Data Analyst Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £443, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 97 125
Rank change year-on-year +10 +28 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 24 32 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.18% 1.45% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.53% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 41
10th Percentile £314 £245 £300
25th Percentile £369 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.69% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £472 £447 £519
90th Percentile £523 £538 £643
England median daily rate £456 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.95% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £21.43 £22.16 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.29% -11.36% +35.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,870 2,090 3,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 94.44% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,426 2,483
10th Percentile £250 £260 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 63 67
10th Percentile £12.02 £12.50 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.75 £14.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £39.69 £28.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.75 £24.05
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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 12 June 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 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 +4 13 £431 +38.12% 3
Shropshire - 5 £449 - 1
Staffordshire +8 2 - - 3
Warwickshire -7 2 £431 -9.21% 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 (33.33%) Oracle
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (25.00%) Migration
3 6 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 6 (25.00%) Analytics
3 6 (25.00%) Power BI
3 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (20.83%) Data Mapping
4 5 (20.83%) Data Migration
4 5 (20.83%) Python
5 4 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 4 (16.67%) Denodo
6 3 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 3 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (12.50%) Data Science
6 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.50%) Agile

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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.17%) OCI
3 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (8.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Tableau
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) Big Data
4 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (4.17%) Pentaho
4 1 (4.17%) Power Query
4 1 (4.17%) Presto
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Billing
3 2 (8.33%) Local Government
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) BREW
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) FMCG
1 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
1 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
1 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (25.00%) Analytics
2 6 (25.00%) Migration
2 6 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (20.83%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (20.83%) Data Mapping
3 5 (20.83%) Data Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 3 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Data Science
5 3 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 3 (12.50%) Project Management
6 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (8.33%) Data Development
6 2 (8.33%) Data Management
6 2 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.17%) R
4 1 (4.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) ACCA
3 1 (4.17%) CIMA
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) Denodo
4 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) Alteryx
5 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) Sage
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) Talend
5 1 (4.17%) Teradata