Senior Information Analyst Contracts

Senior Information Analyst
UK

The median Senior Information Analyst daily rate in the UK is £700, 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 517 578 706
Rank change year-on-year +61 +128 +137
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Information Analyst 3 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.009% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.010% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £352 £190
25th Percentile £675 £453 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £530 £258
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% +105.23% +24.46%
75th Percentile £725 £540 £353
90th Percentile - - £467
UK excluding London median daily rate - £530 £217
% change year-on-year - +144.80% +23.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £26.32 - £24.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £24.00

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Information Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Information Analyst in the UK

Senior Information Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Information Analyst in the UK

Senior Information Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Information Analyst in the UK

Senior Information Analyst
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Information Analyst within the UK 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
England +56 3 £700 +32.08% 82
Work from Home +42 2 £700 +139.32% 82
London - 2 £700 - 9
UK excluding London +60 1 - - 80
North of England +19 1 - - 20
North West +17 1 - - 11

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Information 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 Information Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) NHS
3 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) NIST
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) GRC
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VBA
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Degree

Senior Information 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) R
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Intel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft