Analytical Skills Contracts in Scotland

Analytical Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 217 271 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.83% 9.50% 7.81%
As % of the General category 15.15% 14.43% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 199 173
10th Percentile £231 £197 £253
25th Percentile £382 £411 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £525
90th Percentile £613 £651 £588
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 10
10th Percentile £12.50 £49.99 £11.48
25th Percentile £13.06 £53.38 £16.10
Median hourly rate £17.50 £59.03 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -70.35% +148.55% -16.67%
75th Percentile £19.50 £59.79 £48.75
90th Percentile £20.57 £60.25 £55.76
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £43.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -58.14% +21.13% +51.26%

All General Skills
Scotland

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,432 1,878 2,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.88% 65.80% 71.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,386 1,835
10th Percentile £181 £232 £219
25th Percentile £362 £405 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 29 41
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -17.64% -9.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.50 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
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 Skills within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -7 89 £450 -5.01% 30
Edinburgh +17 86 £500 +4.17% 44
West Lothian 0 5 £188 -55.88% 5
Aberdeen -2 3 £450 +36.36% 18
Highlands - 3 - - 2
Perthshire +6 2 £500 - 1
Fife +1 2 - - 1
Renfrewshire -1 2 £375 -1.70%
Lanarkshire -2 2 £456 +176.52% 10
Aberdeenshire 0 1 - - 11
Stirling - 1 £525 - 3
Inverclyde - 1 £375 -
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
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 9 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.38%) IBM HTTP Server
2 3 (1.38%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.38%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (1.38%) WebSphere Portal
3 2 (0.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 31 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.69%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.30%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (2.30%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (2.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.38%) Maximo
4 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.29%) Power Platform
2 16 (7.37%) OCI
3 15 (6.91%) AWS
4 14 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.53%) Azure
6 8 (3.69%) Snowflake
6 8 (3.69%) Yammer
7 5 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.30%) SaaS
8 4 (1.84%) GCP
8 4 (1.84%) IaaS
9 3 (1.38%) PaaS
9 3 (1.38%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.92%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.92%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.46%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.69%) SAN
2 5 (2.30%) Internet
3 4 (1.84%) Firewall
4 3 (1.38%) HTTP
4 3 (1.38%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.92%) LAN
5 2 (0.92%) NAS
5 2 (0.92%) WLAN
6 1 (0.46%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.29%) Power BI
2 17 (7.83%) Oracle Reports
3 15 (6.91%) Oracle Database
4 12 (5.53%) Tableau
5 9 (4.15%) Metadata
6 7 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 5 (2.30%) Big Data
8 3 (1.38%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.38%) DB2
8 3 (1.38%) GIS
8 3 (1.38%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (1.38%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (1.38%) Oracle Discoverer
8 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.92%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.46%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.46%) HBase
10 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.45%) Oracle APEX
2 8 (3.69%) JIRA
3 7 (3.23%) Git
4 3 (1.38%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.38%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.38%) JMeter
4 3 (1.38%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.38%) Selenium
5 2 (0.92%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.92%) ERwin
6 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.46%) Gradle
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
General
1 122 (56.22%) Social Skills
2 67 (30.88%) Public Sector
3 60 (27.65%) Finance
4 23 (10.60%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.53%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (5.07%) Legal
7 10 (4.61%) Banking
8 8 (3.69%) Publishing
9 6 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.30%) Retail
11 3 (1.38%) Police
12 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.46%) Back Office
13 1 (0.46%) French Language
13 1 (0.46%) German Language
13 1 (0.46%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 75 (34.56%) Analyst
2 27 (12.44%) Senior
3 26 (11.98%) Data Analyst
4 19 (8.76%) Lead
5 18 (8.29%) Developer
6 14 (6.45%) Business Analyst
7 13 (5.99%) Field Engineer
7 13 (5.99%) IT Engineer
8 11 (5.07%) Field Service Engineer
9 10 (4.61%) Designer
10 9 (4.15%) Architect
10 9 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.15%) IT Analyst
11 8 (3.69%) Change Analyst
11 8 (3.69%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.69%) Security Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) Oracle Developer
13 6 (2.76%) UX Designer
13 6 (2.76%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.23%) CSS
1 7 (3.23%) Kafka
2 6 (2.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.30%) REST
3 5 (2.30%) Spring
4 4 (1.84%) HTML
4 4 (1.84%) React
5 3 (1.38%) J2EE
5 3 (1.38%) Middleware
5 3 (1.38%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.38%) XML
6 2 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.46%) EJB
7 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.46%) RESTful
7 1 (0.46%) Web Services
7 1 (0.46%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.14%) Management Information System
2 15 (6.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.76%) Credit Risk
4 6 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.76%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.30%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.84%) DTCC
6 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.84%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.92%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (0.92%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.83%) Windows
2 13 (5.99%) Unix
3 7 (3.23%) Linux
4 6 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.30%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.38%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (58.53%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (25.35%) Agile
3 32 (14.75%) Project Management
4 29 (13.36%) Analytics
5 28 (12.90%) ERP
6 25 (11.52%) Computer Science
7 24 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (10.60%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (8.76%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (8.29%) Data Analysis
11 18 (8.29%) Decision-Making
11 18 (8.29%) ITIL
12 16 (7.37%) Customer Service
13 15 (6.91%) Change Management
13 15 (6.91%) Collaborative Working
13 15 (6.91%) Data Modelling
14 14 (6.45%) DevOps
14 14 (6.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.59%) SQL
2 19 (8.76%) Python
3 17 (7.83%) PL/SQL
4 8 (3.69%) Java
4 8 (3.69%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.84%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.84%) Perl
6 3 (1.38%) C#
6 3 (1.38%) Scala
7 2 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.46%) Groovy
8 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (20.74%) Degree
2 22 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.83%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.15%) MCSE
5 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.69%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.76%) A+ Certification
7 6 (2.76%) CCNA
7 6 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.76%) CISSP
7 6 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.76%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.84%) CISM
9 3 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.38%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.38%) OSCP
10 2 (0.92%) PMP
10 2 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (5.07%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.15%) QA
4 5 (2.30%) PMO
5 3 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.38%) GDPR
5 3 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.92%) COBIT
6 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.92%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.92%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.92%) P3O
7 1 (0.46%) IFRS
7 1 (0.46%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.38%) Firmware
1 3 (1.38%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.46%) HDFS
2 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.23%) SCCM
2 6 (2.76%) Terraform
3 3 (1.38%) Data Guard
3 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 3 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.92%) Ansible
4 2 (0.92%) Grafana
4 2 (0.92%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.46%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 47 (21.66%) Oracle
2 38 (17.51%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.69%) Alteryx
4 7 (3.23%) Splunk
5 6 (2.76%) Dell
6 5 (2.30%) IFS
7 4 (1.84%) SAP
8 3 (1.38%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.38%) IBM
8 3 (1.38%) Qualys
8 3 (1.38%) Workday
9 2 (0.92%) Avaya
9 2 (0.92%) Cisco
9 2 (0.92%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (0.92%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.92%) Google
9 2 (0.92%) IDERA
9 2 (0.92%) Informatica
9 2 (0.92%) Sybase
9 2 (0.92%) Veritas