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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 8 74
Rank change year-on-year -19 +66 -38
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 185 307 306
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.88% 15.89% 5.29%
As % of the General category 11.69% 20.77% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 71 95 186
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,875 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,890 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +13.09% -5.26%
75th Percentile £56,750 £74,824 £61,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £71,875
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 1,582 1,478 4,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 50.29% 76.50% 74.91%
Number of salaries quoted 652 705 1,545
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,375 £37,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 28 March 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 28 March 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
Edinburgh -21 83 £40,000 -27.27% 32
Glasgow -8 56 £40,000 -25.98% 27
Dundee -6 8 £33,500 -33.00%
Stirling -9 8 £54,500 +23.67% 1
North Lanarkshire -13 7 - - 1
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,500 -
Renfrewshire -8 3 - - 3
Lanarkshire -1 2 - - 17
East Ayrshire -3 2 £42,500 - 1
South Lanarkshire -11 2 - - 2
Fife - 2 - - 6
Ayrshire -2 1 - -
North Ayrshire -5 1 - -
West Lothian -6 1 - - 5
West Dunbartonshire -9 1 - -
Aberdeen -23 1 - - 5
Midlothian - 1 - - 19
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 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (11.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.95%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.24%) Chatbot
3 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.62%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.54%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.54%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.38%) Azure
2 21 (11.35%) Snowflake
3 19 (10.27%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (10.27%) GitHub
3 19 (10.27%) GitHub Copilot
4 16 (8.65%) dbt
5 14 (7.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (7.57%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.32%) AWS
6 8 (4.32%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.24%) SaaS
8 5 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.70%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.70%) Serverless
9 4 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.16%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (2.16%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.62%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.57%) LAN
2 13 (7.03%) VoIP
2 13 (7.03%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (4.32%) Telnet
4 7 (3.78%) SAN
5 4 (2.16%) Broadband
6 2 (1.08%) Firewall
7 1 (0.54%) Network Security
7 1 (0.54%) Wireless
7 1 (0.54%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
1 16 (8.65%) Tableau
2 14 (7.57%) Data Mining
2 14 (7.57%) Power BI
3 8 (4.32%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.78%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.54%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.54%) Metadata
9 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (11.35%) JIRA
2 6 (3.24%) ERwin
3 5 (2.70%) ER Studio
4 4 (2.16%) Git
5 3 (1.62%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.54%) GitLab
6 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 114 (61.62%) Social Skills
2 94 (50.81%) Finance
3 19 (10.27%) Legal
4 11 (5.95%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.86%) Retail
7 8 (4.32%) Banking
7 8 (4.32%) Front Office
8 6 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.70%) Law
10 4 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.16%) Games
10 4 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.16%) Marketing
11 3 (1.62%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.08%) Advertising
12 2 (1.08%) Billing
13 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (25.95%) Analyst
2 23 (12.43%) Senior
3 19 (10.27%) Business Analyst
4 16 (8.65%) Data Analyst
4 16 (8.65%) Innovation Manager
5 14 (7.57%) IT Support
5 14 (7.57%) Trainee
5 14 (7.57%) Trainee Analyst
5 14 (7.57%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 13 (7.03%) IT Assistant
6 13 (7.03%) IT Support Assistant
6 13 (7.03%) Support Assistant
7 11 (5.95%) Applications Engineer
8 9 (4.86%) Lead
8 9 (4.86%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.32%) Platform Specialist
10 7 (3.78%) Change Analyst
10 7 (3.78%) Field Engineer
10 7 (3.78%) Field Service Engineer
10 7 (3.78%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.32%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (2.16%) REST
2 4 (2.16%) SOAP
3 1 (0.54%) CSS
3 1 (0.54%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 24 (12.97%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (9.19%) Cloud Native
3 17 (9.19%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.03%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.86%) Equities
5 9 (4.86%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.78%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.78%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.78%) Smartphone
7 4 (2.16%) Social Media
8 3 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.08%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.08%) IoT
9 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.08%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.08%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.11%) Windows
2 9 (4.86%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.70%) Linux
4 4 (2.16%) Unix
5 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (44.32%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (40.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 64 (34.59%) Analytics
4 55 (29.73%) Agile
5 53 (28.65%) Coaching
6 49 (26.49%) Asset Management
7 48 (25.95%) AI
8 39 (21.08%) Decision-Making
9 34 (18.38%) Data Analysis
10 31 (16.76%) Data Modelling
11 30 (16.22%) Project Management
12 28 (15.14%) CI/CD
13 25 (13.51%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 24 (12.97%) Business Analysis
14 24 (12.97%) Customer Experience
14 24 (12.97%) DevOps
15 23 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (11.35%) ITIL
17 19 (10.27%) Critical Thinking
17 19 (10.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (25.95%) SQL
2 30 (16.22%) Python
3 14 (7.57%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.16%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 39 (21.08%) Degree
2 9 (4.86%) PMI Certification
3 8 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (4.32%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (4.32%) PMP
4 7 (3.78%) A+ Certification
4 7 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.78%) CCNA
4 7 (3.78%) MCSE
4 7 (3.78%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (3.24%) IRCA
5 6 (3.24%) PhD
6 5 (2.70%) CISM
6 5 (2.70%) CISSP
7 4 (2.16%) CRISC
8 2 (1.08%) CIMA
8 2 (1.08%) MBA
8 2 (1.08%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.78%) Data Quality
1 7 (3.78%) GDPR
2 6 (3.24%) ISO 9001
2 6 (3.24%) NIST
2 6 (3.24%) QA
3 5 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.16%) COBIT
5 2 (1.08%) PMO
6 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.54%) GRC
6 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (3.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.16%) Control-M
2 1 (0.54%) CASB
2 1 (0.54%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.54%) QRadar
2 1 (0.54%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.32%) Charles River
2 8 (4.32%) Dell
2 8 (4.32%) Oracle
3 6 (3.24%) PayPal
3 6 (3.24%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.70%) IBM
5 4 (2.16%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.16%) Informatica
6 3 (1.62%) SAP
6 3 (1.62%) Workday
7 1 (0.54%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.54%) Databricks
7 1 (0.54%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (0.54%) FIS
7 1 (0.54%) IFS
7 1 (0.54%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.54%) Splunk
7 1 (0.54%) Verint
7 1 (0.54%) Xero