Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 390 215 236
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.32% 13.09% 12.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.14% 14.39% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 140 167
10th Percentile £281 £222 £196
25th Percentile £325 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £538
90th Percentile £588 £550 £626
England median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 6
10th Percentile £22.50 - £14.69
25th Percentile £22.59 £22.03 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.80 £29.67 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% +52.13% -14.70%
75th Percentile £30.27 £31.00 £23.31
90th Percentile £70.07 £33.02 £45.63
England median hourly rate £25.00 £22.14 £17.50
% change year-on-year +12.92% +26.51% -7.89%

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 3,212 1,494 1,756
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 90.99% 91.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,001 947 1,214
10th Percentile £325 £224 £250
25th Percentile £408 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £575 £604
90th Percentile £675 £650 £704
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 115 86
10th Percentile £15.60 £12.62 £12.42
25th Percentile £20.78 £14.00 £14.16
Median hourly rate £33.00 £24.34 £19.30
Median % change year-on-year +35.58% +26.15% -3.53%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.87 £38.44
90th Percentile £70.05 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +1 116 £425 +13.33% 35
Warwickshire -7 85 £425 -15.00% 31
Shropshire -19 69 £382 +21.27% 8
Coventry -2 31 £319 -39.22% 8
Worcestershire +16 25 £425 +30.77% 2
Solihull -5 14 £534 +56.07% 5
Staffordshire -7 8 £220 +46.83% 12
Herefordshire -2 5 £500 +25.00% 3
Willenhall - 5 - -
Dudley -3 4 £420 -
Wolverhampton -4 2 - - 4
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 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 82 (21.03%) Agile
2 69 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 62 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (15.64%) Microsoft
5 57 (14.62%) Security Cleared
6 50 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 49 (12.56%) SC Cleared
8 47 (12.05%) Decision-Making
9 46 (11.79%) Validation
10 45 (11.54%) Business Analysis
10 45 (11.54%) JIRA
11 44 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (11.03%) Workshop Facilitation
13 42 (10.77%) Azure
14 41 (10.51%) Power Platform
14 41 (10.51%) Requirements Gathering
15 40 (10.26%) SQL
16 39 (10.00%) Analytics
17 37 (9.49%) Migration
17 37 (9.49%) Power BI
18 36 (9.23%) SAP
18 36 (9.23%) User Stories
19 35 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
20 33 (8.46%) AI
21 31 (7.95%) CRM
21 31 (7.95%) Data Quality
21 31 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
21 31 (7.95%) PMO
21 31 (7.95%) 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 27 (6.92%) Confluence
2 21 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.54%) SAS
4 3 (0.77%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.26%) Appian
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 31 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.82%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.51%) CATIA
5 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (4.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.77%) Primavera
4 3 (0.77%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.77%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.26%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (10.77%) Azure
2 41 (10.51%) Power Platform
3 25 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (3.59%) AWS
6 13 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (2.82%) Power Automate
8 8 (2.05%) SaaS
9 6 (1.54%) Google Tag Manager
10 5 (1.28%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.28%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.28%) Lucidchart
10 5 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (1.28%) Serverless
11 4 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.03%) OneDrive
12 3 (0.77%) dbt
12 3 (0.77%) Google Analytics
12 3 (0.77%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.54%) VPN
2 5 (1.28%) DNS
2 5 (1.28%) Firewall
3 4 (1.03%) DHCP
3 4 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (1.03%) VSAN
4 3 (0.77%) LAN
5 2 (0.51%) BGP
5 2 (0.51%) MPLS
5 2 (0.51%) NAS
5 2 (0.51%) OSPF
5 2 (0.51%) SAN
5 2 (0.51%) VLAN
5 2 (0.51%) WAN
6 1 (0.26%) Internet
6 1 (0.26%) Skype
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.49%) Power BI
2 20 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.82%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (2.56%) Tableau
5 8 (2.05%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.28%) Power Query
7 4 (1.03%) Metadata
8 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.77%) Looker
9 2 (0.51%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.51%) GIS
9 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (11.54%) JIRA
2 21 (5.38%) Postman
3 14 (3.59%) Selenium
4 12 (3.08%) Zephyr
5 8 (2.05%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.05%) WebDriver
6 5 (1.28%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.77%) Git
7 3 (0.77%) Protractor
7 3 (0.77%) Toad
8 2 (0.51%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.51%) MLflow
9 1 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 98 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 81 (20.77%) Finance
3 80 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.10%) Manufacturing
6 15 (3.85%) Banking
7 13 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.08%) Retail
9 11 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.05%) Automotive
10 8 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.05%) Legal
11 7 (1.79%) Local Government
11 7 (1.79%) Marketing
11 7 (1.79%) Police
12 6 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.54%) Publishing
13 5 (1.28%) Law
14 4 (1.03%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.31%) XML
2 8 (2.05%) Gherkin
3 5 (1.28%) Flash
4 4 (1.03%) JSON
4 4 (1.03%) XSLT
5 3 (0.77%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.51%) ADO
6 2 (0.51%) RFC 2544
7 1 (0.26%) .NET
7 1 (0.26%) Kafka
7 1 (0.26%) Middleware
7 1 (0.26%) PySpark
7 1 (0.26%) REST
7 1 (0.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 11 (2.82%) Data Structures
3 10 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (1.28%) Replication
5 5 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (1.28%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.03%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.03%) CSOC
6 4 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.03%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.03%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.77%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.51%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.95%) Windows
2 21 (5.38%) Linux
3 9 (2.31%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.28%) SUSE
4 5 (1.28%) Unix
5 2 (0.51%) AIX
5 2 (0.51%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (21.03%) Agile
2 69 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 62 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 47 (12.05%) Decision-Making
6 46 (11.79%) Validation
7 45 (11.54%) Business Analysis
8 44 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
9 43 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (11.03%) Workshop Facilitation
10 41 (10.51%) Requirements Gathering
11 39 (10.00%) Analytics
12 37 (9.49%) Migration
13 36 (9.23%) User Stories
14 35 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
15 33 (8.46%) AI
16 31 (7.95%) CRM
17 30 (7.69%) DevOps
17 30 (7.69%) Test Automation
18 27 (6.92%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 40 (10.26%) SQL
2 13 (3.33%) Python
3 5 (1.28%) C#
3 5 (1.28%) Java
3 5 (1.28%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.28%) Scala
4 4 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.51%) R
6 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 57 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.64%) ISTQB
4 18 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (4.10%) Degree
6 8 (2.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.28%) CBAP
7 5 (1.28%) ISEB
7 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.77%) IIBA
8 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.51%) CAPM
9 2 (0.51%) CCNA
9 2 (0.51%) CCNP
9 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.51%) PhD
9 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.51%) PMP
10 1 (0.26%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.95%) Data Quality
1 31 (7.95%) PMO
2 24 (6.15%) QA
3 16 (4.10%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.31%) GDPR
5 8 (2.05%) WCAG
6 6 (1.54%) NIST
7 5 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.51%) NCSC
8 2 (0.51%) SLA
8 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.28%) GPFS
2 5 (1.28%) NFS
2 5 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.28%) vSphere
3 4 (1.03%) Snort
3 4 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.28%) vRealize
3 4 (1.03%) CSIRT
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.03%) VxRail
4 3 (0.77%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.77%) QRadar
5 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 61 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.23%) SAP
3 29 (7.44%) Oracle
4 18 (4.62%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.56%) IBM
6 8 (2.05%) Google
6 8 (2.05%) Splunk
7 7 (1.79%) Cisco
7 7 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.79%) Siemens
8 6 (1.54%) Talend
9 5 (1.28%) MathWorks
9 5 (1.28%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.28%) VMware
10 4 (1.03%) Databricks
10 4 (1.03%) KANA
10 4 (1.03%) Teradata
11 3 (0.77%) Kronos
11 3 (0.77%) Remedy
11 3 (0.77%) webMethods