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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 85 73 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.02% 8.36% 9.00%
As % of the General category 16.60% 11.87% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 38 74
10th Percentile £183 £185 £164
25th Percentile £413 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £516 £476
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% +8.40% +5.83%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £569
90th Percentile £579 £638 £621
Scotland median daily rate £467 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +0.97% -5.13% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £14.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.60 £14.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year +11.43% -76.28% +24.27%

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 512 615 871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 78.41% 70.45% 73.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 333 602
10th Percentile £205 £156 £232
25th Percentile £400 £340 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £534 £550 £545
90th Percentile £600 £653 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 33 5
10th Percentile £16.55 £13.22 -
25th Percentile £19.77 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -14.06% -30.30%
75th Percentile £31.34 £60.75 £21.67
90th Percentile £45.80 - £33.27
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.00 £18.84
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.46% -47.98%

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 3 July 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 8 (9.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) Apache
2 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.35%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.94%) AWS
2 9 (10.59%) Azure
3 7 (8.24%) GCP
4 4 (4.71%) OCI
5 3 (3.53%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.53%) SaaS
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.35%) IaaS
6 2 (2.35%) PaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.18%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.18%) npm
7 1 (1.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) Firewall
1 3 (3.53%) LAN
2 2 (2.35%) Internet
2 2 (2.35%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (2.35%) WAN
3 1 (1.18%) 4G
3 1 (1.18%) ADSL
3 1 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.18%) Intranet
3 1 (1.18%) Network Security
3 1 (1.18%) PSTN
3 1 (1.18%) SDH
3 1 (1.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (7.06%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.71%) BigQuery
2 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.53%) Power BI
3 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.53%) Tableau
4 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.35%) Looker
4 2 (2.35%) Metadata
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (2.35%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) JIRA
2 4 (4.71%) ER Studio
2 4 (4.71%) Git
3 2 (2.35%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.18%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.18%) GitLab
4 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.18%) TestRail
4 1 (1.18%) Toad
4 1 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 48 (56.47%) Social Skills
2 42 (49.41%) Finance
3 22 (25.88%) Banking
4 18 (21.18%) Public Sector
5 11 (12.94%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.88%) Retail Banking
7 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Electronics
8 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.18%) Local Government
9 1 (1.18%) Marketing
9 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Publishing
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (37.65%) Analyst
2 10 (11.76%) Senior
3 9 (10.59%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.41%) Architect
5 6 (7.06%) Data Analyst
5 6 (7.06%) Fraud Analyst
6 5 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Administrator
7 4 (4.71%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Lead
7 4 (4.71%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (3.53%) Consultant
8 3 (3.53%) Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.35%) Desktop Support
9 2 (2.35%) IT Administrator
9 2 (2.35%) Security Specialist
9 2 (2.35%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) Kafka
2 3 (3.53%) RESTful
2 3 (3.53%) Spring
2 3 (3.53%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.35%) LDAP
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.35%) React
4 1 (1.18%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.18%) CSS
4 1 (1.18%) EDI
4 1 (1.18%) HTML
4 1 (1.18%) Jest
4 1 (1.18%) Middleware
4 1 (1.18%) Node.js
4 1 (1.18%) REST
4 1 (1.18%) SOAP
4 1 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.06%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.88%) Replication
4 4 (4.71%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.53%) PKI
6 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.35%) Device Driver
6 2 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.35%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.35%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.18%) Clustering
7 1 (1.18%) CMDB
7 1 (1.18%) Derivative
7 1 (1.18%) SCADA
7 1 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.76%) Windows
2 9 (10.59%) Linux
3 7 (8.24%) Solaris
3 7 (8.24%) Unix
4 5 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.71%) HPUX
6 2 (2.35%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.18%) AIX
7 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (43.53%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (29.41%) Agile
3 20 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (23.53%) Migration
4 14 (16.47%) Project Management
5 12 (14.12%) DevOps
5 12 (14.12%) Regulatory Compliance
6 11 (12.94%) Case Management
6 11 (12.94%) Data Modelling
6 11 (12.94%) Digital Banking
6 11 (12.94%) Due Diligence
6 11 (12.94%) Fintech
6 11 (12.94%) Scenario Testing
7 10 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (11.76%) Time Management
8 9 (10.59%) Analytical Thinking
8 9 (10.59%) Data Analysis
8 9 (10.59%) ITIL
8 9 (10.59%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.00%) SQL
2 8 (9.41%) Python
3 4 (4.71%) Java
3 4 (4.71%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.18%) R
5 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (22.35%) Degree
2 4 (4.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.35%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.35%) CEH
4 2 (2.35%) CISSP
4 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.35%) GCIH
4 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.35%) OSCP
4 2 (2.35%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.18%) ACCA
5 1 (1.18%) GCFA
5 1 (1.18%) HNC
5 1 (1.18%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.12%) QA
2 11 (12.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (7.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.18%) Docker
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.18%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (1.18%) Podman
2 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (16.47%) Oracle
2 12 (14.12%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.71%) Cisco
4 4 (4.71%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) IBM
4 4 (4.71%) Sun
4 4 (4.71%) Unisys
5 2 (2.35%) HP
5 2 (2.35%) Informatica
5 2 (2.35%) Nokia
6 1 (1.18%) Adobe
6 1 (1.18%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.18%) Avaya
6 1 (1.18%) Dell
6 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.18%) Symantec
6 1 (1.18%) Teradata
6 1 (1.18%) VMware