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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 18 64
Rank change year-on-year -25 +46 -30
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 105 303 315
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.16% 13.02% 5.04%
As % of the General category 6.54% 17.06% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 60 69 218
10th Percentile £25,375 £26,004 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,313 £31,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,635 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +1.41% -9.09%
75th Percentile £56,750 £61,250 £61,500
90th Percentile £72,595 £74,250 £68,750
UK median annual salary £54,808 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.35% +10.00% -8.90%

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 1,605 1,776 4,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.33% 76.29% 68.57%
Number of salaries quoted 712 689 1,598
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,413 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +6 52 £40,000 -39.39% 27
Edinburgh -37 28 £40,000 -20.71% 17
Stirling -11 7 £54,500 +46.80% 6
West Lothian - 5 - - 1
Midlothian +4 3 - - 7
Fife -7 2 £36,000 -36.00% 3
North Lanarkshire -11 2 - - 2
Lanarkshire +10 1 - - 16
Falkirk -1 1 - -
Aberdeen -21 1 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Moray - 1 £62,500 - 1
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 7 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.62%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.95%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.95%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (0.95%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.95%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (8.57%) Azure
3 7 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.71%) AWS
5 4 (3.81%) SaaS
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.86%) GCP
6 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.86%) Serverless
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.90%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.90%) IaaS
7 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.90%) PaaS
8 1 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.29%) Broadband
2 7 (6.67%) SAN
3 6 (5.71%) VoIP
4 2 (1.90%) Firewall
5 1 (0.95%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.95%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) Tableau
2 6 (5.71%) Data Mining
3 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.86%) Power BI
5 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.95%) Big Data
7 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.95%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) ERwin
2 3 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (0.95%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.95%) GitLab
3 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.95%) JMeter
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.95%) Selenium
3 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.95%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (0.95%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.95%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (62.86%) Social Skills
2 33 (31.43%) Finance
3 14 (13.33%) Games
4 13 (12.38%) Legal
5 12 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.62%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.86%) Retail
8 2 (1.90%) Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Law
9 1 (0.95%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.95%) Marketing
9 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (38.10%) Analyst
2 17 (16.19%) Business Analyst
3 16 (15.24%) Senior
4 14 (13.33%) IT Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (6.67%) Field Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Field Service Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) IT Support
6 7 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) 1st Line Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) 1st Line Support
7 6 (5.71%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Data Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Head of QA
7 6 (5.71%) Trainee
7 6 (5.71%) Trainee Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 5 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 5 (4.76%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.90%) REST
1 2 (1.90%) SOAP
2 1 (0.95%) CSS
2 1 (0.95%) HTML
2 1 (0.95%) Playwright
2 1 (0.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (16.19%) Management Information System
3 12 (11.43%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (10.48%) AI Agents
4 11 (10.48%) Cyberattack
5 8 (7.62%) Product Ownership
5 8 (7.62%) Social Media
6 7 (6.67%) Data Centre
6 7 (6.67%) Driving Licence
6 7 (6.67%) Smartphone
7 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.90%) IoT
8 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.90%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.62%) Windows
2 6 (5.71%) Mac OS
2 6 (5.71%) Windows 10
3 4 (3.81%) Linux
4 2 (1.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.95%) AIX
5 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.95%) Solaris
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (31.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (27.62%) Analytics
4 26 (24.76%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (23.81%) Customer Service
6 24 (22.86%) Agile
6 24 (22.86%) Decision-Making
7 19 (18.10%) Data Analysis
8 17 (16.19%) AI
8 17 (16.19%) Collaborative Working
9 16 (15.24%) ITIL
10 15 (14.29%) Business Analysis
10 15 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (14.29%) Information Security
11 14 (13.33%) Project Management
12 13 (12.38%) Change Management
12 13 (12.38%) Coaching
12 13 (12.38%) LLM
12 13 (12.38%) Workshop Facilitation
13 12 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.33%) SQL
2 11 (10.48%) Python
3 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.95%) Bash
4 1 (0.95%) C
4 1 (0.95%) C#
4 1 (0.95%) C++
4 1 (0.95%) Java
4 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.95%) R
4 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (14.29%) Degree
2 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.67%) A+ Certification
4 7 (6.67%) CCNA
4 7 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.67%) MCSE
4 7 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (5.71%) IRCA
6 4 (3.81%) CISM
6 4 (3.81%) CISSP
6 4 (3.81%) CRISC
7 3 (2.86%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.86%) PMP
8 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.90%) CSPO
8 2 (1.90%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.90%) MBA
8 2 (1.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.00%) GDPR
2 7 (6.67%) QA
3 6 (5.71%) ISO 9001
3 6 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.76%) NIST
5 4 (3.81%) COBIT
6 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.95%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.95%) NCSC
6 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (10.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.95%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) Control-M
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.95%) CASB
2 1 (0.95%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.95%) Grafana
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.67%) Dell
3 5 (4.76%) Oracle
4 3 (2.86%) Informatica
5 2 (1.90%) VMware
6 1 (0.95%) Adobe
6 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.95%) FIS
6 1 (0.95%) Google
6 1 (0.95%) IBM
6 1 (0.95%) IFS
6 1 (0.95%) Infor
6 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.95%) SAP
6 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.95%) Siemens