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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 61 71 90
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 9.36% 11.77% 10.82%
As % of the General category 14.99% 15.33% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 43 60
10th Percentile £145 £148 £184
25th Percentile £174 £331 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.52%
75th Percentile £545 £581 £575
90th Percentile £588 £622 £589
Scotland median daily rate £431 £450 £484
% change year-on-year -4.17% -6.98% +2.38%
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 £17.50
% change year-on-year +220.51% -10.86% -51.88%

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 407 463 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 62.42% 76.78% 75.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 258 364
10th Percentile £167 £192 £178
25th Percentile £373 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -5.25% +2.21%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £457 £475
% change year-on-year -1.53% -3.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 34
10th Percentile £16.38 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £27.34 £22.22 £16.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% -39.55% +88.15%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.66 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 £67.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.54 £24.09 £19.50
% change year-on-year -31.36% +23.54% +13.97%

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 27 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 (1.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.03%) Azure
2 7 (11.48%) AWS
2 7 (11.48%) Snowflake
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.92%) OCI
3 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.28%) PaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.64%) Dataform
5 1 (1.64%) dbt
5 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) DNS
2 2 (3.28%) DHCP
2 2 (3.28%) Firewall
3 1 (1.64%) Internet
3 1 (1.64%) LAN
3 1 (1.64%) SAN
3 1 (1.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.92%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.28%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (3.28%) Power BI
4 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) ERwin
2 4 (6.56%) ER Studio
3 3 (4.92%) GitLab
4 1 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 23 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.87%) Finance
3 8 (13.11%) Banking
4 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.84%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (9.84%) Retail
6 4 (6.56%) Retail Banking
7 3 (4.92%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.92%) Legal
8 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Analyst
2 7 (11.48%) Business Analyst
3 6 (9.84%) Consultant
3 6 (9.84%) Data Protection Officer
3 6 (9.84%) Senior
3 6 (9.84%) Support Officer
4 5 (8.20%) Data Analyst
4 5 (8.20%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Data Modeller
5 3 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Development Consultant
5 3 (4.92%) Implementation Consultant
5 3 (4.92%) Junior
5 3 (4.92%) Junior Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Cloud Consultant
6 2 (3.28%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Communications Analyst
6 2 (3.28%) IT Analyst
6 2 (3.28%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) JSON
1 2 (3.28%) Middleware
1 2 (3.28%) REST
2 1 (1.64%) .NET
2 1 (1.64%) Kafka
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.64%) PySpark
2 1 (1.64%) RESTful
2 1 (1.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.28%) Clustering
2 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.28%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.28%) PKI
3 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.64%) CMDB
3 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.64%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.64%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Windows
2 5 (8.20%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.28%) zOS
4 1 (1.64%) Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Solaris
4 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (19.67%) Agile
3 11 (18.03%) Decision-Making
4 10 (16.39%) Data Modelling
4 10 (16.39%) Data Protection
5 9 (14.75%) Analytics
5 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (13.11%) Logical Data Model
6 8 (13.11%) Physical Data Model
7 7 (11.48%) Data Architecture
7 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (9.84%) Data Governance
8 6 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (9.84%) Validation
9 5 (8.20%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (8.20%) Customer Experience
9 5 (8.20%) Project Management
9 5 (8.20%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.23%) SQL
2 6 (9.84%) Python
3 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.64%) C#
4 1 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.64%) Java
4 1 (1.64%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.92%) Degree
3 3 (4.92%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (4.92%) MCSE
4 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) CBAP
5 1 (1.64%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) ISEB
5 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.64%) PhD
5 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (8.20%) QA
4 3 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (4.92%) PMO
5 2 (3.28%) GDPR
6 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.64%) NCSC
6 1 (1.64%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) SCCM
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Oracle
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.20%) IBM
4 2 (3.28%) Databricks
4 2 (3.28%) VMware
5 1 (1.64%) Avaya
5 1 (1.64%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.64%) Qualys
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow