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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 151 147 192
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.32% 11.81% 8.15%
As % of the General category 10.22% 18.68% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 98 90 96
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,650 £36,969
25th Percentile £44,343 £35,625 £44,702
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +5.00% -17.36%
75th Percentile £65,938 £72,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,194 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £49,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% -6.40%

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 1,477 787 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 42.22% 63.21% 52.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 495 714
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,540 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,563 £71,250 £69,313
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,500 £90,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.49%

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 2 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 5 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.66%) Appian
2 1 (0.66%) IIS
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.99%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (1.32%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.66%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.66%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.66%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 20 (13.25%) Azure
2 18 (11.92%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.30%) GitHub
4 7 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.31%) AWS
5 5 (3.31%) SaaS
6 4 (2.65%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (2.65%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (2.65%) Google Ads
6 4 (2.65%) Google Data Studio
6 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Advertising
7 3 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.99%) PaaS
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) WAN
2 1 (0.66%) BIG-IP
2 1 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.66%) Firewall
2 1 (0.66%) HTTP
2 1 (0.66%) LAN
2 1 (0.66%) Network Security
2 1 (0.66%) SAN
2 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.66%) SSL
2 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.66%) VLAN
2 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.92%) Power BI
2 11 (7.28%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.30%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.65%) Redis
5 3 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.99%) Power Query
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.32%) MySQL
6 2 (1.32%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.32%) Tableau
7 1 (0.66%) Base SAS
7 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.66%) Parquet
7 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.66%) Git
2 1 (0.66%) JIRA
2 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 82 (54.30%) Social Skills
2 64 (42.38%) Finance
3 13 (8.61%) Marketing
4 12 (7.95%) Manufacturing
5 10 (6.62%) Legal
5 10 (6.62%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (5.96%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.30%) Retail
8 6 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.31%) Law
10 3 (1.99%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.66%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Local Government
11 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 32 (21.19%) Analyst
2 18 (11.92%) Senior
3 16 (10.60%) Accountant
3 16 (10.60%) Systems Accountant
4 12 (7.95%) Consultant
5 10 (6.62%) Applications Support
6 9 (5.96%) Business Development Manager
6 9 (5.96%) Business Manager
6 9 (5.96%) Development Manager
7 8 (5.30%) Business Development Director
7 8 (5.30%) Data Engineer
7 8 (5.30%) Development Director
7 8 (5.30%) Digital Analyst
8 7 (4.64%) Applications Consultant
8 7 (4.64%) Mainframe Consultant
9 6 (3.97%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.31%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.31%) Lead
10 5 (3.31%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.28%) .NET
2 7 (4.64%) ISPF
2 7 (4.64%) Spring
2 7 (4.64%) Spring Boot
3 6 (3.97%) RESTful
4 4 (2.65%) FastAPI
4 4 (2.65%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (1.99%) Ajax
5 3 (1.99%) CSS
5 3 (1.99%) HTML
5 3 (1.99%) LDAP
5 3 (1.99%) PySpark
5 3 (1.99%) REST
5 3 (1.99%) Web Services
6 2 (1.32%) EDI
7 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.66%) Terraform
7 1 (0.66%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (7.28%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.64%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (4.64%) Mainframe
5 7 (4.64%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.31%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.31%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.65%) CMDB
7 4 (2.65%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.99%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.99%) Clustering
8 3 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.99%) Replication
9 2 (1.32%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.64%) Windows
2 6 (3.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.72%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (29.14%) AI
3 37 (24.50%) Agile
4 34 (22.52%) Analytics
5 33 (21.85%) ERP
6 28 (18.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (17.88%) Decision-Making
8 26 (17.22%) Business Development
8 26 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (13.25%) Actionable Insight
10 19 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (11.26%) Budgeting
12 16 (10.60%) Mentoring
13 15 (9.93%) Business Strategy
13 15 (9.93%) CRM
14 14 (9.27%) Coaching
14 14 (9.27%) Collaborative Working
14 14 (9.27%) Customer Service
14 14 (9.27%) Data Modelling
15 13 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.23%) SQL
2 12 (7.95%) Java
3 11 (7.28%) Python
4 7 (4.64%) COBOL
4 7 (4.64%) JCL
5 5 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.65%) C#
7 3 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.99%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.32%) C++
9 1 (0.66%) Delphi
9 1 (0.66%) Pascal
9 1 (0.66%) R
9 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (10.60%) ACCA
1 16 (10.60%) CIMA
2 14 (9.27%) Degree
3 12 (7.95%) CompTIA Security+
4 10 (6.62%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.97%) PMI Certification
6 5 (3.31%) CISA
6 5 (3.31%) CISSP
6 5 (3.31%) PMP
6 5 (3.31%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.31%) SSCP
7 4 (2.65%) CCNA
7 4 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.99%) IRCA
9 1 (0.66%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.66%) CCA
9 1 (0.66%) CCNP
9 1 (0.66%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.66%) MCSE
9 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.95%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.28%) GDPR
3 9 (5.96%) NIST
4 7 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.31%) GRC
5 5 (3.31%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.65%) QA
7 3 (1.99%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.99%) SLA
8 2 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.66%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.31%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.31%) Firmware
2 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.62%) SAP
3 7 (4.64%) Broadcom
4 6 (3.97%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.65%) Google
5 4 (2.65%) Hotjar
5 4 (2.65%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco
6 2 (1.32%) Dell
6 2 (1.32%) Jedox
6 2 (1.32%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.66%) F5
7 1 (0.66%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.66%) Meraki
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle
7 1 (0.66%) YouTube