Analyst Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Analyst daily rate in Scotland is £418, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 275 276 307
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 12.12% 16.19% 15.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.99% 17.51% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 160 197
10th Percentile £300 £263 £163
25th Percentile £360 £363 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £435 £375
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +16.07% -11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £488
90th Percentile £538 £550 £535
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £455
% change year-on-year - -1.10% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 17
10th Percentile - £16.02 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.63 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.99 £19.59 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.38% +30.60% +3.45%
75th Percentile £55.50 £21.19 £18.56
90th Percentile £95.00 £25.80 £20.41
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £22.14 £18.14
% change year-on-year +12.92% +22.08% -2.04%

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 2,117 1,576 1,916
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 92.43% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 921 1,195
10th Percentile £288 £231 £200
25th Percentile £390 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £550
90th Percentile £651 £600 £646
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 63 91
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.02 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.97 £16.96 £14.73
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.83 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.50% +10.17% +1.58%
75th Percentile £61.50 £25.73 £40.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.50 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +73.72% -37.13% -6.98%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +3 148 £401 -5.65% 18
Edinburgh -7 95 £438 -4.11% 14
Renfrewshire -1 6 - - 3
Aberdeen +3 5 - - 4
South Lanarkshire -4 5 £650 +38.30% 3
Perthshire +2 4 £575 -
Lanarkshire +1 2 £463 +255.77% 18
West Lothian -3 1 - - 1
Inverclyde - 1 £538 -
Highlands - 1 £350 - 2
Perth and Kinross - 1 £575 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 - -
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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 76 (27.64%) Agile
2 50 (18.18%) Business Analysis
2 50 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 47 (17.09%) Data Analysis
4 46 (16.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 44 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (15.27%) SQL
7 36 (13.09%) Microsoft Excel
8 35 (12.73%) Microsoft
9 34 (12.36%) Azure
10 33 (12.00%) Scrum
11 32 (11.64%) JIRA
11 32 (11.64%) Requirements Gathering
12 31 (11.27%) Migration
12 31 (11.27%) Security Cleared
13 30 (10.91%) User Stories
14 28 (10.18%) Decision-Making
15 27 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (9.45%) User Acceptance Testing
16 26 (9.45%) Workshop Facilitation
17 25 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
17 25 (9.09%) ServiceNow
18 24 (8.73%) Confluence
18 24 (8.73%) Power BI
18 24 (8.73%) Power Platform
19 23 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
19 23 (8.36%) Oracle
20 22 (8.00%) ITSM
21 21 (7.64%) Data Quality
21 21 (7.64%) SC Cleared

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 24 (8.73%) Confluence
2 13 (4.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.36%) Camunda
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (13.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (6.55%) MS Visio
3 15 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (1.09%) Primavera
2 2 (0.73%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.73%) Sonata
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.36%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 34 (12.36%) Azure
2 24 (8.73%) Power Platform
3 23 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.36%) AWS
6 6 (2.18%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.82%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.45%) GCP
9 3 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.09%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.09%) SaaS
10 2 (0.73%) Alation
10 2 (0.73%) Lucidchart
10 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.36%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.36%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.91%) DNS
2 3 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.09%) VPN
2 3 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.73%) Internet
3 2 (0.73%) Network Security
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) Intranet
4 1 (0.36%) SSL
4 1 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.73%) Power BI
2 11 (4.00%) DynamoDB
2 11 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.91%) Tableau
4 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.09%) Power Query
6 2 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.36%) Big Data
7 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.36%) Metadata
7 1 (0.36%) QlikView
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (11.64%) JIRA
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (1.09%) Selenium
3 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 94 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 93 (33.82%) Finance
3 58 (21.09%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.64%) Banking
5 31 (11.27%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.55%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.91%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.18%) Law
9 6 (2.18%) Legal
10 5 (1.82%) Front Office
11 4 (1.45%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.45%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.09%) Retail
12 3 (1.09%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.73%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.00%) JSON
2 6 (2.18%) Web Services
3 1 (0.36%) .NET
3 1 (0.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.73%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.09%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.73%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.64%) CMDB
5 5 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.09%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.09%) Derivative
7 3 (1.09%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.73%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.73%) OTC Derivatives
8 2 (0.73%) PMI
8 2 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.82%) Windows
2 9 (3.27%) Linux
3 5 (1.82%) Unix
3 5 (1.82%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.45%) Android
4 4 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (27.64%) Agile
2 50 (18.18%) Business Analysis
2 50 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 47 (17.09%) Data Analysis
4 46 (16.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 44 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (12.00%) Scrum
7 32 (11.64%) Requirements Gathering
8 31 (11.27%) Migration
9 30 (10.91%) User Stories
10 28 (10.18%) Decision-Making
11 27 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (9.45%) User Acceptance Testing
12 26 (9.45%) Workshop Facilitation
13 25 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (8.00%) ITSM
15 20 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (7.27%) Validation
16 19 (6.91%) Asset Management
17 18 (6.55%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.27%) SQL
2 18 (6.55%) Python
3 10 (3.64%) PL/SQL
4 5 (1.82%) Perl
5 4 (1.45%) Java
6 2 (0.73%) C#
6 2 (0.73%) VB
7 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (11.27%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.64%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.00%) Degree
4 9 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (1.09%) CBAP
7 3 (1.09%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.09%) IIBA
7 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.09%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.73%) ISEB
8 2 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CEH
9 1 (0.36%) CISM
9 1 (0.36%) CISSP
9 1 (0.36%) GIAC
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.64%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.36%) QA
3 11 (4.00%) PMO
4 6 (2.18%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.09%) SLA
6 2 (0.73%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.73%) NIST
6 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) P3O
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (5.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.36%) CASB
Vendors
1 35 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 23 (8.36%) Oracle
4 9 (3.27%) MuleSoft
5 8 (2.91%) Citrix
6 6 (2.18%) Splunk
7 5 (1.82%) SAP
8 4 (1.45%) Calypso
8 4 (1.45%) IFS
9 3 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.09%) Tenable
10 2 (0.73%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.73%) FIS
10 2 (0.73%) Fiserv
10 2 (0.73%) Google
10 2 (0.73%) SmartStream
10 2 (0.73%) Workday
11 1 (0.36%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.36%) FNZ