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 22 May 2026.

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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 369 165 235
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.64% 12.07% 12.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.52% 13.29% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 117 160
10th Percentile £263 £259 £199
25th Percentile £322 £375 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £423
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +12.43% -0.59%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £513
90th Percentile £575 £575 £588
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 14
10th Percentile - £16.68 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.08 £14.41
Median hourly rate £27.30 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -2.00% +36.53%
75th Percentile £30.27 £22.08 £23.75
90th Percentile £55.83 - £28.42
England median hourly rate £21.00 £22.14 £16.00
% change year-on-year -5.15% +38.38% -15.79%

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 2,947 1,242 1,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 90.86% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,839 814 1,181
10th Percentile £313 £200 £255
25th Percentile £405 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £713
England median daily rate £514 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.15% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 71 136
10th Percentile £14.87 £12.62 £12.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.48% -17.59% +10.00%
75th Percentile £59.50 £26.51 £40.81
90th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £55.63
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.65
% change year-on-year +50.00% -18.14% -18.13%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -2 100 £410 -13.68% 43
Warwickshire -8 78 £450 -10.00% 27
Shropshire -10 65 £400 -0.41% 3
Coventry +8 38 £365 -2.67% 7
Worcestershire +13 23 £431 - 5
Solihull +2 16 £380 +11.18% 4
Staffordshire +1 8 £388 +158.33% 9
Herefordshire -4 5 £375 -6.25% 1
Willenhall - 5 - -
Dudley -3 4 £420 - 2
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 6
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 91 (24.66%) Agile
2 77 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (15.45%) Security Cleared
5 56 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 51 (13.82%) Migration
6 51 (13.82%) Requirements Gathering
7 50 (13.55%) Analytics
8 49 (13.28%) Business Analysis
8 49 (13.28%) SC Cleared
9 48 (13.01%) Microsoft
10 44 (11.92%) JIRA
10 44 (11.92%) Workshop Facilitation
11 42 (11.38%) Azure
11 42 (11.38%) Power Platform
11 42 (11.38%) User Stories
12 40 (10.84%) Decision-Making
13 39 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
13 39 (10.57%) SQL
13 39 (10.57%) User Acceptance Testing
14 37 (10.03%) AWS
14 37 (10.03%) Confluence
14 37 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (9.76%) Power BI
16 35 (9.49%) Validation
17 28 (7.59%) Linux
17 28 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
17 28 (7.59%) Oracle
17 28 (7.59%) ServiceNow
18 27 (7.32%) AI

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 37 (10.03%) Confluence
2 19 (5.15%) SAS
3 18 (4.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) Appian
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.61%) MS Visio
3 16 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.54%) CATIA
6 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.81%) SAP HR
2 3 (0.81%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.27%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.27%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.27%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.27%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.27%) Primavera
4 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (11.38%) Azure
1 42 (11.38%) Power Platform
2 37 (10.03%) AWS
3 14 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.17%) SaaS
8 6 (1.63%) Google Tag Manager
8 6 (1.63%) Lucidchart
9 4 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.08%) Datadog
9 4 (1.08%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.81%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.81%) dbt
10 3 (0.81%) Google Analytics
11 2 (0.54%) Figma
11 2 (0.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.44%) VSAN
2 7 (1.90%) VPN
3 5 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.36%) LAN
4 4 (1.08%) DHCP
4 4 (1.08%) DNS
4 4 (1.08%) Firewall
4 4 (1.08%) WAN
5 2 (0.54%) BGP
5 2 (0.54%) MPLS
5 2 (0.54%) NAS
5 2 (0.54%) OSPF
5 2 (0.54%) SAN
5 2 (0.54%) VLAN
5 2 (0.54%) X.25
6 1 (0.27%) Internet
6 1 (0.27%) Skype
6 1 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.76%) Power BI
2 23 (6.23%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.25%) Tableau
4 11 (2.98%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (1.63%) Metadata
6 5 (1.36%) Power Query
7 3 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.54%) Looker
8 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.27%) GIS
9 1 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (11.92%) JIRA
2 12 (3.25%) Postman
2 12 (3.25%) Zephyr
3 6 (1.63%) Selenium
4 3 (0.81%) Git
5 2 (0.54%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.54%) MLflow
6 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 106 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 78 (21.14%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (16.80%) Finance
4 26 (7.05%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.52%) Banking
7 11 (2.98%) Legal
7 11 (2.98%) Retail
8 10 (2.71%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.17%) Automotive
9 8 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.17%) Marketing
10 7 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.90%) Law
10 7 (1.90%) Local Government
10 7 (1.90%) Publishing
11 6 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.36%) Police
13 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.79%) Flash
2 5 (1.36%) SailPoint
3 3 (0.81%) SAML
4 2 (0.54%) Middleware
4 2 (0.54%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.27%) ADO
5 1 (0.27%) JSON
5 1 (0.27%) Kafka
5 1 (0.27%) LDAP
5 1 (0.27%) OAuth
5 1 (0.27%) PySpark
5 1 (0.27%) REST
5 1 (0.27%) SOAP
5 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (4.34%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.79%) Replication
4 9 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.36%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (1.36%) Security Posture
5 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.08%) CSOC
6 4 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.81%) Credit Risk
7 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.81%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.54%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.54%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.59%) Linux
2 24 (6.50%) Windows
3 9 (2.44%) Windows 10
4 8 (2.17%) Unix
5 2 (0.54%) AIX
5 2 (0.54%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (24.66%) Agile
2 77 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 51 (13.82%) Migration
5 51 (13.82%) Requirements Gathering
6 50 (13.55%) Analytics
7 49 (13.28%) Business Analysis
8 44 (11.92%) Workshop Facilitation
9 42 (11.38%) User Stories
10 40 (10.84%) Decision-Making
11 39 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
11 39 (10.57%) User Acceptance Testing
12 37 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (9.49%) Validation
14 27 (7.32%) AI
15 26 (7.05%) Data Migration
15 26 (7.05%) Process Improvement
16 25 (6.78%) ETL
17 24 (6.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 39 (10.57%) SQL
2 15 (4.07%) Python
3 4 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (0.81%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.54%) Java
5 2 (0.54%) R
5 2 (0.54%) Scala
6 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.28%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (4.34%) Degree
5 11 (2.98%) IIBA
6 10 (2.71%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.08%) CBAP
8 3 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.54%) ACCA
9 2 (0.54%) CAPM
9 2 (0.54%) CCNA
9 2 (0.54%) CCNP
9 2 (0.54%) CIMA
9 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.54%) PhD
9 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.54%) PMP
10 1 (0.27%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.05%) PMO
2 24 (6.50%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.52%) QA
4 12 (3.25%) GDPR
5 7 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.63%) NIST
7 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.81%) SLA
9 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.54%) NCSC
9 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 17 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
1 17 (4.61%) vSphere
2 14 (3.79%) GPFS
2 14 (3.79%) NFS
3 11 (2.98%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (2.71%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.08%) Snort
6 2 (0.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (4.61%) vRealize
2 9 (2.44%) VxRail
3 6 (1.63%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.08%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.54%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.54%) QRadar
7 1 (0.27%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 48 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.59%) Oracle
2 28 (7.59%) ServiceNow
3 22 (5.96%) SAP
4 19 (5.15%) Cisco
5 18 (4.88%) IBM
5 18 (4.88%) VMware
6 8 (2.17%) Google
6 8 (2.17%) Splunk
7 7 (1.90%) Databricks
8 6 (1.63%) HP
8 6 (1.63%) Talend
9 5 (1.36%) Pega
9 5 (1.36%) Teradata
10 4 (1.08%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.08%) Commvault
10 4 (1.08%) Dell
10 4 (1.08%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.81%) Cognos
11 3 (0.81%) Kronos