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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 17 68
Rank change year-on-year -26 +51 -33
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 112 292 320
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.45% 13.19% 4.89%
As % of the General category 7.13% 16.81% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 59 56 208
10th Percentile £25,375 £25,020 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £36,500 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,445 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +12.10% -10.00%
75th Percentile £56,750 £61,563 £61,500
90th Percentile £72,691 £83,738 £68,750
UK median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +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 1,571 1,737 4,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.37% 78.46% 69.09%
Number of salaries quoted 687 649 1,625
10th Percentile £26,900 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,288 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £61,875 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,565 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.02% +5.84% -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +13 52 £40,000 -39.39% 65
Edinburgh -30 34 £40,000 -20.71% 33
Stirling -7 8 £54,500 +23.67% 28
West Lothian - 5 - - 30
Midlothian +2 3 - - 7
Fife -4 3 £36,000 -42.40% 30
North Lanarkshire -10 2 - - 2
Lanarkshire +9 1 - - 13
Falkirk -2 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
East Lothian - 1 - -
Moray - 1 £62,500 - 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 4 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (9.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (8.04%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.89%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.89%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (0.89%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.89%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.89%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (8.93%) Azure
3 8 (7.14%) AWS
4 6 (5.36%) SaaS
5 5 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (4.46%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.46%) Serverless
6 4 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.68%) GCP
7 3 (2.68%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.79%) IaaS
8 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.79%) PaaS
8 2 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.29%) Broadband
2 7 (6.25%) SAN
3 3 (2.68%) VoIP
4 1 (0.89%) Firewall
4 1 (0.89%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.93%) Tableau
2 8 (7.14%) Data Mining
3 7 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.68%) Power BI
8 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.89%) Big Data
9 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.89%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Git
2 4 (3.57%) ERwin
2 4 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (0.89%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.89%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.89%) GitLab
3 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.89%) JMeter
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.89%) Selenium
3 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.89%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (0.89%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 41 (36.61%) Finance
3 15 (13.39%) Legal
4 14 (12.50%) Games
5 12 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.68%) Retail
9 2 (1.79%) Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Front Office
10 1 (0.89%) Law
10 1 (0.89%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.89%) Marketing
10 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (41.07%) Analyst
2 20 (17.86%) Business Analyst
3 17 (15.18%) Senior
4 11 (9.82%) IT Engineer
5 9 (8.04%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (7.14%) Data Analyst
6 8 (7.14%) Trainee
6 8 (7.14%) Trainee Analyst
6 8 (7.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 7 (6.25%) Field Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Field Service Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Head of QA
9 5 (4.46%) Change Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 5 (4.46%) Governance Manager
9 5 (4.46%) Lead
9 5 (4.46%) Security Manager
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.57%) REST
1 4 (3.57%) SOAP
2 1 (0.89%) CSS
2 1 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.89%) HTML
2 1 (0.89%) Playwright
2 1 (0.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (16.07%) Management Information System
3 12 (10.71%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (9.82%) AI Agents
4 11 (9.82%) Cyberattack
5 10 (8.93%) Product Ownership
6 9 (8.04%) Social Media
7 7 (6.25%) Data Centre
7 7 (6.25%) Smartphone
8 4 (3.57%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.79%) IoT
10 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.79%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.14%) Windows
2 6 (5.36%) Linux
3 4 (3.57%) Unix
4 3 (2.68%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.68%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.89%) AIX
6 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.89%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (47.32%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (27.68%) Analytics
4 28 (25.00%) Agile
5 25 (22.32%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (21.43%) Decision-Making
7 23 (20.54%) Customer Service
8 21 (18.75%) Data Analysis
9 18 (16.07%) Business Analysis
9 18 (16.07%) Coaching
9 18 (16.07%) Project Management
10 17 (15.18%) AI
10 17 (15.18%) ITIL
11 16 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (13.39%) Change Management
12 15 (13.39%) Information Security
12 15 (13.39%) Workshop Facilitation
13 14 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
14 13 (11.61%) LLM
15 12 (10.71%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.75%) SQL
2 14 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.89%) Bash
4 1 (0.89%) C
4 1 (0.89%) C#
4 1 (0.89%) C++
4 1 (0.89%) Java
4 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.89%) R
4 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (14.29%) Degree
2 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.25%) A+ Certification
4 7 (6.25%) CCNA
4 7 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.25%) MCSE
4 7 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (5.36%) IRCA
6 5 (4.46%) PMI Certification
6 5 (4.46%) PMP
7 4 (3.57%) CISM
7 4 (3.57%) CISSP
7 4 (3.57%) CRISC
8 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.79%) CSPO
8 2 (1.79%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.79%) MBA
8 2 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.86%) GDPR
2 7 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.25%) QA
3 6 (5.36%) ISO 9001
4 5 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.46%) NIST
5 4 (3.57%) COBIT
6 1 (0.89%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.89%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (3.57%) Control-M
2 1 (0.89%) CASB
2 1 (0.89%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.89%) Grafana
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.14%) Dell
3 7 (6.25%) Oracle
4 5 (4.46%) Informatica
5 2 (1.79%) IBM
5 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.79%) VMware
6 1 (0.89%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.89%) Adobe
6 1 (0.89%) Apple
6 1 (0.89%) Charles River
6 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.89%) FIS
6 1 (0.89%) HP
6 1 (0.89%) IFS
6 1 (0.89%) Infor
6 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.89%) SAP
6 1 (0.89%) Siemens