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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 72
Rank change year-on-year -20 +64 -36
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 170 286 328
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.09% 14.86% 5.25%
As % of the General category 10.40% 19.71% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 63 91 199
10th Percentile £25,800 £35,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -5.68%
75th Percentile £56,750 £68,114 £61,123
90th Percentile £76,000 £93,778 £68,750
UK median annual salary £53,185 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.30% +10.00% -9.09%

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 1,634 1,451 4,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.88% 75.38% 74.52%
Number of salaries quoted 671 679 1,562
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,463 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +12.38% -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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -26 76 £40,000 -27.27% 22
Glasgow -8 58 £40,000 -27.27% 14
Stirling -10 9 £54,500 +23.67% 1
North Lanarkshire -10 7 - - 1
Renfrewshire -6 3 - - 2
Lanarkshire +1 2 - - 9
East Ayrshire -1 2 £42,500 - 1
Dundee -10 2 £33,500 -33.00%
South Lanarkshire -11 2 - - 1
Fife - 2 - - 3
Ayrshire -1 1 - -
North Ayrshire -4 1 - -
West Lothian -7 1 - - 5
West Dunbartonshire -8 1 - -
Aberdeen -26 1 - - 5
Midlothian - 1 - - 11
Perth and Kinross - 1 £33,500 -
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 4 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (11.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (7.06%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Markit EDM
2 2 (1.18%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.59%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.59%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.41%) Azure
2 19 (11.18%) Snowflake
3 18 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (10.59%) GitHub
3 18 (10.59%) GitHub Copilot
4 15 (8.82%) dbt
5 14 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (7.06%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.71%) AWS
7 8 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (4.71%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.94%) SaaS
8 5 (2.94%) Serverless
9 4 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.35%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (2.35%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.71%) Telnet
2 7 (4.12%) SAN
3 4 (2.35%) Broadband
3 4 (2.35%) LAN
4 3 (1.76%) VoIP
4 3 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.18%) Firewall
6 1 (0.59%) Network Security
6 1 (0.59%) Wireless
6 1 (0.59%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (8.24%) Tableau
3 12 (7.06%) Data Mining
3 12 (7.06%) Power BI
4 9 (5.29%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.53%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.59%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.59%) Metadata
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (11.76%) JIRA
2 5 (2.94%) ERwin
3 4 (2.35%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.35%) Git
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.59%) GitLab
5 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 110 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 89 (52.35%) Finance
3 19 (11.18%) Legal
4 11 (6.47%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (5.29%) Banking
7 8 (4.71%) Front Office
7 8 (4.71%) Retail
8 6 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.94%) Law
10 4 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.35%) Games
10 4 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.35%) Marketing
11 3 (1.76%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.18%) Advertising
12 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.59%) Electronics
13 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (27.06%) Analyst
2 23 (13.53%) Senior
3 20 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 16 (9.41%) Innovation Manager
5 14 (8.24%) Data Analyst
6 12 (7.06%) Trainee
6 12 (7.06%) Trainee Analyst
6 12 (7.06%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 11 (6.47%) Applications Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.71%) IT Engineer
9 8 (4.71%) Lead
9 8 (4.71%) Platform Specialist
10 7 (4.12%) Change Analyst
10 7 (4.12%) Field Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Field Service Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) IT Manager
11 6 (3.53%) Applications Support
11 6 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.71%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (2.35%) REST
2 4 (2.35%) SOAP
3 1 (0.59%) CSS
3 1 (0.59%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 16 (9.41%) Cloud Native
4 15 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (7.06%) Product Ownership
6 9 (5.29%) Equities
6 9 (5.29%) Fixed Income
7 7 (4.12%) Data Centre
7 7 (4.12%) Low-Code
7 7 (4.12%) Smartphone
8 4 (2.35%) Social Media
9 3 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.18%) Digital Media
10 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.18%) IoT
10 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.41%) Windows
2 9 (5.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.53%) Linux
4 4 (2.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.59%) AIX
5 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.59%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (45.29%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (44.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 63 (37.06%) Analytics
4 56 (32.94%) Agile
5 51 (30.00%) Coaching
6 46 (27.06%) Asset Management
7 43 (25.29%) AI
8 37 (21.76%) Decision-Making
9 36 (21.18%) Data Analysis
10 29 (17.06%) Data Modelling
11 28 (16.47%) ITIL
11 28 (16.47%) Project Management
12 27 (15.88%) CI/CD
13 25 (14.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 24 (14.12%) Customer Experience
15 23 (13.53%) Business Analysis
15 23 (13.53%) DevOps
15 23 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (11.76%) Customer Service
17 19 (11.18%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 46 (27.06%) SQL
2 28 (16.47%) Python
3 15 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.35%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.59%) Bash
6 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 27 (15.88%) Degree
2 9 (5.29%) PMI Certification
3 8 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (4.71%) PMP
4 7 (4.12%) A+ Certification
4 7 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.12%) CCNA
4 7 (4.12%) MCSE
4 7 (4.12%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (3.53%) IRCA
6 5 (2.94%) CISM
6 5 (2.94%) CISSP
7 4 (2.35%) CRISC
7 4 (2.35%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.18%) ACCA
8 2 (1.18%) CIMA
8 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.18%) MBA
8 2 (1.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.12%) Data Quality
1 7 (4.12%) GDPR
2 6 (3.53%) ISO 9001
2 6 (3.53%) QA
3 5 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.94%) NIST
4 4 (2.35%) COBIT
5 2 (1.18%) PMO
6 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (5.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.59%) Docker
3 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.59%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (2.35%) Control-M
2 1 (0.59%) CASB
2 1 (0.59%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 1 (0.59%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.59%) QRadar
2 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.71%) Charles River
2 8 (4.71%) Dell
2 8 (4.71%) Oracle
3 6 (3.53%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.94%) IBM
5 4 (2.35%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.35%) Informatica
6 2 (1.18%) PayPal
6 2 (1.18%) SAP
6 2 (1.18%) VMware
6 2 (1.18%) Workday
7 1 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.59%) Databricks
7 1 (0.59%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.59%) FIS
7 1 (0.59%) IFS
7 1 (0.59%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.59%) Xero