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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 11
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 64 64 65
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.91% 11.72% 8.84%
As % of the General category 12.60% 19.34% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 37 52
10th Percentile £294 £165 £351
25th Percentile £325 £350 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -10.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £632
90th Percentile £583 £639 £918
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £550
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
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 £23.71 £50.00 £20.28
% change year-on-year -52.58% +146.61% -12.27%

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 508 331 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 54.86% 60.62% 52.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 227 267
10th Percentile £341 £163 £208
25th Percentile £404 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £576 £538 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £730
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +6.96% -8.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 18
10th Percentile £16.42 - £13.23
25th Percentile £20.28 £14.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.05 £20.03 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +65.04% -3.49% -1.05%
75th Percentile £51.25 £26.51 £49.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £27.64 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.50 £28.18 £18.99
% change year-on-year +8.23% +48.43% -8.89%

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 July 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 July 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 (10.94%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (9.38%) Confluence
2 6 (9.38%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (3.13%) SAS
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Oracle HRMS
2 2 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.56%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.56%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.31%) Azure
2 8 (12.50%) AWS
2 8 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.25%) dbt
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.69%) GCP
4 3 (4.69%) GitHub
4 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.56%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.56%) IaaS
6 1 (1.56%) PaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) SAN
1 2 (3.13%) VLAN
2 1 (1.56%) BGP
2 1 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.56%) DHCP
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) Internet
2 1 (1.56%) LAN
2 1 (1.56%) OSPF
2 1 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.56%) VPN
2 1 (1.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) Power BI
2 7 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.25%) Metadata
3 4 (6.25%) Power Query
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.56%) Tableau
6 1 (1.56%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 13 (20.31%) JIRA
2 4 (6.25%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) JMeter
3 3 (4.69%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.69%) JUnit
3 3 (4.69%) Selenium
3 3 (4.69%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.56%) Postman
4 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (42.19%) Social Skills
2 20 (31.25%) Finance
3 13 (20.31%) Banking
4 9 (14.06%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.25%) Local Government
6 4 (6.25%) Marketing
7 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.13%) Automotive
8 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.56%) Billing
9 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (1.56%) Legal
9 1 (1.56%) Publishing
9 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Analyst
2 10 (15.63%) Lead
3 9 (14.06%) Data Analyst
4 7 (10.94%) Developer
5 6 (9.38%) Oracle Specialist
5 6 (9.38%) Support Specialist
6 5 (7.81%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.25%) Administrator
7 4 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Architect
8 3 (4.69%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) PMO Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior
8 3 (4.69%) Systems Tester
8 3 (4.69%) Tester
9 2 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 2 (3.13%) Insight Analyst
9 2 (3.13%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) FastAPI
1 3 (4.69%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (4.69%) Spring
1 3 (4.69%) WireMock
2 2 (3.13%) ADO
2 2 (3.13%) REST
3 1 (1.56%) Itk
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.56%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (7.81%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.69%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.13%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.56%) CMDB
6 1 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.56%) IoT
6 1 (1.56%) PMI
6 1 (1.56%) Replication
6 1 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (57.81%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (28.13%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (23.44%) Analytics
5 12 (18.75%) Agile
6 11 (17.19%) Actionable Insight
6 11 (17.19%) CI/CD
6 11 (17.19%) Workflow
7 10 (15.63%) Data Modelling
8 9 (14.06%) Validation
9 8 (12.50%) ETL
9 8 (12.50%) Observability
10 7 (10.94%) Decision-Making
10 7 (10.94%) DevOps
10 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (9.38%) ITIL
11 6 (9.38%) Migration
11 6 (9.38%) Process Improvement
11 6 (9.38%) Test Automation
11 6 (9.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.25%) SQL
2 12 (18.75%) Python
3 3 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.69%) Java
4 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) Bicep
5 1 (1.56%) C
5 1 (1.56%) C#
5 1 (1.56%) C++
5 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.56%) R
5 1 (1.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.13%) CCNA
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.13%) CISSP
4 2 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.56%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CCNP
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) MCSE
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.25%) PMO
3 3 (4.69%) GRC
3 3 (4.69%) QA
4 2 (3.13%) GDPR
5 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.56%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (9.38%) Grafana
1 6 (9.38%) Kubernetes
1 6 (9.38%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.69%) Control-M
2 3 (4.69%) IBM Guardium
2 3 (4.69%) Nessus
3 2 (3.13%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.56%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.19%) Oracle
3 6 (9.38%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.69%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.69%) Cognos
4 3 (4.69%) SAP
4 3 (4.69%) Splunk
4 3 (4.69%) Tenable
5 2 (3.13%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (3.13%) Remedy
5 2 (3.13%) Siemens
5 2 (3.13%) Teradata
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco
6 1 (1.56%) Dell
6 1 (1.56%) Google
6 1 (1.56%) HP
6 1 (1.56%) Veeam
6 1 (1.56%) VMware