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 1 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
1 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 393 215 222
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.30% 13.01% 11.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.14% 14.32% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 139 160
10th Percentile £263 £220 £190
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 £461 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.46% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 5
10th Percentile £22.50 - £15.70
25th Percentile £22.59 £22.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.80 £29.67 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% +34.84% -3.76%
75th Percentile £30.27 £31.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £70.07 £33.02 £50.00
England median hourly rate £25.42 £22.14 £17.50
% change year-on-year +14.81% +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 3,237 1,501 1,709
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 90.86% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,012 950 1,183
10th Percentile £325 £224 £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 £588 £575 £612
90th Percentile £675 £650 £712
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 117 82
10th Percentile £14.88 £12.62 £12.77
25th Percentile £20.55 £14.00 £14.93
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.34 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +33.53% +24.25% -2.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £69.78 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.28 £43.90
% change year-on-year +71.23% -40.14% +2.09%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +1 117 £425 +13.33% 32
Warwickshire -6 88 £438 -12.50% 27
Shropshire -23 65 £375 +19.05% 11
Coventry -7 33 £313 -40.48% 7
Worcestershire +17 25 £425 +30.77% 7
Solihull -3 14 £534 +56.07% 4
Staffordshire -5 8 £220 +46.83% 16
Herefordshire -1 5 £500 +25.00% 3
Willenhall - 5 - -
Dudley -3 4 £420 - 3
Wolverhampton -5 3 £200 -25.58% 2
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 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 83 (21.12%) Agile
2 73 (18.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 62 (15.78%) Microsoft
3 62 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (14.25%) Security Cleared
5 52 (13.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 49 (12.47%) Decision-Making
7 48 (12.21%) SC Cleared
8 47 (11.96%) Business Analysis
9 46 (11.70%) Workshop Facilitation
10 45 (11.45%) JIRA
11 44 (11.20%) Requirements Gathering
12 43 (10.94%) Azure
12 43 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (10.69%) Validation
14 40 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
14 40 (10.18%) Power Platform
15 39 (9.92%) User Stories
16 36 (9.16%) Power BI
16 36 (9.16%) SAP
16 36 (9.16%) SQL
17 35 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
18 34 (8.65%) AI
19 33 (8.40%) Migration
20 32 (8.14%) CRM
21 31 (7.89%) Analytics
21 31 (7.89%) DevOps
21 31 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
21 31 (7.89%) Test Automation
21 31 (7.89%) 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 (6.87%) Confluence
2 21 (5.34%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.53%) SAS
4 3 (0.76%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) Appian
Applications
1 31 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.07%) 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 18 (4.58%) 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 43 (10.94%) Azure
2 40 (10.18%) Power Platform
3 26 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (4.33%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.05%) AWS
6 12 (3.05%) Power Automate
7 8 (2.04%) SaaS
8 6 (1.53%) Azure Functions
8 6 (1.53%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.53%) Google Tag Manager
8 6 (1.53%) Serverless
9 5 (1.27%) Lucidchart
9 5 (1.27%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.78%) VPN
2 6 (1.53%) DNS
3 5 (1.27%) DHCP
3 5 (1.27%) Firewall
4 4 (1.02%) VSAN
5 3 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.76%) LAN
6 2 (0.51%) BGP
6 2 (0.51%) MPLS
6 2 (0.51%) NAS
6 2 (0.51%) OSPF
6 2 (0.51%) SAN
6 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.51%) VLAN
6 2 (0.51%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.16%) Power BI
2 20 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.04%) Tableau
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%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (11.45%) JIRA
2 22 (5.60%) Postman
3 15 (3.82%) Selenium
4 12 (3.05%) Zephyr
5 9 (2.29%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.29%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.53%) 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 80 (20.36%) Finance
3 77 (19.59%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.33%) Manufacturing
6 14 (3.56%) Banking
7 13 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.05%) Retail
9 8 (2.04%) Automotive
9 8 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.04%) Legal
10 7 (1.78%) Local Government
10 7 (1.78%) Marketing
10 7 (1.78%) Police
10 7 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.53%) Publishing
12 5 (1.27%) Law
13 4 (1.02%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.29%) Gherkin
1 9 (2.29%) XML
2 5 (1.27%) Flash
3 4 (1.02%) JSON
3 4 (1.02%) XSLT
4 3 (0.76%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.51%) ADO
5 2 (0.51%) Middleware
5 2 (0.51%) RFC 2544
6 1 (0.25%) .NET
6 1 (0.25%) Kafka
6 1 (0.25%) PySpark
6 1 (0.25%) REST
6 1 (0.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.82%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.05%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.54%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.53%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.27%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (1.27%) Replication
5 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.02%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (1.02%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.76%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.76%) CSOC
7 3 (0.76%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.51%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.51%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.89%) Windows
2 21 (5.34%) Linux
3 10 (2.54%) 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 83 (21.12%) Agile
2 73 (18.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 62 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (13.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 49 (12.47%) Decision-Making
6 47 (11.96%) Business Analysis
7 46 (11.70%) Workshop Facilitation
8 44 (11.20%) Requirements Gathering
9 43 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (10.69%) Validation
11 40 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (9.92%) User Stories
13 35 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
14 34 (8.65%) AI
15 33 (8.40%) Migration
16 32 (8.14%) CRM
17 31 (7.89%) Analytics
17 31 (7.89%) DevOps
17 31 (7.89%) Test Automation
18 30 (7.63%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (9.16%) SQL
2 13 (3.31%) Python
3 6 (1.53%) C#
3 6 (1.53%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.27%) Java
4 5 (1.27%) Scala
5 4 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.51%) R
8 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (14.25%) Security Cleared
2 48 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.85%) ISTQB
4 17 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (4.33%) Degree
5 8 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.27%) CBAP
7 5 (1.27%) ISEB
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 30 (7.63%) PMO
2 27 (6.87%) Data Quality
3 25 (6.36%) QA
4 17 (4.33%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.54%) GDPR
6 9 (2.29%) 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 10 (2.54%) 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%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.76%) Snort
5 2 (0.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.27%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (1.27%) vRealize
2 4 (1.02%) VxRail
3 3 (0.76%) CSIRT
3 3 (0.76%) HP ALM
3 3 (0.76%) QRadar
4 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 62 (15.78%) 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
7 7 (1.78%) Cisco
7 7 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.78%) Siemens
7 7 (1.78%) Splunk
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
119 Analyst jobs in the West Midlands