Technical Analyst Contracts in Scotland

Technical Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in Scotland is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 152 145
Rank change year-on-year +41 -7 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 20 12 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.91% 0.42% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.44% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 12
10th Percentile £193 £186 £211
25th Percentile £413 £241 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £338 £450
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% -25.00% +18.03%
75th Percentile £535 £441 £616
90th Percentile £548 £499 £625
UK median daily rate £520 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +1.96% +2.00% +8.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Technical Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Analyst in Scotland

Technical Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Analyst in Scotland

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Analyst in Scotland

Technical Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Analyst in Scotland

Technical Analyst
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 Technical Analyst within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Edinburgh +43 11 £425 - 1
Glasgow +5 4 £475 +216.67% 1
Fife - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - -
Perthshire - 1 £475 -
Technical Analyst
UK

Technical Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Technical Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
4 4 (20.00%) Scrum
4 4 (20.00%) User Stories
4 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (15.00%) Epics
5 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Banking
6 2 (10.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) JIRA
6 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (10.00%) Finance
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Data Lineage
6 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (5.00%) Backlog Management
7 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Smoke Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Value Proposition
7 1 (5.00%) Systems Thinking

Technical Analyst Skill Set
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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
3 4 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (20.00%) Scrum
3 4 (20.00%) User Stories
4 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (15.00%) Epics
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Data Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Data Lineage
5 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Backlog Management
6 1 (5.00%) High Availability
6 1 (5.00%) Smoke Testing
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Thinking
6 1 (5.00%) User Experience
6 1 (5.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) C#
1 1 (5.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft