Analyst Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Analyst daily rate in Scotland is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 198 232 337
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 13.48% 14.93% 14.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.93% 16.41% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 152 213
10th Percentile £258 £176 £152
25th Percentile £346 £307 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £404 £415
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -2.65% +0.61%
75th Percentile £522 £462 £488
90th Percentile £579 £500 £525
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 5
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 -
25th Percentile £20.42 £18.77 £15.42
Median hourly rate £30.50 £19.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.69% +0.46% +23.46%
75th Percentile £37.88 £23.48 £30.75
90th Percentile £51.25 £29.24 £41.10
UK median hourly rate £18.80 £22.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -16.44% +25.00% +5.63%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,326 1,414 2,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 90.99% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 838 1,303
10th Percentile £220 £202 £250
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 50 73
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.83 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.92 £18.77 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.88 £23.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -48.89% +153.95%
75th Percentile £38.53 £24.18 £61.50
90th Percentile £60.41 £35.30 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -19.08% -23.53% +25.00%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Analyst job vacancy trend in Scotland

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Scotland

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Scotland

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in Scotland

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 Analyst within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Glasgow -2 88 £425 +4.62% 22
Edinburgh -3 88 £450 +5.88% 14
West Lothian -1 5 £54 -80.66% 2
Dumfries and Galloway - 5 £260 -
Perthshire +4 4 £763 +110.34% 1
South Lanarkshire - 4 £610 - 3
Fife +2 1 £43 -85.83% 1
Lanarkshire - 1 £130 - 20
Inverclyde - 1 £450 -
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 50 (25.25%) Agile
2 47 (23.74%) SQL
3 34 (17.17%) Business Analysis
4 33 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (16.16%) Microsoft Excel
6 28 (14.14%) Microsoft
7 27 (13.64%) Data Analysis
8 26 (13.13%) Project Management
9 24 (12.12%) Degree
9 24 (12.12%) Migration
10 23 (11.62%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (11.62%) Data Modelling
10 23 (11.62%) Python
10 23 (11.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (11.11%) Azure
11 22 (11.11%) Data Quality
11 22 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (10.61%) Data Protection
12 21 (10.61%) ITIL
13 20 (10.10%) Analytics
14 19 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (9.09%) Change Management
15 18 (9.09%) Waterfall
16 17 (8.59%) Power Platform
17 16 (8.08%) User Acceptance Testing
17 16 (8.08%) Validation
18 15 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
18 15 (7.58%) Data Governance
18 15 (7.58%) DevOps
18 15 (7.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.53%) Confluence
3 2 (1.01%) Camunda
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (16.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (5.56%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.51%) iTrent
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.11%) Azure
2 17 (8.59%) Power Platform
3 14 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (5.05%) Snowflake
6 7 (3.54%) AWS
6 7 (3.54%) Lucidchart
6 7 (3.54%) Power Automate
6 7 (3.54%) Viva Engage
7 4 (2.02%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.01%) GCP
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.51%) Boomi
9 1 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.51%) OCI
9 1 (0.51%) SaaS
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.54%) DNS
1 7 (3.54%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.01%) VoIP
3 1 (0.51%) Firewall
3 1 (0.51%) Internet
3 1 (0.51%) Intranet
3 1 (0.51%) LAN
3 1 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.51%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) WAN
3 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.58%) Power BI
2 10 (5.05%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.54%) Metadata
4 6 (3.03%) Tick Data
5 5 (2.53%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.53%) Tableau
6 4 (2.02%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.01%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.51%) Big Data
9 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects XI
9 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.05%) JIRA
2 6 (3.03%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.51%) GitLab
3 1 (0.51%) TestComplete
3 1 (0.51%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (38.89%) Finance
2 72 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 57 (28.79%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (21.21%) Banking
5 26 (13.13%) Public Sector
6 17 (8.59%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (5.05%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.03%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.52%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.01%) French Language
10 2 (1.01%) Front Office
10 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.01%) Legal
10 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.51%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.54%) .NET
2 2 (1.01%) JSON
3 1 (0.51%) ADO
3 1 (0.51%) NumPy
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.51%) Pandas
3 1 (0.51%) PySpark
3 1 (0.51%) Swagger
3 1 (0.51%) XML
3 1 (0.51%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.08%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.07%) Data Protection Act
2 14 (7.07%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.05%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.04%) CMDB
6 7 (3.54%) Cyberattack
7 6 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.03%) Wiki
8 5 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.53%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.02%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.02%) Freedom of Information
10 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.01%) Derivative
11 2 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.51%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.57%) Linux
2 11 (5.56%) Windows
3 8 (4.04%) Unix
4 1 (0.51%) VMS
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.25%) Agile
2 34 (17.17%) Business Analysis
3 33 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (13.64%) Data Analysis
5 26 (13.13%) Project Management
6 24 (12.12%) Migration
7 23 (11.62%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (11.62%) Data Modelling
7 23 (11.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (10.61%) Data Protection
9 21 (10.61%) ITIL
10 20 (10.10%) Analytics
11 19 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (9.09%) Change Management
12 18 (9.09%) Waterfall
13 16 (8.08%) User Acceptance Testing
13 16 (8.08%) Validation
14 15 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
14 15 (7.58%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 47 (23.74%) SQL
2 23 (11.62%) Python
3 6 (3.03%) C#
3 6 (3.03%) C++
4 5 (2.53%) Perl
5 2 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.01%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.51%) Bicep
6 1 (0.51%) Java
6 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (12.12%) Degree
2 12 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.05%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.04%) CompTIA CySA+
4 8 (4.04%) CompTIA Security+
4 8 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.54%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.53%) CISSP
6 5 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.02%) CEH
7 4 (2.02%) GIAC
8 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.52%) CISM
9 2 (1.01%) GCIH
9 2 (1.01%) HND
9 2 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.01%) PMP
10 1 (0.51%) CBAP
10 1 (0.51%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.55%) PMO
3 6 (3.03%) GDPR
4 4 (2.02%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.52%) QA
6 2 (1.01%) GRC
6 2 (1.01%) MiFID
6 2 (1.01%) SLA
7 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) Basel III
7 1 (0.51%) COREP
7 1 (0.51%) FINREP
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) ISA Server
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.58%) Oracle
3 13 (6.57%) SAP
3 13 (6.57%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.05%) Splunk
5 6 (3.03%) Teradata
6 4 (2.02%) Workday
7 2 (1.01%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.01%) Databricks
7 2 (1.01%) Pega
7 2 (1.01%) Poppulo
7 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.01%) Snow
8 1 (0.51%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.51%) Ariba
8 1 (0.51%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.51%) IBM
8 1 (0.51%) Infor
8 1 (0.51%) Remedy
8 1 (0.51%) Reuters