Analytical Skills Job Trends in the West Midlands

Analytical Skills
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 335 345 692
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.93% 10.01% 10.63%
As % of the General category 9.08% 16.37% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 248 189 306
10th Percentile £32,125 £27,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,845
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.84% -8.31%
75th Percentile £59,375 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,000 £70,625
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

All General Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,690 2,107 3,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.34% 61.14% 55.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,499 1,276 1,974
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,500 £34,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,652 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -0.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the West Midlands

Analytical Skills
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 Analytical Skills within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Birmingham -12 157 £52,500 - 86
Staffordshire -6 39 £45,000 -2.70% 25
Warwickshire 0 37 £42,500 +37.10% 31
Shropshire -12 23 £49,250 +31.33% 20
Worcestershire -3 17 £48,000 -33.79% 12
Coventry -12 11 £52,500 +16.67% 11
Wolverhampton - 9 £38,500 - 2
Walsall +2 7 £37,500 -11.76% 4
Dudley -7 4 - - 2
Solihull -6 3 £75,000 +42.86% 15
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £52,500 -
Herefordshire -21 1 £60,000 +84.62% 2
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.39%) IIS
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.60%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Appian
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (11.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.90%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.60%) Simulink
6 1 (0.30%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.19%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.90%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.90%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.90%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.60%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (15.52%) Power Platform
2 50 (14.93%) Azure
3 30 (8.96%) SaaS
4 14 (4.18%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.99%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.69%) AWS
8 7 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.09%) Power Automate
8 7 (2.09%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.79%) GCP
10 5 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.49%) GitHub
11 4 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.19%) Google Ads
11 4 (1.19%) Google Data Studio
11 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Advertising
12 3 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.90%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.78%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.18%) Firewall
3 8 (2.39%) VPN
4 7 (2.09%) DNS
5 6 (1.79%) Wireless
6 5 (1.49%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (1.49%) WAN
7 4 (1.19%) LAN
7 4 (1.19%) Network Security
7 4 (1.19%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.90%) BGP
8 3 (0.90%) DHCP
8 3 (0.90%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.90%) VLAN
9 2 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.60%) EIGRP
9 2 (0.60%) OSPF
9 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.30%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.63%) Power BI
2 18 (5.37%) Power Query
3 13 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.58%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.99%) Tableau
6 8 (2.39%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.09%) MySQL
7 7 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.49%) Redis
9 4 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.60%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.60%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.60%) Metadata
11 2 (0.60%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (2.09%) JIRA
2 5 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.19%) Git
4 2 (0.60%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.60%) Postman
4 2 (0.60%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.30%) Appium
5 1 (0.30%) Bugzilla
5 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.30%) GitLab
5 1 (0.30%) JMeter
5 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.30%) Selenium
5 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.30%) TestRail
5 1 (0.30%) Yeoman
General
1 154 (45.97%) Social Skills
2 122 (36.42%) Finance
3 29 (8.66%) Organisational Skills
4 28 (8.36%) Manufacturing
5 26 (7.76%) Legal
6 25 (7.46%) Marketing
7 21 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (5.97%) Public Sector
8 20 (5.97%) Retail
9 16 (4.78%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.99%) Law
12 7 (2.09%) Electronics
12 7 (2.09%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (1.49%) German Language
14 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.90%) Social Housing
15 2 (0.60%) Billing
15 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (21.19%) Analyst
2 36 (10.75%) Senior
3 35 (10.45%) Accountant
4 29 (8.66%) Lead
5 24 (7.16%) Systems Accountant
6 23 (6.87%) Support Engineer
7 17 (5.07%) Business Manager
7 17 (5.07%) Technical Support
8 15 (4.48%) Data Analyst
9 14 (4.18%) Technical Engineer
10 13 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
10 13 (3.88%) Technical Support Engineer
11 12 (3.58%) Consultant
11 12 (3.58%) Developer
11 12 (3.58%) Digital Analyst
11 12 (3.58%) IT Engineer
12 11 (3.28%) Management Accountant
12 11 (3.28%) Support Analyst
13 10 (2.99%) Business Analyst
13 10 (2.99%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.69%) RESTful
2 7 (2.09%) CSS
2 7 (2.09%) HTML
3 6 (1.79%) .NET
4 5 (1.49%) FastAPI
4 5 (1.49%) LDAP
4 5 (1.49%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (1.19%) COM
5 4 (1.19%) DCOM
5 4 (1.19%) EDI
5 4 (1.19%) ISPF
5 4 (1.19%) Middleware
5 4 (1.19%) REST
5 4 (1.19%) Spring
5 4 (1.19%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.19%) XML
6 3 (0.90%) JSON
7 1 (0.30%) Ajax
7 1 (0.30%) SAP CAF
7 1 (0.30%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (5.07%) Driving Licence
2 17 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (4.78%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.39%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
7 7 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.09%) IoT
8 6 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.19%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.19%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.19%) PKI
10 4 (1.19%) SCADA
10 4 (1.19%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.97%) Windows
2 13 (3.88%) Linux
3 8 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.79%) Android
5 2 (0.60%) CentOS
5 2 (0.60%) Debian
5 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (49.55%) Problem-Solving
2 106 (31.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 77 (22.99%) Decision-Making
4 67 (20.00%) Analytics
5 56 (16.72%) Business Intelligence
6 54 (16.12%) AI
7 53 (15.82%) Agile
8 47 (14.03%) ERP
9 41 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 36 (10.75%) Collaborative Working
11 34 (10.15%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (9.85%) Actionable Insight
13 28 (8.36%) Budgeting
14 27 (8.06%) Mentoring
14 27 (8.06%) Process Improvement
15 26 (7.76%) Business Development
15 26 (7.76%) Collaborative Culture
16 25 (7.46%) Coaching
16 25 (7.46%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 55 (16.42%) SQL
2 28 (8.36%) Python
3 17 (5.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (3.58%) Java
5 9 (2.69%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.39%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.49%) C#
7 5 (1.49%) PHP
8 4 (1.19%) COBOL
8 4 (1.19%) JCL
8 4 (1.19%) VBA
9 3 (0.90%) Bash
10 2 (0.60%) C
10 2 (0.60%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.60%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.60%) R
10 2 (0.60%) RPG
10 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (16.72%) Degree
2 35 (10.45%) ACCA
2 35 (10.45%) CIMA
3 30 (8.96%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.48%) CompTIA Security+
5 14 (4.18%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.99%) CISSP
7 8 (2.39%) CISA
8 7 (2.09%) SSCP
9 6 (1.79%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.79%) IRCA
10 5 (1.49%) CCNA
10 5 (1.49%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.19%) PMP
12 3 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.90%) CCNP
12 3 (0.90%) HNC
12 3 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.96%) GDPR
2 27 (8.06%) Data Quality
3 17 (5.07%) ISO 9001
4 16 (4.78%) NIST
4 16 (4.78%) QA
5 14 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.09%) GRC
6 7 (2.09%) SLA
7 6 (1.79%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.49%) ISO 14001
9 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.19%) PMO
10 3 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.90%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 3 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.90%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (3.58%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.09%) Firmware
3 4 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.90%) Docker
4 3 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (1.79%) Terraform
2 4 (1.19%) Functional Safety
3 3 (0.90%) Ansible
3 3 (0.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.60%) Puppet
5 1 (0.30%) SCCM
5 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.07%) SAP
3 11 (3.28%) Cisco
4 9 (2.69%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.49%) Google
6 5 (1.49%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.19%) Broadcom
7 4 (1.19%) Hotjar
7 4 (1.19%) Meraki
8 3 (0.90%) Adobe
8 3 (0.90%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.60%) Dell
9 2 (0.60%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.60%) Jedox
9 2 (0.60%) NEC
9 2 (0.60%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.30%) F5
10 1 (0.30%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.30%) Perforce