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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 140 190 119
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 9.58% 8.80% 10.17%
As % of the General category 17.20% 14.32% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 77 71 107
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £33,150
25th Percentile £41,895 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -20.66% +15.24%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,433 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £72,500 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% +4.26%

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 common skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 814 1,327 740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 55.68% 61.46% 63.25%
Number of salaries quoted 555 570 618
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

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 29 November 2025.

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 2 (1.43%) Confluence
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.71%) SAS
2 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 34 (24.29%) Chatbot
2 17 (12.14%) 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 13 (9.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.71%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.71%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.00%) Azure
2 11 (7.86%) Power Platform
3 6 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (2.86%) AWS
4 4 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.14%) SaaS
6 2 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.43%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.71%) GCP
7 1 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Firewall
2 3 (2.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (2.14%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.14%) WAN
3 2 (1.43%) Network Security
3 2 (1.43%) SAN
3 2 (1.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.71%) 4G
4 1 (0.71%) 5G
4 1 (0.71%) BGP
4 1 (0.71%) Broadband
4 1 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.71%) NAS
4 1 (0.71%) OSPF
4 1 (0.71%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.71%) SMS
4 1 (0.71%) VLAN
4 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.57%) Tableau
2 11 (7.86%) Power BI
3 9 (6.43%) Data Mining
4 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.71%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.71%) MySQL
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.14%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.71%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) GitLab
3 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) Maven
General
1 52 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.14%) Finance
3 12 (8.57%) Legal
4 9 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (6.43%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.00%) Marketing
6 6 (4.29%) Banking
6 6 (4.29%) Retail
7 5 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Law
9 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.71%) Advertising
10 1 (0.71%) Billing
10 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (24.29%) Trainer
2 30 (21.43%) Analyst
3 17 (12.14%) Developer
4 13 (9.29%) Data Analyst
4 13 (9.29%) SAP Developer
5 10 (7.14%) Senior
6 9 (6.43%) Architect
6 9 (6.43%) Trainee
7 8 (5.71%) Integration Developer
7 8 (5.71%) Trainee Analyst
7 8 (5.71%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 6 (4.29%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.29%) Integration Specialist
8 6 (4.29%) Junior
8 6 (4.29%) Technical Support
9 5 (3.57%) ABAP Developer
9 5 (3.57%) Junior Support Technician
9 5 (3.57%) Junior Technical Support
9 5 (3.57%) Lead
9 5 (3.57%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.71%) REST
2 14 (10.00%) SOAP
3 13 (9.29%) BAPI
3 13 (9.29%) IBM Integration Bus
3 13 (9.29%) JMS
3 13 (9.29%) Middleware
3 13 (9.29%) OAuth
3 13 (9.29%) SAML
4 5 (3.57%) EDI
5 3 (2.14%) HTML
6 1 (0.71%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.71%) Flask
6 1 (0.71%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.71%) RAML
6 1 (0.71%) React
6 1 (0.71%) Spring
6 1 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (6.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.57%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.43%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.43%) IoT
8 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.43%) NHS
8 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.71%) FMCG
9 1 (0.71%) Life Science
9 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.71%) SCADA
9 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 46 (32.86%) AI
2 42 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (24.29%) Chemistry
3 34 (24.29%) Conversational UI
4 29 (20.71%) Analytics
5 22 (15.71%) Decision-Making
6 21 (15.00%) Migration
7 20 (14.29%) Agile
8 19 (13.57%) Data Analysis
9 18 (12.86%) Project Management
10 15 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (10.00%) API Management
11 14 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (10.00%) Data Analytics
12 13 (9.29%) Event-Driven
12 13 (9.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (9.29%) High Availability
12 13 (9.29%) Project Delivery
13 12 (8.57%) Actionable Insight
13 12 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.43%) SQL
2 17 (12.14%) Python
3 5 (3.57%) ABAP
4 3 (2.14%) Java
4 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.71%) Bash
6 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.71%) R
6 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (36.43%) Degree
2 34 (24.29%) Master's Degree
2 34 (24.29%) PhD
3 6 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.86%) CISM
4 4 (2.86%) CISSP
4 4 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.14%) CITP
5 3 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.14%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.43%) CCAB
6 2 (1.43%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.71%) CCIE
7 1 (0.71%) CCNP
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.71%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.57%) NIST
3 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.86%) GDPR
3 4 (2.86%) SLA
4 3 (2.14%) PMO
5 2 (1.43%) IFRS
6 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.71%) COBIT
6 1 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.71%) QA
6 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.57%) Firmware
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.43%) Terraform
2 1 (0.71%) Ansible
2 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (24.29%) PayPal
2 21 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.00%) SAP
4 13 (9.29%) IBM
5 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.86%) Oracle
7 3 (2.14%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.43%) Cisco
9 1 (0.71%) Databricks
9 1 (0.71%) Google
9 1 (0.71%) Kronos
9 1 (0.71%) Meraki
9 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.71%) Pegasus
9 1 (0.71%) Sage
9 1 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.71%) VMware
9 1 (0.71%) Workday
9 1 (0.71%) Zscaler