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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 8 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 -11
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 79 85 45
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.05% 11.61% 5.92%
As % of the General category 17.79% 18.44% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 57 27
10th Percentile £274 £235 £311
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £566 £625 £665
90th Percentile £614 £705 £697
West Midlands median daily rate £494 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.90% -4.55% +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 444 461 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 62.10% 62.98% 50.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 300 276
10th Percentile £200 £196 £261
25th Percentile £369 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £706
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 12
10th Percentile £17.10 £14.70 £12.66
25th Percentile £20.13 £20.88 £14.44
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.23 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +86.00% -9.56%
75th Percentile £25.76 £51.88 £49.38
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.65 £67.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £23.82 £18.50
% change year-on-year +4.95% +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 29 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 (2.53%) Confluence
1 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.27%) Apache
2 1 (1.27%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) ResourceLink
2 1 (1.27%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.27%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.86%) AWS
2 6 (7.59%) Akamai
2 6 (7.59%) Azure
2 6 (7.59%) GCP
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.53%) GitHub
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.27%) IaaS
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.27%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.27%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.27%) SaaS
5 1 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.86%) Firewall
2 6 (7.59%) Wireshark
3 5 (6.33%) DHCP
3 5 (6.33%) DNS
3 5 (6.33%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.33%) VPN
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (7.59%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle Database
3 5 (6.33%) Power BI
4 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.80%) MySQL
5 2 (2.53%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (2.53%) Tableau
6 1 (1.27%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.27%) EDMS
6 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.27%) OLTP
6 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.27%) Power Query
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) JUnit
2 4 (5.06%) JIRA
3 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.53%) Selenium
4 1 (1.27%) Git
4 1 (1.27%) GitLab
4 1 (1.27%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.27%) Postman
4 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (64.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.78%) Finance
3 12 (15.19%) Banking
4 9 (11.39%) Legal
5 6 (7.59%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.33%) Marketing
6 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.06%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.53%) Electronics
8 2 (2.53%) Law
8 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.27%) Billing
9 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Military
9 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) Analyst
2 7 (8.86%) Architect
2 7 (8.86%) Site Engineer
2 7 (8.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (8.86%) Splunk Engineer
3 6 (7.59%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (7.59%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 6 (7.59%) Developer
3 6 (7.59%) IT Analyst
3 6 (7.59%) IT Support
3 6 (7.59%) IT Support Analyst
3 6 (7.59%) Senior
3 6 (7.59%) Support Analyst
4 5 (6.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 5 (6.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (6.33%) DBA
4 5 (6.33%) Java Developer
4 5 (6.33%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (5.06%) Consultant
5 4 (5.06%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.33%) Gherkin
2 5 (6.33%) Kafka
3 3 (3.80%) REST
3 3 (3.80%) SOAP
4 2 (2.53%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.27%) .NET
5 1 (1.27%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.27%) Flask
5 1 (1.27%) Middleware
5 1 (1.27%) PySpark
5 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (10.13%) Management Information System
2 8 (10.13%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (5.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (3.80%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.27%) CMDB
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.19%) Unix
2 11 (13.92%) Linux
3 6 (7.59%) Windows
4 5 (6.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (56.96%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (26.58%) Change Management
3 19 (24.05%) Agile
4 14 (17.72%) ITIL
4 14 (17.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (16.46%) DevOps
5 13 (16.46%) Observability
6 12 (15.19%) Data Modelling
6 12 (15.19%) Validation
7 11 (13.92%) Migration
7 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
8 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (11.39%) AI
9 9 (11.39%) Containerisation
9 9 (11.39%) ITSM
10 8 (10.13%) Data Ingestion
10 8 (10.13%) DevSecOps
10 8 (10.13%) Ethical Hacking
10 8 (10.13%) Service Management
11 7 (8.86%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.58%) Python
2 9 (11.39%) SQL
3 8 (10.13%) Bash
3 8 (10.13%) Shell Script
4 7 (8.86%) Java
5 5 (6.33%) Perl
6 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.53%) Scala
7 1 (1.27%) Bicep
7 1 (1.27%) Go
7 1 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.27%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (11.39%) Degree
2 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.33%) MCDST
4 5 (6.33%) MCP
4 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.53%) OCP
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.27%) CCNP
6 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.27%) CISSP
6 1 (1.27%) CPIM
6 1 (1.27%) GIAC
6 1 (1.27%) IIBA
6 1 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.27%) PMP
6 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) QA
1 5 (6.33%) SLA
2 4 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.80%) PMO
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) PSD2
4 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (11.39%) Docker
2 5 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.13%) Ansible
3 7 (8.86%) Kibana
3 7 (8.86%) Puppet
4 6 (7.59%) CSIRT
5 5 (6.33%) SCCM
6 3 (3.80%) QRadar
7 2 (2.53%) Data Guard
7 2 (2.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.53%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.27%) Grafana
8 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (27.85%) Splunk
2 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.13%) ServiceNow
4 7 (8.86%) F5
5 5 (6.33%) iManage
5 5 (6.33%) Mitel
5 5 (6.33%) Oracle
6 4 (5.06%) SAP
7 3 (3.80%) Pega
8 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.53%) Databricks
8 2 (2.53%) Tenable
9 1 (1.27%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.27%) Cisco
9 1 (1.27%) Google
9 1 (1.27%) IBM
9 1 (1.27%) Juniper
9 1 (1.27%) NetScout
9 1 (1.27%) Palo Alto