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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 556 503 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.42% 9.94% 9.48%
As % of the General category 9.87% 15.06% 17.43%
Number of salaries quoted 384 271 648
10th Percentile £30,987 £27,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,014 £68,750
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 5,634 3,339 7,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 44.83% 66.00% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,209 1,723 4,829
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,208 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,335 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £64,500 £63,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £71,725
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -17 310 £51,300 +8.00% 157
East Midlands +3 245 £45,000 -5.76% 96
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 12 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.26%) IIS
4 6 (1.08%) CMS
5 3 (0.54%) Confluence
6 1 (0.18%) Appian
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (11.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.62%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.54%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.90%) Q-Pulse
3 3 (0.54%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.54%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.54%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.36%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (16.01%) Power Platform
2 81 (14.57%) Azure
3 53 (9.53%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (7.01%) AWS
5 26 (4.68%) SaaS
6 14 (2.52%) GCP
7 13 (2.34%) Amazon S3
8 12 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (2.16%) Power Automate
8 12 (2.16%) Serverless
9 11 (1.98%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (1.62%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.90%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (0.72%) Google Sheets
14 4 (0.72%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.42%) VPN
2 14 (2.52%) Firewall
2 14 (2.52%) WAN
3 11 (1.98%) DNS
3 11 (1.98%) Wireless
4 9 (1.62%) SD-WAN
4 9 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.08%) BGP
6 6 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.08%) DHCP
6 6 (1.08%) EIGRP
6 6 (1.08%) LAN
6 6 (1.08%) OSPF
6 6 (1.08%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.90%) VLAN
8 4 (0.72%) MQTT
9 3 (0.54%) Network Security
10 2 (0.36%) Broadband
10 2 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (15.47%) Power BI
2 27 (4.86%) Tableau
3 20 (3.60%) Power Query
4 19 (3.42%) SQL Server
5 14 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (1.80%) Data Mining
7 9 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.44%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.08%) MySQL
11 5 (0.90%) Redis
12 4 (0.72%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.72%) Metadata
12 4 (0.72%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.54%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.36%) Looker
14 2 (0.36%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (2.52%) JIRA
2 4 (0.72%) Git
3 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
3 2 (0.36%) JMeter
3 2 (0.36%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.36%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.36%) Postman
3 2 (0.36%) SoapUI
3 2 (0.36%) Subversion
3 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.36%) TestRail
3 2 (0.36%) XCUITest
4 1 (0.18%) Appium
4 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.18%) Bugzilla
4 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.18%) GitLab
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 227 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 163 (29.32%) Finance
3 62 (11.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (7.55%) Retail
5 33 (5.94%) Manufacturing
5 33 (5.94%) Marketing
6 27 (4.86%) Legal
7 26 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
7 26 (4.68%) Law
8 23 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (2.52%) Public Sector
10 13 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.26%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.26%) Games
12 7 (1.26%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.08%) Electronics
13 6 (1.08%) Japanese Language
14 5 (0.90%) German Language
Job Titles
1 175 (31.47%) Analyst
2 74 (13.31%) Senior
3 51 (9.17%) Data Analyst
4 35 (6.29%) Lead
4 35 (6.29%) Senior Analyst
5 30 (5.40%) Business Analyst
5 30 (5.40%) Developer
6 29 (5.22%) Support Engineer
7 28 (5.04%) Accountant
8 23 (4.14%) IT Support
8 23 (4.14%) Systems Accountant
9 22 (3.96%) Delivery Manager
10 21 (3.78%) IT Analyst
11 20 (3.60%) IT Manager
11 20 (3.60%) Security Analyst
12 19 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 19 (3.42%) Senior Data Analyst
12 19 (3.42%) Support Analyst
13 18 (3.24%) Junior
14 17 (3.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.24%) CSS
1 18 (3.24%) HTML
2 14 (2.52%) Node.js
2 14 (2.52%) React
3 8 (1.44%) Pandas
3 8 (1.44%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.44%) RESTful
4 7 (1.26%) scikit-learn
5 5 (0.90%) FastAPI
5 5 (0.90%) JSON
5 5 (0.90%) SQLAlchemy
6 4 (0.72%) .NET
6 4 (0.72%) EDI
6 4 (0.72%) Middleware
6 4 (0.72%) PySpark
6 4 (0.72%) REST
7 3 (0.54%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.54%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.36%) COM
8 2 (0.36%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.15%) Analytical Mindset
2 23 (4.14%) Driving Licence
2 23 (4.14%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.06%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.80%) CSOC
6 10 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.62%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.44%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.26%) IoT
10 5 (0.90%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.90%) FMCG
10 5 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (0.72%) CMDB
11 4 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.32%) Windows
2 13 (2.34%) Linux
3 11 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.72%) VMS
5 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.36%) CentOS
6 2 (0.36%) Debian
6 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (52.16%) Problem-Solving
2 147 (26.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 124 (22.30%) Analytics
4 104 (18.71%) Decision-Making
5 97 (17.45%) Business Intelligence
6 91 (16.37%) Agile
7 79 (14.21%) Actionable Insight
8 69 (12.41%) AI
9 64 (11.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 61 (10.97%) ERP
10 61 (10.97%) Roadmaps
11 59 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
12 56 (10.07%) Data Analysis
13 55 (9.89%) Coaching
14 50 (8.99%) Analytical Thinking
15 48 (8.63%) Collaborative Working
15 48 (8.63%) Mentoring
16 40 (7.19%) Business Strategy
16 40 (7.19%) Data Modelling
17 39 (7.01%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (25.72%) SQL
2 96 (17.27%) Python
3 26 (4.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (3.24%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.34%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.98%) VBA
7 8 (1.44%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.26%) Java
8 7 (1.26%) R
9 6 (1.08%) C#
9 6 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.90%) Bash
10 5 (0.90%) PHP
11 3 (0.54%) C++
12 2 (0.36%) RPG
12 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.36%) Swift
13 1 (0.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 80 (14.39%) Degree
2 46 (8.27%) Security Cleared
3 33 (5.94%) ACCA
3 33 (5.94%) CIMA
4 30 (5.40%) SC Cleared
5 21 (3.78%) CompTIA Security+
6 15 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.16%) CISSP
8 12 (2.16%) DBS Check
8 12 (2.16%) SSCP
9 11 (1.98%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.80%) PMP
11 8 (1.44%) CISA
12 7 (1.26%) CompTIA CySA+
13 6 (1.08%) CCNP
13 6 (1.08%) IRCA
13 6 (1.08%) MOS
13 6 (1.08%) SANS
14 5 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.37%) GDPR
2 34 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 26 (4.68%) QA
4 23 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (4.14%) NIST
5 14 (2.52%) GRC
6 11 (1.98%) ISO 9001
6 11 (1.98%) SLA
7 8 (1.44%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.90%) COSHH
9 5 (0.90%) GMP
9 5 (0.90%) ISO 14001
9 5 (0.90%) PMO
10 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.08%) Docker
3 4 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.54%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.54%) vSphere
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (1.44%) Terraform
2 4 (0.72%) Functional Safety
2 4 (0.72%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.54%) Ansible
4 2 (0.36%) Grafana
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.36%) Nmap
4 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.36%) Puppet
5 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.18%) SCCM
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (19.60%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.78%) SAP
3 18 (3.24%) Databricks
4 14 (2.52%) Google
5 13 (2.34%) Oracle
6 10 (1.80%) Cisco
6 10 (1.80%) HubSpot
7 7 (1.26%) Meraki
7 7 (1.26%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.90%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.72%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.72%) VMware
10 3 (0.54%) Adobe
10 3 (0.54%) Botify
10 3 (0.54%) QAD
10 3 (0.54%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.36%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.36%) Workday
11 2 (0.36%) Zscaler