Senior Technical Analyst Contracts

Senior Technical Analyst
UK

The median Senior Technical Analyst daily rate in the UK is £429, 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 516 563 712
Rank change year-on-year +47 +149 +111
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Analyst 4 19 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.044% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.047% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 3
10th Percentile £344 - £440
25th Percentile £380 £588 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.40% +25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £485 £663 £511
90th Percentile £528 - £518
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Analyst in the UK

Senior Technical Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Technical Analyst in the UK

Senior Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Technical Analyst in the UK

Senior Technical Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Technical Analyst in the UK

Senior Technical Analyst
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical 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 +41 3 £400 -36.00% 17
UK excluding London - 3 £400 - 7
North of England - 2 £360 -
North West - 2 £360 -
Work from Home +31 1 £400 -36.00% 19
London +20 1 £538 -14.00% 13
Wales - 1 £458 - 1

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

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

1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) PMO
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) CICS

Senior Technical 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 1 (25.00%) CICS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JCL
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle