Analytics Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Analytics
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 6.74% - 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% - 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £400 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £450 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -4.06% -6.76% +4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 49 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 76.40% 84.48% 83.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 30 62
10th Percentile £182 £140 £139
25th Percentile £310 £150 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £313 £366
Median % change year-on-year +29.60% -14.54% -26.87%
75th Percentile £469 £484 £447
90th Percentile £581 £538 £513
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -1.66% -3.40% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile - £12.25 £14.71
25th Percentile £13.10 £12.63 £19.83
Median hourly rate £27.50 £19.00 £35.72
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -46.80% +29.87%
75th Percentile £68.00 £29.31 £49.38
90th Percentile - £34.13 £52.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £20.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +69.95% -11.11% +3.73%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Analytics

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Analytics

Analytics
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2026. 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
Uttoxeter - 3 £450 -
Lichfield - 1 - -
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £388 - 1
Analytics
West Midlands

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Delta Lake
1 4 (66.67%) Spark SQL
1 4 (66.67%) Tableau
2 2 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Change Data Capture
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Dimensional Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) Runbook
4 2 (33.33%) Business Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Data Lineage
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft