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 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 10 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -15
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 77 75 44
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.39% 10.37% 5.63%
As % of the General category 18.08% 17.12% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 46 24
10th Percentile £227 £231 £361
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £569 £626 £682
90th Percentile £616 £718 £705
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -4.88% -6.82% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £30.29 £30.23 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £30.23 £75.00
% change year-on-year +65.43% -59.70% +248.19%

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 common skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 426 438 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 63.02% 60.58% 47.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 282 258
10th Percentile £207 £197 £263
25th Percentile £370 £329 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £633
90th Percentile £649 £738 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 13
10th Percentile £16.30 £15.86 £14.22
25th Percentile £20.25 £21.25 £15.12
Median hourly rate £24.34 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% +20.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £26.51 £50.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - £56.85 £66.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.58 £23.82 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.37% +19.10% +13.51%

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 8 November 2025.

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 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) IIS
2 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) ResourceLink
2 1 (1.30%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.30%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.09%) AWS
2 6 (7.79%) Akamai
2 6 (7.79%) GCP
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.19%) Azure
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.60%) GitHub
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.30%) IaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.30%) PaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
6 1 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.39%) Firewall
2 6 (7.79%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.79%) VPN
2 6 (7.79%) Wireshark
3 5 (6.49%) DHCP
3 5 (6.49%) DNS
4 1 (1.30%) BGP
4 1 (1.30%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.30%) IPsec
4 1 (1.30%) Network Security
4 1 (1.30%) OSPF
4 1 (1.30%) SSL
4 1 (1.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (7.79%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle Database
2 5 (6.49%) Power BI
3 3 (3.90%) Data Mining
3 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.90%) MySQL
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (2.60%) Tableau
5 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.30%) EDMS
5 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.30%) OLTP
5 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.30%) Power Query
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) JUnit
2 4 (5.19%) JIRA
3 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) Selenium
4 1 (1.30%) Git
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.30%) Postman
4 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (61.04%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.78%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Banking
4 7 (9.09%) Legal
4 7 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.49%) Marketing
6 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.19%) Retail Banking
7 3 (3.90%) Law
8 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Electronics
8 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.30%) Billing
9 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (27.27%) Analyst
2 7 (9.09%) Architect
3 6 (7.79%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (7.79%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 6 (7.79%) Business Analyst
3 6 (7.79%) Developer
3 6 (7.79%) IT Analyst
3 6 (7.79%) IT Support
3 6 (7.79%) IT Support Analyst
3 6 (7.79%) Senior
3 6 (7.79%) Site Engineer
3 6 (7.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (7.79%) Splunk Engineer
3 6 (7.79%) Support Analyst
4 5 (6.49%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 5 (6.49%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (6.49%) DBA
4 5 (6.49%) Java Developer
4 5 (6.49%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (5.19%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.79%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.49%) Gherkin
2 5 (6.49%) Kafka
3 3 (3.90%) REST
3 3 (3.90%) SOAP
4 2 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.30%) .NET
5 1 (1.30%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.30%) Flask
5 1 (1.30%) Middleware
5 1 (1.30%) OLE
5 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (7.79%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (7.79%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.79%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (3.90%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.30%) CCTV
7 1 (1.30%) CMDB
7 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.29%) Unix
2 10 (12.99%) Linux
3 6 (7.79%) Windows
4 5 (6.49%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.30%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (59.74%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (23.38%) Agile
2 18 (23.38%) Change Management
3 15 (19.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (18.18%) ITIL
5 12 (15.58%) Observability
6 11 (14.29%) AI
6 11 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 11 (14.29%) DevOps
6 11 (14.29%) Migration
6 11 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 11 (14.29%) Validation
7 8 (10.39%) Containerisation
7 8 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (10.39%) Data Analysis
7 8 (10.39%) DevSecOps
7 8 (10.39%) Ethical Hacking
7 8 (10.39%) Service Management
8 7 (9.09%) Customer Service
8 7 (9.09%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) Python
2 9 (11.69%) SQL
3 8 (10.39%) Shell Script
4 7 (9.09%) Bash
4 7 (9.09%) Java
5 5 (6.49%) Perl
6 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.60%) Scala
7 1 (1.30%) Bicep
7 1 (1.30%) Go
7 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.30%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Degree
2 6 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.49%) MCDST
3 5 (6.49%) MCP
3 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) OCP
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CCNP
5 1 (1.30%) CCSE
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) CPIM
5 1 (1.30%) GIAC
5 1 (1.30%) IIBA
5 1 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PhD
5 1 (1.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) QA
2 5 (6.49%) SLA
3 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.60%) PMO
5 1 (1.30%) GDPR
5 1 (1.30%) PSD2
5 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (10.39%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.09%) Ansible
3 6 (7.79%) CSIRT
3 6 (7.79%) Kibana
3 6 (7.79%) Puppet
4 5 (6.49%) SCCM
5 3 (3.90%) QRadar
6 2 (2.60%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.30%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.30%) Grafana
7 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (27.27%) Splunk
2 16 (20.78%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.09%) F5
4 6 (7.79%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.49%) iManage
5 5 (6.49%) Mitel
5 5 (6.49%) Oracle
6 4 (5.19%) SAP
7 3 (3.90%) Pega
8 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.30%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.30%) Cisco
9 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.30%) Google
9 1 (1.30%) IBM
9 1 (1.30%) Juniper
9 1 (1.30%) NetScout
9 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.30%) PayPal