The first table below looks at the demand for Data Analysis skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Analysis over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Analysis
Rank 127 124 56
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -68
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 27 29 108
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.846% 0.829% 3.159%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.139% 1.182% 4.140%
Number of salaries quoted 13 21 55
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +32.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,200 £75,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -2.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2370 2454 2609
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.27% 70.11% 76.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1410 1750 1892
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £42,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% -5.32%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,700
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Data Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Data Analysis
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Data Analysis Salary Trend

Data Analysis
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Data Analysis across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland Data Analysis Salary Histogram

Data Analysis
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Glasgow -14 17 £41,250 -34.00%
Edinburgh 0 9 £47,500 +26.66%
West Lothian -5 1 - -
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Data Analysis 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 Analysis.

1 26 (47.27%) Finance
2 24 (43.64%) Banking
3 23 (41.82%) Business Analysis
3 23 (41.82%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (38.18%) Use Case
5 19 (34.55%) SQL
6 18 (32.73%) Degree
7 17 (30.91%) Data Modelling
8 13 (23.64%) Management Information System
8 13 (23.64%) SQL Server
8 13 (23.64%) Business Objects
8 13 (23.64%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (21.82%) Agile Software Development
10 11 (20.00%) Investment Banking
10 11 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (16.36%) Python
11 9 (16.36%) Cognos
12 8 (14.55%) UML
13 7 (12.73%) UNIX
13 7 (12.73%) Sybase
13 7 (12.73%) DB2
13 7 (12.73%) .NET
13 7 (12.73%) J2EE
13 7 (12.73%) Oracle
13 7 (12.73%) C#
13 7 (12.73%) Java
13 7 (12.73%) PL/SQL
13 7 (12.73%) JMS
13 7 (12.73%) RAD
13 7 (12.73%) Oracle 8/8i

Data Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Data Analysis 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 Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (12.73%) .NET
1 7 (12.73%) J2EE
1 7 (12.73%) JMS
1 7 (12.73%) FpML
1 7 (12.73%) Hibernate
1 7 (12.73%) Spring
1 7 (12.73%) Apache Flex
2 2 (3.636%) Velocity
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.91%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (7.273%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (3.636%) SPSS
3 1 (1.818%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.818%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.818%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.636%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.64%) SQL Server
2 11 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (12.73%) DB2
3 7 (12.73%) Oracle 8/8i
3 7 (12.73%) Oracle 10g
3 7 (12.73%) RDBMS
3 7 (12.73%) Sybase ASE
3 7 (12.73%) QlikView
3 7 (12.73%) Oracle 11g
3 7 (12.73%) MarkLogic
4 2 (3.636%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.818%) MS Access
5 1 (1.818%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.818%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) ClearCase
1 7 (12.73%) Eclipse
1 7 (12.73%) Maven
1 7 (12.73%) Subversion
1 7 (12.73%) MagicDraw
1 7 (12.73%) Hudson
General
1 26 (47.27%) Finance
2 24 (43.64%) Banking
3 11 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 5 (9.091%) Aerospace
5 4 (7.273%) Marketing
5 4 (7.273%) Front Office
6 3 (5.455%) Legal
6 3 (5.455%) Retail
7 2 (3.636%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (3.636%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.818%) Automotive
8 1 (1.818%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (60.00%) Analyst
2 24 (43.64%) Business Analyst
3 14 (25.45%) Developer
4 8 (14.55%) Systems Analyst
5 7 (12.73%) Senior Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Java Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Oracle Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Banking Business Analyst
5 7 (12.73%) Payments Business Analyst
6 5 (9.091%) Business Systems Analyst
7 4 (7.273%) Lead Business Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) Risk Manager
8 2 (3.636%) Systems Manager
8 2 (3.636%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Senior Manager
9 1 (1.818%) Insight Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Management Information System
2 7 (12.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (12.73%) Equities
2 7 (12.73%) Derivative
2 7 (12.73%) Open Source
2 7 (12.73%) SWIFT
3 4 (7.273%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.636%) Statistics
5 1 (1.818%) FMCG
5 1 (1.818%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Business Analysis
1 23 (41.82%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (38.18%) Use Case
3 17 (30.91%) Data Modelling
4 13 (23.64%) User Acceptance Testing
5 12 (21.82%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (14.55%) UML
7 7 (12.73%) RAD
7 7 (12.73%) Strategic Planning
7 7 (12.73%) TDD
7 7 (12.73%) Project Planning
7 7 (12.73%) Multithreading
7 7 (12.73%) Waterfall
8 6 (10.91%) ETL
9 5 (9.091%) Systems Analysis
10 4 (7.273%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
10 4 (7.273%) Change Management
10 4 (7.273%) Six Sigma
10 4 (7.273%) Analytics
10 4 (7.273%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) SQL
2 9 (16.36%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) C#
3 7 (12.73%) Java
3 7 (12.73%) PL/SQL
3 7 (12.73%) XQuery
3 7 (12.73%) Shell Script
4 5 (9.091%) VB
5 2 (3.636%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.818%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (32.73%) Degree
2 7 (12.73%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) FATCA
2 1 (1.818%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (9.091%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) Business Objects
2 9 (16.36%) Cognos
3 7 (12.73%) Sybase
3 7 (12.73%) Oracle
3 7 (12.73%) Fundtech
4 2 (3.636%) Microsoft
Edinburgh, Midlothian
I have been tasked with an immediate requirement for a number of Data Project Analysts for fixed term contracts, in the central belt of Scotland. The role would...
Sanderson
Posted: 8 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Validation and verification with the business... Desirable Skills Experience of Agile software development Experience of waterfall and iterative development lifecycles, particularly Unified Process Experience of writing user storyboards...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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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