Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £404, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 373 216 220
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.64% 11.80% 11.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.65% 13.20% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 141 156
10th Percentile £262 £209 £190
25th Percentile £324 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £538
90th Percentile £600 £563 £632
England median daily rate £471 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.67% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 4
10th Percentile £16.91 - £15.65
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.03 £15.88
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.33 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% +54.37% -30.91%
75th Percentile £33.49 £31.00 £22.80
90th Percentile £70.07 £32.73 £25.13
England median hourly rate £27.15 £22.05 £19.00
% change year-on-year +23.13% +16.05% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,203 1,636 1,773
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 89.35% 93.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,892 1,061 1,145
10th Percentile £325 £235 £231
25th Percentile £413 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.62% -2.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £581 £619
90th Percentile £675 £650 £713
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 107 63
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.62
25th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £14.63
Median hourly rate £29.60 £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.69% +19.76% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £40.13 £33.74
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £52.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +3.20%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Analyst job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the West Midlands

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the West Midlands

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Birmingham +3 107 £425 +13.33% 100
Warwickshire -3 90 £450 -10.00% 30
Shropshire -3 76 £382 +21.27% 23
Coventry -10 25 £313 -40.48% 12
Worcestershire +18 18 £425 +30.77% 12
Solihull - 13 £493 - 9
Herefordshire +5 8 £500 +25.00% 9
Staffordshire -12 5 £140 -6.67% 24
Willenhall - 5 - -
Dudley - 3 £375 -
Wolverhampton -6 2 £200 -27.27% 8
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 77 (20.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 69 (18.50%) Agile
2 69 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (16.09%) Microsoft
4 57 (15.28%) Decision-Making
5 54 (14.48%) Business Analysis
5 54 (14.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 53 (14.21%) Security Cleared
7 47 (12.60%) SC Cleared
7 47 (12.60%) Workshop Facilitation
8 45 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (11.80%) Requirements Gathering
10 43 (11.53%) JIRA
11 40 (10.72%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (10.19%) AI
12 38 (10.19%) Validation
13 37 (9.92%) Data Analysis
14 35 (9.38%) Azure
15 34 (9.12%) Power Platform
15 34 (9.12%) User Stories
16 33 (8.85%) Power BI
16 33 (8.85%) SAP
17 32 (8.58%) Test Automation
17 32 (8.58%) Windows
18 31 (8.31%) Data Quality
18 31 (8.31%) Migration
18 31 (8.31%) SQL
19 30 (8.04%) Data Modelling
19 30 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
19 30 (8.04%) QA

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 22 (5.90%) Confluence
2 17 (4.56%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.61%) SAS
4 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.80%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 30 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.88%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.54%) CATIA
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (4.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.07%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.80%) Primavera
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.54%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.54%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 35 (9.38%) Azure
2 34 (9.12%) Power Platform
3 21 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (3.49%) Power Automate
6 11 (2.95%) AWS
7 9 (2.41%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.14%) OneDrive
8 8 (2.14%) SaaS
9 7 (1.88%) Azure Functions
9 7 (1.88%) Serverless
10 6 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (1.61%) Google Tag Manager
11 5 (1.34%) GCP
11 5 (1.34%) Google Analytics
11 5 (1.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.80%) Lucidchart
13 3 (0.80%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.41%) DNS
2 8 (2.14%) DHCP
2 8 (2.14%) VPN
3 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.80%) Firewall
4 3 (0.80%) Internet
5 2 (0.54%) Broadband
5 2 (0.54%) VSAN
5 2 (0.54%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.85%) Power BI
2 17 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.68%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (2.68%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.61%) Tableau
5 5 (1.34%) Metadata
6 4 (1.07%) Looker
6 4 (1.07%) Power Query
7 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.80%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.27%) GIS
8 1 (0.27%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.27%) MySQL
8 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.27%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (11.53%) JIRA
2 23 (6.17%) Postman
3 16 (4.29%) Selenium
4 12 (3.22%) Zephyr
5 10 (2.68%) Cypress.io
5 10 (2.68%) WebDriver
6 7 (1.88%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.07%) Git
8 3 (0.80%) Protractor
8 3 (0.80%) Toad
9 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 100 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.45%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (19.57%) Finance
4 51 (13.67%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.49%) Banking
6 13 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.22%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.22%) Retail
8 11 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.14%) Legal
12 7 (1.88%) Marketing
12 7 (1.88%) Police
13 6 (1.61%) Automotive
13 6 (1.61%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.07%) Billing
14 4 (1.07%) Local Government
15 3 (0.80%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.68%) Gherkin
2 9 (2.41%) XML
3 4 (1.07%) JSON
3 4 (1.07%) XSLT
4 2 (0.54%) ADO
4 2 (0.54%) Flash
5 1 (0.27%) .NET
5 1 (0.27%) Middleware
5 1 (0.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.49%) Management Information System
2 10 (2.68%) Data Structures
2 10 (2.68%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.41%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.34%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.07%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.80%) Credit Risk
7 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.80%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.80%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.54%) BYOD
8 2 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.54%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.54%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.54%) Replication
8 2 (0.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.58%) Windows
2 14 (3.75%) Linux
3 13 (3.49%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.34%) SUSE
5 3 (0.80%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (20.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 69 (18.50%) Agile
2 69 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (15.28%) Decision-Making
4 54 (14.48%) Business Analysis
4 54 (14.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 47 (12.60%) Workshop Facilitation
6 45 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (11.80%) Requirements Gathering
8 40 (10.72%) Business Intelligence
9 38 (10.19%) AI
9 38 (10.19%) Validation
10 37 (9.92%) Data Analysis
11 34 (9.12%) User Stories
12 32 (8.58%) Test Automation
13 31 (8.31%) Migration
14 30 (8.04%) Data Modelling
15 29 (7.77%) Analytics
15 29 (7.77%) User Acceptance Testing
16 28 (7.51%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 31 (8.31%) SQL
2 10 (2.68%) Python
3 7 (1.88%) C#
3 7 (1.88%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.34%) Java
5 4 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.07%) Scala
6 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.54%) R
6 2 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (14.21%) Security Cleared
2 47 (12.60%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (5.36%) ISTQB
5 13 (3.49%) Degree
6 11 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.07%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.07%) ISEB
8 4 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.80%) CISSP
10 2 (0.54%) CBAP
10 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.54%) GCIH
10 2 (0.54%) IIBA
10 2 (0.54%) SANS
11 1 (0.27%) APMG
11 1 (0.27%) CRISC
11 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.31%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.04%) QA
3 22 (5.90%) PMO
4 17 (4.56%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.95%) GDPR
6 10 (2.68%) WCAG
7 4 (1.07%) NIST
8 3 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.54%) GRC
9 2 (0.54%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
System Software
1 14 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.54%) GPFS
2 2 (0.54%) NFS
2 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.34%) SCCM
3 3 (0.80%) QRadar
4 2 (0.54%) vRealize
4 2 (0.54%) VxRail
5 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.85%) SAP
3 26 (6.97%) Oracle
4 12 (3.22%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.14%) Google
6 7 (1.88%) IBM
6 7 (1.88%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.88%) Siemens
6 7 (1.88%) Splunk
7 6 (1.61%) Talend
8 5 (1.34%) MathWorks
8 5 (1.34%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.34%) Teradata
9 4 (1.07%) KANA
10 3 (0.80%) Blue Prism
10 3 (0.80%) Kronos
10 3 (0.80%) webMethods
11 2 (0.54%) Cisco
11 2 (0.54%) Remedy
11 2 (0.54%) VMware
242 Analyst jobs in the West Midlands