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 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +23 -13
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 342 352 196
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 12.38% 11.51% 7.88%
As % of the General category 21.02% 18.18% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 92 137 147
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,200 £37,650
25th Percentile £31,750 £39,250 £43,312
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £49,125 £70,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,575 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%

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 common skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,627 1,936 1,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 58.91% 63.33% 74.23%
Number of salaries quoted 728 839 1,412
10th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,550 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.02% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £73,775 £90,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -12 117 £40,000 -39.10% 125
Glasgow +6 78 £45,000 -18.18% 131
North Lanarkshire - 29 £31,750 - 4
Renfrewshire +4 21 £31,750 -20.63% 8
Stirling +7 13 £31,750 +0.79% 1
South Lanarkshire +2 12 - - 4
Lanarkshire +10 11 £27,500 - 14
Dundee +3 10 £33,500 -25.56% 2
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 7 £60,000 -
East Ayrshire - 7 £42,500 - 1
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
Ayrshire - 6 - -
Aberdeen -8 5 £26,150 -56.42% 131
Midlothian - 3 - - 12
Inverclyde - 3 £31,750 - 1
Fife +2 2 £50,000 +17.65% 5
Highlands -11 2 £52,500 +72.13% 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 14 (4.09%) Confluence
2 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.58%) Camunda
2 2 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (8.48%) Chatbot
3 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.17%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (0.88%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.92%) Oracle Payables
1 10 (2.92%) Oracle Receivables
1 10 (2.92%) Workday HCM
2 8 (2.34%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (2.34%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.34%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (2.34%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.17%) Hyperion Planning
3 4 (1.17%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.17%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.17%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.58%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 55 (16.08%) Azure
2 40 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (11.40%) Snowflake
4 28 (8.19%) Power Platform
5 26 (7.60%) GitHub
5 26 (7.60%) GitHub Copilot
6 21 (6.14%) dbt
7 12 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (2.92%) SuccessFactors
9 8 (2.34%) AWS
9 8 (2.34%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.17%) OCI
11 2 (0.58%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.58%) Serverless
12 1 (0.29%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.29%) GCP
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.97%) LAN
1 17 (4.97%) VoIP
1 17 (4.97%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (1.75%) Telnet
3 5 (1.46%) SAN
4 1 (0.29%) Intranet
4 1 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (8.19%) Power BI
3 24 (7.02%) Tableau
4 14 (4.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (2.63%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.17%) Essbase
6 4 (1.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.17%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.58%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.58%) Big Data
8 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.58%) HBase
8 2 (0.58%) Metadata
8 2 (0.58%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.29%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 41 (11.99%) JIRA
2 18 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
3 10 (2.92%) ER Studio
3 10 (2.92%) ERwin
4 4 (1.17%) Maven
5 3 (0.88%) Git
6 2 (0.58%) Gradle
6 2 (0.58%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.58%) JUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 205 (59.94%) Social Skills
2 129 (37.72%) Finance
3 26 (7.60%) Marketing
4 18 (5.26%) Legal
5 14 (4.09%) Law
6 13 (3.80%) Banking
7 12 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.63%) Retail
10 7 (2.05%) Advertising
10 7 (2.05%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.75%) Front Office
12 5 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.46%) Private Banking
13 3 (0.88%) Billing
14 2 (0.58%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.29%) Electronics
15 1 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 96 (28.07%) Innovation Manager
2 56 (16.37%) Analyst
3 32 (9.36%) Senior
4 30 (8.77%) Trainee
5 29 (8.48%) Trainer
6 23 (6.73%) IT Support
7 21 (6.14%) Graduate
8 17 (4.97%) IT Assistant
8 17 (4.97%) IT Support Assistant
8 17 (4.97%) Support Assistant
9 13 (3.80%) Data Analyst
10 12 (3.51%) Business Analyst
11 10 (2.92%) Data Modeller
11 10 (2.92%) Lead
12 9 (2.63%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (2.63%) Trainee Analyst
12 9 (2.63%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 8 (2.34%) Applications Support
13 8 (2.34%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (1.75%) Spring
2 4 (1.17%) REST
3 3 (0.88%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.58%) JDBC
4 2 (0.58%) JPA
4 2 (0.58%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.58%) React
4 2 (0.58%) Swagger
4 2 (0.58%) WSDL
5 1 (0.29%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.29%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.29%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.29%) HTML
5 1 (0.29%) jQuery
5 1 (0.29%) Kafka
5 1 (0.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.48%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (7.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 24 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 22 (6.43%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.09%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.34%) Equities
6 8 (2.34%) Low-Code
6 8 (2.34%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.05%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.75%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.46%) Digital Media
9 5 (1.46%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.58%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.58%) Life Science
10 2 (0.58%) PMI
10 2 (0.58%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.63%) Windows
2 6 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.58%) Unix
4 1 (0.29%) Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (50.88%) AI
2 167 (48.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 140 (40.94%) Analytics
4 122 (35.67%) Decision-Making
4 122 (35.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 117 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (30.41%) Customer Experience
7 99 (28.95%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 85 (24.85%) Agile
8 85 (24.85%) Asset Management
9 77 (22.51%) Coaching
10 48 (14.04%) Critical Thinking
10 48 (14.04%) Emotional Intelligence
11 42 (12.28%) DevOps
12 41 (11.99%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (10.23%) Data Modelling
14 34 (9.94%) CI/CD
15 33 (9.65%) Migration
15 33 (9.65%) Test Automation
16 32 (9.36%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 67 (19.59%) SQL
2 37 (10.82%) Python
3 9 (2.63%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.05%) Java
5 4 (1.17%) Groovy
6 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.29%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.29%) R
7 1 (0.29%) Scala
7 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (25.15%) Degree
2 51 (14.91%) Master's Degree
3 29 (8.48%) PhD
4 5 (1.46%) A+ Certification
4 5 (1.46%) CCNA
4 5 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (1.46%) MCSE
4 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.17%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.88%) PMP
7 2 (0.58%) ACCA
7 2 (0.58%) CBAP
7 2 (0.58%) CEH
7 2 (0.58%) CIMA
7 2 (0.58%) CISM
7 2 (0.58%) CISSP
7 2 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.92%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.05%) PMO
3 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.58%) NIST
4 2 (0.58%) PERC
4 2 (0.58%) QA
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) GRC
5 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.29%) SEPA
5 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (0.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.58%) Terraform
3 1 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (0.29%) QRadar
3 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 29 (8.48%) PayPal
2 25 (7.31%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.31%) Oracle
3 14 (4.09%) SAP
4 10 (2.92%) Workday
5 6 (1.75%) Alteryx
5 6 (1.75%) Charles River
6 5 (1.46%) Cisco
6 5 (1.46%) Dell
6 5 (1.46%) Infor
7 4 (1.17%) Hyperion
7 4 (1.17%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.88%) Databricks
8 3 (0.88%) Splunk
8 3 (0.88%) Teradata
9 2 (0.58%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.58%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.58%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.58%) IBM
10 1 (0.29%) Anaplan