Data Analyst Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £431 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 94 122
Rank change year-on-year +10 +28 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 22 35 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.16% 1.55% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 1.64% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 42
10th Percentile £291 £214 £262
25th Percentile £359 £294 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £351 £413
Median % change year-on-year +22.78% -14.85% -1.49%
75th Percentile £466 £447 £475
90th Percentile £534 £538 £571
England median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +12.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £21.54 £22.16 £22.69
% change year-on-year -2.82% -2.34% +26.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,733 2,135 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 94.59% 96.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,459 2,490
10th Percentile £255 £250 £225
25th Percentile £360 £386 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 64 75
10th Percentile £12.08 £12.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.47 £14.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +9.68%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.38 £23.15
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 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 +3 11 £425 +41.67% 13
Shropshire - 5 £449 - 1
Warwickshire +3 2 £431 -1.43%
Staffordshire - 2 - - 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (27.27%) Test Scripting
2 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) Analytics
3 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
3 5 (22.73%) Power BI
3 5 (22.73%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
4 4 (18.18%) Data Mapping
4 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
4 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Denodo
4 4 (18.18%) Visualisation
5 3 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.64%) Agile
5 3 (13.64%) Python
5 3 (13.64%) Project Management
6 2 (9.09%) Validation
6 2 (9.09%) Data Mining

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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.55%) OCI
2 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
2 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Power BI
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (9.09%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (4.55%) Pentaho
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Power Query
4 1 (4.55%) Presto
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Billing
3 2 (9.09%) Local Government
3 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) BREW
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) FMCG
1 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
1 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
1 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Analytics
1 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Test Scripting
2 5 (22.73%) Customer Requirements
2 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 4 (18.18%) Data Mapping
3 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Visualisation
4 3 (13.64%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
4 3 (13.64%) Project Management
5 2 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (9.09%) Data Development
5 2 (9.09%) Data Science
5 2 (9.09%) Data Strategy
5 2 (9.09%) User Stories
5 2 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.55%) R
4 1 (4.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) ACCA
3 1 (4.55%) CIMA
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 4 (18.18%) Denodo
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.55%) Sage
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (4.55%) Talend
5 1 (4.55%) Teradata