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 3 months leading up to 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

3 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 7 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 46 32 39
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.29% 13.22% 8.42%
As % of the General category 16.97% 21.05% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 33
10th Percentile £322 £109 £358
25th Percentile £350 £232 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -11.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £501 £575
90th Percentile £615 £658 £723
West Midlands median daily rate £467 £469 £532
% change year-on-year -0.43% -11.76% +6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.33
Median hourly rate - - £24.65
75th Percentile - - £26.98
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £44.07 - £24.65
% change year-on-year - - +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 271 152 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 60.63% 62.81% 49.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 107 152
10th Percentile £350 £163 £277
25th Percentile £425 £291 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £474 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% +2.49% -11.90%
75th Percentile £601 £603 £575
90th Percentile £686 £700 £724
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £460 £520
% change year-on-year +6.96% -11.54% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 26
10th Percentile £16.99 - £12.47
25th Percentile £17.74 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.43 £14.00 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year +45.93% -44.72% +12.56%
75th Percentile £25.63 £14.18 £48.75
90th Percentile £25.94 £28.48 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.12 £15.57 £19.30
% change year-on-year +61.36% -19.32% -14.07%

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 3 months to 28 March 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 7 (8.64%) Confluence
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (3.70%) SAS
4 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (1.23%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.23%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.23%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.23%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.23%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.23%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.35%) Azure
2 6 (7.41%) AWS
3 4 (4.94%) GitHub
3 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.70%) dbt
4 3 (3.70%) GCP
4 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.23%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.23%) IaaS
6 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.35%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.94%) Metadata
4 4 (4.94%) Power BI
4 4 (4.94%) Power Query
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.70%) MySQL
5 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.47%) Tableau
7 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.23%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 11 (13.58%) JIRA
2 5 (6.17%) Git
2 5 (6.17%) JMeter
2 5 (6.17%) Selenium
3 4 (4.94%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.70%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.70%) JUnit
4 3 (3.70%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.23%) Postman
General
1 43 (53.09%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.46%) Finance
3 11 (13.58%) Banking
4 9 (11.11%) Legal
5 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.94%) Marketing
8 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.70%) Law
8 3 (3.70%) Local Government
8 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.23%) Military
10 1 (1.23%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 24 (29.63%) Analyst
2 10 (12.35%) Site Engineer
2 10 (12.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 10 (12.35%) Splunk Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.88%) Data Analyst
3 8 (9.88%) Lead
4 6 (7.41%) Architect
4 6 (7.41%) Developer
5 4 (4.94%) Oracle Specialist
5 4 (4.94%) PMO Analyst
5 4 (4.94%) Support Specialist
6 3 (3.70%) Data Manager
6 3 (3.70%) DBA
6 3 (3.70%) Insight Analyst
6 3 (3.70%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (3.70%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.70%) Senior
6 3 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.70%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.35%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.70%) FastAPI
2 3 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (3.70%) Spring
2 3 (3.70%) WireMock
3 2 (2.47%) ADO
4 1 (1.23%) .NET
4 1 (1.23%) PySpark
4 1 (1.23%) REST
4 1 (1.23%) SOAP
4 1 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.70%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.47%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.47%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) PMI
6 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) Unix
2 11 (13.58%) Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (25.93%) Validation
3 20 (24.69%) Data Modelling
4 19 (23.46%) Agile
5 17 (20.99%) Change Management
5 17 (20.99%) Containerisation
5 17 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (19.75%) Observability
7 15 (18.52%) DevOps
8 14 (17.28%) Dashboard Development
8 14 (17.28%) Migration
9 13 (16.05%) Analytics
10 12 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (13.58%) Data Ingestion
11 11 (13.58%) Performance Metrics
12 10 (12.35%) Actionable Insight
12 10 (12.35%) Computer Science
12 10 (12.35%) Knowledge Transfer
12 10 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.93%) Python
2 19 (23.46%) SQL
3 11 (13.58%) Bash
4 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.47%) Java
5 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.47%) VB
6 1 (1.23%) Bicep
6 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.23%) R
6 1 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Degree
2 10 (12.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
4 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.47%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.23%) AAT
7 1 (1.23%) ACCA
7 1 (1.23%) CIMA
7 1 (1.23%) IIBA
7 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.41%) SLA
3 4 (4.94%) GDPR
3 4 (4.94%) PMO
4 2 (2.47%) GRC
4 2 (2.47%) QA
5 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (20.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (20.99%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.35%) Ansible
2 10 (12.35%) Kibana
2 10 (12.35%) Puppet
3 6 (7.41%) Grafana
3 6 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.70%) Control-M
4 3 (3.70%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (3.70%) Nessus
5 2 (2.47%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.47%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.58%) Splunk
3 10 (12.35%) Oracle
4 5 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.17%) Tenable
5 3 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.70%) Cognos
5 3 (3.70%) SAP
5 3 (3.70%) Teradata
6 2 (2.47%) Databricks
6 2 (2.47%) HP
7 1 (1.23%) Aareon
7 1 (1.23%) Capita
7 1 (1.23%) Civica
7 1 (1.23%) Google
7 1 (1.23%) NEC
7 1 (1.23%) Northgate
7 1 (1.23%) Oneserve
7 1 (1.23%) Orchard
7 1 (1.23%) Sage