Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Analytical Skills
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Solihull. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 9 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -13
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 7 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 11.48% 10.71% 2.54%
As % of the General category 18.42% 14.29% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £738
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.62%
75th Percentile £606 - £813
90th Percentile £618 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.23 £24.65
% change year-on-year -17.29% +22.62% +14.44%

All General Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 38 21 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 62.30% 75.00% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 18
10th Percentile £233 £268 £213
25th Percentile £391 £318 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £418 £400
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% +4.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £663 £438 £609
90th Percentile £1,494 £476 £813
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.52 £18.74 £19.23
% change year-on-year +14.83% -2.52% +9.11%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Solihull

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Solihull

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Solihull over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Solihull

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Route 53
3 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (57.14%) JUnit
2 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (42.86%) DbUnit
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) jMock
2 3 (42.86%) Maven
2 3 (42.86%) Mockito
2 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) JMeter
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Selenium Automation Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Selenium Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Tester
4 1 (14.29%) UAT Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
2 3 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) Bootstrap
2 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
2 3 (42.86%) JPA
2 3 (42.86%) PowerMock
2 3 (42.86%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) SOAP
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Batch
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Cloud
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 2 (28.57%) Node.js
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) Open Source
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) BPMN
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) CRM
4 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) ISEB
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
1 3 (42.86%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) HP