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 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 66 69 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.19% 9.72% 7.24%
As % of the General category 17.93% 16.83% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 47 34
10th Percentile £227 £340 £363
25th Percentile £425 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £572 £681 £650
90th Percentile £627 £925 £721
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% +6.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £33.16 - £20.90
25th Percentile £37.47 £25.56 £21.52
Median hourly rate £44.65 £26.13 £23.11
Median % change year-on-year +70.89% +13.05% -
75th Percentile £51.82 £26.69 £24.77
90th Percentile £56.13 - £25.43
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £21.01 £50.13
% change year-on-year +137.95% -58.08% -

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 common skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 368 410 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 62.37% 57.75% 49.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 271 277
10th Percentile £163 £196 £296
25th Percentile £341 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £650
90th Percentile £639 £750 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -7.09% -2.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 21
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £20.88 £14.54
Median hourly rate £22.05 £47.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.58% +131.71% +13.89%
75th Percentile £26.51 £55.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £28.40 £57.25 £47.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.67 £23.82 £20.97
% change year-on-year +24.54% +13.59% +27.87%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills 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 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) IIS
2 1 (1.52%) SAS
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) ResourceLink
2 1 (1.52%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.09%) AWS
1 6 (9.09%) GCP
2 5 (7.58%) Akamai
3 4 (6.06%) Azure
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.52%) IaaS
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.52%) PaaS
6 1 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.70%) Firewall
2 9 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 9 (13.64%) VPN
3 8 (12.12%) Network Security
4 6 (9.09%) BGP
4 6 (9.09%) IPsec
4 6 (9.09%) OSPF
4 6 (9.09%) SSL
4 6 (9.09%) VLAN
5 5 (7.58%) Wireshark
6 4 (6.06%) DHCP
6 4 (6.06%) DNS
7 1 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
1 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.55%) Power BI
3 2 (3.03%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.52%) EDMS
4 1 (1.52%) OLTP
4 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.52%) Power Query
4 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) JIRA
1 4 (6.06%) JUnit
2 2 (3.03%) GitLab
2 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.03%) JMeter
3 1 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.52%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.52%) Postman
3 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.52%) Selenium
3 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.52%) TestNG
3 1 (1.52%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Finance
3 8 (12.12%) Banking
3 8 (12.12%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.06%) Legal
5 3 (4.55%) Marketing
5 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.55%) Retail Banking
6 2 (3.03%) Electronics
6 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Law
6 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Billing
7 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Analyst
2 6 (9.09%) Check Point Expert
3 5 (7.58%) Business Analyst
3 5 (7.58%) Developer
3 5 (7.58%) Senior
4 4 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 4 (6.06%) IT Analyst
4 4 (6.06%) IT Support
4 4 (6.06%) IT Support Analyst
4 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
4 4 (6.06%) Lead
4 4 (6.06%) Support Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 3 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) IT Manager
5 3 (4.55%) Site Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Splunk Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) Gherkin
1 4 (6.06%) Kafka
2 3 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.52%) .NET
4 1 (1.52%) Middleware
4 1 (1.52%) OLE
4 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (10.61%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (9.09%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.52%) CCTV
6 1 (1.52%) CMDB
6 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Check Point GAiA
3 5 (7.58%) Unix
4 4 (6.06%) Windows
5 3 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (65.15%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (19.70%) Agile
3 11 (16.67%) SIEM
4 10 (15.15%) Change Management
4 10 (15.15%) Project Management
4 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
5 9 (13.64%) Data Analysis
5 9 (13.64%) DevOps
5 9 (13.64%) High Availability
5 9 (13.64%) Migration
6 8 (12.12%) Data Protection
6 8 (12.12%) ITIL
6 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (10.61%) Computer Science
7 7 (10.61%) DevSecOps
7 7 (10.61%) Ethical Hacking
8 6 (9.09%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.09%) Observability
8 6 (9.09%) SDLC
8 6 (9.09%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.18%) Python
2 9 (13.64%) SQL
3 5 (7.58%) Bash
3 5 (7.58%) Java
4 3 (4.55%) Perl
5 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.52%) Bicep
6 1 (1.52%) Go
6 1 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.52%) Scala
6 1 (1.52%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) Degree
2 6 (9.09%) CCSE
3 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) CISSP
4 3 (4.55%) MCDST
4 3 (4.55%) MCP
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.03%) CEH
5 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) HNC
5 2 (3.03%) HND
5 2 (3.03%) OCP
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.52%) CPIM
6 1 (1.52%) GIAC
6 1 (1.52%) IIBA
6 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.52%) NIST
3 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.52%) PSD2
3 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) FortiGate
1 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.58%) CSIRT
3 4 (6.06%) Ansible
3 4 (6.06%) Kibana
4 3 (4.55%) Puppet
4 3 (4.55%) QRadar
4 3 (4.55%) SCCM
5 2 (3.03%) Data Guard
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.52%) Grafana
6 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (19.70%) Splunk
3 6 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 6 (9.09%) F5
3 6 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 4 (6.06%) SAP
5 3 (4.55%) iManage
5 3 (4.55%) Mitel
5 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.03%) Cisco
6 2 (3.03%) Juniper
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle
7 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.52%) Google
7 1 (1.52%) IBM
7 1 (1.52%) NetScout
7 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.52%) PayPal