Data Analyst Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 94 102
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 21 17 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.56% 0.87% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 0.96% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 28
10th Percentile £195 £243 £194
25th Percentile £277 £359 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £431 £333
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +29.70% -19.39%
75th Percentile £488 £452 £423
90th Percentile £495 £501 £538
England median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.84% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.50 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile £15.50 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.13 £21.64 £22.33
% change year-on-year +25.35% -3.09% +13.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the West Midlands

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the West Midlands

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the West Midlands

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the West Midlands

Data 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 Data Analyst 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
Shropshire +1 8 £450 +0.45% 4
Birmingham +15 5 £475 +10.14% 13
Warwickshire +5 4 £195 -54.78% 7
Herefordshire - 1 £400 -
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (42.86%) Migration
1 9 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (28.57%) Data Structures
4 6 (28.57%) Power BI
4 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
5 5 (23.81%) Finance
5 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
6 4 (19.05%) Data Integration
6 4 (19.05%) Visualisation
6 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
6 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Denodo
7 3 (14.29%) Data Collection
7 3 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (14.29%) ETL Development
7 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (14.29%) ETL
7 3 (14.29%) Validation
7 3 (14.29%) SLA
7 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 3 (14.29%) Informatica
7 3 (14.29%) CRM
7 3 (14.29%) ERP

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.76%) Looker
3 1 (4.76%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
5 3 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Games
6 1 (4.76%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Data Migration
1 9 (42.86%) Migration
2 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Data Integration
3 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
3 4 (19.05%) Visualisation
4 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) CRM
4 3 (14.29%) Data Collection
4 3 (14.29%) Data Entry
4 3 (14.29%) Data Mapping
4 3 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 3 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (14.29%) ERP
4 3 (14.29%) ETL
4 3 (14.29%) ETL Development
4 3 (14.29%) OpenUP
4 3 (14.29%) Validation
5 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Denodo
2 3 (14.29%) Informatica
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Talend
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle