Analytics Contracts in the Midlands

Analytics
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 24 31
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing Analytics 91 151 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.75% 5.48% 5.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 6.66% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 108 136
10th Percentile £314 £358 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £574 £700 £550
90th Percentile £664 £775 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £16.25 £22.59 £25.63
25th Percentile £17.70 £23.89 £25.81
Median hourly rate £18.87 £26.05 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.56% -7.79% -19.29%
75th Percentile £20.38 £28.21 £31.31
90th Percentile £21.95 £29.51 £31.88
England median hourly rate £31.49 £30.37 £31.00
% change year-on-year +3.70% -2.03% -11.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 -19 62 £512 -10.89% 191
East Midlands +10 28 £358 -41.55% 125
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 8 (8.79%) Confluence
2 5 (5.49%) Apache
3 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.20%) CMS
5 1 (1.10%) SAS
5 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) Adobe XD
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.10%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.08%) Azure
1 21 (23.08%) Power Platform
2 11 (12.09%) AWS
3 7 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 6 (6.59%) GCP
5 5 (5.49%) Adobe Analytics
5 5 (5.49%) Google Analytics
6 4 (4.40%) Asana
6 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (4.40%) GitHub
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.30%) Figma
7 3 (3.30%) Serverless
8 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) Network Security
2 1 (1.10%) 5G
2 1 (1.10%) DSL
2 1 (1.10%) Internet
2 1 (1.10%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (1.10%) Modbus
2 1 (1.10%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.08%) Power BI
2 17 (18.68%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (7.69%) Big Data
4 4 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.30%) Tableau
6 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.20%) Metadata
6 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.10%) MySQL
7 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.10%) ERwin
3 1 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (36.26%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (21.98%) Finance
4 12 (13.19%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.59%) Marketing
6 4 (4.40%) Brand Awareness
6 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Banking
7 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.30%) Law
7 3 (3.30%) Local Government
8 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Games
9 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.10%) Legal
9 1 (1.10%) Military
9 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (17.58%) Analyst
2 15 (16.48%) Data Engineer
3 13 (14.29%) Senior
4 10 (10.99%) Engagement Manager
5 7 (7.69%) Architect
5 7 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 6 (6.59%) Consultant
6 6 (6.59%) Data Analyst
6 6 (6.59%) Data Manager
6 6 (6.59%) Lead
6 6 (6.59%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) Campaign Manager
8 4 (4.40%) IT Manager
8 4 (4.40%) IT Project Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Python Data Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Engagement Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (4.40%) Kafka
2 4 (4.40%) PySpark
2 4 (4.40%) REST
3 3 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.20%) ADO
4 2 (2.20%) CSS
4 2 (2.20%) HTML
5 1 (1.10%) Express.js
5 1 (1.10%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.10%) Jest
5 1 (1.10%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.10%) Middleware
5 1 (1.10%) Node.js
5 1 (1.10%) NumPy
5 1 (1.10%) Pandas
5 1 (1.10%) React
5 1 (1.10%) Redux
5 1 (1.10%) RESTful
5 1 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.40%) Data Structures
1 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
1 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
1 4 (4.40%) Social Media
2 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.20%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.20%) IoT
3 2 (2.20%) Replication
4 1 (1.10%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.10%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.10%) NB-IoT
4 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.10%) SCADA
4 1 (1.10%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.10%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.87%) Data Analytics
2 28 (30.77%) Agile
3 25 (27.47%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (25.27%) Decision-Making
5 22 (24.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (21.98%) Data Governance
7 17 (18.68%) Data Modelling
7 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (18.68%) Project Management
8 15 (16.48%) Data Analysis
9 13 (14.29%) ETL
9 13 (14.29%) Visualisation
10 12 (13.19%) Data Integration
10 12 (13.19%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (13.19%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 11 (12.09%) Migration
12 9 (9.89%) CI/CD
12 9 (9.89%) Data Management
12 9 (9.89%) Data Strategy
12 9 (9.89%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.47%) SQL
2 22 (24.18%) Python
3 7 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.49%) R
5 4 (4.40%) Java
6 3 (3.30%) Scala
7 2 (2.20%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.10%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.10%) Bash
8 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.79%) Degree
4 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.10%) CITP
6 1 (1.10%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.10%) PMP
6 1 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) GAAP
4 1 (1.10%) IFRS
4 1 (1.10%) NCSC
4 1 (1.10%) QA
4 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.30%) Kibana
2 3 (3.30%) logstash
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.10%) Grafana
3 1 (1.10%) QRadar
3 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.79%) Microsoft
1 8 (8.79%) SAP
2 7 (7.69%) Adobe
2 7 (7.69%) Databricks
3 6 (6.59%) Google
4 3 (3.30%) Splunk
5 2 (2.20%) Talend
6 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.10%) Cognos
6 1 (1.10%) FireEye
6 1 (1.10%) IBM
6 1 (1.10%) Marketo
6 1 (1.10%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.10%) Tanium