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 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 63
Rank change year-on-year -6 +51 -25
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 262 302 235
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 9.08% 12.35% 5.79%
As % of the General category 16.33% 17.87% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 65 106 150
10th Percentile £29,600 £35,000 £30,888
25th Percentile £32,750 £45,000 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £50,764
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +28.04% +6.87%
75th Percentile £56,750 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,500 £97,500 £84,125
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -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 1,604 1,690 2,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 55.62% 69.09% 72.41%
Number of salaries quoted 642 687 1,564
10th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,438 £41,250 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £59,375 £70,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,750 £93,867 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.53%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -17 121 £40,000 -39.73% 18
Glasgow +5 60 £47,500 -2.25% 24
North Lanarkshire - 14 - - 3
Dundee +5 10 £33,500 -33.00% 1
Renfrewshire -1 9 - -
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 -
South Lanarkshire -2 6 - - 2
Stirling - 6 £54,500 - 4
Aberdeen -12 5 £26,150 -59.77% 5
Lanarkshire +6 4 - - 23
East Ayrshire - 4 £42,500 - 1
Ayrshire - 3 - -
North Ayrshire - 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 3 - -
Fife -1 2 - - 2
West Lothian -2 1 - - 5
Highlands -8 1 £52,500 - 1
Midlothian - 1 - - 9
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 (5.34%) Confluence
2 4 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (10.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (8.40%) Chatbot
3 9 (3.44%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.53%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (3.82%) Workday HCM
2 8 (3.05%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (3.05%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (3.05%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (3.05%) Oracle General Ledger
2 8 (3.05%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (3.05%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.53%) Hyperion Planning
3 4 (1.53%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.38%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 59 (22.52%) Azure
2 43 (16.41%) Snowflake
3 39 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (10.31%) Power Platform
5 26 (9.92%) GitHub
5 26 (9.92%) GitHub Copilot
6 23 (8.78%) dbt
7 14 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (3.82%) SuccessFactors
9 9 (3.44%) Power Automate
10 7 (2.67%) AWS
11 6 (2.29%) SaaS
12 5 (1.91%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.91%) Serverless
13 4 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.53%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (1.53%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.87%) LAN
2 17 (6.49%) VoIP
2 17 (6.49%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (3.05%) Telnet
4 5 (1.91%) SAN
5 3 (1.15%) Broadband
6 2 (0.76%) Firewall
7 1 (0.38%) Intranet
7 1 (0.38%) Network Security
7 1 (0.38%) Wireless
7 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.83%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (10.31%) Power BI
3 26 (9.92%) Tableau
4 14 (5.34%) Snowflake Schema
5 13 (4.96%) Data Mining
6 8 (3.05%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.53%) Essbase
8 4 (1.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.38%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.38%) Metadata
11 1 (0.38%) Power Query
11 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (15.65%) JIRA
2 18 (6.87%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (4.96%) ERwin
4 12 (4.58%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.53%) Git
6 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 138 (52.67%) Social Skills
2 126 (48.09%) Finance
3 18 (6.87%) Legal
4 17 (6.49%) Marketing
5 10 (3.82%) Retail
6 9 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.44%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.05%) Front Office
8 7 (2.67%) Banking
8 7 (2.67%) Law
9 6 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.53%) Advertising
10 4 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.15%) Billing
11 3 (1.15%) Games
11 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.15%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (26.72%) Analyst
2 48 (18.32%) Innovation Manager
3 32 (12.21%) Senior
4 22 (8.40%) Trainer
5 20 (7.63%) Business Analyst
6 18 (6.87%) IT Support
7 17 (6.49%) IT Assistant
7 17 (6.49%) IT Support Assistant
7 17 (6.49%) Support Assistant
8 15 (5.73%) Data Analyst
9 13 (4.96%) Trainee
9 13 (4.96%) Trainee Analyst
9 13 (4.96%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 12 (4.58%) Data Modeller
11 11 (4.20%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (3.82%) Applications Support
12 10 (3.82%) Lead
13 8 (3.05%) Oracle Analyst
13 8 (3.05%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.05%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.53%) REST
2 4 (1.53%) SOAP
3 1 (0.38%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.38%) CSS
3 1 (0.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.45%) Analytical Mindset
1 30 (11.45%) Product Ownership
2 28 (10.69%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (9.16%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.11%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.44%) Equities
5 9 (3.44%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.05%) Low-Code
6 8 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.91%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.91%) Smartphone
8 3 (1.15%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.15%) Social Media
9 2 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.76%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.76%) Life Science
9 2 (0.76%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.34%) Windows
2 8 (3.05%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.91%) Linux
4 4 (1.53%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (49.24%) Continuous Improvement
2 116 (44.27%) AI
3 97 (37.02%) Analytics
4 91 (34.73%) Agile
5 90 (34.35%) Asset Management
6 86 (32.82%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (32.44%) Coaching
8 68 (25.95%) Decision-Making
8 68 (25.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 54 (20.61%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 50 (19.08%) Critical Thinking
10 50 (19.08%) Customer Experience
11 48 (18.32%) Emotional Intelligence
12 45 (17.18%) Data Modelling
13 43 (16.41%) DevOps
14 34 (12.98%) CI/CD
14 34 (12.98%) Project Management
15 33 (12.60%) Business Intelligence
16 32 (12.21%) Migration
16 32 (12.21%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 73 (27.86%) SQL
2 44 (16.79%) Python
3 13 (4.96%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.53%) Groovy
4 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (22.90%) Degree
2 24 (9.16%) Master's Degree
3 22 (8.40%) PhD
4 10 (3.82%) PMI Certification
5 9 (3.44%) PMP
6 6 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.91%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.91%) CCNA
7 5 (1.91%) MCSE
7 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.76%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.76%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.38%) CBAP
10 1 (0.38%) CEH
10 1 (0.38%) GIAC
10 1 (0.38%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.05%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.76%) NIST
3 2 (0.76%) PERC
3 2 (0.76%) PMO
4 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) GRC
4 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.38%) QA
4 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.53%) Control-M
2 1 (0.38%) CASB
2 1 (0.38%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 1 (0.38%) QRadar
2 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.78%) Oracle
3 22 (8.40%) PayPal
4 10 (3.82%) SAP
4 10 (3.82%) Workday
5 8 (3.05%) Charles River
5 8 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.29%) Dell
7 5 (1.91%) Cisco
7 5 (1.91%) IBM
7 5 (1.91%) Infor
8 4 (1.53%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.53%) Hyperion
8 4 (1.53%) Informatica
9 3 (1.15%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.15%) Teradata
10 1 (0.38%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.38%) F5
10 1 (0.38%) Splunk
10 1 (0.38%) Verint