Analytics Contracts in the Midlands

Analytics
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 31 36
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytics 145 204 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.28% 5.91% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.43% 6.69% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 134 184
10th Percentile £358 £350 £402
25th Percentile £425 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.69% +6.10% +1.01%
75th Percentile £700 £550 £600
90th Percentile £775 £638 £667
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £22.59 £25.63 £10.50
25th Percentile £23.89 £25.81 -
Median hourly rate £26.05 £28.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -19.29% +66.67%
75th Percentile £28.21 £31.31 -
90th Percentile £29.51 £31.88 -
England median hourly rate £32.94 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.92% -8.57% +31.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Analytics 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 2,255 3,048 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.35% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 2,125 3,305
10th Percentile £241 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.28%
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% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 118 156
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.94 £10.25
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.04 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +3.22% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.97 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £33.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics 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 Analytics within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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 +9 117 £583 +8.36% 102
East Midlands +10 28 £625 +31.58% 71
Analytics
England

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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 6 (4.14%) CMS
2 5 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.38%) Confluence
4 2 (1.38%) Drupal
4 2 (1.38%) SAS
4 2 (1.38%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.69%) Apache
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.69%) CICS
5 1 (0.69%) Jadu
Applications
1 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.69%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.38%) Primavera
1 2 (1.38%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (1.38%) RMDS
2 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.69%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (24.14%) Azure
2 28 (19.31%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.52%) AWS
3 8 (5.52%) Serverless
4 7 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (4.14%) Azure Functions
5 6 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (4.14%) Google Analytics
6 5 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.76%) GCP
8 3 (2.07%) OCI
8 3 (2.07%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.07%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.38%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.38%) SaaS
10 1 (0.69%) GitHub
10 1 (0.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.34%) Network Security
2 13 (8.97%) LAN
2 13 (8.97%) WAN
3 11 (7.59%) Firewall
4 10 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (6.21%) MPLS
5 9 (6.21%) PBX
5 9 (6.21%) VoIP
5 9 (6.21%) VPN
5 9 (6.21%) WLAN
6 6 (4.14%) Internet
7 5 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (3.45%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (3.45%) DHCP
7 5 (3.45%) DNS
7 5 (3.45%) SD-WAN
8 4 (2.76%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.38%) Intranet
10 1 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.62%) Power BI
2 23 (15.86%) Big Data
3 19 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (7.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (7.59%) MySQL
5 7 (4.83%) Tableau
6 6 (4.14%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.14%) Metadata
6 6 (4.14%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.45%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.76%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (2.76%) Power Query
9 3 (2.07%) Data Mining
9 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.38%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.38%) OLAP
10 2 (1.38%) OLTP
10 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (9.66%) Git
2 3 (2.07%) JIRA
3 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.38%) kappa
4 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.69%) GitLab
4 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (26.21%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (23.45%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.86%) Finance
4 13 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.76%) Automotive
7 4 (2.76%) Marketing
7 4 (2.76%) Retail
8 3 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.07%) Law
9 2 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Local Government
9 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Billing
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Games
10 1 (0.69%) Military
10 1 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (20.00%) Architect
2 16 (11.03%) Developer
3 14 (9.66%) Analyst
4 12 (8.28%) Data Architect
5 11 (7.59%) Senior
6 10 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 7 (4.83%) Azure Architect
7 7 (4.83%) Consultant
7 7 (4.83%) Enterprise Architect
8 6 (4.14%) Lead
8 6 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.45%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.45%) Project Manager
9 5 (3.45%) Splunk Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 4 (2.76%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (2.76%) SOC Engineer
10 4 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.07%) Service Delivery Manager
11 3 (2.07%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.90%) Apache NiFi
2 9 (6.21%) Web Services
3 2 (1.38%) .NET
3 2 (1.38%) Kafka
3 2 (1.38%) Middleware
3 2 (1.38%) PySpark
4 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.69%) Anaconda
4 1 (0.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.69%) CSS
4 1 (0.69%) HTML
4 1 (0.69%) LDAP
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.69%) SAML
4 1 (0.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.48%) Management Information System
2 13 (8.97%) Cyber Defence
3 11 (7.59%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.59%) Distributed Applications
4 9 (6.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (6.21%) Security Posture
5 8 (5.52%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.83%) Social Media
7 5 (3.45%) FMCG
7 5 (3.45%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.07%) Graphic Design
8 3 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.07%) NHS
8 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.38%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.38%) e-Health
9 2 (1.38%) LIMS
9 2 (1.38%) PACS
9 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.72%) Windows
2 12 (8.28%) Linux
3 9 (6.21%) Unix
4 8 (5.52%) Android
4 8 (5.52%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (47.59%) Data Analytics
2 39 (26.90%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (22.07%) ETL
4 31 (21.38%) Data Management
5 26 (17.93%) Data Modelling
5 26 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (15.17%) Agile
7 21 (14.48%) Cybersecurity
7 21 (14.48%) Data Engineering
8 20 (13.79%) Data Analysis
8 20 (13.79%) Security Operations
8 20 (13.79%) SIEM
9 19 (13.10%) Actionable Insight
9 19 (13.10%) Migration
10 16 (11.03%) Computer Science
11 15 (10.34%) Data Science
12 14 (9.66%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (9.66%) Programme Management
13 13 (8.97%) Dashboard Development
13 13 (8.97%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.93%) SQL
2 14 (9.66%) Python
3 5 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.76%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.07%) Java
5 3 (2.07%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.38%) C#
6 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.38%) R
6 2 (1.38%) Scala
7 1 (0.69%) Bash
7 1 (0.69%) CLIST
7 1 (0.69%) HiveQL
7 1 (0.69%) REXX
7 1 (0.69%) Rust
7 1 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.69%) SELCOPY
7 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.48%) Degree
4 15 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 9 (6.21%) CCIE
6 9 (6.21%) CCIE Data Center
6 9 (6.21%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (6.21%) CISSP
6 9 (6.21%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.76%) CCNP
9 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.69%) CIPD
10 1 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.28%) Actionable Recommendations
2 10 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.07%) PMO
3 3 (2.07%) QA
4 2 (1.38%) HL7
4 2 (1.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.07%) Docker
3 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (6.90%) Grafana
2 6 (4.14%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.45%) SysTrack
4 2 (1.38%) Terraform
5 1 (0.69%) Ansible
5 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.97%) Red Hat
3 11 (7.59%) Denodo
3 11 (7.59%) Oracle
3 11 (7.59%) Talend
4 10 (6.90%) Cisco
4 10 (6.90%) Databricks
5 7 (4.83%) Google
6 6 (4.14%) Citrix
6 6 (4.14%) Splunk
7 5 (3.45%) Autodesk
7 5 (3.45%) CheckPoint
7 5 (3.45%) Infoblox
7 5 (3.45%) Informatica
7 5 (3.45%) New Relic
7 5 (3.45%) OpenAI
7 5 (3.45%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.45%) Symantec
7 5 (3.45%) Zscaler
8 3 (2.07%) QAD