Analyst Contracts in the Midlands

Analyst
England > Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the Midlands is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 228 341 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.37% 12.66% 15.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.60% 13.74% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 224 353
10th Percentile £190 £165 £160
25th Percentile £350 £284 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £513 £475 £508
90th Percentile £574 £575 £579
England median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% +3.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 29 28
10th Percentile £14.05 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £16.48 £13.50 £11.80
Median hourly rate £18.77 £14.59 £14.76
Median % change year-on-year +28.62% -1.15% -1.60%
75th Percentile £22.08 £23.75 £21.99
90th Percentile £22.63 £24.68 £26.36
England median hourly rate £22.07 £16.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +37.94% -15.79% +22.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,809 2,482 3,103
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 92.16% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,681 2,182
10th Percentile £200 £213 £220
25th Percentile £350 £328 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -2.63% +2.70%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 216 118
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.83 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.13 £20.16
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -5.13% +15.20%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £41.37 £52.45 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +93.72%

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 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 2025. 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 -5 162 £475 +11.76% 174
East Midlands -2 66 £358 -1.24% 111
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, 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 89 (39.04%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.93%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (21.49%) Finance
4 44 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (16.23%) Data Analysis
6 36 (15.79%) Microsoft
7 33 (14.47%) Agile
8 26 (11.40%) SQL
8 26 (11.40%) Business Analysis
9 24 (10.53%) Security Cleared
10 23 (10.09%) Migration
11 22 (9.65%) Power Platform
12 21 (9.21%) Power BI
12 21 (9.21%) Customer Service
13 20 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (8.77%) SC Cleared
14 18 (7.89%) ITIL
14 18 (7.89%) JIRA
15 17 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
15 17 (7.46%) Active Directory
15 17 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 16 (7.02%) Waterfall
16 16 (7.02%) Analytics
16 16 (7.02%) Decision-Making
16 16 (7.02%) Windows
16 16 (7.02%) Change Management
17 14 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
17 14 (6.14%) Banking

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 7 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.75%) IBM Notes
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.32%) SAS
4 2 (0.88%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.88%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.19%) Chatbot
3 5 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.19%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.44%) Maximo
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.44%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 22 (9.65%) Power Platform
2 14 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (5.70%) Azure
4 6 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.19%) OneDrive
5 5 (2.19%) SaaS
6 3 (1.32%) AWS
6 3 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.88%) Figma
7 2 (0.88%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.44%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.44%) GCP
8 1 (0.44%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.44%) OCI
8 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.44%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.44%) Modbus
2 1 (0.44%) Network Security
2 1 (0.44%) SNMP
2 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.21%) Power BI
2 5 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.19%) Tableau
3 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.88%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.88%) GIS
5 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.88%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.44%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 18 (7.89%) JIRA
2 5 (2.19%) Selenium
3 4 (1.75%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.88%) GDB
5 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.44%) GitLab
5 1 (0.44%) JMeter
5 1 (0.44%) Postman
5 1 (0.44%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.44%) Toad
General
1 89 (39.04%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.93%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (21.49%) Finance
4 14 (6.14%) Banking
5 12 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.39%) Retail
8 9 (3.95%) Law
8 9 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.51%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.19%) Legal
12 4 (1.75%) Local Government
13 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.88%) Billing
14 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.44%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.44%) Marketing
15 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.32%) .NET
2 2 (0.88%) GeoJSON
2 2 (0.88%) Gherkin
2 2 (0.88%) HTML
2 2 (0.88%) KML
2 2 (0.88%) Middleware
2 2 (0.88%) Web Services
2 2 (0.88%) XML
3 1 (0.44%) ADO
3 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.44%) jQuery
3 1 (0.44%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.44%) OLE
3 1 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.44%) REST
3 1 (0.44%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.70%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.82%) Data Structures
3 9 (3.95%) Operational Technology
3 9 (3.95%) SCADA
4 8 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.88%) NHS
7 2 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.44%) AS400
8 1 (0.44%) CCTV
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.44%) EPoS
8 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.44%) PKI
8 1 (0.44%) Smart Energy
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.02%) Windows
2 8 (3.51%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.44%) Android
3 1 (0.44%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
1 44 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 37 (16.23%) Data Analysis
3 33 (14.47%) Agile
4 26 (11.40%) Business Analysis
5 23 (10.09%) Migration
6 21 (9.21%) Customer Service
7 20 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (7.89%) ITIL
9 17 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (7.02%) Analytics
10 16 (7.02%) Change Management
10 16 (7.02%) Decision-Making
10 16 (7.02%) Waterfall
11 14 (6.14%) Project Delivery
12 12 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (5.26%) Test Strategy
12 12 (5.26%) Workshop Facilitation
13 11 (4.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.40%) SQL
2 7 (3.07%) Python
3 4 (1.75%) Java
3 4 (1.75%) JavaScript
3 4 (1.75%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.32%) C#
5 2 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.88%) R
6 1 (0.44%) Bash
6 1 (0.44%) Uniface
6 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.77%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.26%) Degree
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.88%) CBAP
5 2 (0.88%) CCNP
5 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.88%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (0.88%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (0.88%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.88%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.44%) ACCA
6 1 (0.44%) CIMA
6 1 (0.44%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.44%) ISEB
6 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.26%) QA
2 11 (4.82%) PMO
3 6 (2.63%) SLA
4 5 (2.19%) GDPR
4 5 (2.19%) NIST
5 4 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.88%) COREP
6 2 (0.88%) FINREP
6 2 (0.88%) GRC
6 2 (0.88%) IFRS
6 2 (0.88%) NCSC
7 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.44%) Basel III
7 1 (0.44%) GAAP
7 1 (0.44%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (7.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.88%) Grafana
3 2 (0.88%) SCCM
3 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.44%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.44%) Podman
Vendors
1 36 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.07%) Oracle
2 7 (3.07%) SAP
2 7 (3.07%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.19%) Motorola
4 4 (1.75%) Denodo
4 4 (1.75%) Lotus
5 3 (1.32%) CyberArk
6 2 (0.88%) Adobe
6 2 (0.88%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.88%) Google
6 2 (0.88%) Informatica
6 2 (0.88%) Remedy
6 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.88%) Talend
6 2 (0.88%) Varonis
7 1 (0.44%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.44%) HP
7 1 (0.44%) Ivanti
7 1 (0.44%) Nexthink