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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 163 155 179
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.44% 12.91% 7.78%
As % of the General category 10.61% 20.45% 13.95%
Number of salaries quoted 103 84 68
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,825 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £34,375 £44,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £52,000 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +2.46% -16.12%
75th Percentile £68,250 £70,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 1,536 758 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 41.83% 63.11% 55.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,049 473 601
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 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £71,106 £72,500 £70,400
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,448 £90,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

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 26 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 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.23%) SAS
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) Appian
3 1 (0.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) IIS
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (11.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.98%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.23%) SAP Business One
2 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.61%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.61%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 33 (20.25%) Azure
2 23 (14.11%) Power Platform
3 14 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.98%) GitHub
5 9 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.91%) AWS
7 5 (3.07%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.07%) SaaS
8 4 (2.45%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (2.45%) Azure Databricks
8 4 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.45%) GCP
8 4 (2.45%) Google Ads
8 4 (2.45%) Google Data Studio
8 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Advertising
9 3 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.84%) PaaS
9 3 (1.84%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.84%) Internet
1 3 (1.84%) WAN
2 2 (1.23%) LAN
2 2 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (0.61%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.61%) Firewall
3 1 (0.61%) HTTP
3 1 (0.61%) SAN
3 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.61%) SSL
3 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) VLAN
3 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.11%) Power BI
2 17 (10.43%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.13%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.68%) Power Query
5 5 (3.07%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.45%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.45%) Metadata
6 4 (2.45%) Metadata Repository
6 4 (2.45%) Parquet
6 4 (2.45%) Redis
6 4 (2.45%) Star Schema
6 4 (2.45%) Tableau
7 3 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.84%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.23%) MySQL
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.52%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.29%) Git
3 4 (2.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.84%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.23%) JIRA
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 89 (54.60%) Social Skills
2 65 (39.88%) Finance
3 14 (8.59%) Legal
3 14 (8.59%) Marketing
3 14 (8.59%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.36%) Manufacturing
4 12 (7.36%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (5.52%) Retail
6 8 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.07%) Law
9 4 (2.45%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.84%) Local Government
11 1 (0.61%) Billing
11 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.61%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (17.79%) Analyst
2 18 (11.04%) Senior
3 15 (9.20%) Consultant
4 13 (7.98%) Accountant
4 13 (7.98%) Applications Support
4 13 (7.98%) Systems Accountant
5 12 (7.36%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.52%) Applications Consultant
6 9 (5.52%) Business Development Manager
6 9 (5.52%) Business Manager
6 9 (5.52%) Developer
6 9 (5.52%) Development Manager
6 9 (5.52%) Mainframe Consultant
7 8 (4.91%) Architect
7 8 (4.91%) Business Development Director
7 8 (4.91%) Development Director
8 6 (3.68%) Business Analyst
8 6 (3.68%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.07%) Lead
10 4 (2.45%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.59%) .NET
2 9 (5.52%) ISPF
2 9 (5.52%) Spring
2 9 (5.52%) Spring Boot
3 7 (4.29%) PySpark
4 6 (3.68%) REST
4 6 (3.68%) RESTful
5 4 (2.45%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.45%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (1.84%) Ajax
6 3 (1.84%) CSS
6 3 (1.84%) HTML
6 3 (1.84%) LDAP
6 3 (1.84%) Web Services
7 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.23%) EDI
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.23%) SOAP
8 1 (0.61%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.61%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.98%) Analytical Mindset
1 13 (7.98%) Enterprise Software
1 13 (7.98%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.75%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.52%) Legacy Applications
3 9 (5.52%) Mainframe
4 8 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.68%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.07%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.45%) CMDB
7 4 (2.45%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.45%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.84%) Clustering
8 3 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.84%) Replication
9 2 (1.23%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.52%) Linux
2 7 (4.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (42.33%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (28.83%) AI
3 40 (24.54%) Analytics
4 38 (23.31%) Decision-Making
5 36 (22.09%) ERP
6 32 (19.63%) Agile
7 29 (17.79%) Business Development
7 29 (17.79%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (17.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (15.95%) Data Modelling
10 20 (12.27%) CI/CD
11 19 (11.66%) DevOps
12 18 (11.04%) Actionable Insight
12 18 (11.04%) CRM
12 18 (11.04%) Mentoring
13 17 (10.43%) Data Governance
14 16 (9.82%) Budgeting
14 16 (9.82%) Customer Service
14 16 (9.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.86%) SQL
2 15 (9.20%) Python
3 14 (8.59%) Java
4 9 (5.52%) COBOL
4 9 (5.52%) JCL
5 5 (3.07%) C#
5 5 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.07%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.84%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.23%) C++
7 2 (1.23%) R
8 1 (0.61%) Bash
8 1 (0.61%) Delphi
8 1 (0.61%) Pascal
8 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (9.20%) ACCA
2 14 (8.59%) CIMA
3 13 (7.98%) Degree
4 9 (5.52%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.29%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (3.07%) CCNA
6 5 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.07%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.45%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.84%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.84%) PMP
9 2 (1.23%) CCNP
9 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.61%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.61%) CCA
10 1 (0.61%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.61%) CITP
10 1 (0.61%) MCSE
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.95%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.29%) GDPR
2 7 (4.29%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.07%) GRC
4 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.84%) SLA
6 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.23%) QA
7 1 (0.61%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (3.07%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.07%) Firmware
2 3 (1.84%) Docker
3 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (22.70%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.52%) Broadcom
3 7 (4.29%) Google
4 6 (3.68%) SAP
5 4 (2.45%) Databricks
5 4 (2.45%) Hotjar
5 4 (2.45%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.45%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.84%) Cisco
6 3 (1.84%) Oracle
7 2 (1.23%) Dell
7 2 (1.23%) Jedox
7 2 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.61%) F5
8 1 (0.61%) Facebook
8 1 (0.61%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.61%) Meraki
8 1 (0.61%) YouTube