Analytical Skills Job Trends in Scotland

Analytical Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 7 59
Rank change year-on-year -18 +52 -22
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 197 332 280
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.49% 15.82% 5.70%
As % of the General category 12.67% 21.20% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 72 94 171
10th Percentile £27,875 £35,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,650 £38,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,793 £45,543
Median % change year-on-year -24.23% +15.92% -4.12%
75th Percentile £56,750 £82,130 £62,350
90th Percentile £74,500 £100,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,555 1,566 3,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 51.24% 74.61% 73.63%
Number of salaries quoted 633 711 1,552
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,929 £26,039
25th Percentile £29,375 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -21 90 £40,000 -38.46% 32
Glasgow -6 55 £45,000 -15.23% 23
Dundee 0 10 £33,500 -33.00%
Stirling -6 8 £54,500 +19.43% 3
North Lanarkshire -13 7 - - 1
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 -
Renfrewshire -10 3 - - 2
Lanarkshire +2 2 - - 16
Fife -1 2 - - 6
East Ayrshire -4 2 £42,500 - 1
South Lanarkshire -10 2 - - 1
Aberdeen -19 2 - - 5
Ayrshire -2 1 - -
North Ayrshire -5 1 - -
West Lothian -6 1 - - 6
West Dunbartonshire -8 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 20
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.02%) Confluence
2 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (11.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.61%) Chatbot
3 12 (6.09%) MS Visio
4 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.54%) Workday HCM
2 4 (2.03%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.51%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 39 (19.80%) Azure
2 25 (12.69%) Snowflake
3 22 (11.17%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.66%) GitHub
4 21 (10.66%) GitHub Copilot
5 18 (9.14%) dbt
6 17 (8.63%) Power Platform
7 14 (7.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (4.06%) AWS
8 8 (4.06%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.05%) SaaS
10 5 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.54%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.54%) Serverless
10 5 (2.54%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.03%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (2.03%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.14%) LAN
2 17 (8.63%) VoIP
2 17 (8.63%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (4.06%) Telnet
4 7 (3.55%) SAN
5 4 (2.03%) Broadband
6 2 (1.02%) Firewall
7 1 (0.51%) Network Security
7 1 (0.51%) Wireless
7 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.15%) Tableau
2 18 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (8.63%) Power BI
4 16 (8.12%) Data Mining
5 9 (4.57%) Snowflake Schema
6 8 (4.06%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.51%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.51%) Metadata
11 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (12.18%) JIRA
2 8 (4.06%) ERwin
3 7 (3.55%) ER Studio
4 5 (2.54%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (2.03%) Git
6 1 (0.51%) GitLab
6 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 107 (54.31%) Social Skills
2 102 (51.78%) Finance
3 19 (9.64%) Legal
4 11 (5.58%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.08%) Retail
6 8 (4.06%) Banking
6 8 (4.06%) Front Office
7 7 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.54%) Law
10 4 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.03%) Games
10 4 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.03%) Marketing
11 3 (1.52%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.02%) Advertising
12 2 (1.02%) Billing
13 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (26.40%) Analyst
2 22 (11.17%) Senior
3 19 (9.64%) Business Analyst
4 18 (9.14%) Data Analyst
4 18 (9.14%) IT Support
5 17 (8.63%) IT Assistant
5 17 (8.63%) IT Support Assistant
5 17 (8.63%) Support Assistant
6 16 (8.12%) Innovation Manager
6 16 (8.12%) Trainee
6 16 (8.12%) Trainee Analyst
6 16 (8.12%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 15 (7.61%) Trainer
8 11 (5.58%) Applications Engineer
8 11 (5.58%) Lead
9 8 (4.06%) Platform Specialist
10 7 (3.55%) Change Analyst
10 7 (3.55%) Data Modeller
10 7 (3.55%) IT Engineer
10 7 (3.55%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.06%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (2.03%) REST
2 4 (2.03%) SOAP
3 1 (0.51%) CSS
3 1 (0.51%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.21%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (12.18%) Analytical Mindset
3 19 (9.64%) Cloud Native
4 14 (7.11%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.58%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.57%) Equities
6 9 (4.57%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.55%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.55%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.55%) Smartphone
8 4 (2.03%) Social Media
9 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.02%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.02%) IoT
10 2 (1.02%) Life Science
10 2 (1.02%) PMI
10 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.61%) Windows
2 9 (4.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.54%) Linux
4 4 (2.03%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.10%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (37.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 63 (31.98%) Analytics
4 59 (29.95%) AI
5 58 (29.44%) Agile
6 57 (28.93%) Coaching
7 55 (27.92%) Asset Management
8 39 (19.80%) Decision-Making
9 35 (17.77%) Data Modelling
10 33 (16.75%) Project Management
11 31 (15.74%) Data Analysis
12 30 (15.23%) CI/CD
13 27 (13.71%) Business Analysis
13 27 (13.71%) DevOps
14 25 (12.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 24 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
16 22 (11.17%) Customer Experience
17 21 (10.66%) Data Analytics
17 21 (10.66%) ETL
17 21 (10.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (27.41%) SQL
2 34 (17.26%) Python
3 14 (7.11%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.03%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 54 (27.41%) Degree
2 18 (9.14%) Master's Degree
3 15 (7.61%) PhD
4 10 (5.08%) PMI Certification
5 9 (4.57%) PMP
6 8 (4.06%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.55%) A+ Certification
7 7 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.55%) CCNA
7 7 (3.55%) MCSE
7 7 (3.55%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (2.03%) IRCA
9 3 (1.52%) CISM
9 3 (1.52%) CISSP
10 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.02%) CRISC
10 2 (1.02%) MBA
10 2 (1.02%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.54%) GDPR
2 5 (2.54%) QA
3 4 (2.03%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.03%) NIST
4 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.02%) COBIT
5 2 (1.02%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.51%) GRC
6 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.03%) Control-M
2 1 (0.51%) CASB
2 1 (0.51%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.51%) QRadar
2 1 (0.51%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.61%) PayPal
3 10 (5.08%) Oracle
4 8 (4.06%) Charles River
4 8 (4.06%) Dell
5 7 (3.55%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.54%) IBM
6 5 (2.54%) SAP
6 5 (2.54%) Workday
7 4 (2.03%) Ab Initio
7 4 (2.03%) Informatica
8 2 (1.02%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.02%) Teradata
9 1 (0.51%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.51%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.51%) F5
9 1 (0.51%) FIS
9 1 (0.51%) IFS
9 1 (0.51%) Splunk
9 1 (0.51%) Verint