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 22 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 94 81 56
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.02% 14.16% 7.28%
As % of the General category 17.50% 21.54% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 57 40
10th Percentile £233 £163 £350
25th Percentile £350 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £559 £600 £547
90th Percentile £605 £685 £654
West Midlands median daily rate £471 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -0.84% -9.52% +12.00%
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% -
75th Percentile - £30.68 £26.98
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.23 £24.65
% change year-on-year -17.29% +22.62% +14.44%

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 537 376 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 62.95% 65.73% 50.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 258 264
10th Percentile £249 £211 £200
25th Percentile £400 £394 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £636 £575
90th Percentile £675 £710 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 28
10th Percentile £15.92 £14.00 £11.56
25th Percentile £16.80 £14.70 £13.97
Median hourly rate £21.52 £30.00 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year -28.27% +18.46% +94.81%
75th Percentile £25.00 £52.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £27.53 £56.85 £70.87
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £21.23
% change year-on-year -6.21% +1.72% +20.46%

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 22 February 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 4 (4.26%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) SAS
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Aareon QL
1 1 (1.06%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.06%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.06%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.06%) OPENHousing
1 1 (1.06%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.57%) Azure
2 7 (7.45%) AWS
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.26%) GitHub
5 3 (3.19%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.19%) dbt
5 3 (3.19%) GCP
5 3 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.06%) PaaS
7 1 (1.06%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.06%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) DHCP
1 5 (5.32%) DNS
1 5 (5.32%) TCP/IP
1 5 (5.32%) VPN
2 1 (1.06%) Firewall
2 1 (1.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.89%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.19%) Metadata
5 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.19%) MySQL
5 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.13%) Power BI
6 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.13%) Tableau
7 1 (1.06%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.06%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.06%) EDMS
7 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.06%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 8 (8.51%) JIRA
2 4 (4.26%) Git
2 4 (4.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.26%) JMeter
2 4 (4.26%) JUnit
2 4 (4.26%) Selenium
3 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.13%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.06%) GitLab
4 1 (1.06%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.06%) Postman
General
1 56 (59.57%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.34%) Finance
3 10 (10.64%) Banking
3 10 (10.64%) Legal
4 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.32%) Marketing
5 5 (5.32%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) Local Government
8 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.06%) Military
9 1 (1.06%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Analyst
2 14 (14.89%) Site Engineer
2 14 (14.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 14 (14.89%) Splunk Engineer
3 9 (9.57%) Architect
4 8 (8.51%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.45%) Developer
5 7 (7.45%) Lead
6 6 (6.38%) Data Analyst
6 6 (6.38%) IT Analyst
7 5 (5.32%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.32%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
7 5 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 5 (5.32%) Consultant
7 5 (5.32%) IT Support
7 5 (5.32%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (5.32%) Senior
7 5 (5.32%) Support Analyst
8 4 (4.26%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.89%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.26%) FastAPI
2 4 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (3.19%) REST
3 3 (3.19%) SOAP
4 2 (2.13%) ADO
4 2 (2.13%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.13%) Kafka
4 2 (2.13%) Spring
4 2 (2.13%) WireMock
5 1 (1.06%) .NET
5 1 (1.06%) Flask
5 1 (1.06%) PySpark
5 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.96%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.57%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (5.32%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.19%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.13%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.13%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.06%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Unix
2 16 (17.02%) Linux
3 6 (6.38%) Windows
4 5 (5.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.19%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (27.66%) Change Management
3 25 (26.60%) Validation
4 24 (25.53%) Data Modelling
5 23 (24.47%) Observability
6 21 (22.34%) Containerisation
7 20 (21.28%) Agile
7 20 (21.28%) DevOps
8 18 (19.15%) Migration
9 17 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (18.09%) Dashboard Development
10 16 (17.02%) Data Ingestion
11 15 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (14.89%) Computer Science
12 14 (14.89%) Incident Response
12 14 (14.89%) Knowledge Transfer
12 14 (14.89%) Performance Metrics
12 14 (14.89%) Proactive Monitoring
12 14 (14.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.79%) Python
2 15 (15.96%) Bash
3 13 (13.83%) SQL
4 6 (6.38%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.32%) Java
6 3 (3.19%) Perl
7 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.13%) VB
8 1 (1.06%) Bicep
8 1 (1.06%) Go
8 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.06%) R
8 1 (1.06%) Scala
8 1 (1.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (21.28%) Degree
2 14 (14.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.45%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.38%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.32%) MCDST
5 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.13%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.06%) AAT
8 1 (1.06%) ACCA
8 1 (1.06%) CIMA
8 1 (1.06%) IIBA
8 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.38%) SLA
3 4 (4.26%) GDPR
3 4 (4.26%) PMO
3 4 (4.26%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (22.34%) Docker
2 5 (5.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (21.28%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.89%) Ansible
2 14 (14.89%) Kibana
2 14 (14.89%) Puppet
3 6 (6.38%) Grafana
3 6 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.32%) SCCM
5 3 (3.19%) Control-M
5 3 (3.19%) IBM Guardium
5 3 (3.19%) Nessus
6 2 (2.13%) HP ALM
6 2 (2.13%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (1.06%) CSIRT
7 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (21.28%) Splunk
2 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.32%) iManage
4 5 (5.32%) Mitel
4 5 (5.32%) Oracle
4 5 (5.32%) Tenable
5 3 (3.19%) Cognos
5 3 (3.19%) Pega
5 3 (3.19%) SAP
6 2 (2.13%) Databricks
6 2 (2.13%) HP
6 2 (2.13%) Teradata
7 1 (1.06%) Aareon
7 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.06%) Civica
7 1 (1.06%) NEC
7 1 (1.06%) Northgate
7 1 (1.06%) Oneserve
7 1 (1.06%) Sage