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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 137 188 153
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.44% 10.53% 7.87%
As % of the General category 15.50% 15.58% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 77 77 120
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,100 £31,125
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £76,250 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £42,430
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.84% -15.14%

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 884 1,207 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 48.02% 67.62% 57.87%
Number of salaries quoted 580 503 945
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +5.22% -0.64%
75th Percentile £70,500 £72,500 £67,250
90th Percentile £84,375 £87,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +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 February 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 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.46%) Confluence
2 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (18.25%) Chatbot
2 21 (15.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (6.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.73%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.73%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.73%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.60%) Azure
2 19 (13.87%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (5.84%) AWS
5 6 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.19%) SaaS
8 2 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.46%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.46%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.73%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.73%) GCP
9 1 (0.73%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) Firewall
1 4 (2.92%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.92%) WAN
2 2 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.46%) VLAN
2 2 (1.46%) VPN
3 1 (0.73%) 4G
3 1 (0.73%) 5G
3 1 (0.73%) BGP
3 1 (0.73%) Broadband
3 1 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.73%) NAS
3 1 (0.73%) Network Security
3 1 (0.73%) OSPF
3 1 (0.73%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.73%) SAN
3 1 (0.73%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.87%) Power BI
2 18 (13.14%) Tableau
3 14 (10.22%) Data Mining
4 7 (5.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.65%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (3.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.19%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.46%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.73%) MySQL
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.73%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (2.92%) JIRA
2 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.73%) Git
3 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.73%) Maven
3 1 (0.73%) MLflow
General
1 45 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.63%) Finance
3 15 (10.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (7.30%) Legal
5 9 (6.57%) Law
5 9 (6.57%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.38%) Banking
6 6 (4.38%) Marketing
6 6 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.38%) Retail
7 3 (2.19%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Billing
9 1 (0.73%) Games
9 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.73%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (27.74%) Analyst
2 25 (18.25%) Trainer
3 20 (14.60%) Data Analyst
4 17 (12.41%) Senior
5 15 (10.95%) Developer
6 14 (10.22%) Trainee
7 13 (9.49%) Trainee Analyst
7 13 (9.49%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 11 (8.03%) Junior
9 9 (6.57%) Alliance Manager
9 9 (6.57%) Architect
9 9 (6.57%) SAP Developer
10 7 (5.11%) Support Analyst
11 6 (4.38%) Integration Developer
11 6 (4.38%) Senior Manager
12 5 (3.65%) Junior Support Technician
12 5 (3.65%) Junior Technical Support
12 5 (3.65%) Lead
12 5 (3.65%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
12 5 (3.65%) Oracle Payroll Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.30%) REST
1 10 (7.30%) SOAP
2 9 (6.57%) BAPI
2 9 (6.57%) IBM Integration Bus
2 9 (6.57%) JMS
2 9 (6.57%) Middleware
2 9 (6.57%) OAuth
2 9 (6.57%) SAML
3 3 (2.19%) EDI
4 1 (0.73%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (0.73%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.73%) Flask
4 1 (0.73%) HTML
4 1 (0.73%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.73%) RAML
4 1 (0.73%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.73%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.30%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (7.30%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.92%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.46%) CMDB
4 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.46%) NHS
4 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.73%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.73%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.73%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.73%) PropTech
5 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.38%) Linux
1 6 (4.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (32.12%) AI
2 39 (28.47%) Analytics
3 38 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (18.25%) Chemistry
4 25 (18.25%) Conversational UI
4 25 (18.25%) Decision-Making
4 25 (18.25%) Project Management
5 24 (17.52%) Data Analysis
6 20 (14.60%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (13.14%) Agile
7 18 (13.14%) Data Analytics
7 18 (13.14%) Migration
8 17 (12.41%) Business Analysis
8 17 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (11.68%) Actionable Insight
10 12 (8.76%) Data Modelling
11 11 (8.03%) Data Governance
12 10 (7.30%) Project Delivery
12 10 (7.30%) Risk Management
12 10 (7.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.01%) SQL
2 23 (16.79%) Python
3 5 (3.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.92%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.19%) ABAP
6 2 (1.46%) Java
7 1 (0.73%) C++
7 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (29.93%) Degree
2 26 (18.98%) Master's Degree
3 25 (18.25%) PhD
4 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.19%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.46%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.73%) CCIE
7 1 (0.73%) CCNP
7 1 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.73%) CISSP
7 1 (0.73%) CITP
7 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.73%) PMP
7 1 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.73%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.92%) GDPR
2 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.19%) NIST
3 3 (2.19%) PMO
4 2 (1.46%) SLA
5 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.73%) COBIT
5 1 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.73%) GRC
5 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.73%) QA
5 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.65%) Firmware
2 1 (0.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.19%) Terraform
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.73%) Ansible
3 1 (0.73%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (22.63%) Microsoft
2 25 (18.25%) PayPal
3 10 (7.30%) SAP
4 9 (6.57%) IBM
5 7 (5.11%) Oracle
6 5 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.19%) Databricks
8 1 (0.73%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.73%) Cisco
8 1 (0.73%) Meraki
8 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.73%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.73%) Planon
8 1 (0.73%) Sage
8 1 (0.73%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.73%) Tanium
8 1 (0.73%) Tenable
8 1 (0.73%) Workday
8 1 (0.73%) Zscaler