Data Analytics Contracts in the Midlands

Data Analytics
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data 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 82 59 98
Rank change year-on-year -23 +39 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 29 75 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.52% 2.72% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 3.31% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 57 53
10th Percentile £302 £353 £426
25th Percentile £348 £358 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -24.91% +1.85% +1.12%
75th Percentile £579 £650 -
90th Percentile £600 £775 £573
England median daily rate £528 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.09% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £16.25 - -
25th Percentile £17.70 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
75th Percentile £20.38 - -
90th Percentile £21.95 - -
England median hourly rate £21.75 £41.25 £40.25
% change year-on-year -47.27% +2.48% +22.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data 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%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data 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 Data Analytics in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data 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 Data Analytics in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data 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 Data 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
East Midlands +16 16 £358 -30.15% 27
West Midlands -38 12 £549 -0.27% 43
Data Analytics
England

Data Analytics
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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) SAS
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Power Platform
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 7 (24.14%) AWS
4 4 (13.79%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Asana
4 4 (13.79%) GCP
4 4 (13.79%) Google Analytics
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.90%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) Power BI
2 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.90%) Tableau
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Finance
3 8 (27.59%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.79%) Brand Awareness
4 4 (13.79%) Marketing
5 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Local Government
5 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Business Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Campaign Manager
3 4 (13.79%) IT Manager
3 4 (13.79%) IT Project Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Project Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Support Officer
5 2 (6.90%) Systems Support
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.45%) Payments Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Social Media
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk
2 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Analytics
2 14 (48.28%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (37.93%) Data Governance
3 11 (37.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (27.59%) Agile
4 8 (27.59%) Decision-Making
5 7 (24.14%) Migration
5 7 (24.14%) Project Management
5 7 (24.14%) Validation
6 6 (20.69%) CRM
6 6 (20.69%) Data Integration
6 6 (20.69%) ETL
6 6 (20.69%) Risk Management
7 5 (17.24%) Data Analysis
7 5 (17.24%) Data Migration
7 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
7 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (13.79%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) SQL
2 9 (31.03%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) CITP
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Adobe
2 4 (13.79%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks