Analytical Skills Job Trends in Edinburgh

Analytical Skills
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 5 34
Rank change year-on-year -27 +29 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 34 164 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.24% 19.34% 5.01%
As % of the General category 7.87% 24.05% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 17 34 51
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,020 £30,888
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,209 £46,903
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,445 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -20.56% +33.68%
75th Percentile £50,250 £60,000 £68,432
90th Percentile £72,881 £83,738 £91,250
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £50,445 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.71% +12.10% -10.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 432 682 849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.22% 80.42% 59.87%
Number of salaries quoted 249 287 666
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,851 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £72,262
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -13.04%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in Edinburgh

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 4 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (2.94%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) AWS
2 5 (14.71%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
3 4 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.76%) SaaS
3 4 (11.76%) Serverless
4 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.88%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.94%) Collibra
6 1 (2.94%) dbt
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) VoIP
2 1 (2.94%) Broadband
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) LAN
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) Telnet
2 1 (2.94%) Wireless
2 1 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Tableau
2 7 (20.59%) Data Mining
3 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
4 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.88%) Power BI
7 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.94%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) ERwin
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.94%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.94%) Selenium
4 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.94%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.94%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (52.94%) Finance
2 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Legal
4 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Front Office
5 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Legal Technology
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Business Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Data Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Trainee
2 7 (20.59%) Trainee Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Trainee Data Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Change Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Informatica Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) 1st Line Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (8.82%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) IT Support
5 3 (8.82%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Data Governance Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Junior Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Resilience Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Technology Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) REST
1 4 (11.76%) SOAP
2 1 (2.94%) CSS
2 1 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.94%) HTML
2 1 (2.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.82%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.94%) Equities
3 1 (2.94%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Unix
3 3 (8.82%) Mac OS
3 3 (8.82%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
1 13 (38.24%) Project Management
2 9 (26.47%) Agile
2 9 (26.47%) Business Analysis
2 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (23.53%) Analytics
3 8 (23.53%) Asset Management
3 8 (23.53%) Coaching
3 8 (23.53%) Data Modelling
4 7 (20.59%) Data Analysis
4 7 (20.59%) Data Analytics
4 7 (20.59%) Data Governance
4 7 (20.59%) Workshop Facilitation
5 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 6 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (17.65%) Validation
6 5 (14.71%) Change Management
6 5 (14.71%) PRINCE2
6 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) SQL
2 10 (29.41%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Degree
2 5 (14.71%) PMI Certification
2 5 (14.71%) PMP
3 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) ACCA
4 1 (2.94%) CCIE
4 1 (2.94%) CCNP
4 1 (2.94%) CIMA
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.94%) JNCIP
4 1 (2.94%) MCT
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Informatica
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) Ab Initio
4 1 (2.94%) Charles River
4 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.94%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (2.94%) F5
4 1 (2.94%) FIS
4 1 (2.94%) IFS
4 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto