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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 536 514 1,131
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.13% 10.12% 9.65%
As % of the General category 8.55% 15.49% 16.96%
Number of salaries quoted 388 286 648
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £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 6,267 3,318 6,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 48.32% 65.35% 56.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,069 1,793 4,716
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £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 £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.85% -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 11 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 11 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 -27 321 £50,000 +5.26% 170
East Midlands +1 213 £45,000 -5.26% 104
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 11 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.12%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) IIS
5 3 (0.56%) Confluence
6 1 (0.19%) Appian
Applications
1 73 (13.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.87%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.56%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.19%) Sketch
8 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.93%) Q-Pulse
3 3 (0.56%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.56%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.56%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.37%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.19%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 90 (16.79%) Power Platform
2 81 (15.11%) Azure
3 53 (9.89%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (7.09%) AWS
5 18 (3.36%) SaaS
6 13 (2.43%) GCP
7 12 (2.24%) Amazon S3
7 12 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.24%) Power Automate
7 12 (2.24%) Serverless
8 10 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.68%) PowerApps
10 8 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (1.49%) Entra ID
11 5 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.54%) VPN
2 15 (2.80%) WAN
3 13 (2.43%) Firewall
4 11 (2.05%) Wireless
5 10 (1.87%) DNS
5 10 (1.87%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.12%) BGP
7 6 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (1.12%) EIGRP
7 6 (1.12%) OSPF
7 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.12%) Wireshark
8 5 (0.93%) DHCP
8 5 (0.93%) LAN
8 5 (0.93%) VLAN
9 4 (0.75%) MQTT
10 3 (0.56%) Broadband
11 2 (0.37%) Internet
11 2 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (16.23%) Power BI
2 34 (6.34%) Tableau
3 18 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 17 (3.17%) Power Query
5 16 (2.99%) Data Mining
6 13 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.12%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.93%) Metadata
11 5 (0.93%) MySQL
11 5 (0.93%) Redis
12 4 (0.75%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.56%) Looker
13 3 (0.56%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 18 (3.36%) JIRA
2 5 (0.93%) Subversion
3 4 (0.75%) Git
4 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.37%) JMeter
4 2 (0.37%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.37%) Postman
4 2 (0.37%) Selenium
4 2 (0.37%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.37%) TestRail
4 2 (0.37%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.19%) Bugzilla
5 1 (0.19%) GitLab
5 1 (0.19%) Maven
5 1 (0.19%) MLflow
5 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.19%) Yeoman
General
1 224 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 154 (28.73%) Finance
3 56 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (6.72%) Retail
5 35 (6.53%) Manufacturing
6 31 (5.78%) Law
6 31 (5.78%) Marketing
7 27 (5.04%) Legal
8 25 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.99%) Public Sector
10 13 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.49%) Electronics
13 8 (1.49%) Games
14 7 (1.31%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.12%) Japanese Language
16 5 (0.93%) German Language
17 4 (0.75%) Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (32.28%) Analyst
2 71 (13.25%) Senior
3 44 (8.21%) Data Analyst
4 34 (6.34%) Developer
5 30 (5.60%) Lead
5 30 (5.60%) Senior Analyst
6 25 (4.66%) Business Analyst
6 25 (4.66%) IT Support
6 25 (4.66%) Support Engineer
7 24 (4.48%) Support Analyst
8 23 (4.29%) Accountant
9 21 (3.92%) IT Analyst
9 21 (3.92%) Junior
10 20 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 20 (3.73%) IT Manager
10 20 (3.73%) Systems Accountant
11 19 (3.54%) Junior Analyst
11 19 (3.54%) Security Analyst
12 16 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (2.99%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.10%) CSS
1 22 (4.10%) HTML
2 17 (3.17%) Node.js
2 17 (3.17%) React
3 9 (1.68%) PyTorch
4 7 (1.31%) Pandas
4 7 (1.31%) RESTful
4 7 (1.31%) scikit-learn
5 6 (1.12%) PySpark
6 5 (0.93%) .NET
6 5 (0.93%) FastAPI
6 5 (0.93%) JSON
6 5 (0.93%) SQLAlchemy
7 4 (0.75%) Flash
8 3 (0.56%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (0.56%) EDI
8 3 (0.56%) Playwright
8 3 (0.56%) SOAP
8 3 (0.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.63%) Analytical Mindset
2 23 (4.29%) Driving Licence
3 22 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.87%) CSOC
7 10 (1.87%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (1.68%) FMCG
9 8 (1.49%) IoT
10 7 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.31%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.93%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (0.93%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.75%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.73%) Windows
2 13 (2.43%) Linux
3 10 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.75%) VMS
5 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.37%) CentOS
5 2 (0.37%) Debian
5 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (48.32%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 117 (21.83%) Analytics
4 95 (17.72%) Business Intelligence
5 86 (16.04%) Agile
6 82 (15.30%) Decision-Making
7 71 (13.25%) AI
8 60 (11.19%) ERP
9 59 (11.01%) Actionable Insight
10 52 (9.70%) Project Management
11 49 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
12 46 (8.58%) Mentoring
13 43 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 42 (7.84%) Analytical Thinking
14 42 (7.84%) Coaching
15 41 (7.65%) Data Analysis
16 39 (7.28%) Process Improvement
17 38 (7.09%) Data Modelling
17 38 (7.09%) Roadmaps
18 37 (6.90%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 133 (24.81%) SQL
2 85 (15.86%) Python
3 23 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (4.10%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.43%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.05%) VBA
7 10 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.49%) Java
9 7 (1.31%) C#
10 6 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (1.12%) R
11 5 (0.93%) Bash
11 5 (0.93%) PHP
12 4 (0.75%) C++
13 2 (0.37%) Bicep
13 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.37%) Swift
14 1 (0.19%) RPG
14 1 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (15.11%) Degree
2 39 (7.28%) Security Cleared
3 32 (5.97%) ACCA
3 32 (5.97%) CIMA
4 29 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 19 (3.54%) CompTIA Security+
6 17 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.43%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.24%) PMP
9 11 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (2.05%) CISSP
9 11 (2.05%) SSCP
10 10 (1.87%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.87%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.49%) CISA
12 6 (1.12%) CCNP
12 6 (1.12%) CompTIA CySA+
12 6 (1.12%) IRCA
12 6 (1.12%) MOS
12 6 (1.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.28%) GDPR
3 32 (5.97%) QA
4 21 (3.92%) NIST
5 19 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.43%) SLA
7 9 (1.68%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.49%) GRC
8 8 (1.49%) PMO
9 7 (1.31%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.12%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.93%) COSHH
11 5 (0.93%) GMP
12 3 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.93%) Docker
3 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.56%) vSphere
4 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.19%) Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (1.87%) Terraform
2 5 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.56%) Ansible
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.37%) Grafana
4 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.37%) Puppet
5 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.19%) SCCM
5 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.92%) SAP
3 20 (3.73%) Databricks
3 20 (3.73%) Oracle
4 14 (2.61%) Google
5 9 (1.68%) Cisco
6 8 (1.49%) HubSpot
7 7 (1.31%) Meraki
7 7 (1.31%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.12%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.12%) Zoho
9 3 (0.56%) Adobe
9 3 (0.56%) Botify
9 3 (0.56%) JD Edwards
9 3 (0.56%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.56%) PayPal
9 3 (0.56%) QAD
9 3 (0.56%) VMware
9 3 (0.56%) Workday
9 3 (0.56%) Zscaler