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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 160 152 181
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.39% 12.70% 7.83%
As % of the General category 10.44% 20.13% 14.33%
Number of salaries quoted 103 86 73
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,875 £35,050
25th Percentile £43,422 £33,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +2.97% -16.53%
75th Percentile £67,375 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £47,988 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.64% -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 1,533 755 1,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 42.08% 63.07% 54.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,046 479 621
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,580 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,830 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,448 £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 20 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 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.25%) SAS
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) Appian
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) IIS
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (10.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (8.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.25%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.13%) Azure
2 23 (14.38%) Power Platform
3 13 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (7.50%) GitHub
5 8 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.75%) AWS
7 5 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.13%) SaaS
8 4 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.50%) Google Ads
8 4 (2.50%) Google Data Studio
8 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Advertising
9 3 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.88%) Azure Databricks
9 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.88%) PaaS
9 3 (1.88%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.88%) WAN
2 2 (1.25%) LAN
2 2 (1.25%) Network Security
3 1 (0.63%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.63%) Firewall
3 1 (0.63%) HTTP
3 1 (0.63%) Internet
3 1 (0.63%) SAN
3 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.63%) SSL
3 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.63%) VLAN
3 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.38%) Power BI
2 15 (9.38%) Relational Database
3 9 (5.63%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.13%) Power Query
5 4 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.50%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.50%) Parquet
5 4 (2.50%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.50%) Redis
6 3 (1.88%) Metadata
6 3 (1.88%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.88%) Spark SQL
6 3 (1.88%) Star Schema
6 3 (1.88%) Tableau
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.25%) Base SAS
7 2 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.13%) Git
3 4 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.25%) JIRA
4 2 (1.25%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (54.38%) Social Skills
2 62 (38.75%) Finance
3 14 (8.75%) Marketing
3 14 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.13%) Legal
5 12 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 11 (6.88%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (5.00%) Retail
8 7 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.13%) Law
10 4 (2.50%) Social Housing
11 2 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Local Government
12 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (18.13%) Analyst
2 18 (11.25%) Senior
3 14 (8.75%) Accountant
3 14 (8.75%) Consultant
3 14 (8.75%) Systems Accountant
4 13 (8.13%) Applications Support
5 12 (7.50%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) Business Development Manager
6 9 (5.63%) Business Manager
6 9 (5.63%) Development Manager
7 8 (5.00%) Applications Consultant
7 8 (5.00%) Business Development Director
7 8 (5.00%) Development Director
7 8 (5.00%) Mainframe Consultant
8 7 (4.38%) Architect
8 7 (4.38%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.38%) Developer
9 6 (3.75%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.13%) Lead
11 4 (2.50%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.13%) .NET
2 8 (5.00%) ISPF
2 8 (5.00%) Spring
2 8 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 7 (4.38%) PySpark
4 6 (3.75%) RESTful
5 5 (3.13%) REST
6 4 (2.50%) FastAPI
6 4 (2.50%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (1.88%) Ajax
7 3 (1.88%) CSS
7 3 (1.88%) HTML
7 3 (1.88%) LDAP
7 3 (1.88%) Web Services
8 2 (1.25%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.25%) EDI
9 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
9 1 (0.63%) SOAP
9 1 (0.63%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.13%) Analytical Mindset
1 13 (8.13%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.00%) Mainframe
5 6 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) CMDB
7 4 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.88%) Clustering
8 3 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.88%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.88%) Replication
8 3 (1.88%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.25%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.38%) Linux
1 7 (4.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (29.38%) AI
3 39 (24.38%) Analytics
4 36 (22.50%) Decision-Making
5 35 (21.88%) ERP
6 31 (19.38%) Agile
7 29 (18.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (17.50%) Business Development
8 28 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (16.88%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (15.00%) Data Modelling
11 19 (11.88%) Actionable Insight
12 18 (11.25%) CRM
13 17 (10.63%) CI/CD
14 16 (10.00%) Budgeting
14 16 (10.00%) Data Governance
14 16 (10.00%) DevOps
15 15 (9.38%) Customer Service
15 15 (9.38%) Mentoring
15 15 (9.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.00%) SQL
2 15 (9.38%) Python
3 13 (8.13%) Java
4 8 (5.00%) COBOL
4 8 (5.00%) JCL
5 5 (3.13%) C#
5 5 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.88%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.25%) C++
7 2 (1.25%) R
8 1 (0.63%) Bash
8 1 (0.63%) Delphi
8 1 (0.63%) Pascal
8 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (9.38%) ACCA
2 14 (8.75%) CIMA
3 12 (7.50%) Degree
4 10 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.38%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.75%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.13%) CCNA
7 5 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.13%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.50%) PMP
9 2 (1.25%) CCNP
9 2 (1.25%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.63%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.63%) CCA
10 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.63%) IIBA
10 1 (0.63%) IRCA
10 1 (0.63%) MCSE
10 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.63%) GDPR
3 6 (3.75%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.13%) GRC
5 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.88%) QA
6 3 (1.88%) SLA
7 2 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.63%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.63%) NIST
8 1 (0.63%) PMO
8 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.13%) Firmware
2 2 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.00%) Broadcom
2 8 (5.00%) SAP
3 5 (3.13%) Google
4 4 (2.50%) Hotjar
4 4 (2.50%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.88%) Cisco
5 3 (1.88%) Databricks
6 2 (1.25%) Dell
6 2 (1.25%) Jedox
6 2 (1.25%) Oracle
6 2 (1.25%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.63%) F5
7 1 (0.63%) Facebook
7 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.63%) Meraki
7 1 (0.63%) YouTube