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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -20 +8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 161 158 176
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.40% 13.26% 7.82%
As % of the General category 10.66% 20.98% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 98 83 63
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,650 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +3.96% -16.53%
75th Percentile £68,625 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 1,511 753 1,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 41.30% 63.17% 57.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 471 579
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £32,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,500 £82,500 £90,000
West Midlands median annual salary £49,565 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -7.77% +3.00%

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 5 October 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 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.24%) SAS
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.62%) Appian
3 1 (0.62%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) IIS
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (12.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (8.07%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.24%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.62%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.62%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (20.50%) Azure
2 24 (14.91%) Power Platform
3 15 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (8.70%) GitHub
5 10 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.97%) AWS
7 6 (3.73%) SaaS
8 5 (3.11%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (3.11%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.48%) GCP
9 4 (2.48%) Google Ads
9 4 (2.48%) Google Data Studio
9 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Advertising
10 3 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.86%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 3 (1.86%) PaaS
10 3 (1.86%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) Internet
1 3 (1.86%) WAN
2 2 (1.24%) LAN
2 2 (1.24%) Network Security
3 1 (0.62%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.62%) Firewall
3 1 (0.62%) HTTP
3 1 (0.62%) SAN
3 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.62%) SSL
3 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.62%) VLAN
3 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.91%) Power BI
2 19 (11.80%) Relational Database
3 9 (5.59%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.73%) Power Query
5 5 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.11%) Metadata
5 5 (3.11%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (3.11%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.11%) Star Schema
6 4 (2.48%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.48%) Parquet
7 3 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.86%) Redis
7 3 (1.86%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.86%) Tableau
8 2 (1.24%) Base SAS
8 2 (1.24%) MySQL
8 2 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.21%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.35%) Git
3 4 (2.48%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.86%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.24%) JIRA
5 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 92 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 61 (37.89%) Finance
3 17 (10.56%) Marketing
4 16 (9.94%) Legal
5 14 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.45%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (6.21%) Manufacturing
7 10 (6.21%) Retail
8 8 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.11%) Law
11 4 (2.48%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.86%) Local Government
13 1 (0.62%) Billing
13 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.62%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.62%) French Language
13 1 (0.62%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (18.63%) Analyst
2 18 (11.18%) Senior
3 15 (9.32%) Consultant
4 13 (8.07%) Applications Support
5 12 (7.45%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.83%) Accountant
6 11 (6.83%) Systems Accountant
7 10 (6.21%) Applications Consultant
7 10 (6.21%) Developer
7 10 (6.21%) Mainframe Consultant
8 9 (5.59%) Architect
9 8 (4.97%) Business Development Director
9 8 (4.97%) Business Development Manager
9 8 (4.97%) Business Manager
9 8 (4.97%) Development Director
9 8 (4.97%) Development Manager
10 7 (4.35%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.73%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.11%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.11%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.32%) .NET
2 10 (6.21%) ISPF
2 10 (6.21%) Spring
2 10 (6.21%) Spring Boot
3 7 (4.35%) PySpark
3 7 (4.35%) REST
4 5 (3.11%) RESTful
5 3 (1.86%) Ajax
5 3 (1.86%) CSS
5 3 (1.86%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.86%) HTML
5 3 (1.86%) LDAP
5 3 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.86%) SOAP
5 3 (1.86%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (1.86%) Web Services
6 2 (1.24%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.24%) EDI
7 1 (0.62%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.62%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (8.07%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (7.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (6.83%) Management Information System
5 10 (6.21%) Legacy Applications
5 10 (6.21%) Mainframe
6 8 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.73%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.73%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.11%) Taxonomies
9 4 (2.48%) CMDB
9 4 (2.48%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.48%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.86%) Clustering
10 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.86%) Replication
11 2 (1.24%) CCTV
11 2 (1.24%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.59%) Linux
2 7 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (44.10%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (27.95%) AI
3 41 (25.47%) Analytics
4 39 (24.22%) Decision-Making
5 34 (21.12%) ERP
6 32 (19.88%) Agile
7 31 (19.25%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (19.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 29 (18.01%) Business Development
9 26 (16.15%) Data Modelling
10 25 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (13.04%) CI/CD
12 20 (12.42%) DevOps
13 19 (11.80%) CRM
13 19 (11.80%) Mentoring
14 18 (11.18%) Actionable Insight
14 18 (11.18%) Data Governance
15 17 (10.56%) Customer Service
16 16 (9.94%) Collaborative Culture
16 16 (9.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.74%) SQL
2 15 (9.32%) Java
2 15 (9.32%) Python
3 10 (6.21%) COBOL
3 10 (6.21%) JCL
4 7 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.11%) C#
5 5 (3.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.48%) R
7 3 (1.86%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.86%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.24%) C++
9 1 (0.62%) Bash
9 1 (0.62%) Delphi
9 1 (0.62%) Pascal
9 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (9.32%) Degree
2 12 (7.45%) ACCA
3 11 (6.83%) CIMA
4 9 (5.59%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (3.11%) CCNA
6 5 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.11%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.48%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.86%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.24%) CCNP
9 2 (1.24%) PMP
10 1 (0.62%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.62%) CCA
10 1 (0.62%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.62%) CITP
10 1 (0.62%) MCSE
10 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.15%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.73%) GDPR
4 5 (3.11%) GRC
5 4 (2.48%) QA
6 3 (1.86%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.86%) SLA
7 2 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (3.11%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.11%) Firmware
2 3 (1.86%) Docker
3 2 (1.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.21%) Broadcom
3 7 (4.35%) Google
4 5 (3.11%) Databricks
4 5 (3.11%) SAP
5 4 (2.48%) Hotjar
5 4 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.86%) Cisco
6 3 (1.86%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.86%) Oracle
7 2 (1.24%) Dell
7 2 (1.24%) Jedox
7 2 (1.24%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.62%) F5
8 1 (0.62%) Facebook
8 1 (0.62%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.62%) Meraki
8 1 (0.62%) Samsung
8 1 (0.62%) TikTok
8 1 (0.62%) YouTube