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 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -27 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 554 517 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.35% 10.37% 9.73%
As % of the General category 8.87% 16.73% 17.08%
Number of salaries quoted 395 288 646
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,000
England median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +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 6,249 3,091 6,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 49.01% 62.01% 56.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,022 1,787 4,702
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,437 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +12.38% -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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -28 329 £50,000 +4.17% 193
East Midlands -12 223 £45,000 - 115
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 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.26%) CMS
4 5 (0.90%) IIS
5 4 (0.72%) Confluence
6 1 (0.18%) Appian
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 78 (14.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.54%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.54%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.18%) Sketch
7 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.99%) 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%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.36%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.18%) Primavera
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 87 (15.70%) Power Platform
2 80 (14.44%) Azure
3 50 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (7.04%) AWS
5 21 (3.79%) SaaS
6 13 (2.35%) GCP
7 12 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 12 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (2.17%) Serverless
8 11 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.99%) Power Automate
9 10 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (1.44%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.44%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.72%) Google Analytics
13 3 (0.54%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.25%) VPN
2 15 (2.71%) WAN
3 12 (2.17%) Firewall
4 11 (1.99%) Wireless
5 10 (1.81%) SD-WAN
6 9 (1.62%) DNS
7 7 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.08%) BGP
8 6 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.08%) EIGRP
8 6 (1.08%) OSPF
8 6 (1.08%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.08%) Wireshark
9 5 (0.90%) DHCP
9 5 (0.90%) LAN
9 5 (0.90%) VLAN
10 4 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.54%) Broadband
11 3 (0.54%) MQTT
12 2 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (15.16%) Power BI
2 34 (6.14%) Tableau
3 17 (3.07%) Data Mining
3 17 (3.07%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.71%) Power Query
5 13 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.62%) Looker
8 9 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.44%) Metadata
9 8 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.08%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.90%) MySQL
12 4 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.54%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.54%) Redis
13 3 (0.54%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.36%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 20 (3.61%) JIRA
2 5 (0.90%) Subversion
3 3 (0.54%) Git
3 3 (0.54%) Postman
3 3 (0.54%) Selenium
4 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.36%) JMeter
4 2 (0.36%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.36%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.36%) TestRail
4 2 (0.36%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.18%) Bugzilla
5 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.18%) GitLab
5 1 (0.18%) Maven
5 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 240 (43.32%) Social Skills
2 158 (28.52%) Finance
3 51 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (7.22%) Retail
5 37 (6.68%) Marketing
6 35 (6.32%) Manufacturing
7 31 (5.60%) Law
8 29 (5.23%) Legal
9 27 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.89%) Public Sector
12 12 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.44%) Electronics
15 7 (1.26%) Games
16 6 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.90%) Japanese Language
18 4 (0.72%) Banking
18 4 (0.72%) German Language
Job Titles
1 192 (34.66%) Analyst
2 74 (13.36%) Senior
3 44 (7.94%) Data Analyst
4 37 (6.68%) Lead
5 35 (6.32%) Developer
6 33 (5.96%) Support Analyst
7 32 (5.78%) Senior Analyst
8 28 (5.05%) Business Analyst
9 25 (4.51%) IT Support
10 23 (4.15%) Support Engineer
11 22 (3.97%) IT Analyst
11 22 (3.97%) Junior
12 21 (3.79%) Accountant
12 21 (3.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 21 (3.79%) IT Manager
13 20 (3.61%) Junior Analyst
13 20 (3.61%) Security Analyst
14 18 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.25%) Systems Accountant
15 17 (3.07%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.33%) CSS
1 24 (4.33%) HTML
2 18 (3.25%) React
3 17 (3.07%) Node.js
4 9 (1.62%) PyTorch
5 7 (1.26%) Pandas
5 7 (1.26%) scikit-learn
6 6 (1.08%) Flash
6 6 (1.08%) PySpark
7 5 (0.90%) .NET
7 5 (0.90%) JSON
7 5 (0.90%) REST
7 5 (0.90%) RESTful
7 5 (0.90%) SOAP
8 4 (0.72%) Playwright
9 3 (0.54%) FastAPI
9 3 (0.54%) IBM Integration Bus
9 3 (0.54%) OAuth
9 3 (0.54%) SQLAlchemy
9 3 (0.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 31 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.15%) Driving Licence
4 20 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.07%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.81%) CSOC
7 10 (1.81%) FMCG
8 9 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.26%) IoT
10 7 (1.26%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.90%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (0.72%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.25%) Windows
2 12 (2.17%) Linux
3 9 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.54%) VMS
5 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.36%) CentOS
5 2 (0.36%) Debian
5 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
2 149 (26.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 124 (22.38%) Analytics
4 91 (16.43%) Agile
4 91 (16.43%) Business Intelligence
5 84 (15.16%) Decision-Making
6 69 (12.45%) ERP
7 62 (11.19%) AI
8 57 (10.29%) Actionable Insight
9 54 (9.75%) Mentoring
10 52 (9.39%) Project Management
11 48 (8.66%) Analytical Thinking
11 48 (8.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 47 (8.48%) Coaching
12 47 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
13 46 (8.30%) CRM
14 44 (7.94%) Data Analysis
14 44 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
15 42 (7.58%) Process Improvement
16 39 (7.04%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 142 (25.63%) SQL
2 83 (14.98%) Python
3 25 (4.51%) JavaScript
4 22 (3.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.99%) VBA
7 10 (1.81%) C#
7 10 (1.81%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.62%) Java
9 6 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.08%) R
10 5 (0.90%) Bash
10 5 (0.90%) PHP
11 2 (0.36%) Bicep
11 2 (0.36%) C++
11 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.36%) Swift
12 1 (0.18%) RPG
12 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (15.52%) Degree
2 38 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 32 (5.78%) ACCA
3 32 (5.78%) CIMA
4 29 (5.23%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 17 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.35%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.17%) CISSP
8 12 (2.17%) PMP
9 11 (1.99%) SSCP
10 10 (1.81%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.62%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.44%) CISA
13 6 (1.08%) AAT
13 6 (1.08%) CCNP
13 6 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
13 6 (1.08%) IRCA
13 6 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.04%) GDPR
3 35 (6.32%) QA
4 22 (3.97%) NIST
5 20 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (2.53%) SLA
7 10 (1.81%) PMO
8 8 (1.44%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.44%) GRC
9 6 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (1.08%) ISO 9001
9 6 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.90%) COSHH
10 5 (0.90%) GMP
11 4 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.72%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.72%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 17 (3.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.90%) Docker
3 3 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.54%) vSphere
4 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.18%) Firmware
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (1.99%) Terraform
2 5 (0.90%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.72%) Ansible
4 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.36%) Grafana
5 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.36%) Puppet
6 1 (0.18%) SCCM
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (22.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.97%) Oracle
2 22 (3.97%) SAP
3 20 (3.61%) Databricks
4 12 (2.17%) Google
5 9 (1.62%) Cisco
6 8 (1.44%) Zoho
7 7 (1.26%) Meraki
7 7 (1.26%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.08%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.90%) JD Edwards
10 4 (0.72%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.54%) Adobe
11 3 (0.54%) Botify
11 3 (0.54%) IBM
11 3 (0.54%) PayPal
11 3 (0.54%) QAD
11 3 (0.54%) VMware
11 3 (0.54%) Workday
11 3 (0.54%) Zscaler