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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 14 44
Rank change year-on-year -23 +30 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 133 336 297
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.63% 13.29% 6.25%
As % of the General category 7.60% 18.61% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 63 86 166
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,813 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,598 £31,750 £37,360
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £40,000 £48,745
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -17.94% -11.37%
75th Percentile £62,425 £60,000 £63,938
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,125
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 1,751 1,805 3,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.76% 71.40% 65.38%
Number of salaries quoted 789 727 1,161
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £32,951 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.57% -34.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £75,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -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 1 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 1 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 +6 60 £44,000 -16.98% 148
Edinburgh -22 40 £43,335 -14.09% 133
West Lothian - 7 £40,815 - 3
Clackmannanshire - 5 - -
Midlothian +6 4 - - 106
Stirling -11 4 £32,500 +2.36% 6
Lanarkshire +4 2 - - 105
Fife -9 2 £36,000 -36.00% 6
Aberdeen -18 2 £45,000 +72.08% 13
Moray - 2 £62,500 -
Falkirk 0 1 - - 1
Highlands -2 1 - - 1
North Lanarkshire -15 1 - - 3
East Lothian - 1 - - 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 (6.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.75%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.75%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.75%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.75%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.78%) Azure
2 15 (11.28%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (6.77%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.26%) AWS
4 7 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.01%) GCP
7 3 (2.26%) Google Analytics
7 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.50%) Collibra
8 2 (1.50%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.50%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.75%) Dagster
9 1 (0.75%) Figma
9 1 (0.75%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.77%) Broadband
2 9 (6.77%) VoIP
3 5 (3.76%) SAN
4 2 (1.50%) Firewall
5 1 (0.75%) ATM
5 1 (0.75%) DHCP
5 1 (0.75%) DNS
5 1 (0.75%) Internet
5 1 (0.75%) Intranet
5 1 (0.75%) IPsec
5 1 (0.75%) Network Security
5 1 (0.75%) OSPF
5 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.75%) SSL
5 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.75%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.75%) VPN
5 1 (0.75%) WAN
5 1 (0.75%) WebEx
5 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (6.02%) Tableau
2 7 (5.26%) Power BI
3 5 (3.76%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.01%) Metadata
5 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.50%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.75%) Big Data
7 1 (0.75%) Looker
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) JIRA
2 4 (3.01%) Git
3 3 (2.26%) ERwin
4 2 (1.50%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.50%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.50%) JMeter
5 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.75%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
5 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.75%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 83 (62.41%) Social Skills
2 43 (32.33%) Finance
3 21 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (9.02%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.27%) Games
6 11 (8.27%) Marketing
7 9 (6.77%) Aerospace
7 9 (6.77%) Law
8 8 (6.02%) Legal
9 7 (5.26%) Military
10 6 (4.51%) Banking
10 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
11 5 (3.76%) Financial Institution
11 5 (3.76%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (3.01%) Electronics
12 4 (3.01%) Retail
13 2 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 30 (22.56%) Analyst
2 16 (12.03%) Senior
3 15 (11.28%) IT Engineer
4 10 (7.52%) IT Support
4 10 (7.52%) IT Support Engineer
4 10 (7.52%) Lead
4 10 (7.52%) Support Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) 1st Line Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) 1st Line Support
5 9 (6.77%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 8 (6.02%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.26%) Technical Specialist
8 6 (4.51%) Data Manager
8 6 (4.51%) Governance Manager
8 6 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) Engineering Manager
9 5 (3.76%) Field Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Risk Manager
9 5 (3.76%) Technical Leader
9 5 (3.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.50%) RESTful
2 1 (0.75%) .NET
2 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.75%) Playwright
2 1 (0.75%) PySpark
2 1 (0.75%) XML
2 1 (0.75%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.28%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (9.02%) AI Agents
3 12 (9.02%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (9.02%) Product Ownership
4 11 (8.27%) Cyberattack
5 10 (7.52%) Driving Licence
5 10 (7.52%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (6.02%) FPGA
7 6 (4.51%) Social Media
8 5 (3.76%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.76%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (3.76%) Smartphone
9 4 (3.01%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (1.50%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.50%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.27%) Windows
2 9 (6.77%) Mac OS
2 9 (6.77%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.50%) Linux
4 1 (0.75%) AIX
4 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.75%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (27.07%) Analytics
2 36 (27.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (24.06%) Decision-Making
4 29 (21.80%) AI
4 29 (21.80%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (19.55%) Agile
6 24 (18.05%) Collaborative Working
7 23 (17.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (16.54%) Customer Service
9 19 (14.29%) Risk Management
10 16 (12.03%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (12.03%) Information Security
11 15 (11.28%) Data Analysis
11 15 (11.28%) Validation
12 14 (10.53%) Design Patterns
12 14 (10.53%) ITIL
13 13 (9.77%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (9.77%) Service Delivery
13 13 (9.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.53%) SQL
2 12 (9.02%) Python
3 3 (2.26%) Java
4 2 (1.50%) C
4 2 (1.50%) C++
4 2 (1.50%) MATLAB
4 2 (1.50%) R
5 1 (0.75%) Bash
5 1 (0.75%) C#
5 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.75%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.75%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (20.30%) Degree
2 17 (12.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (9.02%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.52%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.52%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.26%) Chartered Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.76%) A+ Certification
7 5 (3.76%) CCNA
7 5 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.76%) CISSP
7 5 (3.76%) MCSE
7 5 (3.76%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (3.01%) CISM
8 4 (3.01%) CRISC
8 4 (3.01%) HND
9 3 (2.26%) CSPO
9 3 (2.26%) IRCA
9 3 (2.26%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.53%) GDPR
2 9 (6.77%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.77%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.26%) QA
4 5 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.01%) COBIT
5 4 (3.01%) ISO 9001
5 4 (3.01%) NIST
6 2 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.75%) GMP
7 1 (0.75%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.75%) JTAG
7 1 (0.75%) NCSC
7 1 (0.75%) UCITS
System Software
1 13 (9.77%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.77%) Firmware
3 2 (1.50%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.75%) Docker
4 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.75%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.50%) Grafana
2 1 (0.75%) Ansible
2 1 (0.75%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.75%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 28 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.02%) Google
3 5 (3.76%) Alteryx
3 5 (3.76%) Dell
4 3 (2.26%) Databricks
5 2 (1.50%) Adobe
5 2 (1.50%) Informatica
5 2 (1.50%) Oracle
6 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.75%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.75%) IFS
6 1 (0.75%) Infor
6 1 (0.75%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.75%) SAP
6 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.75%) Siemens
6 1 (0.75%) VMware
6 1 (0.75%) Xilinx
6 1 (0.75%) YouTube