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 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 78 71 83
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 12.68% 8.80% 8.43%
As % of the General category 17.03% 12.50% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 55
10th Percentile £232 £179 £159
25th Percentile £419 £207 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £418 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.75% -12.11% -
75th Percentile £544 £597 £550
90th Percentile £550 £639 £623
Scotland median daily rate £469 £417 £488
% change year-on-year +12.41% -14.46% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 £14.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.90% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £14.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year +106.90% -75.44% +118.10%

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 common skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 458 568 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 74.47% 70.38% 74.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 293 454
10th Percentile £221 £163 £193
25th Percentile £413 £318 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £545
90th Percentile £599 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £440 £475
% change year-on-year +5.11% -7.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 6
10th Percentile £17.08 £12.61 £12.47
25th Percentile - £13.60 £14.39
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.65 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +5.25% -6.24%
75th Percentile £37.90 £24.18 £44.71
90th Percentile £60.75 £56.25 £58.10
Scotland median hourly rate £18.37 £16.92 £18.45
% change year-on-year +8.57% -8.29% -1.60%

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 16 October 2025.

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 6 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) Apache
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.28%) CMS
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.69%) Azure
1 6 (7.69%) GCP
2 4 (5.13%) AWS
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (2.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.28%) npm
4 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.28%) HTTP
2 1 (1.28%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.13%) BigQuery
1 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
1 4 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.85%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.56%) Looker
3 2 (2.56%) Metadata
3 2 (2.56%) Power BI
3 2 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (2.56%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) JIRA
2 4 (5.13%) ER Studio
3 3 (3.85%) ERwin
3 3 (3.85%) Git
4 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.28%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.28%) webpack
General
1 40 (51.28%) Finance
2 32 (41.03%) Social Skills
3 28 (35.90%) Banking
4 24 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.56%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 42 (53.85%) Analyst
2 13 (16.67%) Fraud Analyst
3 11 (14.10%) Business Analyst
4 5 (6.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 5 (6.41%) Network Engineer
4 5 (6.41%) Project Manager
4 5 (6.41%) Senior
5 3 (3.85%) Consultant
5 3 (3.85%) Data Analyst
5 3 (3.85%) Data Modeller
5 3 (3.85%) Product Analyst
5 3 (3.85%) Product Business Analyst
5 3 (3.85%) Product Owner
6 2 (2.56%) Data Manager
6 2 (2.56%) IT Administrator
6 2 (2.56%) Security Analyst
6 2 (2.56%) Solutions Consultant
6 2 (2.56%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (2.56%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (2.56%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.13%) Kafka
2 2 (2.56%) JSON
2 2 (2.56%) React
2 2 (2.56%) RESTful
3 1 (1.28%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.28%) CSS
3 1 (1.28%) HTML
3 1 (1.28%) Jest
3 1 (1.28%) JWT
3 1 (1.28%) LDAP
3 1 (1.28%) Node.js
3 1 (1.28%) OAuth
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.28%) REST
3 1 (1.28%) SAML
3 1 (1.28%) SOAP
3 1 (1.28%) Spring
3 1 (1.28%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.28%) Streamlit
3 1 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.41%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.85%) PKI
4 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.56%) Derivative
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.56%) OTC Derivatives
5 2 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.28%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.28%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.28%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.28%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Unix
2 4 (5.13%) Linux
2 4 (5.13%) Windows
3 1 (1.28%) Solaris
3 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.59%) Migration
2 30 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (30.77%) Fintech
4 23 (29.49%) Case Management
4 23 (29.49%) Digital Banking
4 23 (29.49%) Due Diligence
4 23 (29.49%) Regulatory Compliance
4 23 (29.49%) Scenario Testing
5 22 (28.21%) Agile
6 20 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (16.67%) Fraud Detection
8 10 (12.82%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 10 (12.82%) SDLC
9 9 (11.54%) Data Management
9 9 (11.54%) Data Modelling
9 9 (11.54%) DevOps
10 8 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (10.26%) Logical Data Model
10 8 (10.26%) Project Management
11 7 (8.97%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.54%) Python
1 9 (11.54%) SQL
2 4 (5.13%) Java
2 4 (5.13%) Shell Script
3 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.28%) COBOL
4 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.28%) Groovy
4 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (15.38%) Degree
2 4 (5.13%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.56%) PMP
4 2 (2.56%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.28%) MCSE
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.28%) PhD
5 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.28%) SANS
5 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) Disclosure Scotland
1 5 (6.41%) QA
2 4 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.28%) Podman
2 1 (1.28%) SCCM
2 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (10.26%) Oracle
2 7 (8.97%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.13%) Google
3 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.85%) IBM
5 2 (2.56%) Informatica
5 2 (2.56%) VMware
6 1 (1.28%) Cisco
6 1 (1.28%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.28%) SAP
6 1 (1.28%) Snow