Business Analysis Contracts in the Midlands

Business Analysis
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Business Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Analysis over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 77 82
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 49 101 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.79% 2.92% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 3.30% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 75 109
10th Percentile £331 £380 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.24%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £538
90th Percentile £578 £609 £600
England median daily rate £540 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -0.92% +3.81% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Business Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,247 3,061 4,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.39% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,501 2,132 3,341
10th Percentile £235 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 120 155
10th Percentile £11.09 £11.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.96 £15.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.64 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.25 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the Midlands

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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 Business Analysis within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 -21 27 £475 -5.00% 15
East Midlands +19 21 £458 -1.08% 12
Business Analysis
England

Business Analysis
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 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) NEC Housing
1 2 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) Maximo
2 1 (2.04%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.04%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.57%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) SaaS
3 9 (18.37%) AWS
4 8 (16.33%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.20%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.12%) Serverless
6 3 (6.12%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.08%) PaaS
7 2 (4.08%) SonarCloud
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.04%) Intacct
8 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (2.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) SMS
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) Internet
2 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Electronic Patient Records
1 3 (6.12%) Power BI
2 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
1 2 (4.08%) Moq
1 2 (4.08%) NUnit
2 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 11 (22.45%) Finance
2 8 (16.33%) Legal
3 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Retail
6 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Local Government
6 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Automotive
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (55.10%) Analyst
2 26 (53.06%) Business Analyst
3 11 (22.45%) Service Manager
4 10 (20.41%) IT Manager
4 10 (20.41%) IT Services Delivery Manager
4 10 (20.41%) IT Services Manager
4 10 (20.41%) Service Delivery Manager
5 8 (16.33%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (10.20%) Consultant
7 4 (8.16%) Lead
7 4 (8.16%) Senior
8 3 (6.12%) Developer
8 3 (6.12%) HR Analyst
8 3 (6.12%) HR Business Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Applications Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Business IT Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Lead Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Project Manager
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) .NET
1 2 (4.08%) .NET Framework
1 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET
1 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.04%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.12%) NHS
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) FMCG
4 1 (2.04%) IVR
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.04%) PKI
4 1 (2.04%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Change Management
2 15 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (26.53%) Agile
4 12 (24.49%) Service Management
5 10 (20.41%) Decision-Making
5 10 (20.41%) Migration
5 10 (20.41%) Service Delivery
6 9 (18.37%) ITSM
6 9 (18.37%) User Stories
7 8 (16.33%) Information Security
7 8 (16.33%) IT Governance
7 8 (16.33%) People Management
7 8 (16.33%) Performance Metrics
7 8 (16.33%) Problem Management
7 8 (16.33%) Project Management
7 8 (16.33%) Service Delivery Management
7 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (14.29%) DevOps
8 7 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (12.24%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.33%) Swift
2 2 (4.08%) C#
3 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.04%) Python
3 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) CBAP
3 2 (4.08%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.08%) ISEB
3 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) APMP
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) IIBA
4 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) NIST
1 1 (2.04%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.33%) Okta
3 5 (10.20%) SAP
3 5 (10.20%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.08%) Ariba
4 2 (4.08%) NEC
4 2 (4.08%) Northgate
4 2 (4.08%) Sage
5 1 (2.04%) Cadence
5 1 (2.04%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.04%) Salesforce