Analyst Contracts in the Midlands

Analyst
England > Midlands

The median Analyst daily rate in the Midlands is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 364 507 880
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.59% 15.74% 17.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.67% 16.66% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 345 652
10th Percentile £166 £164 £158
25th Percentile £275 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £494
90th Percentile £565 £585 £538
England median daily rate £475 £488 £470
% change year-on-year -2.56% +3.72% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 25 51
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £9.74
25th Percentile £13.50 £12.50 £12.78
Median hourly rate £14.59 £15.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% -16.22% +29.82%
75th Percentile £21.73 £24.00 £24.88
90th Percentile £23.75 £28.45 £35.00
England median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.74
% change year-on-year -14.21% +20.71% -3.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,663 3,044 4,827
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 94.48% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,785 2,148 3,520
10th Percentile £213 £228 £208
25th Percentile £338 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +1.05% +16.42%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £569
90th Percentile £675 £691 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 111 146
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £14.15 £15.12 £14.67
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.97 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% +14.90% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the Midlands

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the Midlands

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the Midlands

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the Midlands

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the Midlands

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
West Midlands -1 248 £423 -6.11% 96
East Midlands +1 112 £363 -9.38% 83
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 96 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.05%) Microsoft
2 73 (20.05%) Finance
3 67 (18.41%) Security Cleared
4 57 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 51 (14.01%) Windows
7 50 (13.74%) SC Cleared
8 49 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
9 48 (13.19%) SQL
10 42 (11.54%) Agile
10 42 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
11 39 (10.71%) Customer Service
12 37 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (9.89%) Power BI
13 36 (9.89%) Power Platform
14 35 (9.62%) Azure
15 32 (8.79%) Business Analysis
16 31 (8.52%) Project Management
16 31 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
17 30 (8.24%) Analytics
18 26 (7.14%) Windows 10
18 26 (7.14%) PMO
19 25 (6.87%) SIEM
19 25 (6.87%) Degree
20 24 (6.59%) CRM
20 24 (6.59%) ERP
20 24 (6.59%) Active Directory
20 24 (6.59%) ServiceNow
20 24 (6.59%) Public Sector

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 14 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.65%) Confluence
4 5 (1.37%) CMS
4 5 (1.37%) SAS
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 22 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Odoo
1 5 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.55%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.27%) Maximo
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.27%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 36 (9.89%) Power Platform
2 35 (9.62%) Azure
3 31 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.65%) OCI
6 6 (1.65%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (1.37%) AWS
7 5 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (1.37%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 5 (1.37%) SaaS
8 4 (1.10%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.82%) Boomi
9 3 (0.82%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.82%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.55%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.32%) Firewall
2 10 (2.75%) VPN
3 6 (1.65%) LAN
4 5 (1.37%) WAN
5 4 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.82%) DHCP
6 3 (0.82%) Intranet
6 3 (0.82%) Wireless
7 2 (0.55%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.55%) DNS
7 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.55%) VoIP
8 1 (0.27%) Internet
8 1 (0.27%) Network Security
8 1 (0.27%) SAN
8 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.89%) Power BI
2 9 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (2.20%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.92%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.65%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.37%) Data Mining
6 5 (1.37%) Impala
7 4 (1.10%) Power Query
7 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.82%) Tableau
9 2 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.55%) GIS
9 2 (0.55%) MySQL
9 2 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (3.02%) JIRA
2 5 (1.37%) Selenium
3 3 (0.82%) JMeter
3 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.55%) TestRail
5 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.27%) Postman
5 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 96 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.05%) Finance
3 57 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.40%) Legal
6 14 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.02%) Banking
7 11 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.02%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.75%) Retail
9 8 (2.20%) Law
9 8 (2.20%) Marketing
10 5 (1.37%) Advertising
10 5 (1.37%) Electronics
10 5 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.10%) Automotive
11 4 (1.10%) Back Office
11 4 (1.10%) Publishing
12 3 (0.82%) Games
12 3 (0.82%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.10%) .NET
1 4 (1.10%) LDAP
2 3 (0.82%) Middleware
2 3 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.27%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.27%) BREW
4 1 (0.27%) JSON
4 1 (0.27%) REST
4 1 (0.27%) SOAP
4 1 (0.27%) WinForms
4 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.95%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
3 13 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 11 (3.02%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (2.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 9 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.65%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.37%) NHS
8 4 (1.10%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.10%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.82%) CMDB
9 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.82%) Housing Association
9 3 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.55%) SCADA
10 2 (0.55%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 51 (14.01%) Windows
2 26 (7.14%) Windows 10
3 18 (4.95%) Linux
4 10 (2.75%) Mac OS X
5 7 (1.92%) Windows 7
6 4 (1.10%) Android
6 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.55%) Unix
8 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 49 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
3 42 (11.54%) Agile
3 42 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
4 39 (10.71%) Customer Service
5 37 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (8.79%) Business Analysis
7 31 (8.52%) Project Management
8 30 (8.24%) Analytics
9 25 (6.87%) SIEM
10 24 (6.59%) CRM
10 24 (6.59%) ERP
11 23 (6.32%) Data Analysis
11 23 (6.32%) Incident Management
12 22 (6.04%) ITIL
13 21 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (5.77%) Test Scripting
14 20 (5.49%) Risk Management
14 20 (5.49%) Security Operations
15 19 (5.22%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 48 (13.19%) SQL
2 23 (6.32%) Python
3 9 (2.47%) R
4 6 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.10%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.55%) VBA
7 1 (0.27%) C#
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.27%) ProC
7 1 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (18.41%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.87%) Degree
4 11 (3.02%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.92%) ISEB
6 7 (1.92%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.37%) CBAP
7 5 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.10%) CISSP
8 4 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.82%) APMG
9 3 (0.82%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (0.55%) ACCA
10 2 (0.55%) CEH
10 2 (0.55%) CIMA
10 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.55%) IIBA
11 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.14%) PMO
2 20 (5.49%) NIST
3 14 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.57%) Data Quality
5 11 (3.02%) GDPR
5 11 (3.02%) SLA
6 10 (2.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (2.75%) HIPAA
7 8 (2.20%) QA
8 7 (1.92%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.55%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.82%) Ansible
3 2 (0.55%) Kibana
3 2 (0.55%) logstash
4 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (20.05%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.59%) ServiceNow
3 23 (6.32%) Oracle
4 20 (5.49%) SAP
5 6 (1.65%) Splunk
6 5 (1.37%) Darktrace
6 5 (1.37%) FireEye
6 5 (1.37%) LogRhythm
6 5 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.10%) Computacenter
7 4 (1.10%) Denodo
8 3 (0.82%) Citrix
8 3 (0.82%) Databricks
8 3 (0.82%) IFS
8 3 (0.82%) Rapid7
8 3 (0.82%) Sage
9 2 (0.55%) Ariba
9 2 (0.55%) BMC
9 2 (0.55%) Sophos
9 2 (0.55%) VMware