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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 13 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 187 227 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.33% 10.27% 6.07%
As % of the General category 17.30% 18.23% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 138 151
10th Percentile £337 £220 £163
25th Percentile £423 £400 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% +1.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £550
90th Percentile £816 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -0.94% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £15.13 £20.90 £12.88
25th Percentile £16.93 £21.52 £13.06
Median hourly rate £24.65 £23.11 £14.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% +56.68% +13.46%
75th Percentile £26.98 £24.77 £17.06
90th Percentile £30.45 £25.43 £17.63
England median hourly rate £19.50 £43.86 £32.00
% change year-on-year -55.54% +37.06% +56.10%

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 1,081 1,245 2,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.92% 56.31% 57.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 871 1,543
10th Percentile £254 £263 £250
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +17.02%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £575
90th Percentile £750 £703 £675
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 44 45
10th Percentile £11.13 £12.15 £11.55
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.11 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.59 £21.69 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +27.59% +13.33%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £56.25 £54.88 £22.25
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £21.99
% change year-on-year +2.78% +39.40% +4.44%

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 9 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 June 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 +5 66 £525 +8.53% 79
Warwickshire +2 55 £475 -5.00% 36
Herefordshire -2 22 £675 +2.66% 6
Staffordshire -2 8 £325 -35.64% 51
Coventry -6 5 £488 +2.63% 33
Worcestershire -9 5 £365 -18.89% 14
Solihull -8 4 £775 +47.62% 11
Shropshire -10 2 £117 -77.71% 16
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 7 (3.74%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 6 (3.21%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (2.14%) CMS
4 3 (1.60%) Apache
4 3 (1.60%) Confluence
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.07%) Drupal
5 2 (1.07%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (8.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.14%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.21%) Oracle HRMS
2 5 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.60%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.07%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.07%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.07%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.07%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.44%) Power Platform
2 19 (10.16%) Azure
3 9 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.67%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.14%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.60%) dbt
7 3 (1.60%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.60%) SaaS
7 3 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.07%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.07%) PaaS
8 2 (1.07%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.53%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.53%) Matillion
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.90%) Network Security
2 20 (10.70%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (2.67%) Firewall
4 3 (1.60%) VPN
4 3 (1.60%) Wireless
5 2 (1.07%) Internet
5 2 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.53%) DHCP
6 1 (0.53%) DNS
6 1 (0.53%) Intranet
6 1 (0.53%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.53%) VoIP
6 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.83%) Power BI
2 20 (10.70%) Big Data
3 10 (5.35%) Data Mining
4 8 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.28%) Tableau
5 4 (2.14%) Power Query
6 3 (1.60%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.07%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.07%) GIS
7 2 (1.07%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.07%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.07%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.07%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.53%) Presto
Development Applications
1 6 (3.21%) JIRA
2 3 (1.60%) Git
3 1 (0.53%) Ant
3 1 (0.53%) Appium
3 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.53%) Gradle
3 1 (0.53%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.53%) JUnit
3 1 (0.53%) Maven
3 1 (0.53%) NUnit
3 1 (0.53%) UI Automator
3 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 105 (56.15%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.18%) Finance
3 19 (10.16%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.74%) Banking
4 7 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (2.14%) German Language
6 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.60%) Law
6 3 (1.60%) Marketing
6 3 (1.60%) Retail
6 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.07%) Automotive
7 2 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.07%) Legal
7 2 (1.07%) Local Government
7 2 (1.07%) Military
8 1 (0.53%) Billing
8 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 36 (19.25%) Analyst
2 24 (12.83%) Architect
3 18 (9.63%) Senior
4 13 (6.95%) Project Manager
5 12 (6.42%) Data Architect
6 11 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (5.35%) Consultant
7 10 (5.35%) Lead
8 9 (4.81%) Developer
8 9 (4.81%) Enterprise Architect
9 7 (3.74%) Business Analyst
9 7 (3.74%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.21%) AML Project Manager
11 5 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (2.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 5 (2.67%) Data Analyst
11 5 (2.67%) Oracle Specialist
11 5 (2.67%) Security Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) Network Manager
12 4 (2.14%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.63%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (3.21%) Middleware
3 3 (1.60%) .NET
3 3 (1.60%) SAP Business Workflow
4 2 (1.07%) ADO
4 2 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.07%) Flask
4 2 (1.07%) HTML
4 2 (1.07%) Pandas
5 1 (0.53%) CSS
5 1 (0.53%) OLE
5 1 (0.53%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.53%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 27 (14.44%) Cyber Defence
3 22 (11.76%) Distributed Applications
4 15 (8.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.81%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.74%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.21%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.21%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.67%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.67%) SCADA
9 5 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.67%) Social Media
10 4 (2.14%) CMDB
10 4 (2.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (2.14%) Taxonomies
10 4 (2.14%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.60%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.37%) Windows
2 21 (11.23%) Unix
3 20 (10.70%) Linux
4 18 (9.63%) Apple iOS
5 17 (9.09%) Android
6 3 (1.60%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.07%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (51.34%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (20.86%) Analytics
3 37 (19.79%) Project Management
4 33 (17.65%) Agile
4 33 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (16.58%) Computer Science
6 29 (15.51%) Actionable Insight
6 29 (15.51%) SIEM
7 28 (14.97%) Business Intelligence
7 28 (14.97%) Data Management
8 26 (13.90%) Data Analysis
9 25 (13.37%) Roadmaps
10 24 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (12.83%) Information Security
10 24 (12.83%) ITIL
11 22 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
11 22 (11.76%) Security Architecture
11 22 (11.76%) Security Operations
12 21 (11.23%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (10.70%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (12.30%) SQL
2 9 (4.81%) Python
3 4 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.60%) C#
5 2 (1.07%) Java
5 2 (1.07%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.07%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.53%) C
6 1 (0.53%) C++
6 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.53%) Scala
6 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.53%) SOQL
6 1 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (23.53%) Degree
2 34 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 25 (13.37%) DV Cleared
4 18 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.74%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.67%) CCNP
6 5 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.14%) APMG
7 4 (2.14%) CCIE
7 4 (2.14%) CISSP
7 4 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.60%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.60%) PMP
8 3 (1.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 3 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.07%) CBAP
9 2 (1.07%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 12 (6.42%) SLA
3 10 (5.35%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.21%) QA
5 5 (2.67%) GDPR
6 3 (1.60%) GRC
6 3 (1.60%) ITGC
7 2 (1.07%) NIST
7 2 (1.07%) PMO
8 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.07%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.53%) Snort
3 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (1.60%) Kibana
1 3 (1.60%) SCCM
2 2 (1.07%) logstash
3 1 (0.53%) Nessus
3 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.53%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (20.86%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.02%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.88%) SAP
4 8 (4.28%) Oracle
4 8 (4.28%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.67%) Autodesk
5 5 (2.67%) BMC
6 4 (2.14%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.60%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.60%) VMware
8 2 (1.07%) Apple
8 2 (1.07%) Cisco
8 2 (1.07%) Google
8 2 (1.07%) Informatica
8 2 (1.07%) Splunk
9 1 (0.53%) Cadence
9 1 (0.53%) Citrix
9 1 (0.53%) Mitel
9 1 (0.53%) Planview
9 1 (0.53%) Teradata