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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 150 150 195
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.58% 12.04% 7.61%
As % of the General category 10.73% 18.52% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 105 87 117
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,550 £34,650
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% - -18.03%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,950 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -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 1,398 810 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 42.66% 65.01% 50.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 500 882
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,734 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,434 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% +4.43% -
75th Percentile £71,238 £73,750 £68,275
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £86,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 27 July 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 7 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.67%) Appian
3 1 (0.67%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (11.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (5.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.67%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.67%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.67%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.00%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (1.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.67%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.00%) Power Platform
2 17 (11.33%) Azure
3 9 (6.00%) SaaS
4 5 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
4 5 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.67%) Google Ads
5 4 (2.67%) Google Data Studio
5 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Advertising
6 3 (2.00%) AWS
6 3 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (2.00%) PaaS
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) BIG-IP
1 1 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (0.67%) Firewall
1 1 (0.67%) HTTP
1 1 (0.67%) SAN
1 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.67%) SSL
1 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.67%) VLAN
1 1 (0.67%) VPN
1 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.33%) Power BI
2 8 (5.33%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.67%) Tableau
4 5 (3.33%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.33%) Redis
5 4 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.00%) Power Query
6 3 (2.00%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.33%) MySQL
7 2 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
General
1 68 (45.33%) Finance
2 65 (43.33%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.33%) Manufacturing
4 13 (8.67%) Legal
5 10 (6.67%) Retail
6 8 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.00%) Marketing
8 6 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.33%) Law
10 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.00%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.67%) Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Local Government
11 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (26.67%) Analyst
2 26 (17.33%) Senior
3 16 (10.67%) Accountant
3 16 (10.67%) Systems Accountant
4 10 (6.67%) Digital Analyst
5 9 (6.00%) Business Development Manager
5 9 (6.00%) Business Manager
5 9 (6.00%) Data Analyst
5 9 (6.00%) Development Manager
5 9 (6.00%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (5.33%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.33%) Consultant
7 7 (4.67%) IT Manager
7 7 (4.67%) Lead
7 7 (4.67%) Senior Digital Analyst
8 6 (4.00%) Data Steward
8 6 (4.00%) Head of QA
9 5 (3.33%) Project Manager
9 5 (3.33%) Trainee
9 5 (3.33%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.67%) RESTful
2 5 (3.33%) FastAPI
2 5 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (2.00%) .NET
3 3 (2.00%) REST
4 2 (1.33%) EDI
5 1 (0.67%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.67%) CSS
5 1 (0.67%) HTML
5 1 (0.67%) ISPF
5 1 (0.67%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.67%) Spring
5 1 (0.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.67%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (6.00%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.67%) Cyber Defence
3 7 (4.67%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.67%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.00%) Clustering
6 3 (2.00%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.00%) Replication
6 3 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.33%) CCTV
7 2 (1.33%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.33%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.33%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.33%) Windows
2 4 (2.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (39.33%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (32.00%) Analytics
3 39 (26.00%) AI
4 30 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (20.00%) ERP
5 28 (18.67%) Agile
6 24 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 23 (15.33%) Actionable Insight
8 20 (13.33%) Budgeting
8 20 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (12.67%) Decision-Making
10 17 (11.33%) Business Strategy
11 16 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (10.67%) Mentoring
12 14 (9.33%) Coaching
12 14 (9.33%) Project Management
13 13 (8.67%) Business Development
13 13 (8.67%) Data Analytics
14 12 (8.00%) Business Analysis
14 12 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.67%) SQL
2 16 (10.67%) Python
3 5 (3.33%) Java
3 5 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.33%) C#
6 1 (0.67%) COBOL
6 1 (0.67%) Delphi
6 1 (0.67%) JCL
6 1 (0.67%) Pascal
6 1 (0.67%) R
6 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (12.67%) ACCA
1 19 (12.67%) CIMA
2 16 (10.67%) Degree
3 14 (9.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 9 (6.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.33%) CISA
5 8 (5.33%) CISSP
6 7 (4.67%) SSCP
7 6 (4.00%) IRCA
8 5 (3.33%) PMI Certification
8 5 (3.33%) PMP
9 4 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.67%) SC Cleared
10 3 (2.00%) CCNA
10 3 (2.00%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (1.33%) IIBA
12 1 (0.67%) CBAP
12 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.67%) OSCP
12 1 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.33%) GDPR
2 12 (8.00%) NIST
3 8 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.00%) ISO 9001
4 6 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 6 (4.00%) QA
5 5 (3.33%) GRC
5 5 (3.33%) SLA
6 4 (2.67%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.00%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.67%) COBIT
9 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.67%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (2.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.00%) Firmware
2 2 (1.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (1.33%) Terraform
2 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.00%) SAP
3 5 (3.33%) Google
3 5 (3.33%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.67%) Hotjar
4 4 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.33%) Dell
5 2 (1.33%) Jedox
5 2 (1.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.67%) Broadcom
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco
6 1 (0.67%) F5
6 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.67%) Meraki
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce