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 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 5 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 79 77 63
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.49% 15.19% 8.38%
As % of the General category 15.37% 23.26% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 52 52
10th Percentile £322 £165 £351
25th Percentile £368 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £519
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -6.02% +8.64%
75th Percentile £547 £556 £578
90th Percentile £586 £673 £905
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -5.26% -11.71% +13.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.75 - £22.33
Median hourly rate £47.50 £59.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +139.35% +6.66%
75th Percentile £51.25 - £26.98
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year - +1.42% +6.66%

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 514 331 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 55.21% 65.29% 52.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 233 263
10th Percentile £315 £163 £235
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -7.77%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £696
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £513
% change year-on-year - -7.32% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 32
10th Percentile £16.04 - £11.78
25th Percentile £17.20 £14.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £21.52 £14.35 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +49.97% -41.78% +41.73%
75th Percentile £28.09 £22.08 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.50 £49.90 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.70 £18.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year +52.76% -4.58% -2.56%

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 9 May 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 7 (8.86%) Confluence
1 7 (8.86%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (7.59%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 3 (3.80%) SAS
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Oracle HRMS
2 2 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.27%) Aareon QL
3 1 (1.27%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.27%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.27%) OPENHousing
3 1 (1.27%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.27%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.27%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.46%) Azure
2 7 (8.86%) AWS
3 4 (5.06%) dbt
3 4 (5.06%) GitHub
3 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.80%) GCP
4 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.27%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.27%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.27%) IaaS
6 1 (1.27%) PaaS
6 1 (1.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) SAN
2 1 (1.27%) DHCP
2 1 (1.27%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) Internet
2 1 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.27%) VLAN
2 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.06%) Metadata
3 4 (5.06%) Power BI
3 4 (5.06%) Power Query
4 3 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.27%) Tableau
6 1 (1.27%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 10 (12.66%) JIRA
2 5 (6.33%) Git
2 5 (6.33%) JMeter
3 3 (3.80%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.80%) JUnit
3 3 (3.80%) Selenium
3 3 (3.80%) WebDriver
General
1 41 (51.90%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.52%) Finance
3 9 (11.39%) Banking
4 6 (7.59%) Legal
4 6 (7.59%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.80%) Local Government
6 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.80%) Marketing
7 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Law
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Military
8 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) Analyst
2 9 (11.39%) Splunk Engineer
3 8 (10.13%) Data Analyst
3 8 (10.13%) Lead
3 8 (10.13%) Site Engineer
3 8 (10.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) Business Analyst
4 7 (8.86%) Developer
5 6 (7.59%) Oracle Specialist
5 6 (7.59%) Support Specialist
6 3 (3.80%) Architect
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Consultant
6 3 (3.80%) Data Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Insight Analyst
6 3 (3.80%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.80%) Systems Tester
6 3 (3.80%) Tester
7 2 (2.53%) Data Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.80%) FastAPI
2 3 (3.80%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (3.80%) Spring
2 3 (3.80%) WireMock
3 2 (2.53%) ADO
4 1 (1.27%) .NET
4 1 (1.27%) Itk
4 1 (1.27%) PySpark
4 1 (1.27%) REST
4 1 (1.27%) SAP TM
4 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.59%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.80%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.80%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.27%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.27%) IoT
6 1 (1.27%) PMI
6 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.39%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Unix
3 2 (2.53%) Windows
4 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (55.70%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (24.05%) Validation
3 18 (22.78%) Data Modelling
4 16 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (18.99%) Containerisation
6 14 (17.72%) Analytics
6 14 (17.72%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (17.72%) DevOps
6 14 (17.72%) Migration
6 14 (17.72%) Observability
7 13 (16.46%) Agile
8 12 (15.19%) Dashboard Development
9 11 (13.92%) Change Management
10 10 (12.66%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (12.66%) CI/CD
11 9 (11.39%) Data Ingestion
11 9 (11.39%) ETL
11 9 (11.39%) Performance Metrics
11 9 (11.39%) Workflow
12 8 (10.13%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.38%) SQL
2 18 (22.78%) Python
3 9 (11.39%) Bash
4 3 (3.80%) Java
5 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.53%) VB
6 1 (1.27%) Bicep
6 1 (1.27%) C
6 1 (1.27%) C++
6 1 (1.27%) R
6 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (16.46%) Degree
2 8 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.53%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.27%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.27%) AAT
6 1 (1.27%) ACCA
6 1 (1.27%) CCNA
6 1 (1.27%) CIMA
6 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.27%) CISSP
6 1 (1.27%) IIBA
6 1 (1.27%) MCSE
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) GDPR
3 3 (3.80%) PMO
4 2 (2.53%) GRC
4 2 (2.53%) SLA
5 1 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.27%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 15 (18.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (18.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.13%) Ansible
2 8 (10.13%) Kibana
2 8 (10.13%) Puppet
3 6 (7.59%) Grafana
3 6 (7.59%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.80%) Control-M
4 3 (3.80%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (3.80%) Nessus
5 2 (2.53%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.53%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) Oracle
3 10 (12.66%) Splunk
4 6 (7.59%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.33%) SAP
5 5 (6.33%) Tenable
6 3 (3.80%) Cognos
6 3 (3.80%) Teradata
7 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.53%) HP
8 1 (1.27%) Civica
8 1 (1.27%) Dell
8 1 (1.27%) Google
8 1 (1.27%) NEC
8 1 (1.27%) Northgate
8 1 (1.27%) Remedy
8 1 (1.27%) Sage
8 1 (1.27%) Siemens
8 1 (1.27%) Veeam
8 1 (1.27%) VMware