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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +13
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 147 161 221
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 5.17% 12.54% 8.15%
As % of the General category 11.87% 19.03% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 99 94 150
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £50,149 £48,000 £43,582
% change year-on-year +4.48% +10.14% -12.84%

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 1,238 846 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 43.55% 65.89% 53.60%
Number of salaries quoted 821 468 1,169
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -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 29 April 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 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.68%) Appian
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.04%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (6.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.04%) SAP CO
2 3 (2.04%) SAP FI
2 3 (2.04%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (2.04%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (0.68%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.68%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.29%) Azure
2 16 (10.88%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.76%) AWS
5 6 (4.08%) SaaS
6 4 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.72%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.68%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.68%) dbt
9 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.68%) Google Docs
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.68%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) Firewall
1 4 (2.72%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.72%) WAN
2 3 (2.04%) VLAN
2 3 (2.04%) VPN
3 1 (0.68%) 4G
3 1 (0.68%) 5G
3 1 (0.68%) Broadband
3 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.68%) NAS
3 1 (0.68%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.68%) SAN
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.93%) Tableau
2 15 (10.20%) Power BI
3 13 (8.84%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.40%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.72%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.04%) Redis
6 3 (2.04%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.36%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.36%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.68%) Power Query
8 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.36%) JIRA
2 1 (0.68%) Git
2 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.68%) Maven
2 1 (0.68%) MLflow
2 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (38.78%) Finance
2 49 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (8.16%) Legal
5 8 (5.44%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.76%) Law
7 6 (4.08%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Retail
9 4 (2.72%) Marketing
10 3 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.04%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.68%) Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (35.37%) Analyst
2 29 (19.73%) Senior
3 21 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 14 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
5 13 (8.84%) Trainee
5 13 (8.84%) Trainee Analyst
5 13 (8.84%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 10 (6.80%) Digital Analyst
7 9 (6.12%) Accountant
7 9 (6.12%) Alliance Manager
7 9 (6.12%) Systems Accountant
8 7 (4.76%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.76%) IT Manager
8 7 (4.76%) Junior
8 7 (4.76%) Junior Analyst
8 7 (4.76%) Senior Digital Analyst
8 7 (4.76%) Support Analyst
9 6 (4.08%) Architect
9 6 (4.08%) Developer
9 6 (4.08%) Head of QA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.72%) REST
1 4 (2.72%) SOAP
2 3 (2.04%) BAPI
2 3 (2.04%) FastAPI
2 3 (2.04%) IBM Integration Bus
2 3 (2.04%) JMS
2 3 (2.04%) Middleware
2 3 (2.04%) OAuth
2 3 (2.04%) RESTful
2 3 (2.04%) SAML
2 3 (2.04%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (0.68%) .NET
3 1 (0.68%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (0.68%) CSS
3 1 (0.68%) EDI
3 1 (0.68%) HTML
3 1 (0.68%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.68%) RAML
3 1 (0.68%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
2 7 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.72%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.04%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.36%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.36%) CMDB
6 2 (1.36%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.36%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.36%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) IoT
7 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (33.33%) Analytics
3 30 (20.41%) AI
4 29 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (18.37%) Agile
6 25 (17.01%) Actionable Insight
7 23 (15.65%) Project Management
8 21 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (13.61%) Data Analytics
10 19 (12.93%) Business Analysis
10 19 (12.93%) Decision-Making
10 19 (12.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (12.24%) Data Analysis
12 17 (11.56%) ERP
13 16 (10.88%) Mentoring
14 15 (10.20%) Business Strategy
14 15 (10.20%) Coaching
15 14 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (9.52%) Data Modelling
15 14 (9.52%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.77%) SQL
2 24 (16.33%) Python
3 5 (3.40%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.72%) Java
5 3 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.68%) C#
6 1 (0.68%) C++
6 1 (0.68%) R
6 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (10.88%) Degree
2 13 (8.84%) ACCA
2 13 (8.84%) CIMA
3 10 (6.80%) CompTIA Security+
4 9 (6.12%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.44%) CISA
5 8 (5.44%) CISSP
6 7 (4.76%) SSCP
7 6 (4.08%) IRCA
7 6 (4.08%) PMI Certification
7 6 (4.08%) PMP
8 5 (3.40%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (2.04%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.36%) IIBA
10 2 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.52%) GDPR
2 13 (8.84%) NIST
3 8 (5.44%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.76%) QA
5 6 (4.08%) ISO 9001
6 4 (2.72%) GRC
7 3 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.04%) ISO 20022
7 3 (2.04%) SLA
8 2 (1.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (1.36%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.36%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.68%) COBIT
9 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.68%) PMO
9 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.68%) Docker
1 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.72%) Terraform
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (21.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.48%) SAP
3 7 (4.76%) Oracle
4 5 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.72%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.04%) IBM
7 2 (1.36%) Databricks
7 2 (1.36%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.68%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco
8 1 (0.68%) Genesys
8 1 (0.68%) Meraki
8 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.68%) PayPal
8 1 (0.68%) Sage
8 1 (0.68%) Tanium
8 1 (0.68%) Tenable
8 1 (0.68%) Verint
8 1 (0.68%) Zscaler