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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 65 74 84
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 9.69% 12.01% 10.28%
As % of the General category 16.01% 15.48% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 43 55
10th Percentile £145 £148 £208
25th Percentile £167 £331 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.99%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £575
90th Percentile £588 £622 £600
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £484
% change year-on-year -5.56% -6.98% +3.04%
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% -67.22%

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 406 478 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 60.51% 77.60% 74.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 266 351
10th Percentile £170 £193 £170
25th Percentile £373 £392 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £484
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -4.44% +1.89%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £575
90th Percentile £645 £638 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -
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 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% -46.27% +153.95%
75th Percentile £75.00 £26.52 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £39.43 £68.50
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £24.09 £19.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +23.54% +10.05%

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 6 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 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.54%) assyst
2 1 (1.54%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.38%) Azure
2 8 (12.31%) Snowflake
3 7 (10.77%) AWS
4 4 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.15%) OCI
4 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.08%) PaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.54%) Dataform
6 1 (1.54%) dbt
6 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) DNS
2 2 (3.08%) DHCP
2 2 (3.08%) Firewall
3 1 (1.54%) Internet
3 1 (1.54%) LAN
3 1 (1.54%) SAN
3 1 (1.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.62%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (4.62%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.62%) Power BI
2 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.08%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.54%) Power Query
4 1 (1.54%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) ERwin
2 4 (6.15%) ER Studio
3 3 (4.62%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 25 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.23%) Finance
3 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.31%) Retail
4 7 (10.77%) Banking
5 6 (9.23%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Retail Banking
7 3 (4.62%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (4.62%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.62%) General Ledger
7 3 (4.62%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.62%) Legal
8 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Analyst
2 7 (10.77%) Consultant
3 6 (9.23%) Business Analyst
3 6 (9.23%) Data Protection Officer
3 6 (9.23%) Senior
3 6 (9.23%) Support Officer
4 5 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Data Modeller
5 4 (6.15%) Lead
5 4 (6.15%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Cloud Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Development Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Implementation Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Junior
6 3 (4.62%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Oracle Consultant
7 2 (3.08%) Communications Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) ICT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) Middleware
1 2 (3.08%) REST
2 1 (1.54%) .NET
2 1 (1.54%) JSON
2 1 (1.54%) Kafka
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.54%) PySpark
2 1 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.08%) Clustering
2 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.08%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.08%) PKI
2 2 (3.08%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.54%) CMDB
3 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Windows
2 5 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.08%) zOS
4 1 (1.54%) Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Solaris
4 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (18.46%) Agile
3 10 (15.38%) Analytics
3 10 (15.38%) Data Modelling
3 10 (15.38%) Data Protection
3 10 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 9 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (12.31%) Logical Data Model
5 8 (12.31%) Physical Data Model
5 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (10.77%) AI
6 7 (10.77%) Data Architecture
7 6 (9.23%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (9.23%) Data Governance
7 6 (9.23%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (9.23%) Generative AI
7 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (7.69%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.15%) SQL
2 5 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.08%) MATLAB
3 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.54%) C#
4 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.62%) Degree
3 3 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (4.62%) MCSE
4 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.08%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.54%) CBAP
5 1 (1.54%) ISEB
5 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.54%) PhD
5 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.31%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (7.69%) QA
4 3 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (4.62%) PMO
5 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.54%) GDPR
5 1 (1.54%) GRC
5 1 (1.54%) NCSC
5 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.54%) IAG
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) SCCM
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) Oracle
2 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (3.08%) Databricks
4 2 (3.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.54%) Avaya
5 1 (1.54%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.54%) Qualys
5 1 (1.54%) SAP
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow