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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 344 158 227
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.93% 11.76% 11.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.86% 12.95% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 109 155
10th Percentile £263 £195 £200
25th Percentile £315 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £492 £538 £513
90th Percentile £575 £588 £598
England median daily rate £450 £475 £486
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.26% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 14
10th Percentile - £17.40 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.03 £15.73
Median hourly rate £26.61 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.66% -2.00% +36.53%
75th Percentile £30.27 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £62.91 £30.68 £28.42
England median hourly rate £20.75 £22.14 £16.00
% change year-on-year -6.28% +38.38% -17.95%

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 2,900 1,220 1,776
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 90.77% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,855 811 1,198
10th Percentile £313 £200 £259
25th Percentile £404 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £489
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -0.77% -2.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £702
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 75 134
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £12.01
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.13 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +79.26% -18.52% +14.10%
75th Percentile £59.63 £28.18 £42.31
90th Percentile £68.00 £35.91 £55.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.78 £36.31
% change year-on-year +52.70% -15.22% -19.32%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 98 £418 -12.11% 44
Shropshire -8 64 £400 -7.03% 8
Warwickshire -9 64 £475 -5.00% 35
Coventry +10 42 £325 -31.51% 6
Worcestershire +11 20 £350 - 10
Solihull -7 9 £493 +44.01% 14
Staffordshire +1 8 £388 +158.33% 16
Willenhall - 5 - -
Herefordshire -8 4 £375 -6.25% 2
Dudley -4 2 £420 - 2
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 4
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 93 (27.03%) Agile
2 71 (20.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (18.60%) Security Cleared
4 61 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (15.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 52 (15.12%) Migration
7 51 (14.83%) SC Cleared
8 47 (13.66%) Analytics
9 45 (13.08%) Azure
9 45 (13.08%) Microsoft
9 45 (13.08%) Requirements Gathering
10 42 (12.21%) AWS
10 42 (12.21%) User Stories
11 41 (11.92%) JIRA
12 39 (11.34%) Business Analysis
13 38 (11.05%) Confluence
14 37 (10.76%) User Acceptance Testing
15 36 (10.47%) Workshop Facilitation
16 35 (10.17%) Decision-Making
16 35 (10.17%) SQL
17 32 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (9.01%) Linux
18 31 (9.01%) ServiceNow
18 31 (9.01%) Validation
19 30 (8.72%) Power Platform
20 28 (8.14%) Oracle
21 27 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
22 26 (7.56%) AI
22 26 (7.56%) Data Migration
22 26 (7.56%) PMO

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 38 (11.05%) Confluence
2 19 (5.52%) SAS
3 16 (4.65%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Appian
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (6.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (5.23%) MS Visio
3 15 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.29%) CATIA
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.87%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.58%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.58%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.29%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.29%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.29%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.29%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.29%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (13.08%) Azure
2 42 (12.21%) AWS
3 30 (8.72%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (3.20%) Entra ID
6 10 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.74%) Datadog
7 6 (1.74%) Google Tag Manager
7 6 (1.74%) Lucidchart
8 5 (1.45%) SaaS
9 4 (1.16%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.16%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.87%) dbt
10 3 (0.87%) GCP
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.91%) VSAN
2 8 (2.33%) VPN
3 5 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.45%) LAN
4 4 (1.16%) DHCP
4 4 (1.16%) DNS
4 4 (1.16%) Firewall
4 4 (1.16%) WAN
5 2 (0.58%) BGP
5 2 (0.58%) MPLS
5 2 (0.58%) NAS
5 2 (0.58%) OSPF
5 2 (0.58%) SAN
5 2 (0.58%) VLAN
5 2 (0.58%) X.25
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
6 1 (0.29%) Skype
6 1 (0.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.98%) Power BI
2 23 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.20%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (2.91%) Tableau
5 6 (1.74%) Metadata
6 4 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.58%) Power Query
8 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.29%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.29%) GIS
9 1 (0.29%) Looker
9 1 (0.29%) MySQL
9 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (11.92%) JIRA
2 12 (3.49%) Postman
2 12 (3.49%) Zephyr
3 6 (1.74%) Selenium
4 3 (0.87%) Git
5 2 (0.58%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.58%) MLflow
6 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 100 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 78 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (17.15%) Finance
4 28 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.78%) Banking
7 11 (3.20%) Legal
7 11 (3.20%) Retail
8 10 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.33%) Law
9 8 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.03%) Publishing
11 6 (1.74%) Automotive
11 6 (1.74%) Local Government
11 6 (1.74%) Marketing
12 5 (1.45%) Police
13 4 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.58%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.36%) Flash
2 6 (1.74%) SailPoint
3 4 (1.16%) SAML
4 2 (0.58%) Middleware
4 2 (0.58%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.29%) ADO
5 1 (0.29%) Kafka
5 1 (0.29%) LDAP
5 1 (0.29%) MACH
5 1 (0.29%) OAuth
5 1 (0.29%) PySpark
5 1 (0.29%) REST
5 1 (0.29%) RESTful
5 1 (0.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.10%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (4.94%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.36%) Replication
4 11 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.62%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (1.74%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.45%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.16%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.16%) CSOC
8 4 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.16%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.87%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.58%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.58%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.58%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.01%) Linux
2 23 (6.69%) Windows
3 9 (2.62%) Windows 10
4 7 (2.03%) Unix
5 2 (0.58%) AIX
5 2 (0.58%) Solaris
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (27.03%) Agile
2 71 (20.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 61 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (15.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 52 (15.12%) Migration
6 47 (13.66%) Analytics
7 45 (13.08%) Requirements Gathering
8 42 (12.21%) User Stories
9 39 (11.34%) Business Analysis
10 37 (10.76%) User Acceptance Testing
11 36 (10.47%) Workshop Facilitation
12 35 (10.17%) Decision-Making
13 32 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (9.01%) Validation
15 27 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
16 26 (7.56%) AI
16 26 (7.56%) Data Migration
17 24 (6.98%) Acceptance Criteria
17 24 (6.98%) DevOps
17 24 (6.98%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.17%) SQL
2 16 (4.65%) Python
3 4 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (1.16%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.58%) Java
4 2 (0.58%) R
4 2 (0.58%) Scala
5 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 51 (14.83%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (4.65%) Degree
5 11 (3.20%) IIBA
6 10 (2.91%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.16%) CBAP
8 3 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.58%) ACCA
9 2 (0.58%) CAPM
9 2 (0.58%) CCNA
9 2 (0.58%) CCNP
9 2 (0.58%) CIMA
9 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.58%) PhD
9 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.56%) PMO
2 19 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.49%) GDPR
3 12 (3.49%) QA
4 6 (1.74%) NIST
5 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.87%) SLA
7 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.58%) NCSC
7 2 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.29%) COBIT
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 23 (6.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (6.10%) vSphere
3 15 (4.36%) GPFS
3 15 (4.36%) NFS
4 12 (3.49%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (3.20%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.16%) Snort
7 2 (0.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (6.10%) vRealize
2 11 (3.20%) VxRail
3 6 (1.74%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.16%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.58%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.58%) QRadar
7 1 (0.29%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 45 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.01%) ServiceNow
3 28 (8.14%) Oracle
4 24 (6.98%) VMware
5 23 (6.69%) Cisco
6 21 (6.10%) IBM
7 17 (4.94%) SAP
8 8 (2.33%) HP
8 8 (2.33%) Pega
8 8 (2.33%) Splunk
9 7 (2.03%) Databricks
10 6 (1.74%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.74%) Commvault
10 6 (1.74%) Dell
10 6 (1.74%) Google
10 6 (1.74%) SolarWinds
10 6 (1.74%) Talend
11 5 (1.45%) Teradata
12 3 (0.87%) Cognos
12 3 (0.87%) Kronos