Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
14 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 377 213 227
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.86% 12.45% 12.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.75% 13.80% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 136 161
10th Percentile £281 £250 £190
25th Percentile £325 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £538
90th Percentile £600 £550 £638
England median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 6
10th Percentile £19.19 - £15.75
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.03 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.67 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +37.98% -8.94%
75th Percentile £30.27 £31.00 £25.52
90th Percentile £70.07 £33.02 £47.09
England median hourly rate £25.50 £22.14 £18.00
% change year-on-year +15.18% +23.00% -7.70%

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 3,209 1,544 1,719
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 90.24% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,958 985 1,183
10th Percentile £325 £235 £250
25th Percentile £410 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £612
90th Percentile £675 £645 £705
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 115 74
10th Percentile £14.50 £12.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £14.00 £15.31
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +16.28% +2.53%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.49 £36.88
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £43.10 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +70.23% -43.73% +7.40%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +3 111 £425 +13.33% 55
Warwickshire -5 89 £450 -10.00% 23
Shropshire -11 68 £368 +16.83% 12
Coventry -7 30 £313 -40.48% 12
Worcestershire +17 22 £425 +30.77% 9
Solihull - 12 £493 - 10
Staffordshire -6 7 £140 -6.67% 13
Herefordshire -1 5 £500 +25.00% 2
Dudley -3 5 £420 - 1
Willenhall - 5 - -
Wolverhampton -7 2 £200 -25.58% 7
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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 78 (20.69%) Agile
2 69 (18.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 53 (14.06%) Security Cleared
6 49 (13.00%) Business Analysis
6 49 (13.00%) Decision-Making
7 48 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 47 (12.47%) SC Cleared
9 45 (11.94%) Workshop Facilitation
10 42 (11.14%) JIRA
11 41 (10.88%) Azure
12 40 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (10.61%) Requirements Gathering
12 40 (10.61%) Validation
13 39 (10.34%) User Stories
14 38 (10.08%) AI
15 37 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (9.55%) Power Platform
17 35 (9.28%) SAP
17 35 (9.28%) SQL
18 33 (8.75%) Power BI
19 32 (8.49%) Test Automation
20 31 (8.22%) Migration
20 31 (8.22%) User Acceptance Testing
21 30 (7.96%) CRM
21 30 (7.96%) Oracle
22 29 (7.69%) Analytics
22 29 (7.69%) Data Analysis
22 29 (7.69%) DevOps

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 24 (6.37%) Confluence
2 20 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.33%) SAS
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.80%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 29 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.53%) CATIA
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (4.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.80%) Primavera
4 3 (0.80%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.53%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.53%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 41 (10.88%) Azure
2 36 (9.55%) Power Platform
3 24 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (3.18%) AWS
6 12 (3.18%) Power Automate
7 8 (2.12%) SaaS
8 7 (1.86%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.59%) Azure Functions
9 6 (1.59%) Google Tag Manager
9 6 (1.59%) OneDrive
9 6 (1.59%) Serverless
10 5 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.06%) Lucidchart
12 3 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.80%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.86%) DNS
2 6 (1.59%) DHCP
2 6 (1.59%) VPN
3 3 (0.80%) Firewall
3 3 (0.80%) Internet
3 3 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.80%) VSAN
4 2 (0.53%) Broadband
4 2 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.53%) NAS
4 2 (0.53%) SAN
5 1 (0.27%) LAN
5 1 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.75%) Power BI
2 22 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.92%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.86%) Tableau
6 5 (1.33%) Power Query
7 4 (1.06%) Metadata
8 3 (0.80%) Looker
9 2 (0.53%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.27%) GIS
10 1 (0.27%) MySQL
10 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.27%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (11.14%) JIRA
2 23 (6.10%) Postman
3 15 (3.98%) Selenium
4 13 (3.45%) Zephyr
5 9 (2.39%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.39%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.59%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.06%) Git
8 3 (0.80%) Protractor
8 3 (0.80%) Toad
9 2 (0.53%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.53%) MLflow
10 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 92 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 79 (20.95%) Finance
3 77 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.98%) Banking
5 15 (3.98%) Manufacturing
6 13 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.18%) Retail
8 9 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.86%) Legal
9 7 (1.86%) Marketing
9 7 (1.86%) Police
9 7 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.59%) Automotive
10 6 (1.59%) Local Government
10 6 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.33%) Publishing
12 4 (1.06%) Billing
12 4 (1.06%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.39%) Gherkin
1 9 (2.39%) XML
2 4 (1.06%) Flash
2 4 (1.06%) JSON
2 4 (1.06%) XSLT
3 2 (0.53%) ADO
3 2 (0.53%) PySpark
4 1 (0.27%) .NET
4 1 (0.27%) Kafka
4 1 (0.27%) Middleware
4 1 (0.27%) REST
4 1 (0.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.98%) Onboarding
2 13 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 9 (2.39%) Data Structures
4 7 (1.86%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.06%) Replication
6 4 (1.06%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
7 3 (0.80%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.80%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (0.80%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.53%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.53%) BYOD
8 2 (0.53%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.69%) Windows
2 18 (4.77%) Linux
3 11 (2.92%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.33%) SUSE
4 5 (1.33%) Unix
5 1 (0.27%) AIX
5 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (20.69%) Agile
2 69 (18.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (13.00%) Business Analysis
4 49 (13.00%) Decision-Making
5 48 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 45 (11.94%) Workshop Facilitation
7 40 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (10.61%) Requirements Gathering
7 40 (10.61%) Validation
8 39 (10.34%) User Stories
9 38 (10.08%) AI
10 37 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (8.49%) Test Automation
12 31 (8.22%) Migration
12 31 (8.22%) User Acceptance Testing
13 30 (7.96%) CRM
14 29 (7.69%) Analytics
14 29 (7.69%) Data Analysis
14 29 (7.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 35 (9.28%) SQL
2 14 (3.71%) Python
3 6 (1.59%) C#
3 6 (1.59%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.33%) Java
5 4 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.06%) Scala
6 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.53%) R
6 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 47 (12.47%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.57%) ISTQB
4 17 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.71%) Degree
6 8 (2.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.06%) CBAP
7 4 (1.06%) ISEB
8 3 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.53%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.53%) IIBA
9 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.53%) PhD
10 1 (0.27%) CAPM
10 1 (0.27%) CSPO
10 1 (0.27%) MOS
10 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.69%) PMO
2 28 (7.43%) Data Quality
3 27 (7.16%) QA
4 18 (4.77%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.39%) GDPR
5 9 (2.39%) WCAG
6 5 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.33%) NIST
7 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.53%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.06%) GPFS
2 4 (1.06%) NFS
2 4 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.06%) vSphere
3 2 (0.53%) Docker
3 2 (0.53%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.06%) vRealize
3 3 (0.80%) QRadar
3 3 (0.80%) SCCM
3 3 (0.80%) VxRail
4 2 (0.53%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 58 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.28%) SAP
3 30 (7.96%) Oracle
4 17 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.39%) IBM
6 8 (2.12%) Google
7 7 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.86%) Siemens
8 6 (1.59%) Splunk
8 6 (1.59%) Talend
9 5 (1.33%) MathWorks
9 5 (1.33%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.06%) Cisco
10 4 (1.06%) Databricks
10 4 (1.06%) KANA
10 4 (1.06%) Teradata
10 4 (1.06%) VMware
11 3 (0.80%) Kronos
11 3 (0.80%) Remedy
11 3 (0.80%) webMethods
145 Analyst jobs in the West Midlands