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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -25 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 576 503 1,044
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.69% 10.34% 9.24%
As % of the General category 9.31% 16.73% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 408 278 642
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,675 £25,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £48,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.94% -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 6,189 3,007 6,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 50.42% 61.82% 57.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,982 1,786 4,680
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,683 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +5.96% -14.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,800 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -13.22%

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 21 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 21 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 -25 347 £51,300 +6.88% 201
East Midlands -12 227 £45,000 - 134
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 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.39%) CMS
4 6 (1.04%) Confluence
5 5 (0.87%) IIS
6 2 (0.35%) WordPress
7 1 (0.17%) Appian
7 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 87 (15.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.74%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.52%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.52%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.17%) Sketch
7 1 (0.17%) SmartSuite
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.87%) Q-Pulse
3 4 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.35%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.17%) Primavera
6 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 93 (16.15%) Power Platform
2 85 (14.76%) Azure
3 48 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (7.29%) AWS
5 28 (4.86%) SaaS
6 13 (2.26%) GCP
7 12 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 12 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (2.08%) Serverless
8 11 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.91%) Power Automate
9 10 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.39%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.39%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.69%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.60%) VPN
2 14 (2.43%) WAN
3 11 (1.91%) Wireless
4 9 (1.56%) Firewall
4 9 (1.56%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.22%) DNS
5 7 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.04%) BGP
6 6 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.04%) EIGRP
6 6 (1.04%) OSPF
6 6 (1.04%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.87%) DHCP
7 5 (0.87%) LAN
7 5 (0.87%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.69%) VLAN
9 3 (0.52%) Broadband
10 2 (0.35%) Internet
10 2 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (15.63%) Power BI
2 40 (6.94%) Tableau
3 20 (3.47%) Data Mining
4 19 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 15 (2.60%) Power Query
6 13 (2.26%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.56%) Looker
9 9 (1.56%) Metadata
9 9 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.39%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (1.22%) MySQL
12 3 (0.52%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.52%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.35%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (3.47%) JIRA
2 5 (0.87%) Subversion
3 4 (0.69%) Postman
3 4 (0.69%) Selenium
4 3 (0.52%) 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 (0.17%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.17%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) Maven
6 1 (0.17%) MLflow
6 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 255 (44.27%) Social Skills
2 168 (29.17%) Finance
3 49 (8.51%) Retail
4 47 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (6.60%) Marketing
6 37 (6.42%) Manufacturing
7 32 (5.56%) Law
7 32 (5.56%) Legal
8 28 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (4.17%) Public Sector
10 21 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.56%) Electronics
14 7 (1.22%) Banking
14 7 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.22%) Games
15 4 (0.69%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.69%) German Language
Job Titles
1 205 (35.59%) Analyst
2 77 (13.37%) Senior
3 44 (7.64%) Data Analyst
4 39 (6.77%) Support Analyst
5 38 (6.60%) Lead
6 36 (6.25%) Developer
7 34 (5.90%) Senior Analyst
8 30 (5.21%) Business Analyst
9 25 (4.34%) IT Support
10 23 (3.99%) Architect
11 22 (3.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 22 (3.82%) IT Analyst
11 22 (3.82%) Junior
12 21 (3.65%) Security Analyst
13 20 (3.47%) Accountant
13 20 (3.47%) IT Manager
13 20 (3.47%) Junior Analyst
13 20 (3.47%) Support Engineer
13 20 (3.47%) Trainee
14 18 (3.13%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.17%) CSS
1 24 (4.17%) HTML
2 19 (3.30%) React
3 17 (2.95%) Node.js
4 9 (1.56%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.39%) Flash
6 7 (1.22%) Pandas
6 7 (1.22%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.04%) .NET
7 6 (1.04%) PySpark
8 5 (0.87%) JSON
8 5 (0.87%) Playwright
8 5 (0.87%) REST
8 5 (0.87%) SOAP
9 4 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.69%) RESTful
10 3 (0.52%) IBM Integration Bus
10 3 (0.52%) JMS
10 3 (0.52%) Middleware
10 3 (0.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.42%) Analytical Mindset
2 32 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.65%) Driving Licence
4 20 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.74%) CSOC
7 10 (1.74%) FMCG
8 9 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.56%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.22%) IoT
10 6 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (0.87%) Social Media
12 4 (0.69%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.78%) Windows
2 9 (1.56%) Linux
3 7 (1.22%) 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%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (48.44%) Problem-Solving
2 162 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 136 (23.61%) Analytics
4 98 (17.01%) Business Intelligence
5 97 (16.84%) Agile
6 94 (16.32%) Decision-Making
7 75 (13.02%) ERP
8 61 (10.59%) AI
9 60 (10.42%) Project Management
10 59 (10.24%) Actionable Insight
11 57 (9.90%) Mentoring
12 53 (9.20%) Analytical Thinking
13 51 (8.85%) CRM
14 49 (8.51%) Data Analysis
15 47 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
16 46 (7.99%) Coaching
16 46 (7.99%) Cybersecurity
17 45 (7.81%) Process Improvement
18 44 (7.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 42 (7.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 149 (25.87%) SQL
2 80 (13.89%) Python
3 26 (4.51%) JavaScript
4 24 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 14 (2.43%) C#
6 12 (2.08%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.91%) VBA
8 10 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.56%) Java
10 6 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (1.04%) R
11 5 (0.87%) Bash
11 5 (0.87%) PHP
12 2 (0.35%) Bicep
12 2 (0.35%) C++
12 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.35%) Swift
13 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (17.19%) Degree
2 47 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 37 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 34 (5.90%) ACCA
5 33 (5.73%) CIMA
6 18 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
7 16 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.43%) CISSP
8 14 (2.43%) PMI Certification
9 12 (2.08%) PMP
10 11 (1.91%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.91%) SSCP
11 10 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.56%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.39%) AAT
13 8 (1.39%) CISA
14 6 (1.04%) CCNP
14 6 (1.04%) CompTIA CySA+
14 6 (1.04%) IRCA
14 6 (1.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.94%) GDPR
3 37 (6.42%) QA
4 25 (4.34%) NIST
5 22 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (2.43%) SLA
7 11 (1.91%) PMO
8 7 (1.22%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (1.22%) GRC
9 6 (1.04%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.87%) COSHH
10 5 (0.87%) GMP
11 4 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.87%) Docker
3 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.52%) vSphere
4 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (1.91%) Terraform
2 5 (0.87%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.69%) Ansible
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.35%) Grafana
5 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.35%) Puppet
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 126 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.34%) SAP
3 24 (4.17%) Oracle
4 20 (3.47%) Databricks
5 12 (2.08%) Google
6 8 (1.39%) Cisco
6 8 (1.39%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.39%) Zoho
7 6 (1.04%) Meraki
8 5 (0.87%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.87%) JD Edwards
9 4 (0.69%) Sage
10 3 (0.52%) Adobe
10 3 (0.52%) IBM
10 3 (0.52%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.52%) PayPal
10 3 (0.52%) QAD
10 3 (0.52%) VMware
10 3 (0.52%) Workday
10 3 (0.52%) Zscaler