Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 4 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 82 86 53
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.50% 16.48% 6.91%
As % of the General category 15.50% 25.29% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 62 41
10th Percentile £322 £160 £355
25th Percentile £360 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £698 £613
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -3.16% -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £30.05 -
25th Percentile - £30.11 £22.33
Median hourly rate - £30.45 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year - +23.53% +6.66%
75th Percentile - £30.68 £26.98
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.23 £24.65
% change year-on-year -17.29% +22.62% +14.44%

All General Skills
Birmingham

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 529 340 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 61.30% 65.13% 52.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 244 279
10th Percentile £304 £200 £202
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +12.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 30
10th Percentile £16.13 - £11.69
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.00 £13.41
Median hourly rate £21.77 £14.70 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +48.06% -40.37% +45.56%
75th Percentile £25.00 £30.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £26.80 £30.68 £57.91
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £17.58 £18.75
% change year-on-year +30.85% -6.25% +5.87%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.10%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) SAS
3 2 (2.44%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (1.22%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.22%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.22%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.22%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.22%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.22%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.20%) Azure
2 7 (8.54%) AWS
3 4 (4.88%) GitHub
4 3 (3.66%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.66%) dbt
4 3 (3.66%) GCP
4 3 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.22%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.22%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.22%) IaaS
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.22%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) DHCP
1 1 (1.22%) DNS
1 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.88%) Metadata
4 4 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.66%) MySQL
5 3 (3.66%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.44%) Power BI
6 2 (2.44%) Power Query
6 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.44%) Tableau
7 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.22%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 9 (10.98%) JIRA
2 5 (6.10%) Git
2 5 (6.10%) JMeter
2 5 (6.10%) Selenium
3 4 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.88%) JUnit
4 3 (3.66%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.66%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.22%) Postman
General
1 44 (53.66%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.39%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Banking
4 9 (10.98%) Legal
5 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.10%) Marketing
6 5 (6.10%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.88%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Law
8 3 (3.66%) Local Government
9 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.22%) Military
10 1 (1.22%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 25 (30.49%) Analyst
2 10 (12.20%) Site Engineer
2 10 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 10 (12.20%) Splunk Engineer
3 9 (10.98%) Lead
4 8 (9.76%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.76%) Data Analyst
5 7 (8.54%) Architect
6 5 (6.10%) Developer
7 4 (4.88%) PMO Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Senior
8 3 (3.66%) Consultant
8 3 (3.66%) Data Manager
8 3 (3.66%) DBA
8 3 (3.66%) Insight Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.66%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Senior Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.88%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.66%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (3.66%) Spring
3 3 (3.66%) WireMock
4 2 (2.44%) ADO
4 2 (2.44%) REST
4 2 (2.44%) SOAP
5 1 (1.22%) .NET
5 1 (1.22%) Flask
5 1 (1.22%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.22%) Kafka
5 1 (1.22%) PySpark
5 1 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.32%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.66%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.66%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.44%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.44%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) PMI
7 1 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.85%) Unix
2 11 (13.41%) Linux
3 2 (2.44%) Windows
4 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (26.83%) Validation
3 20 (24.39%) Agile
4 19 (23.17%) Data Modelling
5 18 (21.95%) Change Management
6 17 (20.73%) Containerisation
6 17 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (20.73%) Observability
7 15 (18.29%) DevOps
8 14 (17.07%) Dashboard Development
8 14 (17.07%) Migration
9 13 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (13.41%) Analytics
10 11 (13.41%) Data Ingestion
10 11 (13.41%) Performance Metrics
11 10 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
11 10 (12.20%) Incident Response
11 10 (12.20%) Knowledge Transfer
11 10 (12.20%) Proactive Monitoring
11 10 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.05%) Python
2 15 (18.29%) SQL
3 11 (13.41%) Bash
4 4 (4.88%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.66%) Java
6 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.44%) VB
7 1 (1.22%) Bicep
7 1 (1.22%) Perl
7 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.22%) R
7 1 (1.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (18.29%) Degree
2 10 (12.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 7 (8.54%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.66%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.44%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.22%) AAT
7 1 (1.22%) ACCA
7 1 (1.22%) CIMA
7 1 (1.22%) IIBA
7 1 (1.22%) MCDST
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.32%) SLA
3 4 (4.88%) GDPR
3 4 (4.88%) PMO
4 3 (3.66%) QA
5 1 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (20.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (20.73%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.20%) Ansible
2 10 (12.20%) Kibana
2 10 (12.20%) Puppet
3 6 (7.32%) Grafana
3 6 (7.32%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.66%) Control-M
4 3 (3.66%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (3.66%) Nessus
5 2 (2.44%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.44%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.22%) SCCM
6 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.63%) Splunk
3 8 (9.76%) Oracle
4 5 (6.10%) Tenable
5 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.66%) Cognos
6 3 (3.66%) SAP
6 3 (3.66%) Teradata
7 2 (2.44%) Databricks
7 2 (2.44%) HP
7 2 (2.44%) Pega
8 1 (1.22%) Aareon
8 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.22%) Capita
8 1 (1.22%) Civica
8 1 (1.22%) Google
8 1 (1.22%) iManage
8 1 (1.22%) Northgate
8 1 (1.22%) Oneserve
8 1 (1.22%) Orchard