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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 7 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 77 66 64
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.33% 13.15% 8.60%
As % of the General category 15.16% 20.95% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 39 53
10th Percentile £317 £161 £355
25th Percentile £360 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -10.67% +8.53%
75th Percentile £575 £546 £600
90th Percentile £597 £642 £885
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £455 £525
% change year-on-year -1.10% -13.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £28.35 £33.16 -
25th Percentile £34.13 £37.47 £22.33
Median hourly rate £47.50 £44.65 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +6.39% +81.12% +6.66%
75th Percentile £51.25 £51.82 £26.98
90th Percentile - £56.13 -
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 508 315 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 54.98% 62.75% 51.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 218 257
10th Percentile £325 £163 £223
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +3.95% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £703
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +5.16% -8.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 32
10th Percentile £16.06 - £11.89
25th Percentile £18.27 £14.00 £13.97
Median hourly rate £25.00 £15.35 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +62.87% -37.73% +20.24%
75th Percentile £44.38 £23.18 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £29.16 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.27 £22.05 £19.30
% change year-on-year +37.28% +14.28% -7.40%

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 31 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 31 May 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 7 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (7.79%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 3 (3.90%) SAS
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Oracle HRMS
2 2 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.30%) Aareon QL
3 1 (1.30%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.30%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.30%) OPENHousing
3 1 (1.30%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (1.30%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.30%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.58%) Azure
2 8 (10.39%) AWS
3 6 (7.79%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.19%) dbt
4 4 (5.19%) GitHub
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.90%) GCP
5 3 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.30%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.30%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.30%) IaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.30%) PaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) SAN
1 2 (2.60%) VLAN
2 1 (1.30%) BGP
2 1 (1.30%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.30%) DHCP
2 1 (1.30%) DNS
2 1 (1.30%) Internet
2 1 (1.30%) LAN
2 1 (1.30%) OSPF
2 1 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.30%) VPN
2 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (7.79%) Power BI
4 4 (5.19%) Metadata
4 4 (5.19%) Power Query
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.30%) Tableau
7 1 (1.30%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) JIRA
2 5 (6.49%) Git
2 5 (6.49%) JMeter
3 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.90%) JUnit
3 3 (3.90%) Selenium
3 3 (3.90%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (46.75%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Finance
3 8 (10.39%) Banking
4 6 (7.79%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.90%) Legal
6 3 (3.90%) Local Government
6 3 (3.90%) Marketing
7 2 (2.60%) Automotive
7 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Law
7 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 20 (25.97%) Analyst
2 9 (11.69%) Data Analyst
2 9 (11.69%) Splunk Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) Lead
4 7 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 7 (9.09%) Developer
4 7 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Oracle Specialist
5 6 (7.79%) Support Specialist
6 4 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Insight Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Python Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Systems Tester
7 3 (3.90%) Tester
8 2 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 2 (2.60%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.90%) FastAPI
2 3 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (3.90%) Spring
2 3 (3.90%) WireMock
3 2 (2.60%) ADO
4 1 (1.30%) .NET
4 1 (1.30%) Itk
4 1 (1.30%) REST
4 1 (1.30%) SAP TM
4 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.90%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.90%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.30%) IoT
6 1 (1.30%) PMI
6 1 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.39%) Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Unix
3 3 (3.90%) Windows
4 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (58.44%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (23.38%) Validation
3 17 (22.08%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (22.08%) Data Modelling
4 15 (19.48%) Analytics
5 14 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 14 (18.18%) Migration
6 13 (16.88%) Observability
7 12 (15.58%) Agile
7 12 (15.58%) DevOps
8 11 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
9 10 (12.99%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
10 9 (11.69%) Change Management
10 9 (11.69%) ETL
10 9 (11.69%) Process Improvement
10 9 (11.69%) Workflow
11 8 (10.39%) Incident Response
11 8 (10.39%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.17%) SQL
2 18 (23.38%) Python
3 8 (10.39%) Bash
4 3 (3.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.90%) Java
4 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.60%) VB
6 1 (1.30%) Bicep
6 1 (1.30%) C
6 1 (1.30%) C++
6 1 (1.30%) R
6 1 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (15.58%) Degree
2 7 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.90%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.60%) CCNA
5 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.60%) CISSP
5 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.30%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.30%) ACCA
6 1 (1.30%) CCNP
6 1 (1.30%) CIMA
6 1 (1.30%) MCSE
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.19%) GDPR
3 2 (2.60%) GRC
3 2 (2.60%) PMO
3 2 (2.60%) SLA
4 1 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.30%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 14 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.09%) Ansible
2 7 (9.09%) Kibana
2 7 (9.09%) Puppet
3 6 (7.79%) Grafana
3 6 (7.79%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.90%) Control-M
4 3 (3.90%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (3.90%) Nessus
5 2 (2.60%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.60%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.29%) Oracle
3 10 (12.99%) Splunk
4 5 (6.49%) SAP
4 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.90%) Cognos
5 3 (3.90%) Tenable
5 3 (3.90%) Teradata
6 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.60%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (2.60%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.60%) HP
6 2 (2.60%) Remedy
6 2 (2.60%) Siemens
7 1 (1.30%) Capita
7 1 (1.30%) Civica
7 1 (1.30%) Google
7 1 (1.30%) Northgate
7 1 (1.30%) Orchard
7 1 (1.30%) Veeam