Senior Analyst Contracts

Senior Analyst
UK

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 252 295
Rank change year-on-year +52 +43 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 510 582 806
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.04% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.10% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 435 583
10th Percentile £353 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.41%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £588
90th Percentile £663 £725 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 4
10th Percentile £13.50 £22.63 £27.58
25th Percentile £19.00 £28.75 £30.33
Median hourly rate £23.50 £52.75 £31.85
Median % change year-on-year -55.45% +65.62% +34.08%
75th Percentile £29.38 £63.75 £45.70
90th Percentile £50.00 £64.38 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £23.25 £31.85
% change year-on-year +1.08% -27.00% +34.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,368 52,724 84,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.55% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 36,785 59,307
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,898 1,484 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 7 June 2024.

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 7 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Top 16 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 7 June 2024. 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 +43 447 £514 -4.42% 257
London +24 269 £525 -4.55% 141
UK excluding London +66 209 £500 - 118
Work from Home +69 166 £500 +5.26% 124
North of England +22 52 £500 - 31
North West +35 45 £500 - 21
South East +20 43 £500 -4.76% 32
Midlands +34 37 £463 -11.90% 11
Scotland +42 35 £480 +12.41% 7
East of England +17 31 £525 -14.29% 14
West Midlands +25 28 £475 -11.63% 8
South West +7 9 £600 +7.87% 15
Wales +22 7 £130 -67.50% 6
East Midlands +9 7 £325 -23.53% 3
Yorkshire +3 5 £520 -0.95% 8
North East +7 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 2024, 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.

1 153 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 139 (27.25%) Agile
3 128 (25.10%) Finance
4 97 (19.02%) SQL
5 86 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (15.88%) Public Sector
7 73 (14.31%) Microsoft
7 73 (14.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 69 (13.53%) Business Intelligence
9 67 (13.14%) Python
9 67 (13.14%) Power Platform
10 65 (12.75%) Azure
11 62 (12.16%) Business Analysis
12 60 (11.76%) Power BI
13 58 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
14 54 (10.59%) Degree
15 53 (10.39%) Analytics
16 51 (10.00%) Data Analysis
16 51 (10.00%) Project Management
16 51 (10.00%) Security Cleared
17 47 (9.22%) Test Automation
17 47 (9.22%) DevOps
18 46 (9.02%) User Stories
19 45 (8.82%) Visualisation
19 45 (8.82%) Scrum
20 42 (8.24%) SAP
21 40 (7.84%) SC Cleared
22 38 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
23 37 (7.25%) Data Modelling
23 37 (7.25%) Acceptance Criteria

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 12 (2.35%) Confluence
2 11 (2.16%) CMS
3 10 (1.96%) SAS
4 8 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.98%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.78%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.59%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.20%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 38 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.75%) Spreadsheet
4 11 (2.16%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.59%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.96%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.78%) OPENHousing
3 4 (0.78%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.78%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.39%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) Aligne
5 1 (0.20%) Endur
5 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.20%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 67 (13.14%) Power Platform
2 65 (12.75%) Azure
3 31 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (2.75%) Power Automate
4 14 (2.75%) Snowflake
5 13 (2.55%) AWS
5 13 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.35%) PowerApps
6 12 (2.35%) SaaS
7 11 (2.16%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.18%) Collibra
8 6 (1.18%) Miro
9 5 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (0.98%) GCP
10 4 (0.78%) Google Analytics
10 4 (0.78%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.59%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.76%) Firewall
2 4 (0.78%) Network Security
2 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.59%) Internet
3 3 (0.59%) Intranet
3 3 (0.59%) LAN
3 3 (0.59%) Skype
3 3 (0.59%) WAN
4 2 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.39%) VoIP
5 1 (0.20%) DNS
5 1 (0.20%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.20%) FTP
5 1 (0.20%) HTTP
5 1 (0.20%) SMTP
5 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (11.76%) Power BI
2 26 (5.10%) Tableau
3 24 (4.71%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.16%) Qlik Sense
5 10 (1.96%) Data Mining
5 10 (1.96%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.57%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.57%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.37%) Big Data
8 6 (1.18%) Ataccama
8 6 (1.18%) SAP HANA
8 6 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.98%) GIS
9 5 (0.98%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.98%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.78%) Looker
10 4 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.59%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.59%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 33 (6.47%) JIRA
2 25 (4.90%) Selenium
3 20 (3.92%) Postman
4 18 (3.53%) WebDriver
5 16 (3.14%) Visual Studio
6 13 (2.55%) SpecFlow
7 6 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.98%) Git
8 5 (0.98%) Subversion
9 4 (0.78%) Appium
9 4 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.78%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.78%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.78%) Rational Performance Tester
10 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.39%) JMeter
10 2 (0.39%) Maven
10 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
General
1 153 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 128 (25.10%) Finance
3 86 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (15.88%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.86%) Banking
6 34 (6.67%) Back Office
7 27 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (4.71%) Telecoms
9 20 (3.92%) Local Government
10 18 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (2.75%) Front Office
12 13 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.35%) Marketing
13 12 (2.35%) Retail
14 10 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.76%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.57%) Billing
16 8 (1.57%) Legal
17 6 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.51%) .NET
2 13 (2.55%) XML
3 11 (2.16%) .NET Framework
3 11 (2.16%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.98%) ADO
4 5 (0.98%) Middleware
4 5 (0.98%) SAP PI
5 3 (0.59%) D3.js
5 3 (0.59%) IDoc
5 3 (0.59%) PySpark
6 2 (0.39%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.39%) Web Services
7 1 (0.20%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.20%) HTML
7 1 (0.20%) LDAP
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.20%) Playwright
7 1 (0.20%) REST
7 1 (0.20%) Tapestry
7 1 (0.20%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.49%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 17 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.35%) Derivative
4 11 (2.16%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 10 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.57%) CMDB
7 8 (1.57%) Cyberattack
7 8 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.57%) Hedge funds
7 8 (1.57%) Reinsurance
8 7 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.37%) NHS
9 6 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.67%) Windows
2 15 (2.94%) Linux
3 14 (2.75%) Android
4 12 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.78%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (27.25%) Agile
2 73 (14.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 69 (13.53%) Business Intelligence
4 62 (12.16%) Business Analysis
5 58 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (10.39%) Analytics
7 51 (10.00%) Data Analysis
7 51 (10.00%) Project Management
8 47 (9.22%) DevOps
8 47 (9.22%) Test Automation
9 46 (9.02%) User Stories
10 45 (8.82%) Scrum
10 45 (8.82%) Visualisation
11 37 (7.25%) Acceptance Criteria
11 37 (7.25%) Data Modelling
11 37 (7.25%) Requirements Gathering
12 36 (7.06%) User Acceptance Testing
13 35 (6.86%) Use Case
14 33 (6.47%) ITIL
14 33 (6.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 97 (19.02%) SQL
2 67 (13.14%) Python
3 32 (6.27%) C#
4 24 (4.71%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.94%) Java
6 11 (2.16%) Kotlin
7 7 (1.37%) VBA
7 7 (1.37%) VBScript
8 6 (1.18%) R
9 5 (0.98%) C
9 5 (0.98%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.78%) C++
11 3 (0.59%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.39%) VB
13 1 (0.20%) Bicep
13 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 54 (10.59%) Degree
2 51 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 9 (1.76%) DV Cleared
4 9 (1.76%) ISEB
4 9 (1.76%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.37%) CISSP
6 6 (1.18%) CBAP
7 5 (0.98%) CCNA
7 5 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.78%) BICSI RCDD
8 4 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.78%) IIBA
8 4 (0.78%) MBA
9 3 (0.59%) CFA
9 3 (0.59%) CISM
9 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.69%) Data Quality
1 29 (5.69%) PMO
1 29 (5.69%) QA
2 11 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.76%) GDPR
4 7 (1.37%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.18%) SLA
6 5 (0.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.78%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.59%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.59%) GRC
9 2 (0.39%) IFRS
9 2 (0.39%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.39%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.39%) P3O
9 2 (0.39%) SEPA
10 1 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 20 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (0.59%) Podman
1 3 (0.59%) Terraform
2 2 (0.39%) Ansible
2 2 (0.39%) BladeLogic
2 2 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.20%) CASB
3 1 (0.20%) Control-M
3 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.20%) Grafana
3 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (0.20%) Nagios
3 1 (0.20%) Nessus
Vendors
1 73 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.24%) SAP
3 18 (3.53%) ServiceNow
4 16 (3.14%) Oracle
5 13 (2.55%) Splunk
6 10 (1.96%) Ariba
6 10 (1.96%) NEC
6 10 (1.96%) Northgate
7 8 (1.57%) Alteryx
7 8 (1.57%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.57%) Citrix
7 8 (1.57%) Dataiku
8 7 (1.37%) Apple
8 7 (1.37%) Darktrace
8 7 (1.37%) FireEye
8 7 (1.37%) Google
8 7 (1.37%) IBM
8 7 (1.37%) LogRhythm
9 6 (1.18%) Trillium
10 5 (0.98%) Cisco