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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 -9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 351 346 199
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 12.68% 10.83% 8.28%
As % of the General category 21.08% 17.51% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 92 134 152
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,350 £37,525
25th Percentile £31,750 £39,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £60,000 £56,909
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% +5.43% +19.81%
75th Percentile £49,125 £74,756 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,575 £95,000 £86,625
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%

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 common skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,665 1,976 1,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 60.15% 61.87% 73.36%
Number of salaries quoted 731 861 1,418
10th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.96% +0.95% -8.22%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -12 115 £40,000 -39.73% 24
Glasgow 0 83 £45,000 -16.73% 20
North Lanarkshire - 29 £31,750 - 4
Renfrewshire +4 21 £31,750 -20.63% 3
Stirling +9 15 £31,750 +0.79% 3
South Lanarkshire +2 12 - - 5
Lanarkshire +11 11 £27,500 - 15
Dundee +3 10 £33,500 -25.56% 2
Aberdeen -6 7 £26,150 -56.42% 12
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 7 £60,000 -
East Ayrshire - 7 £42,500 - 1
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
Ayrshire - 6 - -
Midlothian - 4 - - 14
Inverclyde - 3 £31,750 - 1
Fife +3 2 £50,000 +17.65% 2
Highlands -11 2 £52,500 +72.13% 1
Falkirk - 2 - - 1
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 14 (3.99%) Confluence
2 4 (1.14%) Camunda
2 4 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (8.83%) Chatbot
2 30 (8.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.14%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.57%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.85%) Oracle Payables
1 10 (2.85%) Oracle Receivables
1 10 (2.85%) Workday HCM
2 8 (2.28%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (2.28%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.28%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (2.28%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.14%) Hyperion Planning
3 4 (1.14%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.14%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 54 (15.38%) Azure
2 40 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (10.54%) Snowflake
4 27 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 26 (7.41%) GitHub
5 26 (7.41%) GitHub Copilot
6 20 (5.70%) dbt
7 15 (4.27%) AWS
8 11 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (2.85%) SuccessFactors
10 8 (2.28%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.14%) OCI
12 3 (0.85%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.85%) Serverless
13 2 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.57%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.84%) LAN
1 17 (4.84%) VoIP
1 17 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (1.42%) SAN
2 5 (1.42%) Telnet
3 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.28%) Intranet
3 1 (0.28%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.28%) Modbus
3 1 (0.28%) MQTT
3 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (7.69%) Power BI
3 23 (6.55%) Tableau
4 14 (3.99%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (2.56%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.14%) Essbase
6 4 (1.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.14%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.85%) Apache Hive
7 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.85%) Big Data
7 3 (0.85%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.85%) HBase
8 2 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.57%) Metadata
8 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 40 (11.40%) JIRA
2 18 (5.13%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (2.56%) ER Studio
3 9 (2.56%) ERwin
4 8 (2.28%) Maven
5 7 (1.99%) Git
6 5 (1.42%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.14%) JUnit
8 3 (0.85%) Gradle
8 3 (0.85%) Subversion
General
1 212 (60.40%) Social Skills
2 133 (37.89%) Finance
3 30 (8.55%) Marketing
4 20 (5.70%) Law
5 18 (5.13%) Legal
6 17 (4.84%) Banking
6 17 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.56%) Retail
9 8 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.28%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.99%) Advertising
11 6 (1.71%) Front Office
12 5 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.42%) Private Banking
13 3 (0.85%) Billing
14 2 (0.57%) Electronics
14 2 (0.57%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (27.35%) Innovation Manager
2 56 (15.95%) Analyst
3 32 (9.12%) Senior
4 31 (8.83%) Trainer
5 30 (8.55%) Trainee
6 23 (6.55%) IT Support
7 21 (5.98%) Graduate
8 17 (4.84%) IT Assistant
8 17 (4.84%) IT Support Assistant
8 17 (4.84%) Support Assistant
9 13 (3.70%) Data Analyst
9 13 (3.70%) Software Engineer
10 11 (3.13%) Business Analyst
11 10 (2.85%) Java Engineer
11 10 (2.85%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (2.85%) Lead
12 9 (2.56%) Data Modeller
12 9 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (2.56%) Trainee Analyst
12 9 (2.56%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.42%) Spring
2 7 (1.99%) REST
3 6 (1.71%) Spring Boot
4 5 (1.42%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (1.14%) JDBC
5 4 (1.14%) OpenAPI
5 4 (1.14%) Swagger
5 4 (1.14%) WSDL
6 3 (0.85%) Hibernate
6 3 (0.85%) JPA
6 3 (0.85%) Kafka
6 3 (0.85%) React
7 2 (0.57%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.57%) HTML
7 2 (0.57%) jQuery
8 1 (0.28%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.28%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.26%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (7.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 21 (5.98%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.99%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.56%) Equities
7 8 (2.28%) Low-Code
7 8 (2.28%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.71%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.71%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.42%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.42%) Digital Media
9 5 (1.42%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.57%) Life Science
11 2 (0.57%) PMI
11 2 (0.57%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.99%) Windows
2 5 (1.42%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.28%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (51.00%) AI
2 168 (47.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 140 (39.89%) Analytics
4 127 (36.18%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (34.76%) Decision-Making
5 122 (34.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 104 (29.63%) Customer Experience
7 98 (27.92%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 90 (25.64%) Agile
9 81 (23.08%) Asset Management
10 73 (20.80%) Coaching
11 48 (13.68%) Critical Thinking
11 48 (13.68%) Emotional Intelligence
12 41 (11.68%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (11.68%) DevOps
13 38 (10.83%) CI/CD
14 35 (9.97%) Data Modelling
14 35 (9.97%) Test Automation
15 32 (9.12%) Migration
15 32 (9.12%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 65 (18.52%) SQL
2 38 (10.83%) Python
3 13 (3.70%) Java
4 7 (1.99%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.14%) Groovy
6 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.28%) Bash
8 1 (0.28%) C
8 1 (0.28%) C++
8 1 (0.28%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.28%) R
8 1 (0.28%) Scala
8 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (25.93%) Degree
2 54 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 32 (9.12%) PhD
4 5 (1.42%) A+ Certification
4 5 (1.42%) CCNA
4 5 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (1.42%) MCSE
4 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.57%) ACCA
6 2 (0.57%) CBAP
6 2 (0.57%) CEH
6 2 (0.57%) CIMA
6 2 (0.57%) CISM
6 2 (0.57%) CISSP
6 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.57%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.85%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.99%) PMO
3 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.57%) NIST
4 2 (0.57%) PERC
4 2 (0.57%) QA
5 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) GRC
5 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.28%) JTAG
5 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.28%) SEPA
5 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (0.85%) HDFS
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.14%) Terraform
3 1 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (0.28%) QRadar
3 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 31 (8.83%) PayPal
2 30 (8.55%) Oracle
3 24 (6.84%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.27%) SAP
5 10 (2.85%) Workday
6 6 (1.71%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.42%) Charles River
7 5 (1.42%) Cisco
7 5 (1.42%) Dell
7 5 (1.42%) Infor
7 5 (1.42%) Splunk
8 4 (1.14%) Databricks
8 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.14%) Hyperion
9 3 (0.85%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.85%) Teradata
10 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.28%) Google
10 1 (0.28%) Sage