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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 35 33
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 350 294 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.70% 6.82% 7.22%
As % of the General category 19.13% 10.78% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 80 141 157
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £37,650
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,750 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -11.22% +15.83%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,625 £70,875 £73,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -

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 1,830 2,728 1,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 71.65% 63.24% 74.79%
Number of salaries quoted 723 1,017 1,565
10th Percentile £25,600 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55,625 £67,500 £69,649
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £53,700 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% -6.67% -

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +14 136 £46,000 -27.56% 50
Glasgow +47 91 £53,000 +8.72% 64
North Lanarkshire - 23 £31,750 - 2
Stirling +9 18 £31,750 -36.50%
Renfrewshire +3 18 £31,750 -9.29% 11
South Lanarkshire +4 10 - - 7
Lanarkshire -6 10 £27,500 - 26
Aberdeen +2 8 £26,150 -38.47% 12
West Dunbartonshire 0 6 £60,000 +118.18%
Falkirk +1 5 - - 1
Midlothian - 5 - - 25
Ayrshire - 5 - -
North Ayrshire - 5 - -
East Ayrshire - 5 - - 2
Inverclyde - 3 £31,750 - 1
Fife -3 2 £56,250 +9.76% 7
Highlands -4 2 £52,500 +72.13% 7
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (3.71%) Confluence
2 8 (2.29%) Camunda
2 8 (2.29%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 39 (11.14%) Chatbot
2 21 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.43%) AutoCAD
3 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.43%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
1 10 (2.86%) Oracle Receivables
2 8 (2.29%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (2.29%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.29%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (2.29%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (1.71%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.14%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (1.14%) SAP CO
4 4 (1.14%) SAP FI
4 4 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (10.00%) AWS
2 30 (8.57%) Azure
3 22 (6.29%) Snowflake
4 20 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (5.14%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.71%) dbt
6 6 (1.71%) GitHub
6 6 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (1.43%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.43%) Serverless
8 4 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.14%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (1.14%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (1.14%) OCI
9 3 (0.86%) GCP
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.14%) SAN
2 2 (0.57%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.57%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.57%) FTP
2 2 (0.57%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (0.57%) Modbus
2 2 (0.57%) MQTT
3 1 (0.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.14%) Tableau
2 17 (4.86%) Power BI
3 15 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (1.43%) Apache Hive
5 5 (1.43%) Big Data
5 5 (1.43%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.43%) HBase
6 4 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.14%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.14%) Essbase
6 4 (1.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.14%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.86%) DB2
7 3 (0.86%) Metadata
8 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.29%) Power Query
8 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (6.29%) JIRA
2 14 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (3.71%) Maven
4 11 (3.14%) Git
5 9 (2.57%) JUnit
6 8 (2.29%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.71%) ER Studio
7 6 (1.71%) ERwin
7 6 (1.71%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.43%) Gradle
9 4 (1.14%) Subversion
General
1 198 (56.57%) Social Skills
2 119 (34.00%) Finance
3 38 (10.86%) Marketing
4 30 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (7.71%) Law
6 24 (6.86%) Banking
7 22 (6.29%) Legal
8 18 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.57%) Front Office
10 7 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.00%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.43%) Advertising
12 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.14%) Retail
13 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.86%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.57%) Electronics
14 2 (0.57%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.57%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (22.86%) Innovation Manager
2 66 (18.86%) Analyst
3 39 (11.14%) Trainer
4 35 (10.00%) Senior
5 27 (7.71%) Software Engineer
6 25 (7.14%) Trainee
7 21 (6.00%) Developer
7 21 (6.00%) Graduate
8 17 (4.86%) Java Engineer
8 17 (4.86%) Java Software Engineer
9 16 (4.57%) Business Analyst
9 16 (4.57%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.14%) Risk Manager
11 10 (2.86%) Data Analyst
12 9 (2.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 9 (2.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (2.57%) Java Software Developer
12 9 (2.57%) Lead
12 9 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (2.57%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.29%) Spring
2 14 (4.00%) REST
3 13 (3.71%) Spring Boot
4 8 (2.29%) JDBC
4 8 (2.29%) OpenAPI
4 8 (2.29%) Swagger
4 8 (2.29%) WSDL
5 6 (1.71%) MFC
5 6 (1.71%) React
6 5 (1.43%) HTML
6 5 (1.43%) JPA
6 5 (1.43%) Kafka
7 4 (1.14%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.14%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.14%) jQuery
8 3 (0.86%) JSON
9 1 (0.29%) CherryPy
9 1 (0.29%) Flask
9 1 (0.29%) Middleware
9 1 (0.29%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 24 (6.86%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.14%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.00%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.14%) Equities
8 4 (1.14%) Smartphone
9 3 (0.86%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.86%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.57%) ARM Cortex
10 2 (0.57%) AS400
10 2 (0.57%) IoT
10 2 (0.57%) iSeries
10 2 (0.57%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.71%) Unix
1 6 (1.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.29%) Android
2 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.29%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (45.43%) Artificial Intelligence
2 138 (39.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 136 (38.86%) Problem-Solving
4 129 (36.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 115 (32.86%) Analytics
6 111 (31.71%) Decision-Making
7 95 (27.14%) Customer Experience
8 84 (24.00%) Agile
9 81 (23.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 47 (13.43%) Coaching
11 45 (12.86%) Asset Management
12 39 (11.14%) Chemistry
12 39 (11.14%) Conversational UI
13 33 (9.43%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (9.14%) Critical Thinking
14 32 (9.14%) Emotional Intelligence
15 31 (8.86%) Customer Service
16 29 (8.29%) Project Management
17 28 (8.00%) CI/CD
18 27 (7.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (15.43%) SQL
2 40 (11.43%) Python
3 29 (8.29%) Java
4 10 (2.86%) C++
5 8 (2.29%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.43%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.14%) C
7 4 (1.14%) Groovy
7 4 (1.14%) R
8 2 (0.57%) Bash
8 2 (0.57%) RPG
8 2 (0.57%) RPG IV
9 1 (0.29%) Cypher
9 1 (0.29%) Scala
9 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 94 (26.86%) Degree
2 69 (19.71%) Master's Degree
3 47 (13.43%) PhD
4 9 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.14%) A+ Certification
6 4 (1.14%) CCNA
6 4 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.14%) MCSE
6 4 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.86%) CCA
7 3 (0.86%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.57%) CBAP
8 2 (0.57%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.29%) ACCA
9 1 (0.29%) CEH
9 1 (0.29%) CISA
9 1 (0.29%) CISSP
9 1 (0.29%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.14%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.57%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.43%) PMO
4 4 (1.14%) QA
5 3 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.57%) JTAG
6 2 (0.57%) PERC
6 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.57%) SEPA
7 1 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.43%) HDFS
2 2 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.57%) Firmware
3 1 (0.29%) RACF
Systems Management
1 12 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (11.14%) PayPal
2 34 (9.71%) Oracle
3 22 (6.29%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.43%) SAP
5 8 (2.29%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.29%) Splunk
6 6 (1.71%) Workday
7 5 (1.43%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.43%) Cisco
7 5 (1.43%) Cloudera
7 5 (1.43%) Databricks
7 5 (1.43%) Infor
8 4 (1.14%) Dell
8 4 (1.14%) Hyperion
9 3 (0.86%) Avaloq
9 3 (0.86%) Genesys
9 3 (0.86%) IBM
9 3 (0.86%) Verint
10 2 (0.57%) NVIDIA
10 2 (0.57%) ServiceNow