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 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 19
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +13
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 149 167 221
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 5.20% 13.01% 8.12%
As % of the General category 11.96% 19.74% 15.13%
Number of salaries quoted 100 96 151
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,438 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +10.34% -13.00%

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 1,246 846 1,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 43.49% 65.89% 53.65%
Number of salaries quoted 826 471 1,179
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +5.22% -0.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
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 2 May 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 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.67%) Appian
2 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (13.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.01%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (6.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.01%) SAP CO
2 3 (2.01%) SAP FI
2 3 (2.01%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (2.01%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (0.67%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.09%) Azure
2 17 (11.41%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.70%) AWS
5 6 (4.03%) SaaS
6 4 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.68%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.67%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.67%) dbt
9 1 (0.67%) Google Docs
9 1 (0.67%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) Firewall
1 4 (2.68%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.68%) WAN
2 3 (2.01%) VLAN
2 3 (2.01%) VPN
3 1 (0.67%) 4G
3 1 (0.67%) 5G
3 1 (0.67%) Broadband
3 1 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.67%) NAS
3 1 (0.67%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.67%) SAN
3 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.08%) Tableau
2 16 (10.74%) Power BI
3 12 (8.05%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.36%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.68%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.01%) Redis
6 3 (2.01%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.34%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.67%) Power Query
8 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.34%) JIRA
2 1 (0.67%) Git
2 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.67%) Maven
2 1 (0.67%) MLflow
2 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (38.26%) Finance
2 51 (34.23%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (8.72%) Legal
5 8 (5.37%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.70%) Law
7 6 (4.03%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.36%) Marketing
8 5 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.36%) Retail
9 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.67%) Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.67%) Games
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (34.23%) Analyst
2 29 (19.46%) Senior
3 20 (13.42%) Data Analyst
4 14 (9.40%) Senior Analyst
5 12 (8.05%) Trainee
5 12 (8.05%) Trainee Analyst
5 12 (8.05%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 10 (6.71%) Digital Analyst
7 9 (6.04%) Accountant
7 9 (6.04%) Alliance Manager
7 9 (6.04%) Systems Accountant
8 7 (4.70%) IT Manager
8 7 (4.70%) Junior
8 7 (4.70%) Junior Analyst
8 7 (4.70%) Senior Digital Analyst
8 7 (4.70%) Support Analyst
9 6 (4.03%) Architect
9 6 (4.03%) Developer
9 6 (4.03%) Development Manager
9 6 (4.03%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.68%) REST
1 4 (2.68%) SOAP
2 3 (2.01%) BAPI
2 3 (2.01%) FastAPI
2 3 (2.01%) IBM Integration Bus
2 3 (2.01%) JMS
2 3 (2.01%) Middleware
2 3 (2.01%) OAuth
2 3 (2.01%) RESTful
2 3 (2.01%) SAML
2 3 (2.01%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (0.67%) .NET
3 1 (0.67%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (0.67%) CSS
3 1 (0.67%) EDI
3 1 (0.67%) HTML
3 1 (0.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.67%) RAML
3 1 (0.67%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.74%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (5.37%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.70%) Cyber Defence
3 7 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.70%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.01%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.01%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.34%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.34%) CMDB
7 2 (1.34%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.67%) CCTV
8 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.67%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.34%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.57%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (32.89%) Analytics
3 31 (20.81%) AI
4 29 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (18.79%) Agile
6 25 (16.78%) Actionable Insight
7 23 (15.44%) Project Management
8 21 (14.09%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (13.42%) Data Analytics
9 20 (13.42%) Decision-Making
10 19 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (12.08%) Business Analysis
12 17 (11.41%) Data Analysis
12 17 (11.41%) ERP
13 16 (10.74%) Mentoring
14 15 (10.07%) Business Strategy
14 15 (10.07%) Coaching
14 15 (10.07%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (9.40%) Data Modelling
15 14 (9.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.48%) SQL
2 23 (15.44%) Python
3 5 (3.36%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.68%) Java
5 3 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.67%) C#
6 1 (0.67%) C++
6 1 (0.67%) R
6 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (11.41%) Degree
2 13 (8.72%) ACCA
2 13 (8.72%) CIMA
3 12 (8.05%) CompTIA Security+
4 9 (6.04%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.37%) CISA
5 8 (5.37%) CISSP
6 7 (4.70%) SSCP
7 6 (4.03%) IRCA
7 6 (4.03%) PMI Certification
7 6 (4.03%) PMP
8 5 (3.36%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.01%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (2.01%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.34%) IIBA
10 2 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.07%) GDPR
2 13 (8.72%) NIST
3 9 (6.04%) Data Quality
4 8 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (4.70%) QA
6 6 (4.03%) ISO 9001
7 5 (3.36%) GRC
8 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
8 4 (2.68%) PCI DSS
9 3 (2.01%) ISO 20022
9 3 (2.01%) SLA
10 2 (1.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (1.34%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (1.34%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.67%) COBIT
11 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.67%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.67%) PMO
11 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Firmware
2 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.68%) Terraform
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.38%) SAP
3 7 (4.70%) Oracle
4 5 (3.36%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.68%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.01%) IBM
7 2 (1.34%) Databricks
7 2 (1.34%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.67%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco
8 1 (0.67%) Genesys
8 1 (0.67%) Google
8 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.67%) Meraki
8 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.67%) PayPal
8 1 (0.67%) Tanium
8 1 (0.67%) Verint
8 1 (0.67%) Zscaler