Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Analytical Skills
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 53 81 81
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.35% 13.02% 9.87%
As % of the General category 12.80% 16.74% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 41 50
10th Percentile £145 £148 £212
25th Percentile £167 £263 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £431 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% -13.80% +1.52%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £588 £625 £600
Scotland median daily rate £425 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -8.60% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile - - £11.94
25th Percentile - - £12.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £15.00
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £15.60 £15.00
% change year-on-year +220.51% +4.00% -74.59%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 414 484 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 57.42% 77.81% 73.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 260 342
10th Percentile £207 £203 £179
25th Percentile £405 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £631 £675
Scotland median daily rate £465 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +0.43% -2.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 34
10th Percentile £17.23 £19.53 £14.33
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £23.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.22% -42.50% +86.35%
75th Percentile £75.00 £31.34 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £54.32 £67.23
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £18.72
% change year-on-year -26.14% +17.52% -5.84%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Edinburgh

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.89%) assyst
2 1 (1.89%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.87%) Azure
2 8 (15.09%) AWS
3 7 (13.21%) Snowflake
4 6 (11.32%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.55%) OCI
6 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.77%) PaaS
7 2 (3.77%) Serverless
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.89%) Dataform
8 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) DNS
2 2 (3.77%) DHCP
3 1 (1.89%) Firewall
3 1 (1.89%) Internet
3 1 (1.89%) LAN
3 1 (1.89%) SAN
3 1 (1.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) Power BI
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.77%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.89%) Power Query
4 1 (1.89%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) ER Studio
1 3 (5.66%) ERwin
1 3 (5.66%) GitLab
2 2 (3.77%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (33.96%) Finance
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Retail
3 7 (13.21%) Banking
4 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (5.66%) General Ledger
5 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.66%) Legal
5 3 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Military
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Analyst
2 7 (13.21%) Consultant
3 6 (11.32%) Data Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Cloud Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Data Modeller
6 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Officer
6 3 (5.66%) Development Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Implementation Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Junior
6 3 (5.66%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Lead
6 3 (5.66%) Oracle Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Senior
6 3 (5.66%) Support Officer
7 2 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Middleware
1 2 (3.77%) REST
2 1 (1.89%) .NET
2 1 (1.89%) JSON
2 1 (1.89%) Kafka
2 1 (1.89%) PySpark
2 1 (1.89%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.77%) Clustering
2 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.77%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.77%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.89%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.89%) CMDB
3 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.89%) PKI
3 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Windows
2 4 (7.55%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.77%) Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Solaris
3 2 (3.77%) Unix
3 2 (3.77%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (22.64%) Analytics
3 9 (16.98%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
5 7 (13.21%) Agile
5 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (13.21%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (13.21%) Decision-Making
6 6 (11.32%) AI
6 6 (11.32%) Data Governance
6 6 (11.32%) Generative AI
6 6 (11.32%) ITIL
6 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (11.32%) Validation
7 5 (9.43%) Change Management
7 5 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (9.43%) DevOps
7 5 (9.43%) Project Delivery
7 5 (9.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) SQL
2 6 (11.32%) Python
3 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.77%) MATLAB
3 2 (3.77%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.89%) C#
4 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.89%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.77%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.77%) MCSE
3 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.89%) CBAP
4 1 (1.89%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (9.43%) QA
3 3 (5.66%) PMO
4 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.89%) GRC
5 1 (1.89%) NCSC
5 1 (1.89%) NIST
5 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.89%) IAG
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.89%) SCCM
1 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Oracle
2 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.77%) Databricks
3 2 (3.77%) IBM
4 1 (1.89%) Avaya
4 1 (1.89%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.89%) Qualys
4 1 (1.89%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) Splunk
4 1 (1.89%) VMware