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 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 319 156 237
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.89% 11.80% 12.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.85% 13.09% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 112 162
10th Percentile £263 £210 £189
25th Percentile £313 £339 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +5.88% +1.19%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £514
90th Percentile £550 £588 £575
England median daily rate £450 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 16
10th Percentile - £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.22 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% +18.42%
75th Percentile £29.38 £30.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £33.19 £31.60 £28.42
England median hourly rate £18.45 £24.50 £16.30
% change year-on-year -24.71% +50.31% -16.41%

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 2,693 1,192 1,779
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 90.17% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,769 815 1,194
10th Percentile £305 £200 £255
25th Percentile £402 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £695
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 61 134
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.01
25th Percentile £19.34 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.41% -17.59% +18.92%
75th Percentile £40.00 £28.18 £38.44
90th Percentile £68.00 £35.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +23.35% +4.62% -24.14%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 92 £425 -10.53% 35
Warwickshire -1 61 £500 - 16
Shropshire -20 54 £458 +2.12% 9
Coventry +7 51 £316 -33.47% 4
Worcestershire +5 17 £394 - 14
Staffordshire 0 9 £375 +11.11% 24
Solihull -6 6 £493 +44.01% 5
Herefordshire -16 3 £375 -6.25% 2
Dudley -4 2 £420 - 1
Brierley Hill - 2 £393 -
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 2
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 April 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 89 (27.90%) Agile
2 71 (22.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (16.61%) Security Cleared
5 51 (15.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 50 (15.67%) AWS
7 46 (14.42%) Azure
8 43 (13.48%) Requirements Gathering
9 42 (13.17%) Analytics
9 42 (13.17%) Microsoft
10 41 (12.85%) SC Cleared
11 40 (12.54%) Linux
12 39 (12.23%) Business Analysis
13 37 (11.60%) Migration
14 36 (11.29%) Cisco
14 36 (11.29%) User Stories
15 35 (10.97%) JIRA
15 35 (10.97%) VMware
16 34 (10.66%) Decision-Making
16 34 (10.66%) SQL
16 34 (10.66%) VMware Infrastructure
17 33 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (10.03%) Confluence
18 32 (10.03%) IBM
18 32 (10.03%) ServiceNow
18 32 (10.03%) User Acceptance Testing
18 32 (10.03%) vRealize
18 32 (10.03%) vSphere
19 31 (9.72%) Workshop Facilitation
20 29 (9.09%) 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 32 (10.03%) Confluence
2 16 (5.02%) SAS
3 7 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.63%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.31%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 25 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (6.58%) MS Visio
3 18 (5.64%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.94%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.63%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.63%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.31%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.31%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.31%) iTrent
4 1 (0.31%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.31%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.31%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.67%) AWS
2 46 (14.42%) Azure
3 29 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 14 (4.39%) Datadog
5 10 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.51%) Entra ID
7 7 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.88%) Google Tag Manager
8 6 (1.88%) Lucidchart
9 4 (1.25%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.25%) GCP
9 4 (1.25%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.94%) dbt
11 2 (0.63%) Figma
11 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.63%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.02%) VSAN
2 6 (1.88%) VPN
3 5 (1.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.57%) LAN
4 4 (1.25%) WAN
5 3 (0.94%) Firewall
6 2 (0.63%) BGP
6 2 (0.63%) MPLS
6 2 (0.63%) NAS
6 2 (0.63%) OSPF
6 2 (0.63%) SAN
6 2 (0.63%) VLAN
6 2 (0.63%) X.25
7 1 (0.31%) DHCP
7 1 (0.31%) DNS
7 1 (0.31%) Skype
7 1 (0.31%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.52%) Power BI
2 14 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.45%) Tableau
4 4 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.25%) Metadata
5 3 (0.94%) GIS
5 3 (0.94%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.63%) Power Query
6 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.31%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.31%) Looker
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.31%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 35 (10.97%) JIRA
2 4 (1.25%) Toad
3 3 (0.94%) Postman
3 3 (0.94%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.63%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.63%) MLflow
5 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
General
1 96 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 70 (21.94%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (17.55%) Finance
4 34 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.02%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.08%) Legal
7 11 (3.45%) Banking
7 11 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.82%) Law
10 8 (2.51%) Local Government
10 8 (2.51%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.19%) Publishing
12 6 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.57%) Automotive
13 5 (1.57%) Marketing
14 4 (1.25%) Police
14 4 (1.25%) Retail
14 4 (1.25%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.64%) Flash
2 7 (2.19%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.57%) SAML
4 4 (1.25%) Middleware
4 4 (1.25%) XML
5 2 (0.63%) RFC 2544
6 1 (0.31%) Kafka
6 1 (0.31%) LDAP
6 1 (0.31%) MACH
6 1 (0.31%) OAuth
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.31%) PySpark
6 1 (0.31%) REST
6 1 (0.31%) RESTful
6 1 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.03%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (5.64%) Replication
3 15 (4.70%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.82%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.88%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.25%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.25%) CSOC
7 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.25%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.94%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.63%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.63%) SCADA
9 2 (0.63%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.54%) Linux
2 22 (6.90%) Windows
3 6 (1.88%) Unix
3 6 (1.88%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.63%) AIX
4 2 (0.63%) Solaris
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (27.90%) Agile
2 71 (22.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (15.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 43 (13.48%) Requirements Gathering
6 42 (13.17%) Analytics
7 39 (12.23%) Business Analysis
8 37 (11.60%) Migration
9 36 (11.29%) User Stories
10 34 (10.66%) Decision-Making
11 33 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (10.03%) User Acceptance Testing
13 31 (9.72%) Workshop Facilitation
14 26 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (8.15%) Validation
15 24 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
16 21 (6.58%) Acceptance Criteria
16 21 (6.58%) Actionable Insight
16 21 (6.58%) Impact Assessments
16 21 (6.58%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.66%) SQL
2 15 (4.70%) Python
3 6 (1.88%) Java
4 4 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (0.94%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.63%) R
6 2 (0.63%) Scala
7 1 (0.31%) COBOL
7 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 41 (12.85%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (5.96%) Degree
5 11 (3.45%) IIBA
6 7 (2.19%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.25%) CBAP
8 3 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.94%) ISEB
8 3 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.63%) ACCA
9 2 (0.63%) CCNA
9 2 (0.63%) CCNP
9 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.63%) PhD
9 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.84%) PMO
2 13 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.76%) GDPR
4 8 (2.51%) QA
5 5 (1.57%) NIST
6 4 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.63%) NCSC
7 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.31%) COBIT
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (10.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (10.03%) vSphere
3 18 (5.64%) GPFS
3 18 (5.64%) NFS
4 15 (4.70%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.51%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.25%) Snort
7 2 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (10.03%) vRealize
2 17 (5.33%) VxRail
3 6 (1.88%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.25%) CSIRT
5 2 (0.63%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.31%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 42 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.29%) Cisco
3 35 (10.97%) VMware
4 32 (10.03%) IBM
4 32 (10.03%) ServiceNow
5 29 (9.09%) Oracle
6 19 (5.96%) SAP
7 14 (4.39%) AppDynamics
7 14 (4.39%) Commvault
7 14 (4.39%) HP
7 14 (4.39%) SolarWinds
8 13 (4.08%) Dell
9 8 (2.51%) Pega
10 7 (2.19%) Splunk
11 6 (1.88%) Databricks
11 6 (1.88%) Google
12 4 (1.25%) Okta
13 3 (0.94%) Cognos
13 3 (0.94%) Teradata
14 2 (0.63%) Lotus