Business Analysis Contracts in the West Midlands

Business Analysis
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 54 64
Rank change year-on-year -30 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 27 77 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.32% 3.48% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 3.97% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 55 94
10th Percentile £331 £403 £365
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +7.26%
75th Percentile £518 £565 £579
90th Percentile £539 £600 £602
England median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Business 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 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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

Business Analysis
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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the West Midlands

Business Analysis
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 12 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
Birmingham -5 12 £475 -0.52% 6
Coventry +11 5 £525 +10.53%
Worcestershire - 3 £500 -
Wolverhampton +6 1 £525 -22.22%
Warwickshire -24 1 - - 4
Staffordshire - 1 £338 - 4
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 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.70%) Maximo
1 1 (3.70%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.70%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.41%) PaaS
5 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 2 (7.41%) SonarCloud
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.70%) SaaS
6 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) Moq
1 2 (7.41%) NUnit
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Automotive
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
4 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Analyst
2 18 (66.67%) Business Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Applications Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Developer Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Project Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Report Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
1 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
1 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
1 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.70%) FMCG
1 1 (3.70%) Housing Association
1 1 (3.70%) IVR
1 1 (3.70%) NHS
1 1 (3.70%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Agile
1 8 (29.63%) User Stories
2 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (18.52%) DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) GAP Analysis
3 5 (18.52%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (14.81%) Change Control
4 4 (14.81%) Conflict Resolution
4 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) Scrum
4 4 (14.81%) Technical Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) Project Management
5 3 (11.11%) Waterfall
6 2 (7.41%) Data Protection
6 2 (7.41%) ERP
6 2 (7.41%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) C#
2 2 (7.41%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) CBAP
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Ariba
4 1 (3.70%) Marketo
4 1 (3.70%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.70%) Sage