Analytical Skills Contracts in the West Midlands

Analytical Skills
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 13 39
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 173 249 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.99% 10.46% 5.40%
As % of the General category 15.87% 17.99% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 142 131
10th Percentile £350 £201 £183
25th Percentile £425 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £688 £550 £540
90th Percentile £850 £638 £600
England median daily rate £538 £533 £525
% change year-on-year +0.84% +1.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - £20.90 £12.55
25th Percentile £15.13 £21.52 £12.63
Median hourly rate £24.65 £23.11 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% +71.19% -47.06%
75th Percentile £26.98 £24.77 £16.13
90th Percentile - £25.43 £17.25
England median hourly rate £18.50 £35.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -47.89% -5.33% +78.57%

All General Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,090 1,384 1,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.62% 58.15% 56.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 972 1,508
10th Percentile £263 £228 £250
25th Percentile £395 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +7.37% +17.28%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 41 53
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.90 £12.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.59 £18.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.83% +5.88% +2.26%
75th Percentile £39.34 £27.13 £19.50
90th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £23.45
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the West Midlands

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the West Midlands

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the West Midlands

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the West Midlands

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Birmingham +1 60 £519 +8.07% 89
Warwickshire -1 48 £600 +20.00% 41
Herefordshire -1 18 £725 +10.27% 7
Coventry +1 9 £525 +12.90% 30
Staffordshire -5 5 £325 -35.64% 46
Solihull -12 4 £775 +47.62% 7
Worcestershire -5 3 £375 -16.67% 12
Shropshire +28 2 £117 -78.73% 19
Dudley -2 1 £375 +163.16% 2
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 6 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.31%) CMS
3 3 (1.73%) Confluence
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.16%) Drupal
4 2 (1.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.16%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.16%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.16%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.16%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.16%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.58%) Odoo
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.29%) Power Platform
2 22 (12.72%) Azure
3 9 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.62%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (2.31%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.73%) dbt
6 3 (1.73%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.73%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.16%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.16%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.16%) PaaS
7 2 (1.16%) SaaS
7 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.58%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (17.34%) Network Security
2 17 (9.83%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (5.20%) Firewall
4 3 (1.73%) VPN
4 3 (1.73%) Wireless
5 2 (1.16%) Internet
5 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.58%) DHCP
6 1 (0.58%) DNS
6 1 (0.58%) Intranet
6 1 (0.58%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.58%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.58%) VoIP
6 1 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.56%) Power BI
2 17 (9.83%) Big Data
3 11 (6.36%) Data Mining
4 9 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.62%) Tableau
6 3 (1.73%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.73%) Power Query
6 3 (1.73%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.73%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.16%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.58%) Presto
Development Applications
1 6 (3.47%) JIRA
2 5 (2.89%) Git
3 2 (1.16%) Appium
3 2 (1.16%) UI Automator
3 2 (1.16%) XCUITest
4 1 (0.58%) Ant
4 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.58%) Gradle
4 1 (0.58%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.58%) JUnit
4 1 (0.58%) Maven
4 1 (0.58%) NUnit
4 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (53.18%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.18%) Finance
3 18 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.05%) Banking
6 6 (3.47%) German Language
6 6 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.73%) Law
7 3 (1.73%) Legal
7 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.73%) Retail
7 3 (1.73%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.16%) Automotive
8 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.16%) Marketing
8 2 (1.16%) Military
9 1 (0.58%) Local Government
9 1 (0.58%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 29 (16.76%) Analyst
2 24 (13.87%) Architect
3 15 (8.67%) Project Manager
3 15 (8.67%) Senior
4 14 (8.09%) Data Architect
5 13 (7.51%) Lead
6 10 (5.78%) Consultant
6 10 (5.78%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (5.20%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (4.62%) Developer
9 7 (4.05%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.05%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.47%) AML Project Manager
10 6 (3.47%) SOC Engineer
11 5 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.31%) Network Manager
12 4 (2.31%) Systems Engineer
13 3 (1.73%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.67%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (3.47%) Middleware
3 3 (1.73%) ADO
3 3 (1.73%) Flask
3 3 (1.73%) Pandas
3 3 (1.73%) SAP Business Workflow
4 2 (1.16%) .NET
4 2 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.16%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.58%) OLE
5 1 (0.58%) REST
5 1 (0.58%) SOAP
5 1 (0.58%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.92%) Management Information System
2 23 (13.29%) Cyber Defence
3 20 (11.56%) Distributed Applications
4 17 (9.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (8.09%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (5.78%) Data Structures
7 9 (5.20%) Onboarding
7 9 (5.20%) Security Operations Centre
8 8 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (3.47%) Data Centre
9 6 (3.47%) Operational Technology
9 6 (3.47%) SCADA
10 5 (2.89%) CMDB
10 5 (2.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 5 (2.89%) IoT
10 5 (2.89%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.89%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.89%) Social Media
10 5 (2.89%) Taxonomies
10 5 (2.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.72%) Windows
2 18 (10.40%) Unix
3 17 (9.83%) Linux
4 16 (9.25%) Apple iOS
5 15 (8.67%) Android
6 4 (2.31%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (55.49%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (23.12%) Agile
3 38 (21.97%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (20.81%) Computer Science
4 36 (20.81%) Project Management
5 34 (19.65%) Analytics
6 31 (17.92%) SIEM
7 28 (16.18%) Roadmaps
8 25 (14.45%) Analytical Thinking
9 24 (13.87%) Actionable Insight
9 24 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (12.72%) Data Management
10 22 (12.72%) Security Operations
11 21 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (11.56%) Information Security
12 20 (11.56%) ITIL
13 19 (10.98%) Security Architecture
14 18 (10.40%) Data Analysis
15 17 (9.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.83%) SQL
2 7 (4.05%) Python
3 6 (3.47%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.73%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.16%) C#
6 2 (1.16%) Java
6 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.16%) Swift
7 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.58%) C
7 1 (0.58%) C++
7 1 (0.58%) Scala
7 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (26.59%) Degree
2 32 (18.50%) Security Cleared
3 21 (12.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (12.14%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.09%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.62%) CISSP
6 8 (4.62%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (3.47%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.89%) CCNP
8 5 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.31%) CCIE
10 3 (1.73%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.16%) BC Cleared
11 2 (1.16%) CASP
11 2 (1.16%) GCED
11 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.83%) Actionable Recommendations
2 9 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.05%) QA
3 7 (4.05%) SLA
4 3 (1.73%) GRC
4 3 (1.73%) ITGC
5 2 (1.16%) NIST
5 2 (1.16%) PMO
6 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.16%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.58%) Snort
3 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (1.73%) Kibana
2 2 (1.16%) logstash
2 2 (1.16%) SCCM
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (19.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.51%) SAP
3 12 (6.94%) Red Hat
4 9 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.89%) Autodesk
5 5 (2.89%) BMC
5 5 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.16%) Apple
6 2 (1.16%) Cisco
6 2 (1.16%) Citrix
6 2 (1.16%) Google
6 2 (1.16%) Informatica
6 2 (1.16%) LogRhythm
6 2 (1.16%) Oracle
6 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.16%) Splunk
6 2 (1.16%) TippingPoint
6 2 (1.16%) Trend Micro
6 2 (1.16%) VMware
7 1 (0.58%) Snow