Business Analysis Contracts in the West Midlands

Business Analysis
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 83 58
Rank change year-on-year +20 -25 +19
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 33 29 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.45% 1.49% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 1.78% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 64
10th Percentile £455 £333 £370
25th Percentile £500 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £567 £534 £558
90th Percentile £588 £573 £603
England median daily rate £530 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -1.85% -1.82% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Business Analysis 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 1,189 1,632 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.27% 84.08% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,080 1,452
10th Percentile £200 £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 £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the West Midlands

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the West Midlands

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis 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 Business Analysis in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the West Midlands

Business Analysis
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 Business Analysis within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 14 £538 -8.51% 6
Birmingham +8 8 £513 +7.89% 11
Shropshire - 8 £463 - 1
Coventry +6 1 £575 +9.52% 1
Staffordshire +2 1 - - 10
Business Analysis
England

Business Analysis
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 3 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
1 2 (6.06%) Open Workbench
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.06%) Azure
3 1 (3.03%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.03%) Figma
3 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) GIS
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) GitLab
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Maven
General
1 19 (57.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Finance
4 5 (15.15%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Local Government
7 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (63.64%) Analyst
2 17 (51.52%) Business Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Change Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Business Change Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Business IT Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Engagement Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.06%) IT Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Camel
1 2 (6.06%) CSS
1 2 (6.06%) HTML
1 2 (6.06%) Next.js
1 2 (6.06%) React
2 1 (3.03%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.03%) Quarkus
2 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.03%) Spring
2 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Operational Technology
2 5 (15.15%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) IoT
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Agile
2 16 (48.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (30.30%) Change Management
5 9 (27.27%) Project Delivery
5 9 (27.27%) Waterfall
6 8 (24.24%) Cyber Resilience
6 8 (24.24%) Data Modelling
7 7 (21.21%) Business Process Modelling
7 7 (21.21%) Data Analysis
7 7 (21.21%) User Stories
8 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
8 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (15.15%) Change Control
9 5 (15.15%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (15.15%) Project Management
9 5 (15.15%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
10 4 (12.12%) BDD
10 4 (12.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) Java
2 3 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) ACCA
2 1 (3.03%) CBAP
2 1 (3.03%) CIMA
2 1 (3.03%) CIPFA
2 1 (3.03%) ICAEW
2 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) NIST
2 3 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.06%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) Adobe
3 1 (3.03%) Civica
3 1 (3.03%) IBM
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle