Data Analytics Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Analytics
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 83 84
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 -33
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 42 22 32
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.89% 1.31% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 1.53% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 15 23
10th Percentile £433 £323 £403
25th Percentile £507 £396 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £490 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -14.78% +6.88%
75th Percentile £538 £635 £624
90th Percentile £577 £668 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data 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 1,945 1,440 1,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.49% 85.61% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 907 1,075
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £587 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 47 50
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.10 £16.88 £17.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £40.46 £52.50 £67.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Analytics

Data 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 Data Analytics within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 -14 29 £525 +10.06% 10
Birmingham -3 12 £450 -15.29% 13
Warwickshire - 1 £525 - 4
Data Analytics
England

Data 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 29 (69.05%) SAS
2 6 (14.29%) Apache
2 6 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.52%) GitHub
2 3 (7.14%) Azure
3 2 (4.76%) AWS
3 2 (4.76%) GCP
3 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (69.05%) Pentaho
2 6 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 6 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 6 (14.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 4 (9.52%) Apache Hive
3 4 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (9.52%) HBase
4 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.76%) Power BI
5 1 (2.38%) Big Data
5 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (73.81%) JIRA
2 29 (69.05%) Git
2 29 (69.05%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Banking
3 2 (4.76%) Finance
3 2 (4.76%) Retail
4 1 (2.38%) Legal
4 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) SAS Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) Hadoop Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) Splunk Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Denodo Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) Analyst
5 1 (2.38%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.38%) Data Scientist
5 1 (2.38%) Developer
5 1 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) Hadoop Developer
5 1 (2.38%) Lead
5 1 (2.38%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.38%) Senior
5 1 (2.38%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (9.52%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Analytics
2 32 (76.19%) Agile
2 32 (76.19%) CI/CD
3 31 (73.81%) Data Modelling
3 31 (73.81%) Data Pipeline
3 31 (73.81%) ETL
4 29 (69.05%) Data Virtualisation
4 29 (69.05%) DevOps
4 29 (69.05%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (69.05%) Scrum
5 27 (64.29%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (64.29%) Data Integration
6 25 (59.52%) Deployment Automation
6 25 (59.52%) Test Automation
7 24 (57.14%) Business Analytics
7 24 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (21.43%) Risk Assessment
9 7 (16.67%) Data Engineering
10 6 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (78.57%) SQL
2 7 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.76%) Java
4 2 (4.76%) Scala
5 1 (2.38%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 24 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (78.57%) Docker
2 4 (9.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (78.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Hadoop YARN
2 4 (9.52%) Kibana
2 4 (9.52%) logstash
3 3 (7.14%) Ansible
3 3 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (69.05%) Denodo
1 29 (69.05%) Talend
2 28 (66.67%) Oracle
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) Databricks
4 1 (2.38%) Google
4 1 (2.38%) SAP