Analytical Skills Contracts in the Midlands

Analytical Skills
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 15 30
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +13
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 233 330 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.52% 9.67% 5.50%
As % of the General category 15.46% 17.39% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 206 182
10th Percentile £313 £200 £206
25th Percentile £425 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% +4.44% +11.80%
75th Percentile £688 £543 £540
90th Percentile £813 £631 £622
England median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 4
10th Percentile £11.83 £19.63 £12.58
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.49 £12.69
Median hourly rate £14.00 £23.50 £14.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +59.32% -40.40%
75th Percentile £16.46 £25.88 £18.88
90th Percentile £26.98 £40.35 £20.45
England median hourly rate £18.35 £40.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -54.13% +4.84% +82.56%

All General Skills
Midlands

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,507 1,898 2,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 55.12% 55.61% 54.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,347 2,048
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% +1.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £611 £588 £550
90th Percentile £738 £688 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 85 100
10th Percentile £11.75 £11.80 £9.97
25th Percentile £13.89 £13.31 £12.95
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.50 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +15.82% +10.63%
75th Percentile £35.00 £32.25 £24.69
90th Percentile £52.45 £51.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.20% +51.16% -4.44%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the Midlands

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the Midlands

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the Midlands

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the Midlands

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the Midlands

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands 0 175 £550 +15.79% 282
East Midlands +5 53 £450 - 201
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.72%) CMS
3 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.29%) Confluence
4 2 (0.86%) Drupal
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.86%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
Applications
1 22 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.43%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.15%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.29%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.29%) SAP MII
4 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.86%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.86%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.86%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.86%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.43%) Odoo
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 39 (16.74%) Power Platform
2 28 (12.02%) Azure
3 10 (4.29%) AWS
3 10 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.58%) OCI
6 5 (2.15%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 4 (1.72%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.29%) dbt
8 3 (1.29%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.29%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.86%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.45%) Network Security
2 17 (7.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 13 (5.58%) VPN
4 9 (3.86%) Firewall
5 4 (1.72%) Wireless
6 3 (1.29%) VoIP
6 3 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.86%) DHCP
7 2 (0.86%) DNS
7 2 (0.86%) Internet
7 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.43%) Intranet
8 1 (0.43%) LTE
8 1 (0.43%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.02%) Power BI
2 20 (8.58%) Big Data
3 14 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.72%) Data Mining
5 9 (3.86%) Tableau
6 7 (3.00%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.58%) Hadoop
7 6 (2.58%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (2.58%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.15%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.72%) Impala
9 4 (1.72%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.29%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.29%) Pentaho
10 3 (1.29%) Power Query
10 3 (1.29%) SAP BW
10 3 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (0.86%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.58%) JIRA
2 5 (2.15%) Git
3 2 (0.86%) Appium
3 2 (0.86%) UI Automator
3 2 (0.86%) XCUITest
4 1 (0.43%) Ant
4 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.43%) Gradle
4 1 (0.43%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.43%) JUnit
4 1 (0.43%) Maven
4 1 (0.43%) NUnit
4 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 116 (49.79%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.17%) Finance
3 27 (11.59%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.44%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (4.72%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.29%) Banking
7 8 (3.43%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.00%) Marketing
9 6 (2.58%) German Language
9 6 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.72%) Electronics
10 4 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.72%) Publishing
11 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.29%) Law
11 3 (1.29%) Legal
11 3 (1.29%) Retail
12 2 (0.86%) Automotive
12 2 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (20.60%) Analyst
2 33 (14.16%) Architect
3 18 (7.73%) Data Architect
3 18 (7.73%) Senior
4 16 (6.87%) Consultant
4 16 (6.87%) Project Manager
5 15 (6.44%) Lead
6 12 (5.15%) Data Engineer
7 11 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (3.86%) Data Analyst
8 9 (3.86%) Developer
8 9 (3.86%) Enterprise Architect
9 8 (3.43%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.00%) Administrator
10 7 (3.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 7 (3.00%) Security Engineer
11 6 (2.58%) AML Project Manager
11 6 (2.58%) SAP Consultant
12 5 (2.15%) Report Analyst
12 5 (2.15%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.44%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (2.15%) Middleware
3 4 (1.72%) REST
4 3 (1.29%) ADO
4 3 (1.29%) Flask
4 3 (1.29%) JSON
4 3 (1.29%) OAuth
4 3 (1.29%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.29%) OpenID
4 3 (1.29%) Pandas
4 3 (1.29%) SAML
4 3 (1.29%) SAP Business Workflow
5 2 (0.86%) .NET
5 2 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.86%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.86%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.43%) HTML
6 1 (0.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.16%) Management Information System
2 26 (11.16%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (10.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (9.87%) Cyber Defence
5 20 (8.58%) Distributed Applications
6 10 (4.29%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.29%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.86%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.43%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (3.00%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.58%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.58%) Operational Technology
10 6 (2.58%) SCADA
11 5 (2.15%) CMDB
11 5 (2.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 5 (2.15%) Industry 4.0
11 5 (2.15%) IoT
11 5 (2.15%) Social Media
11 5 (2.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.88%) Windows
2 19 (8.15%) Unix
3 18 (7.73%) Linux
4 16 (6.87%) Apple iOS
5 15 (6.44%) Android
6 9 (3.86%) Windows 7
7 5 (2.15%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.43%) AIX
9 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (52.79%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (18.88%) Agile
3 42 (18.03%) Analytics
4 40 (17.17%) Business Intelligence
4 40 (17.17%) Project Management
5 37 (15.88%) Computer Science
5 37 (15.88%) Cybersecurity
6 31 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (13.30%) Roadmaps
7 30 (12.88%) Analytical Thinking
7 30 (12.88%) SIEM
8 27 (11.59%) Data Analysis
9 26 (11.16%) Actionable Insight
10 24 (10.30%) Information Security
11 22 (9.44%) Collaborative Working
11 22 (9.44%) Customer Service
11 22 (9.44%) Data Analytics
11 22 (9.44%) Data Management
11 22 (9.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (9.01%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.45%) SQL
2 18 (7.73%) Python
3 9 (3.86%) Java
4 5 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (2.15%) Scala
5 4 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.72%) R
6 3 (1.29%) BeanShell
6 3 (1.29%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.86%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.86%) C#
7 2 (0.86%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.86%) Swift
8 1 (0.43%) C
8 1 (0.43%) C++
8 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.43%) SOQL
8 1 (0.43%) X++
Qualifications
1 51 (21.89%) Degree
2 39 (16.74%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (9.01%) DV Cleared
5 19 (8.15%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.00%) CISSP
7 7 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.15%) CCNP
8 5 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.72%) CCIE
9 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.29%) SAP Certification
10 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.86%) MCSE
11 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.30%) Actionable Recommendations
2 12 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.72%) SLA
4 9 (3.86%) QA
5 4 (1.72%) GDPR
6 3 (1.29%) GRC
6 3 (1.29%) ITGC
7 2 (0.86%) NIST
7 2 (0.86%) PMO
8 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.29%) OpenAM
2 3 (1.29%) OpenIDM
3 2 (0.86%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Snort
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (1.29%) Kibana
2 2 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.86%) logstash
2 2 (0.86%) SCCM
3 1 (0.43%) Ansible
3 1 (0.43%) PowerBroker
3 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (24.46%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.44%) SAP
3 12 (5.15%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.43%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.00%) Oracle
7 5 (2.15%) Autodesk
7 5 (2.15%) BMC
7 5 (2.15%) Informatica
8 4 (1.72%) Computacenter
9 3 (1.29%) Databricks
9 3 (1.29%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.29%) Talend
10 2 (0.86%) Google
10 2 (0.86%) LogRhythm
10 2 (0.86%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.86%) Splunk
10 2 (0.86%) TippingPoint
10 2 (0.86%) Trend Micro
10 2 (0.86%) VMware