Analytical Thinking Job Trends in the Midlands

Analytical Thinking
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 220 209
Rank change year-on-year +62 -11 +14
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Thinking 69 28 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.88% 0.44% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.48% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 66 11 19
10th Percentile £26,000 £43,750 £21,426
25th Percentile £29,000 £53,125 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £67,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +58.82% -34.62%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £48,125
90th Percentile £98,750 - £53,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,381 5,787 4,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.23% 90.49% 86.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,553 2,530 4,052
10th Percentile £28,178 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Thinking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Analytical Thinking job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Analytical Thinking
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Analytical Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Thinking in the Midlands

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
East Midlands +28 44 £30,000 -55.56% 7
West Midlands +21 25 £86,250 +32.69% 12
Analytical Thinking
England

Analytical Thinking
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 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.45%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (60.87%) SaaS
2 12 (17.39%) Azure
3 6 (8.70%) AWS
4 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.90%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (53.62%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (2.90%) Firewall
2 2 (2.90%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.90%) VLAN
2 2 (2.90%) VPN
2 2 (2.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) Power BI
2 2 (2.90%) Data Mining
2 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Selenium
2 2 (2.90%) Postman
3 1 (1.45%) Katalon Studio
General
1 69 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 55 (79.71%) Social Skills
3 38 (55.07%) Retail
4 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
5 8 (11.59%) Finance
6 2 (2.90%) Law
6 2 (2.90%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (53.62%) 2nd Line Support
2 27 (39.13%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 18 (26.09%) Analyst
4 14 (20.29%) Architect
4 14 (20.29%) Software Analyst
5 13 (18.84%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 13 (18.84%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 13 (18.84%) ERP Analyst
5 13 (18.84%) ERP Support
5 13 (18.84%) SaaS Analyst
5 13 (18.84%) Software Support Analyst
5 13 (18.84%) Support Analyst
6 10 (14.49%) 2nd Line Support Technician
6 10 (14.49%) Support Technician
7 9 (13.04%) Senior
8 7 (10.14%) Applications Support
9 6 (8.70%) Applications Support Technician
9 6 (8.70%) Lead
10 5 (7.25%) Developer
10 5 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) .NET
1 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.90%) FastAPI
2 2 (2.90%) Flask
2 2 (2.90%) Playwright
2 2 (2.90%) React
3 1 (1.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.45%) Ajax
3 1 (1.45%) CSS
3 1 (1.45%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.45%) HTML
3 1 (1.45%) jQuery
3 1 (1.45%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (1.45%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (1.45%) WCF
3 1 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (53.62%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (82.61%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (63.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (62.32%) CRM
4 41 (59.42%) ERP
5 40 (57.97%) E-Commerce
5 40 (57.97%) Root Cause Analysis
6 38 (55.07%) Customer Service
6 38 (55.07%) Mentoring
7 37 (53.62%) Data Privacy
7 37 (53.62%) Logistics
8 17 (24.64%) Roadmaps
9 14 (20.29%) Enterprise Architecture
9 14 (20.29%) IT Strategy
10 10 (14.49%) Technology Roadmap
10 10 (14.49%) Technology Strategy
11 8 (11.59%) Project Delivery
11 8 (11.59%) Systems Engineering
12 7 (10.14%) Information Management
13 6 (8.70%) Agile
13 6 (8.70%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 41 (59.42%) SQL
2 40 (57.97%) C#
3 4 (5.80%) Python
4 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.35%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.45%) Groovy
6 1 (1.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (20.29%) Degree
2 11 (15.94%) SC Cleared
2 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.90%) CISM
4 2 (2.90%) CISMP
4 2 (2.90%) CISSP
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (50.72%) QA
2 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.90%) GDPR
3 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.90%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.90%) Terraform
2 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.90%) Databricks
3 1 (1.45%) SAP