Analyst Contracts in Glasgow

Analyst
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Analyst daily rate in Glasgow is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 127 141 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 16.49% 16.59% 18.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.26% 17.45% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 99 116
10th Percentile £265 £156 £250
25th Percentile £355 £273 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -14.71% +14.86%
75th Percentile £488 £466 £477
90th Percentile £565 £500 £542
Scotland median daily rate £425 £416 £418
% change year-on-year +2.29% -0.48% +7.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £20.15 £13.43 £11.25
25th Percentile £20.98 £15.00 £12.19
Median hourly rate £22.37 £15.42 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.07% +6.34% -65.86%
75th Percentile £23.76 £17.01 £15.06
90th Percentile £24.59 £21.91 £18.73
Scotland median hourly rate £19.48 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +29.85% +3.45% -50.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 736 808 840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.58% 95.06% 95.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 531 618
10th Percentile £300 £253 £325
25th Percentile £374 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -1.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £588
90th Percentile £600 £650 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 37 19
10th Percentile £16.75 £12.03 £12.45
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £13.71
Median hourly rate £19.83 £31.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.05% +70.27% -50.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £53.75 £53.24
90th Percentile £67.05 £67.50 £61.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.90 £27.90 £22.13
% change year-on-year -28.66% +26.08% -17.60%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Glasgow

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Glasgow

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Glasgow over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Glasgow

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, 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 Glasgow region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 50 (39.37%) Social Skills
2 42 (33.07%) Finance
3 37 (29.13%) Agile
4 31 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (19.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (19.69%) Microsoft
7 23 (18.11%) Microsoft Excel
7 23 (18.11%) Azure
8 19 (14.96%) Data Analysis
8 19 (14.96%) Python
8 19 (14.96%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (14.17%) Banking
9 18 (14.17%) Public Sector
9 18 (14.17%) Requirements Gathering
10 17 (13.39%) Degree
10 17 (13.39%) JIRA
11 16 (12.60%) SQL
11 16 (12.60%) ITIL
11 16 (12.60%) Unix
12 15 (11.81%) Change Management
13 14 (11.02%) User Stories
13 14 (11.02%) Workshop Facilitation
14 13 (10.24%) Linux
14 13 (10.24%) SharePoint
15 12 (9.45%) Entra ID
16 11 (8.66%) DevOps
16 11 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
16 11 (8.66%) Waterfall
16 11 (8.66%) Data Modelling

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 13 (10.24%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.51%) Confluence
3 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.72%) SAS
4 1 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 23 (18.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (7.09%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.11%) Azure
2 19 (14.96%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (9.45%) Entra ID
4 9 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.09%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.51%) Yammer
6 4 (3.15%) SaaS
7 2 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.57%) Miro
7 2 (1.57%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.57%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.79%) OCI
8 1 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.57%) Unified Communications
1 2 (1.57%) VPN
1 2 (1.57%) WAN
2 1 (0.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) Power BI
2 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.57%) Tableau
4 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (13.39%) JIRA
2 2 (1.57%) Git
2 2 (1.57%) Toad
3 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.79%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.79%) TestComplete
3 1 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (39.37%) Social Skills
2 42 (33.07%) Finance
3 29 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (14.17%) Banking
4 18 (14.17%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.94%) Back Office
6 5 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Electronics
8 1 (0.79%) Marketing
8 1 (0.79%) Military
8 1 (0.79%) Publishing
8 1 (0.79%) Retail
8 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.79%) REST
1 1 (0.79%) SOAP
1 1 (0.79%) Web Services
1 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.15%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.36%) Credit Risk
3 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.36%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.79%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.79%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.79%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.60%) Unix
2 13 (10.24%) Linux
3 9 (7.09%) Windows
4 3 (2.36%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.79%) Android
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (29.13%) Agile
2 31 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (19.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (14.96%) Data Analysis
5 18 (14.17%) Requirements Gathering
6 16 (12.60%) ITIL
7 15 (11.81%) Change Management
8 14 (11.02%) User Stories
8 14 (11.02%) Workshop Facilitation
9 11 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (8.66%) Data Modelling
9 11 (8.66%) DevOps
9 11 (8.66%) Waterfall
10 10 (7.87%) Business Analysis
10 10 (7.87%) Capacity Management
10 10 (7.87%) Decision-Making
10 10 (7.87%) ITSM
10 10 (7.87%) OO
10 10 (7.87%) Project Management
10 10 (7.87%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.96%) Python
2 16 (12.60%) SQL
3 10 (7.87%) Perl
4 4 (3.15%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.36%) VBA
6 2 (1.57%) Bicep
7 1 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.79%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) Degree
2 7 (5.51%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.94%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.15%) CISSP
5 3 (2.36%) CISM
5 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.36%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.79%) ACCA
7 1 (0.79%) CIMA
7 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) GCIA
7 1 (0.79%) GCIH
7 1 (0.79%) HNC
7 1 (0.79%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.79%) IIBA
7 1 (0.79%) ISEB
7 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.51%) QA
2 5 (3.94%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.94%) PMO
3 4 (3.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (3.15%) GDPR
4 2 (1.57%) Basel III
4 2 (1.57%) FINREP
4 2 (1.57%) SLA
5 1 (0.79%) COREP
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (8.66%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.15%) RACF
3 2 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.79%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.51%) SAP
3 6 (4.72%) CyberArk
3 6 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.15%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.36%) Qualys
6 2 (1.57%) Oracle
7 1 (0.79%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.79%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.79%) Equitrac
7 1 (0.79%) Sun