Analyst Contracts in Shropshire

Analyst
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Shropshire is £430, 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 14 20 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 -17
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 18 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 13.85% 6.72% 12.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.75% 7.96% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 16
10th Percentile £364 £418 £278
25th Percentile £400 £429 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £448 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% +5.41% +1.19%
75th Percentile £489 £449 £443
90th Percentile £493 £450 £545
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +11.76% - +3.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 122 113 153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 84.33% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 75 117
10th Percentile £314 £260 £401
25th Percentile £420 £374 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -7.06% +5.49%
75th Percentile £537 £536 £540
90th Percentile £541 £538 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile - £14.94 -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £12.18 £15.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% -72.73% +323.08%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Shropshire

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in Shropshire.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Shropshire

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Shropshire

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in Shropshire.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Shropshire

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Shropshire 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
Telford +6 14 £449 +0.22% 4
Shrewsbury - 2 £380 - 3
Analyst
West Midlands

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Shropshire region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) Software Testing
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
2 6 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Oracle
3 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Talend
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 4 (22.22%) Denodo
5 3 (16.67%) Data Collection
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 3 (16.67%) RDBMS
5 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
5 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 3 (16.67%) JIRA
6 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
6 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Power BI
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) SAS
1 1 (5.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 3 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Toad
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Billing
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Software Testing
2 6 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Data Collection
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.11%) ETL
6 2 (11.11%) Impact Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Statistics
6 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
7 1 (5.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) ISEB
3 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
1 5 (27.78%) Talend
2 4 (22.22%) Denodo
3 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) webMethods