Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £401, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
17 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 375 215 227
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.80% 12.50% 12.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.70% 13.85% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 140 161
10th Percentile £281 £247 £190
25th Percentile £325 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £538
90th Percentile £599 £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 £17.64
% change year-on-year +15.18% +25.55% -9.54%

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 3,206 1,552 1,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 90.23% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,947 994 1,175
10th Percentile £325 £232 £250
25th Percentile £410 £374 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £613
90th Percentile £675 £644 £713
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 115 77
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.80 £14.00 £15.22
Median hourly rate £31.10 £25.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +24.40% +27.62% -5.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.49 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £51.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +67.98% -43.78% +8.43%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +1 111 £419 +11.67% 51
Warwickshire -4 89 £450 -10.00% 23
Shropshire -13 68 £369 +17.14% 10
Coventry -9 29 £319 -39.22% 8
Worcestershire +16 22 £425 +30.77% 10
Solihull - 12 £493 - 11
Staffordshire -5 7 £140 -6.67% 17
Herefordshire -1 5 £500 +25.00%
Dudley -3 5 £420 - 1
Willenhall - 5 - -
Wolverhampton -6 2 £200 -25.58% 5
Brierley Hill - 1 £390 -
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 (20.80%) Agile
2 69 (18.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (14.40%) Microsoft
5 51 (13.60%) Decision-Making
6 50 (13.33%) Security Cleared
7 49 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 48 (12.80%) Business Analysis
9 46 (12.27%) Workshop Facilitation
10 44 (11.73%) SC Cleared
11 43 (11.47%) JIRA
12 40 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (10.40%) Requirements Gathering
13 39 (10.40%) User Stories
13 39 (10.40%) Validation
14 37 (9.87%) AI
14 37 (9.87%) Azure
14 37 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
15 35 (9.33%) SAP
16 34 (9.07%) Power Platform
16 34 (9.07%) SQL
17 33 (8.80%) Power BI
18 32 (8.53%) Test Automation
18 32 (8.53%) User Acceptance Testing
19 31 (8.27%) Migration
20 30 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
20 30 (8.00%) Oracle
21 29 (7.73%) Data Analysis
21 29 (7.73%) DevOps
21 29 (7.73%) PMO

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 23 (6.13%) Confluence
2 20 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.33%) SAS
4 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.80%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 30 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.60%) 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 14 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.07%) 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 37 (9.87%) Azure
2 34 (9.07%) Power Platform
3 24 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.20%) AWS
5 12 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (3.20%) Power Automate
6 8 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.13%) SaaS
7 7 (1.87%) OneDrive
8 6 (1.60%) Azure Functions
8 6 (1.60%) Google Tag Manager
8 6 (1.60%) Serverless
9 5 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.80%) GCP
11 3 (0.80%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.80%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.80%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.13%) DNS
2 7 (1.87%) DHCP
2 7 (1.87%) VPN
3 4 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.80%) Firewall
4 3 (0.80%) Internet
4 3 (0.80%) VSAN
5 2 (0.53%) Broadband
5 2 (0.53%) NAS
5 2 (0.53%) SAN
6 1 (0.27%) LAN
6 1 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.80%) Power BI
2 21 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.93%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (2.40%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.87%) Tableau
6 5 (1.33%) Power Query
7 4 (1.07%) Metadata
8 3 (0.80%) Looker
9 2 (0.53%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
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 43 (11.47%) JIRA
2 23 (6.13%) Postman
3 15 (4.00%) Selenium
4 13 (3.47%) Zephyr
5 9 (2.40%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.40%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.07%) 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 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 79 (21.07%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (20.80%) Finance
4 48 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.00%) Banking
6 14 (3.73%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.20%) Retail
9 9 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.87%) Legal
10 7 (1.87%) Local Government
10 7 (1.87%) Marketing
10 7 (1.87%) Police
10 7 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.60%) Automotive
11 6 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.33%) Publishing
13 4 (1.07%) Billing
14 3 (0.80%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.40%) Gherkin
1 9 (2.40%) XML
2 4 (1.07%) Flash
2 4 (1.07%) JSON
2 4 (1.07%) XSLT
3 2 (0.53%) ADO
4 1 (0.27%) .NET
4 1 (0.27%) Kafka
4 1 (0.27%) Middleware
4 1 (0.27%) PySpark
4 1 (0.27%) REST
4 1 (0.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.47%) Management Information System
1 13 (3.47%) Onboarding
2 9 (2.40%) Data Structures
3 8 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.07%) Replication
5 4 (1.07%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.07%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.80%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.80%) Driving Licence
6 3 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.80%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.53%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.53%) BYOD
7 2 (0.53%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.20%) Windows
2 15 (4.00%) Linux
3 12 (3.20%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.33%) SUSE
4 5 (1.33%) Unix
5 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (20.80%) Agile
2 69 (18.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (13.60%) Decision-Making
5 49 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 48 (12.80%) Business Analysis
7 46 (12.27%) Workshop Facilitation
8 40 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (10.40%) Requirements Gathering
9 39 (10.40%) User Stories
9 39 (10.40%) Validation
10 37 (9.87%) AI
10 37 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (8.53%) Test Automation
11 32 (8.53%) User Acceptance Testing
12 31 (8.27%) Migration
13 29 (7.73%) Data Analysis
13 29 (7.73%) DevOps
14 28 (7.47%) CRM
15 27 (7.20%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 34 (9.07%) SQL
2 13 (3.47%) Python
3 6 (1.60%) C#
3 6 (1.60%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.33%) Java
5 4 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.07%) Scala
6 2 (0.53%) R
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 50 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 44 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.60%) ISTQB
4 18 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.47%) Degree
6 9 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.07%) ISEB
9 3 (0.80%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.80%) CBAP
9 3 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.53%) IIBA
10 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.53%) PhD
11 1 (0.27%) CISM
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) MOS
11 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.73%) PMO
2 28 (7.47%) QA
3 27 (7.20%) Data Quality
4 18 (4.80%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.40%) GDPR
5 9 (2.40%) WCAG
6 5 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.07%) NIST
8 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.53%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.07%) GPFS
2 4 (1.07%) NFS
2 4 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.07%) vSphere
3 2 (0.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.07%) SCCM
2 4 (1.07%) vRealize
3 3 (0.80%) QRadar
3 3 (0.80%) VxRail
4 2 (0.53%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 54 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.33%) SAP
3 30 (8.00%) Oracle
4 17 (4.53%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.40%) IBM
6 8 (2.13%) Google
7 7 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.87%) Siemens
8 6 (1.60%) Talend
9 5 (1.33%) MathWorks
9 5 (1.33%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.07%) Cisco
10 4 (1.07%) KANA
10 4 (1.07%) Splunk
10 4 (1.07%) Teradata
10 4 (1.07%) VMware
11 3 (0.80%) Blue Prism
11 3 (0.80%) Kronos
11 3 (0.80%) Remedy
11 3 (0.80%) webMethods
140 Analyst jobs in the West Midlands