Senior Analyst Contracts in the North West

Senior Analyst
England > North West

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in the North West is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 93 126
Rank change year-on-year -13 +33 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 14 44 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.71% 1.60% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.69% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 33 23
10th Percentile £377 £335 £358
25th Percentile £393 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £512 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +7.83% +18.75%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £542
90th Percentile £519 £560 £595
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £25.65 -
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £26.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +17.78% -
75th Percentile £21.00 £26.88 £23.75
90th Percentile - £26.95 -
England median hourly rate £26.39 £19.00 £60.25
% change year-on-year +38.87% -68.46% +89.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in the North West

Senior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Senior Analyst in the North West

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in the North West

Senior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Analyst in the North West

Senior Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cheshire -17 8 £510 -2.86% 4
Manchester +4 4 £387 -18.53% 14
Lancashire - 1 £475 - 12
Merseyside - 1 - - 5
Senior Analyst
England

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 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 North West region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Business Analysis
2 6 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (35.71%) Degree
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (35.71%) Service Management
3 5 (35.71%) ITSM
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 5 (35.71%) CMDB
3 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
3 5 (35.71%) Focus Group
4 4 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
4 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Identification
4 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 3 (21.43%) Finance
5 3 (21.43%) MS Visio
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (21.43%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
6 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (14.29%) Sequence Diagram
6 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 2 (14.29%) Banking

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (14.29%) SAS
2 1 (7.14%) CICS
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (21.43%) MS Visio
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Italian Language
3 2 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Spanish Language
4 1 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) CMDB
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Business Analysis
2 6 (42.86%) Test Strategy
2 6 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Focus Group
3 5 (35.71%) ITSM
3 5 (35.71%) Service Management
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 4 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Identification
5 3 (21.43%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (14.29%) Data Mapping
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
1 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle