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 12 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 99 83 58
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.86% 13.79% 7.62%
As % of the General category 18.89% 20.65% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 58 39
10th Percentile £274 £164 £354
25th Percentile £364 £381 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £556
90th Percentile £614 £683 £682
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +14.44%
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 524 402 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 62.75% 66.78% 50.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 276 255
10th Percentile £219 £206 £200
25th Percentile £400 £391 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £575
90th Percentile £675 £728 £654
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 28
10th Percentile £15.92 £14.07 £11.56
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.70 £13.97
Median hourly rate £22.01 £30.23 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +19.35% +98.63%
75th Percentile £25.00 £53.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £27.53 £57.05 £70.87
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £23.60 £18.50
% change year-on-year -13.14% +27.57% +4.99%

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 12 February 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 2 (2.02%) SAS
2 1 (1.01%) Apache
2 1 (1.01%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) IIS
2 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Aareon QL
1 1 (1.01%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.01%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.01%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.01%) OPENHousing
1 1 (1.01%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.10%) AWS
2 7 (7.07%) Azure
3 6 (6.06%) Akamai
3 6 (6.06%) GCP
4 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.03%) dbt
6 2 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.02%) GitHub
6 2 (2.02%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.01%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.01%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.01%) IaaS
7 1 (1.01%) PaaS
7 1 (1.01%) SaaS
7 1 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.06%) Firewall
1 6 (6.06%) Wireshark
2 5 (5.05%) DHCP
2 5 (5.05%) DNS
2 5 (5.05%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.14%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.03%) Metadata
4 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.03%) MySQL
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.02%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.02%) Power BI
5 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.02%) Tableau
6 1 (1.01%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.01%) EDMS
6 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.01%) OLTP
6 1 (1.01%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 5 (5.05%) JIRA
2 2 (2.02%) Git
2 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.02%) JMeter
2 2 (2.02%) JUnit
2 2 (2.02%) Selenium
3 1 (1.01%) GitLab
3 1 (1.01%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.01%) Postman
General
1 62 (62.63%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.17%) Finance
3 10 (10.10%) Banking
3 10 (10.10%) Legal
4 5 (5.05%) Marketing
4 5 (5.05%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Law
7 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.01%) Military
7 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 25 (25.25%) Analyst
2 14 (14.14%) Site Engineer
2 14 (14.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 14 (14.14%) Splunk Engineer
3 8 (8.08%) Architect
3 8 (8.08%) Lead
4 7 (7.07%) Developer
5 6 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.05%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.05%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) Consultant
6 5 (5.05%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) IT Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) IT Support
6 5 (5.05%) IT Support Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) Senior
6 5 (5.05%) Support Analyst
7 4 (4.04%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.14%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.05%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (4.04%) FastAPI
4 3 (3.03%) REST
4 3 (3.03%) SOAP
5 2 (2.02%) ADO
5 2 (2.02%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.02%) Kafka
6 1 (1.01%) .NET
6 1 (1.01%) Flask
6 1 (1.01%) Middleware
6 1 (1.01%) PySpark
6 1 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.08%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.05%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (5.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (4.04%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.03%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.02%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.02%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.01%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.17%) Unix
2 16 (16.16%) Linux
3 6 (6.06%) Windows
4 5 (5.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (26.26%) Change Management
3 24 (24.24%) Validation
4 23 (23.23%) Observability
5 22 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 20 (20.20%) DevOps
6 20 (20.20%) Migration
7 19 (19.19%) Containerisation
8 18 (18.18%) Agile
9 17 (17.17%) Dashboard Development
10 16 (16.16%) Data Ingestion
11 14 (14.14%) Computer Science
11 14 (14.14%) Incident Response
11 14 (14.14%) Knowledge Transfer
11 14 (14.14%) Performance Metrics
11 14 (14.14%) Proactive Monitoring
11 14 (14.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (12.12%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 32 (32.32%) Python
2 15 (15.15%) Bash
3 13 (13.13%) SQL
4 8 (8.08%) Shell Script
5 6 (6.06%) Java
6 5 (5.05%) Perl
7 2 (2.02%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.02%) Scala
7 2 (2.02%) VB
8 1 (1.01%) Bicep
8 1 (1.01%) Go
8 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.01%) R
8 1 (1.01%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.01%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (19.19%) Degree
2 14 (14.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.05%) MCDST
4 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.02%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.01%) AAT
7 1 (1.01%) ACCA
7 1 (1.01%) CIMA
7 1 (1.01%) CISSP
7 1 (1.01%) GIAC
7 1 (1.01%) IIBA
7 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) Data Quality
1 6 (6.06%) SLA
2 4 (4.04%) GDPR
2 4 (4.04%) QA
3 3 (3.03%) PMO
4 1 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (19.19%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.14%) Ansible
2 14 (14.14%) Kibana
2 14 (14.14%) Puppet
3 6 (6.06%) CSIRT
4 5 (5.05%) SCCM
5 4 (4.04%) Grafana
5 4 (4.04%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.03%) Control-M
6 3 (3.03%) IBM Guardium
6 3 (3.03%) Nessus
6 3 (3.03%) QRadar
7 2 (2.02%) HP ALM
7 2 (2.02%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (30.30%) Splunk
2 23 (23.23%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.08%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.06%) F5
5 5 (5.05%) iManage
5 5 (5.05%) Mitel
5 5 (5.05%) Oracle
5 5 (5.05%) Tenable
6 4 (4.04%) SAP
7 3 (3.03%) Cognos
7 3 (3.03%) Pega
8 2 (2.02%) Databricks
8 2 (2.02%) Google
8 2 (2.02%) HP
8 2 (2.02%) Teradata
9 1 (1.01%) Aareon
9 1 (1.01%) IBM
9 1 (1.01%) NEC
9 1 (1.01%) Oneserve
9 1 (1.01%) Sage