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 6 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 60 60 57
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.51% 11.01% 8.44%
As % of the General category 12.17% 17.80% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 35 44
10th Percentile £297 £201 £343
25th Percentile £360 £394 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £474 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -13.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £712
90th Percentile £608 £630 £925
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £550
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £26.48 £33.16 -
25th Percentile £29.45 £37.47 -
Median hourly rate £39.30 £44.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £51.82 -
90th Percentile - £56.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.42 £50.00 £15.90
% change year-on-year -55.16% +214.47% -31.20%

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 493 337 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 53.47% 61.83% 53.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 231 249
10th Percentile £350 £163 £200
25th Percentile £405 £314 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £638
90th Percentile £688 £644 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +4.48% -6.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 28 14
10th Percentile £16.31 - £13.48
25th Percentile £19.34 £14.00 £14.38
Median hourly rate £43.96 £20.03 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +119.53% -3.49% -7.78%
75th Percentile £51.25 £26.51 £49.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £27.64 £55.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.22 £27.70 £19.00
% change year-on-year +9.12% +45.76% -12.58%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 (11.67%) Confluence
1 7 (11.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (10.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (3.33%) SAS
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Oracle HRMS
2 2 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.67%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.67%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) Azure
2 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.33%) AWS
4 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.00%) GCP
4 3 (5.00%) GitHub
4 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.67%) dbt
6 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.67%) IaaS
6 1 (1.67%) OCI
6 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.67%) PaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) SAN
1 2 (3.33%) VLAN
2 1 (1.67%) BGP
2 1 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.67%) DHCP
2 1 (1.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.67%) Internet
2 1 (1.67%) LAN
2 1 (1.67%) OSPF
2 1 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
2 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) Power BI
2 7 (11.67%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.67%) Metadata
4 4 (6.67%) Power Query
5 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.67%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.67%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (6.67%) Git
3 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.00%) JMeter
3 3 (5.00%) JUnit
3 3 (5.00%) Selenium
3 3 (5.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.67%) Postman
4 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Finance
3 12 (20.00%) Banking
4 9 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.67%) Local Government
6 4 (6.67%) Marketing
7 3 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.33%) Automotive
8 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.33%) Legal
9 1 (1.67%) Billing
9 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Law
9 1 (1.67%) Publishing
9 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Analyst
2 9 (15.00%) Lead
3 6 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 6 (10.00%) Oracle Specialist
3 6 (10.00%) Support Specialist
4 5 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Administrator
5 4 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Senior
6 3 (5.00%) Systems Tester
6 3 (5.00%) Tester
7 2 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 2 (3.33%) Insight Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) REST
1 3 (5.00%) Spring
1 3 (5.00%) WireMock
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.67%) ADO
3 1 (1.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.67%) Itk
3 1 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.67%) SAP TM
3 1 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) CMDB
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.67%) IoT
5 1 (1.67%) PMI
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (31.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (28.33%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (20.00%) Analytics
5 11 (18.33%) Workflow
6 10 (16.67%) Agile
6 10 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 10 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 7 (11.67%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (11.67%) DevOps
7 7 (11.67%) ITIL
7 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (11.67%) Workshop Facilitation
8 6 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 6 (10.00%) ETL
8 6 (10.00%) Observability
8 6 (10.00%) Process Improvement
8 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.00%) Validation
9 5 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.67%) SQL
2 9 (15.00%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.33%) Java
4 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.67%) Bicep
5 1 (1.67%) C
5 1 (1.67%) C#
5 1 (1.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.33%) CCNA
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.33%) CISSP
5 1 (1.67%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.67%) CCNP
5 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.67%) MCSE
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.67%) PMO
2 3 (5.00%) GDPR
2 3 (5.00%) GRC
2 3 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.67%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Grafana
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.67%) Control-M
2 1 (1.67%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.67%) IBM Guardium
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.67%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Oracle
2 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.67%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.33%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (3.33%) Remedy
5 2 (3.33%) SAP
5 2 (3.33%) Siemens
5 2 (3.33%) Splunk
5 2 (3.33%) Teradata
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) Databricks
6 1 (1.67%) Dell
6 1 (1.67%) Tenable
6 1 (1.67%) Veeam
6 1 (1.67%) VMware