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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 21 23
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 87 66 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.57% 7.59% 8.73%
As % of the General category 16.99% 10.78% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 32 73
10th Percentile £222 £185 £163
25th Percentile £428 £286 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £504 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% +6.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £575 £638 £610
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 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 512 612 897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 79.88% 70.43% 74.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 330 618
10th Percentile £210 £161 £213
25th Percentile £400 £329 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -0.31%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 27 5
10th Percentile £16.07 £13.23 -
25th Percentile £17.55 £16.38 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.13 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% -14.72% -30.30%
75th Percentile £37.09 £56.25 £21.67
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £33.27
Scotland median hourly rate £19.83 £17.00 £19.18
% change year-on-year +16.65% -11.37% -48.76%

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 17 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 (9.20%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) Apache
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.30%) Camunda
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.34%) Azure
2 8 (9.20%) AWS
3 7 (8.05%) GCP
4 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.60%) OCI
4 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.30%) IaaS
6 2 (2.30%) PaaS
6 2 (2.30%) SaaS
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.15%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.15%) npm
7 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) Firewall
1 3 (3.45%) LAN
2 2 (2.30%) Internet
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%) Intranet
3 1 (1.15%) Network Security
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%) Power BI
1 4 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.45%) Tableau
3 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
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
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.20%) JIRA
2 4 (4.60%) ER Studio
2 4 (4.60%) Git
3 2 (2.30%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.15%) GitLab
4 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.15%) TestRail
4 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 50 (57.47%) Finance
2 44 (50.57%) Social Skills
3 28 (32.18%) Banking
4 17 (19.54%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (19.54%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.75%) Retail Banking
6 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Electronics
7 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.15%) Local Government
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
8 1 (1.15%) Publishing
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (42.53%) Analyst
2 10 (11.49%) Business Analyst
2 10 (11.49%) Fraud Analyst
2 10 (11.49%) Senior
3 8 (9.20%) Architect
4 5 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.60%) Administrator
5 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
5 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (4.60%) Lead
5 4 (4.60%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (3.45%) Consultant
6 3 (3.45%) Data Analyst
6 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (2.30%) Developer
7 2 (2.30%) Migration Consultant
7 2 (2.30%) Security Analyst
7 2 (2.30%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.30%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) Kafka
2 3 (3.45%) RESTful
2 3 (3.45%) Spring
2 3 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.30%) LDAP
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.30%) React
4 1 (1.15%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.15%) CSS
4 1 (1.15%) EDI
4 1 (1.15%) HTML
4 1 (1.15%) Jest
4 1 (1.15%) Middleware
4 1 (1.15%) Node.js
4 1 (1.15%) REST
4 1 (1.15%) SOAP
4 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.75%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.75%) Mainframe
3 5 (5.75%) Replication
4 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.45%) PKI
5 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.30%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.30%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.15%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.34%) Linux
2 8 (9.20%) Windows
3 7 (8.05%) Solaris
4 6 (6.90%) Unix
5 5 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.60%) HPUX
7 1 (1.15%) AIX
7 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.08%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (31.03%) Migration
3 26 (29.89%) Agile
3 26 (29.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (20.69%) Regulatory Compliance
5 17 (19.54%) Case Management
5 17 (19.54%) Digital Banking
5 17 (19.54%) Due Diligence
5 17 (19.54%) Fintech
5 17 (19.54%) Scenario Testing
6 14 (16.09%) Project Management
7 12 (13.79%) DevOps
8 11 (12.64%) Data Modelling
9 10 (11.49%) CI/CD
9 10 (11.49%) Fraud Detection
10 9 (10.34%) Analytical Thinking
10 9 (10.34%) ITIL
10 9 (10.34%) Service Management
11 8 (9.20%) High Availability
11 8 (9.20%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.94%) SQL
2 8 (9.20%) Python
3 4 (4.60%) Java
3 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.15%) COBOL
5 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.15%) R
5 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (18.39%) Degree
2 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
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%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.30%) OSCP
4 2 (2.30%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.15%) ACCA
5 1 (1.15%) CISA
5 1 (1.15%) GCFA
5 1 (1.15%) HNC
5 1 (1.15%) PMP
5 1 (1.15%) SANS
5 1 (1.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (8.05%) QA
3 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.15%) Docker
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.15%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (1.15%) Podman
2 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (13.79%) Microsoft
1 12 (13.79%) Oracle
2 5 (5.75%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.60%) Cisco
3 4 (4.60%) Google
3 4 (4.60%) IBM
3 4 (4.60%) Sun
3 4 (4.60%) Unisys
4 2 (2.30%) HP
4 2 (2.30%) Informatica
4 2 (2.30%) Nokia
5 1 (1.15%) Avaya
5 1 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.15%) Databricks
5 1 (1.15%) Dell
5 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.15%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.15%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.15%) Qualys
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat