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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 378 212 228
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.90% 12.44% 12.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.79% 13.73% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 135 163
10th Percentile £281 £250 £190
25th Percentile £325 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £538
90th Percentile £600 £550 £626
England median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 6
10th Percentile £19.19 - £15.75
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.03 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.67 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +37.98% -7.41%
75th Percentile £30.27 £31.00 £25.52
90th Percentile £70.07 £33.02 £47.09
England median hourly rate £25.50 £22.14 £18.00
% change year-on-year +15.18% +23.00% -7.74%

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 3,205 1,544 1,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 90.61% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,957 980 1,179
10th Percentile £325 £235 £250
25th Percentile £410 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £612
90th Percentile £675 £649 £707
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 117 75
10th Percentile £14.40 £12.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.28 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £24.66 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.76% +17.43% +1.28%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.98 £36.25
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +7.66%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +4 112 £425 +13.33% 55
Warwickshire -4 90 £450 -10.00% 24
Shropshire -10 66 £368 +16.83% 12
Coventry -7 30 £313 -40.48% 12
Worcestershire +18 22 £425 +30.77% 9
Solihull - 12 £493 - 9
Staffordshire -6 7 £140 -6.67% 13
Herefordshire 0 5 £500 +25.00% 2
Dudley -2 5 £420 - 1
Willenhall - 5 - -
Wolverhampton -7 2 £200 -25.58% 6
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 August 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 (20.63%) Agile
2 68 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (15.34%) Microsoft
5 54 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 49 (12.96%) Decision-Making
7 48 (12.70%) SC Cleared
8 47 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 46 (12.17%) Business Analysis
10 44 (11.64%) Workshop Facilitation
11 42 (11.11%) JIRA
12 41 (10.85%) Azure
13 40 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (10.58%) Validation
14 39 (10.32%) AI
15 38 (10.05%) Business Intelligence
15 38 (10.05%) Requirements Gathering
16 37 (9.79%) Power Platform
16 37 (9.79%) User Stories
17 36 (9.52%) SAP
18 35 (9.26%) SQL
19 34 (8.99%) Power BI
20 32 (8.47%) Migration
20 32 (8.47%) Test Automation
21 31 (8.20%) User Acceptance Testing
22 30 (7.94%) Analytics
22 30 (7.94%) CRM
22 30 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
22 30 (7.94%) Oracle
22 30 (7.94%) Windows

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 25 (6.61%) Confluence
2 20 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.32%) SAS
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.79%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.26%) Appian
Applications
1 30 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.12%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.53%) CATIA
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (4.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.79%) Primavera
4 3 (0.79%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.53%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.53%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.26%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 41 (10.85%) Azure
2 37 (9.79%) Power Platform
3 24 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (3.17%) AWS
6 12 (3.17%) Power Automate
7 8 (2.12%) SaaS
8 7 (1.85%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.59%) Azure Functions
9 6 (1.59%) Google Tag Manager
9 6 (1.59%) OneDrive
9 6 (1.59%) Serverless
10 5 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.32%) Lucidchart
10 5 (1.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.79%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.85%) DNS
2 6 (1.59%) DHCP
2 6 (1.59%) VPN
3 3 (0.79%) Firewall
3 3 (0.79%) Internet
3 3 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.79%) VSAN
4 2 (0.53%) Broadband
4 2 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.53%) NAS
4 2 (0.53%) SAN
5 1 (0.26%) LAN
5 1 (0.26%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.99%) Power BI
2 22 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.91%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.85%) Tableau
6 5 (1.32%) Power Query
7 4 (1.06%) Metadata
8 3 (0.79%) Looker
9 2 (0.53%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.26%) GIS
10 1 (0.26%) MySQL
10 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.26%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (11.11%) JIRA
2 23 (6.08%) Postman
3 15 (3.97%) Selenium
4 13 (3.44%) Zephyr
5 9 (2.38%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.38%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.59%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.06%) Git
8 3 (0.79%) Protractor
8 3 (0.79%) Toad
9 2 (0.53%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.53%) MLflow
10 1 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 94 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.16%) Finance
3 78 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (12.43%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.97%) Manufacturing
6 14 (3.70%) Banking
7 13 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.17%) Retail
9 10 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.85%) Legal
11 7 (1.85%) Local Government
11 7 (1.85%) Marketing
11 7 (1.85%) Police
11 7 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.59%) Automotive
12 6 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.32%) Law
13 5 (1.32%) Publishing
14 4 (1.06%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.38%) Gherkin
1 9 (2.38%) XML
2 4 (1.06%) Flash
2 4 (1.06%) JSON
2 4 (1.06%) XSLT
3 2 (0.53%) ADO
3 2 (0.53%) PySpark
4 1 (0.26%) .NET
4 1 (0.26%) Kafka
4 1 (0.26%) Middleware
4 1 (0.26%) REST
4 1 (0.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.97%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.17%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.65%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.06%) Replication
6 4 (1.06%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
7 3 (0.79%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.79%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (0.79%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.53%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.53%) BYOD
8 2 (0.53%) CSOC
8 2 (0.53%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.94%) Windows
2 19 (5.03%) Linux
3 11 (2.91%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.32%) SUSE
4 5 (1.32%) Unix
5 2 (0.53%) AIX
5 2 (0.53%) Solaris
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (20.63%) Agile
2 68 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (12.96%) Decision-Making
5 47 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 46 (12.17%) Business Analysis
7 44 (11.64%) Workshop Facilitation
8 40 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (10.58%) Validation
9 39 (10.32%) AI
10 38 (10.05%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (10.05%) Requirements Gathering
11 37 (9.79%) User Stories
12 32 (8.47%) Migration
12 32 (8.47%) Test Automation
13 31 (8.20%) User Acceptance Testing
14 30 (7.94%) Analytics
14 30 (7.94%) CRM
15 29 (7.67%) Data Analysis
15 29 (7.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 35 (9.26%) SQL
2 14 (3.70%) Python
3 6 (1.59%) C#
3 6 (1.59%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.32%) 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%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 54 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 48 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.56%) ISTQB
4 16 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.97%) Degree
6 8 (2.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.06%) CBAP
7 4 (1.06%) ISEB
8 3 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.53%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.53%) CAPM
9 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.53%) IIBA
9 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.53%) PhD
9 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.53%) PMP
10 1 (0.26%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.67%) Data Quality
1 29 (7.67%) PMO
2 27 (7.14%) QA
3 17 (4.50%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.65%) GDPR
5 9 (2.38%) WCAG
6 6 (1.59%) NIST
7 5 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.06%) GPFS
2 4 (1.06%) NFS
2 4 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.06%) vSphere
3 2 (0.53%) Docker
3 2 (0.53%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.06%) vRealize
3 3 (0.79%) QRadar
3 3 (0.79%) SCCM
3 3 (0.79%) VxRail
4 2 (0.53%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.26%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 58 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.52%) SAP
3 30 (7.94%) Oracle
4 17 (4.50%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.38%) IBM
6 8 (2.12%) Google
7 7 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.85%) Siemens
8 6 (1.59%) Splunk
8 6 (1.59%) Talend
9 5 (1.32%) MathWorks
9 5 (1.32%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.06%) Cisco
10 4 (1.06%) Databricks
10 4 (1.06%) KANA
10 4 (1.06%) Teradata
10 4 (1.06%) VMware
11 3 (0.79%) Kronos
11 3 (0.79%) Remedy
11 3 (0.79%) webMethods