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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 12 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 354 349 193
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 13.13% 10.38% 8.14%
As % of the General category 21.07% 17.17% 11.23%
Number of salaries quoted 93 136 150
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,087 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £39,250 £43,030
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £52,500 £72,169 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,400 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,868
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.28% +3.40%

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 1,680 2,033 1,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 62.29% 60.49% 72.47%
Number of salaries quoted 732 914 1,418
10th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,457 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £55,498 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,826 £83,842
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 23 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 23 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 -9 113 £40,000 -39.73% 32
Glasgow -5 88 £45,000 -18.18% 24
North Lanarkshire - 29 £31,750 - 4
Renfrewshire +3 21 £31,750 -20.63% 3
Stirling +9 15 £31,750 +0.79% 3
South Lanarkshire +1 12 - - 4
Lanarkshire +10 11 £27,500 - 14
Dundee +5 10 £33,500 -25.56% 2
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 7 £60,000 -
East Ayrshire - 7 £42,500 - 1
Aberdeen -3 6 £26,150 -56.42% 12
Ayrshire - 6 - -
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
Midlothian - 5 - - 23
Inverclyde - 3 £31,750 - 1
Fife +4 2 £50,000 +17.65% 2
Highlands -9 2 £52,500 +72.13% 2
Falkirk - 2 - - 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 14 (3.95%) Confluence
2 6 (1.69%) Camunda
2 6 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (9.04%) Chatbot
2 30 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.13%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.56%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.56%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.82%) Oracle Payables
1 10 (2.82%) Oracle Receivables
1 10 (2.82%) Workday HCM
2 8 (2.26%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (2.26%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.26%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (2.26%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.13%) Hyperion Planning
3 4 (1.13%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.13%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.13%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (14.12%) Azure
2 38 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (9.32%) Snowflake
4 27 (7.63%) Power Platform
5 23 (6.50%) GitHub
5 23 (6.50%) GitHub Copilot
6 19 (5.37%) AWS
7 17 (4.80%) dbt
8 10 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
9 9 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.26%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.13%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.13%) OCI
11 4 (1.13%) Serverless
12 3 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.85%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (0.85%) Amazon MSK
13 2 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.80%) LAN
1 17 (4.80%) VoIP
1 17 (4.80%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.13%) SAN
3 3 (0.85%) Telnet
4 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.28%) Intranet
4 1 (0.28%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.28%) Modbus
4 1 (0.28%) MQTT
4 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
1 26 (7.34%) Power BI
2 23 (6.50%) Tableau
3 13 (3.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 9 (2.54%) Data Mining
5 4 (1.13%) Apache Hive
5 4 (1.13%) Big Data
5 4 (1.13%) Essbase
5 4 (1.13%) Hadoop
5 4 (1.13%) HBase
5 4 (1.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (1.13%) SAP BW
6 3 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.56%) Metadata
7 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 36 (10.17%) JIRA
2 18 (5.08%) Oracle Forms
3 10 (2.82%) Maven
4 8 (2.26%) ER Studio
4 8 (2.26%) ERwin
4 8 (2.26%) Git
5 6 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.69%) JUnit
6 4 (1.13%) Gradle
7 3 (0.85%) Subversion
General
1 214 (60.45%) Social Skills
2 130 (36.72%) Finance
3 33 (9.32%) Marketing
4 24 (6.78%) Law
5 21 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (5.37%) Banking
7 18 (5.08%) Legal
8 12 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.54%) Retail
10 8 (2.26%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.98%) Advertising
12 5 (1.41%) Front Office
12 5 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.41%) Private Banking
13 3 (0.85%) Billing
14 2 (0.56%) Electronics
14 2 (0.56%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (27.12%) Innovation Manager
2 58 (16.38%) Analyst
3 33 (9.32%) Senior
4 32 (9.04%) Trainer
5 30 (8.47%) Trainee
6 23 (6.50%) IT Support
7 21 (5.93%) Graduate
8 17 (4.80%) IT Assistant
8 17 (4.80%) IT Support Assistant
8 17 (4.80%) Software Engineer
8 17 (4.80%) Support Assistant
9 13 (3.67%) Data Analyst
9 13 (3.67%) Java Engineer
9 13 (3.67%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (3.11%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.11%) Developer
11 10 (2.82%) Lead
12 9 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (2.54%) Senior Manager
12 9 (2.54%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.52%) Spring
2 10 (2.82%) REST
3 9 (2.54%) Spring Boot
4 6 (1.69%) JDBC
4 6 (1.69%) OpenAPI
4 6 (1.69%) Swagger
4 6 (1.69%) WSDL
5 4 (1.13%) JPA
5 4 (1.13%) React
6 3 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.85%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (0.85%) Hibernate
6 3 (0.85%) HTML
6 3 (0.85%) jQuery
6 3 (0.85%) Kafka
7 1 (0.28%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.28%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.91%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (6.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 24 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.98%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.98%) Equities
6 7 (1.98%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.69%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.41%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.13%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.13%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.13%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.56%) Life Science
10 2 (0.56%) PMI
10 2 (0.56%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.13%) Unix
1 4 (1.13%) Windows
2 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.28%) Android
3 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.28%) Linux
3 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (50.85%) AI
2 166 (46.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 138 (38.98%) Analytics
4 131 (37.01%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (34.75%) Decision-Making
5 123 (34.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 105 (29.66%) Customer Experience
7 98 (27.68%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 92 (25.99%) Agile
9 74 (20.90%) Asset Management
10 65 (18.36%) Coaching
11 48 (13.56%) Critical Thinking
11 48 (13.56%) Emotional Intelligence
12 40 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
13 39 (11.02%) DevOps
14 38 (10.73%) CI/CD
15 34 (9.60%) Test Automation
16 32 (9.04%) Chemistry
16 32 (9.04%) Conversational UI
17 31 (8.76%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 61 (17.23%) SQL
2 37 (10.45%) Python
3 17 (4.80%) Java
4 4 (1.13%) Groovy
4 4 (1.13%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.13%) PL/SQL
4 4 (1.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.28%) Bash
6 1 (0.28%) C
6 1 (0.28%) C++
6 1 (0.28%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.28%) R
6 1 (0.28%) Scala
6 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 94 (26.55%) Degree
2 56 (15.82%) Master's Degree
3 34 (9.60%) PhD
4 5 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.13%) A+ Certification
5 4 (1.13%) CCNA
5 4 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.13%) MCSE
5 4 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.56%) ACCA
7 2 (0.56%) CBAP
7 2 (0.56%) CEH
7 2 (0.56%) CIMA
7 2 (0.56%) CISM
7 2 (0.56%) CISSP
7 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.56%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.82%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.98%) PMO
3 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.56%) NIST
4 2 (0.56%) PERC
4 2 (0.56%) QA
5 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) GRC
5 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.28%) JTAG
5 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.28%) SEPA
5 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.13%) HDFS
2 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.28%) Firmware
2 1 (0.28%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.69%) Terraform
3 1 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (0.28%) QRadar
3 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 33 (9.32%) Oracle
2 32 (9.04%) PayPal
3 26 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.24%) SAP
5 10 (2.82%) Workday
6 7 (1.98%) Splunk
7 6 (1.69%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.41%) Cisco
8 5 (1.41%) Databricks
8 5 (1.41%) Infor
9 4 (1.13%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.13%) Dell
9 4 (1.13%) Hyperion
10 3 (0.85%) Charles River
10 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.85%) Teradata
11 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.28%) Google
11 1 (0.28%) NVIDIA