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 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +11
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 74 63 67
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.81% 12.12% 8.78%
As % of the General category 14.26% 19.69% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 34 56
10th Percentile £303 £149 £353
25th Percentile £350 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -10.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £578
90th Percentile £603 £633 £825
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -14.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £26.48 £33.16 -
25th Percentile £29.45 £37.47 £22.33
Median hourly rate £39.30 £44.65 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +81.12% +6.66%
75th Percentile £51.25 £51.82 £26.98
90th Percentile - £56.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.42 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -55.16% +102.84% +6.66%

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 519 320 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 54.80% 61.54% 49.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 215 255
10th Percentile £349 £163 £205
25th Percentile £412 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% - -7.99%
75th Percentile £588 £569 £575
90th Percentile £687 £689 £704
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £455 £503
% change year-on-year +8.13% -9.45% -1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 27 30
10th Percentile £17.10 - £13.04
25th Percentile £19.34 £14.00 £14.38
Median hourly rate £27.35 £22.05 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year +24.02% -12.93% +20.77%
75th Percentile £57.19 £26.51 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.02 £57.91
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.39 £24.34 £19.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% +28.11% -15.39%

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 24 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

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 7 (9.46%) Confluence
1 7 (9.46%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (8.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 3 (4.05%) SAS
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Oracle HRMS
2 2 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.35%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.35%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.57%) Azure
2 8 (10.81%) AWS
3 6 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.41%) dbt
4 4 (5.41%) GitHub
5 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.05%) GCP
5 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.70%) IaaS
6 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.70%) PaaS
6 2 (2.70%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.35%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.35%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) SAN
1 2 (2.70%) VLAN
2 1 (1.35%) BGP
2 1 (1.35%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.35%) DHCP
2 1 (1.35%) DNS
2 1 (1.35%) Internet
2 1 (1.35%) LAN
2 1 (1.35%) OSPF
2 1 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.35%) VPN
2 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.46%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.11%) Power BI
4 5 (6.76%) Metadata
5 4 (5.41%) Power Query
5 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.05%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.35%) Tableau
8 1 (1.35%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 10 (13.51%) JIRA
2 5 (6.76%) JMeter
3 4 (5.41%) Git
4 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.05%) JUnit
4 3 (4.05%) Selenium
4 3 (4.05%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.62%) Finance
3 11 (14.86%) Banking
4 9 (12.16%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.41%) Local Government
7 3 (4.05%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.05%) Marketing
8 2 (2.70%) Automotive
8 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.70%) Legal
8 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.35%) Billing
9 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Law
9 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (25.68%) Analyst
2 10 (13.51%) Lead
3 9 (12.16%) Data Analyst
4 7 (9.46%) Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Oracle Specialist
5 6 (8.11%) Support Specialist
6 5 (6.76%) Splunk Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Architect
7 4 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.05%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (4.05%) Insight Analyst
8 3 (4.05%) PMO Analyst
8 3 (4.05%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.05%) Senior
8 3 (4.05%) Site Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.05%) Systems Tester
8 3 (4.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) ADO
1 3 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (4.05%) FastAPI
1 3 (4.05%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (4.05%) Spring
1 3 (4.05%) WireMock
2 1 (1.35%) .NET
2 1 (1.35%) Itk
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.35%) REST
2 1 (1.35%) SAP TM
2 1 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (6.76%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.05%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) IoT
5 1 (1.35%) PMI
5 1 (1.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.41%) Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Unix
2 3 (4.05%) Windows
3 2 (2.70%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (55.41%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (25.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (18.92%) Analytics
5 13 (17.57%) Data Modelling
5 13 (17.57%) Validation
6 12 (16.22%) Agile
7 11 (14.86%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (13.51%) CI/CD
8 10 (13.51%) Containerisation
8 10 (13.51%) Migration
8 10 (13.51%) Observability
9 9 (12.16%) Workflow
10 8 (10.81%) DevOps
10 8 (10.81%) ETL
10 8 (10.81%) Spatial Analysis
11 7 (9.46%) Dashboard Development
11 7 (9.46%) Process Improvement
12 6 (8.11%) ITIL
12 6 (8.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (29.73%) SQL
2 15 (20.27%) Python
3 4 (5.41%) Bash
4 3 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.05%) Java
4 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.70%) Bicep
5 2 (2.70%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.70%) VB
6 1 (1.35%) C
6 1 (1.35%) C++
6 1 (1.35%) R
6 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (12.16%) Degree
2 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.05%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.70%) CCNA
5 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.70%) CISSP
5 2 (2.70%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.35%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.35%) CCNP
6 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.35%) MCSE
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.41%) PMO
3 3 (4.05%) GDPR
4 2 (2.70%) GRC
4 2 (2.70%) QA
4 2 (2.70%) SLA
5 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.35%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.11%) Grafana
2 6 (8.11%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.05%) Ansible
3 3 (4.05%) Control-M
3 3 (4.05%) IBM Guardium
3 3 (4.05%) Kibana
3 3 (4.05%) Nessus
3 3 (4.05%) Puppet
4 2 (2.70%) HP ALM
4 2 (2.70%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.22%) Oracle
3 6 (8.11%) Splunk
4 5 (6.76%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.41%) SAP
6 3 (4.05%) Cognos
6 3 (4.05%) Tenable
6 3 (4.05%) Teradata
7 2 (2.70%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.70%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.70%) HP
7 2 (2.70%) Remedy
7 2 (2.70%) Siemens
8 1 (1.35%) Cisco
8 1 (1.35%) Dell
8 1 (1.35%) Google
8 1 (1.35%) Veeam
8 1 (1.35%) VMware