The first table below looks at the demand for Data Analytics skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Analytics over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Analytics
Rank 81 - 102
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 4 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.373% - 0.197%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.494% - 0.249%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 3
Average salary £54,750 - £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
809 1001 1203
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.40% 72.91% 78.94%
Number of salaries quoted 473 695 852
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Data Analytics
Scotland

Data Analytics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Data Analytics across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Edinburgh Data Analytics Jobs Demand Trend

Data Analytics
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Data Analytics across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Data Analytics Salary Trend

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Data Analytics across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Edinburgh Data Analytics Salary Histogram

Data Analytics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Data Analytics also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Data Analytics.

1 5 (100.00%) SAS
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) SPSS
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk
3 3 (60.00%) Information Management
4 2 (40.00%) Business Objects
5 1 (20.00%) SAP
5 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 1 (20.00%) Cognos
5 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
5 1 (20.00%) ETL
5 1 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (20.00%) OLAP
5 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (20.00%) DataStage
5 1 (20.00%) IBM
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (20.00%) Informatica
5 1 (20.00%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (20.00%) Tableau
5 1 (20.00%) Big Data
5 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Netezza
5 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing

Data Analytics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Data Analytics also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Data Analytics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) SPSS
2 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) OLAP
1 1 (20.00%) DataStage
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (20.00%) Pentaho
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) Spotfire
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (20.00%) QlikView
1 1 (20.00%) IBM InfoSphere
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Wholesale Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Analytics Consultant
1 4 (80.00%) Consultant
1 4 (80.00%) Data Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) SAS BI Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Information Management
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Cognos
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica
2 1 (20.00%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Netezza
2 1 (20.00%) DataFlux
2 1 (20.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (20.00%) Teradata
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Many successful applicants have come from a Financial Services background (MI Analysts, Credit Risk Analysts, etc) and have made the move in order to ensure they do not...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £65,000 per annum plus a highly competitive package
Posted: 14 May 2013