Business Analytics Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Business Analytics
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 112 118
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +59
Contract jobs citing Business Analytics 15 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.79% 0.11% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.13% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 1
10th Percentile £508 £381 -
25th Percentile £509 £417 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -31.25% +32.08%
75th Percentile £540 £542 £725
90th Percentile £740 £577 -
England median daily rate £519 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -1.24% +2.44% -2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Business 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 1,710 1,565 1,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.09% 83.07% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 986 1,158
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £687 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 40 54
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.66 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.44 £21.48
Median hourly rate £23.70 £23.05 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -16.18% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £49.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Business Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Business Analytics job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Business Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Analytics

Business Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analytics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analytics in the West Midlands

Business Analytics
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 Analytics within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Shropshire - 15 £525 - 8
Business Analytics
England

Business Analytics
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 15 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) Pentaho
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (20.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) Git
1 15 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 15 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) SAS Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
1 15 (100.00%) Analytics
1 15 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 15 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 15 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 15 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 15 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 15 (100.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 15 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
1 15 (100.00%) ETL
1 15 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 15 (100.00%) Scrum
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) Unified Process
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (93.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Denodo
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle
1 15 (100.00%) Talend
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft