Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £416, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 317 161 234
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.01% 12.18% 11.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.01% 13.47% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 118 162
10th Percentile £263 £212 £167
25th Percentile £316 £347 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +11.76% +1.19%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £518
90th Percentile £550 £600 £575
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 18
10th Percentile - £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.22 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +18.42%
75th Percentile £28.13 £30.68 £27.25
90th Percentile £30.00 £31.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £17.87 £24.54 £16.30
% change year-on-year -27.19% +50.57% -16.41%

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 2,639 1,195 1,794
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 90.39% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,740 823 1,206
10th Percentile £305 £200 £250
25th Percentile £402 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £662 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 59 139
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.18
25th Percentile £17.20 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -17.59% +17.76%
75th Percentile £33.75 £28.47 £39.38
90th Percentile £65.25 £35.00 £56.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -23.53%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -3 94 £425 -10.53% 35
Warwickshire -5 63 £500 - 16
Shropshire -22 52 £458 +6.33% 9
Coventry +8 51 £316 -33.47% 4
Worcestershire +1 16 £394 - 14
Staffordshire -3 8 £375 -4.76% 24
Solihull -6 6 £493 +44.01% 5
Herefordshire -12 3 £375 - 2
Dudley -4 2 £420 - 1
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 2
Walsall +1 1 £338 +50.00% 3
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 March 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 90 (28.39%) Agile
2 72 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 66 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (17.35%) Security Cleared
5 51 (16.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 50 (15.77%) AWS
7 46 (14.51%) Azure
8 44 (13.88%) Analytics
9 43 (13.56%) Requirements Gathering
10 42 (13.25%) Microsoft
10 42 (13.25%) SC Cleared
11 41 (12.93%) Linux
12 38 (11.99%) Business Analysis
12 38 (11.99%) Cisco
13 37 (11.67%) Migration
14 36 (11.36%) User Stories
15 35 (11.04%) JIRA
15 35 (11.04%) VMware
16 34 (10.73%) Decision-Making
16 34 (10.73%) SQL
16 34 (10.73%) VMware Infrastructure
17 33 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (10.09%) Confluence
18 32 (10.09%) IBM
18 32 (10.09%) User Acceptance Testing
18 32 (10.09%) vRealize
18 32 (10.09%) vSphere
19 31 (9.78%) Workshop Facilitation
20 30 (9.46%) Power Platform
20 30 (9.46%) ServiceNow

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 32 (10.09%) Confluence
2 16 (5.05%) SAS
3 6 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.63%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 24 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (6.31%) MS Visio
3 17 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.95%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.63%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.63%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.32%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.32%) iTrent
4 1 (0.32%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.32%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.32%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.32%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.32%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.77%) AWS
2 46 (14.51%) Azure
3 30 (9.46%) Power Platform
4 14 (4.42%) Datadog
5 11 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.21%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.58%) Google Tag Manager
9 5 (1.58%) Lucidchart
10 4 (1.26%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.26%) GCP
10 4 (1.26%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.95%) dbt
11 3 (0.95%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.63%) Figma
12 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.05%) VSAN
2 8 (2.52%) VPN
3 5 (1.58%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.58%) LAN
4 4 (1.26%) Firewall
4 4 (1.26%) WAN
5 2 (0.63%) BGP
5 2 (0.63%) MPLS
5 2 (0.63%) NAS
5 2 (0.63%) OSPF
5 2 (0.63%) SAN
5 2 (0.63%) VLAN
5 2 (0.63%) X.25
6 1 (0.32%) DHCP
6 1 (0.32%) DNS
6 1 (0.32%) Skype
6 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.89%) Power BI
2 13 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.47%) Tableau
4 4 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.26%) Metadata
5 3 (0.95%) GIS
5 3 (0.95%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.63%) Power Query
6 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.32%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.32%) Looker
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.32%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 35 (11.04%) JIRA
2 4 (1.26%) Toad
3 3 (0.95%) Postman
3 3 (0.95%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.63%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.63%) MLflow
5 1 (0.32%) REST Assured
General
1 98 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 73 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (17.35%) Finance
4 37 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.10%) Legal
7 11 (3.47%) Banking
8 10 (3.15%) Law
8 10 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.84%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.52%) Local Government
11 6 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.89%) Publishing
12 4 (1.26%) Automotive
12 4 (1.26%) Marketing
12 4 (1.26%) Police
12 4 (1.26%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.95%) Retail
14 2 (0.63%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.68%) Flash
2 7 (2.21%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.58%) Middleware
3 5 (1.58%) SAML
4 4 (1.26%) XML
5 2 (0.63%) RFC 2544
6 1 (0.32%) Kafka
6 1 (0.32%) LDAP
6 1 (0.32%) MACH
6 1 (0.32%) OAuth
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.32%) PySpark
6 1 (0.32%) REST
6 1 (0.32%) RESTful
6 1 (0.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.09%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (5.68%) Replication
3 14 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.26%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.26%) CSOC
8 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.26%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.95%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.63%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.63%) PKI
10 2 (0.63%) SCADA
10 2 (0.63%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.93%) Linux
2 22 (6.94%) Windows
3 6 (1.89%) Unix
4 5 (1.58%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.63%) AIX
5 2 (0.63%) Solaris
6 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (28.39%) Agile
2 72 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 66 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (16.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 44 (13.88%) Analytics
6 43 (13.56%) Requirements Gathering
7 38 (11.99%) Business Analysis
8 37 (11.67%) Migration
9 36 (11.36%) User Stories
10 34 (10.73%) Decision-Making
11 33 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (10.09%) User Acceptance Testing
13 31 (9.78%) Workshop Facilitation
14 27 (8.52%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (8.20%) Validation
16 24 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
17 22 (6.94%) Actionable Insight
18 21 (6.62%) Acceptance Criteria
19 20 (6.31%) Impact Assessments
19 20 (6.31%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.73%) SQL
2 15 (4.73%) Python
3 6 (1.89%) Java
4 4 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (0.95%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.63%) R
6 2 (0.63%) Scala
7 1 (0.32%) COBOL
7 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 42 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (5.99%) Degree
5 11 (3.47%) IIBA
6 7 (2.21%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.26%) CBAP
9 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.95%) ISEB
9 3 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.63%) ACCA
10 2 (0.63%) CCNA
10 2 (0.63%) CCNP
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.63%) PhD
10 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.94%) PMO
2 13 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.79%) GDPR
4 8 (2.52%) QA
5 5 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.58%) NIST
6 4 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.63%) NCSC
7 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (10.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (10.09%) vSphere
3 18 (5.68%) GPFS
3 18 (5.68%) NFS
4 15 (4.73%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.21%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.26%) Snort
7 2 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (10.09%) vRealize
2 17 (5.36%) VxRail
3 6 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.26%) CSIRT
5 2 (0.63%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.32%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.32%) QRadar
6 1 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 38 (11.99%) Cisco
3 35 (11.04%) VMware
4 32 (10.09%) IBM
5 30 (9.46%) ServiceNow
6 29 (9.15%) Oracle
7 19 (5.99%) SAP
8 14 (4.42%) AppDynamics
8 14 (4.42%) Commvault
8 14 (4.42%) HP
8 14 (4.42%) SolarWinds
9 13 (4.10%) Dell
10 10 (3.15%) Splunk
11 8 (2.52%) Pega
12 6 (1.89%) Databricks
13 5 (1.58%) Google
14 4 (1.26%) Okta
15 3 (0.95%) Cognos
15 3 (0.95%) Netskope
15 3 (0.95%) Teradata