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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 138 192 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.89% 10.63% 8.58%
As % of the General category 15.58% 15.79% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 79 77 91
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,650 £33,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -14.55% +5.26%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £66,125
90th Percentile £78,000 £74,014 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.26% -2.56%

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 886 1,216 776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 50.66% 67.29% 57.40%
Number of salaries quoted 597 505 654
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £71,298 £72,500 £65,853
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £80,049
West Midlands median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £49,516
% change year-on-year -7.62% +6.03% -5.68%

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 January 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 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.45%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) SAS
3 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (18.12%) Chatbot
2 21 (15.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (7.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.72%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.72%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.32%) Azure
1 17 (12.32%) Power Platform
2 8 (5.80%) AWS
2 8 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (3.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.17%) SaaS
5 2 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.45%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.72%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.72%) GCP
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.90%) Firewall
1 4 (2.90%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.90%) WAN
2 2 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.45%) VLAN
2 2 (1.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.72%) 4G
3 1 (0.72%) 5G
3 1 (0.72%) BGP
3 1 (0.72%) Broadband
3 1 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.72%) NAS
3 1 (0.72%) Network Security
3 1 (0.72%) OSPF
3 1 (0.72%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.72%) SAN
3 1 (0.72%) SMS
3 1 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.04%) Tableau
2 17 (12.32%) Power BI
3 13 (9.42%) Data Mining
4 6 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.62%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (3.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.45%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.72%) MySQL
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.72%) Power Query
9 1 (0.72%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (2.17%) JIRA
2 2 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.72%) Git
3 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.72%) Maven
3 1 (0.72%) MLflow
General
1 46 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.46%) Finance
3 14 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (7.97%) Legal
5 8 (5.80%) Law
5 8 (5.80%) Marketing
5 8 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.35%) Banking
6 6 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.62%) Retail
8 3 (2.17%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Billing
10 1 (0.72%) Games
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.72%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (26.09%) Analyst
2 25 (18.12%) Trainer
3 19 (13.77%) Data Analyst
4 17 (12.32%) Developer
5 16 (11.59%) Senior
6 13 (9.42%) Trainee
7 12 (8.70%) Trainee Analyst
7 12 (8.70%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 11 (7.97%) Junior
8 11 (7.97%) SAP Developer
9 10 (7.25%) Architect
10 9 (6.52%) Alliance Manager
11 7 (5.07%) Integration Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Support Analyst
12 6 (4.35%) Integration Specialist
13 5 (3.62%) Junior Support Technician
13 5 (3.62%) Junior Technical Support
13 5 (3.62%) Lead
13 5 (3.62%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
13 5 (3.62%) Oracle Payroll Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.70%) REST
1 12 (8.70%) SOAP
2 11 (7.97%) BAPI
2 11 (7.97%) IBM Integration Bus
2 11 (7.97%) JMS
2 11 (7.97%) Middleware
2 11 (7.97%) OAuth
2 11 (7.97%) SAML
3 4 (2.90%) EDI
4 2 (1.45%) HTML
5 1 (0.72%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.72%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.72%) Flask
5 1 (0.72%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.72%) RAML
5 1 (0.72%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (7.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.45%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.45%) NHS
5 2 (1.45%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) IoT
6 1 (0.72%) PropTech
6 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.35%) Linux
1 6 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (31.16%) AI
2 39 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (26.81%) Analytics
4 26 (18.84%) Decision-Making
5 25 (18.12%) Chemistry
5 25 (18.12%) Conversational UI
6 23 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 23 (16.67%) Project Management
7 19 (13.77%) Migration
8 18 (13.04%) Agile
8 18 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (13.04%) Data Analytics
9 16 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (10.87%) Actionable Insight
10 15 (10.87%) Business Analysis
11 12 (8.70%) API Management
12 11 (7.97%) Event-Driven
12 11 (7.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (7.97%) High Availability
12 11 (7.97%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (25.36%) SQL
2 23 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (2.90%) ABAP
3 4 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (2.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.45%) Java
5 1 (0.72%) C++
5 1 (0.72%) R
5 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (30.43%) Degree
2 26 (18.84%) Master's Degree
3 25 (18.12%) PhD
4 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.17%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.45%) CISM
6 2 (1.45%) CISSP
6 2 (1.45%) CITP
6 2 (1.45%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.45%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) APMG
7 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.72%) PMP
7 1 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.72%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.90%) GDPR
3 4 (2.90%) NIST
4 3 (2.17%) PMO
4 3 (2.17%) SLA
5 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.72%) COBIT
5 1 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.72%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.62%) Firmware
2 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.17%) Terraform
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.72%) Ansible
3 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 25 (18.12%) PayPal
3 12 (8.70%) SAP
4 11 (7.97%) IBM
5 7 (5.07%) Oracle
6 5 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.45%) Databricks
7 2 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.72%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.72%) Cisco
8 1 (0.72%) Genesys
8 1 (0.72%) Kronos
8 1 (0.72%) Meraki
8 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.72%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.72%) Sage
8 1 (0.72%) Tanium
8 1 (0.72%) Tenable
8 1 (0.72%) Verint
8 1 (0.72%) Zscaler