Analyst Contracts in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 225 390 626
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.82% 16.82% 17.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.95% 17.73% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 264 479
10th Percentile £200 £199 £173
25th Percentile £313 £319 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £415
Median % change year-on-year - +2.41% +18.57%
75th Percentile £521 £538 £494
90th Percentile £600 £600 £538
England median daily rate £475 £480 £463
% change year-on-year -1.04% +3.78% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 19
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.75 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.94 £12.50 £12.44
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.74 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% +8.17% -3.53%
75th Percentile £23.75 £23.81 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.42 £26.69 £23.75
England median hourly rate £16.00 £19.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% +22.58% -4.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,738 2,200 3,430
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 94.87% 96.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,174 1,504 2,491
10th Percentile £259 £250 £225
25th Percentile £363 £381 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £715 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 64 76
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.88 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +7.94%
75th Percentile £41.44 £27.63 £19.90
90th Percentile £55.88 £56.38 £22.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Birmingham 0 104 £425 +2.41% 58
Warwickshire -5 39 £450 -14.29% 16
Worcestershire +12 13 £213 -50.87% 3
Shropshire +16 10 £449 +5.65% 3
Staffordshire -5 9 £356 -16.18% 17
Herefordshire -10 8 £538 -17.23% 1
Coventry -20 4 £525 +31.25% 7
Wednesbury 0 3 £260 -50.48%
Solihull -19 3 £140 -72.00% 6
Wolverhampton +5 1 £525 -22.22% 2
Walsall +1 1 - - 4
West Bromwich -1 1 £325 -48.00% 2
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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 West Midlands region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 63 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 54 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 44 (19.56%) Microsoft
4 43 (19.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 40 (17.78%) Finance
6 39 (17.33%) SC Cleared
7 37 (16.44%) Cybersecurity
8 32 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
9 30 (13.33%) Windows
10 27 (12.00%) SIEM
11 26 (11.56%) Incident Management
12 25 (11.11%) Agile
12 25 (11.11%) Azure
13 24 (10.67%) ITIL
13 24 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (9.78%) Firewall
15 21 (9.33%) Project Management
16 20 (8.89%) ERP
16 20 (8.89%) Risk Management
16 20 (8.89%) NIST
17 19 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (8.44%) Security Operations
18 18 (8.00%) Business Analysis
18 18 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
18 18 (8.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
18 18 (8.00%) PMO
19 17 (7.56%) CRM
19 17 (7.56%) SAP
19 17 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
20 16 (7.11%) Public Sector

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.22%) CMS
2 5 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Odoo
2 4 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.89%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.11%) Azure
2 18 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (7.11%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.78%) SaaS
7 3 (1.33%) Boomi
7 3 (1.33%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.33%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.89%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.44%) AWS
9 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.44%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.44%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.44%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.78%) Firewall
2 7 (3.11%) LAN
3 6 (2.67%) WAN
4 5 (2.22%) Wireless
5 4 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.78%) Network Security
6 3 (1.33%) DHCP
6 3 (1.33%) Intranet
6 3 (1.33%) VPN
7 2 (0.89%) DNS
7 2 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.44%) Internet
8 1 (0.44%) SAN
8 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.11%) Power BI
2 5 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.78%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.33%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.33%) Power Query
4 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.89%) Tableau
6 1 (0.44%) Big Data
6 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.44%) MS Access
6 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.44%) Presto
Development Applications
1 7 (3.11%) JIRA
2 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (1.33%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.89%) Selenium
4 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 63 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.78%) Finance
3 32 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.11%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.22%) Legal
6 10 (4.44%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.67%) Back Office
8 6 (2.67%) Retail
9 5 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.22%) Law
10 4 (1.78%) Advertising
10 4 (1.78%) Automotive
11 3 (1.33%) Games
11 3 (1.33%) Local Government
11 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.89%) Marketing
12 2 (0.89%) Military
12 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.33%) .NET
2 2 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.89%) Middleware
2 2 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.44%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.44%) JSON
3 1 (0.44%) LDAP
3 1 (0.44%) REST
3 1 (0.44%) SOAP
3 1 (0.44%) WinForms
3 1 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.22%) Management Information System
1 14 (6.22%) Operational Technology
2 13 (5.78%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (5.78%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (5.33%) Cyber Defence
4 11 (4.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 6 (2.67%) Cyberattack
6 4 (1.78%) AS400
6 4 (1.78%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.33%) CMDB
7 3 (1.33%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.89%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.89%) SCADA
8 2 (0.89%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.33%) Windows
2 15 (6.67%) Linux
3 14 (6.22%) Windows 10
4 10 (4.44%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.89%) Android
6 2 (0.89%) Unix
6 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (19.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 37 (16.44%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (12.00%) SIEM
4 26 (11.56%) Incident Management
5 25 (11.11%) Agile
6 24 (10.67%) ITIL
6 24 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (9.33%) Project Management
8 20 (8.89%) ERP
8 20 (8.89%) Risk Management
9 19 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (8.44%) Security Operations
10 18 (8.00%) Business Analysis
10 18 (8.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 17 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (7.56%) CRM
12 16 (7.11%) DevOps
13 15 (6.67%) Data Analysis
13 15 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
14 14 (6.22%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.22%) SQL
2 6 (2.67%) Python
3 4 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.44%) C#
4 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.44%) ProC
4 1 (0.44%) VB
4 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.67%) Degree
4 11 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.67%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.78%) ISEB
8 3 (1.33%) CISSP
9 2 (0.89%) ACCA
9 2 (0.89%) CEH
9 2 (0.89%) CIMA
9 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.44%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.44%) CBAP
10 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.44%) CRISC
10 1 (0.44%) MCP
10 1 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.89%) NIST
2 18 (8.00%) PMO
3 11 (4.89%) GDPR
4 10 (4.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (4.44%) HIPAA
4 10 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (4.00%) NIST 800
6 6 (2.67%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.22%) QA
7 5 (2.22%) SLA
8 3 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.89%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.89%) Kibana
2 2 (0.89%) logstash
3 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.56%) SAP
3 12 (5.33%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.56%) Oracle
5 6 (2.67%) Splunk
6 5 (2.22%) Darktrace
6 5 (2.22%) FireEye
6 5 (2.22%) LogRhythm
7 4 (1.78%) Denodo
8 3 (1.33%) Citrix
8 3 (1.33%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.89%) BMC
9 2 (0.89%) Sage
9 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.89%) Sophos
9 2 (0.89%) Talend
9 2 (0.89%) VMware
10 1 (0.44%) Cadence
10 1 (0.44%) Qualys
10 1 (0.44%) Teradata