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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 4 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +22 -11
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 88 86 46
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.28% 13.65% 6.76%
As % of the General category 18.30% 20.43% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 59 27
10th Percentile £236 £261 £320
25th Percentile £382 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £622 £650
90th Percentile £606 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -6.34% -2.38% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £30.23 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% -60.00% +248.19%

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 481 421 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 61.67% 66.83% 50.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 279 234
10th Percentile £200 £200 £229
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% -1.81%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £588
90th Percentile £650 £738 £685
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 15
10th Percentile £15.85 £14.70 £11.85
25th Percentile £17.09 £20.50 £13.69
Median hourly rate £20.50 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% -33.33% +260.00%
75th Percentile £23.58 £52.50 £61.88
90th Percentile £27.00 £56.85 £71.74
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £23.82 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.24% +5.87% +30.23%

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 15 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 (2.27%) Confluence
1 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.14%) Apache
2 1 (1.14%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) ResourceLink
2 1 (1.14%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.14%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.14%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.14%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.14%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.14%) Orchard Housing
2 1 (1.14%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.95%) AWS
2 6 (6.82%) Akamai
2 6 (6.82%) Azure
2 6 (6.82%) GCP
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.14%) IaaS
6 1 (1.14%) PaaS
6 1 (1.14%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.14%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.14%) SaaS
6 1 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) Firewall
1 6 (6.82%) Wireshark
2 5 (5.68%) DHCP
2 5 (5.68%) DNS
2 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.77%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (5.68%) Power BI
3 4 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.41%) MySQL
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.27%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.14%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.14%) EDMS
6 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.14%) OLTP
6 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.14%) Power Query
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Git
2 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.27%) JUnit
2 2 (2.27%) Selenium
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.14%) Postman
General
1 56 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Finance
3 10 (11.36%) Legal
4 8 (9.09%) Banking
5 5 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Law
7 3 (3.41%) Marketing
7 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.14%) Billing
8 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.14%) Military
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
8 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 22 (25.00%) Analyst
2 13 (14.77%) Site Engineer
2 13 (14.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 13 (14.77%) Splunk Engineer
3 6 (6.82%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (6.82%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 6 (6.82%) Architect
3 6 (6.82%) Business Analyst
3 6 (6.82%) IT Analyst
3 6 (6.82%) IT Support
3 6 (6.82%) IT Support Analyst
3 6 (6.82%) Senior
3 6 (6.82%) Support Analyst
4 5 (5.68%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 5 (5.68%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (5.68%) Consultant
5 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 4 (4.55%) Senior Architect
6 3 (3.41%) DBA
6 3 (3.41%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.77%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.41%) REST
2 3 (3.41%) SOAP
3 2 (2.27%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.27%) Kafka
3 2 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.14%) .NET
4 1 (1.14%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.14%) Flask
4 1 (1.14%) Middleware
4 1 (1.14%) PySpark
4 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 8 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.41%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.18%) Unix
2 15 (17.05%) Linux
3 6 (6.82%) Windows
4 5 (5.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (30.68%) Change Management
3 19 (21.59%) Data Modelling
3 19 (21.59%) DevOps
3 19 (21.59%) Observability
4 18 (20.45%) Validation
5 17 (19.32%) Agile
6 16 (18.18%) Migration
7 15 (17.05%) Containerisation
7 15 (17.05%) Data Ingestion
7 15 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (15.91%) ITIL
9 13 (14.77%) Computer Science
9 13 (14.77%) Dashboard Development
9 13 (14.77%) Incident Response
9 13 (14.77%) Knowledge Transfer
9 13 (14.77%) Performance Metrics
9 13 (14.77%) Proactive Monitoring
9 13 (14.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.68%) Python
2 14 (15.91%) Bash
3 9 (10.23%) SQL
4 8 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.68%) Perl
6 4 (4.55%) Java
7 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.27%) Scala
8 1 (1.14%) Bicep
8 1 (1.14%) Go
8 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.14%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (15.91%) Degree
2 13 (14.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.68%) MCDST
3 5 (5.68%) MCP
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.27%) IIBA
6 1 (1.14%) AAT
6 1 (1.14%) ACCA
6 1 (1.14%) CIMA
6 1 (1.14%) CISSP
6 1 (1.14%) GIAC
6 1 (1.14%) PMP
6 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.55%) QA
1 4 (4.55%) SLA
2 3 (3.41%) PMO
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (17.05%) Docker
2 5 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (17.05%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.77%) Ansible
2 13 (14.77%) Kibana
2 13 (14.77%) Puppet
3 6 (6.82%) CSIRT
4 5 (5.68%) SCCM
5 3 (3.41%) QRadar
6 1 (1.14%) Grafana
6 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (31.82%) Splunk
2 19 (21.59%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.82%) F5
5 5 (5.68%) iManage
5 5 (5.68%) Mitel
6 3 (3.41%) Oracle
6 3 (3.41%) Pega
6 3 (3.41%) SAP
7 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.27%) Databricks
7 2 (2.27%) Tenable
8 1 (1.14%) Aareon
8 1 (1.14%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.14%) Civica
8 1 (1.14%) Google
8 1 (1.14%) IBM
8 1 (1.14%) Northgate
8 1 (1.14%) Oneserve
8 1 (1.14%) Sage