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 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 12 50
Rank change year-on-year -30 +38 -21
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 112 362 314
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.31% 14.46% 5.90%
As % of the General category 6.91% 19.72% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 66 87 192
10th Percentile £26,375 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,063 £31,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,068 £44,000 £45,272
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% -2.81% -10.35%
75th Percentile £57,313 £60,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,686
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -8.90%

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 1,622 1,836 3,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.93% 73.35% 68.43%
Number of salaries quoted 730 733 1,361
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,313 £29,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 July 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 30 July 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
Glasgow +7 57 £40,400 -25.19% 37
Edinburgh -37 29 £40,000 -20.71% 18
Stirling -11 6 £54,500 +71.65% 2
West Lothian - 5 £47,500 - 3
Midlothian +7 4 - - 6
Fife -6 2 £36,000 -36.00% 1
North Lanarkshire -13 2 - - 2
Moray - 2 £62,500 -
Falkirk 0 1 - -
Highlands -6 1 - - 2
Aberdeen -21 1 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
East Lothian - 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 9 (8.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.46%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.89%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.89%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.89%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (11.61%) Azure
3 10 (8.93%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.57%) AWS
4 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.68%) GCP
5 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.79%) Collibra
6 2 (1.79%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.79%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.89%) Figma
7 1 (0.89%) OCI
7 1 (0.89%) PaaS
7 1 (0.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.61%) Broadband
2 9 (8.04%) VoIP
3 6 (5.36%) SAN
4 1 (0.89%) Firewall
4 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.89%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.93%) Tableau
2 6 (5.36%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.57%) Power BI
4 3 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.89%) Big Data
6 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.89%) Looker
6 1 (0.89%) Metadata
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.57%) JIRA
2 3 (2.68%) ERwin
2 3 (2.68%) Git
3 2 (1.79%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.79%) JMeter
4 1 (0.89%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.89%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.89%) GitLab
4 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.89%) Selenium
4 1 (0.89%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (0.89%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 39 (34.82%) Finance
3 13 (11.61%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.71%) Games
5 11 (9.82%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (8.93%) Legal
7 6 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.46%) Banking
8 5 (4.46%) Marketing
8 5 (4.46%) Retail
9 4 (3.57%) Law
9 4 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.79%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.89%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (30.36%) Analyst
2 17 (15.18%) Senior
3 16 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 12 (10.71%) Business Analyst
5 10 (8.93%) IT Support
5 10 (8.93%) IT Support Engineer
5 10 (8.93%) Support Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) 1st Line Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) 1st Line Support
6 9 (8.04%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (6.25%) Data Analyst
9 6 (5.36%) Field Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Field Service Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Governance Manager
9 6 (5.36%) Head of QA
9 6 (5.36%) Trainee
9 6 (5.36%) Trainee Analyst
9 6 (5.36%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 5 (4.46%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.79%) RESTful
2 1 (0.89%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (13.39%) Management Information System
3 12 (10.71%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (9.82%) AI Agents
4 11 (9.82%) Cyberattack
5 10 (8.93%) Driving Licence
6 8 (7.14%) Product Ownership
7 6 (5.36%) Data Centre
7 6 (5.36%) Smartphone
7 6 (5.36%) Social Media
8 4 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.79%) FPGA
9 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.89%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.82%) Windows
2 9 (8.04%) Mac OS
2 9 (8.04%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.79%) Linux
4 1 (0.89%) AIX
4 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.89%) Solaris
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.54%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (29.46%) Analytics
3 32 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (24.11%) Decision-Making
5 26 (23.21%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (21.43%) Customer Service
7 22 (19.64%) Collaborative Working
8 21 (18.75%) AI
9 20 (17.86%) Agile
9 20 (17.86%) Data Analysis
10 16 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (13.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (13.39%) Information Security
11 15 (13.39%) ITIL
12 13 (11.61%) Business Analysis
12 13 (11.61%) LLM
12 13 (11.61%) Service Delivery
13 12 (10.71%) Design Patterns
13 12 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.71%) Python
1 12 (10.71%) SQL
2 2 (1.79%) C
2 2 (1.79%) C++
2 2 (1.79%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.79%) R
3 1 (0.89%) Bash
3 1 (0.89%) C#
3 1 (0.89%) Java
3 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.89%) MATLAB
3 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (14.29%) Degree
2 9 (8.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.36%) A+ Certification
4 6 (5.36%) CCNA
4 6 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (5.36%) IRCA
4 6 (5.36%) MCSE
4 6 (5.36%) Network+ Certification
5 5 (4.46%) CISSP
6 4 (3.57%) CISM
6 4 (3.57%) CRISC
7 3 (2.68%) CSPO
7 3 (2.68%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.68%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.79%) ISEB
8 2 (1.79%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.89%) ACCA
9 1 (0.89%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.75%) GDPR
2 8 (7.14%) QA
3 6 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.36%) ISO 9001
4 5 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.57%) COBIT
5 4 (3.57%) NIST
6 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.89%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.89%) NCSC
7 1 (0.89%) UCITS
System Software
1 14 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Firmware
2 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.89%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (1.79%) Grafana
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.89%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.36%) Dell
3 3 (2.68%) Google
4 2 (1.79%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.79%) Informatica
4 2 (1.79%) Oracle
4 2 (1.79%) VMware
5 1 (0.89%) Adobe
5 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.89%) IFS
5 1 (0.89%) Infor
5 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.89%) SAP
5 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.89%) Siemens
5 1 (0.89%) Xilinx