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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 594 505 831
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.06% 9.61% 8.54%
As % of the General category 11.55% 15.03% 14.51%
Number of salaries quoted 373 241 608
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.94% -15.42%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,014 £68,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,690
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.50% -7.84%

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 5,141 3,360 5,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 52.45% 63.95% 58.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,485 1,766 4,434
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,983 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -12.22%

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 11 March 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 March 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 -15 363 £51,900 +3.80% 195
East Midlands +1 230 £40,000 -5.88% 125
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 (1.68%) CMS
1 10 (1.68%) Confluence
2 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.51%) WordPress
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 83 (13.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (8.92%) Chatbot
3 36 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.51%) CATIA
7 2 (0.34%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) Sketch
8 1 (0.17%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 11 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.35%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.84%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.51%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.51%) SAP FSCM
6 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.17%) HFM
7 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Primavera
7 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 71 (11.95%) Azure
2 67 (11.28%) Power Platform
3 48 (8.08%) SaaS
4 35 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (5.72%) AWS
6 12 (2.02%) Amazon S3
6 12 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (2.02%) Serverless
7 10 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (1.52%) Power Automate
8 9 (1.52%) PowerApps
9 8 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (1.18%) OCI
11 5 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.84%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (0.67%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (2.19%) VPN
2 13 (2.19%) WAN
3 10 (1.68%) Wireless
4 9 (1.52%) Firewall
4 9 (1.52%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.18%) VLAN
6 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.84%) BGP
7 5 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.84%) DHCP
7 5 (0.84%) DNS
7 5 (0.84%) EIGRP
7 5 (0.84%) OSPF
7 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.84%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.67%) LAN
9 3 (0.51%) Broadband
10 2 (0.34%) Internet
10 2 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.77%) Power BI
2 36 (6.06%) Tableau
3 24 (4.04%) Data Mining
4 19 (3.20%) Looker
5 17 (2.86%) SQL Server
6 14 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (1.85%) Metadata
9 10 (1.68%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.35%) Power Query
11 7 (1.18%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.51%) MySQL
12 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.51%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 24 (4.04%) JIRA
2 5 (0.84%) Subversion
3 4 (0.67%) Postman
3 4 (0.67%) Selenium
4 2 (0.34%) Git
4 2 (0.34%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.34%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.34%) TestRail
5 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.17%) GitLab
5 1 (0.17%) JMeter
5 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.17%) Maven
5 1 (0.17%) MLflow
5 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.17%) XCUITest
General
1 259 (43.60%) Social Skills
2 152 (25.59%) Finance
3 68 (11.45%) Retail
4 50 (8.42%) Marketing
5 40 (6.73%) Law
6 34 (5.72%) Manufacturing
7 31 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (5.22%) Legal
8 28 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.87%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.68%) Electronics
12 9 (1.52%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.35%) Banking
14 7 (1.18%) Games
15 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.51%) Advertising
17 3 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 180 (30.30%) Analyst
2 74 (12.46%) Senior
3 53 (8.92%) Trainer
4 51 (8.59%) Lead
5 41 (6.90%) Support Analyst
6 40 (6.73%) Developer
7 37 (6.23%) Data Analyst
8 35 (5.89%) Senior Analyst
9 33 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
10 27 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 25 (4.21%) Business Analyst
12 24 (4.04%) IT Support
13 23 (3.87%) Junior
14 22 (3.70%) Architect
14 22 (3.70%) Trainee
15 19 (3.20%) ERP Support
15 19 (3.20%) Trainee Analyst
15 19 (3.20%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 18 (3.03%) ERP Analyst
16 18 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.37%) HTML
2 19 (3.20%) CSS
3 18 (3.03%) React
4 16 (2.69%) Node.js
5 10 (1.68%) Flash
6 9 (1.52%) REST
7 7 (1.18%) SOAP
8 6 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.01%) PySpark
9 5 (0.84%) .NET
9 5 (0.84%) Playwright
10 4 (0.67%) BAPI
10 4 (0.67%) IBM Integration Bus
10 4 (0.67%) JMS
10 4 (0.67%) JSON
10 4 (0.67%) Middleware
10 4 (0.67%) OAuth
10 4 (0.67%) SAML
11 3 (0.51%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.27%) Onboarding
2 48 (8.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 29 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 20 (3.37%) Driving Licence
5 19 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.53%) FMCG
8 11 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
9 10 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.52%) IoT
11 8 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.18%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.01%) Credit Risk
13 6 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.84%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
15 4 (0.67%) CSOC
15 4 (0.67%) Public Cloud
15 4 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
15 4 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.37%) Windows
2 13 (2.19%) Linux
3 3 (0.51%) Unix
3 3 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) CentOS
5 1 (0.17%) Debian
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (46.97%) Problem-Solving
2 176 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 142 (23.91%) Analytics
4 93 (15.66%) ERP
5 92 (15.49%) AI
5 92 (15.49%) Decision-Making
6 81 (13.64%) Agile
6 81 (13.64%) CRM
7 78 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
8 74 (12.46%) Mentoring
9 71 (11.95%) Project Management
10 63 (10.61%) Analytical Thinking
11 55 (9.26%) Customer Service
12 54 (9.09%) Chemistry
12 54 (9.09%) E-Commerce
13 53 (8.92%) Conversational UI
13 53 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 51 (8.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 48 (8.08%) Actionable Insight
15 48 (8.08%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 149 (25.08%) SQL
2 71 (11.95%) Python
3 32 (5.39%) C#
4 22 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.19%) T-SQL
6 12 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (1.18%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.18%) R
7 7 (1.18%) VBA
8 6 (1.01%) Java
9 2 (0.34%) Bash
9 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.17%) Bicep
10 1 (0.17%) C++
10 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.17%) Scala
10 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 166 (27.95%) Degree
2 64 (10.77%) Master's Degree
3 53 (8.92%) PhD
4 41 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 29 (4.88%) SC Cleared
6 20 (3.37%) ACCA
7 19 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (3.03%) CIMA
9 13 (2.19%) CISSP
10 12 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (1.68%) AAT
11 10 (1.68%) PMI Certification
12 9 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.52%) PMP
13 8 (1.35%) CISA
13 8 (1.35%) DBS Check
14 7 (1.18%) SSCP
15 6 (1.01%) CISM
16 5 (0.84%) CCNP
17 4 (0.67%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.59%) QA
2 39 (6.57%) Data Quality
3 30 (5.05%) GDPR
4 20 (3.37%) NIST
5 17 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.85%) SLA
7 8 (1.35%) PMO
8 6 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.84%) COSHH
9 5 (0.84%) GMP
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.17%) COBIT
13 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.17%) HL7
13 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.01%) vSphere
3 5 (0.84%) Firmware
4 4 (0.67%) Docker
4 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (1.18%) Terraform
2 3 (0.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.34%) Ansible
4 1 (0.17%) Grafana
4 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.17%) Puppet
4 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 119 (20.03%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.92%) PayPal
3 36 (6.06%) SAP
4 28 (4.71%) Oracle
5 10 (1.68%) Cisco
6 8 (1.35%) Databricks
6 8 (1.35%) Zoho
7 7 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.01%) Google
9 5 (0.84%) Epicor
9 5 (0.84%) IBM
9 5 (0.84%) Infor
9 5 (0.84%) JD Edwards
9 5 (0.84%) Meraki
10 4 (0.67%) Sage
11 3 (0.51%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.51%) QAD
11 3 (0.51%) SonicWALL
11 3 (0.51%) VMware