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 8 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 16 66
Rank change year-on-year -33 +50 -36
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 105 313 301
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.15% 12.89% 4.93%
As % of the General category 6.51% 17.35% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 63 78 207
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £28,023
25th Percentile £32,875 £31,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,800 £44,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -1.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £56,750 £60,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £72,494 £73,750 £68,750
UK median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% -8.90%

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 1,614 1,804 4,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.47% 74.30% 68.61%
Number of salaries quoted 727 718 1,571
10th Percentile £26,950 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +5 52 £40,000 -36.51% 29
Edinburgh -35 26 £40,000 -20.71% 22
Stirling -12 7 £54,500 +71.65% 5
West Lothian - 6 £47,500 - 1
Midlothian +5 3 - - 7
Fife -5 2 £36,000 -36.00% 5
North Lanarkshire -12 2 - - 3
Moray - 2 £62,500 -
Lanarkshire +7 1 - - 16
Falkirk -1 1 - -
Aberdeen -21 1 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
East Lothian - 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 7 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.62%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.95%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.95%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (0.95%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.95%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (9.52%) Azure
3 7 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.76%) AWS
5 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.86%) GCP
5 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.86%) SaaS
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.90%) Collibra
6 2 (1.90%) IaaS
6 2 (1.90%) PaaS
6 2 (1.90%) Serverless
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.29%) Broadband
2 7 (6.67%) SAN
3 6 (5.71%) VoIP
4 2 (1.90%) Firewall
5 1 (0.95%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.95%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) Tableau
2 6 (5.71%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.86%) Power BI
5 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.95%) Big Data
6 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.95%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) ERwin
1 4 (3.81%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) JIRA
3 2 (1.90%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.90%) JMeter
4 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.95%) GitLab
4 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.95%) Selenium
4 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.95%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (0.95%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.95%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (60.95%) Social Skills
2 32 (30.48%) Finance
3 14 (13.33%) Games
4 12 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 11 (10.48%) Legal
6 8 (7.62%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.81%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Retail
9 2 (1.90%) Banking
10 1 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.95%) Electronics
10 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.95%) Law
10 1 (0.95%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.95%) Marketing
10 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (37.14%) Analyst
2 17 (16.19%) Senior
3 15 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 14 (13.33%) IT Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (6.67%) Field Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Field Service Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) IT Support
6 7 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) 1st Line Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) 1st Line Support
7 6 (5.71%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Data Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Governance Manager
7 6 (5.71%) Head of QA
7 6 (5.71%) Trainee
7 6 (5.71%) Trainee Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 5 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.90%) RESTful
2 1 (0.95%) CSS
2 1 (0.95%) HTML
2 1 (0.95%) Playwright
2 1 (0.95%) REST
2 1 (0.95%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (16.19%) Management Information System
3 12 (11.43%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (10.48%) AI Agents
4 11 (10.48%) Cyberattack
5 8 (7.62%) Social Media
6 7 (6.67%) Data Centre
6 7 (6.67%) Driving Licence
6 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 7 (6.67%) Smartphone
7 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.90%) IoT
8 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.90%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.62%) Windows
2 6 (5.71%) Mac OS
2 6 (5.71%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.86%) Linux
4 1 (0.95%) AIX
4 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.95%) Solaris
4 1 (0.95%) Unix
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (30.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (27.62%) Analytics
4 26 (24.76%) Customer Service
4 26 (24.76%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (22.86%) Decision-Making
6 22 (20.95%) Agile
7 19 (18.10%) Data Analysis
8 18 (17.14%) AI
9 17 (16.19%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (15.24%) ITIL
11 15 (14.29%) Business Analysis
11 15 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (14.29%) Information Security
12 13 (12.38%) LLM
13 12 (11.43%) Data Loss Prevention
13 12 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (11.43%) Project Management
13 12 (11.43%) Threat Modelling
14 11 (10.48%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.38%) SQL
2 11 (10.48%) Python
3 2 (1.90%) C
3 2 (1.90%) C++
3 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.95%) Bash
4 1 (0.95%) C#
4 1 (0.95%) Java
4 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.95%) R
4 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Degree
2 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.67%) A+ Certification
4 7 (6.67%) CCNA
4 7 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.67%) MCSE
4 7 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (5.71%) IRCA
6 4 (3.81%) CISM
6 4 (3.81%) CISSP
6 4 (3.81%) CRISC
7 3 (2.86%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.90%) CSPO
8 2 (1.90%) ISEB
8 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.90%) MBA
8 2 (1.90%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.95%) GDPR
2 8 (7.62%) QA
3 6 (5.71%) ISO 9001
3 6 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.76%) NIST
5 4 (3.81%) COBIT
6 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.95%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.95%) NCSC
6 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (10.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.95%) Firmware
3 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.95%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) Grafana
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.95%) CASB
2 1 (0.95%) Control-M
2 1 (0.95%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.67%) Dell
3 4 (3.81%) Oracle
4 3 (2.86%) Informatica
5 2 (1.90%) VMware
6 1 (0.95%) Adobe
6 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.95%) FIS
6 1 (0.95%) Google
6 1 (0.95%) IBM
6 1 (0.95%) IFS
6 1 (0.95%) Infor
6 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.95%) SAP
6 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.95%) Siemens
6 1 (0.95%) Xilinx