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 27 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 155 146 195
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.42% 11.61% 8.07%
As % of the General category 10.47% 18.27% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 100 88 104
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,450 £36,682
25th Percentile £46,242 £36,250 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -17.36%
75th Percentile £67,313 £73,750 £66,563
90th Percentile £83,065 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%

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 1,480 799 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 42.23% 63.51% 51.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,054 495 749
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,250 £90,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.49%

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 27 August 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 6 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) Appian
3 1 (0.65%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.94%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (1.29%) SAP Business One
3 2 (1.29%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.29%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.29%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.65%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.90%) Azure
2 18 (11.61%) Power Platform
3 7 (4.52%) SaaS
4 6 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.87%) GitHub
4 6 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (2.58%) AWS
6 4 (2.58%) Google Ads
6 4 (2.58%) Google Data Studio
6 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Advertising
7 3 (1.94%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.94%) PaaS
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.29%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.29%) WAN
2 1 (0.65%) BIG-IP
2 1 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.65%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) HTTP
2 1 (0.65%) LAN
2 1 (0.65%) Network Security
2 1 (0.65%) SAN
2 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.65%) SSL
2 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.65%) VLAN
2 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.61%) Power BI
2 10 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.23%) Redis
5 4 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.94%) Power Query
7 2 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.29%) MySQL
7 2 (1.29%) Tableau
8 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.65%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.87%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 79 (50.97%) Social Skills
2 69 (44.52%) Finance
3 14 (9.03%) Manufacturing
4 13 (8.39%) Marketing
5 12 (7.74%) Legal
6 10 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (6.45%) Retail
7 7 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.23%) Law
10 3 (1.94%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.65%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Local Government
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (21.29%) Analyst
2 21 (13.55%) Senior
3 16 (10.32%) Accountant
3 16 (10.32%) Systems Accountant
4 12 (7.74%) Consultant
5 10 (6.45%) Digital Analyst
6 9 (5.81%) Business Development Manager
6 9 (5.81%) Business Manager
6 9 (5.81%) Development Manager
7 8 (5.16%) Business Development Director
7 8 (5.16%) Development Director
8 7 (4.52%) Applications Support
8 7 (4.52%) Lead
8 7 (4.52%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (4.52%) Senior Digital Analyst
9 6 (3.87%) Applications Consultant
9 6 (3.87%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.87%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.87%) Mainframe Consultant
9 6 (3.87%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.81%) .NET
2 7 (4.52%) RESTful
3 6 (3.87%) ISPF
3 6 (3.87%) Spring
3 6 (3.87%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.23%) FastAPI
4 5 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (1.94%) Ajax
5 3 (1.94%) CSS
5 3 (1.94%) HTML
5 3 (1.94%) LDAP
5 3 (1.94%) REST
5 3 (1.94%) Web Services
6 2 (1.29%) EDI
7 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.65%) PySpark
7 1 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.65%) Terraform
7 1 (0.65%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.32%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (7.74%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (7.10%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.52%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (4.52%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.87%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (3.87%) Mainframe
6 6 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.58%) CMDB
7 4 (2.58%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.94%) Clustering
8 3 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.94%) Replication
9 2 (1.29%) CCTV
9 2 (1.29%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.29%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.52%) Windows
2 6 (3.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (43.23%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (29.03%) AI
3 38 (24.52%) Agile
4 36 (23.23%) Analytics
5 31 (20.00%) ERP
6 28 (18.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (16.77%) Decision-Making
9 25 (16.13%) Business Development
10 20 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
10 20 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (12.26%) Budgeting
12 17 (10.97%) Business Strategy
12 17 (10.97%) Mentoring
13 15 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
13 15 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (9.03%) Customer Service
15 13 (8.39%) Coaching
16 12 (7.74%) CRM
16 12 (7.74%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.55%) SQL
2 10 (6.45%) Java
2 10 (6.45%) Python
3 6 (3.87%) COBOL
3 6 (3.87%) JCL
4 4 (2.58%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.58%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.94%) C#
5 3 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.65%) C++
6 1 (0.65%) Delphi
6 1 (0.65%) Pascal
6 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (11.61%) ACCA
1 18 (11.61%) CIMA
2 15 (9.68%) Degree
3 14 (9.03%) CompTIA Security+
4 10 (6.45%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.52%) CISA
5 7 (4.52%) CISSP
5 7 (4.52%) SSCP
6 6 (3.87%) PMI Certification
7 5 (3.23%) PMP
8 4 (2.58%) CCNA
8 4 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.58%) IRCA
8 4 (2.58%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.65%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.65%) IIBA
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.10%) GDPR
1 11 (7.10%) NIST
2 9 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.23%) GRC
4 5 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.58%) ISO 9001
5 4 (2.58%) QA
5 4 (2.58%) SLA
6 2 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.23%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.23%) Firmware
2 2 (1.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.10%) SAP
3 6 (3.87%) Broadcom
3 6 (3.87%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.23%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.58%) Google
5 4 (2.58%) Hotjar
6 2 (1.29%) Cisco
6 2 (1.29%) Dell
6 2 (1.29%) Jedox
6 2 (1.29%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.65%) F5
7 1 (0.65%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.65%) Meraki
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle