Analyst Contracts in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 158 227 400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.75% 11.66% 16.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.94% 12.78% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 155 274
10th Percentile £195 £200 £185
25th Percentile £375 £313 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - +3.03%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £525
90th Percentile £588 £598 £588
England median daily rate £475 £486 £475
% change year-on-year -2.26% +2.32% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 15
10th Percentile £17.40 £13.50 £11.60
25th Percentile £22.03 £15.73 £12.50
Median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £16.48
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +36.53% +3.00%
75th Percentile £30.00 £23.75 £23.49
90th Percentile £30.68 £28.42 £25.13
England median hourly rate £22.14 £16.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +38.38% -17.95% +25.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Analyst 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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst 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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 64 £475 +11.76% 62
Warwickshire +4 51 £500 +11.11% 28
Shropshire +6 18 £430 -3.96% 13
Staffordshire -3 6 £150 -57.89% 44
Dudley - 5 - - 2
Coventry +7 4 £475 -9.52% 11
Solihull +16 1 £342 +144.29% 5
Herefordshire +6 1 £400 -25.65%
Walsall -1 1 - - 6
Worcestershire -11 1 - - 5
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 66 (41.77%) Social Skills
2 39 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (22.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (22.15%) Finance
5 32 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (18.99%) Agile
7 26 (16.46%) Microsoft
8 23 (14.56%) Data Analysis
9 21 (13.29%) Business Analysis
10 20 (12.66%) Security Cleared
10 20 (12.66%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (10.76%) Customer Service
11 17 (10.76%) SC Cleared
11 17 (10.76%) Migration
12 16 (10.13%) SQL
12 16 (10.13%) ITIL
12 16 (10.13%) Power Platform
13 15 (9.49%) Power BI
14 13 (8.23%) Public Sector
14 13 (8.23%) Active Directory
14 13 (8.23%) JIRA
14 13 (8.23%) Waterfall
15 12 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (7.59%) Collaborative Working
16 11 (6.96%) Data Structures
16 11 (6.96%) Change Management
16 11 (6.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 11 (6.96%) Data Migration
17 10 (6.33%) Law
17 10 (6.33%) Decision-Making

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.90%) IBM Notes
2 2 (1.27%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) IIS
2 2 (1.27%) SAS
2 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Maximo
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.13%) Power Platform
2 8 (5.06%) Azure
3 7 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.80%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.16%) AWS
6 3 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.90%) SaaS
7 2 (1.27%) Figma
7 2 (1.27%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.27%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.63%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.63%) GCP
8 1 (0.63%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.63%) OCI
8 1 (0.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.63%) Network Security
2 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.49%) Power BI
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database
2 3 (1.90%) RDBMS
2 3 (1.90%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.90%) Tableau
3 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.63%) Looker
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (0.63%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 13 (8.23%) JIRA
2 3 (1.90%) Selenium
3 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.63%) JMeter
4 1 (0.63%) Postman
4 1 (0.63%) Toad
General
1 66 (41.77%) Social Skills
2 39 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (22.15%) Finance
4 13 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.33%) Law
6 9 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.16%) Banking
9 3 (1.90%) Legal
10 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Local Government
10 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.27%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Billing
11 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Marketing
11 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.53%) .NET
2 2 (1.27%) Gherkin
2 2 (1.27%) HTML
2 2 (1.27%) Middleware
2 2 (1.27%) Web Services
2 2 (1.27%) XML
3 1 (0.63%) ADO
3 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.63%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.96%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.70%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.70%) Operational Technology
3 6 (3.80%) SCADA
4 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.90%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.27%) NHS
6 2 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.63%) AS400
7 1 (0.63%) CMDB
7 1 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.63%) IoT
7 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.70%) Windows
2 6 (3.80%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (18.99%) Agile
4 23 (14.56%) Data Analysis
5 21 (13.29%) Business Analysis
6 20 (12.66%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (10.76%) Customer Service
7 17 (10.76%) Migration
8 16 (10.13%) ITIL
9 13 (8.23%) Waterfall
10 12 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (7.59%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (6.96%) Change Management
11 11 (6.96%) Data Migration
11 11 (6.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (6.33%) Decision-Making
13 9 (5.70%) Project Delivery
14 8 (5.06%) Cyber Resilience
14 8 (5.06%) Requirements Gathering
14 8 (5.06%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.13%) SQL
2 4 (2.53%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.90%) C#
3 3 (1.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.27%) Java
4 2 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.27%) Python
5 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.63%) R
5 1 (0.63%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 20 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.43%) Degree
4 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.27%) CCNP
5 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.27%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (1.27%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.27%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.63%) ACCA
6 1 (0.63%) CBAP
6 1 (0.63%) CIMA
6 1 (0.63%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.63%) ISEB
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) PMO
2 5 (3.16%) NIST
2 5 (3.16%) QA
3 3 (1.90%) GDPR
3 3 (1.90%) SLA
4 2 (1.27%) NCSC
5 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.63%) GRC
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (8.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.63%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.27%) Grafana
1 2 (1.27%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.63%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.70%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.06%) Oracle
4 5 (3.16%) Motorola
4 5 (3.16%) Talend
5 4 (2.53%) Denodo
6 3 (1.90%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.90%) Informatica
6 3 (1.90%) Lotus
7 2 (1.27%) Adobe
7 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.27%) Google
7 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.27%) SAP
7 2 (1.27%) Varonis
8 1 (0.63%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.63%) Databricks
8 1 (0.63%) FireEye
8 1 (0.63%) Okta
8 1 (0.63%) Workday