Analytical Skills Jobs 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 66 35
Rank change year-on-year +54 -31 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 377 314 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.55% 4.88% 6.70%
As % of the General category 16.91% 7.28% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 89 206 185
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,313 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,635 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -8.16% +0.58%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,500 £62,833
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,070
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% -0.21%

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 2,230 4,312 3,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.32% 67.02% 74.00%
Number of salaries quoted 978 1,546 1,548
10th Percentile £25,020 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £54,793 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.37% -12.50% -

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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 +31 165 £50,445 -20.56% 97
Glasgow +84 85 £60,000 +36.36% 89
North Lanarkshire +11 19 £31,750 - 7
Stirling +6 19 £31,750 -36.50% 3
Renfrewshire -7 15 £31,750 -0.66% 9
East Ayrshire -14 10 £60,000 +103.39% 1
Fife -2 8 £60,000 +38.89% 6
South Lanarkshire - 8 - - 4
Lanarkshire -10 6 £27,500 -35.29% 35
South Ayrshire -18 6 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Moray - 6 £60,000 - 3
Aberdeen +7 5 £45,000 +5.88% 10
Falkirk +2 5 - - 1
Midlothian - 5 - - 28
West Dunbartonshire -2 4 - - 2
North Ayrshire - 4 - - 1
Ayrshire - 4 - - 4
Inverclyde - 3 £31,750 - 3
Dundee +4 1 £50,890 +1.80% 6
Highlands - 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 15 (3.98%) Oracle Application Server
2 8 (2.12%) Camunda
2 8 (2.12%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.80%) Apache
5 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) CICS
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (6.90%) Chatbot
2 12 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.33%) AutoCAD
5 5 (1.33%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.27%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.12%) Infor LN
1 8 (2.12%) SAP BPC
2 4 (1.06%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.06%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.53%) AWS
2 14 (3.71%) Azure
3 11 (2.92%) Power Platform
4 7 (1.86%) Power Automate
5 6 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (1.59%) Amazon S3
5 6 (1.59%) GCP
6 4 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (1.06%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (1.06%) SaaS
6 4 (1.06%) Serverless
6 4 (1.06%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.80%) IaaS
7 3 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (0.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) FTP
2 2 (0.53%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.53%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.53%) Firewall
2 2 (0.53%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (0.53%) Modbus
2 2 (0.53%) MQTT
2 2 (0.53%) SAN
3 1 (0.27%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.90%) Tableau
2 17 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.98%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (2.65%) Power BI
5 6 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.59%) DB2
6 5 (1.33%) Apache Hive
6 5 (1.33%) Big Data
6 5 (1.33%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.33%) HBase
7 4 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.06%) SAP BW
8 3 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (3.45%) Maven
2 12 (3.18%) Git
3 9 (2.39%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.39%) JUnit
4 8 (2.12%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (1.86%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.33%) Gradle
7 4 (1.06%) JIRA
7 4 (1.06%) Subversion
8 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 224 (59.42%) Social Skills
2 138 (36.60%) Finance
3 43 (11.41%) Banking
4 32 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (7.43%) Legal
5 28 (7.43%) Marketing
5 28 (7.43%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (6.63%) Law
7 18 (4.77%) Electronics
8 15 (3.98%) Military
9 12 (3.18%) Front Office
10 10 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.12%) Police
12 7 (1.86%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.86%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.86%) Retail
13 5 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.53%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.53%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (17.51%) Innovation Manager
2 64 (16.98%) Analyst
3 57 (15.12%) Senior
4 32 (8.49%) Developer
5 28 (7.43%) Software Engineer
6 26 (6.90%) Trainer
7 25 (6.63%) Lead
8 21 (5.57%) Graduate
8 21 (5.57%) Trainee
9 19 (5.04%) Java Developer
10 17 (4.51%) Java Engineer
10 17 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 16 (4.24%) Senior Electrical Engineer
12 15 (3.98%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.98%) Risk Manager
13 9 (2.39%) Data Analyst
13 9 (2.39%) Project Accountant
13 9 (2.39%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.39%) Senior Manager
13 9 (2.39%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.37%) Spring
2 15 (3.98%) REST
2 15 (3.98%) Spring Boot
3 10 (2.65%) HTML
4 8 (2.12%) JDBC
4 8 (2.12%) OpenAPI
4 8 (2.12%) Swagger
4 8 (2.12%) WSDL
5 7 (1.86%) MFC
6 6 (1.59%) Hibernate
6 6 (1.59%) JSON
6 6 (1.59%) React
7 5 (1.33%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.33%) JPA
7 5 (1.33%) Kafka
8 4 (1.06%) jQuery
9 3 (0.80%) Middleware
10 2 (0.53%) ADO
10 2 (0.53%) Node.js
11 1 (0.27%) Apache Cordova
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.51%) Management Information System
2 16 (4.24%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.18%) Credit Risk
5 9 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.59%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.06%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.06%) Equities
9 3 (0.80%) IoT
9 3 (0.80%) iSeries
9 3 (0.80%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.80%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.80%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.53%) AS400
10 2 (0.53%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.53%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.53%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.53%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.39%) Unix
1 9 (2.39%) Windows
2 5 (1.33%) Linux
3 3 (0.80%) zOS
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (40.58%) Problem-Solving
2 131 (34.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 122 (32.36%) Decision-Making
4 119 (31.56%) Artificial Intelligence
5 108 (28.65%) Analytics
6 99 (26.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 95 (25.20%) Customer Experience
8 89 (23.61%) Agile
9 65 (17.24%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 39 (10.34%) CI/CD
10 39 (10.34%) DevOps
11 37 (9.81%) Customer Service
12 36 (9.55%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (9.02%) Risk Management
14 33 (8.75%) Data Management
15 31 (8.22%) Project Management
15 31 (8.22%) Software Engineering
16 28 (7.43%) Business Analysis
16 28 (7.43%) Data Modelling
17 27 (7.16%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.81%) Java
2 34 (9.02%) Python
3 31 (8.22%) SQL
4 11 (2.92%) C++
4 11 (2.92%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.59%) R
6 5 (1.33%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.06%) C
7 4 (1.06%) VBA
8 2 (0.53%) Bash
8 2 (0.53%) C#
8 2 (0.53%) RPG
8 2 (0.53%) RPG IV
9 1 (0.27%) COBOL
9 1 (0.27%) Cypher
9 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.27%) JCL
9 1 (0.27%) REXX
9 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 107 (28.38%) Degree
2 74 (19.63%) Master's Degree
3 37 (9.81%) PhD
4 26 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.98%) DBS Check
6 13 (3.45%) ACCA
7 11 (2.92%) CIMA
8 10 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.06%) CBAP
9 4 (1.06%) CCA
9 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.06%) Security Cleared
10 3 (0.80%) CCNA
10 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.53%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.53%) CFA
11 2 (0.53%) MCSE
11 2 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (2.12%) GAAP
3 8 (2.12%) IFRS
4 6 (1.59%) PMO
4 6 (1.59%) QA
5 5 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.53%) GDPR
7 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.53%) ITGC
7 2 (0.53%) JTAG
7 2 (0.53%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.27%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.33%) HDFS
2 2 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.53%) Firmware
2 2 (0.53%) RACF
3 1 (0.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (3.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (12.20%) Oracle
2 28 (7.43%) Microsoft
3 26 (6.90%) PayPal
4 14 (3.71%) SAP
5 8 (2.12%) Cognos
5 8 (2.12%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.12%) Infor
5 8 (2.12%) Splunk
6 7 (1.86%) Avaloq
6 7 (1.86%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.59%) Databricks
7 6 (1.59%) Google
8 5 (1.33%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.06%) Blue Prism
9 4 (1.06%) IBM
9 4 (1.06%) UiPath
10 3 (0.80%) Genesys
10 3 (0.80%) Sybase
10 3 (0.80%) Verint
11 2 (0.53%) Alteryx