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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 140 194 111
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 8.00% 10.55% 8.62%
As % of the General category 15.56% 15.76% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 79 75 92
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,350 £33,025
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -15.32% +5.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £63,125 £67,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £74,014 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.26% -1.55%

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 900 1,231 739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 51.43% 66.94% 57.38%
Number of salaries quoted 601 507 622
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £54,325
Median % change year-on-year - +5.84% -1.23%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,245 £67,438
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,070
West Midlands median annual salary £48,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% -2.89%

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 8 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 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) SAS
3 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (17.86%) Chatbot
2 21 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (8.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.71%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.14%) Azure
2 15 (10.71%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.43%) AWS
4 7 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.14%) SaaS
7 2 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.43%) GCP
7 2 (1.43%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Firewall
1 4 (2.86%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.86%) WAN
2 2 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.43%) VLAN
2 2 (1.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.71%) 4G
3 1 (0.71%) 5G
3 1 (0.71%) BGP
3 1 (0.71%) Broadband
3 1 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.71%) NAS
3 1 (0.71%) Network Security
3 1 (0.71%) OSPF
3 1 (0.71%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.71%) SAN
3 1 (0.71%) SMS
3 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.86%) Tableau
2 15 (10.71%) Power BI
3 13 (9.29%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.71%) MySQL
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.71%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (2.14%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.71%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) Maven
3 1 (0.71%) MLflow
General
1 48 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.14%) Finance
3 16 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (7.86%) Legal
5 9 (6.43%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.71%) Law
6 8 (5.71%) Marketing
7 6 (4.29%) Banking
7 6 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.57%) Retail
9 3 (2.14%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Billing
11 1 (0.71%) Games
11 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (24.29%) Analyst
2 25 (17.86%) Trainer
3 18 (12.86%) Data Analyst
4 17 (12.14%) Developer
5 13 (9.29%) Senior
5 13 (9.29%) Trainee
6 12 (8.57%) Architect
6 12 (8.57%) SAP Developer
6 12 (8.57%) Trainee Analyst
6 12 (8.57%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 11 (7.86%) Junior
8 9 (6.43%) Alliance Manager
9 7 (5.00%) Integration Developer
10 6 (4.29%) Integration Specialist
10 6 (4.29%) Support Analyst
11 5 (3.57%) ABAP Developer
11 5 (3.57%) Oracle Analyst
11 5 (3.57%) Oracle Support Analyst
11 5 (3.57%) Support Technician
11 5 (3.57%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) REST
1 13 (9.29%) SOAP
2 12 (8.57%) BAPI
2 12 (8.57%) IBM Integration Bus
2 12 (8.57%) JMS
2 12 (8.57%) Middleware
2 12 (8.57%) OAuth
2 12 (8.57%) SAML
3 6 (4.29%) EDI
4 3 (2.14%) HTML
5 1 (0.71%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.71%) Flask
5 1 (0.71%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.71%) RAML
5 1 (0.71%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (6.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.43%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.43%) NHS
6 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) IoT
6 1 (0.71%) PropTech
6 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.29%) Linux
1 6 (4.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.43%) AI
2 41 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (24.29%) Analytics
4 25 (17.86%) Chemistry
4 25 (17.86%) Conversational UI
4 25 (17.86%) Decision-Making
5 23 (16.43%) Data Analysis
5 23 (16.43%) Project Management
6 20 (14.29%) Migration
7 18 (12.86%) Data Analytics
8 17 (12.14%) Agile
9 16 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (10.71%) Business Analysis
10 15 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
12 13 (9.29%) API Management
13 12 (8.57%) Event-Driven
13 12 (8.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 12 (8.57%) High Availability
14 11 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 34 (24.29%) SQL
2 24 (17.14%) Python
3 5 (3.57%) ABAP
4 4 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.14%) Java
6 1 (0.71%) Bash
6 1 (0.71%) C++
6 1 (0.71%) R
6 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (31.43%) Degree
2 26 (18.57%) Master's Degree
3 25 (17.86%) PhD
4 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.86%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.14%) CISM
6 3 (2.14%) CISSP
6 3 (2.14%) CITP
6 3 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.14%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.71%) APMG
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.71%) CBAP
8 1 (0.71%) PMP
8 1 (0.71%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.57%) NIST
3 4 (2.86%) GDPR
3 4 (2.86%) SLA
4 3 (2.14%) PMO
5 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.71%) COBIT
5 1 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS
5 1 (0.71%) QA
5 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.57%) Firmware
2 1 (0.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.14%) Terraform
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.71%) Ansible
3 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.86%) PayPal
3 13 (9.29%) SAP
4 12 (8.57%) IBM
5 8 (5.71%) Oracle
6 6 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.71%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco
8 1 (0.71%) Genesys
8 1 (0.71%) Google
8 1 (0.71%) Kronos
8 1 (0.71%) Meraki
8 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.71%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.71%) Sage
8 1 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Verint
8 1 (0.71%) Workday