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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 567 477 927
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.13% 9.89% 8.63%
As % of the General category 10.06% 16.05% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 396 262 648
10th Percentile £29,375 £30,100 £25,600
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +12.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,688 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,625 £68,825
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

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 5,636 2,972 6,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 51.01% 61.63% 57.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,789 1,769 4,637
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £79,200 £75,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -13.93%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -17 349 £51,275 +2.55% 175
East Midlands -8 216 £42,500 -3.41% 123
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 10 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.59%) CMS
3 8 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.06%) Confluence
5 3 (0.53%) IIS
5 3 (0.53%) WordPress
6 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 83 (14.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.76%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.53%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.35%) Trello
8 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.18%) Sketch
8 1 (0.18%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 12 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.23%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.88%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.53%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.53%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.53%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.35%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.18%) Cognos Controller
6 1 (0.18%) HFM
6 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.18%) Primavera
6 1 (0.18%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 83 (14.64%) Azure
2 82 (14.46%) Power Platform
3 40 (7.05%) AWS
3 40 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (6.35%) SaaS
5 12 (2.12%) Amazon S3
5 12 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (2.12%) Serverless
6 11 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (1.94%) GCP
7 10 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (1.76%) Power Automate
8 8 (1.41%) PowerApps
9 7 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.06%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.06%) OCI
11 5 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.71%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.82%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (2.29%) VPN
2 13 (2.29%) WAN
3 10 (1.76%) Wireless
4 9 (1.59%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.23%) Firewall
6 6 (1.06%) DNS
6 6 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.88%) BGP
7 5 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.88%) DHCP
7 5 (0.88%) EIGRP
7 5 (0.88%) OSPF
7 5 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.88%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.71%) LAN
8 4 (0.71%) VLAN
9 3 (0.53%) Broadband
10 2 (0.35%) Internet
11 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (14.11%) Power BI
2 38 (6.70%) Tableau
3 22 (3.88%) Data Mining
4 20 (3.53%) SQL Server
5 15 (2.65%) Looker
6 14 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (2.29%) Power Query
8 12 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.76%) Metadata
10 10 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (1.59%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.59%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.06%) MySQL
13 3 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.35%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (3.70%) JIRA
2 5 (0.88%) Subversion
3 4 (0.71%) Postman
3 4 (0.71%) Selenium
4 3 (0.53%) Git
5 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.35%) JMeter
5 2 (0.35%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.35%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.35%) TestRail
5 2 (0.35%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Maven
6 1 (0.18%) MLflow
6 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 254 (44.80%) Social Skills
2 162 (28.57%) Finance
3 58 (10.23%) Retail
4 47 (8.29%) Marketing
5 37 (6.53%) Manufacturing
6 36 (6.35%) Law
7 34 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (5.64%) Legal
9 29 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (4.23%) Public Sector
11 21 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.59%) Electronics
15 8 (1.41%) Banking
16 7 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.23%) Games
17 4 (0.71%) Financial Institution
18 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 192 (33.86%) Analyst
2 75 (13.23%) Senior
3 44 (7.76%) Support Analyst
4 43 (7.58%) Lead
5 40 (7.05%) Data Analyst
6 39 (6.88%) Developer
7 36 (6.35%) Senior Analyst
8 26 (4.59%) Business Analyst
9 25 (4.41%) IT Support
10 23 (4.06%) Architect
11 21 (3.70%) Junior
12 20 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 20 (3.53%) Trainee
13 19 (3.35%) 2nd Line Support
13 19 (3.35%) ERP Support
13 19 (3.35%) IT Manager
14 18 (3.17%) ERP Analyst
14 18 (3.17%) Financial Analyst
14 18 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.00%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.88%) CSS
1 22 (3.88%) HTML
2 19 (3.35%) React
3 17 (3.00%) Node.js
4 10 (1.76%) Flash
5 9 (1.59%) PyTorch
6 7 (1.23%) Pandas
6 7 (1.23%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.06%) PySpark
7 6 (1.06%) REST
8 5 (0.88%) .NET
8 5 (0.88%) JSON
8 5 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.88%) Playwright
8 5 (0.88%) SOAP
9 4 (0.71%) RESTful
10 3 (0.53%) IBM Integration Bus
10 3 (0.53%) JMS
10 3 (0.53%) OAuth
10 3 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 45 (7.94%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.06%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.35%) Driving Licence
5 17 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.76%) FMCG
7 9 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.41%) IoT
9 6 (1.06%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.06%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (0.88%) Social Media
11 4 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.71%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.17%) Windows
2 11 (1.94%) Linux
3 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.53%) Unix
5 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.18%) CentOS
6 1 (0.18%) Debian
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (50.26%) Problem-Solving
2 174 (30.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 148 (26.10%) Analytics
4 95 (16.75%) Decision-Making
5 89 (15.70%) Agile
6 86 (15.17%) Business Intelligence
7 84 (14.81%) ERP
8 64 (11.29%) CRM
9 63 (11.11%) Project Management
10 62 (10.93%) Mentoring
11 57 (10.05%) Actionable Insight
12 51 (8.99%) AI
12 51 (8.99%) Analytical Thinking
12 51 (8.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 51 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (8.29%) Data Analysis
13 47 (8.29%) E-Commerce
14 46 (8.11%) Coaching
15 44 (7.76%) Process Improvement
15 44 (7.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 151 (26.63%) SQL
2 76 (13.40%) Python
3 24 (4.23%) JavaScript
4 22 (3.88%) C#
5 20 (3.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (2.47%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.59%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.41%) Java
8 8 (1.41%) VBA
9 6 (1.06%) R
10 4 (0.71%) Bash
11 3 (0.53%) PHP
12 2 (0.35%) Bicep
12 2 (0.35%) C++
12 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.35%) Swift
13 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 107 (18.87%) Degree
2 45 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.00%) ACCA
4 32 (5.64%) CIMA
4 32 (5.64%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.29%) CISSP
6 13 (2.29%) CompTIA Security+
6 13 (2.29%) DBS Check
6 13 (2.29%) PMI Certification
7 12 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.12%) PMP
8 10 (1.76%) AAT
9 9 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.41%) CISA
10 8 (1.41%) SSCP
11 6 (1.06%) CISM
11 6 (1.06%) IRCA
12 5 (0.88%) CCNP
13 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.29%) Data Quality
2 44 (7.76%) QA
3 36 (6.35%) GDPR
4 22 (3.88%) NIST
5 19 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.29%) SLA
7 9 (1.59%) PMO
8 7 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.06%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.88%) COSHH
10 5 (0.88%) GMP
11 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 17 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.71%) Docker
3 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.53%) vSphere
4 2 (0.35%) Firmware
4 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (1.76%) Terraform
2 4 (0.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.53%) Ansible
3 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.35%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.18%) Puppet
5 1 (0.18%) SCCM
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 118 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.47%) SAP
3 27 (4.76%) Oracle
4 18 (3.17%) Databricks
5 12 (2.12%) Google
6 8 (1.41%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.41%) Zoho
7 7 (1.23%) Cisco
8 5 (0.88%) JD Edwards
8 5 (0.88%) Meraki
9 4 (0.71%) Epicor
9 4 (0.71%) IBM
9 4 (0.71%) Infor
9 4 (0.71%) Sage
10 3 (0.53%) Botify
10 3 (0.53%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.53%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.53%) QAD
10 3 (0.53%) VMware
10 3 (0.53%) Zscaler