Analytical Thinking Contracts in the Midlands

Analytical Thinking
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 116 145
Rank change year-on-year +4 +29 +33
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 33 17 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.31% 0.64% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 0.79% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £276 £400 £338
25th Percentile £308 £445 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -2.22% +13.07%
75th Percentile £555 £750 £675
90th Percentile £609 £850 £763
England median daily rate £500 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% +4.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £39.49 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £25.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year +100.00% -43.00% +37.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,206 2,164 2,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.75% 81.45% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 1,480 1,812
10th Percentile £231 £270 £250
25th Percentile £358 £373 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £648 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 92 85
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.12 £14.70 £18.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £20.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% -25.45% +44.74%
75th Percentile £26.86 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £54.57 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the Midlands

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the Midlands

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the Midlands

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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 Thinking within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. 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 -2 27 £425 -22.73% 23
East Midlands - 6 £419 - 14
Analytical Thinking
England

Analytical Thinking
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 4 (12.12%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Maya
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (18.18%) Adobe Captivate
3 6 (18.18%) NUKE
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (15.15%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.12%) Power Automate
2 4 (12.12%) PowerApps
3 2 (6.06%) AWS
4 1 (3.03%) Azure
4 1 (3.03%) GitHub
4 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Tableau
2 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Selenium
2 1 (3.03%) Android Studio
2 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Gradle
2 1 (3.03%) IntelliJ
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) JMeter
2 1 (3.03%) Maven
2 1 (3.03%) Postman
2 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (3.03%) Xcode
General
1 33 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (72.73%) Social Skills
3 14 (42.42%) Automotive
4 12 (36.36%) Games
5 6 (18.18%) Aerospace
5 6 (18.18%) Finance
6 2 (6.06%) Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Billing
6 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Analyst
2 9 (27.27%) Lead
3 8 (24.24%) Senior
4 6 (18.18%) Data Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Business Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Lead Data Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Innovation Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Security Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Technical Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Automation Tester
8 1 (3.03%) Oracle Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) QA Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Senior Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Senior Technical Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Technical Project Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (39.39%) HTML
2 12 (36.36%) CSS
2 12 (36.36%) Django
3 6 (18.18%) Unreal Engine
3 6 (18.18%) V-Ray
4 2 (6.06%) .NET
5 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.03%) DOM
5 1 (3.03%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.03%) J2EE
5 1 (3.03%) Jest
5 1 (3.03%) jQuery
5 1 (3.03%) React
5 1 (3.03%) React Native
5 1 (3.03%) Redux
5 1 (3.03%) REST
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Animation
2 6 (18.18%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.03%) EPoS
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Android
1 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
2 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (18.18%) Data Analysis
4 5 (15.15%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 5 (15.15%) Project Management
5 4 (12.12%) Agile
5 4 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (12.12%) Business Analysis
5 4 (12.12%) Commercial Awareness
5 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (9.09%) Change Control
6 3 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
7 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (6.06%) Change Management
7 2 (6.06%) Process Management
7 2 (6.06%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) SQL
2 14 (42.42%) Java
3 12 (36.36%) C++
4 6 (18.18%) Python
4 6 (18.18%) Tcl
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) C#
6 1 (3.03%) JSX
6 1 (3.03%) PHP
6 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.09%) PMO
3 2 (6.06%) QA
4 1 (3.03%) FIPS 140-2
4 1 (3.03%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.03%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Adobe
2 6 (18.18%) Autodesk
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle