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 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 4 24
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 88 84 51
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.27% 16.18% 6.69%
As % of the General category 16.60% 24.56% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 60 40
10th Percentile £313 £160 £350
25th Percentile £357 £295 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £559 £602 £547
90th Percentile £600 £700 £620
West Midlands median daily rate £464 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% -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% -
75th Percentile - £30.68 £26.98
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.23 £24.65
% change year-on-year -17.29% +22.62% +14.44%

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 530 342 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 61.84% 65.90% 51.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 243 274
10th Percentile £294 £200 £201
25th Percentile £409 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £646 £575
90th Percentile £675 £702 £654
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 30
10th Percentile £16.08 - £11.69
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.00 £13.41
Median hourly rate £22.51 £14.70 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +53.10% -40.37% +63.46%
75th Percentile £25.21 £30.17 £48.75
90th Percentile £27.22 £30.68 £57.91
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £18.00 £19.05
% change year-on-year +27.78% -5.49% +7.60%

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 13 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 5 (5.68%) Confluence
2 3 (3.41%) SAS
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Aareon QL
1 1 (1.14%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.14%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.14%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.14%) OPENHousing
1 1 (1.14%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.36%) Azure
2 8 (9.09%) AWS
3 4 (4.55%) GCP
3 4 (4.55%) GitHub
4 3 (3.41%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.41%) dbt
4 3 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.14%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.14%) IaaS
6 1 (1.14%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.14%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) DHCP
1 2 (2.27%) DNS
1 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.27%) VPN
2 1 (1.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.55%) Metadata
4 4 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.41%) MySQL
5 3 (3.41%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.41%) Power BI
6 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.27%) Power Query
6 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.27%) Tableau
7 1 (1.14%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.14%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.14%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 9 (10.23%) JIRA
2 5 (5.68%) Git
2 5 (5.68%) JMeter
2 5 (5.68%) Selenium
3 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.55%) JUnit
4 3 (3.41%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.41%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.14%) Postman
General
1 49 (55.68%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.00%) Finance
3 10 (11.36%) Banking
3 10 (11.36%) Legal
4 6 (6.82%) Marketing
4 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Law
6 3 (3.41%) Local Government
7 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.14%) Military
8 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 26 (29.55%) Analyst
2 11 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 11 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 11 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
3 8 (9.09%) Architect
3 8 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 8 (9.09%) Lead
4 5 (5.68%) Consultant
4 5 (5.68%) Developer
4 5 (5.68%) Senior
5 4 (4.55%) PMO Analyst
5 4 (4.55%) Senior Architect
6 3 (3.41%) DBA
6 3 (3.41%) Insight Analyst
6 3 (3.41%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (3.41%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.41%) Systems Tester
6 3 (3.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.55%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.41%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (3.41%) REST
3 3 (3.41%) SOAP
3 3 (3.41%) Spring
3 3 (3.41%) WireMock
4 2 (2.27%) ADO
5 1 (1.14%) .NET
5 1 (1.14%) Flask
5 1 (1.14%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.14%) Kafka
5 1 (1.14%) PySpark
5 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.82%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.41%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.41%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.41%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.41%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.91%) Unix
2 12 (13.64%) Linux
3 3 (3.41%) Windows
4 2 (2.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.27%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (27.27%) Validation
3 21 (23.86%) Agile
3 21 (23.86%) Data Modelling
4 20 (22.73%) Change Management
4 20 (22.73%) Observability
5 18 (20.45%) Containerisation
5 18 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (18.18%) DevOps
7 15 (17.05%) Dashboard Development
7 15 (17.05%) Migration
8 14 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.64%) Data Ingestion
10 11 (12.50%) Analytics
10 11 (12.50%) Incident Response
10 11 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
10 11 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
10 11 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
10 11 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.68%) Python
2 14 (15.91%) SQL
3 12 (13.64%) Bash
4 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.55%) Java
6 3 (3.41%) Perl
7 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.27%) VB
8 1 (1.14%) Bicep
8 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.14%) R
8 1 (1.14%) Scala
8 1 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (18.18%) Degree
2 11 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.27%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.27%) MCDST
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.14%) AAT
7 1 (1.14%) ACCA
7 1 (1.14%) CIMA
7 1 (1.14%) IIBA
7 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.82%) SLA
3 4 (4.55%) GDPR
3 4 (4.55%) PMO
3 4 (4.55%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (20.45%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.50%) Ansible
2 11 (12.50%) Kibana
2 11 (12.50%) Puppet
3 6 (6.82%) Grafana
3 6 (6.82%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.41%) Control-M
4 3 (3.41%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (3.41%) Nessus
5 2 (2.27%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.27%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (2.27%) SCCM
6 1 (1.14%) CSIRT
6 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Splunk
2 14 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.82%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.68%) Oracle
4 5 (5.68%) Tenable
5 3 (3.41%) Cognos
5 3 (3.41%) Pega
5 3 (3.41%) SAP
5 3 (3.41%) Teradata
6 2 (2.27%) Databricks
6 2 (2.27%) HP
6 2 (2.27%) iManage
6 2 (2.27%) Mitel
7 1 (1.14%) Aareon
7 1 (1.14%) Capita
7 1 (1.14%) Civica
7 1 (1.14%) Northgate
7 1 (1.14%) Oneserve
7 1 (1.14%) Orchard
7 1 (1.14%) Sage