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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 13 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 +13
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 149 343 299
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.62% 13.57% 8.05%
As % of the General category 7.73% 19.13% 13.53%
Number of salaries quoted 66 78 133
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £31,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £39,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.28% -22.00% -11.55%
75th Percentile £63,713 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,472 £72,875 £82,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -

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 1,928 1,793 2,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 46.81% 70.93% 59.52%
Number of salaries quoted 877 698 952
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £32,951 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.57% -34.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £54,964 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £71,532 £83,400
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 September 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 September 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 -5 50 £44,000 -16.98% 122
Edinburgh -18 47 £45,918 +6.78% 103
Stirling -6 9 £70,000 +120.47% 4
West Lothian - 8 £40,815 - 5
Fife -4 7 £36,000 -36.00% 6
Clackmannanshire - 5 - -
Midlothian +4 4 - - 15
South Lanarkshire -14 4 £60,000 - 2
Aberdeen -15 3 £47,500 +81.64% 27
Lanarkshire +3 2 - - 25
Moray - 2 £62,500 -
Falkirk 0 1 - -
Highlands -4 1 - - 11
Renfrewshire -10 1 - - 5
North Lanarkshire -14 1 - - 2
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 11 (7.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.34%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.67%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.45%) Azure
2 15 (10.07%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (9.40%) Power Platform
4 13 (8.72%) AWS
5 10 (6.71%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.37%) GCP
7 5 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.68%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.01%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.01%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.01%) Serverless
10 2 (1.34%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.34%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.72%) Broadband
2 9 (6.04%) VoIP
3 6 (4.03%) Internet
4 4 (2.68%) SAN
5 2 (1.34%) Firewall
6 1 (0.67%) ATM
6 1 (0.67%) BGP
6 1 (0.67%) DHCP
6 1 (0.67%) DNS
6 1 (0.67%) Intranet
6 1 (0.67%) IPsec
6 1 (0.67%) Network Security
6 1 (0.67%) OSPF
6 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.67%) VPN
6 1 (0.67%) WAN
6 1 (0.67%) WebEx
6 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.40%) Power BI
2 10 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.04%) Tableau
4 7 (4.70%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.68%) Metadata
6 3 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.01%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.34%) Parquet
7 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.67%) Big Data
8 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.67%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.67%) Looker
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (9.40%) Git
2 5 (3.36%) JIRA
3 3 (2.01%) ERwin
4 2 (1.34%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.34%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.34%) JMeter
5 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.67%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.67%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.67%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (52.35%) Social Skills
2 46 (30.87%) Finance
3 22 (14.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (12.08%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.72%) Manufacturing
6 12 (8.05%) Aerospace
7 11 (7.38%) Games
8 10 (6.71%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (6.71%) Marketing
9 9 (6.04%) Electronics
9 9 (6.04%) Law
10 7 (4.70%) Legal
10 7 (4.70%) Military
11 5 (3.36%) Banking
11 5 (3.36%) Financial Institution
11 5 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.68%) Retail
13 2 (1.34%) Front Office
13 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (22.15%) Analyst
2 14 (9.40%) IT Engineer
3 13 (8.72%) Senior
4 11 (7.38%) IT Support
4 11 (7.38%) Lead
5 10 (6.71%) IT Support Engineer
5 10 (6.71%) Support Engineer
6 9 (6.04%) 1st Line Engineer
6 9 (6.04%) 1st Line Support
6 9 (6.04%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 9 (6.04%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.37%) Electronics Engineer
8 7 (4.70%) Technical Specialist
9 6 (4.03%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) Data Manager
9 6 (4.03%) Risk Manager
9 6 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (4.03%) Trainee
10 5 (3.36%) Accountant
10 5 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.01%) PySpark
2 2 (1.34%) Apache Avro
2 2 (1.34%) JSON
2 2 (1.34%) RESTful
3 1 (0.67%) .NET
3 1 (0.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.67%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.67%) Playwright
3 1 (0.67%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (0.67%) XML
3 1 (0.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.72%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.05%) AI Agents
2 12 (8.05%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (7.38%) Cyberattack
4 10 (6.71%) Driving Licence
4 10 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.71%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (6.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (5.37%) FPGA
7 7 (4.70%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (4.03%) Analogue Electronics
8 6 (4.03%) Social Media
9 5 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.68%) Cloud Native
10 4 (2.68%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.68%) Smartphone
11 3 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.38%) Windows
2 9 (6.04%) Mac OS
2 9 (6.04%) Windows 10
3 7 (4.70%) Linux
4 1 (0.67%) AIX
4 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (53.69%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (28.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 38 (25.50%) Decision-Making
4 33 (22.15%) AI
4 33 (22.15%) Analytics
5 28 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (16.78%) Agile
7 24 (16.11%) Customer Service
8 22 (14.77%) Collaborative Working
9 21 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (13.42%) Validation
11 17 (11.41%) Risk Management
12 16 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (9.40%) Analytical Thinking
13 14 (9.40%) Design Patterns
14 13 (8.72%) CI/CD
14 13 (8.72%) DevOps
14 13 (8.72%) Identity Access Management
14 13 (8.72%) Line Management
14 13 (8.72%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.77%) SQL
2 18 (12.08%) Python
3 6 (4.03%) Shell Script
4 5 (3.36%) Java
4 5 (3.36%) R
5 2 (1.34%) C
5 2 (1.34%) C#
5 2 (1.34%) C++
5 2 (1.34%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.67%) Bash
6 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.67%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 35 (23.49%) Degree
2 19 (12.75%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (8.72%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.71%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.70%) Chartered Engineer
6 7 (4.70%) HND
7 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.68%) A+ Certification
8 4 (2.68%) ACCA
8 4 (2.68%) CCNA
8 4 (2.68%) CIMA
8 4 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.68%) MCSE
8 4 (2.68%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (2.01%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.34%) CSPO
10 2 (1.34%) HNC
10 2 (1.34%) ISEB
11 1 (0.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.41%) GDPR
2 16 (10.74%) Data Quality
3 11 (7.38%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.68%) QA
5 2 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.67%) GAAP
6 1 (0.67%) GMP
6 1 (0.67%) IFRS
6 1 (0.67%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.67%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) JTAG
6 1 (0.67%) NCSC
6 1 (0.67%) PMO
6 1 (0.67%) UCITS
System Software
1 11 (7.38%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.04%) Firmware
3 6 (4.03%) Docker
4 2 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.67%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.34%) Grafana
2 1 (0.67%) Ansible
2 1 (0.67%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.67%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 34 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.72%) Google
3 5 (3.36%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.68%) Dell
4 4 (2.68%) YouTube
5 3 (2.01%) Databricks
6 2 (1.34%) Adobe
6 2 (1.34%) Informatica
6 2 (1.34%) Oracle
7 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.67%) EMC
7 1 (0.67%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.67%) Sage
7 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.67%) SAP
7 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.67%) Siemens
7 1 (0.67%) VMware
7 1 (0.67%) Xilinx