Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £408, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
11 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 377 221 218
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.63% 11.73% 11.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.68% 13.12% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 143 157
10th Percentile £269 £212 £190
25th Percentile £350 £302 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £538
90th Percentile £588 £550 £631
England median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 5
10th Percentile £13.80 £22.03 £15.70
25th Percentile £22.89 £22.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £26.15 £28.27 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +34.62% -67.69%
75th Percentile £45.82 £31.00 £22.00
90th Percentile £70.48 £32.44 £24.81
England median hourly rate £28.00 £20.71 £21.44
% change year-on-year +35.23% -3.41% +12.82%

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 3,227 1,684 1,760
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 89.38% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,923 1,088 1,106
10th Percentile £326 £247 £213
25th Percentile £413 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £612
90th Percentile £688 £675 £713
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 111 62
10th Percentile £14.12 £12.62 £12.60
25th Percentile £17.74 £15.40 £14.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.15 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% +15.39% -5.24%
75th Percentile £45.00 £38.76 £32.27
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £48.43
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.89%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +4 107 £445 +18.67% 111
Shropshire 0 95 £400 +26.98% 14
Warwickshire -5 89 £425 -14.31% 38
Coventry -10 25 £313 -39.47% 30
Worcestershire +18 13 £425 +30.77% 6
Solihull - 12 £353 - 9
Herefordshire +11 9 £500 +25.00% 6
Staffordshire -15 3 £140 - 30
Dudley - 3 £375 -
Willenhall - 3 - -
Wolverhampton -6 2 £200 -27.27% 9
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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 78 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 70 (18.57%) Agile
3 69 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (16.71%) Business Analysis
5 61 (16.18%) Decision-Making
5 61 (16.18%) Microsoft
5 61 (16.18%) Security Cleared
6 55 (14.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 55 (14.59%) Workshop Facilitation
7 54 (14.32%) SC Cleared
8 50 (13.26%) JIRA
9 46 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (11.41%) Requirements Gathering
11 40 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (10.34%) AI
13 38 (10.08%) SAP
13 38 (10.08%) Test Automation
14 37 (9.81%) Migration
14 37 (9.81%) SQL
14 37 (9.81%) Validation
15 36 (9.55%) Azure
16 35 (9.28%) Data Analysis
16 35 (9.28%) Power Platform
17 34 (9.02%) Data Quality
18 33 (8.75%) Data Modelling
18 33 (8.75%) Power BI
19 32 (8.49%) User Stories
20 30 (7.96%) Windows
21 29 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
21 29 (7.69%) 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 27 (7.16%) Confluence
2 16 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.59%) SAS
4 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.06%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 27 (7.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.53%) CATIA
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (4.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.80%) Primavera
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.53%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.27%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 36 (9.55%) Azure
2 35 (9.28%) Power Platform
3 22 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (3.71%) Power Automate
6 11 (2.92%) AWS
7 8 (2.12%) Azure Functions
7 8 (2.12%) Serverless
8 7 (1.86%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.86%) SaaS
9 6 (1.59%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.33%) GCP
10 5 (1.33%) Google Analytics
10 5 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (1.33%) Tricentis Tosca
11 4 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.80%) Google Tag Manager
12 3 (0.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.86%) DNS
2 6 (1.59%) DHCP
2 6 (1.59%) VPN
3 5 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.80%) Firewall
4 3 (0.80%) Internet
5 2 (0.53%) Broadband
5 2 (0.53%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.27%) VSAN
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.75%) Power BI
2 17 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.92%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (1.86%) Metadata
6 5 (1.33%) Tableau
7 4 (1.06%) Looker
7 4 (1.06%) Power Query
8 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.80%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.27%) GIS
10 1 (0.27%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.27%) MySQL
10 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.27%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 50 (13.26%) JIRA
2 25 (6.63%) Postman
3 17 (4.51%) Selenium
4 13 (3.45%) Zephyr
5 11 (2.92%) Cypress.io
5 11 (2.92%) WebDriver
6 8 (2.12%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.33%) Git
7 5 (1.33%) Toad
8 3 (0.80%) Protractor
9 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 102 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 89 (23.61%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (17.51%) Finance
4 58 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.45%) Banking
8 12 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.18%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.65%) Legal
10 7 (1.86%) Retail
11 6 (1.59%) Automotive
11 6 (1.59%) General Ledger
11 6 (1.59%) Marketing
12 5 (1.33%) Police
13 4 (1.06%) Billing
14 3 (0.80%) Law
14 3 (0.80%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.92%) Gherkin
1 11 (2.92%) XML
2 4 (1.06%) JSON
2 4 (1.06%) OpenAPI
2 4 (1.06%) REST
2 4 (1.06%) SOAP
2 4 (1.06%) Swagger
2 4 (1.06%) XSLT
3 3 (0.80%) ADO
4 1 (0.27%) .NET
4 1 (0.27%) Flash
4 1 (0.27%) Middleware
4 1 (0.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.98%) Management Information System
2 10 (2.65%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.39%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.12%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.33%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.06%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.80%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.80%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.80%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.53%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.53%) BYOD
10 2 (0.53%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.53%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.53%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.96%) Windows
2 12 (3.18%) Linux
3 9 (2.39%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.33%) SUSE
5 2 (0.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 70 (18.57%) Agile
3 69 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (16.71%) Business Analysis
5 61 (16.18%) Decision-Making
6 55 (14.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 55 (14.59%) Workshop Facilitation
7 46 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (11.41%) Requirements Gathering
9 40 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (10.34%) AI
11 38 (10.08%) Test Automation
12 37 (9.81%) Migration
12 37 (9.81%) Validation
13 35 (9.28%) Data Analysis
14 33 (8.75%) Data Modelling
15 32 (8.49%) User Stories
16 28 (7.43%) Process Improvement
17 27 (7.16%) CRM
18 26 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.81%) SQL
2 14 (3.71%) Python
3 8 (2.12%) C#
3 8 (2.12%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.59%) Java
5 4 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.06%) Scala
6 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.53%) R
6 2 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 54 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (6.37%) ISTQB
5 13 (3.45%) Degree
6 12 (3.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 12 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.33%) ISEB
8 4 (1.06%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.80%) CISSP
10 2 (0.53%) CBAP
10 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.53%) GCIH
10 2 (0.53%) IIBA
10 2 (0.53%) SANS
11 1 (0.27%) APMG
11 1 (0.27%) CIW
11 1 (0.27%) CRISC
11 1 (0.27%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.02%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.69%) QA
3 22 (5.84%) PMO
4 18 (4.77%) Accessibility
5 14 (3.71%) GDPR
6 11 (2.92%) WCAG
7 4 (1.06%) GRC
7 4 (1.06%) SLA
8 3 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) GPFS
2 1 (0.27%) NFS
2 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.33%) SCCM
3 3 (0.80%) QRadar
4 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) vRealize
4 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 61 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.08%) SAP
3 29 (7.69%) Oracle
4 9 (2.39%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.86%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.86%) Siemens
5 7 (1.86%) Splunk
6 6 (1.59%) IBM
6 6 (1.59%) Talend
7 5 (1.33%) Google
7 5 (1.33%) MathWorks
7 5 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.06%) KANA
8 4 (1.06%) webMethods
9 3 (0.80%) Blue Prism
9 3 (0.80%) Databricks
9 3 (0.80%) Snow
9 3 (0.80%) Teradata
10 2 (0.53%) Ariba
10 2 (0.53%) Kronos
274 Analyst jobs in the West Midlands