Analytics Contracts in Scotland

Analytics
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 45 45
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytics 117 155 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.30% 5.42% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 5.85% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 117 125
10th Percentile £414 £358 £313
25th Percentile £440 £420 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +3.57% +8.82%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £525
90th Percentile £748 £688 £606
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £21.64 £55.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -61.01% - -
UK median hourly rate £30.37 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.09% -8.57% +29.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,648 3,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.62% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,905 2,309
10th Percentile £230 £263 £244
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 48
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -51.45% -10.99%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Scotland

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in Scotland

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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 Analytics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +8 51 £480 -8.57% 23
Edinburgh +11 42 £506 +5.64% 32
South Lanarkshire +4 10 £750 +79.64%
Perthshire +8 1 £675 +29.19%
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 4
Fife - 1 - -
Analytics
UK

Analytics
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 9 (7.69%) Confluence
2 4 (3.42%) CMS
3 1 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.85%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.85%) SAS
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.71%) Maximo
3 2 (1.71%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (27.35%) Power Platform
2 17 (14.53%) Azure
3 16 (13.68%) AWS
4 12 (10.26%) Power Automate
5 11 (9.40%) OCI
5 11 (9.40%) PowerApps
5 11 (9.40%) SaaS
6 9 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (7.69%) Serverless
7 8 (6.84%) OpenShift
8 7 (5.98%) Snowflake
9 4 (3.42%) Figma
10 3 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.56%) PaaS
11 2 (1.71%) GCP
11 2 (1.71%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) IPsec
1 3 (2.56%) VPN
2 2 (1.71%) LAN
2 2 (1.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.08%) Power BI
2 15 (12.82%) Tableau
3 13 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (8.55%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (4.27%) Big Data
6 5 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.27%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.42%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.56%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.71%) GIS
9 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (18.80%) JIRA
2 11 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.42%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.56%) GitLab
4 3 (2.56%) JMeter
4 3 (2.56%) LoadRunner
4 3 (2.56%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.85%) Git
5 1 (0.85%) Gradle
5 1 (0.85%) gulp
5 1 (0.85%) Maven
5 1 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.85%) Travis CI
General
1 35 (29.91%) Public Sector
2 29 (24.79%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (21.37%) Finance
3 25 (21.37%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.13%) Legal
5 5 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.56%) Banking
6 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Military
8 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.85%) Marketing
8 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (24.79%) Analyst
2 24 (20.51%) Data Analyst
3 22 (18.80%) Developer
4 12 (10.26%) Lead
5 11 (9.40%) Architect
5 11 (9.40%) Senior
6 9 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
6 9 (7.69%) JIRA Engineer
6 9 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (6.84%) Senior Data Analyst
8 7 (5.98%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.13%) Applications Support Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Lead Data Analyst
9 6 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.27%) Administrator
10 5 (4.27%) Consultant
10 5 (4.27%) IT Architect
10 5 (4.27%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.68%) REST
2 11 (9.40%) AWS CDK
2 11 (9.40%) React
3 10 (8.55%) CSS
4 9 (7.69%) HTML
5 8 (6.84%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (6.84%) Spring
5 8 (6.84%) Spring Boot
6 7 (5.98%) Web Services
7 6 (5.13%) OAuth
7 6 (5.13%) OAuth2
7 6 (5.13%) Spring Security
8 5 (4.27%) Node.js
9 4 (3.42%) Spring MVC
9 4 (3.42%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (3.42%) Thymeleaf
10 3 (2.56%) PostGIS
10 3 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.71%) JSON
11 2 (1.71%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.40%) Management Information System
2 9 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.84%) Credit Risk
3 8 (6.84%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.27%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.42%) CMDB
6 4 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.85%) BYOD
8 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.85%) IoT
8 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.85%) SCADA
8 1 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (1.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.64%) Agile
2 29 (24.79%) Business Intelligence
3 25 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (18.80%) Visualisation
5 19 (16.24%) Data Visualisation
6 18 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 18 (15.38%) ERP
7 17 (14.53%) Data Migration
7 17 (14.53%) Migration
7 17 (14.53%) Roadmaps
7 17 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (13.68%) Inclusive Design
8 16 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (12.82%) DevOps
9 15 (12.82%) Human-Centred Design
10 14 (11.97%) Code Quality
10 14 (11.97%) Data Analysis
10 14 (11.97%) Pair Programming
10 14 (11.97%) Test Automation
10 14 (11.97%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.95%) SQL
2 17 (14.53%) Java
2 17 (14.53%) JavaScript
3 14 (11.97%) Python
4 10 (8.55%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.42%) Bash
7 3 (2.56%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.71%) Groovy
8 2 (1.71%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.85%) C
9 1 (0.85%) C#
9 1 (0.85%) Go
9 1 (0.85%) PHP
9 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.97%) Degree
2 14 (11.97%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.85%) CISSP
5 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) FFIEC
5 1 (0.85%) IIBA
5 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.97%) Accessibility
2 11 (9.40%) Disclosure Scotland
3 8 (6.84%) PMO
4 5 (4.27%) QA
5 4 (3.42%) GDPR
6 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.71%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.85%) NIST
7 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (7.69%) Docker
2 3 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (10.26%) Grafana
2 3 (2.56%) Kibana
2 3 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.71%) Terraform
4 1 (0.85%) Ansible
4 1 (0.85%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (18.80%) Oracle
2 20 (17.09%) Atlassian
3 19 (16.24%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.13%) Alteryx
4 6 (5.13%) Databricks
5 5 (4.27%) Google
6 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.56%) Okta
7 3 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.56%) SAP
8 2 (1.71%) Pega
8 2 (1.71%) Workday
9 1 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.85%) Splunk