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 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 635 818 504
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 10.23% 10.06% 10.47%
As % of the General category 18.14% 17.02% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 338 262 390
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +4.70%
75th Percentile £65,938 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,375 £73,175 £71,250
England median annual salary £50,915 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.43% -4.35% +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 common skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 3,501 4,806 3,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 56.40% 59.13% 64.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,301 2,037 2,462
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,150 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,125 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.75% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,125
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 +6 378 £52,500 +5.00% 274
East Midlands +6 255 £37,500 -11.76% 220
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 9 (1.42%) Confluence
2 8 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.63%) CMS
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.47%) WordPress
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.16%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 78 (12.28%) Chatbot
2 75 (11.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.63%) CATIA
6 4 (0.63%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.31%) Trello
8 1 (0.16%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.16%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 18 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.73%) Sprinklr
4 7 (1.10%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.47%) Shopify
6 2 (0.31%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.31%) Primavera
6 2 (0.31%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.31%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.16%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.16%) Magento
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 68 (10.71%) Azure
2 57 (8.98%) SaaS
3 51 (8.03%) Power Platform
4 22 (3.46%) AWS
5 16 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (1.57%) OCI
8 8 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (1.26%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (0.94%) Google Ads
10 6 (0.94%) Google Analytics
10 6 (0.94%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (0.79%) PaaS
12 4 (0.63%) GCP
12 4 (0.63%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.14%) Remote Desktop
2 9 (1.42%) Firewall
2 9 (1.42%) VPN
3 6 (0.94%) VLAN
4 5 (0.79%) Network Security
4 5 (0.79%) WAN
5 4 (0.63%) SMS
6 3 (0.47%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.31%) HTTP
7 2 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.31%) LAN
7 2 (0.31%) SAN
7 2 (0.31%) Wireless
8 1 (0.16%) BGP
8 1 (0.16%) IPv4
8 1 (0.16%) IPv6
8 1 (0.16%) NAS
8 1 (0.16%) VPLS
8 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.16%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.09%) Power BI
2 23 (3.62%) Tableau
3 19 (2.99%) Data Mining
3 19 (2.99%) Looker
4 17 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.05%) Metadata
6 11 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (1.42%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
11 4 (0.63%) MySQL
12 3 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.47%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.47%) SAP BW
13 2 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 18 (2.83%) JIRA
2 7 (1.10%) Selenium
3 2 (0.31%) Git
3 2 (0.31%) Postman
3 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.31%) TestRail
4 1 (0.16%) ERwin
4 1 (0.16%) GitLab
4 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.16%) JMeter
4 1 (0.16%) JUnit
4 1 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.16%) Maven
4 1 (0.16%) Subversion
4 1 (0.16%) TestComplete
4 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 279 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 141 (22.20%) Finance
3 110 (17.32%) Marketing
4 107 (16.85%) Retail
5 38 (5.98%) Manufacturing
6 33 (5.20%) Law
7 26 (4.09%) Legal
7 26 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 24 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.89%) Banking
13 6 (0.94%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.79%) Advertising
15 4 (0.63%) Electronics
15 4 (0.63%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.63%) Social Housing
16 3 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 137 (21.57%) Analyst
2 78 (12.28%) Trainer
3 70 (11.02%) Lead
4 56 (8.82%) Senior
5 47 (7.40%) 2nd Line Support
6 34 (5.35%) Architect
6 34 (5.35%) Developer
7 31 (4.88%) Support Analyst
8 27 (4.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 26 (4.09%) Software Analyst
10 24 (3.78%) Data Analyst
11 23 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
11 23 (3.62%) Support Technician
12 22 (3.46%) Consultant
13 21 (3.31%) Support Engineer
13 21 (3.31%) Technical Support
14 18 (2.83%) ERP Support
15 17 (2.68%) 2nd Line Support Technician
16 16 (2.52%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
16 16 (2.52%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.62%) HTML
2 21 (3.31%) CSS
3 18 (2.83%) REST
4 15 (2.36%) SOAP
5 14 (2.20%) Middleware
6 13 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (1.73%) BAPI
7 11 (1.73%) Flash
7 11 (1.73%) IBM Integration Bus
7 11 (1.73%) JMS
7 11 (1.73%) OAuth
7 11 (1.73%) SAML
8 8 (1.26%) React
9 7 (1.10%) .NET
10 5 (0.79%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.79%) EDI
10 5 (0.79%) Playwright
11 4 (0.63%) JSON
11 4 (0.63%) Web Services
12 3 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 127 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 72 (11.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 34 (5.35%) Management Information System
4 30 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (4.25%) Driving Licence
6 23 (3.62%) FMCG
7 13 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.57%) e-Learning
9 10 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.42%) IoT
10 9 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.10%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.10%) Social Media
12 6 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
12 6 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.63%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.63%) Reference Data
14 4 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.15%) Windows
2 15 (2.36%) Linux
3 5 (0.79%) Mac OS X
4 3 (0.47%) Unix
5 2 (0.31%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.16%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (42.20%) Problem-Solving
2 198 (31.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 166 (26.14%) CRM
4 138 (21.73%) Analytics
5 114 (17.95%) ERP
6 107 (16.85%) AI
6 107 (16.85%) E-Commerce
7 106 (16.69%) Decision-Making
8 98 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 92 (14.49%) Customer Service
10 80 (12.60%) Project Management
11 79 (12.44%) Analytical Thinking
11 79 (12.44%) Chemistry
12 78 (12.28%) Conversational UI
13 77 (12.13%) Collaborative Working
14 76 (11.97%) Mentoring
15 74 (11.65%) Digital Marketing
16 73 (11.50%) Coaching
17 72 (11.34%) Dashboard Development
17 72 (11.34%) Digital Innovation
Programming Languages
1 144 (22.68%) SQL
2 46 (7.24%) C#
3 38 (5.98%) Python
4 25 (3.94%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.20%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.57%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (1.26%) R
8 5 (0.79%) ABAP
8 5 (0.79%) Java
9 3 (0.47%) Bash
10 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.16%) Bicep
11 1 (0.16%) C++
11 1 (0.16%) Groovy
11 1 (0.16%) Perl
11 1 (0.16%) Scala
11 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 243 (38.27%) Degree
2 87 (13.70%) Master's Degree
3 81 (12.76%) PhD
4 37 (5.83%) Security Cleared
5 26 (4.09%) SC Cleared
6 23 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.20%) ACCA
8 13 (2.05%) AAT
8 13 (2.05%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.89%) CIMA
9 12 (1.89%) CISSP
10 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.26%) CISM
12 7 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.79%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.79%) MCP
14 5 (0.79%) MCSA
14 5 (0.79%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.56%) QA
2 34 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.31%) GDPR
4 19 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.73%) PMO
5 11 (1.73%) SLA
6 10 (1.57%) NIST
7 4 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.31%) COBIT
8 2 (0.31%) IEC 61131
8 2 (0.31%) IFRS
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.16%) HL7
9 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (4.25%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.73%) Firmware
3 5 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.63%) vSphere
5 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.63%) Terraform
3 3 (0.47%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.31%) Ansible
5 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 108 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 78 (12.28%) PayPal
3 67 (10.55%) SAP
4 26 (4.09%) Oracle
5 25 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.20%) Databricks
7 12 (1.89%) Cisco
7 12 (1.89%) Google
7 12 (1.89%) IBM
8 11 (1.73%) Adobe
9 9 (1.42%) Zoho
10 6 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (0.94%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.94%) VMware
11 5 (0.79%) Epicor
11 5 (0.79%) Infor
12 4 (0.63%) Sage
12 4 (0.63%) SonicWALL
13 3 (0.47%) JD Edwards
13 3 (0.47%) LogRhythm