Data Analytics Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Analytics
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 83 89
Rank change year-on-year +34 +6 0
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 63 51 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.31% 2.20% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 2.49% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 66
10th Percentile £350 £420 £409
25th Percentile £358 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £539
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +0.19% +7.80%
75th Percentile £700 - £650
90th Percentile £775 £550 £653
England median daily rate £550 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,594 2,048 3,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.76% 88.31% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 1,397 2,342
10th Percentile £275 £263 £275
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.13 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £50.00 £21.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the West Midlands

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the West Midlands

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 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the West Midlands

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the West Midlands

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 13 May 2024. 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 +22 19 £700 +16.67% 5
Shropshire +9 15 £358 -33.70% 1
Birmingham +14 10 £550 +14.58% 16
Coventry +9 3 £575 +7.48% 8
Dudley - 3 £525 -
Herefordshire - 2 £692 -
Worcestershire - 2 £400 - 1
Data Analytics
England

Data 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 2 (3.17%) SAS
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.59%) CICS
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.98%) Power Platform
2 11 (17.46%) Azure
3 5 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.17%) AWS
6 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.17%) GCP
6 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.29%) LAN
1 9 (14.29%) MPLS
1 9 (14.29%) PBX
1 9 (14.29%) VoIP
1 9 (14.29%) VPN
1 9 (14.29%) WAN
1 9 (14.29%) WLAN
2 8 (12.70%) Firewall
3 5 (7.94%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (7.94%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (7.94%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (7.94%) DHCP
3 5 (7.94%) DNS
3 5 (7.94%) Internet
3 5 (7.94%) Network Security
3 5 (7.94%) SD-WAN
4 4 (6.35%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (3.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) Amazon Redshift
1 16 (25.40%) MySQL
1 16 (25.40%) Power BI
2 12 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (9.52%) Big Data
3 6 (9.52%) Tableau
4 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.17%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.17%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.17%) Metadata
4 2 (3.17%) Power Query
5 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.59%) IDMS
5 1 (1.59%) Looker
5 1 (1.59%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.59%) GitLab
3 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.35%) Finance
6 3 (4.76%) Automotive
6 3 (4.76%) Law
6 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Architect
2 7 (11.11%) Analyst
2 7 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) Data Architect
3 6 (9.52%) Senior
4 5 (7.94%) Enterprise Architect
4 5 (7.94%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) Developer
5 3 (4.76%) Head of Analytics
5 3 (4.76%) Network Architect
5 3 (4.76%) PMO Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) Portfolio Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) Senior PMO
5 3 (4.76%) Senior PMO Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) Senior Portfolio Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) Service Delivery Manager
5 3 (4.76%) Service Manager
6 2 (3.17%) Digital Delivery Manager
6 2 (3.17%) ITIL Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (3.17%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) Web Services
2 2 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (3.17%) PySpark
3 1 (1.59%) LDAP
3 1 (1.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 8 (12.70%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.94%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.35%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (4.76%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.17%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (3.17%) FMCG
6 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.59%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.59%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Unix
1 1 (1.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Analytics
2 27 (42.86%) ETL
3 19 (30.16%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
5 17 (26.98%) Requirements Gathering
6 16 (25.40%) Agile
6 16 (25.40%) Configuration Management
6 16 (25.40%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (25.40%) Data Extraction
6 16 (25.40%) Software Engineering
7 14 (22.22%) Data Management
7 14 (22.22%) Scrum
8 13 (20.63%) Process Improvement
9 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
9 11 (17.46%) Test Strategy
10 9 (14.29%) Architectural Design
10 9 (14.29%) Network Architecture
10 9 (14.29%) Performance Management
10 9 (14.29%) Programme Management
10 9 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.46%) SQL
2 7 (11.11%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (4.76%) PL/SQL
3 3 (4.76%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.59%) Bash
4 1 (1.59%) CLIST
4 1 (1.59%) COBOL
4 1 (1.59%) HiveQL
4 1 (1.59%) Java
4 1 (1.59%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.59%) REXX
4 1 (1.59%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 21 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.29%) CCIE
3 9 (14.29%) CCIE Data Center
3 9 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.35%) CCNP
5 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.76%) CISSP
5 3 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.76%) Degree
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (4.76%) PMO
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.59%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) Grafana
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
2 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (25.40%) Denodo
1 16 (25.40%) Talend
2 15 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 9 (14.29%) Cisco
4 5 (7.94%) Autodesk
4 5 (7.94%) CheckPoint
4 5 (7.94%) Infoblox
4 5 (7.94%) Palo Alto
4 5 (7.94%) Symantec
4 5 (7.94%) Zscaler
5 3 (4.76%) Databricks
5 3 (4.76%) Informatica
5 3 (4.76%) JD Edwards
5 3 (4.76%) QAD
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle
6 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.59%) IBM
7 1 (1.59%) Syncsort