Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
1 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 9 5
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 244 174 249
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.92% 11.21% 13.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.16% 12.21% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 120 178
10th Percentile £239 £212 £200
25th Percentile £313 £361 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £525
90th Percentile £555 £638 £600
England median daily rate £455 £475 £496
% change year-on-year -4.21% -4.14% +4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 23
10th Percentile £22.50 £14.50 £13.58
25th Percentile £22.51 £18.72 £16.81
Median hourly rate £24.03 £24.06 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +6.94% +42.14%
75th Percentile £25.00 £30.51 £67.50
90th Percentile £27.50 £30.98 -
England median hourly rate £18.00 £24.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -26.53% +36.11% +5.88%

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 2,187 1,425 1,739
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.94% 91.82% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 893 1,143
10th Percentile £263 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 59 120
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.95 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.09 £17.00 £15.70
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.82 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% +5.87% +26.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £30.99 £43.75
90th Percentile £42.00 £44.08 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.90% +2.99%

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 1 February 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
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 1 February 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 74 £431 -9.21% 53
Warwickshire +3 61 £500 +8.11% 46
Coventry +10 40 £311 -26.76% 22
Shropshire -26 35 £475 +5.56% 13
Worcestershire -12 7 £438 +16.67% 5
Staffordshire -4 4 £400 -11.11% 20
Solihull - 3 £268 - 4
Herefordshire -19 2 £375 - 3
Walsall 0 1 £338 +50.00% 3
Wolverhampton - 1 £425 - 2
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 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 70 (28.69%) Agile
2 60 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (23.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (19.67%) AWS
5 36 (14.75%) Security Cleared
5 36 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 35 (14.34%) Azure
6 35 (14.34%) Cisco
6 35 (14.34%) Microsoft
7 34 (13.93%) Business Analysis
7 34 (13.93%) Migration
7 34 (13.93%) VMware
8 33 (13.52%) Linux
8 33 (13.52%) VMware Infrastructure
9 30 (12.30%) Requirements Gathering
10 29 (11.89%) Analytics
10 29 (11.89%) IBM
10 29 (11.89%) vRealize
10 29 (11.89%) vSphere
11 27 (11.07%) JIRA
12 26 (10.66%) SC Cleared
13 25 (10.25%) ServiceNow
14 24 (9.84%) Confluence
15 23 (9.43%) Customer Service
15 23 (9.43%) Oracle
15 23 (9.43%) SQL
15 23 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
16 22 (9.02%) User Stories
17 21 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (8.61%) Power Platform

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 (9.84%) Confluence
2 14 (5.74%) SAS
3 4 (1.64%) HCL Notes
3 4 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.82%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.82%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (6.56%) MS Visio
3 13 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.82%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.41%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.41%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.41%) iTrent
3 1 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.41%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.41%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.41%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (19.67%) AWS
2 35 (14.34%) Azure
3 21 (8.61%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.74%) Datadog
5 9 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.87%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.64%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.64%) GCP
7 4 (1.64%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.64%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.23%) dbt
8 3 (1.23%) Lucidchart
9 2 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.82%) iPaaS
9 2 (0.82%) SaaS
10 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.41%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.41%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.74%) VSAN
2 11 (4.51%) VPN
3 6 (2.46%) DHCP
3 6 (2.46%) DNS
3 6 (2.46%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.82%) Firewall
4 2 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.82%) LAN
4 2 (0.82%) WAN
4 2 (0.82%) X.25
5 1 (0.41%) Internet
5 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.41%) VLAN
5 1 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.79%) Power BI
2 8 (3.28%) Tableau
3 4 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.23%) GIS
4 3 (1.23%) Metadata
5 2 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.82%) Spatial Data
5 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.41%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.41%) EDMS
6 1 (0.41%) MySQL
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (11.07%) JIRA
2 4 (1.64%) Toad
3 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
General
1 89 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 64 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (18.03%) Finance
4 29 (11.89%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.33%) Legal
7 11 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.51%) Law
7 11 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.46%) Banking
9 3 (1.23%) Local Government
9 3 (1.23%) Police
9 3 (1.23%) Retail
10 2 (0.82%) Automotive
10 2 (0.82%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Marketing
10 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.15%) Flash
2 5 (2.05%) SAML
3 4 (1.64%) Middleware
3 4 (1.64%) SailPoint
3 4 (1.64%) XML
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.41%) LDAP
5 1 (0.41%) MACH
5 1 (0.41%) OAuth
5 1 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.89%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (6.15%) Replication
3 12 (4.92%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.51%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.64%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.82%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.82%) SCADA
10 2 (0.82%) Video Editing
11 1 (0.41%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.52%) Linux
2 18 (7.38%) Windows
3 8 (3.28%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.23%) Unix
5 2 (0.82%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.41%) AIX
6 1 (0.41%) Solaris
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.69%) Agile
2 60 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (23.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 34 (13.93%) Business Analysis
5 34 (13.93%) Migration
6 30 (12.30%) Requirements Gathering
7 29 (11.89%) Analytics
8 23 (9.43%) Customer Service
8 23 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
9 22 (9.02%) User Stories
10 21 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (7.79%) Workshop Facilitation
13 17 (6.97%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (6.97%) Decision-Making
14 16 (6.56%) Change Management
14 16 (6.56%) Validation
15 15 (6.15%) Impact Assessments
16 14 (5.74%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.43%) SQL
2 9 (3.69%) Python
3 6 (2.46%) Java
4 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.82%) R
6 1 (0.41%) COBOL
6 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.41%) Scala
6 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (6.15%) Degree
5 10 (4.10%) IIBA
6 7 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.05%) MCDST
7 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.82%) ACCA
9 2 (0.82%) CIMA
9 2 (0.82%) ISEB
9 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.41%) CAPM
10 1 (0.41%) CISM
10 1 (0.41%) CISSP
10 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.38%) PMO
2 11 (4.51%) GDPR
3 7 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.05%) NIST
5 4 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.64%) QA
6 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.82%) P3O
7 2 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (13.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (11.89%) vSphere
3 15 (6.15%) GPFS
3 15 (6.15%) NFS
4 13 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (4.51%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.41%) Snort
Systems Management
1 29 (11.89%) vRealize
2 15 (6.15%) VxRail
3 5 (2.05%) SCCM
4 1 (0.41%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.41%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.41%) QRadar
Vendors
1 35 (14.34%) Cisco
1 35 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.93%) VMware
3 29 (11.89%) IBM
4 25 (10.25%) ServiceNow
5 23 (9.43%) Oracle
6 14 (5.74%) AppDynamics
6 14 (5.74%) Commvault
6 14 (5.74%) SolarWinds
7 13 (5.33%) Dell
7 13 (5.33%) HP
8 10 (4.10%) SAP
9 6 (2.46%) Splunk
10 5 (2.05%) iManage
10 5 (2.05%) Mitel
10 5 (2.05%) Pega
11 4 (1.64%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.64%) Lotus
11 4 (1.64%) Netskope
11 4 (1.64%) Okta
185 Analyst jobs in the West Midlands