Analytical Skills Job Trends in the Midlands

Analytical Skills
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 588 552 740
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.33% 9.84% 8.38%
As % of the General category 11.81% 15.39% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 370 232 547
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,100 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £48,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.94% -19.05%
75th Percentile £64,750 £62,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,014 £68,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 4,978 3,587 5,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 53.56% 63.97% 59.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,429 1,707 4,110
10th Percentile £27,700 £29,150 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +14.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £61,218
90th Percentile £78,792 £76,545 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the Midlands

Analytical Skills
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -17 347 £51,250 +2.50% 214
East Midlands +1 239 £40,000 -5.88% 150
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 11 (1.87%) Confluence
2 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.36%) CMS
4 6 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.51%) WordPress
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 85 (14.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (9.01%) Chatbot
3 38 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.70%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.68%) CATIA
7 2 (0.34%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.17%) Sketch
8 1 (0.17%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.36%) NetSuite
3 7 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.85%) Q-Pulse
5 2 (0.34%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.34%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.17%) C-CURE
6 1 (0.17%) Cognos Controller
6 1 (0.17%) HFM
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.17%) Primavera
6 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 73 (12.41%) Azure
2 69 (11.73%) Power Platform
3 50 (8.50%) SaaS
4 35 (5.95%) AWS
5 34 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (2.21%) Serverless
7 12 (2.04%) Amazon S3
7 12 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (1.70%) PowerApps
9 9 (1.53%) Power Automate
10 8 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.19%) OCI
12 5 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (0.85%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.68%) GCP
13 4 (0.68%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.10%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (2.21%) VPN
2 13 (2.21%) WAN
3 10 (1.70%) Firewall
3 10 (1.70%) Wireless
4 9 (1.53%) SD-WAN
5 8 (1.36%) VLAN
6 6 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.85%) BGP
7 5 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.85%) DHCP
7 5 (0.85%) DNS
7 5 (0.85%) EIGRP
7 5 (0.85%) OSPF
7 5 (0.85%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.85%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.68%) LAN
9 3 (0.51%) Broadband
10 2 (0.34%) Internet
10 2 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.05%) Power BI
2 38 (6.46%) Tableau
3 24 (4.08%) Data Mining
4 19 (3.23%) Looker
4 19 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 14 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
6 13 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.87%) Metadata
9 10 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.36%) Power Query
11 7 (1.19%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.51%) MySQL
12 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 25 (4.25%) JIRA
2 5 (0.85%) Subversion
3 3 (0.51%) Selenium
4 2 (0.34%) Git
4 2 (0.34%) Postman
4 2 (0.34%) TestRail
5 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.17%) Maven
5 1 (0.17%) MLflow
5 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.17%) XCUITest
General
1 257 (43.71%) Social Skills
2 146 (24.83%) Finance
3 81 (13.78%) Retail
4 50 (8.50%) Marketing
5 39 (6.63%) Law
6 33 (5.61%) Manufacturing
7 30 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (4.59%) Legal
10 23 (3.91%) Public Sector
11 21 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.70%) Electronics
13 9 (1.53%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.53%) Banking
14 6 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.68%) Games
17 3 (0.51%) Advertising
17 3 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 166 (28.23%) Analyst
2 68 (11.56%) Senior
3 58 (9.86%) Lead
4 53 (9.01%) Trainer
5 42 (7.14%) Developer
6 41 (6.97%) Support Analyst
7 37 (6.29%) 2nd Line Support
8 35 (5.95%) Data Analyst
9 27 (4.59%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 27 (4.59%) Senior Analyst
10 25 (4.25%) Business Analyst
11 24 (4.08%) IT Support
12 23 (3.91%) Architect
13 22 (3.74%) Junior
13 22 (3.74%) Trainee
14 19 (3.23%) ERP Support
14 19 (3.23%) Trainee Analyst
14 19 (3.23%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 18 (3.06%) ERP Analyst
15 18 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.57%) CSS
1 21 (3.57%) HTML
2 18 (3.06%) React
3 16 (2.72%) Node.js
4 11 (1.87%) Flash
4 11 (1.87%) REST
5 9 (1.53%) SOAP
6 7 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.02%) .NET
7 6 (1.02%) Middleware
7 6 (1.02%) PySpark
8 5 (0.85%) BAPI
8 5 (0.85%) IBM Integration Bus
8 5 (0.85%) JMS
8 5 (0.85%) OAuth
8 5 (0.85%) SAML
9 4 (0.68%) JSON
9 4 (0.68%) Playwright
10 3 (0.51%) FastAPI
10 3 (0.51%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.22%) Onboarding
2 53 (9.01%) Analytical Mindset
3 36 (6.12%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.91%) FMCG
5 22 (3.74%) Driving Licence
6 20 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.38%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.53%) IoT
9 8 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.02%) Credit Risk
12 5 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.85%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.68%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.68%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.68%) Social Media
13 4 (0.68%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.51%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.57%) Windows
2 13 (2.21%) Linux
3 3 (0.51%) Unix
3 3 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) CentOS
5 1 (0.17%) Debian
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (48.13%) Problem-Solving
2 180 (30.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 145 (24.66%) Analytics
4 104 (17.69%) ERP
5 99 (16.84%) Decision-Making
6 95 (16.16%) CRM
7 89 (15.14%) AI
8 84 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 79 (13.44%) Project Management
10 68 (11.56%) Analytical Thinking
11 67 (11.39%) Agile
11 67 (11.39%) Mentoring
12 61 (10.37%) Customer Service
13 55 (9.35%) E-Commerce
14 54 (9.18%) Chemistry
15 53 (9.01%) Conversational UI
16 51 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
17 49 (8.33%) Data Analysis
18 47 (7.99%) Root Cause Analysis
18 47 (7.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 156 (26.53%) SQL
2 70 (11.90%) Python
3 36 (6.12%) C#
4 22 (3.74%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.38%) T-SQL
6 12 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.19%) R
8 7 (1.19%) VBA
9 5 (0.85%) Java
10 3 (0.51%) Bash
11 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.17%) Bicep
12 1 (0.17%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.17%) Scala
12 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 172 (29.25%) Degree
2 64 (10.88%) Master's Degree
3 53 (9.01%) PhD
4 38 (6.46%) Security Cleared
5 28 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 22 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.06%) ACCA
8 16 (2.72%) CIMA
9 11 (1.87%) AAT
10 10 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.53%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.36%) CISSP
12 8 (1.36%) PMP
13 7 (1.19%) CISM
13 7 (1.19%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.85%) CCNP
14 5 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.50%) QA
2 39 (6.63%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.76%) GDPR
4 15 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.87%) NIST
6 9 (1.53%) SLA
7 8 (1.36%) PMO
8 6 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.85%) COSHH
9 5 (0.85%) GMP
10 3 (0.51%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.34%) COBIT
11 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.17%) HL7
12 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.19%) vSphere
3 5 (0.85%) Firmware
3 5 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.68%) Docker
5 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (1.19%) Terraform
2 4 (0.68%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Grafana
5 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.17%) Puppet
5 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 125 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 53 (9.01%) PayPal
3 48 (8.16%) SAP
4 29 (4.93%) Oracle
5 17 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.87%) Cisco
7 8 (1.36%) Databricks
7 8 (1.36%) Zoho
8 6 (1.02%) IBM
8 6 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.85%) Epicor
9 5 (0.85%) Google
9 5 (0.85%) Infor
9 5 (0.85%) JD Edwards
9 5 (0.85%) Meraki
10 4 (0.68%) Sage
10 4 (0.68%) SonicWALL
11 3 (0.51%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.51%) QAD
11 3 (0.51%) VMware