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 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 49 74 90
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.77% 12.17% 10.49%
As % of the General category 12.60% 15.88% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 44 59
10th Percentile £145 £149 £182
25th Percentile £146 £245 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £431 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -13.90% -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £575
90th Percentile £588 £609 £590
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile - - £12.56
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - £20.81
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £15.60 £17.75
% change year-on-year +220.51% -12.11% -51.19%

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 389 466 650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 61.65% 76.64% 75.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 263 378
10th Percentile £150 £192 £178
25th Percentile £359 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £482
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.37%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £660 £630 £661
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 17 32
10th Percentile £17.23 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.03 £22.22 £16.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% -46.27% +109.64%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.66 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 £69.25
Scotland median hourly rate £16.82 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -26.87% +17.95% +10.05%

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 March 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 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.37%) Azure
2 7 (14.29%) AWS
2 7 (14.29%) Snowflake
3 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.04%) Dataform
4 1 (2.04%) dbt
4 1 (2.04%) OCI
4 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) DHCP
1 2 (4.08%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.12%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.04%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) ERwin
2 4 (8.16%) ER Studio
3 3 (6.12%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.61%) Finance
3 9 (18.37%) Banking
4 6 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Retail
6 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.16%) Retail Banking
7 3 (6.12%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (6.12%) Financial Institution
7 3 (6.12%) Investment Banking
7 3 (6.12%) Legal
8 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Analyst
2 6 (12.24%) Data Protection Officer
2 6 (12.24%) Support Officer
3 5 (10.20%) Business Analyst
3 5 (10.20%) Data Analyst
3 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Data Modeller
4 4 (8.16%) Senior
5 3 (6.12%) Junior
5 3 (6.12%) Junior Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Communications Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Digital Business Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) IT Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) HR Manager
7 1 (2.04%) Integration Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle Business Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle HRMS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) JSON
1 2 (4.08%) Middleware
1 2 (4.08%) REST
2 1 (2.04%) .NET
2 1 (2.04%) Kafka
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.04%) PySpark
2 1 (2.04%) RESTful
2 1 (2.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.08%) Clustering
2 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.08%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.04%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.04%) PKI
3 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.04%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Windows
2 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (24.49%) Decision-Making
3 11 (22.45%) Agile
4 10 (20.41%) Data Protection
5 9 (18.37%) Analytics
5 9 (18.37%) Data Modelling
6 8 (16.33%) Logical Data Model
6 8 (16.33%) Physical Data Model
7 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (14.29%) Data Architecture
8 6 (12.24%) Customer Experience
8 6 (12.24%) Data Governance
8 6 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (12.24%) User Experience
8 6 (12.24%) Validation
9 5 (10.20%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (8.16%) Coaching
10 4 (8.16%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.53%) SQL
2 6 (12.24%) Python
3 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.04%) C#
4 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) MCSE
4 1 (2.04%) PhD
4 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.04%) PMP
4 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.45%) Data Quality
2 7 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (10.20%) QA
4 2 (4.08%) GDPR
5 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.04%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) SCCM
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) IBM
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.08%) Databricks
4 1 (2.04%) VMware