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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 14 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 173 245 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.07% 10.52% 5.54%
As % of the General category 16.11% 18.19% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 141 134
10th Percentile £338 £208 £160
25th Percentile £425 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +5.56% +6.13%
75th Percentile £688 £550 £540
90th Percentile £850 £649 £600
England median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +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 £40.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -53.75% +1.27% +92.68%

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 1,074 1,347 1,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.29% 57.81% 56.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 741 950 1,508
10th Percentile £263 £228 £259
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +6.37% +15.15%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 42 47
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.90 £12.50 £12.90
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +18.18% +1.54%
75th Percentile £38.13 £28.56 £18.75
90th Percentile £56.25 £56.63 £20.90
England median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.17%

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 7 May 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 7 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
Birmingham +2 63 £519 +8.64% 98
Warwickshire +2 50 £550 +10.00% 44
Herefordshire -1 18 £725 +10.27% 6
Coventry +2 7 £488 +2.63% 35
Staffordshire -3 5 £325 -35.64% 36
Solihull -12 4 £775 +47.62% 7
Worcestershire -4 3 £375 -16.67% 13
Shropshire +20 2 £117 -71.46% 11
Dudley -2 1 £375 +163.16% 6
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
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
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%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.58%) Odoo
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.87%) Power Platform
2 19 (10.98%) Azure
3 8 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.89%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.73%) dbt
6 3 (1.73%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.73%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.73%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.73%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.16%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.16%) PaaS
7 2 (1.16%) SaaS
7 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.58%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 28 (16.18%) Network Security
2 17 (9.83%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (4.05%) 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 22 (12.72%) 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%) 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%) Relational Database
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
8 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
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 95 (54.91%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.92%) Finance
3 17 (9.83%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.05%) Banking
4 7 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.47%) German Language
5 6 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.31%) 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%) Marketing
7 3 (1.73%) Retail
7 3 (1.73%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.16%) Automotive
8 2 (1.16%) Military
9 1 (0.58%) Billing
9 1 (0.58%) Games
9 1 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 31 (17.92%) Analyst
2 23 (13.29%) Architect
3 16 (9.25%) Senior
4 14 (8.09%) Project Manager
5 13 (7.51%) Data Architect
5 13 (7.51%) Lead
6 11 (6.36%) Consultant
7 10 (5.78%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (5.20%) Developer
8 9 (5.20%) Enterprise Architect
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%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (2.89%) Data Analyst
12 4 (2.31%) Network Manager
12 4 (2.31%) Systems Engineer
13 3 (1.73%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.67%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (2.89%) 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
4 2 (1.16%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.58%) HTML
5 1 (0.58%) OLE
5 1 (0.58%) REST
5 1 (0.58%) SOAP
5 1 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.34%) Management Information System
2 23 (13.29%) Cyber Defence
3 20 (11.56%) Distributed Applications
4 17 (9.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (5.20%) Data Structures
7 8 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (4.62%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.47%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.47%) Operational Technology
8 6 (3.47%) SCADA
8 6 (3.47%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.89%) Industry 4.0
9 5 (2.89%) IoT
9 5 (2.89%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.89%) Social Media
9 5 (2.89%) Taxonomies
9 5 (2.89%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.14%) Windows
2 18 (10.40%) Unix
3 17 (9.83%) Linux
4 16 (9.25%) Apple iOS
5 15 (8.67%) Android
6 3 (1.73%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (53.18%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (23.12%) Agile
3 37 (21.39%) Project Management
4 35 (20.23%) Analytics
4 35 (20.23%) Cybersecurity
5 34 (19.65%) Computer Science
6 28 (16.18%) Roadmaps
6 28 (16.18%) SIEM
7 26 (15.03%) Analytical Thinking
8 25 (14.45%) Actionable Insight
8 25 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (12.72%) Data Management
10 21 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (11.56%) Data Analysis
11 20 (11.56%) Information Security
12 19 (10.98%) ITIL
12 19 (10.98%) Security Architecture
12 19 (10.98%) Security Operations
13 17 (9.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.83%) SQL
2 9 (5.20%) Python
3 4 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (1.73%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.16%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.16%) C#
5 2 (1.16%) Java
5 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.16%) Swift
6 1 (0.58%) C
6 1 (0.58%) C++
6 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.58%) Scala
6 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.58%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 45 (26.01%) Degree
2 30 (17.34%) Security Cleared
3 21 (12.14%) DV Cleared
4 19 (10.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (6.36%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.89%) CCNP
7 5 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.89%) CISSP
7 5 (2.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.31%) CCIE
8 4 (2.31%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.16%) APMG
10 2 (1.16%) BC Cleared
10 2 (1.16%) CASP
10 2 (1.16%) GCED
10 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.83%) Actionable Recommendations
2 10 (5.78%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.05%) QA
3 7 (4.05%) SLA
4 4 (2.31%) GDPR
5 3 (1.73%) GRC
5 3 (1.73%) ITGC
6 2 (1.16%) NIST
6 2 (1.16%) PMO
7 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (2.89%) 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%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.51%) SAP
3 12 (6.94%) Red Hat
4 8 (4.62%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.89%) Autodesk
6 5 (2.89%) BMC
7 2 (1.16%) Apple
7 2 (1.16%) Cisco
7 2 (1.16%) Citrix
7 2 (1.16%) Google
7 2 (1.16%) Informatica
7 2 (1.16%) LogRhythm
7 2 (1.16%) Oracle
7 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.16%) Splunk
7 2 (1.16%) TippingPoint
7 2 (1.16%) Trend Micro
7 2 (1.16%) VMware
8 1 (0.58%) Conga