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 25 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 69
Rank change year-on-year -17 +61 -31
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 189 306 297
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.09% 15.42% 5.32%
As % of the General category 12.19% 20.29% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 72 91 180
10th Percentile £27,875 £35,000 £28,925
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,890 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +13.09% -5.26%
75th Percentile £56,750 £79,648 £61,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £100,000 £75,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 1,551 1,508 4,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 49.98% 75.97% 74.58%
Number of salaries quoted 633 708 1,529
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,175 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,375 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -21 83 £40,000 -30.43% 30
Glasgow -5 56 £43,750 -19.05% 27
Dundee -2 10 £33,500 -33.00%
Stirling -8 8 £54,500 +19.43% 1
North Lanarkshire -12 7 - - 1
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 -
Renfrewshire -8 3 - - 3
Lanarkshire +1 2 - - 17
Fife -1 2 - - 6
East Ayrshire -4 2 £42,500 - 1
South Lanarkshire -10 2 - - 1
Ayrshire -2 1 - -
North Ayrshire -5 1 - -
West Lothian -7 1 - - 5
West Dunbartonshire -9 1 - -
Aberdeen -22 1 - - 5
Midlothian - 1 - - 18
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 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.82%) MS Visio
3 9 (4.76%) Chatbot
4 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Markit EDM
2 3 (1.59%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.53%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 34 (17.99%) Azure
2 21 (11.11%) Snowflake
3 19 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (10.05%) GitHub
3 19 (10.05%) GitHub Copilot
4 16 (8.47%) dbt
5 15 (7.94%) Power Platform
6 14 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (4.23%) AWS
7 8 (4.23%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.17%) SaaS
9 5 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.65%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.65%) Serverless
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.12%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (2.12%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.52%) LAN
2 17 (8.99%) VoIP
2 17 (8.99%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (4.23%) Telnet
4 7 (3.70%) SAN
5 4 (2.12%) Broadband
6 2 (1.06%) Firewall
7 1 (0.53%) Network Security
7 1 (0.53%) Wireless
7 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
1 16 (8.47%) Tableau
2 15 (7.94%) Power BI
3 14 (7.41%) Data Mining
4 8 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.53%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.53%) Metadata
10 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (11.11%) JIRA
2 6 (3.17%) ERwin
3 5 (2.65%) ER Studio
4 4 (2.12%) Git
5 3 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 114 (60.32%) Social Skills
2 95 (50.26%) Finance
3 19 (10.05%) Legal
4 11 (5.82%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.29%) Retail
6 9 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.23%) Banking
7 8 (4.23%) Front Office
8 6 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.65%) Law
10 4 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.12%) Games
10 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.12%) Marketing
11 3 (1.59%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.06%) Advertising
12 2 (1.06%) Billing
13 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (25.40%) Analyst
2 22 (11.64%) Senior
3 19 (10.05%) Business Analyst
4 18 (9.52%) IT Support
5 17 (8.99%) IT Assistant
5 17 (8.99%) IT Support Assistant
5 17 (8.99%) Support Assistant
6 16 (8.47%) Data Analyst
6 16 (8.47%) Innovation Manager
7 14 (7.41%) Trainee
7 14 (7.41%) Trainee Analyst
7 14 (7.41%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 11 (5.82%) Applications Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Lead
10 9 (4.76%) Trainer
11 8 (4.23%) Platform Specialist
11 8 (4.23%) Senior Manager
12 7 (3.70%) Field Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) Field Service Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (2.12%) REST
2 4 (2.12%) SOAP
3 1 (0.53%) CSS
3 1 (0.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.81%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 17 (8.99%) Cloud Native
4 15 (7.94%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.88%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.76%) Equities
6 9 (4.76%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.70%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.70%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.70%) Smartphone
8 4 (2.12%) Social Media
9 3 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.06%) Digital Media
10 2 (1.06%) IoT
10 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.06%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.94%) Windows
2 9 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.65%) Linux
4 4 (2.12%) Unix
5 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (43.92%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (39.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 62 (32.80%) Analytics
4 53 (28.04%) Agile
4 53 (28.04%) Coaching
5 51 (26.98%) AI
6 49 (25.93%) Asset Management
7 39 (20.63%) Decision-Making
8 32 (16.93%) Data Analysis
9 31 (16.40%) Data Modelling
10 30 (15.87%) Project Management
11 28 (14.81%) CI/CD
12 25 (13.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 24 (12.70%) Business Analysis
13 24 (12.70%) Customer Experience
13 24 (12.70%) DevOps
14 23 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (10.05%) Critical Thinking
15 19 (10.05%) Test Automation
16 18 (9.52%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 48 (25.40%) SQL
2 30 (15.87%) Python
3 14 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.12%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 45 (23.81%) Degree
2 11 (5.82%) Master's Degree
3 9 (4.76%) PhD
3 9 (4.76%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (4.23%) PMP
5 7 (3.70%) A+ Certification
5 7 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.70%) CCNA
5 7 (3.70%) MCSE
5 7 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (3.17%) IRCA
7 4 (2.12%) CISM
7 4 (2.12%) CISSP
8 3 (1.59%) CRISC
9 2 (1.06%) CIMA
9 2 (1.06%) MBA
9 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 7 (3.70%) GDPR
2 6 (3.17%) ISO 9001
2 6 (3.17%) QA
3 5 (2.65%) NIST
4 4 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.59%) COBIT
6 2 (1.06%) PMO
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.12%) Control-M
2 1 (0.53%) CASB
2 1 (0.53%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.53%) QRadar
2 1 (0.53%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.76%) PayPal
3 8 (4.23%) Charles River
3 8 (4.23%) Dell
3 8 (4.23%) Oracle
4 6 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.65%) IBM
6 4 (2.12%) Ab Initio
6 4 (2.12%) Informatica
7 3 (1.59%) SAP
7 3 (1.59%) Workday
8 1 (0.53%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.53%) Databricks
8 1 (0.53%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.53%) FIS
8 1 (0.53%) IFS
8 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.53%) Splunk
8 1 (0.53%) Verint
8 1 (0.53%) Xero