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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 +11
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 154 166 219
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 5.33% 13.19% 8.01%
As % of the General category 12.28% 19.86% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 103 95 148
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £38,750 £38,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +9.20% -13.00%

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 1,254 836 1,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 43.36% 66.40% 53.49%
Number of salaries quoted 833 470 1,181
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +5.22% -0.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,428 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% +10.37% -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 8 May 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 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) Appian
Applications
1 19 (12.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.95%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (6.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.95%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.95%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.95%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (1.95%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (0.65%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.29%) Azure
2 18 (11.69%) Power Platform
3 9 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.55%) AWS
5 5 (3.25%) Anthropic Claude
5 5 (3.25%) SaaS
6 4 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.65%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.65%) dbt
9 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.65%) Google Docs
9 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.60%) Firewall
1 4 (2.60%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.60%) WAN
2 3 (1.95%) VLAN
2 3 (1.95%) VPN
3 2 (1.30%) SAN
4 1 (0.65%) 4G
4 1 (0.65%) 5G
4 1 (0.65%) Broadband
4 1 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.65%) NAS
4 1 (0.65%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.04%) Power BI
1 17 (11.04%) Tableau
2 11 (7.14%) Data Mining
3 5 (3.25%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (3.25%) Redis
4 4 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.95%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.30%) Power Query
6 2 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Git
1 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.65%) JIRA
1 1 (0.65%) Maven
1 1 (0.65%) MLflow
1 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (38.31%) Finance
2 51 (33.12%) Social Skills
3 19 (12.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (6.49%) Legal
4 10 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.55%) Law
6 6 (3.90%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.25%) Marketing
7 5 (3.25%) Retail
8 4 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.95%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.65%) Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.65%) Games
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (31.17%) Analyst
2 29 (18.83%) Senior
3 19 (12.34%) Data Analyst
4 14 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
5 11 (7.14%) Accountant
5 11 (7.14%) Systems Accountant
5 11 (7.14%) Trainee
5 11 (7.14%) Trainee Analyst
5 11 (7.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 10 (6.49%) Digital Analyst
7 9 (5.84%) Alliance Manager
8 7 (4.55%) Architect
8 7 (4.55%) Development Manager
8 7 (4.55%) Junior
8 7 (4.55%) Junior Analyst
8 7 (4.55%) Senior Digital Analyst
8 7 (4.55%) Support Analyst
9 6 (3.90%) Business Development Manager
9 6 (3.90%) Developer
9 6 (3.90%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.25%) FastAPI
1 5 (3.25%) RESTful
1 5 (3.25%) SQLAlchemy
2 4 (2.60%) REST
2 4 (2.60%) SOAP
3 3 (1.95%) BAPI
3 3 (1.95%) IBM Integration Bus
3 3 (1.95%) JMS
3 3 (1.95%) Middleware
3 3 (1.95%) OAuth
3 3 (1.95%) SAML
4 1 (0.65%) .NET
4 1 (0.65%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (0.65%) CSS
4 1 (0.65%) EDI
4 1 (0.65%) HTML
4 1 (0.65%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.65%) RAML
4 1 (0.65%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.65%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (5.84%) Public Cloud
3 8 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.25%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.60%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.95%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.30%) CCTV
9 2 (1.30%) CMDB
9 2 (1.30%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.30%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.95%) Linux
2 2 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (33.12%) Analytics
3 39 (25.32%) AI
4 28 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (16.88%) Actionable Insight
6 25 (16.23%) Agile
7 24 (15.58%) Project Management
8 21 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (12.99%) Data Analytics
9 20 (12.99%) Decision-Making
10 19 (12.34%) ERP
11 18 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (11.04%) Business Analysis
13 16 (10.39%) Data Analysis
13 16 (10.39%) Mentoring
14 15 (9.74%) Business Strategy
14 15 (9.74%) Coaching
14 15 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (9.09%) Data Modelling
15 14 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.78%) SQL
2 24 (15.58%) Python
3 5 (3.25%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.60%) Java
5 1 (0.65%) C#
5 1 (0.65%) C++
5 1 (0.65%) R
5 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (11.04%) Degree
2 15 (9.74%) ACCA
2 15 (9.74%) CIMA
3 13 (8.44%) CompTIA Security+
4 9 (5.84%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.19%) CISA
5 8 (5.19%) CISSP
6 7 (4.55%) SSCP
7 6 (3.90%) IRCA
7 6 (3.90%) PMI Certification
7 6 (3.90%) PMP
8 5 (3.25%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.95%) CCNA
10 3 (1.95%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (1.95%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.30%) IIBA
11 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.09%) GDPR
2 12 (7.79%) NIST
3 10 (6.49%) Data Quality
4 8 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (4.55%) QA
6 6 (3.90%) ISO 9001
7 5 (3.25%) Accessibility
7 5 (3.25%) GRC
7 5 (3.25%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.95%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.95%) SLA
9 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.65%) COBIT
10 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.30%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.65%) Docker
3 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.60%) Terraform
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.14%) SAP
3 7 (4.55%) Oracle
4 6 (3.90%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.25%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.95%) IBM
6 3 (1.95%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.30%) Databricks
7 2 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.65%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco
8 1 (0.65%) Dell
8 1 (0.65%) Genesys
8 1 (0.65%) Google
8 1 (0.65%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.65%) Meraki
8 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.65%) PayPal
8 1 (0.65%) Verint
8 1 (0.65%) Zscaler