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 19 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 11 76
Rank change year-on-year -29 +65 -38
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 122 271 319
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.72% 13.27% 5.04%
As % of the General category 7.85% 17.11% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 54 74 197
10th Percentile £25,375 £26,664 £27,610
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,445 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +12.10% -10.00%
75th Percentile £56,750 £67,125 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,766 £68,750
UK median annual salary £53,350 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +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 1,554 1,584 4,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.36% 77.57% 74.38%
Number of salaries quoted 655 678 1,532
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,375 £32,851 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £93,778 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -6 55 £40,800 -32.56% 34
Edinburgh -32 48 £40,000 -23.81% 20
Stirling -8 8 £54,500 +23.67% 2
West Lothian - 3 - - 4
Midlothian - 2 - - 9
Lanarkshire +10 1 - - 10
Falkirk -2 1 - - 2
Fife -4 1 - - 6
North Lanarkshire -9 1 - - 2
Aberdeen -29 1 - - 5
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 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (9.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (8.20%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.82%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.82%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.82%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (14.75%) Azure
2 12 (9.84%) Snowflake
3 8 (6.56%) dbt
3 8 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.74%) AWS
4 7 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.92%) GitHub
5 6 (4.92%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (4.92%) SaaS
6 5 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (4.10%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.10%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.10%) Serverless
7 4 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.28%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.46%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.20%) Broadband
2 7 (5.74%) SAN
3 6 (4.92%) Telnet
4 2 (1.64%) Firewall
5 1 (0.82%) LAN
5 1 (0.82%) Network Security
5 1 (0.82%) Wireless
5 1 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.02%) Tableau
2 9 (7.38%) Data Mining
3 8 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.74%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.10%) Power BI
7 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.82%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.82%) Metadata
9 1 (0.82%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) JIRA
2 5 (4.10%) ERwin
3 4 (3.28%) ER Studio
3 4 (3.28%) Git
4 1 (0.82%) GitLab
4 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 70 (57.38%) Social Skills
2 59 (48.36%) Finance
3 15 (12.30%) Legal
4 11 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.20%) Games
5 10 (8.20%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.92%) Front Office
7 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.46%) Law
8 3 (2.46%) Retail
9 2 (1.64%) Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (36.07%) Analyst
2 21 (17.21%) Business Analyst
3 20 (16.39%) Senior
4 9 (7.38%) Data Analyst
4 9 (7.38%) Trainee
4 9 (7.38%) Trainee Analyst
4 9 (7.38%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 8 (6.56%) IT Engineer
5 8 (6.56%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (6.56%) Senior Manager
6 7 (5.74%) Change Analyst
6 7 (5.74%) Field Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Field Service Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) IT Manager
7 6 (4.92%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (4.92%) Applications Support
7 6 (4.92%) Head of QA
7 6 (4.92%) Platform Specialist
8 5 (4.10%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 5 (4.10%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.92%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (3.28%) REST
2 4 (3.28%) SOAP
3 1 (0.82%) CSS
3 1 (0.82%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (15.57%) Management Information System
3 10 (8.20%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.56%) Cloud Native
5 7 (5.74%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (5.74%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.74%) Smartphone
6 6 (4.92%) AI Agents
6 6 (4.92%) Cyberattack
6 6 (4.92%) Equities
6 6 (4.92%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.28%) Social Media
8 3 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.64%) IoT
9 2 (1.64%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.64%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.66%) Windows
2 7 (5.74%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.92%) Linux
4 4 (3.28%) Unix
5 1 (0.82%) AIX
5 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (47.54%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (33.61%) Agile
2 41 (33.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 37 (30.33%) Coaching
4 34 (27.87%) Analytics
5 27 (22.13%) Asset Management
6 25 (20.49%) ITIL
7 24 (19.67%) Data Analysis
8 23 (18.85%) Project Management
9 20 (16.39%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (16.39%) Data Modelling
10 19 (15.57%) Business Analysis
10 19 (15.57%) Customer Service
10 19 (15.57%) Decision-Making
11 18 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (13.93%) AI
12 17 (13.93%) Change Management
12 17 (13.93%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (13.11%) Workshop Facilitation
14 15 (12.30%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 33 (27.05%) SQL
2 20 (16.39%) Python
3 12 (9.84%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.82%) Bash
5 1 (0.82%) C
5 1 (0.82%) C#
5 1 (0.82%) C++
5 1 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (14.75%) Degree
2 8 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (6.56%) PMI Certification
2 8 (6.56%) PMP
3 7 (5.74%) A+ Certification
3 7 (5.74%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.74%) CCNA
3 7 (5.74%) MCSE
3 7 (5.74%) Network+ Certification
4 6 (4.92%) IRCA
5 4 (3.28%) CISM
5 4 (3.28%) CISSP
5 4 (3.28%) CRISC
6 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.64%) CSPO
6 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.64%) MBA
7 1 (0.82%) CCIE
7 1 (0.82%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.66%) GDPR
2 6 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.92%) ISO 9001
2 6 (4.92%) QA
3 5 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.10%) NIST
4 4 (3.28%) COBIT
5 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (7.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.82%) Docker
3 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.82%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (3.28%) Control-M
2 1 (0.82%) CASB
2 1 (0.82%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.56%) Dell
3 6 (4.92%) Charles River
3 6 (4.92%) Oracle
3 6 (4.92%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.10%) IBM
5 4 (3.28%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.28%) Informatica
6 2 (1.64%) VMware
7 1 (0.82%) Adobe
7 1 (0.82%) Apple
7 1 (0.82%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.82%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.82%) F5
7 1 (0.82%) Genesys
7 1 (0.82%) HP
7 1 (0.82%) Infor
7 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.82%) Sage
7 1 (0.82%) Verint