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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 162 155 176
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.41% 13.10% 7.77%
As % of the General category 10.57% 20.67% 13.78%
Number of salaries quoted 102 82 64
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,575 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £52,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +3.48% -16.94%
75th Percentile £67,438 £72,813 £66,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,724
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 1,533 750 1,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 41.69% 63.40% 56.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,042 467 585
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £32,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,311
Median % change year-on-year - -4.03% +4.20%
75th Percentile £71,202 £73,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,125 £82,500 £90,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 September 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 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.23%) SAS
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.62%) Appian
3 1 (0.62%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) IIS
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (12.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (8.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.23%) SAP Business One
2 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.62%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.62%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.75%) Azure
2 24 (14.81%) Power Platform
3 14 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (8.02%) GitHub
5 9 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.94%) AWS
7 5 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.09%) SaaS
8 4 (2.47%) Azure Databricks
8 4 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.47%) GCP
8 4 (2.47%) Google Ads
8 4 (2.47%) Google Data Studio
8 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Advertising
9 3 (1.85%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.85%) PaaS
9 3 (1.85%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.85%) Internet
1 3 (1.85%) WAN
2 2 (1.23%) LAN
2 2 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (0.62%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.62%) Firewall
3 1 (0.62%) HTTP
3 1 (0.62%) SAN
3 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.62%) SSL
3 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.62%) VLAN
3 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.81%) Power BI
2 18 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.17%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.70%) Power Query
5 5 (3.09%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.47%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.47%) Metadata
6 4 (2.47%) Metadata Repository
6 4 (2.47%) Parquet
6 4 (2.47%) Star Schema
6 4 (2.47%) Tableau
7 3 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.85%) Redis
7 3 (1.85%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.23%) MySQL
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.32%) Git
3 4 (2.47%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.85%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.23%) JIRA
5 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 90 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 64 (39.51%) Finance
3 15 (9.26%) Marketing
4 14 (8.64%) Legal
4 14 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.41%) Manufacturing
5 12 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (5.56%) Retail
7 8 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.09%) Law
10 4 (2.47%) Social Housing
11 3 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.85%) Local Government
12 1 (0.62%) Billing
12 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.62%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (18.52%) Analyst
2 17 (10.49%) Senior
3 15 (9.26%) Consultant
4 13 (8.02%) Applications Support
5 12 (7.41%) Accountant
5 12 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 12 (7.41%) Systems Accountant
6 9 (5.56%) Applications Consultant
6 9 (5.56%) Business Development Manager
6 9 (5.56%) Business Manager
6 9 (5.56%) Developer
6 9 (5.56%) Development Manager
6 9 (5.56%) Mainframe Consultant
7 8 (4.94%) Architect
7 8 (4.94%) Business Development Director
7 8 (4.94%) Development Director
8 7 (4.32%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.70%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.09%) Lead
11 4 (2.47%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.64%) .NET
2 9 (5.56%) ISPF
2 9 (5.56%) Spring
2 9 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 7 (4.32%) PySpark
4 6 (3.70%) REST
5 5 (3.09%) RESTful
6 3 (1.85%) Ajax
6 3 (1.85%) CSS
6 3 (1.85%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.85%) HTML
6 3 (1.85%) LDAP
6 3 (1.85%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (1.85%) Web Services
7 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.23%) EDI
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.23%) SOAP
8 1 (0.62%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.62%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.02%) Analytical Mindset
1 13 (8.02%) Enterprise Software
1 13 (8.02%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.79%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
3 9 (5.56%) Mainframe
4 8 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.47%) CMDB
6 4 (2.47%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.47%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.47%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.85%) Clustering
7 3 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.85%) Replication
8 2 (1.23%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.56%) Linux
2 7 (4.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (43.21%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (27.78%) AI
3 41 (25.31%) Analytics
4 39 (24.07%) Decision-Making
5 35 (21.60%) ERP
6 32 (19.75%) Agile
7 30 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (17.90%) Business Development
8 29 (17.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 27 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (16.05%) Data Modelling
11 20 (12.35%) CI/CD
12 19 (11.73%) DevOps
13 18 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
13 18 (11.11%) CRM
13 18 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 17 (10.49%) Data Governance
15 16 (9.88%) Customer Service
15 16 (9.88%) Migration
16 15 (9.26%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.60%) SQL
2 15 (9.26%) Python
3 14 (8.64%) Java
4 9 (5.56%) COBOL
4 9 (5.56%) JCL
5 6 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (3.09%) C#
6 5 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.85%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.85%) R
7 3 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.23%) C++
9 1 (0.62%) Bash
9 1 (0.62%) Delphi
9 1 (0.62%) Pascal
9 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (8.64%) ACCA
1 14 (8.64%) Degree
2 13 (8.02%) CIMA
3 9 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.32%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (3.09%) CCNA
5 5 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.09%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.47%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.85%) PMP
8 2 (1.23%) CCNP
8 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.62%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.62%) CCA
9 1 (0.62%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.62%) CITP
9 1 (0.62%) MCSE
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.05%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.32%) GDPR
2 7 (4.32%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.09%) GRC
4 4 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.85%) SLA
6 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.23%) QA
7 1 (0.62%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (3.09%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.09%) Firmware
2 3 (1.85%) Docker
3 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (22.84%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.56%) Broadcom
3 7 (4.32%) Google
4 6 (3.70%) SAP
5 4 (2.47%) Databricks
5 4 (2.47%) Hotjar
5 4 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.85%) Cisco
6 3 (1.85%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.85%) Oracle
7 2 (1.23%) Dell
7 2 (1.23%) Jedox
7 2 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.62%) F5
8 1 (0.62%) Facebook
8 1 (0.62%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.62%) Meraki
8 1 (0.62%) YouTube