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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 14 50
Rank change year-on-year -23 +36 -20
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 125 353 307
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.57% 13.83% 5.89%
As % of the General category 7.37% 18.91% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 62 86 183
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,084 £31,750 £37,010
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,668 £44,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -7.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £60,313 £60,000 £62,271
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 1,697 1,867 3,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.40% 73.16% 68.77%
Number of salaries quoted 753 747 1,284
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £39,531
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 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,750 £80,500 £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 11 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 11 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 +7 61 £40,400 -23.77% 57
Edinburgh -31 35 £40,000 -20.71% 28
West Lothian - 7 £40,815 - 3
Stirling -11 5 £50,538 +59.17% 2
Midlothian +8 4 - - 8
Fife -7 2 £36,000 -36.00% 3
North Lanarkshire -13 2 - - 3
Moray - 2 £62,500 -
Clackmannanshire - 2 - -
Lanarkshire +4 1 - - 15
Falkirk 0 1 - -
Highlands -3 1 - - 1
Aberdeen -18 1 £50,000 +11.11% 8
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 (7.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.20%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.80%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.80%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (11.20%) Azure
3 10 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.80%) AWS
5 5 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.40%) GCP
7 3 (2.40%) Google Analytics
7 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.60%) Collibra
8 2 (1.60%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.80%) IaaS
9 1 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.20%) Broadband
2 9 (7.20%) VoIP
3 5 (4.00%) SAN
4 1 (0.80%) Firewall
4 1 (0.80%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.80%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.80%) Tableau
2 5 (4.00%) Power BI
3 4 (3.20%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.60%) Metadata
5 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.80%) Big Data
6 1 (0.80%) Looker
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.20%) JIRA
2 3 (2.40%) ERwin
2 3 (2.40%) Git
3 2 (1.60%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.60%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.60%) JMeter
4 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.80%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.80%) GitLab
4 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.80%) Selenium
4 1 (0.80%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (0.80%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.80%) Zephyr
General
1 83 (66.40%) Social Skills
2 48 (38.40%) Finance
3 20 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (10.40%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (9.60%) Games
5 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.80%) Marketing
7 9 (7.20%) Law
8 8 (6.40%) Aerospace
8 8 (6.40%) Legal
9 6 (4.80%) Banking
9 6 (4.80%) Military
10 5 (4.00%) Financial Institution
10 5 (4.00%) Manufacturing
11 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (3.20%) Retail
12 2 (1.60%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.60%) Electronics
12 2 (1.60%) Front Office
12 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (24.80%) Analyst
2 16 (12.80%) Senior
3 15 (12.00%) IT Engineer
4 10 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 10 (8.00%) IT Support
4 10 (8.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 10 (8.00%) Lead
4 10 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 9 (7.20%) 1st Line Engineer
5 9 (7.20%) 1st Line Support
5 9 (7.20%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 7 (5.60%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (4.80%) Governance Manager
7 6 (4.80%) Head of QA
7 6 (4.80%) Technical Specialist
8 5 (4.00%) Data Manager
8 5 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
8 5 (4.00%) Risk Manager
8 5 (4.00%) Technical Leader
8 5 (4.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.60%) RESTful
2 1 (0.80%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 12 (9.60%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (8.80%) AI Agents
4 11 (8.80%) Cyberattack
4 11 (8.80%) Product Ownership
5 10 (8.00%) Driving Licence
6 9 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (5.60%) FPGA
7 7 (5.60%) Social Media
8 5 (4.00%) Data Centre
8 5 (4.00%) Smartphone
9 3 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.60%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.80%) Windows
2 9 (7.20%) Mac OS
2 9 (7.20%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.60%) Linux
4 1 (0.80%) AIX
4 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.80%) Solaris
4 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (51.20%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (30.40%) Analytics
3 37 (29.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (24.00%) Decision-Making
5 28 (22.40%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (21.60%) AI
7 23 (18.40%) Agile
7 23 (18.40%) Customer Service
8 22 (17.60%) Collaborative Working
8 22 (17.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (13.60%) Data Analysis
9 17 (13.60%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (12.80%) Risk Management
10 16 (12.80%) Service Delivery
11 15 (12.00%) Information Security
12 14 (11.20%) Identity Access Management
12 14 (11.20%) ITIL
13 13 (10.40%) Actionable Insight
13 13 (10.40%) LLM
13 13 (10.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.40%) Python
2 11 (8.80%) SQL
3 3 (2.40%) Java
4 2 (1.60%) C
4 2 (1.60%) C++
4 2 (1.60%) MATLAB
4 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.60%) R
5 1 (0.80%) Bash
5 1 (0.80%) C#
5 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (20.00%) Degree
2 16 (12.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (7.20%) Security Cleared
4 8 (6.40%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.40%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.80%) Chartered Engineer
6 6 (4.80%) IRCA
7 5 (4.00%) A+ Certification
7 5 (4.00%) CCNA
7 5 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.00%) CISSP
7 5 (4.00%) MCSE
7 5 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (3.20%) CISM
8 4 (3.20%) CRISC
9 3 (2.40%) CSPO
9 3 (2.40%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.60%) ISEB
11 1 (0.80%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.80%) GDPR
2 9 (7.20%) QA
3 8 (6.40%) Accessibility
4 7 (5.60%) Data Quality
5 6 (4.80%) ISO 9001
6 5 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (3.20%) COBIT
7 4 (3.20%) NIST
8 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.80%) GMP
9 1 (0.80%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.80%) NCSC
9 1 (0.80%) UCITS
System Software
1 14 (11.20%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.60%) Firmware
3 2 (1.60%) Docker
3 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.80%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (1.60%) Grafana
1 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.80%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.00%) Alteryx
2 5 (4.00%) Dell
2 5 (4.00%) Google
3 2 (1.60%) Adobe
3 2 (1.60%) Databricks
3 2 (1.60%) Informatica
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle
3 2 (1.60%) VMware
4 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.80%) IFS
4 1 (0.80%) Infor
4 1 (0.80%) Optimizely
4 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.80%) SAP
4 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.80%) Siemens
4 1 (0.80%) Xilinx