Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
10 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 372 215 226
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.64% 11.86% 11.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.64% 13.28% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 138 159
10th Percentile £263 £250 £190
25th Percentile £327 £302 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £538
90th Percentile £600 £554 £629
England median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 4
10th Percentile £16.13 - £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% -27.96%
75th Percentile £30.27 £31.00 £22.80
90th Percentile £70.09 £32.73 £25.13
England median hourly rate £26.37 £22.07 £19.18
% change year-on-year +19.46% +15.07% -3.18%

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 3,196 1,619 1,772
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 89.30% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,889 1,048 1,159
10th Percentile £330 £235 £250
25th Percentile £413 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £582 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 110 64
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.62 £12.63
25th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £25.15 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +17.69% +28.38% -6.65%
75th Percentile £53.75 £39.39 £32.60
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £49.63
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +7.95%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +4 108 £425 +13.33% 62
Warwickshire -3 93 £450 -10.00% 22
Shropshire -12 73 £382 +21.27% 17
Coventry -6 26 £313 -40.48% 5
Worcestershire +17 18 £425 +30.77% 9
Solihull - 13 £493 - 8
Herefordshire +3 6 £500 +25.00% 6
Staffordshire -11 6 £258 +71.67% 15
Willenhall - 5 - -
Dudley -3 3 £375 - 1
Wolverhampton -7 2 £200 -27.27% 5
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 72 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 68 (18.28%) Agile
3 66 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (15.59%) Microsoft
5 56 (15.05%) Decision-Making
6 51 (13.71%) Business Analysis
7 50 (13.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 49 (13.17%) Security Cleared
9 47 (12.63%) Workshop Facilitation
10 43 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (11.29%) Requirements Gathering
11 42 (11.29%) SC Cleared
12 41 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (11.02%) JIRA
13 40 (10.75%) Validation
14 38 (10.22%) AI
15 35 (9.41%) Azure
15 35 (9.41%) Data Analysis
15 35 (9.41%) Power Platform
15 35 (9.41%) User Stories
16 34 (9.14%) Power BI
16 34 (9.14%) SAP
17 33 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
18 32 (8.60%) SQL
19 31 (8.33%) Test Automation
19 31 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
19 31 (8.33%) Windows
20 30 (8.06%) Migration
21 29 (7.80%) Data Modelling
21 29 (7.80%) Data Quality

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 19 (5.11%) Confluence
2 18 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.61%) SAS
4 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.81%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 33 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.61%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.54%) CATIA
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.81%) Primavera
4 3 (0.81%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
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 (9.41%) Azure
1 35 (9.41%) Power Platform
2 21 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (3.23%) Power Automate
5 10 (2.69%) AWS
6 9 (2.42%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.15%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.15%) SaaS
8 6 (1.61%) Azure Functions
8 6 (1.61%) Serverless
9 5 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.08%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.81%) GCP
11 3 (0.81%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.81%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.81%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.42%) DNS
2 8 (2.15%) DHCP
2 8 (2.15%) VPN
3 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.81%) Firewall
4 3 (0.81%) Internet
5 2 (0.54%) Broadband
5 2 (0.54%) VSAN
6 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.14%) Power BI
2 17 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.69%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.88%) Tableau
6 5 (1.34%) Metadata
6 5 (1.34%) Power Query
7 3 (0.81%) Looker
7 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.27%) GIS
9 1 (0.27%) MySQL
9 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.27%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (11.02%) JIRA
2 22 (5.91%) Postman
3 15 (4.03%) Selenium
4 12 (3.23%) Zephyr
5 9 (2.42%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.42%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.61%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.08%) Git
8 3 (0.81%) Protractor
8 3 (0.81%) Toad
9 1 (0.27%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.27%) MLflow
9 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 98 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (20.70%) Finance
4 49 (13.17%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.49%) Banking
6 13 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.23%) Retail
8 10 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.15%) Legal
10 8 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.88%) Marketing
11 7 (1.88%) Police
12 6 (1.61%) Automotive
12 6 (1.61%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.61%) Local Government
13 4 (1.08%) Billing
14 3 (0.81%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.42%) Gherkin
1 9 (2.42%) XML
2 4 (1.08%) JSON
2 4 (1.08%) XSLT
3 2 (0.54%) ADO
3 2 (0.54%) Flash
4 1 (0.27%) .NET
4 1 (0.27%) Middleware
4 1 (0.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.49%) Management Information System
2 10 (2.69%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.42%) Data Structures
3 9 (2.42%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.34%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.08%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.81%) Credit Risk
7 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.81%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.81%) 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 31 (8.33%) Windows
2 13 (3.49%) Linux
2 13 (3.49%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.34%) SUSE
4 3 (0.81%) Unix
5 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 68 (18.28%) Agile
3 66 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (15.05%) Decision-Making
5 51 (13.71%) Business Analysis
6 50 (13.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 47 (12.63%) Workshop Facilitation
8 43 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (11.29%) Requirements Gathering
10 41 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
11 40 (10.75%) Validation
12 38 (10.22%) AI
13 35 (9.41%) Data Analysis
13 35 (9.41%) User Stories
14 31 (8.33%) Test Automation
14 31 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
15 30 (8.06%) Migration
16 29 (7.80%) Data Modelling
17 27 (7.26%) Analytics
17 27 (7.26%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 32 (8.60%) SQL
2 12 (3.23%) Python
3 6 (1.61%) C#
3 6 (1.61%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.34%) Java
5 4 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.08%) Scala
6 2 (0.54%) R
7 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 49 (13.17%) Security Cleared
2 42 (11.29%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (5.11%) ISTQB
5 13 (3.49%) Degree
6 10 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.08%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.08%) ISEB
8 4 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.54%) CBAP
9 2 (0.54%) CISSP
9 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.54%) IIBA
10 1 (0.27%) CSPO
10 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) PhD
10 1 (0.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.80%) Data Quality
1 29 (7.80%) QA
2 24 (6.45%) PMO
3 16 (4.30%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.69%) GDPR
5 9 (2.42%) WCAG
6 4 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.08%) NIST
7 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
System Software
1 14 (3.76%) 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
3 1 (0.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.34%) SCCM
3 3 (0.81%) 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%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.14%) SAP
3 27 (7.26%) Oracle
4 13 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.88%) IBM
5 7 (1.88%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.88%) Siemens
6 6 (1.61%) Google
6 6 (1.61%) Talend
7 5 (1.34%) MathWorks
7 5 (1.34%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.34%) Teradata
8 4 (1.08%) KANA
8 4 (1.08%) Splunk
9 3 (0.81%) Blue Prism
9 3 (0.81%) Kronos
9 3 (0.81%) webMethods
10 2 (0.54%) Databricks
10 2 (0.54%) Pega
10 2 (0.54%) Remedy
154 Analyst jobs in the West Midlands