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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 7 56
Rank change year-on-year -13 +49 -20
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 234 334 262
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 7.77% 14.57% 5.98%
As % of the General category 14.35% 20.25% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 72 98 161
10th Percentile - £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,650 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.02% +5.24%
75th Percentile £56,750 £82,219 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,250 £100,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +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 1,631 1,649 3,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 54.19% 71.95% 74.46%
Number of salaries quoted 663 691 1,477
10th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +7.84% -14.32%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £97,500 £82,519
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -9.84%

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 27 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 27 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 -16 109 £40,000 -38.46% 16
Glasgow -3 59 £45,000 - 15
North Lanarkshire -5 11 - - 1
Dundee 0 10 £33,500 -33.00%
Stirling -6 7 £54,500 +19.43% 1
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 -
Renfrewshire -3 6 - -
South Lanarkshire -3 4 - - 1
Lanarkshire +3 3 - - 13
East Ayrshire -2 3 £42,500 - 1
Ayrshire 0 2 - -
North Ayrshire -3 2 - -
Fife -4 2 - - 4
West Dunbartonshire -8 2 - -
Aberdeen -17 2 - - 2
West Lothian -3 1 - - 3
Highlands -10 1 £52,500 - 2
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 8 (3.42%) Confluence
2 4 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (11.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (8.12%) Chatbot
3 10 (4.27%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.71%) Markit EDM
2 4 (1.71%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (1.71%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.71%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (1.71%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (1.71%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.85%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.43%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 50 (21.37%) Azure
2 35 (14.96%) Snowflake
3 31 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (10.26%) GitHub
4 24 (10.26%) GitHub Copilot
5 23 (9.83%) Power Platform
6 21 (8.97%) dbt
7 14 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (3.85%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.42%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (2.99%) AWS
11 6 (2.56%) SaaS
12 5 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.14%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (2.14%) Serverless
13 4 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.71%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (1.71%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.69%) LAN
2 17 (7.26%) VoIP
2 17 (7.26%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (3.42%) Telnet
4 5 (2.14%) SAN
5 4 (1.71%) Broadband
6 2 (0.85%) Firewall
7 1 (0.43%) Network Security
7 1 (0.43%) Wireless
7 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.11%) Tableau
2 25 (10.68%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (9.83%) Power BI
4 17 (7.26%) Data Mining
5 12 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
6 8 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.85%) Essbase
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.43%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.43%) Metadata
11 1 (0.43%) Power Query
11 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (14.10%) JIRA
2 12 (5.13%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (4.70%) ERwin
4 10 (4.27%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.71%) Git
6 1 (0.43%) GitLab
6 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 123 (52.56%) Social Skills
2 118 (50.43%) Finance
3 18 (7.69%) Legal
4 10 (4.27%) Marketing
4 10 (4.27%) Retail
5 9 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.42%) Front Office
7 7 (2.99%) Banking
7 7 (2.99%) Law
8 6 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.71%) Games
11 3 (1.28%) Advertising
11 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.28%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Billing
13 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (27.78%) Analyst
2 32 (13.68%) Innovation Manager
3 28 (11.97%) Senior
4 19 (8.12%) Business Analyst
4 19 (8.12%) Data Analyst
4 19 (8.12%) Trainer
5 18 (7.69%) IT Support
6 17 (7.26%) IT Assistant
6 17 (7.26%) IT Support Assistant
6 17 (7.26%) Support Assistant
6 17 (7.26%) Trainee
6 17 (7.26%) Trainee Analyst
6 17 (7.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 11 (4.70%) Applications Engineer
7 11 (4.70%) Lead
8 10 (4.27%) Data Modeller
9 9 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.42%) Applications Support
10 8 (3.42%) Platform Specialist
11 7 (2.99%) Change Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.42%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.71%) REST
2 4 (1.71%) SOAP
3 1 (0.43%) CSS
3 1 (0.43%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.97%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (10.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 22 (9.40%) Cloud Native
3 22 (9.40%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.85%) Equities
5 9 (3.85%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.42%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.14%) Smartphone
8 4 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.71%) Social Media
9 2 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.85%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.85%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.85%) IoT
9 2 (0.85%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.41%) Windows
2 9 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.14%) Linux
4 4 (1.71%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (44.02%) Continuous Improvement
2 88 (37.61%) AI
3 84 (35.90%) Analytics
4 82 (35.04%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (32.48%) Agile
6 74 (31.62%) Asset Management
7 71 (30.34%) Coaching
8 54 (23.08%) Decision-Making
9 45 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (17.52%) Data Modelling
10 41 (17.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 37 (15.81%) Project Management
12 36 (15.38%) Customer Experience
12 36 (15.38%) DevOps
13 35 (14.96%) Critical Thinking
14 33 (14.10%) CI/CD
15 32 (13.68%) Data Analysis
15 32 (13.68%) Emotional Intelligence
16 27 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
17 26 (11.11%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 67 (28.63%) SQL
2 42 (17.95%) Python
3 14 (5.98%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.71%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.85%) Groovy
6 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (25.21%) Degree
2 22 (9.40%) Master's Degree
3 19 (8.12%) PhD
4 10 (4.27%) PMI Certification
5 9 (3.85%) PMP
6 6 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.14%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.14%) CCNA
7 5 (2.14%) MCSE
7 5 (2.14%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.85%) IRCA
8 2 (0.85%) MBA
8 2 (0.85%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.85%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) CBAP
9 1 (0.43%) CEH
9 1 (0.43%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.28%) GDPR
3 3 (1.28%) QA
4 2 (0.85%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.85%) NIST
4 2 (0.85%) PMO
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) GRC
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) PERC
5 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.71%) Control-M
2 1 (0.43%) CASB
2 1 (0.43%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.43%) QRadar
2 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.12%) PayPal
3 17 (7.26%) Oracle
4 8 (3.42%) Charles River
4 8 (3.42%) SAP
4 8 (3.42%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.42%) Workday
5 6 (2.56%) Dell
6 5 (2.14%) IBM
7 4 (1.71%) Ab Initio
7 4 (1.71%) Informatica
8 3 (1.28%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.28%) Cisco
8 3 (1.28%) Infor
8 3 (1.28%) Teradata
9 2 (0.85%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.43%) Apple
10 1 (0.43%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.43%) Genesys
10 1 (0.43%) Sage