Senior Analyst Contracts

Senior Analyst
UK

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in the UK is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 252 297
Rank change year-on-year +54 +45 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 494 598 828
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.04% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.10% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 448 590
10th Percentile £362 £334 £360
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £575
90th Percentile £663 £725 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 4
10th Percentile £13.50 £23.18 £27.58
25th Percentile £14.63 £38.25 £30.33
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.25 £31.85
Median % change year-on-year -59.34% +89.17% +34.08%
75th Percentile £36.31 £64.06 £45.70
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £23.25 £31.85
% change year-on-year -18.28% -27.00% +37.23%

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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +49 440 £525 - 340
London +34 275 £550 +2.33% 187
UK excluding London +46 188 £500 - 179
Work from Home +44 163 £525 +9.38% 169
North of England +28 47 £500 +5.26% 43
North West +26 40 £500 +5.26% 27
South East +18 37 £500 -4.76% 54
Midlands +26 33 £450 -15.09% 26
East of England +17 33 £525 -14.29% 24
Scotland +41 32 £490 +13.95% 9
West Midlands +26 24 £469 -14.77% 18
South West +4 9 £600 +21.21% 14
East Midlands +17 7 £325 -23.53% 8
Yorkshire +8 5 £520 +1.46% 16
Wales +18 2 £550 +37.50% 7
North East +11 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 152 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 125 (25.30%) Finance
2 125 (25.30%) Agile
3 94 (19.03%) SQL
4 79 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (15.79%) Public Sector
6 73 (14.78%) Microsoft
7 66 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 65 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
9 63 (12.75%) Power Platform
10 62 (12.55%) Python
11 60 (12.15%) Business Analysis
11 60 (12.15%) Azure
12 56 (11.34%) Power BI
13 54 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (10.93%) Analytics
14 51 (10.32%) Security Cleared
15 50 (10.12%) Degree
16 49 (9.92%) Data Analysis
17 48 (9.72%) Project Management
17 48 (9.72%) DevOps
18 43 (8.70%) User Stories
19 42 (8.50%) Windows
19 42 (8.50%) Test Automation
20 41 (8.30%) Visualisation
20 41 (8.30%) SC Cleared
21 40 (8.10%) Scrum
22 39 (7.89%) SAP
23 37 (7.49%) Back Office
24 36 (7.29%) Banking

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 13 (2.63%) CMS
2 12 (2.43%) Confluence
3 10 (2.02%) SAS
4 9 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.81%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.81%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 35 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (2.02%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.61%) SPSS
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.02%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.81%) OPENHousing
3 4 (0.81%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.81%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.40%) Endur
4 2 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) Aligne
5 1 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
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 63 (12.75%) Power Platform
2 60 (12.15%) Azure
3 31 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (2.83%) Power Automate
5 14 (2.83%) Snowflake
6 12 (2.43%) PowerApps
7 11 (2.23%) AWS
7 11 (2.23%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.02%) SaaS
9 6 (1.21%) Collibra
9 6 (1.21%) Miro
10 5 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (0.81%) GCP
11 4 (0.81%) Google Analytics
12 3 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.61%) Google Tag Manager
12 3 (0.61%) IaaS
13 2 (0.40%) dbt
13 2 (0.40%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.42%) Firewall
1 7 (1.42%) Network Security
2 4 (0.81%) Skype
3 3 (0.61%) DNS
3 3 (0.61%) Internet
3 3 (0.61%) Intranet
3 3 (0.61%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.40%) LAN
4 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.40%) VoIP
4 2 (0.40%) WAN
4 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.20%) DHCP
5 1 (0.20%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (11.34%) Power BI
2 24 (4.86%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.85%) Tableau
4 11 (2.23%) Qlik Sense
5 10 (2.02%) Data Mining
5 10 (2.02%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.62%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.42%) Big Data
8 6 (1.21%) Ataccama
8 6 (1.21%) SAP HANA
8 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.01%) GIS
9 5 (1.01%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.01%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.81%) Looker
11 3 (0.61%) Presto
11 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (6.88%) JIRA
2 22 (4.45%) Selenium
3 18 (3.64%) Postman
3 18 (3.64%) WebDriver
4 16 (3.24%) Visual Studio
5 13 (2.63%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (1.01%) Subversion
8 4 (0.81%) Appium
8 4 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.81%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.81%) Rational Performance Tester
9 3 (0.61%) Git
10 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.20%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 152 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 125 (25.30%) Finance
3 79 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 37 (7.49%) Back Office
6 36 (7.29%) Banking
7 26 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (4.86%) Telecoms
9 20 (4.05%) Local Government
10 18 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (3.44%) Front Office
12 12 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.23%) Retail
14 10 (2.02%) Legal
14 10 (2.02%) Marketing
15 9 (1.82%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.62%) Billing
16 8 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.66%) .NET
2 13 (2.63%) XML
3 11 (2.23%) .NET Framework
3 11 (2.23%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.01%) Middleware
4 5 (1.01%) SAP PI
5 3 (0.61%) ADO
5 3 (0.61%) D3.js
5 3 (0.61%) IDoc
5 3 (0.61%) PySpark
6 2 (0.40%) Web Services
7 1 (0.20%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.20%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.20%) HTML
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.20%) Playwright
7 1 (0.20%) REST
7 1 (0.20%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.07%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.44%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.04%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.83%) Derivative
5 12 (2.43%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.43%) Security Operations Centre
6 11 (2.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 10 (2.02%) Cyberattack
7 10 (2.02%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.62%) CMDB
8 8 (1.62%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (1.62%) Reinsurance
8 8 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.01%) NHS
10 5 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.81%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.81%) iPhone
11 4 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.50%) Windows
2 17 (3.44%) Linux
3 14 (2.83%) Android
4 13 (2.63%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.21%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (25.30%) Agile
2 66 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 65 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
4 60 (12.15%) Business Analysis
5 54 (10.93%) Analytics
5 54 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (9.92%) Data Analysis
7 48 (9.72%) DevOps
7 48 (9.72%) Project Management
8 43 (8.70%) User Stories
9 42 (8.50%) Test Automation
10 41 (8.30%) Visualisation
11 40 (8.10%) Scrum
12 36 (7.29%) Acceptance Criteria
12 36 (7.29%) Requirements Gathering
13 35 (7.09%) Use Case
14 33 (6.68%) Data Modelling
14 33 (6.68%) Mentoring
15 31 (6.28%) ITIL
16 29 (5.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 94 (19.03%) SQL
2 62 (12.55%) Python
3 33 (6.68%) C#
4 25 (5.06%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.23%) Kotlin
6 9 (1.82%) Java
7 7 (1.42%) VBA
8 5 (1.01%) R
9 4 (0.81%) C++
9 4 (0.81%) VBScript
10 3 (0.61%) C
10 3 (0.61%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.61%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.40%) VB
12 1 (0.20%) Bicep
12 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 51 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 50 (10.12%) Degree
3 41 (8.30%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.62%) CISSP
7 7 (1.42%) ISEB
8 5 (1.01%) CBAP
8 5 (1.01%) CCNA
8 5 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.81%) BICSI RCDD
9 4 (0.81%) CISM
9 4 (0.81%) IIBA
9 4 (0.81%) MBA
10 3 (0.61%) CFA
10 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.47%) PMO
2 25 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.06%) QA
3 14 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.82%) GDPR
4 9 (1.82%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 5 (1.01%) SLA
6 4 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.81%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.61%) GRC
8 2 (0.40%) P3O
9 1 (0.20%) EMIR
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (4.05%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.61%) Nessus
2 3 (0.61%) Nmap
3 2 (0.40%) Ansible
3 2 (0.40%) BladeLogic
3 2 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.20%) CASB
4 1 (0.20%) Control-M
4 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.20%) Podman
4 1 (0.20%) QRadar
4 1 (0.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 73 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.89%) SAP
3 19 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 16 (3.24%) Oracle
4 16 (3.24%) Splunk
5 11 (2.23%) Ariba
6 10 (2.02%) Citrix
6 10 (2.02%) LogRhythm
6 10 (2.02%) NEC
6 10 (2.02%) Northgate
7 9 (1.82%) Darktrace
7 9 (1.82%) FireEye
8 8 (1.62%) Apple
8 8 (1.62%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.62%) Dataiku
9 7 (1.42%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.42%) IBM
10 6 (1.21%) Google
10 6 (1.21%) Trillium
11 5 (1.01%) HP