Analytical Skills Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 13 27
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 76 87 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.16% 10.67% 7.83%
As % of the General category 15.77% 14.26% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 57 70
10th Percentile £148 £197 £269
25th Percentile £331 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.83% +8.06%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £569
90th Percentile £622 £600 £639
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.60 £17.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year -10.86% -70.35% +127.04%

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 482 610 944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 77.12% 74.85% 72.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 348 688
10th Percentile £199 £183 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £627 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 34 7
10th Percentile £19.77 £16.25 £14.83
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £35.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% +64.63% -46.85%
75th Percentile £29.86 £60.75 £31.34
90th Percentile £52.90 £67.23 £51.60
Scotland median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
% change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Edinburgh

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in Edinburgh

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Edinburgh

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in Edinburgh

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (6.58%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.26%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) Camunda
4 1 (1.32%) CMS
4 1 (1.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.95%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.79%) Azure
2 8 (10.53%) AWS
3 6 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.26%) Google Analytics
4 4 (5.26%) OCI
4 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.26%) SaaS
5 3 (3.95%) Google Data Studio
5 3 (3.95%) IaaS
5 3 (3.95%) PaaS
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.32%) GCP
7 1 (1.32%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) LAN
2 2 (2.63%) Internet
2 2 (2.63%) Network Security
2 2 (2.63%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (2.63%) WAN
3 1 (1.32%) 4G
3 1 (1.32%) ADSL
3 1 (1.32%) DNS
3 1 (1.32%) Firewall
3 1 (1.32%) HTTP
3 1 (1.32%) Intranet
3 1 (1.32%) PSTN
3 1 (1.32%) SDH
3 1 (1.32%) SSL
3 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) Tableau
2 5 (6.58%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.95%) Power BI
4 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.32%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.32%) GIS
6 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.58%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (2.63%) Git
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.32%) TestRail
3 1 (1.32%) Toad
General
1 45 (59.21%) Social Skills
2 28 (36.84%) Finance
3 18 (23.68%) Public Sector
4 16 (21.05%) Banking
5 5 (6.58%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (6.58%) Retail Banking
6 3 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Retail
7 2 (2.63%) Electronics
7 2 (2.63%) Marketing
7 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Local Government
8 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (32.89%) Analyst
2 11 (14.47%) Business Analyst
3 10 (13.16%) Architect
4 9 (11.84%) Senior
5 7 (9.21%) Lead
5 7 (9.21%) Support Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (6.58%) Exchange Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Exchange Support
7 5 (6.58%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.26%) Consultant
8 4 (5.26%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Performance Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) LDAP
1 2 (2.63%) Middleware
1 2 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (2.63%) RESTful
1 2 (2.63%) Spring
1 2 (2.63%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.32%) EDI
2 1 (1.32%) HTML
2 1 (1.32%) REST
2 1 (1.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.58%) Replication
3 4 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.26%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.63%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.63%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.63%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Windows
2 6 (7.89%) Linux
2 6 (7.89%) Solaris
3 5 (6.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.26%) HPUX
5 2 (2.63%) Unix
5 2 (2.63%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.32%) AIX
6 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (56.58%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (27.63%) Agile
3 12 (15.79%) Analytics
3 12 (15.79%) Project Management
4 11 (14.47%) Time Management
5 10 (13.16%) Data Analysis
5 10 (13.16%) ITIL
6 9 (11.84%) DevOps
7 8 (10.53%) Business Analysis
7 8 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 8 (10.53%) High Availability
7 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (9.21%) Data Modelling
8 7 (9.21%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (9.21%) Service Management
8 7 (9.21%) Visualisation
9 6 (7.89%) Change Management
9 6 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.89%) ITSM
9 6 (7.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.05%) SQL
2 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
3 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.95%) Python
4 2 (2.63%) Java
5 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.32%) R
5 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (14.47%) Degree
2 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) CISSP
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.63%) CEH
4 2 (2.63%) GCIH
4 2 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.63%) OSCP
5 1 (1.32%) ACCA
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.32%) CISA
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) GCFA
5 1 (1.32%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) QA
2 11 (14.47%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (7.89%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.32%) SLA
5 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
1 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.32%) Ansible
3 1 (1.32%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.79%) Oracle
3 5 (6.58%) Citrix
4 4 (5.26%) Google
4 4 (5.26%) IBM
4 4 (5.26%) Sun
4 4 (5.26%) Unisys
5 3 (3.95%) Cisco
5 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.63%) HP
6 2 (2.63%) Nokia
6 2 (2.63%) VMware
7 1 (1.32%) Adobe
7 1 (1.32%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.32%) Avaya
7 1 (1.32%) Dell
7 1 (1.32%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.32%) Symantec
7 1 (1.32%) Teradata