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 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 147 148 176
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.12% 12.31% 7.72%
As % of the General category 9.83% 19.58% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 98 91 75
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £35,350
25th Percentile £44,812 £33,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,900 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +3.96% -16.53%
75th Percentile £67,438 £71,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £48,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -8.35%

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 1,496 756 1,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 41.94% 62.90% 53.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 475 636
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,875 £72,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,344 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.12%

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 11 September 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 4 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.36%) SAS
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) Appian
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.04%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (1.36%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.68%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.68%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.01%) Azure
2 18 (12.24%) Power Platform
3 10 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (6.80%) GitHub
4 8 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.40%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (3.40%) AWS
5 5 (3.40%) SaaS
6 4 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.72%) Google Ads
6 4 (2.72%) Google Data Studio
6 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Advertising
7 3 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.04%) PaaS
7 3 (2.04%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.04%) Serverless
8 2 (1.36%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) WAN
2 2 (1.36%) LAN
2 2 (1.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) HTTP
3 1 (0.68%) SAN
3 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.68%) SSL
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) VLAN
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.24%) Power BI
2 14 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.72%) Redis
5 3 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.04%) Power Query
5 3 (2.04%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.04%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.36%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.36%) Metadata
6 2 (1.36%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (1.36%) MySQL
6 2 (1.36%) Parquet
6 2 (1.36%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.36%) Git
2 2 (1.36%) JIRA
2 2 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 81 (55.10%) Social Skills
2 58 (39.46%) Finance
3 13 (8.84%) Marketing
4 12 (8.16%) Legal
4 12 (8.16%) Manufacturing
5 10 (6.80%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (6.80%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.76%) Retail
7 6 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Law
9 3 (2.04%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (14.97%) Analyst
2 15 (10.20%) Accountant
2 15 (10.20%) Senior
2 15 (10.20%) Systems Accountant
3 14 (9.52%) Consultant
4 13 (8.84%) Applications Support
5 10 (6.80%) Data Engineer
6 9 (6.12%) Business Development Manager
6 9 (6.12%) Business Manager
6 9 (6.12%) Development Manager
7 8 (5.44%) Applications Consultant
7 8 (5.44%) Business Development Director
7 8 (5.44%) Development Director
7 8 (5.44%) Mainframe Consultant
8 6 (4.08%) Architect
9 5 (3.40%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.40%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.40%) Lead
9 5 (3.40%) Project Manager
10 4 (2.72%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.16%) .NET
2 8 (5.44%) ISPF
2 8 (5.44%) Spring
2 8 (5.44%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.08%) RESTful
4 5 (3.40%) PySpark
5 4 (2.72%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.72%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (2.04%) Ajax
6 3 (2.04%) CSS
6 3 (2.04%) HTML
6 3 (2.04%) LDAP
6 3 (2.04%) REST
6 3 (2.04%) Web Services
7 2 (1.36%) EDI
8 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.68%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.68%) Terraform
8 1 (0.68%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.84%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (8.16%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.44%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.44%) Mainframe
4 7 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.40%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.72%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.72%) CMDB
7 4 (2.72%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.04%) Clustering
8 3 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.04%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.04%) Replication
9 2 (1.36%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.76%) Windows
2 6 (4.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (30.61%) AI
3 36 (24.49%) Analytics
4 35 (23.81%) ERP
5 29 (19.73%) Agile
6 28 (19.05%) Decision-Making
6 28 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (18.37%) Business Development
8 25 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (13.61%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (12.93%) Data Modelling
11 18 (12.24%) Actionable Insight
11 18 (12.24%) CRM
12 16 (10.88%) Budgeting
13 14 (9.52%) Data Governance
13 14 (9.52%) Migration
14 13 (8.84%) CI/CD
14 13 (8.84%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (8.84%) Customer Service
14 13 (8.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.69%) SQL
2 13 (8.84%) Java
2 13 (8.84%) Python
3 8 (5.44%) COBOL
3 8 (5.44%) JCL
4 5 (3.40%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.72%) C#
5 4 (2.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.04%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.36%) C++
7 2 (1.36%) R
8 1 (0.68%) Bash
8 1 (0.68%) Delphi
8 1 (0.68%) Pascal
8 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (10.20%) ACCA
1 15 (10.20%) CIMA
2 10 (6.80%) Degree
2 10 (6.80%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (4.08%) PMI Certification
4 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.40%) CCNA
5 5 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.40%) PMP
6 2 (1.36%) CCNP
6 2 (1.36%) IRCA
7 1 (0.68%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CCA
7 1 (0.68%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.68%) CITP
7 1 (0.68%) IIBA
7 1 (0.68%) MCSE
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.56%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.80%) GDPR
3 5 (3.40%) GRC
3 5 (3.40%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.72%) QA
5 3 (2.04%) SLA
6 2 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.36%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.68%) NIST
7 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.40%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.40%) Firmware
2 2 (1.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.12%) SAP
3 8 (5.44%) Broadcom
4 4 (2.72%) Google
4 4 (2.72%) Hotjar
4 4 (2.72%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.72%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.04%) Cisco
6 2 (1.36%) Databricks
6 2 (1.36%) Dell
6 2 (1.36%) Jedox
6 2 (1.36%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.68%) F5
7 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.68%) Meraki
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle
7 1 (0.68%) YouTube