Senior Analyst Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 203 241
Rank change year-on-year -45 +38 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 154 150 167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.84% 1.03% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.12% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 104 124
10th Percentile £115 £385 £300
25th Percentile £381 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £533 £552 £588
90th Percentile £588 £625 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile - £30.13 -
25th Percentile £28.00 £41.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £41.94 £52.83 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.61% -20.26% +231.25%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.73 £69.06
90th Percentile £75.00 - £69.63
UK median hourly rate £34.27 £52.83 £66.25
% change year-on-year -35.13% -20.26% +109.59%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 16,548 13,436 18,127
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 92.34% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,191 7,978 11,768
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,650 749 1,283
10th Percentile £13.95 £15.22 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.26 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.52 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.21% -31.75% +80.14%
75th Percentile £58.63 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +41.93%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Senior Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies 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 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Analyst job vacancies 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 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 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
North of England -12 64 £400 -21.95% 37
South East -36 38 £538 +9.69% 57
Yorkshire -36 24 £450 - 9
North East +9 20 £120 -83.33% 3
North West -16 20 £425 -22.73% 25
Midlands -45 16 £500 - 30
East of England -10 13 £585 +3.08% 3
Northern Ireland - 9 £400 - 1
East Midlands -12 8 £500 +35.59% 7
West Midlands -45 8 £500 - 23
Scotland -6 7 £475 +5.56% 6
South West -9 7 £495 +4.21% 12
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Senior Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 44 (28.57%) Agile
2 34 (22.08%) Business Analysis
3 26 (16.88%) Security Cleared
4 24 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (14.29%) Power BI
5 22 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 21 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
7 20 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 19 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (11.69%) Migration
9 18 (11.69%) User Stories
9 18 (11.69%) Windows
10 17 (11.04%) Analytics
10 17 (11.04%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (10.39%) Data Analysis
11 16 (10.39%) Requirements Gathering
11 16 (10.39%) SC Cleared
12 14 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
12 14 (9.09%) Process Improvement
13 13 (8.44%) Data Governance
13 13 (8.44%) Decision-Making
13 13 (8.44%) Degree
13 13 (8.44%) Mentoring
13 13 (8.44%) Validation
14 12 (7.79%) Azure
14 12 (7.79%) Service Design
15 11 (7.14%) SIEM
15 11 (7.14%) SQL

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (5.19%) Confluence
2 4 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.30%) Apache
3 2 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.19%) MS Visio
3 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.30%) iTrent
2 2 (1.30%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 12 (7.79%) Azure
3 7 (4.55%) AWS
3 7 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.90%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.60%) GCP
5 4 (2.60%) Google Analytics
6 3 (1.95%) Google Tag Manager
6 3 (1.95%) Lucidchart
6 3 (1.95%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.30%) Slack
7 2 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.90%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.25%) Firewall
3 4 (2.60%) DNS
4 2 (1.30%) LAN
4 2 (1.30%) WAN
5 1 (0.65%) FTP
5 1 (0.65%) HTTP
5 1 (0.65%) NAS
5 1 (0.65%) Network Security
5 1 (0.65%) SAN
5 1 (0.65%) SMTP
5 1 (0.65%) SSL
5 1 (0.65%) VLAN
5 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.29%) Power BI
2 6 (3.90%) Amazon QuickSight
2 6 (3.90%) Parquet
2 6 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.60%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.95%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.95%) Looker
4 3 (1.95%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.95%) Tableau
5 2 (1.30%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.30%) Impala
5 2 (1.30%) Spark SQL
5 2 (1.30%) Sqoop
6 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.65%) MS Access
6 1 (0.65%) Power Query
6 1 (0.65%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.49%) JIRA
2 7 (4.55%) Postman
3 3 (1.95%) Selenium
4 2 (1.30%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.65%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.43%) Finance
3 27 (17.53%) Public Sector
4 26 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.14%) Banking
5 11 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.55%) Retail
7 6 (3.90%) General Ledger
8 5 (3.25%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.30%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.65%) Automotive
11 1 (0.65%) Law
11 1 (0.65%) Military
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.90%) Apache Avro
1 6 (3.90%) JSON
2 5 (3.25%) ADO
3 2 (1.30%) Kafka
4 1 (0.65%) FHIR
4 1 (0.65%) LDAP
4 1 (0.65%) PySpark
4 1 (0.65%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.90%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.90%) NHS
3 6 (3.90%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.25%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.60%) Cyberattack
5 4 (2.60%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.30%) CSOC
7 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.30%) FMCG
7 2 (1.30%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.65%) EPoS
8 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.65%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.69%) Windows
2 7 (4.55%) Linux
3 5 (3.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) CentOS
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (28.57%) Agile
2 34 (22.08%) Business Analysis
3 24 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
5 20 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 19 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (11.69%) Migration
7 18 (11.69%) User Stories
8 17 (11.04%) Analytics
8 17 (11.04%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (10.39%) Data Analysis
9 16 (10.39%) Requirements Gathering
10 14 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (9.09%) Process Improvement
11 13 (8.44%) Data Governance
11 13 (8.44%) Decision-Making
11 13 (8.44%) Mentoring
11 13 (8.44%) Validation
12 12 (7.79%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.14%) SQL
2 9 (5.84%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.55%) Python
4 2 (1.30%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.65%) Java
5 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.44%) Degree
4 4 (2.60%) CISSP
4 4 (2.60%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (2.60%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.95%) CISM
6 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) CBAP
7 1 (0.65%) CEH
7 1 (0.65%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.65%) CSPO
7 1 (0.65%) GCIH
7 1 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.19%) PMO
3 6 (3.90%) GDPR
4 4 (2.60%) SLA
5 3 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.95%) QA
6 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.65%) HL7
6 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.65%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) PERC
System Software
1 8 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.30%) HDFS
3 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (5.19%) Microsoft
1 8 (5.19%) SAP
2 5 (3.25%) Google
2 5 (3.25%) Oracle
3 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.95%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.95%) Splunk
4 2 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.30%) F5
4 2 (1.30%) Qualys
5 1 (0.65%) Facebook
5 1 (0.65%) IBM
5 1 (0.65%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (0.65%) JD Edwards
5 1 (0.65%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (0.65%) Planon
5 1 (0.65%) Progress
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.65%) Retek
5 1 (0.65%) VMware