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 October 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 236 213 302
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.88% 11.41% 15.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.29% 12.26% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 157 220
10th Percentile £234 £196 £199
25th Percentile £304 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £550
90th Percentile £550 £631 £625
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 17
10th Percentile £22.22 £15.10 £15.19
25th Percentile £23.76 £15.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.33 £21.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.67% -67.69% +257.14%
75th Percentile £31.00 £24.34 £67.50
90th Percentile £32.73 £29.51 £68.00
England median hourly rate £20.79 £23.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -11.53% +23.68% +11.76%

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 1,776 1,737 1,887
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.43% 93.04% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,101 1,291
10th Percentile £250 £220 £220
25th Percentile £393 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.57% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 61 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.59 £15.38
25th Percentile £15.67 £14.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -0.88% +25.25%
75th Percentile £36.00 £32.28 £33.64
90th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.55
% change year-on-year -40.82% -6.69% +57.49%

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 October 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 October 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
Warwickshire +11 79 £450 -10.00% 33
Birmingham -5 79 £394 -0.32% 49
Shropshire -15 24 £315 - 11
Coventry -5 22 £338 -43.75% 14
Staffordshire -5 6 - - 40
Wolverhampton - 5 £275 - 4
Herefordshire -4 2 £400 - 8
Worcestershire -14 2 £325 -13.33% 17
Walsall 0 1 £338 +50.00% 5
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 October 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 65 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (25.42%) Microsoft
3 48 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (19.49%) Agile
5 41 (17.37%) Microsoft Office
6 34 (14.41%) Microsoft Excel
7 28 (11.86%) Project Management
8 27 (11.44%) Data Analysis
8 27 (11.44%) Power Platform
9 25 (10.59%) Change Management
9 25 (10.59%) Cisco
9 25 (10.59%) ITIL
10 24 (10.17%) Azure
10 24 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (9.75%) Business Analysis
11 23 (9.75%) Customer Service
11 23 (9.75%) Decision-Making
11 23 (9.75%) Migration
11 23 (9.75%) PMO
11 23 (9.75%) Power BI
11 23 (9.75%) Security Cleared
12 22 (9.32%) Windows
13 21 (8.90%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (8.47%) Active Directory
14 20 (8.47%) Data Management
14 20 (8.47%) Degree
14 20 (8.47%) JIRA
14 20 (8.47%) SharePoint
14 20 (8.47%) SQL
14 20 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 20 (8.47%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.66%) Confluence
3 4 (1.69%) ArcGIS
3 4 (1.69%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.85%) IIS
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 41 (17.37%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (14.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (4.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (3.81%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.27%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.42%) iTrent
4 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.44%) Power Platform
2 24 (10.17%) Azure
3 15 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (5.93%) AWS
5 8 (3.39%) Power Automate
6 7 (2.97%) Datadog
7 6 (2.54%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.69%) SaaS
10 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.85%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.85%) iPaaS
11 2 (0.85%) Lucidchart
12 1 (0.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.42%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.42%) GCP
12 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.42%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.08%) DHCP
1 12 (5.08%) DNS
2 10 (4.24%) VPN
3 9 (3.81%) Firewall
4 8 (3.39%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.54%) LAN
5 6 (2.54%) VSAN
5 6 (2.54%) WAN
5 6 (2.54%) Wireless
6 5 (2.12%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (2.12%) PuTTY
6 5 (2.12%) WLAN
7 4 (1.69%) VoIP
7 4 (1.69%) WebEx
8 3 (1.27%) Internet
9 2 (0.85%) VLAN
9 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.42%) DMZ
10 1 (0.42%) Intranet
10 1 (0.42%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.75%) Power BI
2 10 (4.24%) Tableau
3 7 (2.97%) GIS
4 6 (2.54%) Geospatial Data
4 6 (2.54%) Spatial Data
5 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.69%) Metadata
6 3 (1.27%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.85%) Power Query
7 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.42%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.42%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 20 (8.47%) JIRA
2 5 (2.12%) PVCS
3 2 (0.85%) GDB
3 2 (0.85%) TestPartner
4 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.42%) Postman
4 1 (0.42%) Selenium
4 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 97 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 70 (29.66%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (24.58%) Finance
4 24 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.66%) Law
8 10 (4.24%) Legal
9 9 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.54%) Banking
10 6 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.12%) Automotive
12 4 (1.69%) Retail
13 2 (0.85%) Billing
13 2 (0.85%) Local Government
14 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Military
14 1 (0.42%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.97%) Middleware
2 5 (2.12%) XML
3 3 (1.27%) Flash
4 2 (0.85%) .NET
4 2 (0.85%) GeoJSON
4 2 (0.85%) HTML
4 2 (0.85%) KML
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.85%) Web Services
5 1 (0.42%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.42%) NumPy
5 1 (0.42%) OLE
5 1 (0.42%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.42%) Pandas
5 1 (0.42%) REST
5 1 (0.42%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.20%) Onboarding
2 16 (6.78%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (3.81%) SCADA
5 8 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.54%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.54%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.27%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.27%) Replication
10 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.85%) Pricing Data
11 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.42%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.42%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.32%) Windows
2 14 (5.93%) Linux
3 6 (2.54%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.27%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.42%) AIX
5 1 (0.42%) Solaris
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 46 (19.49%) Agile
4 28 (11.86%) Project Management
5 27 (11.44%) Data Analysis
6 25 (10.59%) Change Management
6 25 (10.59%) ITIL
7 24 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (9.75%) Business Analysis
8 23 (9.75%) Customer Service
8 23 (9.75%) Decision-Making
8 23 (9.75%) Migration
9 21 (8.90%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (8.47%) Data Management
10 20 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (7.20%) Process Improvement
12 15 (6.36%) Requirements Gathering
12 15 (6.36%) Visualisation
12 15 (6.36%) Waterfall
13 14 (5.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.47%) SQL
2 9 (3.81%) Python
3 6 (2.54%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.69%) VBA
5 3 (1.27%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.85%) C#
6 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.85%) Java
6 2 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.42%) COBOL
7 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (9.75%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.47%) Degree
3 13 (5.51%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.97%) CCNA
5 7 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.54%) MCP
6 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.12%) CCNP
7 5 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (2.12%) MCDST
8 2 (0.85%) CBAP
8 2 (0.85%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.42%) CAPM
9 1 (0.42%) CISSP
9 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.42%) IIBA
9 1 (0.42%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.75%) PMO
2 9 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.97%) QA
4 5 (2.12%) NIST
5 4 (1.69%) SLA
6 3 (1.27%) GDPR
6 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.27%) P3O
7 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.24%) vSphere
4 3 (1.27%) GPFS
4 3 (1.27%) NFS
4 3 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.42%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.42%) Firmware
6 1 (0.42%) Snort
Systems Management
1 10 (4.24%) vRealize
2 6 (2.54%) SCCM
2 6 (2.54%) VxRail
3 2 (0.85%) Grafana
3 2 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.42%) QRadar
Vendors
1 60 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.59%) Cisco
3 13 (5.51%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.08%) VMware
5 11 (4.66%) IBM
5 11 (4.66%) Oracle
6 8 (3.39%) HP
7 7 (2.97%) AppDynamics
7 7 (2.97%) Commvault
7 7 (2.97%) Dell
7 7 (2.97%) iManage
7 7 (2.97%) SAP
7 7 (2.97%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.54%) Remedy
9 5 (2.12%) Citrix
9 5 (2.12%) Mitel
9 5 (2.12%) Peregrine
10 4 (1.69%) Lotus
10 4 (1.69%) Netskope
10 4 (1.69%) Sage