Analyst Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 231 202 237
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.19% 12.05% 13.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.49% 12.86% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 150 177
10th Percentile £204 £195 £200
25th Percentile £293 £318 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% +1.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £550
90th Percentile £550 £638 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 15
10th Percentile £22.50 £17.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £22.51 £20.50 £19.49
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -59.81% +242.11%
75th Percentile £27.50 £30.68 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.40 £31.29 £68.25
England median hourly rate £19.33 £24.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -21.10% +29.42% +8.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 2,010 1,571 1,688
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.66% 93.74% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 1,010 1,141
10th Percentile £260 £206 £220
25th Percentile £400 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £683 £711 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 60 62
10th Percentile £13.13 £13.95 £15.25
25th Percentile £14.31 £17.00 £17.31
Median hourly rate £25.08 £23.82 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year +5.27% +6.36% +26.38%
75th Percentile £30.00 £32.26 £34.50
90th Percentile £45.23 £50.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £26.40 £35.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -24.57% -22.58% +39.02%

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 24 December 2025.

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
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 24 December 2025. 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 -6 74 £400 -11.11% 51
Warwickshire -3 58 £475 -2.56% 24
Shropshire -15 35 £429 -3.32% 44
Coventry 0 34 £310 -48.01% 24
Worcestershire -13 6 £413 +4.76% 24
Staffordshire -5 4 £275 -35.29% 33
Wolverhampton - 2 £350 - 17
Walsall +1 1 £338 +50.00% 3
Solihull -1 1 £268 -37.67% 3
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, 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 62 (26.84%) Agile
2 60 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (17.32%) Microsoft
5 37 (16.02%) Security Cleared
6 34 (14.72%) AWS
6 34 (14.72%) Cisco
7 29 (12.55%) Azure
7 29 (12.55%) JIRA
7 29 (12.55%) VMware
8 28 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
8 28 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
9 27 (11.69%) Customer Service
10 26 (11.26%) Linux
11 25 (10.82%) Business Analysis
12 24 (10.39%) Confluence
12 24 (10.39%) vRealize
12 24 (10.39%) vSphere
12 24 (10.39%) Windows
13 23 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (9.96%) Microsoft Excel
13 23 (9.96%) SC Cleared
14 22 (9.52%) Decision-Making
14 22 (9.52%) IBM
15 21 (9.09%) PMO
16 19 (8.23%) Migration
16 19 (8.23%) ServiceNow
17 18 (7.79%) ITIL
17 18 (7.79%) 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 24 (10.39%) Confluence
2 10 (4.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.73%) HCL Notes
4 3 (1.30%) SAS
5 2 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.87%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.87%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (9.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (6.06%) MS Visio
4 8 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.87%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.43%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.43%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.43%) iTrent
3 1 (0.43%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.43%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.43%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (0.43%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (14.72%) AWS
2 29 (12.55%) Azure
3 17 (7.36%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.06%) Datadog
5 7 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.16%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.73%) GCP
8 4 (1.73%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.30%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.87%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.87%) Lucidchart
10 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.87%) SaaS
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.43%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.43%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.43%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.63%) VSAN
2 11 (4.76%) VPN
3 7 (3.03%) DHCP
3 7 (3.03%) DNS
3 7 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.73%) VoIP
5 3 (1.30%) Firewall
5 3 (1.30%) Internet
6 2 (0.87%) LAN
6 2 (0.87%) WAN
6 2 (0.87%) X.25
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.43%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.43%) VLAN
7 1 (0.43%) WebEx
7 1 (0.43%) Wireless
7 1 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.36%) Power BI
2 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.30%) GIS
2 3 (1.30%) Tableau
3 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (0.87%) Metadata
3 2 (0.87%) Spatial Data
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.43%) EDMS
4 1 (0.43%) MySQL
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.43%) Power Query
4 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (12.55%) JIRA
2 5 (2.16%) PVCS
3 4 (1.73%) Toad
4 2 (0.87%) TestPartner
5 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.43%) Postman
5 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.43%) Selenium
5 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 85 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (21.21%) Finance
4 32 (13.85%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.63%) Legal
6 13 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.90%) Law
8 8 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.16%) Banking
10 4 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.73%) Retail
11 3 (1.30%) Local Government
11 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.43%) Billing
12 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.43%) Military
12 1 (0.43%) Police
12 1 (0.43%) Publishing
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.90%) XML
2 8 (3.46%) Flash
3 5 (2.16%) Middleware
3 5 (2.16%) SAML
4 4 (1.73%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.43%) LDAP
6 1 (0.43%) MACH
6 1 (0.43%) NumPy
6 1 (0.43%) OAuth
6 1 (0.43%) Pandas
6 1 (0.43%) REST
6 1 (0.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.46%) Replication
5 7 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.16%) SCADA
7 5 (2.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.73%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.30%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.43%) Graphic Design
11 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.26%) Linux
2 24 (10.39%) Windows
3 7 (3.03%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.30%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.43%) AIX
5 1 (0.43%) Solaris
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.84%) Agile
2 60 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (11.69%) Customer Service
6 25 (10.82%) Business Analysis
7 23 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (9.52%) Decision-Making
9 19 (8.23%) Migration
10 18 (7.79%) ITIL
10 18 (7.79%) Requirements Gathering
11 17 (7.36%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (6.93%) Change Management
13 15 (6.49%) Project Management
13 15 (6.49%) User Stories
14 14 (6.06%) User Acceptance Testing
14 14 (6.06%) Waterfall
15 13 (5.63%) Analytics
15 13 (5.63%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.79%) SQL
2 7 (3.03%) Java
2 7 (3.03%) Python
3 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.43%) COBOL
5 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.43%) R
5 1 (0.43%) Scala
5 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.96%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.36%) Degree
4 10 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.33%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.16%) IIBA
5 5 (2.16%) MCDST
5 5 (2.16%) MCP
5 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.87%) ISEB
7 2 (0.87%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.43%) CAPM
8 1 (0.43%) CCNA
8 1 (0.43%) CCNP
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.43%) CISSP
8 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.09%) PMO
2 7 (3.03%) QA
3 5 (2.16%) GDPR
3 5 (2.16%) NIST
4 4 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.87%) P3O
6 2 (0.87%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (10.39%) vSphere
3 15 (6.49%) Active Directory
4 8 (3.46%) GPFS
4 8 (3.46%) NFS
4 8 (3.46%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.43%) Snort
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (10.39%) vRealize
2 14 (6.06%) VxRail
3 5 (2.16%) SCCM
4 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.43%) QRadar
Vendors
1 40 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.72%) Cisco
3 29 (12.55%) VMware
4 22 (9.52%) IBM
5 19 (8.23%) ServiceNow
6 18 (7.79%) Oracle
7 14 (6.06%) AppDynamics
7 14 (6.06%) Commvault
7 14 (6.06%) SolarWinds
8 13 (5.63%) Dell
8 13 (5.63%) HP
9 9 (3.90%) SAP
10 6 (2.60%) iManage
11 5 (2.16%) Mitel
11 5 (2.16%) Pega
12 4 (1.73%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.73%) Lotus
12 4 (1.73%) Netskope
12 4 (1.73%) Okta
12 4 (1.73%) Splunk