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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 4 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 81 77 64
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.77% 14.98% 8.70%
As % of the General category 15.85% 23.12% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 51 54
10th Percentile £323 £165 £352
25th Percentile £363 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -8.43% +8.64%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £584
90th Percentile £585 £650 £865
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
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 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -50.00% +102.84% +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 511 333 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 55.30% 64.79% 52.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 234 262
10th Percentile £325 £163 £250
25th Percentile £423 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +3.95% -8.65%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £685 £692 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +1.29% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 32
10th Percentile £16.03 - £11.78
25th Percentile £17.17 £14.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £20.76 £14.70 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +41.22% -40.37% +41.73%
75th Percentile £28.57 £22.08 £48.75
90th Percentile £67.88 £47.30 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +57.89% - -7.32%

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 16 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 (8.64%) Confluence
1 7 (8.64%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (7.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 3 (3.70%) SAS
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Oracle HRMS
2 2 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.23%) Aareon QL
3 1 (1.23%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.23%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.23%) OPENHousing
3 1 (1.23%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (1.23%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.23%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.05%) Azure
2 8 (9.88%) AWS
3 6 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.94%) dbt
4 4 (4.94%) GitHub
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.70%) GCP
5 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.47%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.23%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.23%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.23%) IaaS
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.23%) PaaS
7 1 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) SAN
2 1 (1.23%) DHCP
2 1 (1.23%) DNS
2 1 (1.23%) Internet
2 1 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.23%) VLAN
2 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (7.41%) Power BI
4 4 (4.94%) Metadata
4 4 (4.94%) Power Query
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.23%) Tableau
7 1 (1.23%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) JIRA
2 5 (6.17%) Git
2 5 (6.17%) JMeter
3 3 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.70%) JUnit
3 3 (3.70%) Selenium
3 3 (3.70%) WebDriver
General
1 41 (50.62%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.99%) Finance
3 10 (12.35%) Banking
4 6 (7.41%) Legal
4 6 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Local Government
6 3 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.70%) Marketing
7 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Law
8 1 (1.23%) Automotive
8 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Military
8 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (27.16%) Analyst
2 10 (12.35%) Splunk Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Data Analyst
3 8 (9.88%) Lead
3 8 (9.88%) Site Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Business Analyst
4 7 (8.64%) Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Oracle Specialist
5 6 (7.41%) Support Specialist
6 4 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Architect
7 3 (3.70%) Consultant
7 3 (3.70%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Insight Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) Python Developer
7 3 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.70%) Systems Tester
7 3 (3.70%) Tester
8 2 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.70%) FastAPI
2 3 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (3.70%) Spring
2 3 (3.70%) WireMock
3 2 (2.47%) ADO
4 1 (1.23%) .NET
4 1 (1.23%) Itk
4 1 (1.23%) PySpark
4 1 (1.23%) REST
4 1 (1.23%) SAP TM
4 1 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.70%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.47%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.23%) IoT
6 1 (1.23%) PMI
6 1 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Linux
2 8 (9.88%) Unix
3 3 (3.70%) Windows
4 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (56.79%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (23.46%) Data Modelling
2 19 (23.46%) Validation
3 18 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (19.75%) Analytics
4 16 (19.75%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (18.52%) Containerisation
5 15 (18.52%) Migration
6 14 (17.28%) Observability
7 13 (16.05%) DevOps
8 12 (14.81%) Agile
8 12 (14.81%) Dashboard Development
9 11 (13.58%) Change Management
10 10 (12.35%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (12.35%) CI/CD
11 9 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
11 9 (11.11%) ETL
11 9 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
11 9 (11.11%) Process Improvement
11 9 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.86%) SQL
2 19 (23.46%) Python
3 9 (11.11%) Bash
4 3 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.70%) Java
4 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.47%) VB
6 1 (1.23%) Bicep
6 1 (1.23%) C
6 1 (1.23%) C++
6 1 (1.23%) R
6 1 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (16.05%) Degree
2 8 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.47%) CISSP
5 2 (2.47%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.23%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.23%) ACCA
6 1 (1.23%) CCNA
6 1 (1.23%) CIMA
6 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.23%) IIBA
6 1 (1.23%) MCSE
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.94%) GDPR
3 3 (3.70%) PMO
4 2 (2.47%) GRC
4 2 (2.47%) SLA
5 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.23%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 15 (18.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.88%) Ansible
2 8 (9.88%) Kibana
2 8 (9.88%) Puppet
3 6 (7.41%) Grafana
3 6 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.70%) Control-M
4 3 (3.70%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (3.70%) Nessus
5 2 (2.47%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.47%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.58%) Oracle
2 11 (13.58%) Splunk
3 7 (8.64%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.17%) SAP
4 5 (6.17%) Tenable
5 3 (3.70%) Cognos
5 3 (3.70%) Teradata
6 2 (2.47%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.47%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.47%) HP
6 2 (2.47%) Remedy
7 1 (1.23%) Aareon
7 1 (1.23%) Databricks
7 1 (1.23%) Dell
7 1 (1.23%) Oneserve
7 1 (1.23%) Sage
7 1 (1.23%) Siemens
7 1 (1.23%) Veeam