Analytical Skills Job Trends in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 136 186 149
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.21% 10.59% 7.56%
As % of the General category 15.21% 15.66% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 76 79 114
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £30,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,351
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,105 £63,750 £64,688
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £78,375
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £42,200
% change year-on-year +5.00% +18.48% -15.60%

All General Skills
Birmingham

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 894 1,188 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 47.43% 67.62% 57.66%
Number of salaries quoted 589 503 953
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,100 £29,350
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,250 £72,500 £66,294
90th Percentile £84,615 £87,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +10.53% -9.52%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Birmingham over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in Birmingham

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (18.38%) Chatbot
2 21 (15.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.21%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.74%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.44%) Azure
2 19 (13.97%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (5.88%) AWS
5 6 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.47%) SaaS
8 2 (1.47%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.74%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.74%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.74%) GCP
9 1 (0.74%) Google Docs
9 1 (0.74%) Google Drive
9 1 (0.74%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.74%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) Firewall
1 4 (2.94%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.94%) WAN
2 2 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.47%) VLAN
2 2 (1.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) 4G
3 1 (0.74%) 5G
3 1 (0.74%) BGP
3 1 (0.74%) Broadband
3 1 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.74%) NAS
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) OSPF
3 1 (0.74%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.74%) SAN
3 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.97%) Tableau
2 18 (13.24%) Power BI
3 15 (11.03%) Data Mining
4 7 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.68%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (3.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.74%) MySQL
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.74%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (2.94%) JIRA
2 2 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.74%) Git
3 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.74%) Maven
3 1 (0.74%) MLflow
General
1 45 (33.09%) Social Skills
2 33 (24.26%) Finance
3 16 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (7.35%) Legal
5 9 (6.62%) Law
5 9 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.41%) Banking
6 6 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Retail
7 5 (3.68%) Marketing
8 3 (2.21%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Billing
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (29.41%) Analyst
2 25 (18.38%) Trainer
3 20 (14.71%) Data Analyst
4 19 (13.97%) Senior
5 15 (11.03%) Trainee
6 14 (10.29%) Developer
6 14 (10.29%) Trainee Analyst
6 14 (10.29%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 11 (8.09%) Junior
8 9 (6.62%) Alliance Manager
8 9 (6.62%) Architect
9 8 (5.88%) SAP Developer
10 7 (5.15%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (5.15%) Support Analyst
11 6 (4.41%) Business Analyst
11 6 (4.41%) Integration Developer
11 6 (4.41%) Senior Manager
12 5 (3.68%) Junior Support Technician
12 5 (3.68%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
12 5 (3.68%) Oracle Payroll Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.62%) REST
1 9 (6.62%) SOAP
2 8 (5.88%) BAPI
2 8 (5.88%) IBM Integration Bus
2 8 (5.88%) JMS
2 8 (5.88%) Middleware
2 8 (5.88%) OAuth
2 8 (5.88%) SAML
3 3 (2.21%) EDI
4 1 (0.74%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (0.74%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.74%) Flask
4 1 (0.74%) HTML
4 1 (0.74%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.74%) RAML
4 1 (0.74%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.35%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.94%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.21%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.47%) CMDB
4 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.47%) NHS
5 1 (0.74%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.74%) PropTech
5 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.41%) Linux
2 5 (3.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (33.09%) AI
2 39 (28.68%) Analytics
2 39 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (19.12%) Project Management
4 25 (18.38%) Chemistry
4 25 (18.38%) Conversational UI
4 25 (18.38%) Decision-Making
5 24 (17.65%) Data Analysis
6 20 (14.71%) Business Analysis
6 20 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (13.97%) Data Analytics
8 18 (13.24%) Agile
8 18 (13.24%) Migration
9 16 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
9 16 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (8.82%) Data Governance
10 12 (8.82%) Data Modelling
10 12 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (7.35%) API Management
11 10 (7.35%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.21%) SQL
2 24 (17.65%) Python
3 5 (3.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (3.68%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.47%) ABAP
4 2 (1.47%) Java
5 1 (0.74%) C++
5 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (30.88%) Degree
2 27 (19.85%) Master's Degree
3 25 (18.38%) PhD
4 4 (2.94%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.21%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.47%) PMP
6 2 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CBAP
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.74%) CITP
7 1 (0.74%) IIBA
7 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.74%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.68%) GDPR
3 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.21%) NIST
4 3 (2.21%) PMO
5 2 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.47%) SLA
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.74%) COBIT
6 1 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.74%) GRC
6 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.74%) QA
6 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.68%) Firmware
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.21%) Terraform
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (18.38%) PayPal
3 9 (6.62%) SAP
4 8 (5.88%) IBM
5 7 (5.15%) Oracle
6 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.21%) Databricks
8 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.74%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.74%) Cisco
9 1 (0.74%) Genesys
9 1 (0.74%) Google
9 1 (0.74%) Kronos
9 1 (0.74%) Meraki
9 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.74%) Sage
9 1 (0.74%) Verint
9 1 (0.74%) Workday
9 1 (0.74%) Zscaler