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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 569 514 1,118
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.52% 10.42% 9.74%
As % of the General category 9.13% 16.81% 17.06%
Number of salaries quoted 403 282 648
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,525 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £48,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +12.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,000
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 6,233 3,057 6,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 49.54% 61.96% 57.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,017 1,794 4,705
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £79,400 £75,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.87%

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 27 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 27 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 -26 343 £51,275 +6.82% 164
East Midlands -14 224 £45,000 -5.26% 118
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 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.23%) CMS
4 5 (0.88%) Confluence
4 5 (0.88%) IIS
5 1 (0.18%) Appian
5 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 84 (14.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.76%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.53%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.18%) Sketch
7 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.88%) Q-Pulse
3 3 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.53%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.53%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.53%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.35%) 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%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 92 (16.17%) Power Platform
2 85 (14.94%) Azure
3 50 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (7.21%) AWS
5 24 (4.22%) SaaS
6 13 (2.28%) GCP
7 12 (2.11%) Amazon S3
7 12 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (2.11%) Serverless
8 11 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.93%) Power Automate
9 10 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.41%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.41%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.70%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.81%) VPN
2 14 (2.46%) WAN
3 11 (1.93%) Wireless
4 10 (1.76%) Firewall
5 9 (1.58%) SD-WAN
6 8 (1.41%) DNS
7 7 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.05%) BGP
8 6 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.05%) EIGRP
8 6 (1.05%) OSPF
8 6 (1.05%) Wireshark
9 5 (0.88%) DHCP
9 5 (0.88%) LAN
9 5 (0.88%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (0.70%) VLAN
11 3 (0.53%) Broadband
12 2 (0.35%) Internet
12 2 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (15.64%) Power BI
2 37 (6.50%) Tableau
3 19 (3.34%) SQL Server
4 18 (3.16%) Data Mining
5 15 (2.64%) Power Query
6 13 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.58%) Looker
8 9 (1.58%) Metadata
8 9 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.23%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.05%) MySQL
12 3 (0.53%) Redis
12 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.35%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (3.34%) JIRA
2 5 (0.88%) Subversion
3 4 (0.70%) Postman
3 4 (0.70%) 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%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
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
6 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 247 (43.41%) Social Skills
2 168 (29.53%) Finance
3 48 (8.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (7.91%) Retail
5 37 (6.50%) Marketing
6 36 (6.33%) Manufacturing
7 32 (5.62%) Law
7 32 (5.62%) Legal
8 28 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (3.69%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.58%) Electronics
13 8 (1.41%) Banking
14 7 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.23%) Games
15 5 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.70%) German Language
Job Titles
1 200 (35.15%) Analyst
2 78 (13.71%) Senior
3 45 (7.91%) Data Analyst
4 39 (6.85%) Lead
5 35 (6.15%) Support Analyst
6 34 (5.98%) Developer
6 34 (5.98%) Senior Analyst
7 30 (5.27%) Business Analyst
8 26 (4.57%) IT Support
9 22 (3.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 22 (3.87%) IT Analyst
9 22 (3.87%) Support Engineer
10 21 (3.69%) Accountant
10 21 (3.69%) Architect
10 21 (3.69%) Junior
11 20 (3.51%) IT Manager
11 20 (3.51%) Junior Analyst
11 20 (3.51%) Security Analyst
12 18 (3.16%) Systems Accountant
12 18 (3.16%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.22%) CSS
1 24 (4.22%) HTML
2 19 (3.34%) React
3 17 (2.99%) Node.js
4 9 (1.58%) PyTorch
5 7 (1.23%) Flash
5 7 (1.23%) Pandas
5 7 (1.23%) scikit-learn
6 6 (1.05%) .NET
6 6 (1.05%) PySpark
7 5 (0.88%) JSON
7 5 (0.88%) Playwright
7 5 (0.88%) REST
7 5 (0.88%) RESTful
7 5 (0.88%) SOAP
8 4 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.53%) IBM Integration Bus
9 3 (0.53%) JMS
9 3 (0.53%) OAuth
9 3 (0.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.19%) Analytical Mindset
2 30 (5.27%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.87%) Driving Licence
4 20 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.76%) CSOC
7 10 (1.76%) FMCG
8 9 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.41%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.23%) IoT
10 7 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.70%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.70%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.99%) Windows
2 10 (1.76%) Linux
3 8 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.35%) CentOS
4 2 (0.35%) Debian
4 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.35%) VMS
4 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (48.68%) Problem-Solving
2 160 (28.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 133 (23.37%) Analytics
4 97 (17.05%) Business Intelligence
5 94 (16.52%) Agile
6 92 (16.17%) Decision-Making
7 72 (12.65%) ERP
8 62 (10.90%) AI
9 60 (10.54%) Actionable Insight
10 56 (9.84%) Mentoring
10 56 (9.84%) Project Management
11 50 (8.79%) Analytical Thinking
12 48 (8.44%) Coaching
12 48 (8.44%) Data Analysis
13 47 (8.26%) CRM
13 47 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
13 47 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 46 (8.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 45 (7.91%) Process Improvement
16 42 (7.38%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 146 (25.66%) SQL
2 82 (14.41%) Python
3 26 (4.57%) JavaScript
4 24 (4.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (1.93%) C#
5 11 (1.93%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.93%) T-SQL
5 11 (1.93%) VBA
6 9 (1.58%) Java
7 6 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.05%) R
8 5 (0.88%) Bash
8 5 (0.88%) PHP
9 2 (0.35%) Bicep
9 2 (0.35%) C++
9 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.35%) Swift
10 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 93 (16.34%) Degree
2 43 (7.56%) Security Cleared
3 34 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 33 (5.80%) ACCA
4 33 (5.80%) CIMA
5 17 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
6 16 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.28%) CISSP
7 13 (2.28%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.11%) PMP
9 11 (1.93%) SSCP
10 10 (1.76%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.58%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.41%) CISA
13 7 (1.23%) AAT
14 6 (1.05%) CCNP
14 6 (1.05%) CompTIA CySA+
14 6 (1.05%) IRCA
14 6 (1.05%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.26%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.85%) GDPR
3 35 (6.15%) QA
4 23 (4.04%) NIST
5 20 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.64%) SLA
7 10 (1.76%) PMO
8 7 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (1.23%) GRC
9 6 (1.05%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.88%) COSHH
10 5 (0.88%) GMP
11 4 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.70%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 17 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.88%) Docker
3 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.53%) vSphere
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 11 (1.93%) Terraform
2 5 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.70%) Ansible
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.35%) Grafana
5 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.35%) Puppet
6 1 (0.18%) SCCM
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.22%) Oracle
2 24 (4.22%) SAP
3 20 (3.51%) Databricks
4 12 (2.11%) Google
5 8 (1.41%) Cisco
5 8 (1.41%) Zoho
6 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.05%) Meraki
8 5 (0.88%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.88%) JD Edwards
9 4 (0.70%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.70%) Sage
10 3 (0.53%) Adobe
10 3 (0.53%) IBM
10 3 (0.53%) PayPal
10 3 (0.53%) QAD
10 3 (0.53%) VMware
10 3 (0.53%) Workday
10 3 (0.53%) Zscaler