Analyst Contracts 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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 198 260 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.80% 12.58% 15.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.11% 13.81% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 180 247
10th Percentile £255 £199 £200
25th Percentile £350 £311 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £538
90th Percentile £564 £625 £600
England median daily rate £456 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 16
10th Percentile - £13.50 -
25th Percentile £22.03 £13.89 £12.50
Median hourly rate £29.33 £22.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +33.32% +3.53% +25.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £23.75 £26.28
90th Percentile £32.73 £27.49 £28.38
England median hourly rate £22.50 £16.30 £19.39
% change year-on-year +38.04% -15.91% +14.03%

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 1,403 1,883 2,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 91.10% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 1,274 1,494
10th Percentile £206 £250 £257
25th Percentile £360 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.83%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 136 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.22 £15.06
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.84
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -8.82% +19.07%
75th Percentile £33.91 £35.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £54.88
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -30.00% -9.20% +79.82%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Warwickshire +11 78 £500 +11.11% 53
Birmingham -5 58 £390 -6.02% 118
Shropshire +8 20 £400 -10.91% 33
Coventry -4 10 £356 -35.23% 30
Staffordshire -3 9 £150 -62.50% 59
Dudley - 5 - - 5
Herefordshire +10 3 £400 -25.65% 5
Wolverhampton +1 3 £263 -50.00% 17
Solihull +4 1 £342 +144.29% 7
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 94 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 62 (31.31%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (21.72%) Microsoft
5 42 (21.21%) Finance
6 40 (20.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (17.17%) Data Analysis
7 34 (17.17%) Microsoft Office
8 28 (14.14%) Agile
9 24 (12.12%) Business Analysis
10 23 (11.62%) Security Cleared
10 23 (11.62%) Microsoft Excel
10 23 (11.62%) Decision-Making
10 23 (11.62%) Power Platform
11 22 (11.11%) Change Management
12 21 (10.61%) Project Management
12 21 (10.61%) Migration
13 19 (9.60%) ITIL
13 19 (9.60%) Power BI
13 19 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (9.09%) SQL
15 17 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (8.59%) JIRA
16 16 (8.08%) Degree
16 16 (8.08%) SC Cleared
16 16 (8.08%) Active Directory
16 16 (8.08%) Windows
16 16 (8.08%) Process Improvement
16 16 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
16 16 (8.08%) PMO

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 15 (7.58%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.02%) IBM Notes
3 2 (1.01%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.01%) IIS
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) WebLogic
Applications
1 34 (17.17%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (11.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (1.52%) Oracle iProcurement
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.62%) Power Platform
2 12 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (5.05%) Azure
4 4 (2.02%) Power Automate
4 4 (2.02%) PowerApps
4 4 (2.02%) SaaS
5 3 (1.52%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.01%) Figma
6 2 (1.01%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.51%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.51%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.51%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.54%) Firewall
2 6 (3.03%) DHCP
2 6 (3.03%) DNS
2 6 (3.03%) LAN
2 6 (3.03%) WAN
2 6 (3.03%) Wireless
3 5 (2.53%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (2.53%) PuTTY
3 5 (2.53%) WLAN
4 3 (1.52%) WebEx
5 2 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.01%) VoIP
5 2 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.51%) DMZ
6 1 (0.51%) Intranet
6 1 (0.51%) Modbus
6 1 (0.51%) SNMP
6 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.51%) VLAN
6 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.60%) Power BI
2 10 (5.05%) Tableau
3 4 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.02%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.02%) GIS
3 4 (2.02%) Spatial Data
3 4 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.52%) Metadata
4 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.51%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.51%) Power Query
6 1 (0.51%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.59%) JIRA
2 5 (2.53%) PVCS
3 3 (1.52%) Selenium
4 2 (1.01%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.01%) GDB
4 2 (1.01%) TestPartner
5 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.51%) JMeter
5 1 (0.51%) Postman
5 1 (0.51%) Toad
General
1 94 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 62 (31.31%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (21.21%) Finance
4 12 (6.06%) Law
4 12 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.54%) Legal
10 6 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.53%) Automotive
11 5 (2.53%) Banking
12 2 (1.01%) Billing
13 1 (0.51%) Advertising
13 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.51%) Games
13 1 (0.51%) Local Government
13 1 (0.51%) Marketing
13 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.54%) XML
2 4 (2.02%) Middleware
3 3 (1.52%) .NET
4 2 (1.01%) GeoJSON
4 2 (1.01%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.01%) HTML
4 2 (1.01%) KML
4 2 (1.01%) Web Services
5 1 (0.51%) ADO
5 1 (0.51%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.51%) OLE
5 1 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.07%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.56%) SCADA
4 9 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.55%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.03%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.01%) Learning Management System
10 2 (1.01%) Pricing Data
10 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.51%) AS400
11 1 (0.51%) CCTV
11 1 (0.51%) CMDB
11 1 (0.51%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.08%) Windows
2 5 (2.53%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (20.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (17.17%) Data Analysis
4 28 (14.14%) Agile
5 24 (12.12%) Business Analysis
6 23 (11.62%) Decision-Making
7 22 (11.11%) Change Management
8 21 (10.61%) Migration
8 21 (10.61%) Project Management
9 19 (9.60%) ITIL
9 19 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (8.08%) Customer Service
11 16 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (8.08%) Process Improvement
12 15 (7.58%) Waterfall
13 14 (7.07%) Data Modelling
13 14 (7.07%) Test Strategy
14 13 (6.57%) Data Management
14 13 (6.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.09%) SQL
2 6 (3.03%) Python
3 5 (2.53%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.02%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.52%) C#
5 3 (1.52%) Java
5 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.52%) VBA
6 1 (0.51%) R
6 1 (0.51%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 23 (11.62%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.08%) Degree
2 16 (8.08%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.54%) CCNA
3 7 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.53%) CCNP
4 5 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.01%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.51%) CBAP
7 1 (0.51%) CISSP
7 1 (0.51%) ISEB
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.51%) MCP
7 1 (0.51%) MCSA
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.08%) PMO
2 8 (4.04%) QA
3 7 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.03%) GDPR
4 6 (3.03%) NIST
5 3 (1.52%) SLA
6 2 (1.01%) NCSC
7 1 (0.51%) GRC
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.51%) P3O
System Software
1 16 (8.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.51%) Firmware
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.01%) Grafana
2 2 (1.01%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (21.72%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.04%) Cisco
4 7 (3.54%) Oracle
4 7 (3.54%) Remedy
4 7 (3.54%) SAP
5 5 (2.53%) Motorola
5 5 (2.53%) Peregrine
6 4 (2.02%) Denodo
6 4 (2.02%) Lotus
7 3 (1.52%) Citrix
7 3 (1.52%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.52%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.52%) Sage
8 2 (1.01%) HP
8 2 (1.01%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.01%) OpenText
8 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.51%) iManage
9 1 (0.51%) MobileIron