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 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 67 63 69
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.11% 11.13% 8.96%
As % of the General category 13.01% 18.21% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 35 56
10th Percentile £294 £152 £356
25th Percentile £331 £363 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -10.67% +8.53%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £607
90th Percentile £581 £631 £825
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £26.48 £33.16 -
25th Percentile £29.45 £37.47 £22.33
Median hourly rate £39.30 £44.65 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +81.12% +6.66%
75th Percentile £51.25 £51.82 £26.98
90th Percentile - £56.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.42 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -55.16% +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 515 346 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 54.67% 61.13% 50.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 240 267
10th Percentile £333 £163 £200
25th Percentile £405 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.28% -1.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £573 £584
90th Percentile £688 £694 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +8.29% -9.13% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 27 26
10th Percentile £17.41 - £13.22
25th Percentile £20.97 £14.00 £14.38
Median hourly rate £29.60 £22.05 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +34.22% -10.55% +17.55%
75th Percentile £57.19 £26.51 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.02 £55.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.27 £26.11 £18.24
% change year-on-year +15.95% +43.16% -18.96%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 (10.45%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (8.96%) Confluence
2 6 (8.96%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 3 (4.48%) SAS
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Oracle HRMS
2 2 (2.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.49%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.49%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.40%) Azure
2 8 (11.94%) AWS
3 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.97%) dbt
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.48%) GCP
5 3 (4.48%) GitHub
5 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.49%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.49%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.49%) IaaS
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.49%) PaaS
7 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) SAN
1 2 (2.99%) VLAN
2 1 (1.49%) BGP
2 1 (1.49%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.49%) DHCP
2 1 (1.49%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) Internet
2 1 (1.49%) LAN
2 1 (1.49%) OSPF
2 1 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.49%) VPN
2 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.96%) Power BI
3 5 (7.46%) Metadata
4 4 (5.97%) Power Query
4 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.49%) Tableau
7 1 (1.49%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) JIRA
2 5 (7.46%) JMeter
3 4 (5.97%) Git
4 3 (4.48%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.48%) JUnit
4 3 (4.48%) Selenium
4 3 (4.48%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.49%) Postman
5 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (43.28%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Finance
3 14 (20.90%) Banking
4 9 (13.43%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.46%) Marketing
7 4 (5.97%) Local Government
8 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.48%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.99%) Automotive
9 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.99%) Legal
9 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.49%) Billing
10 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.49%) Law
10 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Analyst
2 12 (17.91%) Lead
3 9 (13.43%) Data Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Oracle Specialist
5 6 (8.96%) Support Specialist
6 5 (7.46%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Insight Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) PMO Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Senior
8 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Splunk Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Systems Tester
8 3 (4.48%) Tester
9 2 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 2 (2.99%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) ADO
1 3 (4.48%) FastAPI
1 3 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (4.48%) Spring
1 3 (4.48%) WireMock
2 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.49%) Itk
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.49%) REST
2 1 (1.49%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.48%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.48%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.99%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.49%) IoT
5 1 (1.49%) PMI
5 1 (1.49%) Replication
5 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.99%) Mac OS
1 2 (2.99%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (56.72%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (28.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (22.39%) Analytics
5 12 (17.91%) Agile
6 11 (16.42%) Actionable Insight
6 11 (16.42%) Data Modelling
6 11 (16.42%) Validation
7 10 (14.93%) CI/CD
8 9 (13.43%) Workflow
9 8 (11.94%) ETL
9 8 (11.94%) Observability
10 7 (10.45%) Containerisation
10 7 (10.45%) Decision-Making
10 7 (10.45%) DevOps
10 7 (10.45%) Migration
11 6 (8.96%) Data Protection
11 6 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (8.96%) Test Automation
11 6 (8.96%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.84%) SQL
2 13 (19.40%) Python
3 3 (4.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.48%) Java
4 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.99%) VB
5 1 (1.49%) Bash
5 1 (1.49%) Bicep
5 1 (1.49%) C
5 1 (1.49%) C++
5 1 (1.49%) R
5 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) Degree
2 5 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) CCNA
5 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.99%) CISSP
5 2 (2.99%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.49%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.49%) CCNP
6 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.49%) MCSE
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.97%) PMO
3 3 (4.48%) GDPR
3 3 (4.48%) QA
4 2 (2.99%) GRC
4 2 (2.99%) SLA
5 1 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.49%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (10.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.96%) Grafana
2 6 (8.96%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.48%) Control-M
3 3 (4.48%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (4.48%) IBM Guardium
3 3 (4.48%) Nessus
4 2 (2.99%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.49%) Ansible
5 1 (1.49%) Kibana
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.91%) Oracle
3 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.97%) SAP
4 4 (5.97%) Splunk
5 3 (4.48%) Cognos
5 3 (4.48%) Tenable
5 3 (4.48%) Teradata
6 2 (2.99%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.99%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.99%) HP
6 2 (2.99%) Remedy
6 2 (2.99%) Siemens
7 1 (1.49%) Cisco
7 1 (1.49%) Dell
7 1 (1.49%) Google
7 1 (1.49%) Veeam
7 1 (1.49%) VMware