The first table below looks at the demand for Analytics skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Analytics over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analytics
Rank 80 91 81
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 77 68 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 2.447% 1.968% 2.239%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.300% 2.781% 2.932%
Number of salaries quoted 39 61 53
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £54,300 £72,500 £61,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £44,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +7.31%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2333 2445 2660
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.13% 70.77% 76.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1403 1740 1920
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Analytics Jobs Demand Trend

Analytics
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Analytics Salary Trend

Analytics
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Analytics across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Analytics Salary Histogram

Analytics
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +27 51 £47,500 +35.71%
Glasgow -6 22 £30,000 -45.45%
West Lothian - 3 £42,500 -
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing 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 Analytics.

1 61 (46.92%) SQL
2 56 (43.08%) Finance
3 52 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 51 (39.23%) Oracle
5 39 (30.00%) SQL Server
6 37 (28.46%) Microsoft
7 33 (25.38%) Degree
8 32 (24.62%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (21.54%) SAS
10 26 (20.00%) .NET
10 26 (20.00%) C#
11 25 (19.23%) ETL
12 24 (18.46%) Agile Software Development
13 23 (17.69%) Computer Science
14 22 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (15.38%) Data Modelling
15 20 (15.38%) UNIX
15 20 (15.38%) HTML
16 19 (14.62%) Data Management
17 18 (13.85%) Business Objects
18 17 (13.08%) PL/SQL
18 17 (13.08%) XML
18 17 (13.08%) Project Management
18 17 (13.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 17 (13.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 17 (13.08%) Oracle BI EE
19 16 (12.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 16 (12.31%) Scrum
19 16 (12.31%) Java
20 15 (11.54%) Linux

Analytics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing 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 Analytics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (20.00%) .NET
2 20 (15.38%) HTML
3 17 (13.08%) XML
4 14 (10.77%) CSS
5 10 (7.692%) Spring
6 7 (5.385%) WebSphere
7 6 (4.615%) JMS
7 6 (4.615%) JSP
7 6 (4.615%) SOAP
7 6 (4.615%) XSLT
7 6 (4.615%) J2EE
7 6 (4.615%) DHTML
8 5 (3.846%) jQuery
8 5 (3.846%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 5 (3.846%) ASP
8 5 (3.846%) .NET Framework
9 4 (3.077%) Hibernate
9 4 (3.077%) WPF
10 3 (2.308%) WCF
10 3 (2.308%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 28 (21.54%) SAS
2 10 (7.692%) Apache
3 9 (6.923%) Tomcat
4 6 (4.615%) WebLogic
5 5 (3.846%) Windows Azure
6 4 (3.077%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (2.308%) DotNetNuke
8 2 (1.538%) Confluence
9 1 (0.769%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.769%) Magento
9 1 (0.769%) Adobe CQ
9 1 (0.769%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.769%) Amazon AWS
9 1 (0.769%) TeamSite
9 1 (0.769%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (10.77%) MS Excel
2 13 (10.00%) SPSS
3 4 (3.077%) FrameMaker
3 4 (3.077%) RoboHelp
4 2 (1.538%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.538%) MS Office
4 2 (1.538%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (8.462%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.308%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (2.308%) Hyperion Planning
2 3 (2.308%) Siebel Analytics
2 3 (2.308%) SAP BPC
2 3 (2.308%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (2.308%) HFM
3 2 (1.538%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.538%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.769%) Cognos Planning
4 1 (0.769%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.769%) Tridion
4 1 (0.769%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.769%) Oracle iRecruitment
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.615%) HTTP
2 5 (3.846%) NAS
2 5 (3.846%) SAN
3 3 (2.308%) Internet
4 2 (1.538%) Intranet
4 2 (1.538%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 32 (24.62%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (13.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 17 (13.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (13.08%) Oracle BI EE
4 16 (12.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 14 (10.77%) Data Mining
5 14 (10.77%) OLAP
5 14 (10.77%) SQL Server 2008
5 14 (10.77%) Oracle OLAP
6 13 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
7 12 (9.231%) Big Data
8 10 (7.692%) Oracle 10g
8 10 (7.692%) BusinessObjects
9 9 (6.923%) SQL Server 2012
10 8 (6.154%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (6.154%) Hadoop
11 6 (4.615%) DataStage
11 6 (4.615%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (4.615%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.692%) Subversion
2 9 (6.923%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (4.615%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (3.846%) Git (software)
5 4 (3.077%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.308%) JIRA
6 3 (2.308%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.308%) Maven
7 2 (1.538%) Axure RP
7 2 (1.538%) Hudson
8 1 (0.769%) Selenium
8 1 (0.769%) JMeter
General
1 56 (43.08%) Finance
2 15 (11.54%) Marketing
2 15 (11.54%) Banking
3 7 (5.385%) Front Office
4 6 (4.615%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.308%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.308%) Retail
6 1 (0.769%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.769%) Automotive
6 1 (0.769%) Advertising
6 1 (0.769%) Publishing
6 1 (0.769%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (31.54%) Developer
2 32 (24.62%) Consultant
3 20 (15.38%) Analyst
4 14 (10.77%) Business Consultant
5 13 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
6 12 (9.231%) Architect
7 10 (7.692%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.923%) .NET Developer
9 7 (5.385%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.615%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (4.615%) J2EE Developer
10 6 (4.615%) Oracle Developer
10 6 (4.615%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 6 (4.615%) Oracle Architect
11 5 (3.846%) Data Analytics Consultant
11 5 (3.846%) Database Developer
11 5 (3.846%) SQL Developer
11 5 (3.846%) SQL Server Developer
11 5 (3.846%) Data Consultant
11 5 (3.846%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.69%) Computer Science
2 7 (5.385%) Credit Risk
2 7 (5.385%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.615%) Replication
4 5 (3.846%) Symmetrix DMX
4 5 (3.846%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.846%) Firmware
4 5 (3.846%) Equities
4 5 (3.846%) Fixed Income
4 5 (3.846%) Symmetrix
4 5 (3.846%) Derivative
5 4 (3.077%) IPTV
6 3 (2.308%) Data Conversion
6 3 (2.308%) Data Integration
6 3 (2.308%) Oracle Exalytics
6 3 (2.308%) Oracle Exalogic
6 3 (2.308%) Open Source
6 3 (2.308%) SaaS
6 3 (2.308%) Statistics
7 2 (1.538%) Exotic Derivative
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.38%) UNIX
2 15 (11.54%) Linux
3 13 (10.00%) Windows
4 9 (6.923%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (5.385%) Solaris
6 2 (1.538%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (19.23%) ETL
3 24 (18.46%) Agile Software Development
4 22 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 19 (14.62%) Data Management
7 17 (13.08%) Project Management
8 16 (12.31%) Scrum
9 15 (11.54%) Information Management
10 14 (10.77%) Predictive Analytics
11 13 (10.00%) Master Data Management
12 11 (8.462%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (7.692%) Service Delivery
14 9 (6.923%) Unit Testing
14 9 (6.923%) Investment Management
14 9 (6.923%) Risk Management
14 9 (6.923%) Business Development
15 8 (6.154%) Business Analysis
15 8 (6.154%) Workflow
15 8 (6.154%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 61 (46.92%) SQL
2 26 (20.00%) C#
3 17 (13.08%) PL/SQL
4 16 (12.31%) Java
5 14 (10.77%) JavaScript
5 14 (10.77%) T-SQL
6 6 (4.615%) Perl
7 5 (3.846%) Python
8 4 (3.077%) C++
8 4 (3.077%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.308%) R
9 3 (2.308%) PHP
9 3 (2.308%) Korn
10 2 (1.538%) C
10 2 (1.538%) VBA
11 1 (0.769%) Groovy
11 1 (0.769%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 33 (25.38%) Degree
2 11 (8.462%) MCPD
3 6 (4.615%) ISEB
3 6 (4.615%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.846%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.077%) MCDBA
5 4 (3.077%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.077%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.308%) MCTS
7 2 (1.538%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.692%) QA
2 2 (1.538%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.769%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.846%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (2.308%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.769%) SRDF
3 1 (0.769%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (4.615%) NetBackup
2 2 (1.538%) Nagios
3 1 (0.769%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.769%) Ionix
3 1 (0.769%) EMC TimeFinder
Vendors
1 51 (39.23%) Oracle
2 37 (28.46%) Microsoft
3 18 (13.85%) Business Objects
4 15 (11.54%) Informatica
5 12 (9.231%) SAP
6 11 (8.462%) IBM
7 6 (4.615%) Ab Initio
7 6 (4.615%) Sun
7 6 (4.615%) StorageTek
7 6 (4.615%) JBoss
7 6 (4.615%) Cognos
7 6 (4.615%) DataFlux
8 5 (3.846%) Tableau
8 5 (3.846%) MicroStrategy
8 5 (3.846%) NetApp
8 5 (3.846%) Adobe
8 5 (3.846%) EMC
8 5 (3.846%) Cisco
8 5 (3.846%) Brocade
8 5 (3.846%) Netezza
Edinburgh, Scotland
The job requires a mix of Financial / Statistical Modelling experience and Database skills including SAS/SQL... They will provide first class documents and presentation materials of relevant findings...
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Senior stakeholder management. Data modelling and data architecture design / implementation. Designing and Implementing Analytics solutions... Project management and business development... This is a unique opportunity for any consultant...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £30,000 to £60,000 per annum plus attractive benefits and extensi
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The candidates responsibilities include understanding risk analytics on our fixed income, equity and alternatives products to help our clients and portfolio managers understand their portfolio exposures, strategy, risk...
Michael Page
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per year
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Senior stakeholder management. Designing and Implementing BI / Analytics solutions... Project management and business development... This is a unique opportunity for any consultant within the Business Intelligence / Analytics space...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £30,000 to £65,000 per annum plus attractive benefits and extensi
Posted: 21 May 2013
Holyrood, Edinburgh
Your role will be to provide support and maintenance and take forward development opportunities both within the existing application landscape, and when delivering new business solutions.With relevant...
Scottish Parliament
Salary: £24,383 to £29,640
Posted: 24 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
As you'll be part of the Development team, you will be put through SAP and Microsoft Certifications and you will develop a very strong technical skillset. You'...
Cathcart Associates Ltd
Salary: £29000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
The position offers the chance to head up an analytics function within financial services and play a pivotal role in the further development of a global brand name...
Harnham
Salary: £120000 - £150000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Designing and coding data analytics/machine learning algorithms using MATLAB and Java within an Agile software development environment Assisting with workload planning... Qualifications & Experience: Essential: - At least one...
Involve HR LLP
Salary: From £25,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 29 April 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Work with the project team - development, testing etc. Gain understanding of theimplementation and the working practices that are being developed. Following implementation of the project you will help...
Harrington Boyd
Posted: 24 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
KEYWORDS SAS, SQL, Head of Anlaytics, Director of Analytics, Customer Analysis, Marketing Analytics Manager, Financial Services, Retail Banking, Insurance, FS, Customer Insight, Statistical Analysis, Customer Loyalty, Customer Behaviour,...
Harnham
Salary: £100000 - £160000 per annum + benefits package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
D2T builds software systems which generate English summaries of complex data set; these systems combine sophisticated analytics with Natural Language Generation (NLG).Our team is led by those...
Involve HR LLP
Salary: From £30,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
This is a key role within the business, within the wider Credit Risk and Analytics team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the growing credit risk...
Experis IT
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Initially, the role holder will work to help develop and implement the credit risk decision engines for our client's new credit card platform... Responsibilities include: * Coordinating the...
Head Resourcing
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent package
Posted: 23 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Favoured Technical Skills: OLAP and Reporting : SAP BusinessObjects, Cognos, Microstrategy, OBIEE, SAS, Microsoft, Qlikview, Tableau, Spotfire, Pentaho... ETL and Data Cleansing : Informatica, IBM InfoSphere DataStage , AbInitio, Oracle, DataFlux,...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £68,000 per annum with a number of fantastic additiona
Posted: 20 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
In the role you will be responsible for providing 1st/2nd line support for Business Analytics software and will ideally have knowledge of one or more of the...
Oxbridge Answers
Salary: 23,000-35,000
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Key Modules: Financial, Procurement, Spend and HR Analytics - Analytics and Data Mining : Oracle R Enterprise and Oracle Data Miner - ETL and Data Cleanse and Integration : Oracle Data Integrator,...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £68,000 per annum with a fantastic package in addition
Posted: 20 May 2013
Alness, Ross-Shire
Correlation and Analytics... Log Analytics. Incident & Change Management... ASP.NET MVC development... SNMP, JMX, WMI... Cacti, Nagios, Net-SNMP, RRD) Familiarity with open source configuration management tools (e...
Pentasia Ltd
Salary: From £0 to £0 per annum Flexible
Posted: 20 May 2013