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 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 63 65 61
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.78% 11.78% 8.54%
As % of the General category 12.40% 19.35% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 38 49
10th Percentile £300 £165 £348
25th Percentile £338 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -10.67% +8.53%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £650
90th Percentile £585 £624 £925
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £550
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £26.48 £33.16 -
25th Percentile £29.45 £37.47 -
Median hourly rate £39.30 £44.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £51.82 -
90th Percentile - £56.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.71 £50.00 £15.90
% change year-on-year -52.58% +214.47% -31.20%

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 508 336 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 54.68% 60.87% 52.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 232 261
10th Percentile £350 £163 £230
25th Percentile £405 £311 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.44% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £600
90th Percentile £688 £643 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £491 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +6.74% -8.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 17
10th Percentile £16.42 - £13.22
25th Percentile £20.28 £14.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.05 £20.03 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.04% +5.39% -12.58%
75th Percentile £51.25 £26.51 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £27.64 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.50 £27.70 £18.97
% change year-on-year +10.13% +45.99% -9.54%

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 27 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

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 7 (11.11%) Confluence
1 7 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (9.52%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (3.17%) SAS
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Oracle HRMS
2 2 (3.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.59%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.59%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.59%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.63%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) AWS
2 8 (12.70%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.35%) dbt
4 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.76%) GCP
4 3 (4.76%) GitHub
4 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.59%) IaaS
6 1 (1.59%) PaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) SAN
1 2 (3.17%) VLAN
2 1 (1.59%) BGP
2 1 (1.59%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.59%) DHCP
2 1 (1.59%) DNS
2 1 (1.59%) Internet
2 1 (1.59%) LAN
2 1 (1.59%) OSPF
2 1 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.59%) VPN
2 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.70%) Power BI
2 7 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.35%) Metadata
4 4 (6.35%) Power Query
5 3 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.59%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) JIRA
2 4 (6.35%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) JMeter
3 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.76%) JUnit
3 3 (4.76%) Selenium
3 3 (4.76%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.59%) Postman
4 1 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.16%) Finance
3 13 (20.63%) Banking
4 9 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.35%) Local Government
6 4 (6.35%) Marketing
7 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.17%) Automotive
8 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.59%) Billing
9 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Law
9 1 (1.59%) Legal
9 1 (1.59%) Publishing
9 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (30.16%) Analyst
2 10 (15.87%) Lead
3 8 (12.70%) Data Analyst
4 6 (9.52%) Developer
4 6 (9.52%) Oracle Specialist
4 6 (9.52%) Support Specialist
5 5 (7.94%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Administrator
6 4 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) PMO Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Senior
7 3 (4.76%) Systems Tester
7 3 (4.76%) Tester
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 2 (3.17%) Data Insight Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Insight Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Insight Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) Spring
1 3 (4.76%) WireMock
2 2 (3.17%) ADO
2 2 (3.17%) FastAPI
2 2 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (3.17%) REST
3 1 (1.59%) Itk
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.59%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.17%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.59%) CMDB
6 1 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.59%) IoT
6 1 (1.59%) PMI
6 1 (1.59%) Replication
6 1 (1.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
1 2 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (58.73%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (31.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (22.22%) Analytics
5 11 (17.46%) Agile
5 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
5 11 (17.46%) Workflow
6 10 (15.87%) Actionable Insight
6 10 (15.87%) Data Modelling
7 9 (14.29%) Validation
8 8 (12.70%) DevOps
8 8 (12.70%) ETL
9 7 (11.11%) ITIL
9 7 (11.11%) Migration
9 7 (11.11%) Observability
9 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (9.52%) Decision-Making
10 6 (9.52%) Test Automation
10 6 (9.52%) Visualisation
10 6 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) SQL
2 10 (15.87%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.76%) Java
4 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.59%) Bicep
5 1 (1.59%) C
5 1 (1.59%) C#
5 1 (1.59%) C++
5 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) Degree
2 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.17%) CCNA
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.17%) CISSP
4 2 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.59%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.59%) CCNP
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.59%) MCSE
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.35%) PMO
3 3 (4.76%) GRC
3 3 (4.76%) QA
4 2 (3.17%) GDPR
5 1 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.59%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Grafana
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
1 5 (7.94%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.17%) Control-M
2 2 (3.17%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (3.17%) IBM Guardium
2 2 (3.17%) Nessus
3 1 (1.59%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.46%) Oracle
3 6 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.35%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.76%) Cognos
5 3 (4.76%) SAP
6 2 (3.17%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (3.17%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (3.17%) Remedy
6 2 (3.17%) Siemens
6 2 (3.17%) Splunk
6 2 (3.17%) Tenable
6 2 (3.17%) Teradata
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco
7 1 (1.59%) Dell
7 1 (1.59%) HP
7 1 (1.59%) Veeam
7 1 (1.59%) VMware