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 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 357 162 227
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.38% 11.76% 11.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.27% 12.95% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 114 152
10th Percentile £263 £213 £200
25th Percentile £321 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £492 £538 £521
90th Percentile £575 £575 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 15
10th Percentile - £16.68 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.08 £14.94
Median hourly rate £26.95 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% -2.00% +26.83%
75th Percentile £30.20 £22.08 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.37 - £28.42
England median hourly rate £21.00 £22.05 £16.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +37.81% -15.79%

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 2,910 1,251 1,735
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 90.85% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,826 816 1,174
10th Percentile £313 £195 £259
25th Percentile £405 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% -0.92% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £644 £711
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 75 135
10th Percentile £14.87 £12.62 £12.04
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.81% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £59.56 £24.83 £41.13
90th Percentile £68.20 £46.79 £55.75
England median hourly rate £46.14 £30.20 £37.18
% change year-on-year +52.78% -18.77% -17.38%

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 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 99 £425 -10.53% 43
Warwickshire -10 70 £450 -10.00% 24
Shropshire -12 64 £400 -0.41% 7
Coventry +9 39 £363 -21.62% 4
Worcestershire +10 23 £431 - 6
Solihull 0 13 £493 +44.01% 5
Staffordshire 0 8 £388 +158.33% 12
Herefordshire -6 5 £375 -6.25% 3
Willenhall - 5 - -
Dudley -3 3 £420 - 3
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 3
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 92 (25.77%) Agile
2 77 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (16.53%) Security Cleared
4 57 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (15.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 51 (14.29%) Migration
7 50 (14.01%) SC Cleared
8 49 (13.73%) Analytics
8 49 (13.73%) Requirements Gathering
9 45 (12.61%) Business Analysis
9 45 (12.61%) Microsoft
10 43 (12.04%) JIRA
11 42 (11.76%) Azure
11 42 (11.76%) User Stories
12 39 (10.92%) Confluence
12 39 (10.92%) User Acceptance Testing
13 38 (10.64%) AWS
13 38 (10.64%) Workshop Facilitation
14 37 (10.36%) SQL
15 36 (10.08%) Decision-Making
15 36 (10.08%) Power Platform
16 33 (9.24%) Business Intelligence
16 33 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 31 (8.68%) Validation
18 30 (8.40%) Power BI
18 30 (8.40%) ServiceNow
19 29 (8.12%) Linux
20 28 (7.84%) Oracle
21 26 (7.28%) AI
21 26 (7.28%) Data Migration

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 39 (10.92%) Confluence
2 19 (5.32%) SAS
3 16 (4.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) Appian
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.76%) MS Visio
3 15 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.28%) CATIA
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.84%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.56%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.28%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.28%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.28%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.28%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.28%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.28%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (11.76%) Azure
2 38 (10.64%) AWS
3 36 (10.08%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (2.80%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.24%) SaaS
8 6 (1.68%) Google Tag Manager
8 6 (1.68%) Lucidchart
9 4 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.12%) Datadog
9 4 (1.12%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.84%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.84%) dbt
10 3 (0.84%) Google Analytics
11 2 (0.56%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.52%) VSAN
2 8 (2.24%) VPN
3 5 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.40%) LAN
4 4 (1.12%) DHCP
4 4 (1.12%) DNS
4 4 (1.12%) Firewall
4 4 (1.12%) WAN
5 2 (0.56%) BGP
5 2 (0.56%) MPLS
5 2 (0.56%) NAS
5 2 (0.56%) OSPF
5 2 (0.56%) SAN
5 2 (0.56%) VLAN
5 2 (0.56%) X.25
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
6 1 (0.28%) Skype
6 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.40%) Power BI
2 23 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
3 11 (3.08%) Tableau
4 6 (1.68%) Metadata
5 3 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.84%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.84%) Power Query
6 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.56%) Looker
6 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.28%) GIS
7 1 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (12.04%) JIRA
2 12 (3.36%) Postman
2 12 (3.36%) Zephyr
3 6 (1.68%) Selenium
4 3 (0.84%) Git
5 2 (0.56%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.56%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 104 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 77 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (17.09%) Finance
4 24 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.64%) Banking
7 11 (3.08%) Retail
8 10 (2.80%) Legal
9 9 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.24%) Marketing
11 7 (1.96%) Automotive
11 7 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.96%) Law
11 7 (1.96%) Publishing
12 6 (1.68%) Local Government
12 6 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.40%) Police
14 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.56%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.20%) Flash
2 5 (1.40%) SailPoint
3 3 (0.84%) SAML
4 2 (0.56%) Middleware
4 2 (0.56%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.28%) ADO
5 1 (0.28%) Kafka
5 1 (0.28%) LDAP
5 1 (0.28%) OAuth
5 1 (0.28%) PySpark
5 1 (0.28%) REST
5 1 (0.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.32%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.20%) Replication
4 11 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.52%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (1.68%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.40%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.12%) CSOC
8 4 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.84%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.56%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.56%) PKI
10 2 (0.56%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.12%) Linux
2 22 (6.16%) Windows
3 8 (2.24%) Unix
3 8 (2.24%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.56%) AIX
4 2 (0.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (25.77%) Agile
2 77 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 57 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (15.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 51 (14.29%) Migration
6 49 (13.73%) Analytics
6 49 (13.73%) Requirements Gathering
7 45 (12.61%) Business Analysis
8 42 (11.76%) User Stories
9 39 (10.92%) User Acceptance Testing
10 38 (10.64%) Workshop Facilitation
11 36 (10.08%) Decision-Making
12 33 (9.24%) Business Intelligence
12 33 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (8.68%) Validation
14 26 (7.28%) AI
14 26 (7.28%) Data Migration
15 24 (6.72%) DevOps
15 24 (6.72%) ETL
15 24 (6.72%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (10.36%) SQL
2 15 (4.20%) Python
3 4 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (0.84%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.56%) R
5 2 (0.56%) Scala
6 1 (0.28%) Java
6 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (16.53%) Security Cleared
2 50 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (4.20%) Degree
5 11 (3.08%) IIBA
6 10 (2.80%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.12%) CBAP
8 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.56%) ACCA
9 2 (0.56%) CAPM
9 2 (0.56%) CCNA
9 2 (0.56%) CCNP
9 2 (0.56%) CIMA
9 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.56%) PhD
9 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.56%) PMP
10 1 (0.28%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.72%) PMO
2 21 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.36%) GDPR
3 12 (3.36%) QA
4 6 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.68%) NIST
5 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.84%) SLA
7 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.56%) NCSC
7 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 19 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (5.04%) vSphere
3 15 (4.20%) GPFS
3 15 (4.20%) NFS
4 12 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.80%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.12%) Snort
7 2 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (5.04%) vRealize
2 9 (2.52%) VxRail
3 6 (1.68%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.12%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.56%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.56%) QRadar
7 1 (0.28%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 45 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.40%) ServiceNow
3 28 (7.84%) Oracle
4 21 (5.88%) SAP
5 20 (5.60%) Cisco
5 20 (5.60%) VMware
6 19 (5.32%) IBM
7 8 (2.24%) Google
7 8 (2.24%) Pega
7 8 (2.24%) Splunk
8 7 (1.96%) Databricks
9 6 (1.68%) HP
9 6 (1.68%) Talend
10 5 (1.40%) Teradata
11 4 (1.12%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.12%) Commvault
11 4 (1.12%) Dell
11 4 (1.12%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.84%) Cognos
12 3 (0.84%) Salesforce