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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 14 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +10
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 184 229 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.46% 10.18% 6.04%
As % of the General category 17.23% 18.12% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 137 149
10th Percentile £334 £218 £160
25th Percentile £419 £400 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £550
90th Percentile £828 £669 £650
England median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +5.00%
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 £19.00 £43.43 £35.00
% change year-on-year -56.25% +24.09% +70.73%

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 1,068 1,264 2,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 54.91% 56.20% 57.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 884 1,540
10th Percentile £255 £252 £256
25th Percentile £375 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £491
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +6.36% +15.59%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 42 46
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.05 £11.63
25th Percentile £13.96 £12.70 £13.19
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.84 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +24.40% +11.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £56.75 £56.63 £22.25
England median hourly rate £30.50 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.45% +48.47% +2.14%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +7 65 £525 +8.53% 79
Warwickshire +2 53 £463 -7.50% 45
Herefordshire -2 22 £675 +2.66% 6
Staffordshire -2 7 £325 -35.64% 50
Coventry -4 5 £488 +2.63% 30
Worcestershire -7 5 £365 -18.89% 15
Solihull -8 4 £775 +47.62% 9
Shropshire -7 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 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.72%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 5 (2.72%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (2.17%) CMS
4 3 (1.63%) Confluence
4 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.09%) Apache
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.09%) Drupal
5 2 (1.09%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Oracle HRMS
1 5 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.63%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.09%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.09%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.09%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.54%) Odoo
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.67%) Power Platform
2 18 (9.78%) Azure
3 9 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.72%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.17%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.63%) dbt
7 3 (1.63%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.63%) SaaS
7 3 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.09%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.09%) PaaS
9 1 (0.54%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.54%) Matillion
9 1 (0.54%) OCI
9 1 (0.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.67%) Network Security
2 20 (10.87%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (3.26%) Firewall
4 3 (1.63%) VPN
4 3 (1.63%) Wireless
5 2 (1.09%) Internet
5 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.54%) DHCP
6 1 (0.54%) DNS
6 1 (0.54%) Intranet
6 1 (0.54%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.54%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.54%) VoIP
6 1 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.04%) Power BI
2 20 (10.87%) Big Data
3 10 (5.43%) Data Mining
4 8 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.35%) Tableau
5 4 (2.17%) Power Query
6 3 (1.63%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.63%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.09%) GIS
7 2 (1.09%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.09%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.54%) Presto
8 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.26%) JIRA
2 4 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (0.54%) Ant
3 1 (0.54%) Appium
3 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.54%) Gradle
3 1 (0.54%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.54%) JUnit
3 1 (0.54%) Maven
3 1 (0.54%) NUnit
3 1 (0.54%) UI Automator
3 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.54%) XCUITest
General
1 103 (55.98%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.02%) Finance
3 19 (10.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.80%) Banking
4 7 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.72%) German Language
6 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.63%) Law
6 3 (1.63%) Legal
6 3 (1.63%) Marketing
6 3 (1.63%) Retail
6 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.09%) Automotive
7 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.09%) Military
8 1 (0.54%) Games
8 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 35 (19.02%) Analyst
2 23 (12.50%) Architect
3 16 (8.70%) Senior
4 12 (6.52%) Data Architect
4 12 (6.52%) Project Manager
5 11 (5.98%) Consultant
6 10 (5.43%) Lead
6 10 (5.43%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (4.89%) Developer
7 9 (4.89%) Enterprise Architect
8 7 (3.80%) Business Analyst
8 7 (3.80%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.26%) AML Project Manager
9 6 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 6 (3.26%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (2.72%) Data Analyst
11 4 (2.17%) Network Manager
11 4 (2.17%) Service Analyst
11 4 (2.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.78%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (3.26%) Middleware
3 3 (1.63%) .NET
3 3 (1.63%) ADO
3 3 (1.63%) Flask
3 3 (1.63%) Pandas
3 3 (1.63%) SAP Business Workflow
4 2 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.09%) HTML
4 2 (1.09%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.54%) CSS
5 1 (0.54%) OLE
5 1 (0.54%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.93%) Management Information System
2 27 (14.67%) Cyber Defence
3 22 (11.96%) Distributed Applications
4 16 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (5.98%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.89%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.80%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.26%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.26%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.72%) SCADA
9 5 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.72%) Social Media
9 5 (2.72%) Taxonomies
10 4 (2.17%) CMDB
10 4 (2.17%) Industry 4.0
10 4 (2.17%) IoT
10 4 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.59%) Windows
2 21 (11.41%) Unix
3 20 (10.87%) Linux
4 18 (9.78%) Apple iOS
5 17 (9.24%) Android
6 3 (1.63%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (51.63%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (21.20%) Analytics
3 36 (19.57%) Project Management
4 34 (18.48%) Agile
4 34 (18.48%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (16.30%) SIEM
6 29 (15.76%) Actionable Insight
6 29 (15.76%) Computer Science
7 27 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (14.67%) Data Management
8 26 (14.13%) Data Analysis
8 26 (14.13%) Roadmaps
9 25 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (13.04%) Information Security
10 24 (13.04%) ITIL
11 22 (11.96%) Analytical Thinking
11 22 (11.96%) Security Architecture
11 22 (11.96%) Security Operations
12 21 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (11.96%) SQL
2 9 (4.89%) Python
3 4 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.63%) C#
5 2 (1.09%) Java
5 2 (1.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.54%) C
6 1 (0.54%) C++
6 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.54%) Scala
6 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.54%) SOQL
6 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 42 (22.83%) Degree
2 33 (17.93%) Security Cleared
3 25 (13.59%) DV Cleared
4 16 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.35%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.72%) CCNP
6 5 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.17%) APMG
7 4 (2.17%) CCIE
7 4 (2.17%) CISSP
7 4 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.63%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.63%) PMP
8 3 (1.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 3 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.09%) CEH
9 2 (1.09%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.87%) Actionable Recommendations
2 11 (5.98%) SLA
3 10 (5.43%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.26%) QA
5 5 (2.72%) GDPR
6 3 (1.63%) GRC
6 3 (1.63%) ITGC
7 2 (1.09%) NIST
7 2 (1.09%) PMO
8 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Snort
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (1.63%) Kibana
1 3 (1.63%) SCCM
2 2 (1.09%) logstash
3 1 (0.54%) Nessus
3 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.15%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.52%) SAP
4 8 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.80%) Oracle
6 5 (2.72%) Autodesk
6 5 (2.72%) BMC
7 4 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.63%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.63%) VMware
9 2 (1.09%) Apple
9 2 (1.09%) Cisco
9 2 (1.09%) Citrix
9 2 (1.09%) Google
9 2 (1.09%) Informatica
9 2 (1.09%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.09%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.09%) Splunk
9 2 (1.09%) TippingPoint
9 2 (1.09%) Trend Micro