1 2 (1.42%) Intranet
1 2 (1.42%) VoLTE
1 2 (1.42%) VoWiFi
2 1 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) SAN
2 1 (0.71%) SMTP
2 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.71%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.67%) Power BI
2 5 (3.55%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.84%) MS Access
3 4 (2.84%) Tableau
4 3 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.42%) Big Data
5 2 (1.42%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.42%) Metadata
5 2 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.71%) Impala
6 1 (0.71%) Looker
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.71%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.71%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 6 (4.26%) JIRA
2 4 (2.84%) QARun
2 4 (2.84%) WinRunner
3 1 (0.71%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) Postman
3 1 (0.71%) Selenium
3 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
General
1 58 (41.13%) Social Skills
2 50 (35.46%) Finance
3 39 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.35%) Banking
5 11 (7.80%) Front Office
6 7 (4.96%) Marketing
6 7 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.26%) Retail
8 5 (3.55%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.84%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.13%) Back Office
10 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.13%) Law
10 3 (2.13%) Legal
10 3 (2.13%) Local Government
10 3 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.42%) Advertising
11 2 (1.42%) Billing
11 2 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.84%) Middleware
1 4 (2.84%) Web Services
2 3 (2.13%) Kafka
3 2 (1.42%) VML
4 1 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.71%) FpML
4 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.71%) SOAP
4 1 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.84%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.84%) Reinsurance
3 3 (2.13%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.42%) Derivative
4 2 (1.42%) Equities
4 2 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.42%) PMI
4 2 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.71%) NHS
5 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.67%) Windows
2 5 (3.55%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (22.70%) Agile
3 28 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (18.44%) Business Analysis
5 22 (15.60%) Data Analysis
6 20 (14.18%) Analytics
7 19 (13.48%) User Stories
8 15 (10.64%) Data Modelling
8 15 (10.64%) Migration
8 15 (10.64%) Risk Management
8 15 (10.64%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (9.93%) Actionable Insight
9 14 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (9.93%) Change Management
9 14 (9.93%) Process Improvement
10 13 (9.22%) DevOps
11 12 (8.51%) Workshop Facilitation
12 11 (7.80%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (7.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (7.80%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.40%) SQL
2 19 (13.48%) Python
3 4 (2.84%) VBA
4 2 (1.42%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.71%) Java
5 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.71%) R
5 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (8.51%) Degree
2 10 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.67%) CBAP
3 8 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.42%) ACCA
5 2 (1.42%) CFA
5 2 (1.42%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.42%) OSCP
5 2 (1.42%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.71%) CIMA
6 1 (0.71%) CISM
6 1 (0.71%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.71%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.71%) CSPO
6 1 (0.71%) GCIA
6 1 (0.71%) GCIH
6 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.51%) Data Quality
1 12 (8.51%) QA
2 5 (3.55%) GDPR
3 3 (2.13%) NIST
3 3 (2.13%) PMO
4 2 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.42%) GRC
5 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) LOINC
5 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.71%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.71%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.71%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.71%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.26%) Adobe
2 6 (4.26%) Oracle
2 6 (4.26%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.55%) Google
3 5 (3.55%) SAP
3 5 (3.55%) Workday
4 4 (2.84%) Citrix
5 3 (2.13%) Informatica
5 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.13%) Talend
6 2 (1.42%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.42%) Foundry
6 2 (1.42%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.42%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.42%) Trayport
7 1 (0.71%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.71%) Databricks
7 1 (0.71%) Intel
7 1 (0.71%) NetCracker