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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 87 68 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.64% 8.29% 8.25%
As % of the General category 17.98% 11.81% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 56
10th Percentile £311 £179 £163
25th Percentile £445 £247 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £605 £550
90th Percentile - £639 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £479
% change year-on-year - -6.01% +12.65%
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% +40.72%

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 484 576 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 75.86% 70.24% 75.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 296 513
10th Percentile £263 £157 £205
25th Percentile £413 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £619 £600
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 5
10th Percentile £16.95 £12.85 £14.08
25th Percentile - £13.98 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +2.71% -5.87%
75th Percentile £41.85 £23.92 £41.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £55.75 £48.62
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £17.46 £24.59
% change year-on-year +10.14% -29.00% +23.88%

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
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 17 September 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 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 7 (8.05%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) Apache
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.15%) CMS
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.05%) GCP
2 6 (6.90%) Azure
3 5 (5.75%) AWS
4 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.30%) OCI
7 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.15%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.15%) npm
7 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.15%) SaaS
7 1 (1.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) Firewall
1 3 (3.45%) LAN
2 2 (2.30%) WAN
3 1 (1.15%) 4G
3 1 (1.15%) ADSL
3 1 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.15%) HTTP
3 1 (1.15%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.15%) Internet
3 1 (1.15%) PSTN
3 1 (1.15%) SDH
3 1 (1.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.60%) BigQuery
1 4 (4.60%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.45%) Power BI
3 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.30%) Looker
3 2 (2.30%) Metadata
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (2.30%) Star Schema
3 2 (2.30%) Tableau
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.90%) JIRA
2 4 (4.60%) ER Studio
3 3 (3.45%) Git
4 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.15%) GitLab
4 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 48 (55.17%) Finance
2 38 (43.68%) Social Skills
3 32 (36.78%) Banking
4 24 (27.59%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.60%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Electronics
7 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
8 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (50.57%) Analyst
2 13 (14.94%) Fraud Analyst
3 12 (13.79%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.20%) Senior
5 6 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Architect
6 5 (5.75%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Product Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Product Business Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
9 2 (2.30%) IT Engineer
9 2 (2.30%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) Kafka
2 2 (2.30%) React
2 2 (2.30%) REST
2 2 (2.30%) SOAP
3 1 (1.15%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.15%) CSS
3 1 (1.15%) EDI
3 1 (1.15%) HTML
3 1 (1.15%) Jest
3 1 (1.15%) JSON
3 1 (1.15%) JWT
3 1 (1.15%) LDAP
3 1 (1.15%) Middleware
3 1 (1.15%) Node.js
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.15%) SAML
3 1 (1.15%) Spring
3 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.15%) Streamlit
3 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (5.75%) Mainframe
4 4 (4.60%) Replication
5 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.30%) Derivative
6 2 (2.30%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.30%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.30%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (2.30%) PKI
6 2 (2.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.15%) Graphic Design
7 1 (1.15%) SCADA
7 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.34%) Linux
2 8 (9.20%) Windows
3 6 (6.90%) Solaris
3 6 (6.90%) Unix
4 4 (4.60%) HPUX
4 4 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.08%) Migration
2 31 (35.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (32.18%) Agile
4 24 (27.59%) Fintech
4 24 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (26.44%) Case Management
5 23 (26.44%) Digital Banking
5 23 (26.44%) Due Diligence
5 23 (26.44%) Regulatory Compliance
5 23 (26.44%) Scenario Testing
6 14 (16.09%) DevOps
7 13 (14.94%) Fraud Detection
7 13 (14.94%) Project Management
8 12 (13.79%) Analytical Thinking
9 10 (11.49%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 10 (11.49%) SDLC
10 9 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (10.34%) Data Analysis
10 9 (10.34%) Data Modelling
10 9 (10.34%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.34%) Python
2 8 (9.20%) SQL
3 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.45%) Java
5 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.15%) COBOL
6 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.15%) Groovy
6 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Degree
2 5 (5.75%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.30%) CEH
4 2 (2.30%) CISSP
4 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.30%) GCIH
4 2 (2.30%) OSCP
4 2 (2.30%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) City & Guilds
5 1 (1.15%) GCFA
5 1 (1.15%) HNC
5 1 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.15%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (1.15%) PMP
5 1 (1.15%) SANS
5 1 (1.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (5.75%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.15%) Podman
2 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.05%) Oracle
3 6 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.60%) Cisco
4 4 (4.60%) Google
4 4 (4.60%) IBM
4 4 (4.60%) Unisys
5 2 (2.30%) HP
5 2 (2.30%) Informatica
5 2 (2.30%) Nokia
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe
6 1 (1.15%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.15%) Avaya
6 1 (1.15%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.15%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.15%) Qualys
6 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.15%) SAP
6 1 (1.15%) Symantec
6 1 (1.15%) VMware