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 20 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +22
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 59 76 83
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 8.68% 12.04% 10.27%
As % of the General category 14.94% 15.32% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 42 54
10th Percentile £145 £148 £330
25th Percentile £147 £297 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £453 £504
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -10.07% +5.50%
75th Percentile £551 £569 £575
90th Percentile £588 £624 £600
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -5.56% -7.69% +3.50%
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% -70.35%

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 395 496 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 58.09% 78.61% 74.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 271 346
10th Percentile £171 £197 £182
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -3.54% +1.05%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £631 £669
Scotland median daily rate £459 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -0.81% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 33
10th Percentile £16.38 £20.51 £16.25
25th Percentile £45.13 £21.61 £16.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% -30.91% +63.06%
75th Percentile £75.00 £26.52 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £39.43 £68.30
Scotland median hourly rate £16.54 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -28.11% +17.95% -9.15%

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 20 April 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 (1.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.69%) assyst
2 1 (1.69%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.25%) Azure
2 8 (13.56%) Snowflake
3 7 (11.86%) AWS
4 4 (6.78%) OCI
4 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.39%) PaaS
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.69%) Dataform
7 1 (1.69%) dbt
7 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.69%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) DNS
2 2 (3.39%) DHCP
3 1 (1.69%) Firewall
3 1 (1.69%) Internet
3 1 (1.69%) LAN
3 1 (1.69%) SAN
3 1 (1.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.08%) Power BI
3 2 (3.39%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.69%) Power Query
4 1 (1.69%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) ER Studio
1 4 (6.78%) ERwin
2 3 (5.08%) GitLab
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 22 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (30.51%) Finance
3 8 (13.56%) Retail
4 7 (11.86%) Banking
5 6 (10.17%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.78%) Retail Banking
7 3 (5.08%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (5.08%) General Ledger
7 3 (5.08%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.08%) Legal
8 2 (3.39%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) Analyst
2 7 (11.86%) Consultant
3 6 (10.17%) Business Analyst
3 6 (10.17%) Data Protection Officer
3 6 (10.17%) Support Officer
4 5 (8.47%) Data Analyst
4 5 (8.47%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Senior
5 4 (6.78%) Data Modeller
5 4 (6.78%) Lead
5 4 (6.78%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Cloud Consultant
6 3 (5.08%) Development Consultant
6 3 (5.08%) Implementation Consultant
6 3 (5.08%) Junior
6 3 (5.08%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Oracle Consultant
7 2 (3.39%) Communications Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) ICT Support Technician
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) Middleware
1 2 (3.39%) REST
2 1 (1.69%) .NET
2 1 (1.69%) JSON
2 1 (1.69%) Kafka
2 1 (1.69%) PySpark
2 1 (1.69%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.39%) Clustering
2 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.39%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.69%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.69%) CMDB
3 1 (1.69%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.69%) PKI
3 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Windows
2 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.39%) Linux
3 2 (3.39%) Solaris
3 2 (3.39%) Unix
3 2 (3.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (18.64%) Agile
3 10 (16.95%) Analytics
3 10 (16.95%) Decision-Making
4 8 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (13.56%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (13.56%) Data Protection
5 7 (11.86%) AI
5 7 (11.86%) Data Modelling
5 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (10.17%) Data Governance
6 6 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (10.17%) Generative AI
6 6 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (8.47%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (8.47%) ITIL
7 5 (8.47%) Logical Data Model
7 5 (8.47%) Physical Data Model
7 5 (8.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) SQL
2 5 (8.47%) Python
3 2 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.39%) MATLAB
3 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.69%) C#
4 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.39%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.39%) MCSE
3 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) CBAP
4 1 (1.69%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (13.56%) Data Quality
3 5 (8.47%) QA
4 3 (5.08%) PMO
5 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.69%) GRC
6 1 (1.69%) NCSC
6 1 (1.69%) NIST
6 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.69%) IAG
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.69%) SCCM
1 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Oracle
2 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.39%) Databricks
3 2 (3.39%) IBM
4 1 (1.69%) Avaya
4 1 (1.69%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.69%) Qualys
4 1 (1.69%) SAP
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) VMware