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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 12 78
Rank change year-on-year -29 +66 -45
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 107 279 312
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.41% 13.29% 4.81%
As % of the General category 7.12% 16.75% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 56 53 197
10th Percentile £25,375 £25,020 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,445 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +12.10% -5.68%
75th Percentile £56,750 £60,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,738 £68,750
UK median annual salary £54,068 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.70% +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 1,503 1,666 4,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.87% 79.33% 71.86%
Number of salaries quoted 645 627 1,572
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,375 £31,644 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -3.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,343 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.09% +9.22% -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 5 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 5 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 +10 54 £40,800 -32.00% 44
Edinburgh -31 34 £40,000 -20.71% 34
Stirling -11 8 £54,500 +23.67% 1
West Lothian - 3 - - 1
Midlothian +3 2 - - 9
Fife -3 2 £27,000 -56.80% 2
Lanarkshire +9 1 - - 11
Falkirk -1 1 - - 1
North Lanarkshire -11 1 - - 1
Clackmannanshire - 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 4 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (9.35%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.93%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.93%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.93%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.41%) Azure
1 9 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (6.54%) AWS
3 6 (5.61%) SaaS
4 5 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (4.67%) Serverless
5 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.74%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (3.74%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.74%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.87%) dbt
7 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.87%) GCP
7 2 (1.87%) IaaS
7 2 (1.87%) PaaS
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.28%) Broadband
2 7 (6.54%) SAN
3 2 (1.87%) Firewall
3 2 (1.87%) Telnet
4 1 (0.93%) LAN
4 1 (0.93%) Network Security
4 1 (0.93%) VoIP
4 1 (0.93%) Wireless
4 1 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.28%) Tableau
2 9 (8.41%) Data Mining
3 8 (7.48%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.74%) Power BI
5 4 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.93%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.93%) Metadata
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Git
2 3 (2.80%) ERwin
3 2 (1.87%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.87%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) GitLab
4 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (61.68%) Social Skills
2 43 (40.19%) Finance
3 14 (13.08%) Legal
4 11 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.35%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (8.41%) Games
7 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Law
8 3 (2.80%) Retail
9 2 (1.87%) Banking
9 2 (1.87%) Front Office
9 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (39.25%) Analyst
2 20 (18.69%) Business Analyst
3 17 (15.89%) Senior
4 9 (8.41%) Data Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) IT Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Trainee
4 9 (8.41%) Trainee Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 8 (7.48%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) Field Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Field Service Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) IT Manager
6 7 (6.54%) Senior Manager
7 6 (5.61%) Change Analyst
7 6 (5.61%) Head of QA
8 5 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 5 (4.67%) Security Manager
8 5 (4.67%) Senior Business Analyst
9 4 (3.74%) Governance Manager
9 4 (3.74%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.74%) REST
1 4 (3.74%) SOAP
2 2 (1.87%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.93%) CSS
3 1 (0.93%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (17.76%) Management Information System
3 9 (8.41%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.54%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (6.54%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.54%) Smartphone
5 6 (5.61%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.61%) Cyberattack
6 4 (3.74%) Social Media
7 3 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.87%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.87%) Equities
8 2 (1.87%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.87%) IoT
8 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.87%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.48%) Windows
2 6 (5.61%) Linux
3 4 (3.74%) Unix
4 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.93%) AIX
5 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Solaris
5 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (50.47%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (30.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (29.91%) Analytics
4 30 (28.04%) Agile
5 23 (21.50%) Data Analysis
6 22 (20.56%) Coaching
7 21 (19.63%) ITIL
7 21 (19.63%) Project Management
8 20 (18.69%) Customer Service
8 20 (18.69%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (17.76%) Business Analysis
10 18 (16.82%) Decision-Making
11 16 (14.95%) Change Management
11 16 (14.95%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (14.95%) Workshop Facilitation
12 15 (14.02%) Root Cause Analysis
13 13 (12.15%) PRINCE2
14 12 (11.21%) Asset Management
14 12 (11.21%) Collaborative Working
15 11 (10.28%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.43%) SQL
2 17 (15.89%) Python
3 6 (5.61%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.74%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.93%) Bash
5 1 (0.93%) C
5 1 (0.93%) C#
5 1 (0.93%) C++
5 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (14.95%) Degree
2 9 (8.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.48%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.54%) A+ Certification
4 7 (6.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.54%) CCNA
4 7 (6.54%) MCSE
4 7 (6.54%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (5.61%) IRCA
5 6 (5.61%) PMI Certification
5 6 (5.61%) PMP
6 4 (3.74%) CISM
6 4 (3.74%) CISSP
6 4 (3.74%) CRISC
7 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.87%) CSPO
7 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.87%) MBA
8 1 (0.93%) ACCA
8 1 (0.93%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.15%) GDPR
2 7 (6.54%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.61%) ISO 9001
3 6 (5.61%) QA
4 5 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.67%) NIST
5 4 (3.74%) COBIT
6 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (7.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.93%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Control-M
2 1 (0.93%) CASB
2 1 (0.93%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.48%) Dell
3 6 (5.61%) Oracle
4 5 (4.67%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.74%) Informatica
6 3 (2.80%) IBM
7 2 (1.87%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.87%) Charles River
7 2 (1.87%) VMware
8 1 (0.93%) Adobe
8 1 (0.93%) Apple
8 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.93%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.93%) F5
8 1 (0.93%) FIS
8 1 (0.93%) HP
8 1 (0.93%) Infor
8 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.93%) Red Hat