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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 136 190 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.88% 10.50% 8.49%
As % of the General category 15.47% 15.64% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 77 76 93
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £33,050
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £46,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% -16.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £67,250
90th Percentile £78,500 £74,014 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +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 879 1,215 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 50.93% 67.16% 57.61%
Number of salaries quoted 586 504 660
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £53,125
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +8.24% -3.41%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £65,284
90th Percentile £84,375 £86,750 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%

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 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 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) SAS
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (18.38%) Chatbot
2 21 (15.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (8.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.74%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.76%) Azure
2 15 (11.03%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.88%) AWS
4 7 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.21%) SaaS
7 2 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.47%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.74%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.74%) GCP
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) Firewall
1 4 (2.94%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.94%) WAN
2 2 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.47%) VLAN
2 2 (1.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) 4G
3 1 (0.74%) 5G
3 1 (0.74%) BGP
3 1 (0.74%) Broadband
3 1 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.74%) NAS
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) OSPF
3 1 (0.74%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.74%) SAN
3 1 (0.74%) SMS
3 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.24%) Tableau
2 15 (11.03%) Power BI
3 13 (9.56%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (3.68%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.74%) MySQL
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.74%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (2.21%) JIRA
2 2 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.74%) Git
3 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.74%) Maven
3 1 (0.74%) MLflow
General
1 46 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.06%) Finance
3 14 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (8.09%) Legal
5 8 (5.88%) Law
5 8 (5.88%) Marketing
5 8 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.41%) Banking
6 6 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Retail
8 3 (2.21%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Billing
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.74%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (25.00%) Analyst
2 25 (18.38%) Trainer
3 18 (13.24%) Data Analyst
4 16 (11.76%) Developer
5 13 (9.56%) Senior
5 13 (9.56%) Trainee
6 12 (8.82%) Trainee Analyst
6 12 (8.82%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 11 (8.09%) Architect
7 11 (8.09%) Junior
7 11 (8.09%) SAP Developer
8 9 (6.62%) Alliance Manager
9 7 (5.15%) Integration Developer
10 6 (4.41%) Integration Specialist
10 6 (4.41%) Support Analyst
11 5 (3.68%) Junior Support Analyst
11 5 (3.68%) Oracle Analyst
11 5 (3.68%) Oracle Support Analyst
11 5 (3.68%) Support Technician
11 5 (3.68%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.82%) REST
1 12 (8.82%) SOAP
2 11 (8.09%) BAPI
2 11 (8.09%) IBM Integration Bus
2 11 (8.09%) JMS
2 11 (8.09%) Middleware
2 11 (8.09%) OAuth
2 11 (8.09%) SAML
3 5 (3.68%) EDI
4 3 (2.21%) HTML
5 1 (0.74%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.74%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.74%) Flask
5 1 (0.74%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.74%) RAML
5 1 (0.74%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (6.62%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.21%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.21%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.47%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.47%) NHS
6 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.74%) IoT
6 1 (0.74%) PropTech
6 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.41%) Linux
1 6 (4.41%) Windows
2 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (31.62%) AI
2 40 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (25.00%) Analytics
4 25 (18.38%) Chemistry
4 25 (18.38%) Conversational UI
4 25 (18.38%) Decision-Making
5 23 (16.91%) Data Analysis
5 23 (16.91%) Project Management
6 19 (13.97%) Migration
7 18 (13.24%) Data Analytics
8 17 (12.50%) Agile
9 16 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (11.03%) Business Analysis
10 15 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (10.29%) Actionable Insight
12 12 (8.82%) API Management
13 11 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (8.09%) Event-Driven
13 11 (8.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 11 (8.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.00%) SQL
2 23 (16.91%) Python
3 4 (2.94%) ABAP
3 4 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.47%) Java
5 1 (0.74%) C++
5 1 (0.74%) R
5 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (31.62%) Degree
2 26 (19.12%) Master's Degree
3 25 (18.38%) PhD
4 6 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.94%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.21%) CISM
6 3 (2.21%) CISSP
6 3 (2.21%) CITP
6 3 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.21%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) APMG
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.74%) PMP
8 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.74%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.68%) NIST
3 4 (2.94%) GDPR
3 4 (2.94%) SLA
4 3 (2.21%) PMO
5 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.74%) COBIT
5 1 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.74%) QA
5 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.68%) Firmware
2 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.21%) Terraform
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 25 (18.38%) PayPal
3 12 (8.82%) SAP
4 11 (8.09%) IBM
5 7 (5.15%) Oracle
6 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.74%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco
8 1 (0.74%) Databricks
8 1 (0.74%) Genesys
8 1 (0.74%) Kronos
8 1 (0.74%) Meraki
8 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.74%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.74%) Sage
8 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Verint
8 1 (0.74%) Workday