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 16 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 29
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 368 336 192
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 13.31% 10.16% 8.04%
As % of the General category 20.44% 17.00% 11.03%
Number of salaries quoted 93 126 152
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,087 £37,525
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,750 £43,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.09% -4.35% +22.35%
75th Percentile £48,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,400 £95,000 £86,625
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

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 common skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,800 1,977 1,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 65.10% 59.80% 72.83%
Number of salaries quoted 776 877 1,437
10th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £39,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £74,017 £85,101 £83,750
UK median annual salary £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.17% - -

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 -7 116 £40,000 -38.46% 49
Glasgow -6 99 £45,000 -16.03% 51
North Lanarkshire - 28 £31,750 - 5
Renfrewshire +2 21 £31,750 -20.63% 3
Stirling +9 15 £31,750 -22.09% 3
South Lanarkshire +1 12 - - 4
Lanarkshire +9 11 £27,500 - 14
Dundee +5 10 £33,500 -21.18% 2
Perth and Kinross - 7 £33,500 - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 7 £60,000 -
East Ayrshire - 7 £42,500 - 2
Aberdeen -4 6 £26,150 -52.45% 17
Ayrshire - 6 - -
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
Midlothian - 6 - - 32
Falkirk +1 3 - - 2
Inverclyde - 3 £31,750 - 1
Fife +3 2 £50,000 +17.65% 2
Highlands -11 2 £52,500 +72.13% 2
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 14 (3.80%) Confluence
2 8 (2.17%) Camunda
2 8 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 38 (10.33%) Chatbot
2 30 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.09%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (0.82%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.82%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.72%) Oracle Payables
1 10 (2.72%) Oracle Receivables
1 10 (2.72%) Workday HCM
2 8 (2.17%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.17%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (2.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.09%) Hyperion Planning
3 4 (1.09%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.09%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (12.77%) Azure
2 35 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (8.42%) Snowflake
4 26 (7.07%) Power Platform
5 24 (6.52%) AWS
6 20 (5.43%) GitHub
6 20 (5.43%) GitHub Copilot
7 15 (4.08%) dbt
8 10 (2.72%) SuccessFactors
9 8 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (1.90%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.36%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.36%) Serverless
12 4 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.09%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (1.09%) OCI
13 2 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.62%) LAN
1 17 (4.62%) VoIP
1 17 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.09%) SAN
3 2 (0.54%) Telnet
4 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.27%) Intranet
4 1 (0.27%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.27%) Modbus
4 1 (0.27%) MQTT
4 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.79%) Power BI
2 24 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (6.52%) Tableau
3 12 (3.26%) Snowflake Schema
4 9 (2.45%) Data Mining
5 5 (1.36%) Apache Hive
5 5 (1.36%) Big Data
5 5 (1.36%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.36%) HBase
6 4 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.09%) Essbase
6 4 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.09%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.54%) Metadata
8 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (8.97%) JIRA
2 18 (4.89%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (3.53%) Maven
4 10 (2.72%) Git
5 8 (2.17%) ER Studio
5 8 (2.17%) ERwin
5 8 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.17%) JUnit
6 5 (1.36%) Gradle
7 4 (1.09%) Subversion
General
1 217 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 135 (36.68%) Finance
3 36 (9.78%) Marketing
4 29 (7.88%) Law
5 26 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (6.52%) Banking
7 19 (5.16%) Legal
8 12 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.72%) Retail
10 9 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.17%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.90%) Advertising
13 5 (1.36%) Front Office
13 5 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.36%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.82%) Billing
15 2 (0.54%) Electronics
15 2 (0.54%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (26.09%) Innovation Manager
2 61 (16.58%) Analyst
3 38 (10.33%) Trainer
4 32 (8.70%) Senior
5 30 (8.15%) Trainee
6 23 (6.25%) IT Support
7 22 (5.98%) Software Engineer
8 21 (5.71%) Graduate
9 17 (4.62%) IT Assistant
9 17 (4.62%) IT Support Assistant
9 17 (4.62%) Java Engineer
9 17 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
9 17 (4.62%) Support Assistant
10 13 (3.53%) Data Analyst
10 13 (3.53%) Developer
11 11 (2.99%) Business Analyst
12 10 (2.72%) Senior Manager
13 9 (2.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 9 (2.45%) Java Developer
13 9 (2.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.71%) Spring
2 13 (3.53%) REST
3 12 (3.26%) Spring Boot
4 8 (2.17%) JDBC
4 8 (2.17%) OpenAPI
4 8 (2.17%) Swagger
4 8 (2.17%) WSDL
5 5 (1.36%) JPA
5 5 (1.36%) React
6 4 (1.09%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.09%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.09%) HTML
6 4 (1.09%) jQuery
6 4 (1.09%) Kafka
7 2 (0.54%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.27%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.34%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.45%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.90%) Equities
9 6 (1.63%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.63%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.36%) Digital Media
10 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.09%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.09%) Smartphone
12 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
13 2 (0.54%) Life Science
13 2 (0.54%) PMI
13 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.54%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.27%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.36%) Unix
2 3 (0.82%) Windows
3 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (50.82%) AI
2 166 (45.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 139 (37.77%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (37.50%) Analytics
5 126 (34.24%) Decision-Making
5 126 (34.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 107 (29.08%) Customer Experience
7 98 (26.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 97 (26.36%) Agile
9 70 (19.02%) Asset Management
10 61 (16.58%) Coaching
11 48 (13.04%) Critical Thinking
11 48 (13.04%) Emotional Intelligence
12 40 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
12 40 (10.87%) CI/CD
13 38 (10.33%) Chemistry
13 38 (10.33%) Conversational UI
14 37 (10.05%) DevOps
15 33 (8.97%) Test Automation
16 32 (8.70%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (16.85%) SQL
2 39 (10.60%) Python
3 22 (5.98%) Java
4 5 (1.36%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.36%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.09%) Groovy
6 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.54%) R
8 1 (0.27%) Bash
8 1 (0.27%) C
8 1 (0.27%) C++
8 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.27%) Scala
8 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 104 (28.26%) Degree
2 63 (17.12%) Master's Degree
3 41 (11.14%) PhD
4 6 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.09%) A+ Certification
6 4 (1.09%) CCNA
6 4 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.09%) MCSE
6 4 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.54%) ACCA
8 2 (0.54%) CBAP
8 2 (0.54%) CEH
8 2 (0.54%) CIMA
8 2 (0.54%) CISM
8 2 (0.54%) CISSP
8 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.72%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.63%) PMO
3 3 (0.82%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.54%) NIST
4 2 (0.54%) PERC
4 2 (0.54%) QA
4 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.27%) GRC
5 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.27%) JTAG
5 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.27%) SEPA
5 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (1.36%) HDFS
2 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.27%) Firmware
2 1 (0.27%) RACF
Systems Management
1 12 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (0.27%) QRadar
3 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 38 (10.33%) PayPal
2 37 (10.05%) Oracle
3 26 (7.07%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.08%) SAP
5 10 (2.72%) Workday
6 9 (2.45%) Splunk
7 8 (2.17%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.63%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.63%) Databricks
9 5 (1.36%) Cisco
9 5 (1.36%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.36%) Infor
10 4 (1.09%) Dell
10 4 (1.09%) Hyperion
10 4 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.82%) Teradata
12 2 (0.54%) Charles River
13 1 (0.27%) Google
13 1 (0.27%) NVIDIA
13 1 (0.27%) Verint