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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 17
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 171 153 162
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.68% 12.93% 7.37%
As % of the General category 11.30% 20.90% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 101 79 56
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,650 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -17.36%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £66,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 1,513 732 1,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 41.43% 61.88% 57.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 467 557
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £32,300
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £83,000 £90,000
West Midlands median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -8.65% +4.00%

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 14 October 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 4 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.75%) SAS
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) Confluence
3 1 (0.58%) IIS
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.58%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.17%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.58%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.58%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.47%) Azure
2 27 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 16 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (8.77%) GitHub
5 11 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.68%) AWS
7 6 (3.51%) Azure Databricks
7 6 (3.51%) SaaS
8 5 (2.92%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (2.92%) GCP
9 4 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.34%) Google Ads
9 4 (2.34%) Google Data Studio
9 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Advertising
10 3 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.75%) OCI
10 3 (1.75%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 3 (1.75%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.34%) Internet
1 4 (2.34%) WAN
2 3 (1.75%) LAN
2 3 (1.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.58%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.58%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) SAN
3 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.58%) SSL
3 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) VLAN
3 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.79%) Power BI
2 22 (12.87%) Relational Database
3 9 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.09%) Metadata
5 6 (3.51%) Metadata Repository
5 6 (3.51%) Power Query
5 6 (3.51%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.51%) Star Schema
6 5 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.34%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.34%) Parquet
7 4 (2.34%) Tableau
8 3 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.75%) Redis
8 3 (1.75%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.17%) Base SAS
9 2 (1.17%) MySQL
9 2 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.43%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.68%) Git
3 4 (2.34%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.75%) JIRA
4 3 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.17%) Selenium
5 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.58%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 96 (56.14%) Social Skills
2 61 (35.67%) Finance
3 18 (10.53%) Marketing
4 16 (9.36%) Legal
5 14 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.60%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.85%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.85%) Retail
8 9 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.92%) Law
11 4 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.34%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.75%) Local Government
13 1 (0.58%) Automotive
13 1 (0.58%) Billing
13 1 (0.58%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.58%) French Language
13 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (17.54%) Analyst
2 22 (12.87%) Senior
3 16 (9.36%) Consultant
4 14 (8.19%) Data Engineer
5 13 (7.60%) Applications Support
6 11 (6.43%) Applications Consultant
6 11 (6.43%) Architect
6 11 (6.43%) Mainframe Consultant
7 10 (5.85%) Accountant
7 10 (5.85%) Developer
7 10 (5.85%) Systems Accountant
8 8 (4.68%) Business Development Director
8 8 (4.68%) Development Director
9 7 (4.09%) Senior Architect
10 6 (3.51%) Azure Architect
10 6 (3.51%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.51%) Business Development Manager
10 6 (3.51%) Business Manager
10 6 (3.51%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.51%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.77%) .NET
2 11 (6.43%) ISPF
2 11 (6.43%) Spring
2 11 (6.43%) Spring Boot
3 7 (4.09%) PySpark
3 7 (4.09%) REST
4 5 (2.92%) RESTful
5 3 (1.75%) Ajax
5 3 (1.75%) CSS
5 3 (1.75%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.75%) HTML
5 3 (1.75%) LDAP
5 3 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.75%) SOAP
5 3 (1.75%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (1.75%) Web Services
6 2 (1.17%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.17%) EDI
7 1 (0.58%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.58%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.36%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (8.77%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (7.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (6.43%) Legacy Applications
4 11 (6.43%) Mainframe
5 10 (5.85%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (4.09%) Cloud Native
7 7 (4.09%) Taxonomies
8 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.92%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.34%) CMDB
10 4 (2.34%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.34%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.75%) Clustering
11 3 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.75%) Replication
12 2 (1.17%) Digital Signage
12 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.26%) Linux
2 7 (4.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (27.49%) AI
2 47 (27.49%) Analytics
3 44 (25.73%) Decision-Making
4 35 (20.47%) Business Intelligence
5 34 (19.88%) ERP
5 34 (19.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 33 (19.30%) Agile
7 29 (16.96%) Data Modelling
8 28 (16.37%) Business Development
9 26 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (14.04%) CI/CD
11 22 (12.87%) Mentoring
12 21 (12.28%) Actionable Insight
12 21 (12.28%) DevOps
13 20 (11.70%) CRM
14 19 (11.11%) Data Governance
15 18 (10.53%) Customer Service
15 18 (10.53%) Migration
16 17 (9.94%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.22%) SQL
2 17 (9.94%) Java
3 15 (8.77%) Python
4 11 (6.43%) COBOL
4 11 (6.43%) JCL
5 7 (4.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.92%) R
8 4 (2.34%) C#
9 3 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.75%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.17%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) Bash
11 1 (0.58%) Delphi
11 1 (0.58%) Pascal
11 1 (0.58%) PHP
11 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (8.77%) Degree
2 11 (6.43%) ACCA
3 10 (5.85%) CIMA
4 8 (4.68%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.51%) CCNA
5 6 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.51%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (2.34%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.34%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.34%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.75%) CCNP
7 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.75%) PMP
8 2 (1.17%) CITP
8 2 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.58%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.58%) CCA
9 1 (0.58%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.58%) MCSE
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.54%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.26%) QA
3 7 (4.09%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.51%) GDPR
5 4 (2.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.34%) GRC
6 3 (1.75%) SLA
7 2 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.58%) PERC
8 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.92%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.92%) Firmware
2 3 (1.75%) Docker
3 2 (1.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (21.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.43%) Broadcom
3 9 (5.26%) Google
4 7 (4.09%) Databricks
5 6 (3.51%) SAP
6 4 (2.34%) Cisco
6 4 (2.34%) Hotjar
6 4 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.75%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.75%) Oracle
8 2 (1.17%) Dell
8 2 (1.17%) Jedox
8 2 (1.17%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.17%) Samsung
8 2 (1.17%) TikTok
8 2 (1.17%) YouTube
9 1 (0.58%) Facebook
9 1 (0.58%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.58%) Meraki
9 1 (0.58%) Talend