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 15 February 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 12 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 273 160 253
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.63% 10.95% 13.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.83% 11.98% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 116 175
10th Percentile £250 £211 £193
25th Percentile £306 £342 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +5.52%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £525
90th Percentile £550 £609 £600
England median daily rate £453 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -4.58% -2.96% +3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 24
10th Percentile £22.50 £14.50 £13.62
25th Percentile £22.53 £17.22 £17.26
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +73.08%
75th Percentile £26.91 £30.68 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £31.60 -
England median hourly rate £18.00 £24.83 £17.50
% change year-on-year -27.51% +41.89% +2.70%

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 2,308 1,336 1,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.84% 91.44% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 852 1,157
10th Percentile £263 £200 £227
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -1.87%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 56 129
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.89 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £20.92 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.53% -7.04% +26.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £30.17 £43.75
90th Percentile £44.00 £38.49 £67.50
England median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.03% - -9.09%

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 15 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 15 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 83 £425 -10.53% 59
Warwickshire +4 64 £488 +8.33% 23
Coventry +8 45 £310 -34.74% 11
Shropshire -22 37 £475 +6.03% 9
Worcestershire -6 10 £475 - 8
Solihull +1 5 £389 +13.74% 2
Staffordshire -5 5 £350 -22.17% 13
Herefordshire -17 2 £375 - 2
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 1
Walsall +1 1 £338 +50.00% 5
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 76 (27.84%) Agile
2 66 (24.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 65 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (17.95%) AWS
5 43 (15.75%) Security Cleared
5 43 (15.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 39 (14.29%) Azure
7 38 (13.92%) Cisco
7 38 (13.92%) Microsoft
8 37 (13.55%) Business Analysis
8 37 (13.55%) Migration
8 37 (13.55%) Requirements Gathering
9 35 (12.82%) VMware
10 34 (12.45%) Analytics
10 34 (12.45%) Linux
10 34 (12.45%) VMware Infrastructure
11 31 (11.36%) JIRA
11 31 (11.36%) SC Cleared
12 30 (10.99%) IBM
12 30 (10.99%) vRealize
12 30 (10.99%) vSphere
13 29 (10.62%) User Acceptance Testing
14 26 (9.52%) Confluence
14 26 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (9.52%) ServiceNow
14 26 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
15 25 (9.16%) SQL
15 25 (9.16%) User Stories
16 24 (8.79%) Oracle
16 24 (8.79%) 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 26 (9.52%) Confluence
2 15 (5.49%) SAS
3 5 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.10%) HCL Notes
5 2 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (7.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (6.96%) MS Visio
3 14 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.73%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.37%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.37%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.37%) iTrent
4 1 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.37%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.37%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (17.95%) AWS
2 39 (14.29%) Azure
3 24 (8.79%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.13%) Datadog
5 10 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.56%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.47%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.47%) GCP
9 4 (1.47%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.47%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (1.10%) dbt
10 3 (1.10%) Lucidchart
11 2 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.73%) iPaaS
11 2 (0.73%) SaaS
11 2 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.37%) Google Tag Manager
12 1 (0.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.49%) VSAN
2 13 (4.76%) VPN
3 6 (2.20%) DHCP
3 6 (2.20%) DNS
4 5 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.47%) Firewall
5 4 (1.47%) LAN
5 4 (1.47%) WAN
6 3 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (1.10%) VLAN
7 2 (0.73%) BGP
7 2 (0.73%) MPLS
7 2 (0.73%) OSPF
7 2 (0.73%) X.25
8 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.69%) Power BI
2 9 (3.30%) Tableau
3 4 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.47%) GIS
4 3 (1.10%) Metadata
5 2 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.73%) Spatial Data
5 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.37%) MySQL
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (11.36%) JIRA
2 4 (1.47%) Toad
3 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
General
1 98 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 69 (25.27%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (16.85%) Finance
4 33 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (5.13%) Legal
7 11 (4.03%) Law
8 9 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.20%) Banking
10 5 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.47%) Automotive
11 4 (1.47%) Local Government
11 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.10%) Police
12 3 (1.10%) Retail
13 2 (0.73%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.86%) Flash
2 7 (2.56%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.83%) Middleware
3 5 (1.83%) SAML
4 4 (1.47%) XML
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.73%) RFC 2544
6 1 (0.37%) LDAP
6 1 (0.37%) MACH
6 1 (0.37%) OAuth
6 1 (0.37%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.99%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (5.86%) Replication
3 13 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.40%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.93%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.47%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.73%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.73%) CSOC
10 2 (0.73%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.73%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.73%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.73%) PKI
10 2 (0.73%) SCADA
10 2 (0.73%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.45%) Linux
2 19 (6.96%) Windows
3 8 (2.93%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.47%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) AIX
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.37%) Solaris
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (27.84%) Agile
2 66 (24.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 65 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (15.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 37 (13.55%) Business Analysis
5 37 (13.55%) Migration
5 37 (13.55%) Requirements Gathering
6 34 (12.45%) Analytics
7 29 (10.62%) User Acceptance Testing
8 26 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
9 25 (9.16%) User Stories
10 23 (8.42%) Customer Service
10 23 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
11 22 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (7.69%) Decision-Making
13 19 (6.96%) Validation
14 17 (6.23%) Acceptance Criteria
14 17 (6.23%) Change Management
14 17 (6.23%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.16%) SQL
2 9 (3.30%) Python
3 6 (2.20%) Java
4 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.73%) R
5 2 (0.73%) Scala
6 1 (0.37%) COBOL
6 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 17 (6.23%) Degree
4 11 (4.03%) IIBA
5 7 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.83%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.83%) MCDST
6 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.10%) ISEB
7 3 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.73%) ACCA
8 2 (0.73%) CBAP
8 2 (0.73%) CCNA
8 2 (0.73%) CCNP
8 2 (0.73%) CIMA
8 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.86%) PMO
2 12 (4.40%) GDPR
3 7 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.83%) NIST
4 5 (1.83%) QA
5 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.73%) NCSC
7 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (12.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (10.99%) vSphere
3 16 (5.86%) GPFS
3 16 (5.86%) NFS
4 13 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (4.03%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.73%) Snort
Systems Management
1 30 (10.99%) vRealize
2 16 (5.86%) VxRail
3 5 (1.83%) SCCM
4 2 (0.73%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.73%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.37%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (13.92%) Cisco
1 38 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.82%) VMware
3 30 (10.99%) IBM
4 26 (9.52%) ServiceNow
5 24 (8.79%) Oracle
6 15 (5.49%) HP
7 14 (5.13%) AppDynamics
7 14 (5.13%) Commvault
7 14 (5.13%) Dell
7 14 (5.13%) SolarWinds
8 12 (4.40%) SAP
9 6 (2.20%) Pega
9 6 (2.20%) Splunk
10 5 (1.83%) iManage
10 5 (1.83%) Mitel
11 4 (1.47%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.47%) Netskope
11 4 (1.47%) Okta
12 3 (1.10%) Databricks