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 29 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 5 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 95 87 56
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.86% 13.51% 7.83%
As % of the General category 19.23% 20.23% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 59 36
10th Percentile £302 £243 £353
25th Percentile £369 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% - +17.14%
75th Percentile £571 £622 £603
90th Percentile £620 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £478 £481 £525
% change year-on-year -0.62% -8.48% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £26.89 -
25th Percentile - £28.89 £22.33
Median hourly rate - £30.23 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year - +22.62% -
75th Percentile - £30.68 £26.98
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -16.67% +21.70% +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 494 430 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 61.67% 66.77% 50.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 289 238
10th Percentile £206 £200 £210
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £575
90th Percentile £675 £731 £666
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 24
10th Percentile £15.85 £14.70 £11.83
25th Percentile £17.09 £20.50 £14.44
Median hourly rate £21.52 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.27% +15.38% +108.00%
75th Percentile £23.58 £52.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £27.00 £56.85 £69.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £23.82 £22.50
% change year-on-year -16.04% +5.87% +27.70%

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 29 January 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 2 (2.11%) SAS
2 1 (1.05%) Apache
2 1 (1.05%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) IIS
2 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Aareon QL
1 1 (1.05%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.05%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.05%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.05%) OPENHousing
1 1 (1.05%) Orchard Housing
1 1 (1.05%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.47%) AWS
2 6 (6.32%) Akamai
2 6 (6.32%) Azure
2 6 (6.32%) GCP
3 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.16%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.11%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.11%) dbt
5 2 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.11%) GitHub
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.05%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.05%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.05%) IaaS
6 1 (1.05%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.32%) Firewall
1 6 (6.32%) Wireshark
2 5 (5.26%) DHCP
2 5 (5.26%) DNS
2 5 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.74%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.16%) MySQL
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.16%) Power BI
5 2 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.11%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.11%) Metadata
5 2 (2.11%) Tableau
6 1 (1.05%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.05%) EDMS
6 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.05%) OLTP
6 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.21%) JIRA
2 2 (2.11%) Git
2 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.11%) JUnit
2 2 (2.11%) Selenium
3 1 (1.05%) GitLab
3 1 (1.05%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.05%) JMeter
3 1 (1.05%) Postman
General
1 59 (62.11%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Finance
3 10 (10.53%) Banking
3 10 (10.53%) Legal
4 5 (5.26%) Marketing
4 5 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Law
7 1 (1.05%) Billing
7 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.05%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 25 (26.32%) Analyst
2 14 (14.74%) Site Engineer
2 14 (14.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 14 (14.74%) Splunk Engineer
3 7 (7.37%) Architect
4 6 (6.32%) Business Analyst
4 6 (6.32%) Lead
5 5 (5.26%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 5 (5.26%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 5 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 5 (5.26%) Consultant
5 5 (5.26%) Developer
5 5 (5.26%) IT Analyst
5 5 (5.26%) IT Support
5 5 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (5.26%) Senior
5 5 (5.26%) Support Analyst
6 4 (4.21%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.21%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.74%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (3.16%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.16%) REST
3 3 (3.16%) SOAP
4 2 (2.11%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.11%) Kafka
5 1 (1.05%) .NET
5 1 (1.05%) ADO
5 1 (1.05%) Flask
5 1 (1.05%) Middleware
5 1 (1.05%) PySpark
5 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.47%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.42%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (4.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.16%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.11%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.11%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.05%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.89%) Unix
2 16 (16.84%) Linux
3 6 (6.32%) Windows
4 5 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (55.79%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (28.42%) Change Management
3 23 (24.21%) Validation
4 22 (23.16%) Observability
5 20 (21.05%) Data Modelling
5 20 (21.05%) DevOps
6 19 (20.00%) Migration
7 18 (18.95%) Agile
7 18 (18.95%) Containerisation
8 16 (16.84%) Dashboard Development
8 16 (16.84%) Data Ingestion
9 14 (14.74%) Computer Science
9 14 (14.74%) Incident Response
9 14 (14.74%) Knowledge Transfer
9 14 (14.74%) Performance Metrics
9 14 (14.74%) Proactive Monitoring
9 14 (14.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (13.68%) ITIL
10 13 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.63%) Python
2 15 (15.79%) Bash
3 12 (12.63%) SQL
4 8 (8.42%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.26%) Java
5 5 (5.26%) Perl
6 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.11%) Scala
7 1 (1.05%) Bicep
7 1 (1.05%) Go
7 1 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.05%) R
7 1 (1.05%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.05%) VB
7 1 (1.05%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (17.89%) Degree
2 14 (14.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.32%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.26%) MCDST
4 5 (5.26%) MCP
4 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.05%) AAT
6 1 (1.05%) ACCA
6 1 (1.05%) CIMA
6 1 (1.05%) CISSP
6 1 (1.05%) GIAC
6 1 (1.05%) IIBA
6 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.05%) PMP
6 1 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.26%) SLA
3 4 (4.21%) QA
4 3 (3.16%) GDPR
4 3 (3.16%) PMO
5 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (18.95%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (17.89%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.74%) Ansible
2 14 (14.74%) Kibana
2 14 (14.74%) Puppet
3 6 (6.32%) CSIRT
4 5 (5.26%) SCCM
5 3 (3.16%) Grafana
5 3 (3.16%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.16%) QRadar
6 2 (2.11%) Control-M
6 2 (2.11%) IBM Guardium
6 2 (2.11%) Nessus
7 1 (1.05%) HP ALM
7 1 (1.05%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (31.58%) Splunk
2 21 (22.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.37%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.32%) F5
5 5 (5.26%) iManage
5 5 (5.26%) Mitel
6 4 (4.21%) Oracle
6 4 (4.21%) Tenable
7 3 (3.16%) Pega
7 3 (3.16%) SAP
8 2 (2.11%) Cognos
8 2 (2.11%) Databricks
8 2 (2.11%) Google
8 2 (2.11%) Teradata
9 1 (1.05%) Aareon
9 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.05%) IBM
9 1 (1.05%) Northgate
9 1 (1.05%) Oneserve