Business Analysis Contracts in the West Midlands

Business Analysis
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 56 71
Rank change year-on-year -32 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 28 84 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.45% 3.57% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 4.02% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 61 87
10th Percentile £331 £400 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £547
90th Percentile £575 £603 £600
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Business Analysis 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 1,629 2,088 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.10% 88.66% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 1,429 2,357
10th Percentile £275 £263 £273
25th Percentile £364 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
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% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 49 67
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.40 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% +8.82% +1.07%
75th Percentile £40.25 £27.13 £19.68
90th Percentile £57.75 £48.75 £21.11
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the West Midlands

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the West Midlands

Business 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 Business Analysis within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
Birmingham +1 13 £475 -5.00% 5
Coventry +8 3 £525 +2.94% 3
Warwickshire -19 3 £588 +11.90% 10
Worcestershire - 3 £388 -
Wolverhampton +5 1 £525 -22.22%
Staffordshire - 1 £338 - 3
Business Analysis
England

Business Analysis
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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.57%) Maximo
1 1 (3.57%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.14%) PaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) SonarCloud
6 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Internet
1 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Power BI
2 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) Moq
1 2 (7.14%) NUnit
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (3.57%) Automotive
5 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Analyst
2 17 (60.71%) Business Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Applications Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Digital Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 2 (7.14%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.14%) IT Services Manager
5 2 (7.14%) ITIL Manager
5 2 (7.14%) ITIL Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.14%) ITIL Service Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) .NET
1 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
1 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
1 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) FMCG
2 1 (3.57%) IVR
2 1 (3.57%) NHS
2 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (28.57%) User Stories
3 5 (17.86%) Change Control
3 5 (17.86%) DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) GAP Analysis
3 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.86%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (17.86%) Scrum
4 4 (14.29%) Analytics
4 4 (14.29%) Change Management
4 4 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
4 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Analysis
4 4 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 3 (10.71%) Data Analytics
5 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
5 3 (10.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) C#
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (3.57%) Java
2 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
1 1 (3.57%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) SAP
3 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Ariba
4 1 (3.57%) Cadence
4 1 (3.57%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.57%) Sage
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce