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 22 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +12
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 140 193 127
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.77% 10.70% 8.01%
As % of the General category 15.64% 15.86% 13.93%
Number of salaries quoted 80 81 100
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,552
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -11.63% +2.87%
75th Percentile £73,750 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £76,250 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +12.36% -11.00%

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 895 1,217 912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 49.69% 67.50% 57.50%
Number of salaries quoted 594 507 767
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,400 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,764 £57,500 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% +5.22% -0.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,188 £87,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 22 January 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 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.43%) Confluence
2 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (17.86%) Chatbot
2 21 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.14%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (7.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.71%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.71%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.57%) Azure
2 18 (12.86%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.71%) AWS
3 8 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.14%) SaaS
7 2 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.43%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.43%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.71%) GCP
8 1 (0.71%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Firewall
1 4 (2.86%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.86%) WAN
2 2 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.43%) VLAN
2 2 (1.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.71%) 4G
3 1 (0.71%) 5G
3 1 (0.71%) BGP
3 1 (0.71%) Broadband
3 1 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.71%) NAS
3 1 (0.71%) Network Security
3 1 (0.71%) OSPF
3 1 (0.71%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.71%) SAN
3 1 (0.71%) SMS
3 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.86%) Power BI
2 17 (12.14%) Tableau
3 13 (9.29%) Data Mining
4 7 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.71%) MySQL
10 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.71%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (2.86%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.71%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) Maven
3 1 (0.71%) MLflow
General
1 48 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.43%) Finance
3 16 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (7.14%) Legal
5 9 (6.43%) Law
5 9 (6.43%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.00%) Marketing
7 6 (4.29%) Banking
7 6 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.29%) Retail
8 3 (2.14%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Billing
10 1 (0.71%) Games
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (26.43%) Analyst
2 25 (17.86%) Trainer
3 19 (13.57%) Data Analyst
4 17 (12.14%) Developer
4 17 (12.14%) Senior
5 13 (9.29%) Trainee
6 12 (8.57%) Trainee Analyst
6 12 (8.57%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 11 (7.86%) Junior
7 11 (7.86%) SAP Developer
8 10 (7.14%) Architect
9 9 (6.43%) Alliance Manager
10 7 (5.00%) Integration Developer
10 7 (5.00%) Support Analyst
11 6 (4.29%) Integration Specialist
12 5 (3.57%) Junior Analyst
12 5 (3.57%) Junior Support Analyst
12 5 (3.57%) Junior Support Technician
12 5 (3.57%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
12 5 (3.57%) Oracle Payroll Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.57%) REST
1 12 (8.57%) SOAP
2 11 (7.86%) BAPI
2 11 (7.86%) IBM Integration Bus
2 11 (7.86%) JMS
2 11 (7.86%) Middleware
2 11 (7.86%) OAuth
2 11 (7.86%) SAML
3 4 (2.86%) EDI
4 2 (1.43%) HTML
5 1 (0.71%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.71%) Flask
5 1 (0.71%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.71%) RAML
5 1 (0.71%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.43%) CMDB
5 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.43%) NHS
5 2 (1.43%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.71%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) IoT
6 1 (0.71%) PropTech
6 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.29%) Linux
1 6 (4.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.43%) AI
2 40 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (27.14%) Analytics
4 26 (18.57%) Decision-Making
5 25 (17.86%) Chemistry
5 25 (17.86%) Conversational UI
6 24 (17.14%) Project Management
7 23 (16.43%) Data Analysis
8 19 (13.57%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (13.57%) Migration
9 18 (12.86%) Agile
10 17 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (12.14%) Data Analytics
11 16 (11.43%) Business Analysis
12 15 (10.71%) Actionable Insight
13 12 (8.57%) API Management
14 11 (7.86%) Data Modelling
14 11 (7.86%) Event-Driven
14 11 (7.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 11 (7.86%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.71%) SQL
2 22 (15.71%) Python
3 4 (2.86%) ABAP
3 4 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.43%) Java
5 1 (0.71%) C++
5 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (30.00%) Degree
2 26 (18.57%) Master's Degree
3 25 (17.86%) PhD
4 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.86%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.14%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.43%) CISM
7 2 (1.43%) CISSP
7 2 (1.43%) CITP
7 2 (1.43%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.71%) APMG
8 1 (0.71%) CCIE
8 1 (0.71%) CCNP
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.71%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.57%) GDPR
2 5 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.86%) NIST
4 3 (2.14%) PMO
4 3 (2.14%) SLA
5 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.71%) COBIT
5 1 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.71%) GRC
5 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.71%) QA
5 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.57%) Firmware
2 1 (0.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.14%) Terraform
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.71%) Ansible
3 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.86%) PayPal
3 12 (8.57%) SAP
4 11 (7.86%) IBM
5 7 (5.00%) Oracle
6 6 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.14%) Databricks
8 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.71%) Cisco
9 1 (0.71%) Genesys
9 1 (0.71%) Kronos
9 1 (0.71%) Meraki
9 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.71%) Pegasus
9 1 (0.71%) Planon
9 1 (0.71%) Sage
9 1 (0.71%) Tanium
9 1 (0.71%) Tenable
9 1 (0.71%) Verint
9 1 (0.71%) Zscaler