Analytical Skills Contracts in Scotland

Analytical Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 14 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 203 283 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.54% 10.51% 7.77%
As % of the General category 15.01% 15.73% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 208 171
10th Percentile £187 £166 £255
25th Percentile £356 £412 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £476 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +5.83% +6.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £601 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 6
10th Percentile £12.00 £49.99 £33.24
25th Percentile £12.44 £53.38 £42.29
Median hourly rate £14.50 £59.03 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.44% +24.27% +265.38%
75th Percentile £18.75 £59.79 £54.00
90th Percentile £19.50 £60.25 £55.80
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £44.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -56.82% +25.71% +55.56%

All General Skills
Scotland

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,352 1,799 2,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 63.56% 66.83% 70.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 1,282 1,753
10th Percentile £178 £225 £230
25th Percentile £340 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £554 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 29 46
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.66 £15.04
25th Percentile £14.56 £14.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.07 £19.18 £32.14
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% -40.32% +83.66%
75th Percentile £47.25 £58.75 £47.25
90th Percentile £66.50 £67.00 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +42.22% +4.65%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +11 83 £500 +4.71% 40
Glasgow -4 80 £425 -10.53% 46
West Lothian +1 5 £188 -55.88% 3
Highlands - 3 - - 1
Perthshire +5 2 £450 -15.89%
Renfrewshire +1 2 £400 +5.26% 1
Fife +1 2 - - 1
Lanarkshire -1 2 £456 +176.52% 16
Aberdeen -1 2 £450 +32.35% 25
Aberdeenshire 0 1 - - 10
Stirling - 1 £525 - 3
Inverclyde - 1 £375 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £500 - 1
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 13 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.48%) Confluence
2 3 (1.48%) IBM HTTP Server
2 3 (1.48%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (1.48%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 33 (16.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (2.46%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (2.46%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.48%) Maximo
2 3 (1.48%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.36%) Power Platform
2 15 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (6.40%) AWS
4 12 (5.91%) OCI
5 11 (5.42%) Azure
6 8 (3.94%) Snowflake
6 8 (3.94%) Yammer
7 7 (3.45%) GCP
8 5 (2.46%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.97%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.48%) Adverity
10 3 (1.48%) Google Data Studio
10 3 (1.48%) Google Sheets
10 3 (1.48%) Sprout Social
11 2 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.99%) SaaS
12 1 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.49%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.49%) IBM Blueworks
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.43%) SAN
2 5 (2.46%) Firewall
2 5 (2.46%) Internet
3 3 (1.48%) HTTP
3 3 (1.48%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.99%) Intranet
4 2 (0.99%) LAN
4 2 (0.99%) WLAN
5 1 (0.49%) NAS
5 1 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.36%) Power BI
2 13 (6.40%) Oracle Reports
2 13 (6.40%) Tableau
3 12 (5.91%) Oracle Database
4 9 (4.43%) Metadata
5 5 (2.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.97%) Big Data
7 3 (1.48%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.48%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.48%) GIS
8 1 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.42%) Oracle APEX
2 9 (4.43%) JIRA
3 5 (2.46%) Git
4 3 (1.48%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.48%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (1.48%) JMeter
4 3 (1.48%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.48%) Selenium
5 2 (0.99%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.99%) ERwin
6 1 (0.49%) Gradle
6 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
General
1 112 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 62 (30.54%) Public Sector
3 53 (26.11%) Finance
4 21 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (7.39%) Legal
6 13 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.43%) Banking
8 8 (3.94%) Publishing
9 7 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.48%) Marketing
10 3 (1.48%) Police
10 3 (1.48%) Retail
11 2 (0.99%) German Language
11 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Back Office
12 1 (0.49%) French Language
12 1 (0.49%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 79 (38.92%) Analyst
2 26 (12.81%) Data Analyst
3 24 (11.82%) Senior
4 17 (8.37%) Lead
5 14 (6.90%) Developer
6 13 (6.40%) Business Analyst
7 12 (5.91%) Field Engineer
7 12 (5.91%) IT Engineer
8 10 (4.93%) Designer
8 10 (4.93%) Field Service Engineer
8 10 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.94%) Change Analyst
9 8 (3.94%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.45%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 6 (2.96%) IT Analyst
11 6 (2.96%) Lead Data Analyst
11 6 (2.96%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (2.96%) UX Designer
11 6 (2.96%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.43%) CSS
2 6 (2.96%) HTML
2 6 (2.96%) Kafka
2 6 (2.96%) React
3 5 (2.46%) RESTful
3 5 (2.46%) Spring
3 5 (2.46%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.97%) REST
5 3 (1.48%) J2EE
5 3 (1.48%) Middleware
5 3 (1.48%) XML
6 2 (0.99%) .NET
6 2 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.99%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.99%) Spring Batch
6 2 (0.99%) Web Services
7 1 (0.49%) Pandas
7 1 (0.49%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.87%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.40%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (4.43%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.96%) Credit Risk
5 6 (2.96%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (2.46%) DTCC
6 5 (2.46%) Market Risk
7 4 (1.97%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.48%) Social Media
9 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.99%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.99%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.99%) Tandem
9 2 (0.99%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.37%) Windows
2 9 (4.43%) Unix
3 7 (3.45%) Linux
4 6 (2.96%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.48%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (56.16%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (25.62%) Agile
3 28 (13.79%) Analytics
4 27 (13.30%) Project Management
5 24 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (11.33%) ERP
7 21 (10.34%) Computer Science
8 19 (9.36%) Decision-Making
9 18 (8.87%) ITIL
10 16 (7.88%) Collaborative Working
11 15 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (7.39%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (6.90%) Customer Service
12 14 (6.90%) Visualisation
13 13 (6.40%) Data Analysis
13 13 (6.40%) Data Visualisation
13 13 (6.40%) DevOps
14 12 (5.91%) Data Modelling
14 12 (5.91%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.26%) SQL
2 19 (9.36%) Python
3 12 (5.91%) PL/SQL
4 8 (3.94%) Java
4 8 (3.94%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.96%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.48%) C#
7 2 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.99%) Perl
7 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.49%) Scala
8 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (18.23%) Degree
2 19 (9.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (8.37%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.42%) MCSE
6 8 (3.94%) A+ Certification
6 8 (3.94%) CCNA
6 8 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.94%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (3.45%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.48%) CISSP
9 3 (1.48%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.48%) OSCP
10 2 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.49%) CISM
11 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.49%) HNC
11 1 (0.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (5.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.46%) GDPR
3 5 (2.46%) QA
4 4 (1.97%) PMO
5 3 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.99%) COBIT
6 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.99%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.99%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.99%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.99%) P3O
7 1 (0.49%) Basel III
7 1 (0.49%) COREP
7 1 (0.49%) FINREP
7 1 (0.49%) IFRS
7 1 (0.49%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.48%) Firmware
2 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.94%) SCCM
2 5 (2.46%) Terraform
3 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.49%) Ansible
4 1 (0.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.49%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 35 (17.24%) Oracle
3 8 (3.94%) Alteryx
3 8 (3.94%) Dell
4 7 (3.45%) Splunk
5 5 (2.46%) Google
5 5 (2.46%) IFS
6 3 (1.48%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.48%) Brandwatch
6 3 (1.48%) Facebook
6 3 (1.48%) Hootsuite
6 3 (1.48%) IBM
6 3 (1.48%) Instagram
6 3 (1.48%) SAP
6 3 (1.48%) Twitter
6 3 (1.48%) Workday
6 3 (1.48%) YouTube
7 2 (0.99%) Cisco
7 2 (0.99%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (0.99%) IDERA