Senior Analyst Contracts

Senior Analyst
UK

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 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
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 200 246
Rank change year-on-year -51 +46 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 313 498 586
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.14% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.23% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 343 433
10th Percentile £363 £350 £328
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £631
90th Percentile £663 £650 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 5
10th Percentile £23.31 £13.50 £22.35
25th Percentile £26.03 £21.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £27.53 £23.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.13% -45.35% +35.01%
75th Percentile £30.20 £28.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £41.74 £50.00 £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.14 £23.50 £23.25
% change year-on-year +28.26% +1.08% -27.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,427 40,496 52,431
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 92.90% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,619 25,958 36,539
10th Percentile £289 £280 £313
25th Percentile £402 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,173 2,957 1,487
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.37 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.45% +102.95%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Analyst over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 June 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
England -50 235 £500 - 3,609
London -36 150 £525 - 1,288
UK excluding London -19 145 £438 -12.50% 2,743
Work from Home +10 126 £475 -5.00% 1,587
Scotland +32 61 £430 -9.95% 156
South East +20 23 £469 -6.25% 736
North of England -17 23 £469 -6.20% 583
West Midlands -3 14 £500 -1.96% 239
North West -12 14 £463 -5.13% 298
Midlands -14 14 £500 +5.26% 440
South West +39 13 £400 -33.33% 303
Yorkshire +12 9 £488 -6.25% 245
East of England +6 4 £463 -11.90% 370
Northern Ireland - 4 £588 - 63
Wales +1 3 - - 103

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 143 (45.69%) Social Skills
2 131 (41.85%) Finance
3 113 (36.10%) Stakeholder Management
4 76 (24.28%) Agile
5 68 (21.73%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (20.13%) SQL
7 56 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (16.93%) SAP
9 52 (16.61%) Business Analysis
10 47 (15.02%) ACCA
11 46 (14.70%) CIMA
11 46 (14.70%) Root Cause Analysis
12 44 (14.06%) Social Media
12 44 (14.06%) Procure-to-Pay
12 44 (14.06%) Broadband
12 44 (14.06%) General Ledger
12 44 (14.06%) Accounts Payable
13 37 (11.82%) Data Analysis
14 35 (11.18%) Migration
15 33 (10.54%) User Stories
15 33 (10.54%) User Acceptance Testing
16 31 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 30 (9.58%) Analytics
17 30 (9.58%) Microsoft
17 30 (9.58%) Risk Management
18 29 (9.27%) Python
18 29 (9.27%) Workshop Facilitation
19 28 (8.95%) Change Management
19 28 (8.95%) Degree
19 28 (8.95%) Waterfall

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (3.19%) Confluence
2 7 (2.24%) SAS
3 5 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.96%) CMS
4 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.64%) Apache
5 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.64%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.32%) CICS
Applications
1 19 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (2.56%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle iProcurement
2 3 (0.96%) Shopify
2 3 (0.96%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.32%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (7.35%) Azure
2 22 (7.03%) Power Platform
3 12 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.19%) AWS
4 10 (3.19%) GCP
5 5 (1.60%) dbt
5 5 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.60%) SaaS
6 4 (1.28%) Collibra
7 3 (0.96%) BigCommerce
7 3 (0.96%) Miro
7 3 (0.96%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.64%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.64%) OCI
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (0.32%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (14.06%) Broadband
2 4 (1.28%) 5G
2 4 (1.28%) VoLTE
2 4 (1.28%) VoWiFi
3 3 (0.96%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.64%) 4G
4 2 (0.64%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (0.64%) Firewall
4 2 (0.64%) Intranet
4 2 (0.64%) SIGTRAN
4 2 (0.64%) SMS
4 2 (0.64%) SS7
5 1 (0.32%) DNS
5 1 (0.32%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.32%) MPLS
5 1 (0.32%) SAN
5 1 (0.32%) SMTP
5 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.39%) Power BI
2 7 (2.24%) BigQuery
2 7 (2.24%) MS Access
2 7 (2.24%) Tableau
3 6 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.28%) Metadata
4 4 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.96%) Big Data
5 3 (0.96%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.64%) Data Mart
6 2 (0.64%) Power Query
6 2 (0.64%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.32%) Impala
7 1 (0.32%) Looker
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.32%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 27 (8.63%) JIRA
2 4 (1.28%) QARun
2 4 (1.28%) WinRunner
3 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.96%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.64%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.64%) TestRail
4 2 (0.64%) Toad
5 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.32%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.32%) Postman
5 1 (0.32%) PROIV
5 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 143 (45.69%) Social Skills
2 131 (41.85%) Finance
3 68 (21.73%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (14.06%) General Ledger
5 27 (8.63%) Banking
6 23 (7.35%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (3.51%) Front Office
10 10 (3.19%) Marketing
11 8 (2.56%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.24%) Retail
13 5 (1.60%) Law
14 4 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.28%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.28%) Legal
15 3 (0.96%) Advertising
15 3 (0.96%) Back Office
15 3 (0.96%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.24%) Middleware
1 7 (2.24%) Web Services
2 6 (1.92%) XML
3 3 (0.96%) Kafka
3 3 (0.96%) SOAP
3 3 (0.96%) VML
4 2 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.64%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.32%) .NET
5 1 (0.32%) ADO
5 1 (0.32%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.32%) FpML
5 1 (0.32%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.32%) ISPF
5 1 (0.32%) Spring
5 1 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.06%) Social Media
2 20 (6.39%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.60%) CMDB
6 5 (1.60%) Equities
6 5 (1.60%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.28%) Derivative
7 4 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.28%) Market Risk
7 4 (1.28%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (0.96%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.96%) NHS
9 2 (0.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.11%) Windows
2 9 (2.88%) Unix
3 4 (1.28%) Linux
4 2 (0.64%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.32%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (36.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 76 (24.28%) Agile
3 56 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (16.61%) Business Analysis
5 46 (14.70%) Root Cause Analysis
6 44 (14.06%) Accounts Payable
6 44 (14.06%) Procure-to-Pay
7 37 (11.82%) Data Analysis
8 35 (11.18%) Migration
9 33 (10.54%) User Acceptance Testing
9 33 (10.54%) User Stories
10 31 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 30 (9.58%) Analytics
11 30 (9.58%) Risk Management
12 29 (9.27%) Workshop Facilitation
13 28 (8.95%) Change Management
13 28 (8.95%) Waterfall
14 26 (8.31%) Data Modelling
15 25 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (7.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 63 (20.13%) SQL
2 29 (9.27%) Python
3 4 (1.28%) Java
3 4 (1.28%) PL/SQL
3 4 (1.28%) VBA
4 3 (0.96%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.64%) R
5 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.32%) JCL
6 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (15.02%) ACCA
2 46 (14.70%) CIMA
3 28 (8.95%) Degree
4 23 (7.35%) Security Cleared
5 16 (5.11%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.51%) CBAP
7 6 (1.92%) ISEB
7 6 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.28%) IIBA
8 4 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.28%) PMP
9 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.64%) CCNA
10 2 (0.64%) CEH
10 2 (0.64%) CFA
10 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.07%) Data Quality
1 19 (6.07%) GDPR
2 18 (5.75%) QA
3 7 (2.24%) PMO
4 4 (1.28%) NIST
5 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.64%) GRC
5 2 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.64%) SEPA
5 2 (0.64%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) COBIT
6 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.32%) ITGC
6 1 (0.32%) LOINC
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 5 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.96%) CSIRT
2 2 (0.64%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.64%) SCCM
3 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
3 1 (0.32%) Nessus
3 1 (0.32%) Nmap
Vendors
1 53 (16.93%) SAP
2 30 (9.58%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.11%) Oracle
4 9 (2.88%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.24%) Adobe
6 7 (2.24%) Citrix
6 7 (2.24%) Google
7 6 (1.92%) Workday
8 4 (1.28%) Informatica
9 3 (0.96%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.96%) Splunk
9 3 (0.96%) Talend
10 2 (0.64%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.64%) Darktrace
10 2 (0.64%) FireEye
10 2 (0.64%) Foundry
10 2 (0.64%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.64%) LogRhythm
10 2 (0.64%) webMethods