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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 12 50
Rank change year-on-year -30 +38 -22
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 116 359 310
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.38% 14.16% 5.94%
As % of the General category 6.98% 19.27% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 62 87 186
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,063 £31,750 £38,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,668 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -2.22% -10.89%
75th Percentile £60,125 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,932
UK median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year -1.87% +4.39% -6.72%

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 1,661 1,863 3,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.36% 73.46% 68.74%
Number of salaries quoted 736 747 1,305
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,313 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,749 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £81,250
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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +2 57 £40,000 -24.53% 51
Edinburgh -34 33 £40,000 -20.71% 25
Stirling -9 6 £54,500 +71.65% 2
West Lothian - 5 £47,500 - 3
Midlothian +8 4 - - 4
Fife -6 2 £36,000 -36.00% 1
North Lanarkshire -14 2 - - 4
Moray - 2 £62,500 -
Falkirk 0 1 - -
Highlands -4 1 - - 3
Aberdeen -19 1 £50,000 +11.11% 6
Clackmannanshire - 1 - - 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 (7.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.86%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.86%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.86%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.93%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (12.07%) Azure
3 10 (8.62%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.31%) AWS
4 5 (4.31%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.59%) GCP
6 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.72%) Collibra
7 2 (1.72%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.72%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.86%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.86%) Figma
8 1 (0.86%) OCI
8 1 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.21%) Broadband
2 9 (7.76%) VoIP
3 5 (4.31%) SAN
4 1 (0.86%) Firewall
4 1 (0.86%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.86%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.62%) Tableau
2 5 (4.31%) Power BI
3 4 (3.45%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.72%) Metadata
4 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.86%) Big Data
5 1 (0.86%) Looker
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.45%) JIRA
2 3 (2.59%) ERwin
2 3 (2.59%) Git
3 2 (1.72%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.72%) JMeter
4 1 (0.86%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.86%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.86%) GitLab
4 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.86%) Selenium
4 1 (0.86%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (0.86%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.86%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (65.52%) Social Skills
2 44 (37.93%) Finance
3 14 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (10.34%) Games
4 12 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
4 12 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.76%) Legal
6 8 (6.90%) Marketing
7 7 (6.03%) Law
8 6 (5.17%) Aerospace
9 5 (4.31%) Banking
10 4 (3.45%) Financial Institution
10 4 (3.45%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.45%) Military
10 4 (3.45%) Retail
11 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.86%) Front Office
13 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (26.72%) Analyst
2 17 (14.66%) Senior
3 15 (12.93%) IT Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) Business Analyst
5 10 (8.62%) IT Support
5 10 (8.62%) IT Support Engineer
5 10 (8.62%) Support Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) 1st Line Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) 1st Line Support
6 9 (7.76%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Lead
7 8 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.17%) Governance Manager
8 6 (5.17%) Head of QA
9 5 (4.31%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.31%) Data Manager
9 5 (4.31%) Field Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Field Service Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) IT Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.72%) RESTful
2 1 (0.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Analytical Mindset
1 15 (12.93%) Management Information System
2 12 (10.34%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (9.48%) AI Agents
3 11 (9.48%) Cyberattack
4 10 (8.62%) Driving Licence
5 9 (7.76%) Product Ownership
6 7 (6.03%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (5.17%) Social Media
8 5 (4.31%) Data Centre
8 5 (4.31%) FPGA
8 5 (4.31%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.48%) Windows
2 9 (7.76%) Mac OS
2 9 (7.76%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.72%) Linux
4 1 (0.86%) AIX
4 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.86%) Solaris
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (30.17%) Analytics
3 34 (29.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 27 (23.28%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (20.69%) AI
7 23 (19.83%) Customer Service
8 22 (18.97%) Agile
8 22 (18.97%) Collaborative Working
9 19 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (14.66%) Data Analysis
11 16 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (12.93%) Information Security
12 15 (12.93%) Service Delivery
13 14 (12.07%) ITIL
13 14 (12.07%) Risk Management
14 13 (11.21%) Identity Access Management
14 13 (11.21%) LLM
15 12 (10.34%) Design Patterns
15 12 (10.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.34%) Python
2 11 (9.48%) SQL
3 2 (1.72%) C
3 2 (1.72%) C++
3 2 (1.72%) Java
3 2 (1.72%) MATLAB
3 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.72%) R
4 1 (0.86%) Bash
4 1 (0.86%) C#
4 1 (0.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (17.24%) Degree
2 13 (11.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (6.03%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.17%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.17%) IRCA
4 6 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.31%) A+ Certification
5 5 (4.31%) CCNA
5 5 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.31%) CISSP
5 5 (4.31%) MCSE
5 5 (4.31%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (3.45%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (3.45%) CISM
6 4 (3.45%) CRISC
7 3 (2.59%) CSPO
7 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.72%) ISEB
9 1 (0.86%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.10%) GDPR
2 8 (6.90%) QA
3 7 (6.03%) Data Quality
4 6 (5.17%) Accessibility
4 6 (5.17%) ISO 9001
5 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (3.45%) COBIT
6 4 (3.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.86%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.86%) NCSC
7 1 (0.86%) UCITS
System Software
1 14 (12.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.31%) Firmware
3 2 (1.72%) Docker
3 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.86%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (1.72%) Grafana
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.86%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.31%) Dell
3 4 (3.45%) Alteryx
4 3 (2.59%) Google
5 2 (1.72%) Informatica
5 2 (1.72%) Oracle
5 2 (1.72%) VMware
6 1 (0.86%) Adobe
6 1 (0.86%) Databricks
6 1 (0.86%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.86%) IFS
6 1 (0.86%) Infor
6 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.86%) SAP
6 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.86%) Siemens
6 1 (0.86%) Xilinx