Senior Analyst Contracts

Senior Analyst
UK

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 258 287
Rank change year-on-year +54 +29 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 496 595 833
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.04% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.10% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 447 590
10th Percentile £359 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £615 £628 £575
90th Percentile £663 £718 £657
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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +45 442 £525 - 299
London +31 276 £550 +3.77% 157
UK excluding London +51 188 £500 - 145
Work from Home +54 163 £525 +9.38% 172
North of England +24 47 £500 +5.26% 41
North West +29 40 £500 +5.26% 22
South East +11 37 £500 -3.38% 43
Midlands +37 33 £450 -14.29% 19
East of England +19 33 £525 -14.29% 17
Scotland +32 32 £490 +14.35% 7
West Midlands +32 24 £469 -13.59% 13
South West +5 9 £600 +21.21% 11
East Midlands +14 7 £325 -23.53% 6
Yorkshire +3 5 £520 +1.46% 17
Wales +16 2 £550 +37.50% 7
North East +9 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 153 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 125 (25.20%) Agile
3 124 (25.00%) Finance
4 95 (19.15%) SQL
5 79 (15.93%) Public Sector
6 78 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (14.92%) Microsoft
8 66 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 64 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
10 61 (12.30%) Azure
10 61 (12.30%) Power Platform
11 60 (12.10%) Business Analysis
12 59 (11.90%) Python
13 54 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (10.89%) Power BI
14 52 (10.48%) Analytics
15 51 (10.28%) Security Cleared
15 51 (10.28%) Data Analysis
16 49 (9.88%) Degree
17 48 (9.68%) Project Management
17 48 (9.68%) DevOps
18 43 (8.67%) User Stories
18 43 (8.67%) Windows
19 41 (8.27%) SC Cleared
19 41 (8.27%) Test Automation
20 39 (7.86%) Visualisation
20 39 (7.86%) SAP
20 39 (7.86%) Scrum
21 37 (7.46%) Back Office
22 36 (7.26%) 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 (2.62%) CMS
1 13 (2.62%) Confluence
2 9 (1.81%) SAS
2 9 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.81%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.81%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) Camunda
6 1 (0.20%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 35 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.62%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (2.02%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.60%) SPSS
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (2.42%) 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%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 61 (12.30%) Azure
1 61 (12.30%) Power Platform
2 31 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (2.82%) Power Automate
4 14 (2.82%) Snowflake
5 12 (2.42%) PowerApps
6 11 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.02%) AWS
7 10 (2.02%) SaaS
8 6 (1.21%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (1.21%) Collibra
8 6 (1.21%) Miro
9 4 (0.81%) GCP
9 4 (0.81%) Google Analytics
10 3 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.60%) Google Tag Manager
10 3 (0.60%) IaaS
11 2 (0.40%) dbt
11 2 (0.40%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.61%) Firewall
1 8 (1.61%) Network Security
2 4 (0.81%) Skype
3 3 (0.60%) DNS
3 3 (0.60%) Internet
3 3 (0.60%) Intranet
3 3 (0.60%) 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 54 (10.89%) Power BI
2 24 (4.84%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.63%) Tableau
4 11 (2.22%) Qlik Sense
5 10 (2.02%) Data Mining
5 10 (2.02%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.41%) 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 3 (0.60%) Looker
10 3 (0.60%) Presto
10 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (7.06%) JIRA
2 22 (4.44%) Selenium
3 18 (3.63%) WebDriver
4 17 (3.43%) Postman
5 16 (3.23%) Visual Studio
6 13 (2.62%) SpecFlow
7 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (1.01%) Subversion
9 4 (0.81%) Appium
9 4 (0.81%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.81%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.81%) Rational Performance Tester
10 3 (0.60%) Git
11 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
12 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 153 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 124 (25.00%) Finance
3 79 (15.93%) Public Sector
4 78 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.46%) Back Office
6 36 (7.26%) Banking
7 27 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (4.84%) Telecoms
9 21 (4.23%) Local Government
10 19 (3.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 18 (3.63%) Front Office
12 12 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.22%) Legal
13 11 (2.22%) Retail
14 9 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.81%) Marketing
15 8 (1.61%) Billing
15 8 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.64%) .NET
2 13 (2.62%) XML
3 11 (2.22%) .NET Framework
3 11 (2.22%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.01%) Middleware
4 5 (1.01%) SAP PI
5 3 (0.60%) ADO
5 3 (0.60%) D3.js
5 3 (0.60%) IDoc
5 3 (0.60%) 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 (6.05%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.43%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.02%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.82%) Derivative
5 12 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.42%) Security Operations Centre
6 11 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 10 (2.02%) Cyberattack
7 10 (2.02%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.61%) CMDB
8 8 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (1.61%) Reinsurance
8 8 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.01%) NHS
10 5 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.81%) iPhone
11 4 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.67%) Windows
2 17 (3.43%) Linux
3 14 (2.82%) Android
3 14 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.21%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (25.20%) Agile
2 66 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
4 60 (12.10%) Business Analysis
5 54 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (10.48%) Analytics
7 51 (10.28%) Data Analysis
8 48 (9.68%) DevOps
8 48 (9.68%) Project Management
9 43 (8.67%) User Stories
10 41 (8.27%) Test Automation
11 39 (7.86%) Scrum
11 39 (7.86%) Visualisation
12 36 (7.26%) Acceptance Criteria
12 36 (7.26%) Requirements Gathering
13 35 (7.06%) Data Modelling
13 35 (7.06%) Use Case
14 33 (6.65%) Mentoring
15 31 (6.25%) ITIL
16 30 (6.05%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 95 (19.15%) SQL
2 59 (11.90%) Python
3 33 (6.65%) C#
4 25 (5.04%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.22%) Kotlin
6 8 (1.61%) Java
7 6 (1.21%) VBA
8 5 (1.01%) R
9 4 (0.81%) C++
9 4 (0.81%) VBScript
10 3 (0.60%) C
10 3 (0.60%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.60%) 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%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.88%) Degree
3 41 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.61%) CISSP
5 8 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.41%) ISEB
7 5 (1.01%) CBAP
7 5 (1.01%) CCNA
7 5 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.81%) BICSI RCDD
8 4 (0.81%) CISM
8 4 (0.81%) IIBA
8 4 (0.81%) MBA
9 3 (0.60%) CFA
9 3 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.44%) PMO
2 25 (5.04%) QA
3 24 (4.84%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.02%) GDPR
5 10 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (1.01%) SLA
7 4 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.81%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.60%) GRC
9 2 (0.40%) P3O
10 1 (0.20%) EMIR
10 1 (0.20%) IFRS
10 1 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.20%) SEPA
10 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (4.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.60%) Nessus
2 3 (0.60%) 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%) QRadar
Vendors
1 74 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.86%) SAP
3 19 (3.83%) ServiceNow
4 16 (3.23%) Oracle
4 16 (3.23%) Splunk
5 11 (2.22%) Ariba
5 11 (2.22%) Citrix
6 10 (2.02%) LogRhythm
6 10 (2.02%) NEC
6 10 (2.02%) Northgate
7 9 (1.81%) Darktrace
7 9 (1.81%) FireEye
8 8 (1.61%) Apple
8 8 (1.61%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.61%) Dataiku
9 7 (1.41%) IBM
10 6 (1.21%) Alteryx
10 6 (1.21%) Google
10 6 (1.21%) Trillium
11 5 (1.01%) CyberSource