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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 211 290 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.71% 10.30% 7.70%
As % of the General category 14.96% 15.50% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 212 175
10th Percentile £213 £201 £258
25th Percentile £363 £413 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £564 £579 £523
90th Percentile £613 £656 £588
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 9
10th Percentile £12.26 £49.99 £13.94
25th Percentile £12.50 £53.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £17.50 £59.03 £41.95
Median % change year-on-year -70.35% +40.72% +222.69%
75th Percentile £19.50 £59.79 £48.75
90th Percentile £20.14 £60.25 £55.77
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £43.86 £37.50
% change year-on-year -58.96% +16.96% +61.55%

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 1,410 1,871 2,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.92% 66.47% 71.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 1,372 1,844
10th Percentile £182 £231 £225
25th Percentile £355 £403 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £580 £573 £550
90th Percentile £669 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 29 39
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.75 £14.94
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.99 £18.64
Median hourly rate £18.14 £18.50 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -31.10% +45.14%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £47.98
90th Percentile £68.50 £66.75 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.39 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.14% +51.75% -2.22%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -6 89 £450 -3.74% 29
Edinburgh +12 82 £500 +2.56% 49
West Lothian -1 5 £188 -55.88% 5
Aberdeen -2 3 £450 +36.36% 26
Highlands - 3 - - 3
Perthshire +6 2 £500 - 1
Fife +1 2 - -
Lanarkshire -2 2 £456 +176.52% 11
Renfrewshire -2 2 £375 -1.70%
Aberdeenshire 0 1 - - 12
Inverclyde - 1 £375 -
Stirling - 1 £525 - 1
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 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.42%) IBM HTTP Server
2 3 (1.42%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.42%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (1.42%) WebSphere Portal
3 2 (0.95%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 33 (15.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.79%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.37%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (2.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.42%) Maximo
3 3 (1.42%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.53%) Power Platform
2 15 (7.11%) AWS
3 14 (6.64%) OCI
4 11 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.79%) Azure
5 8 (3.79%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.79%) Yammer
6 4 (1.90%) GCP
7 3 (1.42%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.95%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.95%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.95%) SaaS
9 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.47%) IaaS
9 1 (0.47%) IBM Blueworks
9 1 (0.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.27%) SAN
2 5 (2.37%) Internet
3 4 (1.90%) Firewall
4 3 (1.42%) HTTP
4 3 (1.42%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.95%) LAN
5 2 (0.95%) NAS
5 2 (0.95%) WLAN
6 1 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.53%) Power BI
2 15 (7.11%) Oracle Database
2 15 (7.11%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (5.69%) Tableau
4 9 (4.27%) Metadata
5 7 (3.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (2.37%) Big Data
7 3 (1.42%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.42%) GIS
7 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (1.42%) Oracle Discoverer
7 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.95%) DB2
8 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.47%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.47%) HBase
9 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (6.16%) Oracle APEX
2 8 (3.79%) JIRA
3 7 (3.32%) Git
4 3 (1.42%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.42%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.42%) JMeter
4 3 (1.42%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.42%) Selenium
5 2 (0.95%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.95%) ERwin
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) Gradle
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 118 (55.92%) Social Skills
2 64 (30.33%) Public Sector
3 59 (27.96%) Finance
4 23 (10.90%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.69%) Legal
5 12 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.74%) Banking
7 8 (3.79%) Publishing
8 6 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.37%) Retail
10 3 (1.42%) Police
11 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Back Office
12 1 (0.47%) French Language
12 1 (0.47%) German Language
12 1 (0.47%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.47%) Marketing
12 1 (0.47%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 77 (36.49%) Analyst
2 27 (12.80%) Senior
3 25 (11.85%) Data Analyst
4 19 (9.00%) Lead
5 15 (7.11%) Business Analyst
6 14 (6.64%) Developer
6 14 (6.64%) Field Engineer
6 14 (6.64%) IT Engineer
7 12 (5.69%) Field Service Engineer
8 10 (4.74%) Designer
9 9 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.27%) IT Analyst
10 8 (3.79%) Change Analyst
10 8 (3.79%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.79%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 6 (2.84%) Lead Data Analyst
12 6 (2.84%) UX Designer
12 6 (2.84%) Windows Engineer
13 5 (2.37%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.32%) CSS
1 7 (3.32%) Kafka
2 6 (2.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.37%) REST
4 4 (1.90%) HTML
4 4 (1.90%) React
4 4 (1.90%) Spring
5 3 (1.42%) J2EE
5 3 (1.42%) Middleware
5 3 (1.42%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.42%) XML
6 2 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.47%) EJB
7 1 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.47%) RESTful
7 1 (0.47%) Web Services
7 1 (0.47%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.95%) Management Information System
2 16 (7.58%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.79%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.84%) Credit Risk
4 6 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.84%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.90%) DTCC
5 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.90%) Market Risk
5 4 (1.90%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.95%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.95%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (0.95%) Tandem
8 1 (0.47%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.06%) Windows
2 13 (6.16%) Unix
3 7 (3.32%) Linux
4 6 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.37%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.42%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (57.82%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (25.59%) Agile
3 32 (15.17%) Project Management
4 28 (13.27%) Analytics
5 27 (12.80%) ERP
6 24 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (10.90%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (10.43%) Computer Science
9 18 (8.53%) Data Analysis
9 18 (8.53%) Decision-Making
9 18 (8.53%) ITIL
9 18 (8.53%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (8.06%) Customer Service
10 17 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (7.58%) Change Management
12 15 (7.11%) Collaborative Working
12 15 (7.11%) Data Modelling
13 14 (6.64%) DevOps
13 14 (6.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.64%) SQL
2 19 (9.00%) Python
3 14 (6.64%) PL/SQL
4 8 (3.79%) Java
4 8 (3.79%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.90%) Perl
6 3 (1.42%) C#
7 2 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.95%) Scala
8 1 (0.47%) Groovy
8 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (19.91%) Degree
2 19 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (8.06%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.64%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.74%) MCSE
5 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.79%) Master's Degree
7 7 (3.32%) A+ Certification
7 7 (3.32%) CCNA
7 7 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.32%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (2.84%) CISSP
8 6 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.90%) CISM
10 3 (1.42%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (1.42%) OSCP
11 2 (0.95%) PMP
11 2 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.53%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.27%) QA
4 5 (2.37%) PMO
5 3 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.42%) GDPR
5 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.95%) COBIT
6 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.95%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.95%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.95%) P3O
7 1 (0.47%) COREP
7 1 (0.47%) FINREP
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
7 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.42%) Firmware
1 3 (1.42%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.47%) HDFS
2 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.32%) SCCM
2 6 (2.84%) Terraform
3 3 (1.42%) Data Guard
3 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 3 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (1.42%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.95%) Ansible
4 2 (0.95%) Grafana
4 2 (0.95%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.47%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 44 (20.85%) Oracle
2 36 (17.06%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.79%) Alteryx
4 7 (3.32%) Dell
4 7 (3.32%) Splunk
5 5 (2.37%) IFS
6 4 (1.90%) SAP
7 3 (1.42%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.42%) IBM
7 3 (1.42%) Qualys
7 3 (1.42%) Workday
8 2 (0.95%) Avaya
8 2 (0.95%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.95%) Cisco
8 2 (0.95%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (0.95%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.95%) Google
8 2 (0.95%) IDERA
8 2 (0.95%) Informatica
8 2 (0.95%) Veritas