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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 52
Rank change year-on-year -9 +41 -13
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 255 307 257
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 8.55% 12.87% 6.22%
As % of the General category 15.75% 18.31% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 69 97 163
10th Percentile £32,450 £36,500 £32,800
25th Percentile £32,750 £45,000 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +30.03% +8.30%
75th Percentile £56,750 £82,958 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £100,000 £78,000
UK median annual salary £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +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 1,619 1,677 2,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 54.27% 70.28% 72.49%
Number of salaries quoted 652 692 1,513
10th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,813 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,141 £95,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -10.51%

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 17 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 17 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 -16 116 £40,000 -39.73% 25
Glasgow 0 58 £47,500 +5.56% 22
North Lanarkshire - 15 - - 2
Dundee +1 10 £33,500 -33.00% 1
Renfrewshire 0 9 - - 3
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 -
Stirling - 7 £54,500 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 6 - - 1
Lanarkshire +7 4 - - 19
East Ayrshire - 4 £42,500 - 1
Aberdeen -14 3 £26,150 -58.16% 6
Ayrshire - 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 3 - -
North Ayrshire - 3 - -
Fife -3 2 - - 8
West Lothian +1 1 - - 7
Highlands -10 1 £52,500 - 2
Midlothian - 1 - - 14
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 11 (4.31%) Confluence
2 4 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (7.45%) Chatbot
3 9 (3.53%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.53%) Workday HCM
2 6 (2.35%) Oracle Assets
2 6 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (2.35%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (2.35%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (2.35%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (2.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.57%) Markit EDM
4 3 (1.18%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.39%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 54 (21.18%) Azure
2 39 (15.29%) Snowflake
3 35 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (9.80%) GitHub
4 25 (9.80%) GitHub Copilot
4 25 (9.80%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.63%) dbt
6 14 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (3.53%) Power Automate
7 9 (3.53%) SuccessFactors
8 6 (2.35%) AWS
8 6 (2.35%) SaaS
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.57%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.57%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.06%) LAN
2 17 (6.67%) VoIP
2 17 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (3.14%) Telnet
4 5 (1.96%) SAN
5 4 (1.57%) Broadband
6 2 (0.78%) Firewall
7 1 (0.39%) Intranet
7 1 (0.39%) Network Security
7 1 (0.39%) Wireless
7 1 (0.39%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (10.20%) Tableau
3 25 (9.80%) Power BI
4 15 (5.88%) Data Mining
5 13 (5.10%) Snowflake Schema
6 8 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.18%) Essbase
9 3 (1.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.39%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.39%) Metadata
11 1 (0.39%) Power Query
11 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (14.51%) JIRA
2 15 (5.88%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (4.71%) ERwin
4 11 (4.31%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.57%) Git
6 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 138 (54.12%) Social Skills
2 121 (47.45%) Finance
3 19 (7.45%) Legal
4 14 (5.49%) Marketing
5 10 (3.92%) Retail
6 9 (3.53%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.14%) Front Office
7 8 (3.14%) Law
8 7 (2.75%) Banking
8 7 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Advertising
10 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Games
10 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.18%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.78%) Billing
13 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (27.06%) Analyst
2 48 (18.82%) Innovation Manager
3 30 (11.76%) Senior
4 20 (7.84%) Business Analyst
5 19 (7.45%) Trainer
6 18 (7.06%) IT Support
7 17 (6.67%) Data Analyst
7 17 (6.67%) IT Assistant
7 17 (6.67%) IT Support Assistant
7 17 (6.67%) Support Assistant
8 15 (5.88%) Trainee
8 15 (5.88%) Trainee Analyst
8 15 (5.88%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 11 (4.31%) Applications Engineer
9 11 (4.31%) Data Modeller
9 11 (4.31%) Lead
10 10 (3.92%) Applications Support
10 10 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.14%) Platform Specialist
12 7 (2.75%) Change Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.14%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.57%) REST
2 4 (1.57%) SOAP
3 1 (0.39%) CSS
3 1 (0.39%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.98%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (10.59%) Analytical Mindset
3 26 (10.20%) Product Ownership
4 23 (9.02%) Cloud Native
5 14 (5.49%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.53%) Equities
6 9 (3.53%) Fixed Income
7 8 (3.14%) Low-Code
8 6 (2.35%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.96%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.96%) Smartphone
10 4 (1.57%) Social Media
11 2 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.78%) Digital Media
11 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.78%) Life Science
11 2 (0.78%) PMI
11 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.49%) Windows
2 8 (3.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.96%) Linux
4 4 (1.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (48.63%) Continuous Improvement
2 109 (42.75%) AI
3 98 (38.43%) Analytics
4 85 (33.33%) Agile
5 84 (32.94%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (32.16%) Asset Management
7 78 (30.59%) Coaching
8 70 (27.45%) Decision-Making
9 65 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 57 (22.35%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 51 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
12 50 (19.61%) Customer Experience
13 48 (18.82%) Emotional Intelligence
14 43 (16.86%) Data Modelling
15 39 (15.29%) DevOps
16 36 (14.12%) Project Management
17 33 (12.94%) CI/CD
18 30 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
18 30 (11.76%) Data Analysis
19 29 (11.37%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 70 (27.45%) SQL
2 42 (16.47%) Python
3 13 (5.10%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.18%) Groovy
6 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (22.75%) Degree
2 22 (8.63%) Master's Degree
3 19 (7.45%) PhD
4 10 (3.92%) PMI Certification
5 9 (3.53%) PMP
6 6 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.96%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.96%) CCNA
7 5 (1.96%) MCSE
7 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.78%) MBA
8 2 (0.78%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.78%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) CBAP
9 1 (0.39%) CEH
9 1 (0.39%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.75%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.78%) NIST
3 2 (0.78%) PERC
3 2 (0.78%) PMO
4 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.39%) GDPR
4 1 (0.39%) GRC
4 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.39%) QA
4 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.57%) Control-M
2 1 (0.39%) CASB
2 1 (0.39%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 1 (0.39%) QRadar
2 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.84%) Oracle
3 19 (7.45%) PayPal
4 9 (3.53%) SAP
4 9 (3.53%) Workday
5 8 (3.14%) Charles River
5 8 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.35%) Dell
7 5 (1.96%) Cisco
7 5 (1.96%) IBM
7 5 (1.96%) Infor
8 4 (1.57%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.57%) Informatica
9 3 (1.18%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.18%) Hyperion
9 3 (1.18%) Teradata
10 1 (0.39%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.39%) F5
10 1 (0.39%) Splunk
10 1 (0.39%) Verint