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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 589 622 683
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 7.07% 10.08% 8.31%
As % of the General category 12.65% 15.95% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 351 245 518
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,850 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,543 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +17.65% -19.05%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,014 £67,500
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 4,657 3,900 4,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 55.87% 63.22% 59.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,278 1,700 3,935
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £63,000 £65,000 £60,448
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,511 £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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -13 350 £52,500 +5.00% 211
East Midlands +6 237 £38,000 -10.59% 107
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 10 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.68%) CMS
5 3 (0.51%) WordPress
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 71 (12.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (10.36%) Chatbot
3 36 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.87%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.68%) CATIA
7 4 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.34%) Trello
9 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.17%) Sketch
9 1 (0.17%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 12 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.36%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.34%) Primavera
4 2 (0.34%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.34%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.17%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.17%) HFM
5 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.17%) Pegasus Opera
5 1 (0.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 74 (12.56%) Azure
2 63 (10.70%) Power Platform
3 50 (8.49%) SaaS
4 33 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (5.26%) AWS
6 13 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (1.87%) Serverless
8 10 (1.70%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (1.53%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.19%) OCI
11 7 (1.19%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.19%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.77%) Remote Desktop
2 11 (1.87%) Firewall
3 10 (1.70%) WAN
4 9 (1.53%) VLAN
5 8 (1.36%) VPN
6 7 (1.19%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.02%) Wireless
8 4 (0.68%) BGP
8 4 (0.68%) OSPF
8 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.51%) EIGRP
9 3 (0.51%) LAN
9 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.34%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.34%) Broadband
10 2 (0.34%) DHCP
10 2 (0.34%) DNS
10 2 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.02%) Power BI
2 31 (5.26%) Tableau
3 23 (3.90%) Data Mining
4 20 (3.40%) Looker
4 20 (3.40%) SQL Server
5 15 (2.55%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (2.04%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.70%) Metadata
9 10 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.19%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.51%) MySQL
13 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.51%) Power Query
13 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (4.24%) JIRA
2 5 (0.85%) Subversion
3 4 (0.68%) Selenium
4 2 (0.34%) Git
4 2 (0.34%) Postman
4 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.34%) TestRail
5 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.17%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.17%) Maven
5 1 (0.17%) MLflow
5 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.17%) XCUITest
General
1 252 (42.78%) Social Skills
2 136 (23.09%) Finance
3 89 (15.11%) Retail
4 65 (11.04%) Marketing
5 40 (6.79%) Law
6 34 (5.77%) Manufacturing
7 26 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.90%) Public Sector
10 22 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (3.40%) Legal
12 12 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.87%) Electronics
14 9 (1.53%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.53%) Banking
15 6 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.51%) Advertising
16 3 (0.51%) Publishing
16 3 (0.51%) Spanish Language
16 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 154 (26.15%) Analyst
2 66 (11.21%) Lead
3 63 (10.70%) Senior
4 61 (10.36%) Trainer
5 44 (7.47%) Developer
6 42 (7.13%) 2nd Line Support
7 40 (6.79%) Support Analyst
8 32 (5.43%) Data Analyst
9 27 (4.58%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 26 (4.41%) Senior Analyst
11 25 (4.24%) Architect
12 23 (3.90%) Business Analyst
13 22 (3.74%) IT Support
14 19 (3.23%) ERP Support
14 19 (3.23%) Junior
14 19 (3.23%) Support Technician
14 19 (3.23%) Trainee
15 18 (3.06%) ERP Analyst
15 18 (3.06%) Financial Analyst
16 17 (2.89%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.23%) CSS
1 19 (3.23%) HTML
2 16 (2.72%) React
3 15 (2.55%) REST
4 14 (2.38%) Node.js
5 13 (2.21%) SOAP
6 11 (1.87%) Flash
6 11 (1.87%) Middleware
7 9 (1.53%) BAPI
7 9 (1.53%) IBM Integration Bus
7 9 (1.53%) JMS
7 9 (1.53%) OAuth
7 9 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (1.53%) SAML
8 6 (1.02%) .NET
9 5 (0.85%) PySpark
10 4 (0.68%) EDI
10 4 (0.68%) JSON
10 4 (0.68%) Playwright
11 3 (0.51%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.11%) Onboarding
2 60 (10.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 39 (6.62%) Management Information System
4 28 (4.75%) FMCG
5 20 (3.40%) Driving Licence
5 20 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.36%) e-Learning
7 8 (1.36%) IoT
7 8 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.19%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (0.85%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.85%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.68%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.68%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.68%) Social Media
11 4 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.06%) Windows
2 12 (2.04%) Linux
3 3 (0.51%) Unix
4 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 188 (31.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 133 (22.58%) Analytics
4 110 (18.68%) CRM
5 107 (18.17%) ERP
6 97 (16.47%) Decision-Making
7 89 (15.11%) AI
8 80 (13.58%) Project Management
9 78 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
10 74 (12.56%) E-Commerce
11 70 (11.88%) Agile
11 70 (11.88%) Customer Service
11 70 (11.88%) Mentoring
12 67 (11.38%) Analytical Thinking
13 64 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 62 (10.53%) Chemistry
15 61 (10.36%) Conversational UI
16 48 (8.15%) Coaching
17 47 (7.98%) Migration
18 46 (7.81%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 157 (26.66%) SQL
2 59 (10.02%) Python
3 40 (6.79%) C#
4 20 (3.40%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.87%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.85%) Java
9 4 (0.68%) R
9 4 (0.68%) VBA
10 3 (0.51%) ABAP
11 2 (0.34%) Bash
12 1 (0.17%) Bicep
12 1 (0.17%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) Groovy
12 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.17%) Scala
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 197 (33.45%) Degree
2 72 (12.22%) Master's Degree
3 61 (10.36%) PhD
4 31 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 23 (3.90%) SC Cleared
6 22 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.72%) ACCA
8 14 (2.38%) CIMA
9 13 (2.21%) AAT
10 9 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.53%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.53%) PMI Certification
11 8 (1.36%) PMP
12 7 (1.19%) CISSP
13 6 (1.02%) CISM
14 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.85%) CCNP
14 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.49%) QA
2 32 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 24 (4.07%) GDPR
4 18 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.70%) NIST
6 8 (1.36%) PMO
7 7 (1.19%) SLA
8 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.34%) COSHH
9 2 (0.34%) GMP
9 2 (0.34%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) COBIT
10 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.17%) HL7
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.87%) Firmware
3 6 (1.02%) vSphere
4 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.51%) Docker
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.02%) Terraform
3 3 (0.51%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.17%) Grafana
5 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 63 (10.70%) SAP
3 61 (10.36%) PayPal
4 33 (5.60%) Oracle
5 21 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.72%) Cisco
7 10 (1.70%) IBM
8 9 (1.53%) Databricks
9 8 (1.36%) Zoho
10 7 (1.19%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.02%) Google
12 5 (0.85%) Epicor
12 5 (0.85%) Infor
12 5 (0.85%) JD Edwards
13 4 (0.68%) Meraki
13 4 (0.68%) Sage
13 4 (0.68%) SonicWALL
14 3 (0.51%) QAD
14 3 (0.51%) Zscaler
15 2 (0.34%) VMware