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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 7 75
Rank change year-on-year -29 +68 -40
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 138 288 327
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.12% 15.50% 5.14%
As % of the General category 8.73% 20.72% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 56 89 199
10th Percentile £26,438 £34,900 £28,137
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,099 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £56,750 £68,114 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £93,778 £69,777
UK median annual salary £53,150 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.36% +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 1,581 1,390 4,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.22% 74.81% 74.58%
Number of salaries quoted 666 660 1,558
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,481 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,375 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,033
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +5.70% -11.05%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £95,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -28 60 £40,000 -27.27% 28
Glasgow -10 54 £40,800 -32.00% 19
Stirling -9 9 £54,500 +23.67% 1
North Lanarkshire -13 3 - - 1
Midlothian - 3 - - 12
West Lothian - 3 - - 1
Lanarkshire +2 1 - - 7
East Ayrshire -1 1 £42,500 - 1
Fife -4 1 - - 2
Aberdeen -25 1 - - 2
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - - 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 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (10.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (8.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.45%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.72%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.72%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.72%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.84%) Azure
2 17 (12.32%) Snowflake
3 13 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (9.42%) dbt
3 13 (9.42%) GitHub
3 13 (9.42%) GitHub Copilot
4 9 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (5.80%) AWS
5 8 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.07%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.35%) SaaS
8 5 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.62%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.62%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.62%) Serverless
9 4 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.90%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.25%) Broadband
2 8 (5.80%) Telnet
3 6 (4.35%) SAN
4 2 (1.45%) Firewall
5 1 (0.72%) LAN
5 1 (0.72%) Network Security
5 1 (0.72%) Wireless
5 1 (0.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.42%) Data Warehouse
1 13 (9.42%) Tableau
2 11 (7.97%) Data Mining
3 7 (5.07%) Power BI
3 7 (5.07%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.90%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.72%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (0.72%) Metadata
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (13.04%) JIRA
2 5 (3.62%) ERwin
3 4 (2.90%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.90%) Git
4 1 (0.72%) GitLab
4 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 80 (57.97%) Social Skills
2 73 (52.90%) Finance
3 15 (10.87%) Legal
4 10 (7.25%) Games
4 10 (7.25%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.80%) Front Office
7 5 (3.62%) Banking
7 5 (3.62%) Law
8 4 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.90%) Retail
9 3 (2.17%) Private Banking
10 2 (1.45%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Marketing
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (33.33%) Analyst
2 23 (16.67%) Senior
3 21 (15.22%) Business Analyst
4 11 (7.97%) Data Analyst
4 11 (7.97%) Trainee
4 11 (7.97%) Trainee Analyst
4 11 (7.97%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 9 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (5.80%) Applications Engineer
6 8 (5.80%) Lead
6 8 (5.80%) Platform Specialist
6 8 (5.80%) Senior Manager
7 7 (5.07%) Change Analyst
7 7 (5.07%) IT Engineer
7 7 (5.07%) IT Manager
8 6 (4.35%) Applications Support
8 6 (4.35%) Field Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Field Service Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Head of QA
8 6 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.80%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (2.90%) REST
2 4 (2.90%) SOAP
3 1 (0.72%) CSS
3 1 (0.72%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (14.49%) Management Information System
3 14 (10.14%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.25%) Product Ownership
5 9 (6.52%) Equities
5 9 (6.52%) Fixed Income
6 7 (5.07%) AI Agents
6 7 (5.07%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (4.35%) Cyberattack
7 6 (4.35%) Data Centre
7 6 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.35%) Smartphone
8 4 (2.90%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.90%) Social Media
9 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.45%) IoT
10 2 (1.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.87%) Windows
2 9 (6.52%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.62%) Linux
4 4 (2.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.72%) AIX
5 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.72%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.20%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (36.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 49 (35.51%) Agile
4 45 (32.61%) Coaching
5 41 (29.71%) Analytics
6 39 (28.26%) Asset Management
7 28 (20.29%) Data Analysis
8 27 (19.57%) ITIL
9 26 (18.84%) AI
9 26 (18.84%) Data Modelling
10 25 (18.12%) Project Management
11 22 (15.94%) Business Analysis
11 22 (15.94%) CI/CD
12 20 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (14.49%) Decision-Making
13 19 (13.77%) Change Management
13 19 (13.77%) Customer Service
14 18 (13.04%) DevOps
14 18 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (12.32%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.26%) SQL
2 23 (16.67%) Python
3 14 (10.14%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.90%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.72%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (15.94%) Degree
2 9 (6.52%) PMI Certification
3 8 (5.80%) PMP
4 7 (5.07%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.35%) A+ Certification
5 6 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.35%) CCNA
5 6 (4.35%) IRCA
5 6 (4.35%) MCSE
5 6 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (2.90%) CISM
6 4 (2.90%) CISSP
6 4 (2.90%) CRISC
6 4 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.45%) ACCA
7 2 (1.45%) CIMA
7 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.45%) MBA
7 2 (1.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.42%) GDPR
2 6 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.35%) ISO 9001
2 6 (4.35%) QA
3 5 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.62%) NIST
4 4 (2.90%) COBIT
5 2 (1.45%) PMO
6 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.72%) Docker
3 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.72%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (2.90%) Control-M
2 1 (0.72%) CASB
2 1 (0.72%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.80%) Charles River
3 7 (5.07%) Dell
4 6 (4.35%) Oracle
4 6 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.62%) IBM
6 4 (2.90%) Ab Initio
6 4 (2.90%) Informatica
7 2 (1.45%) PayPal
7 2 (1.45%) VMware
8 1 (0.72%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.72%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.72%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.72%) F5
8 1 (0.72%) FIS
8 1 (0.72%) IFS
8 1 (0.72%) Infor
8 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.72%) Xero