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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 7 57
Rank change year-on-year -17 +50 -20
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 210 334 260
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 7.02% 14.62% 5.88%
As % of the General category 13.13% 20.32% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 72 98 159
10th Percentile - £35,000 £32,178
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,650 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.02% +5.24%
75th Percentile £56,750 £82,219 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,250 £100,000 £75,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -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 1,599 1,644 3,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 53.48% 71.98% 74.60%
Number of salaries quoted 667 692 1,471
10th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +8.91% -15.16%
75th Percentile £60,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £97,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -9.84%

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 February 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 February 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 -18 101 £40,000 -38.46% 18
Glasgow -2 58 £45,000 - 18
Dundee 0 10 £33,500 -33.00%
North Lanarkshire -9 7 - - 1
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 -
Stirling -6 6 £54,500 +19.43% 2
Renfrewshire -7 3 - - 2
Lanarkshire +2 2 - - 16
East Ayrshire -2 2 £42,500 - 1
Fife -4 2 - - 3
South Lanarkshire -5 2 - - 1
Aberdeen -16 2 - - 4
Ayrshire -2 1 - -
West Lothian -2 1 - - 3
North Ayrshire -5 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire -9 1 - -
Highlands -10 1 £52,500 - 2
Midlothian - 1 - - 12
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 5 (2.38%) Confluence
2 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (12.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (9.05%) Chatbot
3 10 (4.76%) MS Visio
4 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (3.33%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.90%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.48%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.48%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 45 (21.43%) Azure
2 31 (14.76%) Snowflake
3 27 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (10.95%) GitHub
4 23 (10.95%) GitHub Copilot
5 21 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 20 (9.52%) dbt
7 14 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (4.29%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.33%) AWS
9 7 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
10 6 (2.86%) SaaS
11 5 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.38%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.38%) Serverless
12 4 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.90%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.57%) LAN
2 17 (8.10%) VoIP
2 17 (8.10%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (3.81%) Telnet
4 5 (2.38%) SAN
5 4 (1.90%) Broadband
6 2 (0.95%) Firewall
7 1 (0.48%) Network Security
7 1 (0.48%) Wireless
7 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.43%) Tableau
2 22 (10.48%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (10.00%) Power BI
4 17 (8.10%) Data Mining
5 11 (5.24%) Snowflake Schema
6 8 (3.81%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.48%) Essbase
11 1 (0.48%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.48%) Metadata
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.48%) Power Query
11 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (13.81%) JIRA
2 10 (4.76%) ERwin
3 9 (4.29%) ER Studio
3 9 (4.29%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.90%) Git
5 1 (0.48%) GitLab
5 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 110 (52.38%) Finance
2 104 (49.52%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.57%) Legal
4 10 (4.76%) Retail
5 9 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.81%) Front Office
7 7 (3.33%) Banking
7 7 (3.33%) Law
7 7 (3.33%) Marketing
8 6 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.90%) Games
11 3 (1.43%) Advertising
11 3 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.43%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.95%) Billing
13 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (28.10%) Analyst
2 25 (11.90%) Senior
3 19 (9.05%) Data Analyst
3 19 (9.05%) Trainer
4 18 (8.57%) Business Analyst
4 18 (8.57%) IT Support
5 17 (8.10%) IT Assistant
5 17 (8.10%) IT Support Assistant
5 17 (8.10%) Support Assistant
5 17 (8.10%) Trainee
5 17 (8.10%) Trainee Analyst
5 17 (8.10%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 16 (7.62%) Innovation Manager
7 11 (5.24%) Applications Engineer
7 11 (5.24%) Lead
8 9 (4.29%) Data Modeller
9 8 (3.81%) Applications Support
9 8 (3.81%) Platform Specialist
10 7 (3.33%) Change Analyst
10 7 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.81%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.90%) REST
2 4 (1.90%) SOAP
3 1 (0.48%) CSS
3 1 (0.48%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (10.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 21 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 18 (8.57%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.24%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.29%) Equities
6 9 (4.29%) Fixed Income
7 8 (3.81%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.38%) Smartphone
9 4 (1.90%) Social Media
10 2 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.95%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.95%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.95%) IoT
10 2 (0.95%) Life Science
10 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.14%) Windows
2 9 (4.29%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.38%) Linux
4 4 (1.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
2 79 (37.62%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (32.38%) Agile
3 68 (32.38%) AI
4 66 (31.43%) Analytics
4 66 (31.43%) Asset Management
5 64 (30.48%) Coaching
6 39 (18.57%) Data Modelling
7 38 (18.10%) Decision-Making
8 36 (17.14%) Project Management
9 32 (15.24%) CI/CD
9 32 (15.24%) Data Analysis
9 32 (15.24%) DevOps
10 26 (12.38%) Business Analysis
10 26 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (11.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 24 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (11.43%) ETL
12 24 (11.43%) Test Automation
13 23 (10.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (29.52%) SQL
2 39 (18.57%) Python
3 14 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.48%) Groovy
6 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (28.10%) Degree
2 22 (10.48%) Master's Degree
3 19 (9.05%) PhD
4 10 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 9 (4.29%) PMP
6 6 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.38%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.38%) CCNA
7 5 (2.38%) MCSE
7 5 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.95%) IRCA
8 2 (0.95%) MBA
8 2 (0.95%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.95%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.48%) CBAP
9 1 (0.48%) CEH
9 1 (0.48%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.43%) GDPR
2 3 (1.43%) QA
3 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.95%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.95%) NIST
3 2 (0.95%) PMO
4 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.48%) GRC
4 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.48%) PERC
4 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.90%) Control-M
2 1 (0.48%) CASB
2 1 (0.48%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.48%) QRadar
2 1 (0.48%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.05%) PayPal
3 14 (6.67%) Oracle
4 8 (3.81%) Charles River
4 8 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.33%) SAP
5 7 (3.33%) Workday
6 6 (2.86%) Dell
7 5 (2.38%) IBM
8 4 (1.90%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.90%) Informatica
9 3 (1.43%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.43%) Cisco
9 3 (1.43%) Infor
9 3 (1.43%) Teradata
10 1 (0.48%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.48%) F5
10 1 (0.48%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.48%) Splunk
10 1 (0.48%) Verint