Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
28 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 393 215 236
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.36% 13.09% 12.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.19% 14.40% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 140 167
10th Percentile £278 £222 £196
25th Percentile £325 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £538
90th Percentile £600 £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 3,225 1,493 1,756
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 90.93% 91.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,006 946 1,214
10th Percentile £325 £225 £250
25th Percentile £410 £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 201 115 86
10th Percentile £15.75 £12.62 £12.42
25th Percentile £21.25 £14.00 £14.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.34 £19.30
Median % change year-on-year +33.53% +26.15% -3.53%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.87 £38.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -1 115 £425 +13.33% 36
Warwickshire -6 87 £450 -10.00% 31
Shropshire -21 69 £382 +21.27% 9
Coventry -5 32 £326 -37.97% 7
Worcestershire +16 25 £425 +30.77% 2
Solihull -4 14 £534 +56.07% 4
Staffordshire -6 8 £220 +46.83% 13
Herefordshire -1 5 £500 +25.00% 4
Willenhall - 5 - -
Dudley -3 4 £420 - 1
Wolverhampton -4 3 £200 -25.58% 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 28 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 (20.87%) Agile
2 70 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 61 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (15.27%) Microsoft
5 57 (14.50%) Security Cleared
6 50 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 49 (12.47%) Decision-Making
7 49 (12.47%) SC Cleared
8 46 (11.70%) Business Analysis
9 45 (11.45%) JIRA
10 43 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (10.94%) Validation
10 43 (10.94%) Workshop Facilitation
11 42 (10.69%) Azure
11 42 (10.69%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (10.43%) Power Platform
12 41 (10.43%) Requirements Gathering
13 38 (9.67%) SQL
14 37 (9.41%) Analytics
14 37 (9.41%) Power BI
14 37 (9.41%) User Stories
15 36 (9.16%) SAP
16 35 (8.91%) Migration
16 35 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
17 33 (8.40%) AI
18 31 (7.89%) CRM
18 31 (7.89%) PMO
18 31 (7.89%) Windows
19 30 (7.63%) DevOps
19 30 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel

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 (6.87%) Confluence
2 21 (5.34%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.53%) SAS
4 3 (0.76%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.25%) Appian
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.80%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.51%) CATIA
5 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (4.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.76%) Primavera
4 3 (0.76%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.76%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.25%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (10.69%) Azure
2 41 (10.43%) Power Platform
3 25 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (3.31%) AWS
5 13 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.80%) Power Automate
7 8 (2.04%) SaaS
8 6 (1.53%) Google Tag Manager
9 5 (1.27%) Azure Functions
9 5 (1.27%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.27%) Lucidchart
9 5 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 5 (1.27%) Serverless
10 4 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.02%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.53%) VPN
2 5 (1.27%) DNS
2 5 (1.27%) Firewall
3 4 (1.02%) DHCP
3 4 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (1.02%) VSAN
4 3 (0.76%) 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 (0.25%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) Skype
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.41%) Power BI
2 20 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (2.29%) Tableau
5 8 (2.04%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.27%) Power Query
7 4 (1.02%) Metadata
8 3 (0.76%) Looker
9 2 (0.51%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.51%) GIS
9 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (11.45%) JIRA
2 21 (5.34%) Postman
3 14 (3.56%) Selenium
4 12 (3.05%) Zephyr
5 8 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.04%) WebDriver
6 5 (1.27%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.76%) Git
7 3 (0.76%) Protractor
7 3 (0.76%) Toad
8 2 (0.51%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.51%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 99 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 81 (20.61%) Finance
3 78 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.33%) Manufacturing
6 15 (3.82%) Banking
7 13 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.05%) Retail
9 11 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.04%) Automotive
10 8 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.04%) Legal
11 7 (1.78%) Local Government
11 7 (1.78%) Marketing
11 7 (1.78%) Police
12 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.53%) Publishing
13 5 (1.27%) Law
14 4 (1.02%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.29%) XML
2 8 (2.04%) Gherkin
3 5 (1.27%) Flash
4 4 (1.02%) JSON
4 4 (1.02%) XSLT
5 3 (0.76%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.51%) ADO
6 2 (0.51%) Middleware
6 2 (0.51%) RFC 2544
7 1 (0.25%) .NET
7 1 (0.25%) Kafka
7 1 (0.25%) PySpark
7 1 (0.25%) REST
7 1 (0.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.82%) Onboarding
2 10 (2.54%) Data Structures
2 10 (2.54%) Management Information System
3 6 (1.53%) Product Ownership
3 6 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.27%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (1.27%) Replication
4 5 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.02%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.02%) CSOC
5 4 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.02%) Operational Technology
5 4 (1.02%) Security Posture
6 3 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.76%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.51%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.89%) Windows
2 22 (5.60%) Linux
3 9 (2.29%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.53%) Unix
5 5 (1.27%) SUSE
6 2 (0.51%) AIX
6 2 (0.51%) Solaris
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (20.87%) Agile
2 70 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 61 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 49 (12.47%) Decision-Making
6 46 (11.70%) Business Analysis
7 43 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (10.94%) Validation
7 43 (10.94%) Workshop Facilitation
8 42 (10.69%) Business Intelligence
9 41 (10.43%) Requirements Gathering
10 37 (9.41%) Analytics
10 37 (9.41%) User Stories
11 35 (8.91%) Migration
11 35 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
12 33 (8.40%) AI
13 31 (7.89%) CRM
14 30 (7.63%) DevOps
14 30 (7.63%) Test Automation
15 29 (7.38%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (9.67%) SQL
2 13 (3.31%) Python
3 5 (1.27%) C#
3 5 (1.27%) Java
3 5 (1.27%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.27%) Scala
4 4 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.51%) R
6 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 57 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.47%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.60%) ISTQB
4 18 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (4.33%) Degree
6 8 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.27%) CBAP
7 5 (1.27%) ISEB
7 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.76%) IIBA
8 3 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.76%) 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%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.51%) PhD
9 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.89%) PMO
2 28 (7.12%) Data Quality
3 24 (6.11%) QA
4 16 (4.07%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.29%) GDPR
6 8 (2.04%) WCAG
7 6 (1.53%) NIST
8 5 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.51%) NCSC
9 2 (0.51%) SLA
9 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.25%) COBIT
10 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.27%) GPFS
2 5 (1.27%) NFS
2 5 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.27%) vSphere
3 4 (1.02%) Snort
3 4 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.27%) vRealize
3 4 (1.02%) CSIRT
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.02%) VxRail
4 3 (0.76%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.76%) QRadar
5 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 60 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.16%) SAP
3 29 (7.38%) Oracle
4 18 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.54%) IBM
6 8 (2.04%) Google
6 8 (2.04%) Splunk
7 7 (1.78%) Cisco
7 7 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.78%) Siemens
8 6 (1.53%) Talend
9 5 (1.27%) MathWorks
9 5 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.27%) VMware
10 4 (1.02%) Databricks
10 4 (1.02%) KANA
10 4 (1.02%) Teradata
11 3 (0.76%) Kronos
11 3 (0.76%) Remedy
11 3 (0.76%) webMethods
109 Analyst jobs in the West Midlands