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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 11 57
Rank change year-on-year -38 +46 -28
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 105 353 318
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.15% 14.13% 5.37%
As % of the General category 6.57% 19.10% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 66 84 206
10th Percentile £26,375 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £31,750 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,668 £44,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -1.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £56,750 £60,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £72,486 £73,750 £68,750
UK median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% +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 1,597 1,848 4,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.89% 73.95% 68.46%
Number of salaries quoted 730 732 1,512
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £38,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,307 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,738 £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 17 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 17 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 +3 53 £42,400 -26.26% 23
Edinburgh -36 24 £40,000 -20.71% 11
Stirling -8 7 £54,500 +71.65% 1
West Lothian - 6 £47,500 - 1
Midlothian +8 4 - - 1
Fife -5 2 £36,000 -36.00% 5
North Lanarkshire -12 2 - - 1
Moray - 2 £62,500 -
Lanarkshire +5 1 - - 15
Falkirk -1 1 - -
Aberdeen -20 1 £50,000 +11.11% 2
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 8 (7.62%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.67%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.95%) Adobe XD
4 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 16 (15.24%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (9.52%) Azure
3 8 (7.62%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.81%) AWS
5 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.86%) GCP
5 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.90%) Collibra
6 2 (1.90%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.90%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.95%) IaaS
7 1 (0.95%) PaaS
7 1 (0.95%) SaaS
7 1 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.29%) Broadband
2 7 (6.67%) VoIP
3 6 (5.71%) SAN
4 1 (0.95%) Firewall
4 1 (0.95%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.95%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) Tableau
2 6 (5.71%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.86%) Power BI
4 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.95%) Big Data
5 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.86%) ERwin
1 3 (2.86%) Git
1 3 (2.86%) JIRA
2 2 (1.90%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.90%) JMeter
3 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.95%) GitLab
3 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.95%) Selenium
3 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.95%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (0.95%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.95%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 32 (30.48%) Finance
3 14 (13.33%) Games
4 11 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.57%) Legal
6 8 (7.62%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.71%) Retail
8 4 (3.81%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.86%) Marketing
10 2 (1.90%) Banking
10 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.95%) Electronics
11 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.95%) Law
11 1 (0.95%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (36.19%) Analyst
2 17 (16.19%) Senior
3 14 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 14 (13.33%) IT Engineer
4 9 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (7.62%) IT Support
5 8 (7.62%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) 1st Line Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) 1st Line Support
6 7 (6.67%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Data Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Field Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Field Service Engineer
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%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.90%) RESTful
2 1 (0.95%) CSS
2 1 (0.95%) HTML
2 1 (0.95%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.19%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 11 (10.48%) AI Agents
3 11 (10.48%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (10.48%) Cyberattack
4 8 (7.62%) Driving Licence
4 8 (7.62%) Social Media
5 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 6 (5.71%) Data Centre
6 6 (5.71%) 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 9 (8.57%) Windows
2 7 (6.67%) Mac OS
2 7 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.90%) Linux
4 1 (0.95%) AIX
4 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.95%) Solaris
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (44.76%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (30.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (29.52%) Analytics
4 25 (23.81%) Customer Service
4 25 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 25 (23.81%) Decision-Making
5 21 (20.00%) Agile
6 20 (19.05%) Collaborative Working
7 19 (18.10%) AI
7 19 (18.10%) Data Analysis
8 16 (15.24%) ITIL
9 15 (14.29%) Business Analysis
9 15 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (14.29%) Information Security
10 13 (12.38%) LLM
11 12 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (11.43%) User Experience
12 11 (10.48%) Data Privacy
12 11 (10.48%) Line Management
12 11 (10.48%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.48%) Python
1 11 (10.48%) SQL
2 2 (1.90%) C
2 2 (1.90%) C++
2 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.95%) Bash
3 1 (0.95%) C#
3 1 (0.95%) Java
3 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.95%) R
3 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (12.38%) Degree
2 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.71%) A+ Certification
4 6 (5.71%) CCNA
4 6 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (5.71%) IRCA
4 6 (5.71%) MCSE
4 6 (5.71%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (3.81%) CISM
5 4 (3.81%) CISSP
5 4 (3.81%) CRISC
6 3 (2.86%) CSPO
6 3 (2.86%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.90%) ISEB
7 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.90%) MBA
8 1 (0.95%) ACCA
8 1 (0.95%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.00%) GDPR
2 8 (7.62%) QA
3 6 (5.71%) ISO 9001
4 5 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.81%) COBIT
5 4 (3.81%) NIST
6 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.95%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.95%) NCSC
7 1 (0.95%) UCITS
System Software
1 12 (11.43%) 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%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (0.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.71%) Dell
3 3 (2.86%) Google
4 2 (1.90%) Informatica
4 2 (1.90%) Oracle
4 2 (1.90%) VMware
5 1 (0.95%) Adobe
5 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.95%) FIS
5 1 (0.95%) IFS
5 1 (0.95%) Infor
5 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.95%) SAP
5 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.95%) Siemens
5 1 (0.95%) Xilinx