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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 33
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 -9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 371 316 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 13.62% 9.74% 7.90%
As % of the General category 20.32% 16.45% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 95 114 149
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £51,093 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% -11.14% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50,250 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,050 £95,000 £80,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,925
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.65% +1.68%

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 1,826 1,921 1,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 67.03% 59.22% 72.82%
Number of salaries quoted 779 844 1,449
10th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £51,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.30% -1.43% -7.08%
75th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,775 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £51,058 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.90% - -

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 9 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 9 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 -2 118 £40,000 -38.46% 72
Glasgow -8 100 £45,000 -18.18% 54
North Lanarkshire - 27 £31,750 - 5
Renfrewshire +2 21 £31,750 -20.63% 22
Stirling +11 16 £31,750 -22.09% 3
South Lanarkshire 0 12 - - 8
Lanarkshire +4 11 £27,500 - 19
Dundee +6 10 £33,500 -18.25% 5
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 7 £60,000 -
East Ayrshire - 7 £42,500 - 3
Aberdeen -5 6 £26,150 -47.70% 20
Ayrshire - 6 - - 1
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
Midlothian - 6 - - 46
Falkirk +1 4 - - 2
Inverclyde - 3 £31,750 - 1
Fife +1 2 £50,000 +17.65% 15
Highlands -10 2 £52,500 +72.13% 3
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 (3.77%) Confluence
2 8 (2.16%) Camunda
2 8 (2.16%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 38 (10.24%) Chatbot
2 29 (7.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.08%) AutoCAD
5 4 (1.08%) Oracle Smart View
5 4 (1.08%) SOLIDWORKS
6 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
1 10 (2.70%) Oracle Receivables
1 10 (2.70%) Workday HCM
2 8 (2.16%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (2.16%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.16%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (2.16%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.08%) Hyperion Planning
3 4 (1.08%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.08%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.08%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (12.13%) Azure
2 32 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (7.82%) Snowflake
4 25 (6.74%) AWS
4 25 (6.74%) Power Platform
5 17 (4.58%) GitHub
5 17 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
6 13 (3.50%) dbt
7 10 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
8 7 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.62%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.35%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.35%) Serverless
11 4 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.08%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.08%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (1.08%) OCI
12 3 (0.81%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.58%) LAN
1 17 (4.58%) VoIP
1 17 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.08%) SAN
3 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.27%) Intranet
3 1 (0.27%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.27%) Modbus
3 1 (0.27%) MQTT
3 1 (0.27%) Telnet
3 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.47%) Power BI
1 24 (6.47%) Tableau
2 22 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.96%) Snowflake Schema
4 8 (2.16%) Data Mining
5 5 (1.35%) Apache Hive
5 5 (1.35%) Big Data
5 5 (1.35%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.35%) HBase
6 4 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.08%) Essbase
6 4 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.08%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.81%) Metadata
8 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (8.09%) JIRA
2 18 (4.85%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (3.50%) Maven
4 10 (2.70%) Git
5 8 (2.16%) ER Studio
5 8 (2.16%) ERwin
5 8 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.16%) JUnit
6 5 (1.35%) Gradle
7 4 (1.08%) Subversion
General
1 221 (59.57%) Social Skills
2 134 (36.12%) Finance
3 36 (9.70%) Marketing
4 29 (7.82%) Law
5 26 (7.01%) Banking
5 26 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (5.12%) Legal
7 14 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.96%) Retail
9 9 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.16%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.89%) Advertising
12 5 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.35%) Private Banking
13 4 (1.08%) Front Office
14 3 (0.81%) Billing
15 2 (0.54%) Electronics
15 2 (0.54%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.54%) Wholesale Banking
16 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (25.88%) Innovation Manager
2 63 (16.98%) Analyst
3 38 (10.24%) Trainer
4 32 (8.63%) Senior
5 29 (7.82%) Trainee
6 24 (6.47%) IT Support
7 22 (5.93%) Software Engineer
8 21 (5.66%) Graduate
9 17 (4.58%) IT Assistant
9 17 (4.58%) IT Support Assistant
9 17 (4.58%) Java Engineer
9 17 (4.58%) Java Software Engineer
9 17 (4.58%) Support Assistant
10 13 (3.50%) Data Analyst
10 13 (3.50%) Developer
11 12 (3.23%) Business Analyst
12 10 (2.70%) Senior Manager
13 9 (2.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 9 (2.43%) Java Developer
13 9 (2.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.66%) Spring
2 13 (3.50%) REST
3 12 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 8 (2.16%) JDBC
4 8 (2.16%) OpenAPI
4 8 (2.16%) Swagger
4 8 (2.16%) WSDL
5 5 (1.35%) JPA
5 5 (1.35%) React
6 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.08%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.08%) HTML
6 4 (1.08%) jQuery
6 4 (1.08%) Kafka
7 1 (0.27%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.27%) Middleware
7 1 (0.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.01%) Product Ownership
1 26 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (6.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.43%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.62%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.62%) Equities
8 5 (1.35%) Digital Media
8 5 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.35%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.08%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.08%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.54%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.54%) Life Science
10 2 (0.54%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.54%) PMI
10 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.35%) Unix
2 2 (0.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.27%) Android
3 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.27%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (49.60%) AI
2 164 (44.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 144 (38.81%) Problem-Solving
4 136 (36.66%) Analytics
5 129 (34.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 127 (34.23%) Decision-Making
7 107 (28.84%) Customer Experience
8 98 (26.42%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 95 (25.61%) Agile
10 66 (17.79%) Asset Management
11 58 (15.63%) Coaching
12 48 (12.94%) Critical Thinking
12 48 (12.94%) Emotional Intelligence
13 39 (10.51%) Business Intelligence
14 38 (10.24%) Chemistry
14 38 (10.24%) CI/CD
14 38 (10.24%) Conversational UI
15 35 (9.43%) DevOps
16 31 (8.36%) Project Management
17 30 (8.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (16.17%) SQL
2 38 (10.24%) Python
3 22 (5.93%) Java
4 5 (1.35%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.35%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.08%) Groovy
6 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.54%) R
7 1 (0.27%) Bash
7 1 (0.27%) C
7 1 (0.27%) C++
7 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.27%) Scala
7 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 106 (28.57%) Degree
2 63 (16.98%) Master's Degree
3 41 (11.05%) PhD
4 6 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.08%) A+ Certification
6 4 (1.08%) CCNA
6 4 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.08%) MCSE
6 4 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.54%) ACCA
8 2 (0.54%) CBAP
8 2 (0.54%) CCA
8 2 (0.54%) CEH
8 2 (0.54%) CIMA
8 2 (0.54%) CISM
8 2 (0.54%) CISSP
8 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.35%) PMO
3 2 (0.54%) NIST
3 2 (0.54%) PERC
3 2 (0.54%) QA
3 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) GRC
4 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.27%) JTAG
4 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.27%) SEPA
4 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (1.35%) HDFS
2 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.27%) Firmware
2 1 (0.27%) RACF
Systems Management
1 12 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.16%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (0.27%) QRadar
3 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 38 (10.24%) PayPal
2 37 (9.97%) Oracle
3 25 (6.74%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.04%) SAP
5 10 (2.70%) Workday
6 9 (2.43%) Splunk
7 8 (2.16%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.62%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.62%) Databricks
9 5 (1.35%) Cisco
9 5 (1.35%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.35%) Infor
10 4 (1.08%) Dell
10 4 (1.08%) Hyperion
10 4 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.81%) Teradata
12 1 (0.27%) Charles River
12 1 (0.27%) Google
12 1 (0.27%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.27%) Verint