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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -22 +3 +17
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 148 348 308
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.53% 13.41% 8.87%
As % of the General category 7.63% 19.06% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 65 81 129
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £34,131 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.50% -31.74% -11.87%
75th Percentile £63,750 £54,500 £66,887
90th Percentile £72,472 £72,500 £92,200
UK median annual salary £51,300 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.60% -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 1,940 1,826 2,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 46.21% 70.37% 58.08%
Number of salaries quoted 888 722 925
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £33,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -34.40% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £54,855 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 48 £45,918 +14.79% 114
Glasgow -13 45 £55,000 +12.24% 151
Stirling -7 9 £70,000 +120.47% 5
West Lothian - 8 £40,815 - 5
Fife -4 7 £36,000 -36.00% 7
Clackmannanshire - 5 - -
Midlothian +4 4 - - 10
South Lanarkshire -12 4 £60,000 - 1
Highlands 0 3 £31,250 -40.48% 12
Aberdeen -14 3 £47,500 +81.64% 31
Lanarkshire 0 2 - - 13
Moray - 2 £62,500 -
Falkirk 0 1 - -
Perth and Kinross -2 1 £45,000 +34.33% 2
Renfrewshire -11 1 - - 4
North Lanarkshire -12 1 - - 3
Perthshire - 1 £45,000 - 2
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 11 (7.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.35%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.68%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.68%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.68%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.57%) Azure
2 14 (9.46%) Power Platform
3 13 (8.78%) AWS
3 13 (8.78%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.76%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.41%) GCP
6 5 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.70%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.03%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.03%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.03%) Serverless
9 2 (1.35%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.35%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.78%) Broadband
2 9 (6.08%) VoIP
3 6 (4.05%) Internet
4 4 (2.70%) SAN
5 2 (1.35%) Firewall
6 1 (0.68%) ATM
6 1 (0.68%) BGP
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) DNS
6 1 (0.68%) Intranet
6 1 (0.68%) IPsec
6 1 (0.68%) Network Security
6 1 (0.68%) OSPF
6 1 (0.68%) SSL
6 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.68%) VPN
6 1 (0.68%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) WebEx
6 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.46%) Power BI
2 10 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.08%) Tableau
4 7 (4.73%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.70%) Metadata
6 3 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.35%) Parquet
7 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.68%) Big Data
8 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.68%) Looker
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (9.46%) Git
2 5 (3.38%) JIRA
3 3 (2.03%) ERwin
4 2 (1.35%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.35%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.35%) JMeter
5 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.68%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
5 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.68%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (49.32%) Social Skills
2 45 (30.41%) Finance
3 22 (14.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (12.16%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.11%) Aerospace
5 12 (8.11%) Manufacturing
6 11 (7.43%) Games
7 10 (6.76%) Electronics
7 10 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (6.76%) Marketing
8 9 (6.08%) Law
9 7 (4.73%) Legal
9 7 (4.73%) Military
10 5 (3.38%) Banking
10 5 (3.38%) Financial Institution
10 5 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.70%) Retail
12 2 (1.35%) Front Office
12 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (22.97%) Analyst
2 13 (8.78%) IT Engineer
2 13 (8.78%) Senior
3 12 (8.11%) Lead
4 10 (6.76%) IT Support
5 9 (6.08%) 1st Line Engineer
5 9 (6.08%) 1st Line Support
5 9 (6.08%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 9 (6.08%) Electronics Engineer
5 9 (6.08%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (6.08%) Support Engineer
6 8 (5.41%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.73%) Technical Specialist
8 6 (4.05%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.05%) Data Manager
8 6 (4.05%) Risk Manager
8 6 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (4.05%) Trainee
9 5 (3.38%) Accountant
9 5 (3.38%) Electronics Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.03%) PySpark
2 2 (1.35%) Apache Avro
2 2 (1.35%) JSON
2 2 (1.35%) RESTful
3 1 (0.68%) .NET
3 1 (0.68%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.68%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.68%) Playwright
3 1 (0.68%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (0.68%) XML
3 1 (0.68%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.11%) AI Agents
1 12 (8.11%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (7.43%) Cyberattack
3 10 (6.76%) Driving Licence
3 10 (6.76%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.76%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (6.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (5.41%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (5.41%) FPGA
6 7 (4.73%) Analogue Electronics
7 6 (4.05%) Social Media
8 5 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (3.38%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (2.70%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.70%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.70%) Smartphone
10 2 (1.35%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.35%) Life Science
10 2 (1.35%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.43%) Windows
2 9 (6.08%) Mac OS
2 9 (6.08%) Windows 10
3 7 (4.73%) Linux
4 1 (0.68%) AIX
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (53.38%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 38 (25.68%) Decision-Making
4 34 (22.97%) AI
5 29 (19.59%) Analytics
6 28 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (15.54%) Customer Service
8 21 (14.19%) Agile
8 21 (14.19%) Validation
9 18 (12.16%) Collaborative Working
9 18 (12.16%) Risk Management
10 17 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (9.46%) Analytical Thinking
12 14 (9.46%) Design Patterns
13 13 (8.78%) CI/CD
13 13 (8.78%) DevOps
13 13 (8.78%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (8.78%) Line Management
13 13 (8.78%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.86%) SQL
2 18 (12.16%) Python
3 6 (4.05%) Shell Script
4 5 (3.38%) Java
4 5 (3.38%) R
5 2 (1.35%) C
5 2 (1.35%) C#
5 2 (1.35%) C++
5 2 (1.35%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.68%) Bash
6 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.68%) XPath
Qualifications
1 34 (22.97%) Degree
2 19 (12.84%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.76%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.73%) Chartered Engineer
6 7 (4.73%) HND
7 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.70%) A+ Certification
8 4 (2.70%) ACCA
8 4 (2.70%) CCNA
8 4 (2.70%) CIMA
8 4 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.70%) MCSE
8 4 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (2.03%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.35%) CISSP
10 2 (1.35%) CSPO
10 2 (1.35%) HNC
10 2 (1.35%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.49%) GDPR
2 16 (10.81%) Data Quality
3 11 (7.43%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.70%) QA
5 2 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.68%) GAAP
6 1 (0.68%) GMP
6 1 (0.68%) GRC
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.68%) JTAG
6 1 (0.68%) NCSC
6 1 (0.68%) PMO
6 1 (0.68%) UCITS
System Software
1 9 (6.08%) Active Directory
1 9 (6.08%) Firmware
2 6 (4.05%) Docker
3 2 (1.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.35%) Grafana
2 1 (0.68%) Ansible
2 1 (0.68%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.68%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 35 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.78%) Google
3 5 (3.38%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.70%) Dell
4 4 (2.70%) YouTube
5 3 (2.03%) Databricks
6 2 (1.35%) Adobe
6 2 (1.35%) Informatica
6 2 (1.35%) Oracle
6 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.68%) EMC
7 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.68%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.68%) Sage
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.68%) SAP
7 1 (0.68%) Siemens
7 1 (0.68%) Xilinx