Analytical Mindset Contracts in Scotland

Analytical Mindset
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 113 158
Rank change year-on-year +3 +45 +11
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 8 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.49% 0.65% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 1.92% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £385 £179 £102
25th Percentile £411 £288 £105
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £110
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +195.45% -56.00%
75th Percentile £488 £400 £130
90th Percentile £510 £505 £292
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK median hourly rate £80.68 £16.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +388.94% -73.60% +17.92%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Analytical Mindset falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 634 729 1,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.09% 33.63% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 430 684
10th Percentile £216 £200 £242
25th Percentile £400 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £465 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% -3.07% +1.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £651 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 34 25
10th Percentile - £13.33 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.13 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% +37.77% -69.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £44.75 £22.63
90th Percentile £44.57 £60.53 £51.34
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £31.25 £22.49
% change year-on-year +2.56% +38.98% -18.24%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Analytical Mindset as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Mindset in Scotland

Analytical Mindset
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Mindset in Scotland

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in Scotland

Analytical Mindset
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Mindset in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Mindset within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -3 3 £450 +38.46% 3
Perth and Kinross - 3 £450 -
Edinburgh -1 2 - - 6
Analytical Mindset
UK

Analytical Mindset
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) PyCharm
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (37.50%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) Banking
6 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (12.50%) Legal
6 1 (12.50%) Marketing
6 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
1 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
4 2 (25.00%) User Stories
5 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
5 1 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Alteryx