Cost-Benefit Analysis Job Trends in Scotland

Cost-Benefit Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Cost-Benefit Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cost-Benefit Analysis 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £38,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £59,447 £37,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +58.52% -37.50% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Cost-Benefit Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,206 2,381 2,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.84% 92.90% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,076 1,004 1,812
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,325 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,370 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cost-Benefit Analysis relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Cost-Benefit Analysis job vacancy trend in Scotland

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost-Benefit Analysis within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 - 4 £37,500 -
Cost-Benefit Analysis
UK

Cost-Benefit Analysis
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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (50.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Associate Director
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) IT Director
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (100.00%) Data Management
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Contract Management
2 2 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Optimization Problems
2 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes