Analytical Skills Contracts 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 13 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 72 65 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.15% 8.83% 8.36%
As % of the General category 22.36% 16.93% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 55 45
10th Percentile £165 £352 £263
25th Percentile £409 £425 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% -4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £550
90th Percentile £645 £845 £655
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £20.90
25th Percentile - £22.33 £21.52
Median hourly rate £59.00 £24.65 £23.11
Median % change year-on-year +139.35% +6.66% +71.19%
75th Percentile - £26.98 £24.77
90th Percentile - - £25.43
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £24.65 £23.11
% change year-on-year +102.84% +6.66% +71.19%

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 322 384 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 63.26% 52.17% 57.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 263 341
10th Percentile £163 £216 £278
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +9.47%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £705 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.10% -0.99% +5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 32 30
10th Percentile - £11.89 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.97 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.70 £24.65 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.37% +26.41% +16.42%
75th Percentile £22.08 £48.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £47.30 £56.25 £68.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.84
% change year-on-year - -8.82% +26.29%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.17%) Confluence
1 3 (4.17%) IIS
2 1 (1.39%) SAS
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Magento
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.39%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.39%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.89%) Azure
2 9 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.94%) AWS
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.17%) GCP
5 3 (4.17%) PowerApps
5 3 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.78%) OCI
6 2 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.39%) Akamai
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.39%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.39%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.39%) Route 53
7 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.50%) Network Security
2 8 (11.11%) Firewall
3 7 (9.72%) BGP
3 7 (9.72%) OSPF
3 7 (9.72%) VLAN
4 6 (8.33%) IPsec
4 6 (8.33%) SSL
4 6 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 6 (8.33%) VPN
5 1 (1.39%) DHCP
5 1 (1.39%) DNS
5 1 (1.39%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.39%) Internet
5 1 (1.39%) LAN
5 1 (1.39%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.39%) WAN
5 1 (1.39%) Wireless
5 1 (1.39%) Wireless Security
5 1 (1.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) Power BI
2 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.78%) Power Query
4 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.39%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.39%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.39%) Sybase IQ
5 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Git
1 4 (5.56%) JIRA
2 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.17%) JMeter
3 2 (2.78%) GitLab
3 2 (2.78%) JUnit
3 2 (2.78%) Maven
3 2 (2.78%) Mockito
3 2 (2.78%) Postman
3 2 (2.78%) REST Assured
3 2 (2.78%) Selenium
3 2 (2.78%) TestNG
3 2 (2.78%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.39%) DbUnit
4 1 (1.39%) Gradle
4 1 (1.39%) jMock
4 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (65.28%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.83%) Finance
3 8 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 6 (8.33%) Legal
5 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Law
8 2 (2.78%) Retail
9 1 (1.39%) Back Office
9 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Games
9 1 (1.39%) Local Government
9 1 (1.39%) Marketing
9 1 (1.39%) Military
9 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Analyst
2 9 (12.50%) Lead
3 8 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 7 (9.72%) Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Check Point Expert
6 5 (6.94%) Senior
7 4 (5.56%) Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Sustainability Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Tester
9 2 (2.78%) Financial Analyst
9 2 (2.78%) Junior Architect
9 2 (2.78%) Junior Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.78%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) HTML
1 5 (6.94%) Middleware
2 4 (5.56%) RESTful
3 2 (2.78%) Ajax
3 2 (2.78%) CSS
3 2 (2.78%) CSS3
3 2 (2.78%) HTML5
3 2 (2.78%) KnockoutJS
3 2 (2.78%) Node.js
3 2 (2.78%) RequireJS
3 2 (2.78%) Spring
4 1 (1.39%) .NET
4 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.39%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.39%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.39%) FHIR
4 1 (1.39%) J2EE
4 1 (1.39%) SOAP
4 1 (1.39%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.78%) CMDB
3 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.39%) CCTV
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.39%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.39%) Social Media
4 1 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.33%) Check Point GAiA
2 2 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (1.39%) Windows
3 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (20.83%) Agile
2 15 (20.83%) Project Management
3 13 (18.06%) Data Analysis
4 10 (13.89%) Data Integration
4 10 (13.89%) Risk Management
5 9 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 9 (12.50%) DevOps
5 9 (12.50%) ETL
5 9 (12.50%) High Availability
5 9 (12.50%) SIEM
5 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (12.50%) Visualisation
6 8 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 8 (11.11%) Data Governance
6 8 (11.11%) Migration
7 7 (9.72%) Data Migration
7 7 (9.72%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (9.72%) ERP
7 7 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.44%) SQL
2 10 (13.89%) Python
3 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.94%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.17%) Bash
5 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.78%) Java
6 1 (1.39%) C#
6 1 (1.39%) Perl
6 1 (1.39%) R
6 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (8.33%) CCSE
2 6 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.56%) CEH
4 4 (5.56%) CISSP
4 4 (5.56%) HNC
4 4 (5.56%) HND
5 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.78%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.39%) ACCA
7 1 (1.39%) CIPFA
7 1 (1.39%) CISA
7 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.39%) CISM
7 1 (1.39%) CITP
7 1 (1.39%) ICAEW
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.94%) QA
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.39%) NIST
4 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (1.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.78%) Kibana
2 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.39%) Ansible
3 1 (1.39%) Grafana
3 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.33%) CheckPoint
2 6 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 5 (6.94%) SAP
4 3 (4.17%) Adobe
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle
5 2 (2.78%) Cisco
5 2 (2.78%) Civica
5 2 (2.78%) Epicor
5 2 (2.78%) Informatica
5 2 (2.78%) Juniper
6 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.39%) Dell
6 1 (1.39%) F5
6 1 (1.39%) Genesys
6 1 (1.39%) HP
6 1 (1.39%) Imperva
6 1 (1.39%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.39%) Sybase