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 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 4 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 78 85 54
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.70% 16.54% 7.19%
As % of the General category 15.09% 25.53% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 59 44
10th Percentile £325 £160 £355
25th Percentile £364 £388 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -8.43% +8.07%
75th Percentile £522 £550 £575
90th Percentile £575 £700 £721
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
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% +6.66%
75th Percentile - £30.68 £26.98
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £24.65
% change year-on-year -17.90% +23.53% +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 517 333 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 57.64% 64.79% 52.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 237 273
10th Percentile £308 £178 £205
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £655
West Midlands median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.93% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 31
10th Percentile £16.08 - £11.75
25th Percentile £17.17 £14.00 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.77 £14.70 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +48.06% -40.37% +33.24%
75th Percentile £25.84 £28.02 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.75 £37.22 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £17.16 £19.00
% change year-on-year +45.73% -9.71% +5.56%

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 10 April 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 (8.97%) Confluence
1 7 (8.97%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (7.69%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 3 (3.85%) SAS
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (1.28%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.28%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.28%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.28%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.28%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.28%) Orchard Housing
2 1 (1.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.82%) Azure
2 6 (7.69%) AWS
3 4 (5.13%) dbt
3 4 (5.13%) GitHub
4 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.85%) GCP
4 3 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.85%) Power Automate
4 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.28%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.28%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.28%) IaaS
6 1 (1.28%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.28%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.13%) Metadata
3 4 (5.13%) Power Query
4 3 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.85%) Power BI
4 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.56%) MySQL
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.56%) Tableau
6 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.28%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 11 (14.10%) JIRA
2 5 (6.41%) JMeter
3 4 (5.13%) Git
3 4 (5.13%) Selenium
4 3 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.85%) JUnit
4 3 (3.85%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.28%) Postman
General
1 40 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.08%) Finance
3 11 (14.10%) Banking
4 9 (11.54%) Legal
5 6 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.41%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.85%) Law
7 3 (3.85%) Local Government
7 3 (3.85%) Marketing
8 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.28%) Military
9 1 (1.28%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (30.77%) Analyst
2 8 (10.26%) Business Analyst
2 8 (10.26%) Data Analyst
2 8 (10.26%) Site Engineer
2 8 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (10.26%) Splunk Engineer
3 7 (8.97%) Developer
3 7 (8.97%) Lead
4 6 (7.69%) Oracle Specialist
4 6 (7.69%) Support Specialist
5 4 (5.13%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (3.85%) Architect
6 3 (3.85%) Data Manager
6 3 (3.85%) DBA
6 3 (3.85%) Insight Analyst
6 3 (3.85%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.85%) Systems Tester
6 3 (3.85%) Tester
7 2 (2.56%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.85%) FastAPI
2 3 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (3.85%) Spring
2 3 (3.85%) WireMock
3 2 (2.56%) ADO
4 1 (1.28%) .NET
4 1 (1.28%) Itk
4 1 (1.28%) PySpark
4 1 (1.28%) REST
4 1 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.85%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.82%) Unix
2 9 (11.54%) Linux
3 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (51.28%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (24.36%) Validation
3 18 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 17 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (19.23%) Agile
5 15 (19.23%) Containerisation
6 14 (17.95%) Change Management
6 14 (17.95%) Observability
7 13 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (16.67%) DevOps
7 13 (16.67%) Migration
8 12 (15.38%) Analytics
8 12 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
9 10 (12.82%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (11.54%) CI/CD
10 9 (11.54%) Data Ingestion
10 9 (11.54%) Performance Metrics
10 9 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (11.54%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.49%) SQL
2 19 (24.36%) Python
3 9 (11.54%) Bash
4 3 (3.85%) Java
5 2 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.56%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.56%) VB
6 1 (1.28%) Bicep
6 1 (1.28%) C
6 1 (1.28%) C++
6 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.28%) R
6 1 (1.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.56%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.28%) AAT
6 1 (1.28%) ACCA
6 1 (1.28%) CIMA
6 1 (1.28%) IIBA
6 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.41%) GDPR
3 4 (5.13%) PMO
3 4 (5.13%) SLA
4 2 (2.56%) GRC
4 2 (2.56%) QA
5 1 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.28%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (19.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 15 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.26%) Ansible
2 8 (10.26%) Kibana
2 8 (10.26%) Puppet
3 6 (7.69%) Grafana
3 6 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.85%) Control-M
4 3 (3.85%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (3.85%) Nessus
5 2 (2.56%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.56%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Oracle
2 11 (14.10%) Microsoft
3 9 (11.54%) Splunk
4 5 (6.41%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.41%) Tenable
5 3 (3.85%) Cognos
5 3 (3.85%) SAP
5 3 (3.85%) Teradata
6 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.56%) HP
7 1 (1.28%) Aareon
7 1 (1.28%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.28%) Capita
7 1 (1.28%) Civica
7 1 (1.28%) Google
7 1 (1.28%) NEC
7 1 (1.28%) Northgate
7 1 (1.28%) Oneserve
7 1 (1.28%) Orchard
7 1 (1.28%) Sage