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 4 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 4 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 79 84 54
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.91% 16.09% 7.20%
As % of the General category 14.96% 24.71% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 59 44
10th Percentile £325 £160 £355
25th Percentile £365 £388 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -8.43% +8.07%
75th Percentile £527 £550 £575
90th Percentile £586 £700 £721
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £30.05 -
25th Percentile - £30.11 £22.33
Median hourly rate - £30.45 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year - +23.53% +6.66%
75th Percentile - £30.68 £26.98
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £24.65
% change year-on-year -17.90% +23.53% +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 528 340 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 59.53% 65.13% 52.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 240 275
10th Percentile £310 £190 £207
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £607 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £656
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 31
10th Percentile £16.08 - £11.75
25th Percentile £17.17 £14.00 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.77 £14.35 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +51.67% -41.78% +33.24%
75th Percentile £25.21 £28.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £27.22 £37.22 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £17.16 £19.00
% change year-on-year +45.73% -9.71% +5.56%

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 4 April 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
2 5 (6.33%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 5 (6.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (3.80%) SAS
4 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (1.27%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.27%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.27%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.27%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.27%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.27%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.92%) Azure
2 6 (7.59%) 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%) GCP
4 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.80%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.27%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.27%) IaaS
6 1 (1.27%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.27%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.06%) Metadata
4 4 (5.06%) Power BI
4 4 (5.06%) Power Query
5 3 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.80%) MySQL
5 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.80%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.53%) Tableau
7 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.27%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) JIRA
2 5 (6.33%) JMeter
3 4 (5.06%) Git
3 4 (5.06%) Selenium
4 3 (3.80%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.80%) JUnit
4 3 (3.80%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.27%) Postman
General
1 41 (51.90%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.78%) Finance
3 11 (13.92%) Banking
4 9 (11.39%) Legal
5 6 (7.59%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Law
6 3 (3.80%) Local Government
6 3 (3.80%) Marketing
7 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.27%) Military
8 1 (1.27%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (30.38%) Analyst
2 9 (11.39%) Site Engineer
2 9 (11.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 9 (11.39%) Splunk Engineer
3 8 (10.13%) Business Analyst
3 8 (10.13%) Data Analyst
4 7 (8.86%) Lead
5 6 (7.59%) Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Oracle Specialist
6 5 (6.33%) Support Specialist
7 4 (5.06%) Architect
7 4 (5.06%) DBA
7 4 (5.06%) PMO Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Data Manager
8 3 (3.80%) Insight Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.80%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.80%) Systems Tester
8 3 (3.80%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) 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%) PySpark
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
4 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.27%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.19%) Unix
2 10 (12.66%) Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.63%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (24.05%) Data Modelling
2 19 (24.05%) Validation
3 17 (21.52%) Agile
3 17 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (20.25%) Change Management
4 16 (20.25%) Containerisation
5 15 (18.99%) Observability
6 14 (17.72%) DevOps
7 13 (16.46%) Analytics
7 13 (16.46%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (16.46%) Dashboard Development
7 13 (16.46%) Migration
8 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (12.66%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (12.66%) Data Ingestion
9 10 (12.66%) Performance Metrics
9 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (11.39%) Computer Science
10 9 (11.39%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.58%) SQL
2 20 (25.32%) Python
3 10 (12.66%) Bash
4 3 (3.80%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.53%) Java
5 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.53%) VB
6 1 (1.27%) Bicep
6 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.27%) R
6 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) Degree
2 9 (11.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
4 7 (8.86%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.80%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.53%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.27%) AAT
7 1 (1.27%) ACCA
7 1 (1.27%) CIMA
7 1 (1.27%) IIBA
7 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.33%) GDPR
2 5 (6.33%) SLA
3 4 (5.06%) PMO
4 2 (2.53%) GRC
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 16 (20.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (20.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.39%) Ansible
2 9 (11.39%) Kibana
2 9 (11.39%) 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%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
1 12 (15.19%) Oracle
2 10 (12.66%) Splunk
3 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.33%) Tenable
4 3 (3.80%) Cognos
4 3 (3.80%) SAP
4 3 (3.80%) Teradata
5 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.53%) Databricks
5 2 (2.53%) HP
6 1 (1.27%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.27%) Capita
6 1 (1.27%) Civica
6 1 (1.27%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) NEC
6 1 (1.27%) Northgate
6 1 (1.27%) Oneserve
6 1 (1.27%) Orchard
6 1 (1.27%) Sage