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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 145 155 220
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.60% 12.43% 7.42%
As % of the General category 10.73% 19.40% 14.37%
Number of salaries quoted 103 90 144
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,700 £32,530
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,625 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -12.28%
75th Percentile £68,250 £62,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £83,100 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £43,653
% change year-on-year +5.26% +8.81% -12.69%

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 1,351 799 1,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 42.82% 64.07% 51.62%
Number of salaries quoted 979 477 1,110
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £73,750 £68,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -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 15 July 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 8 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) Appian
3 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (9.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (5.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.76%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.76%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.76%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.07%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.69%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.10%) Azure
2 16 (11.03%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.21%) SaaS
4 6 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (2.76%) Google Ads
6 4 (2.76%) Google Data Studio
6 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Advertising
7 3 (2.07%) AWS
7 3 (2.07%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.07%) PaaS
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.38%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) BIG-IP
1 1 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (0.69%) Firewall
1 1 (0.69%) HTTP
1 1 (0.69%) SAN
1 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.69%) SSL
1 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.69%) VLAN
1 1 (0.69%) VPN
1 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.34%) Power BI
2 9 (6.21%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.83%) Tableau
4 5 (3.45%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.45%) Redis
5 4 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.07%) Power Query
6 3 (2.07%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.38%) MySQL
8 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 62 (42.76%) Finance
1 62 (42.76%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.97%) Manufacturing
3 12 (8.28%) Legal
4 10 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.90%) Retail
5 8 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.45%) Marketing
7 4 (2.76%) Law
7 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.07%) Social Housing
9 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Local Government
10 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 38 (26.21%) Analyst
2 29 (20.00%) Senior
3 15 (10.34%) Accountant
3 15 (10.34%) Systems Accountant
4 10 (6.90%) Digital Analyst
4 10 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
5 9 (6.21%) Business Development Manager
5 9 (6.21%) Business Manager
5 9 (6.21%) Development Manager
6 8 (5.52%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.52%) Data Analyst
7 7 (4.83%) Lead
7 7 (4.83%) Senior Digital Analyst
8 6 (4.14%) Consultant
8 6 (4.14%) Data Steward
8 6 (4.14%) Head of QA
8 6 (4.14%) IT Manager
9 5 (3.45%) Applications Support
9 5 (3.45%) Project Manager
9 5 (3.45%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.83%) RESTful
2 5 (3.45%) FastAPI
2 5 (3.45%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (2.07%) REST
4 2 (1.38%) .NET
4 2 (1.38%) EDI
5 1 (0.69%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.69%) CSS
5 1 (0.69%) HTML
5 1 (0.69%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.69%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.10%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (6.21%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.83%) Cyber Defence
3 7 (4.83%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.14%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.14%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.76%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.07%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.07%) Clustering
6 3 (2.07%) CMDB
6 3 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.07%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.07%) Replication
6 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.38%) CCTV
7 2 (1.38%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.38%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.76%) Windows
2 3 (2.07%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.62%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (33.79%) Analytics
3 35 (24.14%) AI
4 29 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (19.31%) ERP
6 27 (18.62%) Agile
7 25 (17.24%) Actionable Insight
8 23 (15.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (13.10%) Budgeting
10 18 (12.41%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (12.41%) Decision-Making
10 18 (12.41%) Mentoring
11 17 (11.72%) Business Strategy
12 16 (11.03%) Coaching
12 16 (11.03%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (10.34%) Project Management
14 14 (9.66%) Data Modelling
15 13 (8.97%) Data Analytics
15 13 (8.97%) Data Governance
15 13 (8.97%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.62%) SQL
2 16 (11.03%) Python
3 5 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.76%) Java
5 2 (1.38%) C#
6 1 (0.69%) Delphi
6 1 (0.69%) Pascal
6 1 (0.69%) R
6 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (13.10%) ACCA
1 19 (13.10%) CIMA
2 16 (11.03%) Degree
3 14 (9.66%) CompTIA Security+
4 10 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.52%) CISA
5 8 (5.52%) CISSP
6 7 (4.83%) SSCP
7 6 (4.14%) IRCA
8 5 (3.45%) PMI Certification
8 5 (3.45%) PMP
8 5 (3.45%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.07%) CCNA
10 3 (2.07%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (1.38%) IIBA
11 2 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.69%) CBAP
12 1 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.34%) GDPR
2 12 (8.28%) NIST
3 9 (6.21%) Data Quality
4 8 (5.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (4.14%) GRC
5 6 (4.14%) ISO 9001
5 6 (4.14%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.14%) QA
6 5 (3.45%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.76%) SLA
8 3 (2.07%) ISO 20022
9 2 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.69%) COBIT
10 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.69%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.38%) Firmware
2 2 (1.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (1.38%) Terraform
2 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.59%) SAP
3 5 (3.45%) Google
3 5 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.76%) Hotjar
5 2 (1.38%) Dell
5 2 (1.38%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.69%) Cisco
6 1 (0.69%) Databricks
6 1 (0.69%) F5
6 1 (0.69%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.69%) Jedox
6 1 (0.69%) Meraki
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle
6 1 (0.69%) Planon