Statistical Analysis Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Statistical Analysis
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Statistical Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 101 111
Rank change year-on-year -33 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Statistical Analysis 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.083% 0.13% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.15% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £473 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% - -
75th Percentile £505 - -
90th Percentile £509 - -
England median daily rate £465 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -1.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Statistical 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 2,051 1,365 1,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.49% 88.06% 84.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,323 841 1,020
10th Percentile £271 £210 £275
25th Percentile £405 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 49 98
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.23
25th Percentile £16.21 £16.26 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -12.32% +39.05%
75th Percentile £25.67 £33.54 £48.44
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.92%

Statistical Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Statistical Analysis job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Statistical Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Statistical Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Statistical Analysis

Statistical Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Statistical Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Statistical Analysis

Statistical 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 Statistical Analysis within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 January 2026. 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
Birmingham - 2 £491 -
Statistical Analysis
England

Statistical Analysis
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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (50.00%) OLTP
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) R
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft