Technical Analyst Contracts in the Midlands

Technical Analyst
England > Midlands

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in the Midlands is £289, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 124 133
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 7 7 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.28% 0.27% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.29% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 12
10th Percentile - £252 £320
25th Percentile £277 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £289 £375 £488
Median % change year-on-year -23.07% -23.08% +21.88%
75th Percentile £354 £563 £550
90th Percentile £442 £585 -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

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 2,227 2,442 2,928
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.73% 92.50% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,443 1,672 2,083
10th Percentile £211 £250 £226
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £594
90th Percentile £638 £685 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 139 93
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.68 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.06 £14.27 £16.23
Median hourly rate £24.34 £20.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.70% -4.76% +9.80%
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.38 £35.08
90th Percentile £50.00 £53.40 £65.80
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Analyst in the Midlands

Technical Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Analyst in the Midlands

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Analyst in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Analyst in the Midlands

Technical Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Analyst in the Midlands

Technical 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 Technical Analyst within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 August 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 -3 7 £289 +3.96% 10
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, Technical 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 Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Data Management
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (42.86%) JIRA
3 3 (42.86%) Resource Management
3 3 (42.86%) Use Case
3 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (42.86%) Confluence
3 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) CCNA
5 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (14.29%) Genesys
5 1 (14.29%) Firewall
5 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi

Technical 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 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Data Management
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Resource Management
2 3 (42.86%) SDLC
2 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Use Case
2 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
2 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (14.29%) API Development
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) MCSA
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Genesys