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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 53 70 67
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.94% 12.24% 9.53%
As % of the General category 11.62% 19.50% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 46 49
10th Percentile £301 £287 £340
25th Percentile £393 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.36% +17.33%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £711
90th Percentile £710 £615 £925
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £469 £550
% change year-on-year -4.05% -14.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £26.48 £33.16 -
25th Percentile £29.45 £37.47 £25.56
Median hourly rate £39.30 £44.65 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +70.89% +13.05%
75th Percentile £51.25 £51.82 £26.69
90th Percentile - £56.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.61 £50.00 £21.01
% change year-on-year -58.79% +137.95% -9.08%

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 general skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 456 359 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 51.06% 62.76% 56.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 250 273
10th Percentile £350 £163 £200
25th Percentile £406 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -7.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £638
90th Percentile £688 £639 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 15
10th Percentile £18.06 - £13.55
25th Percentile £23.76 £14.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +99.37% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £51.25 £26.51 £49.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.02 £55.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.00 £28.59 £19.59
% change year-on-year -2.06% +45.94% -9.03%

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 21 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 21 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 (13.21%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 4 (7.55%) Confluence
4 3 (5.66%) SAS
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Oracle HRMS
2 2 (3.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.89%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.89%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.89%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.64%) Azure
2 9 (16.98%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.55%) AWS
4 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.66%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.89%) dbt
6 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.89%) IaaS
6 1 (1.89%) OCI
6 1 (1.89%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.89%) PaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) SAN
1 2 (3.77%) VLAN
2 1 (1.89%) BGP
2 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.89%) DHCP
2 1 (1.89%) DNS
2 1 (1.89%) Internet
2 1 (1.89%) LAN
2 1 (1.89%) OSPF
2 1 (1.89%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.89%) VPN
2 1 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Power BI
2 8 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (11.32%) Metadata
4 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.66%) Power Query
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.89%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.89%) PowerPivot
6 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) JMeter
3 1 (1.89%) JUnit
3 1 (1.89%) Postman
3 1 (1.89%) Selenium
3 1 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.89%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Banking
3 12 (22.64%) Finance
4 5 (9.43%) Marketing
4 5 (9.43%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.77%) Automotive
6 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Local Government
7 1 (1.89%) Billing
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Publishing
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Analyst
2 9 (16.98%) Lead
3 6 (11.32%) Oracle Specialist
3 6 (11.32%) Support Specialist
4 5 (9.43%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Data Insight Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Insight Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Insight Data Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Lead Data Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Senior
7 2 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) IT Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Power BI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) REST
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.89%) ADO
3 1 (1.89%) Itk
3 1 (1.89%) SAP TM
3 1 (1.89%) SOAP
3 1 (1.89%) Spring
3 1 (1.89%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (7.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.66%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.77%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) CMDB
5 1 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) IoT
5 1 (1.89%) Replication
5 1 (1.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (32.08%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (26.42%) Analytics
3 14 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (18.87%) Workflow
5 9 (16.98%) Data Modelling
6 8 (15.09%) Agile
6 8 (15.09%) DevOps
6 8 (15.09%) Workshop Facilitation
7 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
7 7 (13.21%) ETL
7 7 (13.21%) ITIL
8 6 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (11.32%) Business Analysis
8 6 (11.32%) Decision-Making
8 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (9.43%) AI
9 5 (9.43%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (9.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.08%) SQL
2 9 (16.98%) Python
3 3 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.77%) Java
4 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.89%) Bicep
5 1 (1.89%) C
5 1 (1.89%) C#
5 1 (1.89%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.77%) CCNA
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.77%) CISSP
5 1 (1.89%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.89%) CCNP
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.89%) MCSE
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
1 4 (7.55%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) GRC
2 3 (5.66%) PMO
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
4 1 (1.89%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.89%) NIST
4 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
1 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Grafana
1 1 (1.89%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Oracle
2 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.43%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.55%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.66%) Teradata
6 2 (3.77%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (3.77%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (3.77%) Remedy
6 2 (3.77%) SAP
6 2 (3.77%) Siemens
6 2 (3.77%) Splunk
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco
7 1 (1.89%) Databricks
7 1 (1.89%) Dell
7 1 (1.89%) Veeam
7 1 (1.89%) VMware