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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 590 613 697
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.96% 10.06% 8.39%
As % of the General category 12.55% 15.90% 14.20%
Number of salaries quoted 351 246 524
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,875 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £28,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% +15.88% -15.84%
75th Percentile £64,500 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,014 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

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 4,703 3,855 4,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 55.52% 63.27% 59.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,299 1,703 3,959
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,571 £65,000 £61,061
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,450 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -16 349 £52,500 +5.00% 232
East Midlands +5 239 £40,000 -5.88% 111
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 (1.86%) Confluence
2 8 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.85%) CMS
5 3 (0.51%) WordPress
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 72 (12.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (10.34%) Chatbot
3 37 (6.27%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.86%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.68%) CATIA
7 4 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.34%) Trello
9 1 (0.17%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.17%) Sketch
9 1 (0.17%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 11 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.36%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.34%) Primavera
4 2 (0.34%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.17%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.17%) HFM
5 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 72 (12.20%) Azure
2 63 (10.68%) Power Platform
3 49 (8.31%) SaaS
4 32 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (5.25%) AWS
6 14 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (1.86%) Serverless
8 10 (1.69%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (1.19%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.19%) OCI
10 7 (1.19%) Power Automate
10 7 (1.19%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.59%) Remote Desktop
2 12 (2.03%) WAN
3 11 (1.86%) Firewall
3 11 (1.86%) VPN
4 9 (1.53%) VLAN
5 8 (1.36%) SD-WAN
5 8 (1.36%) Wireless
6 6 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.85%) BGP
7 5 (0.85%) OSPF
8 4 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.68%) EIGRP
8 4 (0.68%) LAN
8 4 (0.68%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.51%) DHCP
9 3 (0.51%) DNS
10 2 (0.34%) Internet
10 2 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.34%) Network Security
10 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (9.83%) Power BI
2 32 (5.42%) Tableau
3 23 (3.90%) Data Mining
4 20 (3.39%) Looker
4 20 (3.39%) SQL Server
5 15 (2.54%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (2.03%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.69%) Metadata
9 10 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.19%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.51%) MySQL
13 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.51%) Power Query
13 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (4.24%) JIRA
2 5 (0.85%) Subversion
3 4 (0.68%) Selenium
4 2 (0.34%) Git
4 2 (0.34%) Postman
4 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.34%) TestRail
5 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.17%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.17%) Maven
5 1 (0.17%) MLflow
5 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.17%) XCUITest
General
1 247 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 140 (23.73%) Finance
3 89 (15.08%) Retail
4 65 (11.02%) Marketing
5 41 (6.95%) Law
6 32 (5.42%) Manufacturing
7 27 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.90%) Public Sector
10 22 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (3.39%) Legal
12 12 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.86%) Electronics
14 9 (1.53%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.53%) Banking
15 7 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.51%) Advertising
16 3 (0.51%) Publishing
16 3 (0.51%) Spanish Language
16 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 153 (25.93%) Analyst
2 67 (11.36%) Lead
3 64 (10.85%) Senior
4 61 (10.34%) Trainer
5 43 (7.29%) Developer
6 40 (6.78%) 2nd Line Support
6 40 (6.78%) Support Analyst
7 32 (5.42%) Data Analyst
8 27 (4.58%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 26 (4.41%) Senior Analyst
10 25 (4.24%) Architect
11 23 (3.90%) Business Analyst
12 21 (3.56%) IT Support
13 20 (3.39%) Trainee
14 19 (3.22%) ERP Support
14 19 (3.22%) Junior
15 18 (3.05%) ERP Analyst
15 18 (3.05%) Financial Analyst
15 18 (3.05%) Support Technician
16 17 (2.88%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.22%) CSS
1 19 (3.22%) HTML
2 16 (2.71%) React
3 14 (2.37%) Node.js
3 14 (2.37%) REST
4 12 (2.03%) SOAP
5 11 (1.86%) Flash
6 10 (1.69%) Middleware
7 9 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.36%) BAPI
8 8 (1.36%) IBM Integration Bus
8 8 (1.36%) JMS
8 8 (1.36%) OAuth
8 8 (1.36%) SAML
9 6 (1.02%) .NET
9 6 (1.02%) PySpark
10 4 (0.68%) EDI
10 4 (0.68%) JSON
10 4 (0.68%) Playwright
11 3 (0.51%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 87 (14.75%) Onboarding
2 58 (9.83%) Analytical Mindset
3 39 (6.61%) Management Information System
4 28 (4.75%) FMCG
5 21 (3.56%) Driving Licence
6 20 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.36%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.36%) IoT
9 8 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.02%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.85%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.85%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.68%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.68%) Social Media
13 4 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.05%) Windows
2 12 (2.03%) Linux
3 3 (0.51%) Unix
4 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (46.61%) Problem-Solving
2 188 (31.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 133 (22.54%) Analytics
4 109 (18.47%) CRM
5 106 (17.97%) ERP
6 97 (16.44%) Decision-Making
7 90 (15.25%) AI
8 82 (13.90%) Project Management
9 78 (13.22%) Business Intelligence
10 73 (12.37%) E-Commerce
11 69 (11.69%) Agile
11 69 (11.69%) Customer Service
12 67 (11.36%) Mentoring
13 66 (11.19%) Analytical Thinking
14 64 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 62 (10.51%) Chemistry
16 61 (10.34%) Conversational UI
17 49 (8.31%) Coaching
18 47 (7.97%) Migration
19 46 (7.80%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 155 (26.27%) SQL
2 62 (10.51%) Python
3 39 (6.61%) C#
4 20 (3.39%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.69%) PowerShell
5 10 (1.69%) T-SQL
6 8 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (0.85%) Java
7 5 (0.85%) R
8 4 (0.68%) VBA
9 2 (0.34%) ABAP
9 2 (0.34%) Bash
10 1 (0.17%) Bicep
10 1 (0.17%) C++
10 1 (0.17%) Groovy
10 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.17%) Scala
10 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 196 (33.22%) Degree
2 72 (12.20%) Master's Degree
3 61 (10.34%) PhD
4 32 (5.42%) Security Cleared
5 24 (4.07%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.71%) ACCA
8 14 (2.37%) CIMA
9 12 (2.03%) AAT
10 10 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.53%) DBS Check
11 9 (1.53%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.36%) PMP
13 7 (1.19%) CISSP
14 6 (1.02%) CCNP
14 6 (1.02%) CISM
15 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.68%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.47%) QA
2 31 (5.25%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.24%) GDPR
4 16 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.69%) NIST
6 8 (1.36%) PMO
7 7 (1.19%) SLA
8 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.34%) COSHH
9 2 (0.34%) GMP
9 2 (0.34%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.17%) HL7
10 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 30 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.53%) Firmware
3 6 (1.02%) vSphere
4 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.51%) Docker
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.02%) Terraform
2 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.51%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.17%) Grafana
5 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 122 (20.68%) Microsoft
2 61 (10.34%) PayPal
3 59 (10.00%) SAP
4 32 (5.42%) Oracle
5 21 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.54%) Cisco
7 9 (1.53%) IBM
8 8 (1.36%) Databricks
8 8 (1.36%) Zoho
9 7 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.02%) Google
11 5 (0.85%) Epicor
11 5 (0.85%) Infor
11 5 (0.85%) JD Edwards
11 5 (0.85%) Meraki
12 4 (0.68%) Sage
12 4 (0.68%) SonicWALL
13 3 (0.51%) QAD
13 3 (0.51%) Workday
13 3 (0.51%) Zscaler