Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 369 184 252
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.37% 12.59% 12.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.23% 13.93% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 120 172
10th Percentile £267 £262 £191
25th Percentile £325 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £513
90th Percentile £575 £575 £600
England median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 14
10th Percentile £22.50 £18.91 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.03 £14.29
Median hourly rate £26.95 £22.05 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% -0.90% +7.23%
75th Percentile £30.27 £31.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £70.07 £33.30 £28.42
England median hourly rate £22.35 £22.14 £16.30
% change year-on-year +0.95% +35.83% -15.07%

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 3,016 1,321 1,870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 90.42% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,914 838 1,255
10th Percentile £315 £200 £250
25th Percentile £408 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £639 £700
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 92 146
10th Percentile £14.97 £12.62 £12.02
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.00 £14.75
Median hourly rate £33.98 £22.05 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +54.10% +12.56% -2.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.91 £39.69
90th Percentile £68.40 £50.00 £55.63
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
% change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -1 104 £400 -5.88% 45
Warwickshire -10 79 £425 -15.00% 14
Shropshire -11 65 £400 - 5
Coventry +2 30 £398 +11.68% 9
Worcestershire +16 23 £425 - 6
Solihull +1 16 £380 +11.18% 2
Staffordshire 0 9 £301 +100.33% 10
Herefordshire 0 7 £438 +9.38% 1
Willenhall - 5 - - 1
Dudley -3 4 £420 -
Wolverhampton -4 2 - - 3
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 83 (22.49%) Agile
2 74 (20.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 55 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (14.36%) Microsoft
5 52 (14.09%) Security Cleared
5 52 (14.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 51 (13.82%) Analytics
7 49 (13.28%) Migration
8 48 (13.01%) Requirements Gathering
9 47 (12.74%) Business Analysis
10 46 (12.47%) Workshop Facilitation
11 44 (11.92%) Decision-Making
11 44 (11.92%) JIRA
11 44 (11.92%) SC Cleared
12 43 (11.65%) Power Platform
13 42 (11.38%) User Stories
14 41 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
15 40 (10.84%) SQL
16 39 (10.57%) User Acceptance Testing
17 38 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
18 37 (10.03%) Power BI
18 37 (10.03%) Validation
19 36 (9.76%) Azure
20 34 (9.21%) Confluence
21 31 (8.40%) PMO
22 29 (7.86%) AWS
22 29 (7.86%) Oracle
23 28 (7.59%) AI
23 28 (7.59%) Data Quality
23 28 (7.59%) Windows

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 34 (9.21%) Confluence
2 19 (5.15%) SAS
3 18 (4.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) Appian
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 27 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.79%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.54%) CATIA
5 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.81%) SAP HR
3 3 (0.81%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.27%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.27%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.27%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.27%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.27%) Orchard Housing
5 1 (0.27%) Primavera
5 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.65%) Power Platform
2 36 (9.76%) Azure
3 29 (7.86%) AWS
4 16 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.17%) SaaS
8 6 (1.63%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.63%) Google Tag Manager
8 6 (1.63%) Lucidchart
9 4 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.08%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (0.81%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.81%) dbt
10 3 (0.81%) Google Analytics
10 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.90%) VPN
2 5 (1.36%) Firewall
2 5 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (1.36%) LAN
2 5 (1.36%) VSAN
3 4 (1.08%) DHCP
3 4 (1.08%) DNS
3 4 (1.08%) WAN
4 2 (0.54%) BGP
4 2 (0.54%) MPLS
4 2 (0.54%) NAS
4 2 (0.54%) OSPF
4 2 (0.54%) SAN
4 2 (0.54%) VLAN
5 1 (0.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.03%) Power BI
2 22 (5.96%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.98%) Oracle Reports
3 11 (2.98%) Tableau
4 5 (1.36%) Metadata
4 5 (1.36%) Power Query
5 3 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.54%) GIS
6 2 (0.54%) Looker
7 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (11.92%) JIRA
2 12 (3.25%) Postman
2 12 (3.25%) Zephyr
3 6 (1.63%) Selenium
4 3 (0.81%) Git
5 2 (0.54%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.54%) MLflow
6 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 102 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.68%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (18.70%) Finance
4 31 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.07%) Banking
7 12 (3.25%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.25%) Retail
8 10 (2.71%) Automotive
9 9 (2.44%) Legal
10 8 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.17%) Local Government
10 8 (2.17%) Marketing
11 7 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.90%) Law
12 6 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.63%) Publishing
13 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.36%) Police
14 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.25%) Flash
2 3 (0.81%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.54%) Middleware
3 2 (0.54%) RFC 2544
3 2 (0.54%) XML
4 1 (0.27%) .NET
4 1 (0.27%) ADO
4 1 (0.27%) JSON
4 1 (0.27%) Kafka
4 1 (0.27%) PySpark
4 1 (0.27%) REST
4 1 (0.27%) SOAP
4 1 (0.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.88%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (3.25%) Replication
3 8 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.63%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.36%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.36%) Security Posture
5 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.08%) CSOC
6 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (0.81%) Credit Risk
7 3 (0.81%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.54%) PKI
8 2 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.59%) Windows
2 25 (6.78%) Linux
3 10 (2.71%) Windows 10
4 8 (2.17%) Unix
5 2 (0.54%) AIX
5 2 (0.54%) Solaris
5 2 (0.54%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (22.49%) Agile
2 74 (20.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 55 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (14.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 51 (13.82%) Analytics
6 49 (13.28%) Migration
7 48 (13.01%) Requirements Gathering
8 47 (12.74%) Business Analysis
9 46 (12.47%) Workshop Facilitation
10 44 (11.92%) Decision-Making
11 42 (11.38%) User Stories
12 41 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
13 39 (10.57%) User Acceptance Testing
14 38 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (10.03%) Validation
16 28 (7.59%) AI
17 26 (7.05%) Data Analysis
17 26 (7.05%) Data Migration
17 26 (7.05%) Process Improvement
18 25 (6.78%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 40 (10.84%) SQL
2 14 (3.79%) Python
3 4 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.54%) Java
4 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.27%) R
5 1 (0.27%) Scala
5 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 52 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 44 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (3.79%) Degree
5 11 (2.98%) IIBA
6 10 (2.71%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.08%) CBAP
8 3 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.54%) ACCA
9 2 (0.54%) CAPM
9 2 (0.54%) CCNA
9 2 (0.54%) CCNP
9 2 (0.54%) CIMA
9 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.54%) PhD
9 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.54%) PMP
10 1 (0.27%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.40%) PMO
2 28 (7.59%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.52%) QA
4 10 (2.71%) GDPR
5 7 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.63%) NIST
7 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.54%) NCSC
8 2 (0.54%) SLA
8 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (3.25%) GPFS
1 12 (3.25%) NFS
2 10 (2.71%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (2.71%) vSphere
3 9 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.08%) Snort
5 2 (0.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.71%) vRealize
2 6 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.36%) VxRail
4 4 (1.08%) CSIRT
5 3 (0.81%) QRadar
6 2 (0.54%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.27%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 53 (14.36%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.86%) Oracle
3 26 (7.05%) ServiceNow
4 23 (6.23%) SAP
5 14 (3.79%) IBM
6 12 (3.25%) Cisco
7 10 (2.71%) VMware
8 9 (2.44%) Splunk
9 8 (2.17%) Google
10 6 (1.63%) Talend
11 5 (1.36%) Databricks
11 5 (1.36%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.36%) Teradata
12 4 (1.08%) Siemens
13 3 (0.81%) Cognos
13 3 (0.81%) Kronos
13 3 (0.81%) Pega
13 3 (0.81%) Remedy
14 2 (0.54%) Aareon
14 2 (0.54%) MathWorks