Senior Analytics Consultant
Possible
Sponsorship likelihood
This job is eligible only on a shortage list
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£41,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 3544 (69% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £41,700, and Howden is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 2431 (Management consultants and business analysts) or SOC 2133 (IT business analysts, architects and systems designers). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3544 Data analysts Most likely code | £33,400 | £41,700 | £41,700 | £41,700 |
2431 Management consultants and business analysts Also possible | £35,100 | £40,200 | £45,200 | £50,200 |
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers Also possible | £38,400 | £43,900 | £49,400 | £54,900 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
The Strategic Data & Analytics team builds the analytical products that support growth across Howden Employee Benefits. We are a business-embedded team that works directly alongside consultants, client directors and project teams, rather than operating within a traditional technology or IT function. Our products are used every day by colleagues across the UK business and by our clients to support better decision-making, solve complex challenges and deliver stronger outcomes.
This role keeps those products working and their users served, contributes to building the next ones, and owns how work moves through the team. You will be the first point of contact for users of our live products, you will own the backlog and the delivery and governance process, and you will build alongside the rest of the team on a defined set of firm-wide analytical products. Our approach is simple: build fewer things, build them fast, and build them once so they can be used many times.
It is also an unusually fast way to acquire breadth. You will work across Python, Shiny, Quarto, git, Azure DevOps, containerised deployment and infrastructure-as-code inside a single small team, on products with real users and a proper development lifecycle, rather than seeing one part of one stack. Where that leads is open. It may be deeper ownership of how our products run and scale, the build and engineering side of the team, or a direction of your own that we have not yet thought of. Howden is an entrepreneurial firm, and in this team growth happens in our daily work, not in an annual review.This is not a software engineering role and it is not an IT role. We are a consulting team that is proficient with technology.
Location is flexible, with home-based or local Howden office-based both available according to preference. The team itself is distributed across home and several Howden offices and works together primarily over Teams rather than in one room. Our closeness to the business is organisational rather than geographic.
- Work directly with consultants and client directors, who are both our users and our route to the business.
- Support our live analytical products and the people who use them: triaging questions, requests and changes, resolving what you can, and scheduling the rest.
- Own the team's delivery process: backlog management in Azure DevOps, change and release discipline, and running the governance and approval process on which delivery depends.
- Maintain the documentation, records and evidence that the team's governance, reporting and assurance obligations require.
- Contribute to the build of new products and to the team's reusable components, libraries and templates.
- Contribute to the development of the team's internal delivery and deployment platform.
The first question is whether this is the right environment for you.
- You have a consulting mindset and enjoy working across a wide variety of problems.
- You enjoy helping colleagues and senior leaders make better decisions, and you see data, analytics and visualisation as your tools for bringing that about.
- You are the kind of person who finishes things, keeps records straight and does not let an unanswered request sit. The team's ability to build depends on this role holding the process.
- You support the people around you, in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges. You share what you learn, you would rather have an honest conversation than a comfortable one, and you build your own network across the business. In a small team we succeed together, and nothing we build succeeds unless the business succeeds with it.
- You take ownership of your decisions, your actions and your outputs.
- You are comfortable with uncertainty and speed, and are interested rather than frustrated by new problems with incomplete and ambiguous information.
- You can work in a fast-growing firm where processes, systems and structures are still being brought together, and where parts of the environment are incomplete.
Technical experience:
- Evidence of analytical or data work that other people actually relied on.
- Experience of supporting users of something you or your team built, and of handling the requests and changes that follow.
- Experience maintaining documentation, governance processes and delivery records.
- Working experience of Python, and of some of the rest of our stack or close equivalents: Shiny or another interactive analytical UI framework, Quarto or similar reporting tooling, git, Azure DevOps or another pipeline and work-tracking platform. We expect some of these, not all, and a clear appetite to pick up the remainder quickly.
You must be able to build without AI coding agents. We do not use them for coding. You will read, write, debug and review code yourself, and be able to explain all of it. If any material part of how you work today depends on agent-assisted or "vibe" coding, this is not the role for you, and we would rather you knew that before applying.
Experience of Employee Benefits, Pensions or Insurance is not required.
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with Howden, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
Data analysts (SOC 3544) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~80k in sample- Middle half £32,292–48,568
- Median £38,948
- Going rate £41,700
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £33,400–37,530
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. Howden holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 3544 going rate of £41,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.