Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £411, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 305 158 238
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.74% 11.98% 12.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.74% 13.26% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 117 165
10th Percentile £263 £209 £193
25th Percentile £316 £342 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +11.76% +2.72%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £513
90th Percentile £539 £613 £575
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 18
10th Percentile - £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.22 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +26.83%
75th Percentile £27.50 £30.68 £27.25
90th Percentile £30.00 £31.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £17.87 £24.66 £16.30
% change year-on-year -27.53% +51.29% -16.41%

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 2,599 1,192 1,780
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 90.37% 91.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,719 807 1,195
10th Percentile £305 £200 £250
25th Percentile £402 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £686 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 57 139
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.18
25th Percentile £17.18 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -19.42% +25.00%
75th Percentile £33.56 £24.66 £39.38
90th Percentile £59.50 £34.25 £56.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -2 92 £425 -10.53% 27
Warwickshire -6 59 £475 -5.00% 16
Shropshire -21 52 £458 +6.33% 12
Coventry +8 51 £316 -33.47% 7
Worcestershire +3 14 £394 - 14
Staffordshire -2 8 £375 -4.76% 27
Solihull -5 5 £389 +13.74% 6
Dudley -4 2 £420 - 1
Herefordshire -14 2 £375 - 2
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Walsall +1 1 £338 +50.00% 2
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 1
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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 87 (28.52%) Agile
2 70 (22.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 63 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (17.70%) Security Cleared
5 50 (16.39%) AWS
6 49 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 44 (14.43%) Azure
8 41 (13.44%) Analytics
8 41 (13.44%) Requirements Gathering
8 41 (13.44%) SC Cleared
9 40 (13.11%) Linux
10 39 (12.79%) Cisco
10 39 (12.79%) Microsoft
11 38 (12.46%) Business Analysis
12 36 (11.80%) Migration
13 35 (11.48%) VMware
14 34 (11.15%) VMware Infrastructure
15 33 (10.82%) JIRA
15 33 (10.82%) SQL
16 32 (10.49%) Confluence
16 32 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (10.49%) IBM
16 32 (10.49%) vRealize
16 32 (10.49%) vSphere
17 31 (10.16%) Decision-Making
17 31 (10.16%) User Stories
18 30 (9.84%) Workshop Facilitation
19 29 (9.51%) Oracle
19 29 (9.51%) Power Platform
19 29 (9.51%) ServiceNow

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 32 (10.49%) Confluence
2 16 (5.25%) SAS
3 6 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.66%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.66%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 21 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (5.90%) MS Visio
3 15 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.66%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.66%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.33%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.33%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.33%) iTrent
3 1 (0.33%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (0.33%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (16.39%) AWS
2 44 (14.43%) Azure
3 29 (9.51%) Power Platform
4 14 (4.59%) Datadog
5 11 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.30%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.31%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.31%) GCP
8 4 (1.31%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.98%) dbt
9 3 (0.98%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (0.98%) Lucidchart
9 3 (0.98%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.66%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.25%) VSAN
2 10 (3.28%) VPN
3 5 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.64%) LAN
4 4 (1.31%) WAN
5 3 (0.98%) Firewall
6 2 (0.66%) BGP
6 2 (0.66%) DHCP
6 2 (0.66%) DNS
6 2 (0.66%) MPLS
6 2 (0.66%) NAS
6 2 (0.66%) OSPF
6 2 (0.66%) SAN
6 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.66%) VLAN
6 2 (0.66%) X.25
7 1 (0.33%) Skype
7 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.87%) Power BI
2 13 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.28%) Tableau
4 4 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.31%) Metadata
5 3 (0.98%) GIS
5 3 (0.98%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.66%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.66%) Power Query
6 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.33%) Looker
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.33%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 33 (10.82%) JIRA
2 4 (1.31%) Toad
3 3 (0.98%) Postman
3 3 (0.98%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.66%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.66%) MLflow
5 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
General
1 97 (31.80%) Social Skills
2 74 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (17.70%) Finance
4 35 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.26%) Legal
8 11 (3.61%) Banking
9 10 (3.28%) Law
9 10 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.95%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.30%) Local Government
12 6 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.31%) Automotive
13 4 (1.31%) Marketing
13 4 (1.31%) Publishing
13 4 (1.31%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.98%) Retail
15 2 (0.66%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.90%) Flash
2 7 (2.30%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.64%) Middleware
3 5 (1.64%) SAML
4 4 (1.31%) XML
5 2 (0.66%) RFC 2544
6 1 (0.33%) Kafka
6 1 (0.33%) LDAP
6 1 (0.33%) MACH
6 1 (0.33%) OAuth
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.33%) PySpark
6 1 (0.33%) REST
6 1 (0.33%) RESTful
6 1 (0.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.49%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (5.90%) Replication
3 13 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.93%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.62%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.31%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.31%) CSOC
8 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.31%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.98%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.66%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.66%) PKI
10 2 (0.66%) PMI
10 2 (0.66%) SCADA
10 2 (0.66%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.11%) Linux
2 21 (6.89%) Windows
3 6 (1.97%) Unix
4 5 (1.64%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.66%) AIX
5 2 (0.66%) Solaris
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (28.52%) Agile
2 70 (22.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 63 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 41 (13.44%) Analytics
5 41 (13.44%) Requirements Gathering
6 38 (12.46%) Business Analysis
7 36 (11.80%) Migration
8 32 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (10.16%) Decision-Making
9 31 (10.16%) User Stories
10 30 (9.84%) Workshop Facilitation
11 28 (9.18%) User Acceptance Testing
12 26 (8.52%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (7.54%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (7.21%) Validation
15 21 (6.89%) Actionable Insight
16 20 (6.56%) Acceptance Criteria
17 19 (6.23%) Customer Service
17 19 (6.23%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.82%) SQL
2 15 (4.92%) Python
3 6 (1.97%) Java
4 4 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (0.98%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.66%) R
6 2 (0.66%) Scala
7 1 (0.33%) COBOL
7 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (6.23%) Degree
5 11 (3.61%) IIBA
6 7 (2.30%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.31%) CBAP
9 3 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.98%) ISEB
9 3 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.66%) CCNA
10 2 (0.66%) CCNP
10 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.66%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.21%) PMO
2 12 (3.93%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.93%) GDPR
3 5 (1.64%) QA
4 4 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.31%) NIST
5 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.66%) NCSC
5 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (11.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (10.49%) vSphere
3 18 (5.90%) GPFS
3 18 (5.90%) NFS
4 15 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.30%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.31%) Snort
7 2 (0.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (10.49%) vRealize
2 17 (5.57%) VxRail
3 6 (1.97%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.31%) CSIRT
5 2 (0.66%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.66%) SCCM
6 1 (0.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (12.79%) Cisco
1 39 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.48%) VMware
3 32 (10.49%) IBM
4 29 (9.51%) Oracle
4 29 (9.51%) ServiceNow
5 18 (5.90%) SAP
6 14 (4.59%) AppDynamics
6 14 (4.59%) Commvault
6 14 (4.59%) HP
6 14 (4.59%) SolarWinds
7 13 (4.26%) Dell
8 9 (2.95%) Splunk
9 8 (2.62%) Pega
10 6 (1.97%) Databricks
11 4 (1.31%) Netskope
11 4 (1.31%) Okta
12 3 (0.98%) Cognos
12 3 (0.98%) Google
12 3 (0.98%) Teradata