Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
9 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 332 154 230
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.05% 11.45% 11.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.01% 12.70% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 108 159
10th Percentile £263 £195 £198
25th Percentile £313 £356 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £500 £525 £517
90th Percentile £567 £591 £576
England median daily rate £450 £475 £486
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.26% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 16
10th Percentile - £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% -2.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile £30.00 £30.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.37 £31.29 £28.42
England median hourly rate £18.95 £24.00 £16.30
% change year-on-year -21.04% +47.24% -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 2,765 1,213 1,754
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 90.19% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,803 829 1,180
10th Percentile £305 £200 £257
25th Percentile £403 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £671 £652 £691
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 63 134
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.01
25th Percentile £19.50 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £26.42 £40.38
90th Percentile £68.00 £33.35 £55.88
England median hourly rate £43.61 £33.00 £34.11
% change year-on-year +32.15% -3.24% -21.71%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 93 £425 -10.43% 35
Warwickshire -4 63 £500 - 16
Shropshire -19 55 £458 +1.89% 9
Coventry +9 54 £316 -33.47% 4
Worcestershire +7 19 £394 - 14
Staffordshire +2 9 £375 +25.00% 24
Solihull -6 6 £493 +44.01% 5
Herefordshire -12 4 £375 -6.25% 2
Dudley -4 2 £420 - 1
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 2
Willenhall - 1 - - 1
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 April 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 94 (28.31%) Agile
2 73 (21.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (17.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 54 (16.27%) Security Cleared
6 53 (15.96%) AWS
7 48 (14.46%) Azure
8 44 (13.25%) Requirements Gathering
9 43 (12.95%) Analytics
9 43 (12.95%) Linux
10 42 (12.65%) Microsoft
10 42 (12.65%) SC Cleared
11 41 (12.35%) Migration
12 39 (11.75%) User Stories
13 38 (11.45%) Business Analysis
14 37 (11.14%) Cisco
15 36 (10.84%) VMware
16 35 (10.54%) User Acceptance Testing
16 35 (10.54%) VMware Infrastructure
17 34 (10.24%) Decision-Making
17 34 (10.24%) JIRA
17 34 (10.24%) ServiceNow
17 34 (10.24%) SQL
17 34 (10.24%) Workshop Facilitation
18 33 (9.94%) IBM
18 33 (9.94%) vRealize
18 33 (9.94%) vSphere
19 32 (9.64%) Confluence
19 32 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
20 30 (9.04%) Oracle

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 (9.64%) Confluence
2 18 (5.42%) SAS
3 8 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.60%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 24 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (6.33%) MS Visio
3 17 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.90%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.60%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.60%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.30%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.30%) iTrent
4 1 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.30%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.30%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.30%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.30%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (15.96%) AWS
2 48 (14.46%) Azure
3 29 (8.73%) Power Platform
4 14 (4.22%) Datadog
5 10 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.71%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.81%) Google Tag Manager
8 6 (1.81%) Lucidchart
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.20%) GCP
9 4 (1.20%) SaaS
9 4 (1.20%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.90%) dbt
11 2 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.60%) Figma
11 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.12%) VSAN
2 7 (2.11%) VPN
3 5 (1.51%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.51%) LAN
4 4 (1.20%) Firewall
4 4 (1.20%) WAN
5 2 (0.60%) BGP
5 2 (0.60%) DHCP
5 2 (0.60%) DNS
5 2 (0.60%) MPLS
5 2 (0.60%) NAS
5 2 (0.60%) OSPF
5 2 (0.60%) SAN
5 2 (0.60%) VLAN
5 2 (0.60%) X.25
6 1 (0.30%) Skype
6 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.23%) Power BI
2 14 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.31%) Tableau
4 4 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.20%) Metadata
5 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.60%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.60%) GIS
6 2 (0.60%) Power Query
6 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.30%) EDMS
7 1 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.30%) Looker
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.30%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 34 (10.24%) JIRA
2 4 (1.20%) Toad
3 3 (0.90%) Postman
3 3 (0.90%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.60%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.60%) MLflow
5 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 97 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 75 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (18.37%) Finance
4 34 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.92%) Legal
7 12 (3.61%) Banking
8 9 (2.71%) Law
9 8 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.11%) Local Government
10 7 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.11%) Publishing
10 7 (2.11%) Retail
11 6 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.51%) Automotive
12 5 (1.51%) Marketing
13 4 (1.20%) Police
13 4 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.72%) Flash
2 7 (2.11%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.51%) SAML
4 4 (1.20%) XML
5 2 (0.60%) Middleware
5 2 (0.60%) RFC 2544
6 1 (0.30%) Kafka
6 1 (0.30%) LDAP
6 1 (0.30%) MACH
6 1 (0.30%) OAuth
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.30%) PySpark
6 1 (0.30%) REST
6 1 (0.30%) RESTful
6 1 (0.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.94%) Linux Command Line
2 19 (5.72%) Replication
3 16 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.41%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.81%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.81%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (1.81%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.20%) CSOC
8 4 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.90%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.60%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.60%) PKI
10 2 (0.60%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.95%) Linux
2 25 (7.53%) Windows
3 7 (2.11%) Unix
3 7 (2.11%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.60%) AIX
4 2 (0.60%) Solaris
5 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.31%) Agile
2 73 (21.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (17.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 44 (13.25%) Requirements Gathering
6 43 (12.95%) Analytics
7 41 (12.35%) Migration
8 39 (11.75%) User Stories
9 38 (11.45%) Business Analysis
10 35 (10.54%) User Acceptance Testing
11 34 (10.24%) Decision-Making
11 34 (10.24%) Workshop Facilitation
12 32 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (8.13%) Validation
14 23 (6.93%) Acceptance Criteria
14 23 (6.93%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (6.63%) DevOps
15 22 (6.63%) Impact Assessments
15 22 (6.63%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.24%) SQL
2 15 (4.52%) Python
3 7 (2.11%) Java
4 4 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (0.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.60%) R
6 2 (0.60%) Scala
7 1 (0.30%) COBOL
7 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 42 (12.65%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (5.72%) Degree
5 11 (3.31%) IIBA
6 8 (2.41%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.20%) CBAP
8 3 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.90%) ISEB
8 3 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.60%) ACCA
9 2 (0.60%) CCNA
9 2 (0.60%) CCNP
9 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.60%) PhD
9 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.23%) PMO
2 15 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.61%) GDPR
4 8 (2.41%) QA
5 6 (1.81%) NIST
6 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.60%) NCSC
8 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) COBIT
9 1 (0.30%) GRC
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (10.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (9.94%) vSphere
3 19 (5.72%) GPFS
3 19 (5.72%) NFS
4 16 (4.82%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.71%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.20%) Snort
7 2 (0.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (9.94%) vRealize
2 18 (5.42%) VxRail
3 6 (1.81%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.20%) CSIRT
5 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.60%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.60%) QRadar
7 1 (0.30%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 42 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.14%) Cisco
3 36 (10.84%) VMware
4 34 (10.24%) ServiceNow
5 33 (9.94%) IBM
6 30 (9.04%) Oracle
7 19 (5.72%) SAP
8 14 (4.22%) AppDynamics
8 14 (4.22%) Commvault
8 14 (4.22%) HP
8 14 (4.22%) SolarWinds
9 13 (3.92%) Dell
10 8 (2.41%) Pega
10 8 (2.41%) Splunk
11 7 (2.11%) Databricks
12 6 (1.81%) Google
13 5 (1.51%) Teradata
14 4 (1.20%) Okta
15 3 (0.90%) Cognos
16 2 (0.60%) Lotus
133 Analyst jobs in the West Midlands