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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 -13
Contract jobs citing Analytics 73 123 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.94% 6.01% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 7.44% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 76 75
10th Percentile £400 £344 £328
25th Percentile £493 £358 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% -5.95% +0.48%
75th Percentile £613 £725 £575
90th Percentile £675 £775 £683
England median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £15.97 - -
25th Percentile £17.01 - -
Median hourly rate £18.74 £30.37 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.29% - -
75th Percentile £26.86 - -
90th Percentile £31.73 - -
England median hourly rate £33.28 £29.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year +14.74% -9.80% -8.14%

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 1,315 1,654 1,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.97% 80.88% 87.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 1,093 1,337
10th Percentile £200 £264 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £618
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 119 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.32 £14.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +44.93%
75th Percentile £34.16 £40.25 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £50.00
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Analytics
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 24 June 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 June 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 23 £513 -21.12% 88
Warwickshire -10 15 £663 +16.48% 25
Coventry +12 13 £535 +7.00% 23
Shropshire -7 9 £512 +43.13% 29
Solihull - 3 £435 -
Worcestershire +1 2 £575 +43.75% 14
Analytics
England

Analytics
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 7 (9.59%) Confluence
2 5 (6.85%) Apache
3 3 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.74%) CMS
4 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.37%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (6.85%) SAP PM
2 3 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.37%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.62%) Azure
2 19 (26.03%) Power Platform
3 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (12.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (10.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (9.59%) AWS
7 6 (8.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (8.22%) Collibra
7 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (6.85%) Adobe Analytics
8 5 (6.85%) GitHub
8 5 (6.85%) Google Analytics
8 5 (6.85%) Serverless
8 5 (6.85%) Snowflake
9 4 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.11%) Azure Event Grid
10 3 (4.11%) Azure Functions
10 3 (4.11%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) 5G
2 1 (1.37%) DSL
2 1 (1.37%) Internet
2 1 (1.37%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (1.37%) Modbus
2 1 (1.37%) MQTT
2 1 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.29%) Power BI
2 16 (21.92%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (12.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (10.96%) Relational Database
5 7 (9.59%) Big Data
5 7 (9.59%) SQL Server
6 6 (8.22%) Delta Lake
7 5 (6.85%) GIS
8 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (5.48%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.48%) Oracle Database
8 4 (5.48%) Tableau
9 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.74%) DB2
10 2 (2.74%) Metadata
10 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (2.74%) SAP BW
11 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (10.96%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.37%) ERwin
2 1 (1.37%) Git
2 1 (1.37%) MLflow
2 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.29%) Finance
3 12 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.85%) Marketing
6 4 (5.48%) Brand Awareness
6 4 (5.48%) Law
7 3 (4.11%) Legal
8 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Local Government
9 1 (1.37%) Automotive
9 1 (1.37%) Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Games
9 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.37%) Military
9 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (16.44%) Senior
2 11 (15.07%) Architect
2 11 (15.07%) Data Engineer
3 10 (13.70%) Engagement Manager
4 9 (12.33%) Data Architect
5 6 (8.22%) Data Manager
5 6 (8.22%) Lead
6 5 (6.85%) Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Campaign Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Senior Engagement Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Senior Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Consultant
8 3 (4.11%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Data Analytics Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) Kafka
2 5 (6.85%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (4.11%) .NET
3 3 (4.11%) ADO
3 3 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.11%) PySpark
3 3 (4.11%) RESTful
3 3 (4.11%) Web Services
4 1 (1.37%) Express.js
4 1 (1.37%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.37%) Jest
4 1 (1.37%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.37%) Node.js
4 1 (1.37%) React
4 1 (1.37%) Redux
4 1 (1.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) IoT
2 6 (8.22%) SCADA
3 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.48%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.48%) Social Media
4 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.74%) Replication
6 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.37%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.37%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.37%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.37%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.03%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (24.66%) Data Governance
3 17 (23.29%) Agile
4 16 (21.92%) Data Modelling
4 16 (21.92%) ETL
5 15 (20.55%) DevOps
6 14 (19.18%) Data Analytics
6 14 (19.18%) Data Architecture
6 14 (19.18%) Decision-Making
7 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (16.44%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (15.07%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 11 (15.07%) Project Management
10 9 (12.33%) CI/CD
10 9 (12.33%) Data Integration
10 9 (12.33%) Machine Learning
11 8 (10.96%) Data Engineering
11 8 (10.96%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.77%) SQL
2 16 (21.92%) Python
3 5 (6.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (5.48%) Bicep
4 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.11%) C#
5 3 (4.11%) R
6 1 (1.37%) Bash
6 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (17.81%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) Degree
4 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.37%) CITP
5 1 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.37%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.29%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.59%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.74%) QA
5 1 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.37%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.37%) NCSC
5 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.11%) Docker
1 3 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Terraform
2 3 (4.11%) Kibana
2 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.11%) logstash
3 1 (1.37%) Ansible
3 1 (1.37%) Grafana
3 1 (1.37%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.37%) QRadar
3 1 (1.37%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 13 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.44%) Databricks
2 12 (16.44%) SAP
3 6 (8.22%) Google
3 6 (8.22%) Informatica
3 6 (8.22%) Oracle
4 5 (6.85%) Adobe
5 3 (4.11%) IBM
6 2 (2.74%) Cognos
6 2 (2.74%) Splunk
6 2 (2.74%) Workday
7 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.37%) Citrix
7 1 (1.37%) New Relic
7 1 (1.37%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow