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 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 6 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 77 87 48
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.69% 12.61% 6.50%
As % of the General category 17.46% 19.38% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 60 29
10th Percentile £258 £262 £271
25th Percentile £386 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £569 £628 £650
90th Percentile £605 £701 £692
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -4.88% -6.82% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £30.23 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -60.00% +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 441 449 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 61.25% 65.07% 52.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 301 267
10th Percentile £200 £200 £259
25th Percentile £365 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £579 £638 £600
90th Percentile £639 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 12
10th Percentile £15.74 £14.70 £12.58
25th Percentile £16.88 £20.88 £13.91
Median hourly rate £21.26 £30.23 £15.31
Median % change year-on-year -29.68% +97.42% -14.79%
75th Percentile £23.58 £51.88 £49.38
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.65 £67.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £23.82 £18.50
% change year-on-year -3.44% +28.76% +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 14 December 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 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) ResourceLink
2 1 (1.30%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.30%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.09%) AWS
2 6 (7.79%) Akamai
2 6 (7.79%) Azure
2 6 (7.79%) GCP
3 5 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.30%) GitHub
6 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
6 1 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) Firewall
2 6 (7.79%) Wireshark
3 5 (6.49%) DHCP
3 5 (6.49%) DNS
3 5 (6.49%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.49%) VPN
4 1 (1.30%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (6.49%) Power BI
3 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.19%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.90%) MySQL
4 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.60%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.30%) EDMS
6 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.30%) OLTP
6 1 (1.30%) Power Query
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) JIRA
1 3 (3.90%) JUnit
2 2 (2.60%) Git
2 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.60%) Selenium
3 1 (1.30%) GitLab
3 1 (1.30%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.30%) Postman
3 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 52 (67.53%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Finance
3 9 (11.69%) Banking
3 9 (11.69%) Legal
4 5 (6.49%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.90%) Marketing
7 2 (2.60%) Law
7 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Billing
8 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.30%) Military
8 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (25.97%) Analyst
2 9 (11.69%) Site Engineer
2 9 (11.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 9 (11.69%) Splunk Engineer
3 7 (9.09%) Architect
4 6 (7.79%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (7.79%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 6 (7.79%) IT Analyst
4 6 (7.79%) IT Support
4 6 (7.79%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (7.79%) Senior
4 6 (7.79%) Support Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 5 (6.49%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) Consultant
6 4 (5.19%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Developer
6 4 (5.19%) Senior Architect
7 3 (3.90%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.69%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.90%) Gherkin
2 3 (3.90%) Kafka
2 3 (3.90%) REST
2 3 (3.90%) SOAP
3 2 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.30%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.30%) Flask
4 1 (1.30%) Middleware
4 1 (1.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Management Information System
2 9 (11.69%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (10.39%) Security Posture
4 5 (6.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (5.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.90%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.60%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.30%) CMDB
8 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.58%) Unix
2 10 (12.99%) Linux
3 5 (6.49%) Windows
3 5 (6.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (29.87%) Change Management
3 18 (23.38%) Agile
4 15 (19.48%) Data Modelling
4 15 (19.48%) DevOps
4 15 (19.48%) Observability
4 15 (19.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (18.18%) ITIL
5 14 (18.18%) Validation
6 12 (15.58%) Migration
7 11 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
8 10 (12.99%) AI
8 10 (12.99%) Containerisation
9 9 (11.69%) Computer Science
9 9 (11.69%) Incident Response
9 9 (11.69%) ITSM
9 9 (11.69%) Knowledge Transfer
9 9 (11.69%) Performance Metrics
9 9 (11.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.87%) Python
2 9 (11.69%) Bash
3 8 (10.39%) Shell Script
4 7 (9.09%) SQL
5 5 (6.49%) Java
5 5 (6.49%) Perl
6 2 (2.60%) Scala
7 1 (1.30%) Go
7 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.30%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (14.29%) Degree
2 9 (11.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.49%) MCDST
3 5 (6.49%) MCP
3 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) CCNP
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) CPIM
5 1 (1.30%) GIAC
5 1 (1.30%) IIBA
5 1 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PMP
5 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) QA
1 5 (6.49%) SLA
2 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.90%) PMO
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (12.99%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (12.99%) Ansible
1 10 (12.99%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.69%) Kibana
2 9 (11.69%) Puppet
3 6 (7.79%) CSIRT
4 5 (6.49%) SCCM
5 3 (3.90%) QRadar
6 1 (1.30%) Grafana
6 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (31.17%) Splunk
2 18 (23.38%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.39%) ServiceNow
4 7 (9.09%) F5
5 5 (6.49%) iManage
5 5 (6.49%) Mitel
6 3 (3.90%) Oracle
6 3 (3.90%) Pega
7 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.60%) Databricks
7 2 (2.60%) SAP
7 2 (2.60%) Tenable
8 1 (1.30%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco
8 1 (1.30%) Google
8 1 (1.30%) IBM
8 1 (1.30%) Juniper
8 1 (1.30%) NetScout
8 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto