Data Analyst Contracts in the Midlands

Data Analyst
England > Midlands

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the Midlands is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 104 119
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 29 29 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.52% 1.05% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.15% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 37
10th Percentile £195 £343 £185
25th Percentile £277 £356 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £340
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +10.29% -16.31%
75th Percentile £469 £450 £438
90th Percentile £490 £546 £538
England median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.84% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £14.87 - £24.13
25th Percentile £15.43 - £28.44
Median hourly rate £16.60 - £36.25
75th Percentile £17.53 - £43.44
90th Percentile £17.93 - £47.38
England median hourly rate £27.13 £21.64 £22.33
% change year-on-year +25.35% -3.09% +13.35%

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 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the Midlands

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the Midlands

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the Midlands

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the Midlands

Data 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 Data Analyst 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 +18 21 £413 -4.35% 53
East Midlands +6 8 £400 +8.47% 31
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Migration
2 10 (34.48%) Data Migration
3 9 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
4 8 (27.59%) Power Platform
4 8 (27.59%) Power BI
4 8 (27.59%) SQL
5 7 (24.14%) Data Analysis
6 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
6 6 (20.69%) Analytics
6 6 (20.69%) Finance
6 6 (20.69%) Data Structures
7 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
7 5 (17.24%) Data Integration
7 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
8 4 (13.79%) Software Testing
8 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (13.79%) Data Transformation
8 4 (13.79%) Data Mapping
8 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
8 4 (13.79%) Validation
8 4 (13.79%) ETL
8 4 (13.79%) Agile
8 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (13.79%) Denodo
9 3 (10.34%) Data Collection
9 3 (10.34%) People Analytics
9 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory

Data 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 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.45%) Looker
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.45%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) PyCharm
General
1 11 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
5 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Games
7 1 (3.45%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Data Migration
1 10 (34.48%) Migration
2 9 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (24.14%) Data Analysis
4 6 (20.69%) Analytics
5 5 (17.24%) Data Integration
5 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Data Mapping
6 4 (13.79%) Data Transformation
6 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (13.79%) ETL
6 4 (13.79%) Software Testing
6 4 (13.79%) Validation
7 3 (10.34%) Data Collection
7 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
7 3 (10.34%) ERP
7 3 (10.34%) ETL Development
7 3 (10.34%) People Analytics
7 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) R
3 1 (3.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) SLA
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Denodo
2 3 (10.34%) Informatica
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Talend
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) SAP