Analytical Skills Contracts in Scotland

Analytical Skills
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 13 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 203 276 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.55% 10.17% 7.60%
As % of the General category 14.82% 15.26% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 201 170
10th Percentile £211 £185 £262
25th Percentile £363 £413 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +6.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £560 £580 £524
90th Percentile £613 £656 £589
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 7
10th Percentile £12.00 £49.99 £21.12
25th Percentile £12.47 £53.38 £33.24
Median hourly rate £14.75 £59.03 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.01% +24.27% +331.82%
75th Percentile £18.94 £59.79 £52.25
90th Percentile £19.50 £60.25 £55.79
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £41.75 £39.50
% change year-on-year -56.89% +5.70% +75.56%

All General Skills
Scotland

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,370 1,809 2,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.47% 66.68% 70.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 1,307 1,773
10th Percentile £178 £232 £230
25th Percentile £340 £404 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £550
90th Percentile £653 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 29 45
10th Percentile £12.00 £12.66 £14.75
25th Percentile £14.59 £14.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -20.82% +53.43%
75th Percentile £56.25 £58.75 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.75 £54.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in Scotland

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -6 86 £445 -6.32% 35
Edinburgh +12 78 £500 +1.52% 48
West Lothian +2 5 £188 -55.88% 4
Highlands - 3 - - 1
Renfrewshire +3 2 £375 -1.32% 2
Fife +2 2 - -
Lanarkshire -1 2 £456 +176.52% 9
Aberdeen -4 2 £450 +246.15% 24
Perthshire +4 1 £500 - 2
Aberdeenshire 0 1 - - 9
Stirling - 1 £525 - 3
Inverclyde - 1 £375 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £500 - 1
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.93%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.48%) Confluence
2 3 (1.48%) IBM HTTP Server
2 3 (1.48%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (1.48%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 37 (18.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.46%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (2.46%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.48%) Maximo
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.34%) Power Platform
2 13 (6.40%) AWS
2 13 (6.40%) OCI
3 11 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.94%) Azure
4 8 (3.94%) Snowflake
4 8 (3.94%) Yammer
5 7 (3.45%) GCP
6 3 (1.48%) Google Data Studio
6 3 (1.48%) Google Sheets
6 3 (1.48%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.99%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.99%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.99%) SaaS
8 1 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.49%) IaaS
8 1 (0.49%) IBM Blueworks
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.93%) SAN
2 5 (2.46%) Internet
3 4 (1.97%) Firewall
4 3 (1.48%) HTTP
4 3 (1.48%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.99%) LAN
5 2 (0.99%) NAS
5 2 (0.99%) WLAN
6 1 (0.49%) Intranet
6 1 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.34%) Power BI
2 14 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
2 14 (6.90%) Tableau
3 13 (6.40%) Oracle Database
4 9 (4.43%) Metadata
5 6 (2.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.97%) Big Data
7 3 (1.48%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.48%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.48%) GIS
8 1 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (5.91%) Oracle APEX
2 10 (4.93%) JIRA
3 6 (2.96%) Git
4 3 (1.48%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.48%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (1.48%) JMeter
4 3 (1.48%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.48%) Selenium
5 2 (0.99%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.99%) ERwin
5 2 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.49%) Gradle
General
1 111 (54.68%) Social Skills
2 62 (30.54%) Public Sector
3 56 (27.59%) Finance
4 21 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (6.90%) Legal
6 11 (5.42%) Banking
6 11 (5.42%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.94%) Publishing
8 7 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.97%) Retail
10 3 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.48%) Marketing
10 3 (1.48%) Police
11 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Back Office
12 1 (0.49%) French Language
12 1 (0.49%) German Language
12 1 (0.49%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (39.41%) Analyst
2 26 (12.81%) Data Analyst
3 24 (11.82%) Senior
4 17 (8.37%) Lead
5 14 (6.90%) Business Analyst
6 13 (6.40%) Field Engineer
6 13 (6.40%) IT Engineer
7 12 (5.91%) Developer
8 11 (5.42%) Field Service Engineer
9 10 (4.93%) Designer
10 9 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.94%) Change Analyst
11 8 (3.94%) Security Engineer
12 7 (3.45%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 6 (2.96%) IT Analyst
13 6 (2.96%) Lead Data Analyst
13 6 (2.96%) UX Designer
13 6 (2.96%) Windows Engineer
14 5 (2.46%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 5 (2.46%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.45%) CSS
2 6 (2.96%) Kafka
3 5 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.46%) REST
4 4 (1.97%) HTML
4 4 (1.97%) React
5 3 (1.48%) J2EE
5 3 (1.48%) Middleware
5 3 (1.48%) Spring
5 3 (1.48%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.48%) XML
6 2 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.99%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.49%) RESTful
7 1 (0.49%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.36%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (4.43%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.96%) Credit Risk
5 6 (2.96%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (2.46%) DTCC
6 5 (2.46%) Market Risk
7 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.97%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.48%) Social Media
9 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.99%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.99%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.37%) Windows
2 11 (5.42%) Unix
3 6 (2.96%) Linux
3 6 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.46%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.48%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (55.67%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (25.12%) Agile
3 29 (14.29%) Analytics
4 27 (13.30%) Project Management
5 26 (12.81%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (11.82%) ERP
7 22 (10.84%) Computer Science
7 22 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (9.36%) Decision-Making
9 18 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (8.37%) Data Analysis
10 17 (8.37%) ITIL
11 16 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (7.39%) Visualisation
13 14 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
13 14 (6.90%) Customer Service
13 14 (6.90%) Data Visualisation
13 14 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (6.40%) Data Modelling
14 13 (6.40%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.75%) SQL
2 20 (9.85%) Python
3 13 (6.40%) PL/SQL
4 7 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.96%) Java
6 4 (1.97%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.97%) Perl
7 3 (1.48%) C#
8 2 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.49%) Scala
9 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (18.72%) Degree
2 19 (9.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (8.87%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.39%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.42%) MCSE
5 11 (5.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.94%) A+ Certification
6 8 (3.94%) CCNA
6 8 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.94%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (3.45%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.96%) CISSP
9 5 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.97%) CISM
11 3 (1.48%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (1.48%) OSCP
12 2 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 1 (0.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (5.42%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.96%) QA
4 4 (1.97%) GDPR
4 4 (1.97%) PMO
5 3 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.99%) COBIT
6 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.99%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.99%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.99%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.99%) P3O
7 1 (0.49%) Basel III
7 1 (0.49%) COREP
7 1 (0.49%) FINREP
7 1 (0.49%) IFRS
7 1 (0.49%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.48%) Firmware
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.45%) SCCM
2 6 (2.96%) Terraform
3 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.99%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) Grafana
4 2 (0.99%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.99%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.49%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 38 (18.72%) Oracle
2 36 (17.73%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.94%) Alteryx
3 8 (3.94%) Dell
4 6 (2.96%) Splunk
5 5 (2.46%) Google
5 5 (2.46%) IFS
6 3 (1.48%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.48%) Brandwatch
6 3 (1.48%) Facebook
6 3 (1.48%) Hootsuite
6 3 (1.48%) IBM
6 3 (1.48%) Instagram
6 3 (1.48%) Qualys
6 3 (1.48%) SAP
6 3 (1.48%) Twitter
6 3 (1.48%) Workday
6 3 (1.48%) YouTube
7 2 (0.99%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (0.99%) IDERA