Analyst Contracts in the Midlands

Analyst
England > Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the Midlands is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 356 505 867
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.76% 15.54% 17.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.84% 16.44% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 340 639
10th Percentile £166 £160 £160
25th Percentile £275 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £489
90th Percentile £558 £588 £538
England median daily rate £475 £488 £465
% change year-on-year -2.56% +4.84% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 25 54
10th Percentile £12.74 £11.10 £9.64
25th Percentile £13.50 £11.80 £12.41
Median hourly rate £14.27 £15.00 £16.70
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -10.18% +18.23%
75th Percentile £22.00 £23.22 £24.31
90th Percentile £24.68 £26.85 £35.00
England median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.52
% change year-on-year -14.21% +22.46% -4.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,572 3,071 4,819
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 94.52% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 2,168 3,508
10th Percentile £213 £228 £212
25th Percentile £336 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +1.60% +15.43%
75th Percentile £587 £594 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 108 155
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.55
25th Percentile £14.13 £14.52 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.06 £20.41 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +15.31% +18.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.63
90th Percentile £52.01 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the Midlands

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the Midlands

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the Midlands

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the Midlands

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the Midlands

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands 0 243 £425 -5.56% 105
East Midlands +2 109 £363 -9.38% 73
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 across the Midlands region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 92 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.22%) Finance
3 71 (19.94%) Microsoft
4 67 (18.82%) Security Cleared
5 58 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 55 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (14.33%) SC Cleared
7 51 (14.33%) Business Intelligence
8 50 (14.04%) Windows
9 46 (12.92%) SQL
10 43 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
11 42 (11.80%) Agile
12 38 (10.67%) Power BI
12 38 (10.67%) Power Platform
13 34 (9.55%) Customer Service
14 33 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (9.27%) Azure
15 31 (8.71%) Project Management
16 30 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
16 30 (8.43%) Analytics
17 29 (8.15%) Business Analysis
18 26 (7.30%) SIEM
18 26 (7.30%) PMO
19 25 (7.02%) Windows 10
20 24 (6.74%) Incident Management
20 24 (6.74%) Firewall
20 24 (6.74%) CRM
20 24 (6.74%) Public Sector
21 23 (6.46%) Oracle
21 23 (6.46%) Active Directory

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 14 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.69%) Confluence
4 5 (1.40%) CMS
4 5 (1.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) Appian
Applications
1 20 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Odoo
1 5 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.56%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.28%) Maximo
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 38 (10.67%) Power Platform
2 33 (9.27%) Azure
3 30 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.69%) OCI
6 6 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (1.40%) AWS
7 5 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (1.40%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 5 (1.40%) SaaS
8 4 (1.12%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.84%) Boomi
9 3 (0.84%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.84%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.56%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.28%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.28%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.74%) Firewall
2 10 (2.81%) VPN
3 6 (1.69%) LAN
4 5 (1.40%) WAN
5 4 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.84%) DHCP
6 3 (0.84%) Intranet
6 3 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.84%) Wireless
7 2 (0.56%) DNS
7 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.56%) VoIP
8 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
8 1 (0.28%) Network Security
8 1 (0.28%) SAN
8 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.67%) Power BI
2 8 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
2 8 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.97%) Oracle Database
4 6 (1.69%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.40%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.40%) Data Mining
5 5 (1.40%) Impala
5 5 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.12%) Power Query
6 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.84%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.84%) Tableau
8 2 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.56%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.28%) Big Data
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 11 (3.09%) JIRA
2 5 (1.40%) Selenium
3 3 (0.84%) JMeter
3 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.56%) TestRail
5 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.28%) Postman
5 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 92 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.22%) Finance
3 55 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.74%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.78%) Legal
6 14 (3.93%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.81%) Retail
9 9 (2.53%) Banking
10 8 (2.25%) Law
10 8 (2.25%) Marketing
11 5 (1.40%) Advertising
11 5 (1.40%) Electronics
11 5 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.12%) Automotive
12 4 (1.12%) Back Office
12 4 (1.12%) Publishing
13 3 (0.84%) Games
13 3 (0.84%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.12%) .NET
1 4 (1.12%) LDAP
2 3 (0.84%) Middleware
2 3 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.28%) BREW
4 1 (0.28%) JSON
4 1 (0.28%) REST
4 1 (0.28%) SOAP
4 1 (0.28%) WinForms
4 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.06%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.93%) Security Operations Centre
3 13 (3.65%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (3.65%) Operational Technology
4 11 (3.09%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (2.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 9 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.69%) Cyberattack
7 4 (1.12%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.12%) NHS
7 4 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.12%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.84%) CMDB
8 3 (0.84%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.56%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 50 (14.04%) Windows
2 25 (7.02%) Windows 10
3 19 (5.34%) Linux
4 11 (3.09%) Mac OS X
5 7 (1.97%) Windows 7
6 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.84%) Android
7 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.56%) Unix
8 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 51 (14.33%) Business Intelligence
3 43 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
4 42 (11.80%) Agile
5 34 (9.55%) Customer Service
6 33 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (8.71%) Project Management
8 30 (8.43%) Analytics
9 29 (8.15%) Business Analysis
10 26 (7.30%) SIEM
11 24 (6.74%) CRM
11 24 (6.74%) Incident Management
12 23 (6.46%) Data Analysis
13 22 (6.18%) ERP
14 21 (5.90%) ITIL
14 21 (5.90%) Test Scripting
15 20 (5.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (5.62%) Risk Management
15 20 (5.62%) Security Operations
16 17 (4.78%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 46 (12.92%) SQL
2 21 (5.90%) Python
3 8 (2.25%) R
4 7 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.12%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.56%) VBA
7 1 (0.28%) C#
7 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.28%) ProC
7 1 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 51 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.46%) Degree
4 11 (3.09%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.97%) ISEB
6 7 (1.97%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.40%) CBAP
8 4 (1.12%) CISSP
8 4 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.84%) APMG
9 3 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (0.56%) ACCA
10 2 (0.56%) CEH
10 2 (0.56%) CIMA
10 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.56%) IIBA
11 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.30%) PMO
2 21 (5.90%) NIST
3 15 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.37%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.37%) GDPR
5 11 (3.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (3.09%) HIPAA
6 10 (2.81%) SLA
7 8 (2.25%) QA
8 7 (1.97%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) GRC
10 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (6.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.56%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.84%) Ansible
3 2 (0.56%) Kibana
3 2 (0.56%) logstash
4 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (19.94%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.46%) Oracle
3 21 (5.90%) ServiceNow
4 20 (5.62%) SAP
5 6 (1.69%) Splunk
6 5 (1.40%) Darktrace
6 5 (1.40%) FireEye
6 5 (1.40%) LogRhythm
6 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.12%) Computacenter
7 4 (1.12%) Denodo
8 3 (0.84%) Citrix
8 3 (0.84%) Databricks
8 3 (0.84%) IFS
8 3 (0.84%) Rapid7
8 3 (0.84%) Sage
9 2 (0.56%) Ariba
9 2 (0.56%) Aruba
9 2 (0.56%) BMC
9 2 (0.56%) Talend