Analytics Contracts in the West Midlands

Analytics
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 20 32
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 62 123 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.61% 6.32% 6.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 7.52% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 86 110
10th Percentile £389 £358 £350
25th Percentile £436 £414 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +6.88% +4.98%
75th Percentile £574 £700 £550
90th Percentile £675 £775 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £15.63 - -
25th Percentile £16.15 - -
Median hourly rate £17.59 £30.37 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.09% - -
75th Percentile £18.45 - -
90th Percentile £18.62 - -
England median hourly rate £31.49 £30.37 £31.00
% change year-on-year +3.70% -2.03% -11.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytics in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytics in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the West Midlands

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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 Analytics within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +9 28 £500 -11.11% 92
Warwickshire -9 11 £663 -5.36% 24
Shropshire -8 9 £512 +43.02% 9
Coventry +4 5 £441 -23.35% 18
Worcestershire -1 2 £575 +43.75% 7
Staffordshire +2 1 £550 - 54
Solihull - 1 £550 - 10
Analytics
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (12.90%) Confluence
2 5 (8.06%) Apache
3 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.23%) CMS
5 1 (1.61%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.61%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.19%) Azure
2 11 (17.74%) Power Platform
3 6 (9.68%) Snowflake
4 5 (8.06%) Adobe Analytics
4 5 (8.06%) Google Analytics
5 4 (6.45%) AWS
5 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.45%) GitHub
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.23%) GCP
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.61%) Figma
8 1 (1.61%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.61%) IaaS
8 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.61%) PaaS
8 1 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Network Security
2 1 (1.61%) 5G
2 1 (1.61%) DSL
2 1 (1.61%) Internet
2 1 (1.61%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (1.61%) Modbus
2 1 (1.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.97%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (17.74%) Power BI
3 7 (11.29%) Big Data
4 4 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.23%) Metadata
6 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.61%) MySQL
7 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.61%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.61%) ERwin
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.19%) Finance
3 13 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (17.74%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.06%) Marketing
6 4 (6.45%) Brand Awareness
7 3 (4.84%) Law
8 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.23%) Local Government
8 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Banking
9 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Games
9 1 (1.61%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.61%) Military
9 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Data Engineer
2 12 (19.35%) Senior
3 10 (16.13%) Engagement Manager
4 7 (11.29%) Analyst
5 6 (9.68%) Data Manager
6 5 (8.06%) Architect
6 5 (8.06%) Lead
6 5 (8.06%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Campaign Manager
7 4 (6.45%) Python Data Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Python Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Engagement Manager
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Manager
8 3 (4.84%) Consultant
8 3 (4.84%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
9 2 (3.23%) SAP Consultant
9 2 (3.23%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (6.45%) PySpark
3 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.84%) REST
4 2 (3.23%) ADO
4 2 (3.23%) Kafka
5 1 (1.61%) Express.js
5 1 (1.61%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.61%) Jest
5 1 (1.61%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.61%) Node.js
5 1 (1.61%) NumPy
5 1 (1.61%) Pandas
5 1 (1.61%) React
5 1 (1.61%) Redux
5 1 (1.61%) RESTful
5 1 (1.61%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) Data Structures
1 4 (6.45%) Social Media
2 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.23%) IoT
3 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.23%) Replication
4 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.61%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.61%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.61%) NB-IoT
4 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.61%) SCADA
4 1 (1.61%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.61%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Agile
2 15 (24.19%) Decision-Making
3 13 (20.97%) Data Modelling
4 12 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (19.35%) Data Analytics
5 11 (17.74%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (16.13%) Project Management
7 9 (14.52%) Data Governance
7 9 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (14.52%) ETL
7 9 (14.52%) Visualisation
8 8 (12.90%) Data Architecture
9 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
9 7 (11.29%) Data Analysis
9 7 (11.29%) Project Delivery
9 7 (11.29%) Storytelling
10 6 (9.68%) Data Strategy
10 6 (9.68%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) SQL
2 14 (22.58%) Python
3 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.06%) R
4 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.61%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (1.61%) Bash
5 1 (1.61%) Java
5 1 (1.61%) Scala
5 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.23%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) CITP
5 1 (1.61%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.61%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.61%) NCSC
4 1 (1.61%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Kibana
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.84%) logstash
2 1 (1.61%) Ansible
2 1 (1.61%) CSIRT
2 1 (1.61%) Grafana
2 1 (1.61%) QRadar
2 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) SAP
2 6 (9.68%) Databricks
2 6 (9.68%) Google
3 5 (8.06%) Adobe
3 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.84%) Splunk
5 2 (3.23%) Talend
6 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.61%) FireEye
6 1 (1.61%) IBM
6 1 (1.61%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.61%) Tanium