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 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 205 254 384
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 13.37% 15.61% 16.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.71% 16.96% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 168 242
10th Percentile £258 £190 £152
25th Percentile £350 £325 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £409 £410
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% -0.24% -1.86%
75th Percentile £519 £460 £488
90th Percentile £646 £529 £538
UK median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 8
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.50 £12.44
25th Percentile £20.42 - £14.69
Median hourly rate £30.50 £19.59 £17.46
Median % change year-on-year +55.69% +12.20% +10.54%
75th Percentile £37.88 £24.18 £23.92
90th Percentile £51.25 £30.25 £35.93
UK median hourly rate £18.57 £24.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -24.20% +38.89% +3.76%

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 1,394 1,498 2,258
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.07% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 891 1,392
10th Percentile £216 £205 £250
25th Percentile £365 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 46 98
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.13 £12.29
25th Percentile £17.27 £17.46 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.09 £22.94 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -49.03% +153.95%
75th Percentile £55.63 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £65.27 £34.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.65 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.17% -5.71% -

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +1 100 £425 +3.03% 32
Edinburgh -5 80 £425 - 35
South Lanarkshire - 8 £610 - 2
West Lothian +1 5 £54 -85.16% 1
Dumfries and Galloway - 5 £260 -
Perthshire +5 4 £763 +110.34%
Fife +4 1 £43 -85.83% 1
Renfrewshire - 1 - - 2
Inverclyde - 1 £450 -
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 February 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 54 (26.34%) Agile
2 49 (23.90%) SQL
3 40 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (16.10%) Business Analysis
5 30 (14.63%) Data Analysis
6 29 (14.15%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (13.17%) Data Quality
7 27 (13.17%) Microsoft Excel
7 27 (13.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 26 (12.68%) Degree
8 26 (12.68%) Microsoft
9 24 (11.71%) Change Management
9 24 (11.71%) Project Management
10 23 (11.22%) Azure
10 23 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (10.73%) Analytics
11 22 (10.73%) ITIL
11 22 (10.73%) Python
12 21 (10.24%) Data Modelling
13 20 (9.76%) Power Platform
14 19 (9.27%) Data Protection
14 19 (9.27%) DevOps
14 19 (9.27%) Security Cleared
15 17 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (8.29%) Decision-Making
15 17 (8.29%) Migration
15 17 (8.29%) Power BI
16 16 (7.80%) ServiceNow
16 16 (7.80%) SIEM
16 16 (7.80%) User Acceptance Testing

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 7 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.95%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.98%) Camunda
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.49%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (13.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.85%) MS Visio
3 9 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.44%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.49%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.49%) iTrent
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.22%) Azure
2 20 (9.76%) Power Platform
3 13 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (5.37%) Snowflake
6 10 (4.88%) Power Automate
7 8 (3.90%) AWS
7 8 (3.90%) Lucidchart
8 4 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.98%) GCP
9 2 (0.98%) Viva Engage
10 1 (0.49%) Alation
10 1 (0.49%) Boomi
10 1 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.49%) OCI
10 1 (0.49%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.49%) SaaS
10 1 (0.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.37%) DNS
1 11 (5.37%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.49%) Firewall
2 1 (0.49%) Internet
2 1 (0.49%) Intranet
2 1 (0.49%) LAN
2 1 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.49%) VoIP
2 1 (0.49%) VPN
2 1 (0.49%) WAN
2 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.29%) Power BI
2 12 (5.85%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.41%) Metadata
4 6 (2.93%) Tableau
4 6 (2.93%) Tick Data
5 5 (2.44%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.95%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.49%) Big Data
9 1 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.49%) BusinessObjects XI
9 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.49%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.49%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 9 (4.39%) JIRA
2 6 (2.93%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.98%) GitLab
4 1 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.49%) TestComplete
4 1 (0.49%) Tricentis qTest
4 1 (0.49%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (36.59%) Finance
2 72 (35.12%) Social Skills
3 47 (22.93%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (16.10%) Banking
5 28 (13.66%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.85%) Investment Banking
7 10 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.90%) Retail Banking
9 5 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.95%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.95%) Law
10 4 (1.95%) Legal
11 3 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.46%) Front Office
11 3 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.46%) Retail
12 2 (0.98%) French Language
12 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.41%) .NET
2 1 (0.49%) ADO
2 1 (0.49%) NumPy
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.49%) Pandas
2 1 (0.49%) PySpark
2 1 (0.49%) Swagger
2 1 (0.49%) XML
2 1 (0.49%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.29%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (7.80%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (7.32%) Management Information System
4 13 (6.34%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (5.37%) Cyberattack
6 10 (4.88%) CMDB
7 8 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (3.41%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.93%) Wiki
10 5 (2.44%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.95%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 1 (0.49%) Credit Risk
14 1 (0.49%) FMCG
14 1 (0.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.80%) Windows
2 14 (6.83%) Linux
3 6 (2.93%) Unix
4 2 (0.98%) VMS
4 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (26.34%) Agile
2 40 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (16.10%) Business Analysis
4 30 (14.63%) Data Analysis
5 29 (14.15%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (13.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 24 (11.71%) Change Management
7 24 (11.71%) Project Management
8 23 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (10.73%) Analytics
9 22 (10.73%) ITIL
10 21 (10.24%) Data Modelling
11 19 (9.27%) Data Protection
11 19 (9.27%) DevOps
12 17 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (8.29%) Decision-Making
12 17 (8.29%) Migration
13 16 (7.80%) SIEM
13 16 (7.80%) User Acceptance Testing
13 16 (7.80%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.90%) SQL
2 22 (10.73%) Python
3 6 (2.93%) C#
3 6 (2.93%) C++
4 3 (1.46%) Perl
5 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.49%) Bicep
6 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (12.68%) Degree
2 19 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.85%) CompTIA Security+
4 12 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.37%) CompTIA CySA+
5 11 (5.37%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.46%) CEH
7 3 (1.46%) CISSP
7 3 (1.46%) GIAC
8 2 (0.98%) CISM
8 2 (0.98%) IIBA
8 2 (0.98%) PMP
9 1 (0.49%) CBAP
9 1 (0.49%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.49%) GCIH
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.17%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.90%) PMO
3 4 (1.95%) QA
4 3 (1.46%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.46%) SLA
5 2 (0.98%) GDPR
5 2 (0.98%) GRC
5 2 (0.98%) MiFID
5 2 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) ISA Server
2 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.80%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.32%) Oracle
4 14 (6.83%) Splunk
5 13 (6.34%) SAP
6 6 (2.93%) Teradata
7 4 (1.95%) Workday
8 2 (0.98%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.98%) Databricks
8 2 (0.98%) Pega
8 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.98%) Snow
9 1 (0.49%) Ariba
9 1 (0.49%) Citrix
9 1 (0.49%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.49%) IBM
9 1 (0.49%) Infor
9 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.49%) Remedy