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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 750 624 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.77% 11.14% 10.76%
As % of the General category 10.78% 16.87% 19.61%
Number of salaries quoted 459 310 274
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,743 £44,543 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% -7.20% -4.00%
75th Percentile £59,125 £59,813 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -3.51%

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 6,959 3,699 5,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 44.22% 66.02% 54.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,474 2,077 2,238
10th Percentile £28,901 £26,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,543 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -18 382 £47,500 +5.56% 409
East Midlands -4 366 £43,173 +7.93% 260
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 27 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.07%) IIS
4 5 (0.67%) SAS
5 4 (0.53%) CMS
6 3 (0.40%) WordPress
7 2 (0.27%) Confluence
8 1 (0.13%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) Appian
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 84 (11.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.20%) Simulink
4 8 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.67%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.27%) InDesign
7 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.27%) Notion
8 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.13%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.13%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.13%) LaTeX
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.13%) Revit
8 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.80%) Infor M3
2 6 (0.80%) SAP Business One
3 5 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.67%) Shopify
4 4 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
4 4 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.53%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics SL
6 1 (0.13%) Magento
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 132 (17.60%) Power Platform
2 127 (16.93%) Azure
3 50 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (4.93%) SaaS
5 36 (4.80%) AWS
6 31 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (3.07%) GCP
8 19 (2.53%) Entra ID
9 16 (2.13%) Power Automate
10 14 (1.87%) GitHub
11 13 (1.73%) Google Ads
11 13 (1.73%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (1.47%) Google Analytics
14 10 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (1.20%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.47%) TCP/IP
2 23 (3.07%) Firewall
3 18 (2.40%) VPN
4 16 (2.13%) DNS
5 13 (1.73%) Internet
5 13 (1.73%) VLAN
6 12 (1.60%) Wireless
7 10 (1.33%) Network Security
7 10 (1.33%) Wireshark
8 9 (1.20%) DHCP
8 9 (1.20%) WAN
9 8 (1.07%) LAN
10 7 (0.93%) Modbus
11 6 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.53%) MQTT
12 4 (0.53%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.27%) HTTP
13 2 (0.27%) J1939
13 2 (0.27%) SMS
13 2 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (17.07%) Power BI
2 33 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 31 (4.13%) Power Query
4 29 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (3.60%) Relational Database
6 24 (3.20%) Tableau
7 20 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.07%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.93%) Delta Lake
11 7 (0.93%) Looker
11 7 (0.93%) Metadata
11 7 (0.93%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.80%) GIS
12 6 (0.80%) MySQL
12 6 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.80%) QlikView
13 5 (0.67%) Crystal Reports
13 5 (0.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (2.93%) Git
2 11 (1.47%) JIRA
3 9 (1.20%) Eclipse
3 9 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.93%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.53%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.53%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.27%) GitLab
7 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.13%) Appium
8 1 (0.13%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.13%) Ranorex
8 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.13%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 376 (50.13%) Social Skills
2 207 (27.60%) Finance
3 100 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 88 (11.73%) Marketing
5 66 (8.80%) Retail
6 58 (7.73%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (4.27%) Public Sector
10 30 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (3.87%) Telecoms
12 28 (3.73%) Legal
13 25 (3.33%) Electronics
14 17 (2.27%) Law
15 11 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.47%) Fire and Rescue
16 9 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.20%) Social Housing
17 7 (0.93%) Advertising
17 7 (0.93%) Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (23.07%) Analyst
2 67 (8.93%) Senior
3 59 (7.87%) Lead
4 52 (6.93%) Data Analyst
5 36 (4.80%) Developer
6 34 (4.53%) Support Analyst
7 30 (4.00%) Accountant
8 28 (3.73%) Consultant
9 27 (3.60%) Business Analyst
9 27 (3.60%) Support Engineer
10 25 (3.33%) Business Manager
11 24 (3.20%) IT Support
11 24 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
12 23 (3.07%) Data Engineer
13 21 (2.80%) IT Analyst
14 19 (2.53%) Applications Support
14 19 (2.53%) Security Analyst
15 18 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Manager
15 18 (2.40%) Delivery Manager
15 18 (2.40%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.53%) .NET
2 17 (2.27%) REST
3 12 (1.60%) PySpark
4 11 (1.47%) SOAP
5 10 (1.33%) XML
6 9 (1.20%) CSS
6 9 (1.20%) HTML
6 9 (1.20%) ISPF
6 9 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (1.20%) RESTful
6 9 (1.20%) Spring
6 9 (1.20%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.07%) EDI
7 8 (1.07%) JSON
7 8 (1.07%) LDAP
8 6 (0.80%) Middleware
9 5 (0.67%) scikit-learn
10 4 (0.53%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.53%) Pandas
10 4 (0.53%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.53%) Management Information System
2 62 (8.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 58 (7.73%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (5.87%) Driving Licence
5 34 (4.53%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.13%) SCADA
8 14 (1.87%) CMDB
8 14 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.73%) Robotics
10 12 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.60%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (1.47%) Social Media
12 10 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.33%) Mainframe
13 9 (1.20%) IoT
13 9 (1.20%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 54 (7.20%) Windows
2 37 (4.93%) Linux
3 19 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.93%) Android
5 6 (0.80%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.67%) OpenVMS
6 5 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.53%) VMS
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (54.67%) Problem-Solving
2 224 (29.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 193 (25.73%) Decision-Making
4 167 (22.27%) Analytics
5 153 (20.40%) Business Intelligence
6 119 (15.87%) Agile
7 92 (12.27%) ERP
7 92 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 85 (11.33%) AI
9 81 (10.80%) Cybersecurity
10 80 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 74 (9.87%) Actionable Insight
12 71 (9.47%) Roadmaps
12 71 (9.47%) Validation
13 70 (9.33%) CRM
14 67 (8.93%) Customer Service
15 65 (8.67%) Analytical Thinking
16 64 (8.53%) Collaborative Working
17 63 (8.40%) Data Modelling
18 62 (8.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 168 (22.40%) SQL
2 77 (10.27%) Python
3 32 (4.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (3.33%) Java
5 22 (2.93%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.87%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.73%) C#
8 11 (1.47%) C
8 11 (1.47%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.20%) COBOL
9 9 (1.20%) Embedded C
9 9 (1.20%) JCL
9 9 (1.20%) MATLAB
10 6 (0.80%) C++
11 5 (0.67%) Bash
11 5 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.53%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.53%) VBA
13 3 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 160 (21.33%) Degree
2 64 (8.53%) Security Cleared
3 49 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.53%) ACCA
5 33 (4.40%) CIMA
6 20 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.40%) HNC
7 18 (2.40%) HND
8 15 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 13 (1.73%) CCNA
9 13 (1.73%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.60%) PMI Certification
11 11 (1.47%) NVQ Level 4
12 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.20%) PMP
13 8 (1.07%) SANS
14 7 (0.93%) CISSP
14 7 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (0.80%) A+ Certification
15 6 (0.80%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (11.07%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.00%) GDPR
3 29 (3.87%) QA
4 17 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.00%) GRC
5 15 (2.00%) ISO 9001
6 11 (1.47%) SLA
7 10 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.07%) NIST
10 7 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.93%) PMO
11 5 (0.67%) ISO 14001
12 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 3 (0.40%) AQAP
14 2 (0.27%) COSHH
14 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 32 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.67%) Firmware
3 15 (2.00%) Docker
4 9 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (0.67%) Functional Safety
2 4 (0.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.53%) Nmap
2 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.27%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.13%) Ansible
5 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 200 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.07%) Google
3 27 (3.60%) Oracle
4 23 (3.07%) SAP
5 21 (2.80%) Cisco
5 21 (2.80%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.53%) Databricks
7 15 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.47%) Allen-Bradley
8 11 (1.47%) HubSpot
9 9 (1.20%) Broadcom
10 8 (1.07%) SYSPRO
11 7 (0.93%) Adobe
12 6 (0.80%) Fortinet
12 6 (0.80%) Infor
12 6 (0.80%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.80%) VMware
12 6 (0.80%) YouTube
13 4 (0.53%) Hotjar