Data Analytics Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Analytics
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 93 98
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 -34
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 50 29 38
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.61% 1.24% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.45% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 26
10th Percentile £388 £341 £406
25th Percentile £493 £400 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £477 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -17.04% +6.88%
75th Percentile £538 £635 £654
90th Percentile £569 £653 £744
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £27.69 - -
25th Percentile £31.41 - -
Median hourly rate £42.71 - £65.00
75th Percentile £58.91 - -
90th Percentile £65.56 - -
England median hourly rate £46.50 £34.50 £58.03
% change year-on-year +34.78% -40.55% +75.44%

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 2,694 2,005 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.57% 85.87% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,258 1,523
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 72 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.05 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +0.22% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Analytics

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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 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Analytics

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 December 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 -16 42 £523 +6.63% 69
East Midlands -18 8 £378 -5.50% 59
Data Analytics
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (58.00%) SAS
2 6 (12.00%) Apache
2 6 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (12.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.00%) Confluence
4 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (14.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) GitHub
4 3 (6.00%) AWS
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.00%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (58.00%) Pentaho
2 9 (18.00%) Power BI
3 6 (12.00%) Hadoop
3 6 (12.00%) Oracle Database
3 6 (12.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 4 (8.00%) Apache Hive
4 4 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (8.00%) HBase
5 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.00%) Tableau
6 1 (2.00%) Big Data
6 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.00%) Power Query
6 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (64.00%) JIRA
2 29 (58.00%) Git
2 29 (58.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
1 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Aerospace
3 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Finance
4 2 (4.00%) Marketing
4 2 (4.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
5 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (10.00%) SAS Engineer
3 3 (6.00%) Analyst
3 3 (6.00%) Data Scientist
3 3 (6.00%) Hadoop Engineer
3 3 (6.00%) Lead
3 3 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (6.00%) Splunk Engineer
4 2 (4.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (4.00%) Denodo Engineer
4 2 (4.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.00%) Developer
5 1 (2.00%) Digital Transformation
5 1 (2.00%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (2.00%) Junior
5 1 (2.00%) Junior Data Scientist
5 1 (2.00%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) Senior
5 1 (2.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (8.00%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.00%) REST
3 1 (2.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Analytics
2 34 (68.00%) Agile
2 34 (68.00%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (64.00%) CI/CD
4 31 (62.00%) Data Modelling
4 31 (62.00%) Data Pipeline
4 31 (62.00%) ETL
4 31 (62.00%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (60.00%) Scrum
6 29 (58.00%) Data Virtualisation
6 29 (58.00%) DevOps
7 27 (54.00%) Data Integration
7 27 (54.00%) Test Automation
8 25 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
9 24 (48.00%) Business Analytics
9 24 (48.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (18.00%) Risk Assessment
11 8 (16.00%) Visualisation
12 7 (14.00%) Migration
12 7 (14.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (74.00%) SQL
2 9 (18.00%) Python
3 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.00%) Java
5 2 (4.00%) R
5 2 (4.00%) Scala
6 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.00%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (48.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) CISA
4 1 (2.00%) CISM
4 1 (2.00%) CISSP
4 1 (2.00%) IIBA
4 1 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (56.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) COBIT
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 33 (66.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (66.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 4 (8.00%) Kibana
2 4 (8.00%) logstash
3 3 (6.00%) Ansible
3 3 (6.00%) Puppet
4 1 (2.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 29 (58.00%) Denodo
1 29 (58.00%) Talend
2 28 (56.00%) Oracle
3 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.00%) Databricks
4 4 (8.00%) Splunk
5 2 (4.00%) Google
6 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.00%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.00%) SAP