Analyst Jobs in the West Midlands

Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Analyst salary in the West Midlands is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 343 818 894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.90% 11.09% 13.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.73% 11.77% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 222 540 635
10th Percentile £27,750 £24,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -3.61%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,930 6,948 5,785
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.17% 90.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,781 5,218 3,296
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,387 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the West Midlands

Analyst
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Birmingham +11 134 £47,500 +6.97% 52
Warwickshire -20 70 £32,000 -0.38% 49
Staffordshire -26 35 £29,000 -17.14% 32
Solihull -3 27 £55,000 +42.86% 10
Shropshire +8 22 £37,500 +15.38% 8
Coventry -17 12 £27,000 -18.18% 8
Worcestershire -14 9 £44,810 -7.61% 7
Dudley -3 7 £30,000 +20.00% 1
Walsall -7 5 £47,500 +22.58% 2
Wolverhampton -2 3 £45,500 +31.88% 1
Herefordshire +9 1 £61,000 +74.29%
Wednesbury -1 1 £45,000 +81.82% 1
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 108 (31.49%) Degree
2 106 (30.90%) Social Skills
3 95 (27.70%) Project Management
4 69 (20.12%) Risk Management
5 68 (19.83%) Cybersecurity
5 68 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
6 64 (18.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (18.37%) NIST
8 62 (18.08%) Information Security
9 61 (17.78%) CISM
9 61 (17.78%) Microsoft
10 60 (17.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 59 (17.20%) CESG Certified Professional
11 59 (17.20%) Security Testing
11 59 (17.20%) RMADS
11 59 (17.20%) JSP 440
11 59 (17.20%) CISSP
11 59 (17.20%) Cyber Resilience
12 57 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
12 57 (16.62%) Finance
12 57 (16.62%) Azure
13 54 (15.74%) SAP
14 51 (14.87%) SQL
15 47 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
16 46 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
17 44 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
18 43 (12.54%) Power Platform
19 41 (11.95%) Requirements Gathering
20 40 (11.66%) Agile
21 39 (11.37%) Change Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (7.00%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.58%) IBM Notes
3 2 (0.58%) IIS
3 2 (0.58%) SAS
4 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.29%) Mule
4 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (9.33%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.17%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (5.25%) SAP HCM
2 15 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (4.08%) SAP HR
3 14 (4.08%) SAP Payroll
4 8 (2.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (2.33%) NetSuite
5 6 (1.75%) SAP ERP
6 5 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.58%) iTrent
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle SCM
8 2 (0.58%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.58%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.29%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 57 (16.62%) Azure
2 46 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (12.54%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.66%) AWS
5 14 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (3.79%) SuccessFactors
7 12 (3.50%) SaaS
8 10 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.33%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.75%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.75%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.46%) Google Tag Manager
12 4 (1.17%) Boomi
12 4 (1.17%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.87%) Firebase
13 3 (0.87%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 1 (0.29%) Miro
15 1 (0.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.37%) DHCP
2 13 (3.79%) Firewall
3 12 (3.50%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.62%) DNS
4 9 (2.62%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (2.33%) LAN
5 8 (2.33%) WAN
6 7 (2.04%) VPN
7 1 (0.29%) Internet
7 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.29%) MPLS
7 1 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.29%) Wireless
7 1 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.50%) Power BI
2 15 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.21%) Tableau
4 10 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 8 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (1.17%) Looker
8 4 (1.17%) SAP BW
9 3 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.87%) Metadata
9 3 (0.87%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (0.58%) MS Access
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.58%) Power Query
11 1 (0.29%) Big Data
11 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 14 (4.08%) JIRA
2 9 (2.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.87%) Selenium
4 1 (0.29%) Appium
4 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.29%) NUnit
4 1 (0.29%) Postman
4 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.29%) TestRail
4 1 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 106 (30.90%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (16.62%) Finance
4 17 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (4.08%) Law
6 12 (3.50%) Retail
7 11 (3.21%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.33%) Banking
8 8 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.04%) Billing
9 7 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.75%) Legal
10 6 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.75%) Marketing
10 6 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.17%) Local Government
11 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.87%) Automotive
12 3 (0.87%) Police
12 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.79%) SAP Fiori
2 8 (2.33%) Middleware
2 8 (2.33%) Web Services
3 4 (1.17%) .NET
4 3 (0.87%) CSS
4 3 (0.87%) HTML
4 3 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.58%) Playwright
6 1 (0.29%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.29%) JSON
6 1 (0.29%) ODBC
6 1 (0.29%) PySpark
6 1 (0.29%) REST
6 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (2.62%) Driving Licence
3 8 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.04%) Taxonomies
5 6 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.58%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.58%) FMCG
9 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.29%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.29%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.91%) Windows
2 11 (3.21%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.75%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.87%) Linux
6 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.29%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (27.70%) Project Management
2 69 (20.12%) Risk Management
3 68 (19.83%) Cybersecurity
4 62 (18.08%) Information Security
5 59 (17.20%) Cyber Resilience
5 59 (17.20%) Security Testing
6 57 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
8 44 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 41 (11.95%) Requirements Gathering
10 40 (11.66%) Agile
11 39 (11.37%) Change Management
12 36 (10.50%) Analytics
13 34 (9.91%) Customer Service
13 34 (9.91%) Data Analysis
14 32 (9.33%) Decision-Making
15 28 (8.16%) Business Analysis
16 26 (7.58%) User Stories
17 25 (7.29%) Collaborative Working
18 23 (6.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 51 (14.87%) SQL
2 13 (3.79%) ABAP
3 8 (2.33%) C#
3 8 (2.33%) Python
4 5 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.58%) R
7 2 (0.58%) VBA
8 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 108 (31.49%) Degree
2 61 (17.78%) CISM
3 60 (17.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 59 (17.20%) CESG Certified Professional
4 59 (17.20%) CISSP
5 18 (5.25%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.62%) CBAP
7 7 (2.04%) ISTQB
7 7 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.75%) IIBA
8 6 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (1.46%) MCSA
9 5 (1.46%) MCSE
9 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.17%) PhD
11 3 (0.87%) CISA
11 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (18.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (18.37%) NIST
3 59 (17.20%) JSP 440
3 59 (17.20%) RMADS
4 18 (5.25%) GDPR
5 17 (4.96%) QA
6 11 (3.21%) PMO
7 9 (2.62%) SLA
8 8 (2.33%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.58%) NCSC
10 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.29%) GRC
11 1 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 30 (8.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.75%) Firmware
3 5 (1.46%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.46%) SCCM
3 1 (0.29%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.29%) Nagios
3 1 (0.29%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 61 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 54 (15.74%) SAP
3 13 (3.79%) Salesforce
4 11 (3.21%) Apple
5 10 (2.92%) Google
6 9 (2.62%) Databricks
7 8 (2.33%) Oracle
7 8 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.75%) VMware
9 5 (1.46%) HP
9 5 (1.46%) McAfee
9 5 (1.46%) MobileIron
9 5 (1.46%) Remedy
10 4 (1.17%) Dell
10 4 (1.17%) DocuSign
10 4 (1.17%) PayPal
11 3 (0.87%) JD Edwards
11 3 (0.87%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.87%) QAD
12 2 (0.58%) Guidewire