Analytical Skills Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 86 63 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.48% 8.15% 8.30%
As % of the General category 25.44% 15.40% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 53 48
10th Percentile £163 £351 £254
25th Percentile £394 £425 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £885 £649
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £30.07 - £20.90
25th Percentile £30.17 £22.33 £21.52
Median hourly rate £30.45 £24.65 £23.11
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +6.66% +71.19%
75th Percentile £37.76 £26.98 £24.77
90th Percentile £50.50 - £25.43
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.45 £24.65 £23.11
% change year-on-year +23.53% +6.66% +71.19%

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 338 409 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 64.75% 52.91% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 280 361
10th Percentile £163 £212 £263
25th Percentile £375 £373 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -12.15% +10.81%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 32 28
10th Percentile - £11.78 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.73 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.70 £25.33 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year -41.95% +45.61% +0.83%
75th Percentile £24.06 £48.75 £29.12
90th Percentile £45.95 £56.25 £74.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
% change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.65%) IIS
2 3 (3.49%) Confluence
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.16%) SAS
4 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Magento
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.16%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.16%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.93%) Azure
2 12 (13.95%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.14%) AWS
4 6 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.81%) GCP
5 5 (5.81%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.65%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.49%) OCI
7 3 (3.49%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.16%) Akamai
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.16%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.16%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.16%) Route 53
9 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) Network Security
2 6 (6.98%) Firewall
3 5 (5.81%) BGP
3 5 (5.81%) OSPF
3 5 (5.81%) VLAN
4 4 (4.65%) IPsec
4 4 (4.65%) SSL
4 4 (4.65%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.65%) VPN
5 1 (1.16%) DHCP
5 1 (1.16%) DNS
5 1 (1.16%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.16%) Internet
5 1 (1.16%) LAN
5 1 (1.16%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.16%) WAN
5 1 (1.16%) Wireless
5 1 (1.16%) Wireless Security
5 1 (1.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.98%) Power BI
2 5 (5.81%) Data Lake
2 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.33%) Power Query
3 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.16%) Metadata
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.16%) Pentaho
4 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.81%) JIRA
2 4 (4.65%) Git
3 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.49%) JMeter
4 2 (2.33%) GitLab
4 2 (2.33%) JUnit
4 2 (2.33%) Maven
4 2 (2.33%) Mockito
4 2 (2.33%) Postman
4 2 (2.33%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.33%) Selenium
4 2 (2.33%) TestNG
4 2 (2.33%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.16%) Ant
5 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.16%) ERwin
5 1 (1.16%) jMock
5 1 (1.16%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (58.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.44%) Finance
3 7 (8.14%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.98%) Legal
5 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.65%) Banking
6 4 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.65%) Retail
7 3 (3.49%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.49%) Marketing
8 2 (2.33%) Back Office
8 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Games
9 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.16%) Law
9 1 (1.16%) Military
9 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (24.42%) Analyst
2 10 (11.63%) Lead
3 7 (8.14%) Developer
3 7 (8.14%) Support Engineer
4 6 (6.98%) Architect
4 6 (6.98%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.81%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.81%) Senior
5 5 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.65%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Check Point Expert
6 4 (4.65%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.65%) Desktop Analyst
6 4 (4.65%) Junior
6 4 (4.65%) Junior Architect
6 4 (4.65%) Junior Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.65%) Sustainability Analyst
7 3 (3.49%) Applications Support Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 3 (3.49%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.30%) Middleware
2 6 (6.98%) HTML
3 4 (4.65%) RESTful
4 2 (2.33%) Ajax
4 2 (2.33%) CSS
4 2 (2.33%) CSS3
4 2 (2.33%) HTML5
4 2 (2.33%) KnockoutJS
4 2 (2.33%) Node.js
4 2 (2.33%) RequireJS
4 2 (2.33%) REST
4 2 (2.33%) SOAP
4 2 (2.33%) Spring
5 1 (1.16%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.16%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.16%) PowerMock
5 1 (1.16%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.16%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.16%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.65%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.33%) CMDB
4 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.16%) IoT
5 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.16%) Social Media
5 1 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.65%) Check Point GAiA
2 3 (3.49%) Windows
2 3 (3.49%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.33%) Linux
3 2 (2.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (68.60%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.93%) Agile
3 16 (18.60%) Project Management
4 14 (16.28%) Data Analysis
5 13 (15.12%) Data Integration
5 13 (15.12%) DevOps
6 12 (13.95%) Decision-Making
7 11 (12.79%) ERP
7 11 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (11.63%) ETL
8 10 (11.63%) Migration
9 9 (10.47%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.47%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (10.47%) Data Governance
9 9 (10.47%) Risk Management
9 9 (10.47%) Visualisation
10 8 (9.30%) Analytics
11 7 (8.14%) Data Visualisation
11 7 (8.14%) High Availability
11 7 (8.14%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.28%) SQL
2 12 (13.95%) Python
3 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.98%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.49%) Bash
6 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.33%) Java
7 1 (1.16%) C#
7 1 (1.16%) Perl
7 1 (1.16%) PHP
7 1 (1.16%) R
7 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) Degree
2 7 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) CISSP
3 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.65%) CCSE
4 4 (4.65%) CEH
4 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) HNC
4 4 (4.65%) HND
4 4 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.33%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.33%) CISM
5 2 (2.33%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.33%) MCP
5 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) ACCA
6 1 (1.16%) CIMA
6 1 (1.16%) CIPFA
6 1 (1.16%) CISA
6 1 (1.16%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.81%) QA
3 2 (2.33%) GDPR
3 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.16%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.16%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.49%) Docker
3 1 (1.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (4.65%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.33%) Kibana
2 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.16%) Ansible
3 1 (1.16%) Grafana
3 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (29.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.81%) SAP
3 4 (4.65%) CheckPoint
3 4 (4.65%) Fortinet
3 4 (4.65%) Oracle
4 3 (3.49%) Adobe
4 3 (3.49%) Databricks
4 3 (3.49%) Informatica
4 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.33%) Cisco
5 2 (2.33%) Civica
5 2 (2.33%) Epicor
5 2 (2.33%) Genesys
5 2 (2.33%) Juniper
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.16%) Dell
6 1 (1.16%) HP
6 1 (1.16%) Imperva
6 1 (1.16%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds