Senior Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £434, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 220 253
Rank change year-on-year -22 +33 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 97 186 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.76% 0.90% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.97% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 129 170
10th Percentile £372 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £600
90th Percentile £593 £645 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £20.23 - £21.53
25th Percentile £22.08 £13.50 £21.94
Median hourly rate £25.30 £15.00 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year +68.67% -35.48% -20.31%
75th Percentile £41.48 £24.75 £23.94
90th Percentile £51.09 £26.70 £23.98
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £23.00 £60.25
% change year-on-year +15.00% -61.83% +89.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +34 23 £438 -10.26% 124
Scotland +3 22 £420 -12.50% 24
North of England -8 20 £463 -10.19% 75
South West +50 15 £400 -33.33% 28
North West -17 13 £463 -9.71% 41
West Midlands -1 9 £500 +2.56% 49
Midlands -6 9 £500 +11.11% 71
Yorkshire +9 7 £475 -8.65% 26
East of England +6 6 £463 -13.95% 33
Wales +4 1 £458 -16.82% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 29 (29.90%) Agile
2 26 (26.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (24.74%) Finance
3 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
4 22 (22.68%) Business Analysis
5 20 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (19.59%) Public Sector
6 19 (19.59%) SQL
7 18 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (13.40%) GAP Analysis
8 13 (13.40%) Management Information System
9 12 (12.37%) Validation
9 12 (12.37%) Migration
9 12 (12.37%) Degree
9 12 (12.37%) JIRA
9 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
9 12 (12.37%) Waterfall
10 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (11.34%) Risk Management
10 11 (11.34%) Microsoft
11 10 (10.31%) Oracle
11 10 (10.31%) Windows
11 10 (10.31%) Data Analysis
11 10 (10.31%) Logistics
11 10 (10.31%) GDPR
11 10 (10.31%) User Stories
12 9 (9.28%) Decision-Making
12 9 (9.28%) Workshop Facilitation
12 9 (9.28%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (9.28%) Data Protection

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (5.15%) SAS
2 3 (3.09%) CMS
3 2 (2.06%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.03%) CICS
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.03%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.19%) Azure
1 6 (6.19%) Power Platform
2 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.09%) SaaS
4 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.03%) Miro
4 1 (1.03%) OCI
4 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) 5G
1 2 (2.06%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (2.06%) DNS
1 2 (2.06%) HTTP
1 2 (2.06%) SIGTRAN
1 2 (2.06%) SMS
1 2 (2.06%) SS7
1 2 (2.06%) VoLTE
1 2 (2.06%) VoWiFi
1 2 (2.06%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.03%) DHCP
2 1 (1.03%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.03%) FTP
2 1 (1.03%) MPLS
2 1 (1.03%) SDH
2 1 (1.03%) SMTP
2 1 (1.03%) SSL
2 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) Power BI
2 2 (2.06%) MS Access
3 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.03%) GIS
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (1.03%) Power Query
3 1 (1.03%) QlikView
3 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.37%) JIRA
2 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.09%) SoapUI
3 2 (2.06%) TestRail
3 2 (2.06%) Toad
General
1 24 (24.74%) Finance
1 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (19.59%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.22%) Banking
5 6 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.09%) Law
6 3 (3.09%) Marketing
7 2 (2.06%) Billing
7 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Electronics
7 2 (2.06%) Local Government
7 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.03%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) XML
2 4 (4.12%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.09%) SOAP
4 2 (2.06%) Middleware
4 2 (2.06%) Web Services
5 1 (1.03%) .NET
5 1 (1.03%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.03%) ISPF
5 1 (1.03%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.40%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.15%) CMDB
3 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.06%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.06%) NHS
5 2 (2.06%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.03%) Derivative
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.03%) Equities
6 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.03%) PKI
6 1 (1.03%) SCADA
6 1 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.31%) Windows
2 4 (4.12%) Linux
3 2 (2.06%) Unix
4 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.90%) Agile
2 26 (26.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (22.68%) Business Analysis
4 18 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (13.40%) GAP Analysis
6 12 (12.37%) Migration
6 12 (12.37%) Validation
6 12 (12.37%) Waterfall
7 11 (11.34%) Risk Management
7 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (10.31%) Data Analysis
8 10 (10.31%) Logistics
8 10 (10.31%) User Stories
9 9 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (9.28%) Data Protection
9 9 (9.28%) Decision-Making
9 9 (9.28%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (9.28%) Workshop Facilitation
10 8 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (8.25%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.59%) SQL
2 3 (3.09%) Python
3 2 (2.06%) Java
3 2 (2.06%) VBA
4 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.03%) JCL
4 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Degree
1 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.09%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.09%) IIBA
4 2 (2.06%) CISSP
4 2 (2.06%) ISEB
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.06%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.03%) ACCA
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.03%) GCFE
5 1 (1.03%) GREM
5 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.31%) GDPR
2 4 (4.12%) PMO
3 3 (3.09%) QA
4 2 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.03%) COBIT
5 1 (1.03%) COSO
5 1 (1.03%) ITGC
5 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) CA Endevor
1 1 (1.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) Oracle
3 7 (7.22%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.15%) SAP
4 5 (5.15%) Splunk
5 3 (3.09%) Darktrace
5 3 (3.09%) FireEye
5 3 (3.09%) LogRhythm
6 2 (2.06%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.06%) Citrix
6 2 (2.06%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.06%) webMethods
7 1 (1.03%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.03%) HP
7 1 (1.03%) IBM
7 1 (1.03%) IronPort
7 1 (1.03%) McAfee
7 1 (1.03%) Remedy
7 1 (1.03%) Reuters
7 1 (1.03%) Symantec