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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 13 52
Rank change year-on-year -22 +39 -24
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 122 355 304
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.52% 14.01% 5.87%
As % of the General category 7.21% 19.11% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 63 86 179
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,223 £31,750 £37,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £44,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.37% -5.94%
75th Percentile £59,375 £60,000 £61,850
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,241
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 1,692 1,858 3,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.83% 73.32% 68.83%
Number of salaries quoted 748 743 1,279
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,313 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £38,875
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 £63,124 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £81,300
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 8 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 8 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 +4 59 £40,400 -23.77% 55
Edinburgh -33 34 £40,000 -20.71% 31
West Lothian - 7 £40,815 - 3
Stirling -9 6 £54,500 +71.65% 2
Midlothian +8 4 - - 9
Fife -7 2 £36,000 -36.00% 2
North Lanarkshire -13 2 - - 3
Moray - 2 £62,500 -
Lanarkshire +4 1 - - 14
Falkirk 0 1 - -
Highlands -4 1 - - 1
Aberdeen -18 1 £50,000 +11.11% 8
Clackmannanshire - 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 (7.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.28%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.82%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.82%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.82%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.30%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (11.48%) Azure
3 10 (8.20%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.10%) AWS
4 5 (4.10%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.46%) GCP
6 3 (2.46%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.64%) Collibra
7 2 (1.64%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.82%) IaaS
8 1 (0.82%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.48%) Broadband
2 9 (7.38%) VoIP
3 5 (4.10%) SAN
4 1 (0.82%) Firewall
4 1 (0.82%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.82%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) Tableau
2 5 (4.10%) Power BI
3 4 (3.28%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.64%) Metadata
4 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.82%) Big Data
5 1 (0.82%) Looker
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.28%) JIRA
2 3 (2.46%) ERwin
2 3 (2.46%) Git
3 2 (1.64%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.64%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.64%) JMeter
4 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.82%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.82%) GitLab
4 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.82%) Selenium
4 1 (0.82%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (0.82%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.82%) Zephyr
General
1 81 (66.39%) Social Skills
2 46 (37.70%) Finance
3 17 (13.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (10.66%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (9.84%) Games
5 12 (9.84%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.38%) Marketing
7 8 (6.56%) Legal
8 7 (5.74%) Aerospace
8 7 (5.74%) Law
9 6 (4.92%) Banking
10 5 (4.10%) Manufacturing
10 5 (4.10%) Military
11 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (3.28%) Financial Institution
11 4 (3.28%) Retail
12 2 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.64%) Electronics
12 2 (1.64%) Front Office
13 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (25.41%) Analyst
2 17 (13.93%) Senior
3 15 (12.30%) IT Engineer
4 11 (9.02%) Business Analyst
5 10 (8.20%) IT Support
5 10 (8.20%) IT Support Engineer
5 10 (8.20%) Support Engineer
6 9 (7.38%) 1st Line Engineer
6 9 (7.38%) 1st Line Support
6 9 (7.38%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Lead
7 8 (6.56%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (4.92%) Governance Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Head of QA
9 5 (4.10%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.10%) Data Manager
9 5 (4.10%) Field Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Field Service Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Technical Specialist
10 4 (3.28%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.64%) RESTful
2 1 (0.82%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.93%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (12.30%) Management Information System
3 12 (9.84%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (9.02%) AI Agents
4 11 (9.02%) Cyberattack
5 10 (8.20%) Driving Licence
5 10 (8.20%) Product Ownership
6 8 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (5.74%) Social Media
8 6 (4.92%) FPGA
9 5 (4.10%) Data Centre
9 5 (4.10%) Smartphone
10 3 (2.46%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.64%) Analogue Electronics
11 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.64%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.64%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.02%) Windows
2 9 (7.38%) Mac OS
2 9 (7.38%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.64%) Linux
4 1 (0.82%) AIX
4 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.82%) Solaris
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (50.82%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (29.51%) Analytics
3 35 (28.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (23.77%) Decision-Making
5 28 (22.95%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (20.49%) AI
7 23 (18.85%) Customer Service
8 22 (18.03%) Agile
8 22 (18.03%) Collaborative Working
9 21 (17.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (13.93%) Data Analysis
11 16 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (12.30%) Information Security
12 15 (12.30%) Risk Management
12 15 (12.30%) Service Delivery
13 14 (11.48%) ITIL
14 13 (10.66%) Actionable Insight
14 13 (10.66%) LLM
14 13 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (10.66%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.84%) Python
2 11 (9.02%) SQL
3 2 (1.64%) C
3 2 (1.64%) C++
3 2 (1.64%) Java
3 2 (1.64%) MATLAB
3 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.64%) R
4 1 (0.82%) Bash
4 1 (0.82%) C#
4 1 (0.82%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (18.85%) Degree
2 15 (12.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (6.56%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.74%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (5.74%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.92%) IRCA
6 5 (4.10%) A+ Certification
6 5 (4.10%) CCNA
6 5 (4.10%) Chartered Engineer
6 5 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.10%) CISSP
6 5 (4.10%) MCSE
6 5 (4.10%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (3.28%) CISM
7 4 (3.28%) CRISC
8 3 (2.46%) CSPO
8 3 (2.46%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.64%) ISEB
10 1 (0.82%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.21%) GDPR
2 9 (7.38%) QA
3 7 (5.74%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.74%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.92%) ISO 9001
5 5 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (3.28%) COBIT
6 4 (3.28%) NIST
7 2 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.82%) GMP
8 1 (0.82%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.82%) NCSC
8 1 (0.82%) UCITS
System Software
1 14 (11.48%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.92%) Firmware
3 2 (1.64%) Docker
3 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.82%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (1.64%) Grafana
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.82%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.10%) Dell
3 4 (3.28%) Alteryx
3 4 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (1.64%) Adobe
4 2 (1.64%) Informatica
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle
4 2 (1.64%) VMware
5 1 (0.82%) Databricks
5 1 (0.82%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.82%) IFS
5 1 (0.82%) Infor
5 1 (0.82%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.82%) SAP
5 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.82%) Siemens
5 1 (0.82%) Xilinx