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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 9 33
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 -16
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 75 74 45
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.78% 10.29% 5.68%
As % of the General category 17.40% 16.93% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 45 25
10th Percentile £227 £228 £365
25th Percentile £399 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £569 £626 £680
90th Percentile £616 £720 £702
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -7.32% -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 431 437 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 61.93% 60.78% 48.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 279 264
10th Percentile £202 £199 £263
25th Percentile £370 £333 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £623
90th Percentile £648 £740 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 13
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.86 £14.22
25th Percentile £20.30 £21.25 £15.12
Median hourly rate £23.70 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.02% +20.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £26.51 £50.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £27.64 £56.85 £66.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £23.82 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.58% +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 15 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 (2.67%) Confluence
1 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) ResourceLink
2 1 (1.33%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.33%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.33%) AWS
2 6 (8.00%) Akamai
2 6 (8.00%) GCP
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.67%) Azure
3 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.67%) GitHub
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.33%) IaaS
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.33%) PaaS
5 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.33%) SaaS
5 1 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) Firewall
2 6 (8.00%) Wireshark
3 5 (6.67%) DHCP
3 5 (6.67%) DNS
3 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.67%) VPN
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 5 (6.67%) Power BI
3 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.00%) MySQL
4 2 (2.67%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (2.67%) Tableau
5 1 (1.33%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.33%) EDMS
5 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.33%) OLTP
5 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Power Query
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) JUnit
2 4 (5.33%) JIRA
3 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.67%) Selenium
4 1 (1.33%) Git
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.33%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.33%) Postman
4 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Finance
3 10 (13.33%) Banking
4 7 (9.33%) Legal
5 6 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.67%) Marketing
7 4 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.33%) Retail Banking
8 3 (4.00%) Law
9 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.67%) Electronics
9 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.33%) Billing
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (25.33%) Analyst
2 7 (9.33%) Architect
3 6 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 6 (8.00%) Developer
3 6 (8.00%) IT Analyst
3 6 (8.00%) IT Support
3 6 (8.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 6 (8.00%) Senior
3 6 (8.00%) Site Engineer
3 6 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (8.00%) Splunk Engineer
3 6 (8.00%) Support Analyst
4 5 (6.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 5 (6.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 5 (6.67%) DBA
4 5 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 5 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (5.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.67%) Gherkin
2 5 (6.67%) Kafka
3 3 (4.00%) REST
3 3 (4.00%) SOAP
4 2 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.33%) .NET
5 1 (1.33%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.33%) Flask
5 1 (1.33%) Middleware
5 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (4.00%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.33%) CMDB
7 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.33%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) Unix
2 10 (13.33%) Linux
3 6 (8.00%) Windows
4 5 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (57.33%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (25.33%) Agile
2 19 (25.33%) Change Management
3 15 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (18.67%) ITIL
5 12 (16.00%) DevOps
5 12 (16.00%) Observability
6 11 (14.67%) AI
6 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
6 11 (14.67%) Validation
7 10 (13.33%) Data Modelling
7 10 (13.33%) Migration
8 8 (10.67%) Containerisation
8 8 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.67%) DevSecOps
8 8 (10.67%) Ethical Hacking
8 8 (10.67%) Service Management
9 7 (9.33%) Customer Service
9 7 (9.33%) Data Ingestion
9 7 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.67%) Python
2 8 (10.67%) Shell Script
2 8 (10.67%) SQL
3 7 (9.33%) Bash
3 7 (9.33%) Java
4 5 (6.67%) Perl
5 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.67%) Scala
6 1 (1.33%) Bicep
6 1 (1.33%) Go
6 1 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.33%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) Degree
2 6 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.67%) MCDST
3 5 (6.67%) MCP
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) OCP
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.33%) CCNP
5 1 (1.33%) CISSP
5 1 (1.33%) CPIM
5 1 (1.33%) GIAC
5 1 (1.33%) IIBA
5 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.33%) PhD
5 1 (1.33%) PMP
5 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) QA
1 5 (6.67%) SLA
2 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.67%) PMO
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) PSD2
4 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (10.67%) Docker
2 5 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (10.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.33%) Ansible
3 6 (8.00%) CSIRT
3 6 (8.00%) Kibana
3 6 (8.00%) Puppet
4 5 (6.67%) SCCM
5 3 (4.00%) QRadar
6 2 (2.67%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.33%) Grafana
7 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (28.00%) Splunk
2 16 (21.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.33%) F5
4 6 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.67%) iManage
5 5 (6.67%) Mitel
5 5 (6.67%) Oracle
6 4 (5.33%) SAP
7 3 (4.00%) Pega
8 2 (2.67%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.33%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.33%) Cisco
9 1 (1.33%) Databricks
9 1 (1.33%) Google
9 1 (1.33%) IBM
9 1 (1.33%) Juniper
9 1 (1.33%) NetScout
9 1 (1.33%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.33%) PayPal