Analyst Contracts in Scotland

Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Analyst daily rate in Scotland is £416 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 343 446 589
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 15.89% 16.13% 16.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.84% 16.91% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 301 432
10th Percentile £158 £150 £150
25th Percentile £285 £280 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £418 £395
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +5.70% +5.33%
75th Percentile £495 £475 £439
90th Percentile £538 £525 £488
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 4
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.36 £13.02
25th Percentile £12.50 £12.92 £14.70
Median hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £29.10
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -50.17% -22.40%
75th Percentile £18.27 £17.22 £43.07
90th Percentile £24.47 £23.10 £43.33
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.23 £15.50
% change year-on-year -10.56% +17.58% -5.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,037 2,637 3,328
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 95.37% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,891 2,365
10th Percentile £200 £236 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 44 52
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.19 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.90 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -17.60% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.82 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 +1 142 £363 -14.71% 18
Edinburgh +3 128 £475 +18.75% 26
West Lothian -4 10 £240 +88.24% 1
Renfrewshire +3 8 £175 +52.17%
Aberdeen +2 7 £350 +100.00% 8
South Lanarkshire -4 7 £473 +18.13%
Lanarkshire 0 6 £413 +10.00% 4
Perthshire 0 5 £488 -2.50% 1
Highlands - 3 - -
Fife 0 2 - - 2
Midlothian - 2 - - 1
Inverclyde - 2 £172 -
Perth and Kinross +1 1 £525 +23.53% 1
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 Scotland region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 130 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 97 (28.28%) Public Sector
3 93 (27.11%) Microsoft
4 89 (25.95%) Finance
5 83 (24.20%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (20.41%) Agile
7 64 (18.66%) Microsoft Excel
8 57 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (15.45%) Business Analysis
10 49 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (11.66%) Power BI
11 40 (11.66%) Power Platform
12 38 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
14 31 (9.04%) Analytics
14 31 (9.04%) SharePoint
15 30 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
16 29 (8.45%) ITIL
17 28 (8.16%) Change Management
17 28 (8.16%) Data Analysis
18 27 (7.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
18 27 (7.87%) Banking
18 27 (7.87%) Project Management
18 27 (7.87%) User Stories
19 26 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
19 26 (7.58%) Customer Service
20 25 (7.29%) Requirements Gathering
20 25 (7.29%) JIRA
21 24 (7.00%) Oracle
22 23 (6.71%) ERP

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 31 (9.04%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.75%) Confluence
2 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.87%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) Moodle
5 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 64 (18.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (7.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (5.54%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.75%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Maximo
1 4 (1.17%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.87%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (0.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.29%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 40 (11.66%) Power Platform
2 35 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (5.54%) Azure
4 15 (4.37%) Yammer
5 13 (3.79%) Power Automate
6 11 (3.21%) OCI
6 11 (3.21%) PowerApps
7 10 (2.92%) AWS
8 9 (2.62%) Snowflake
9 8 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.75%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.46%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.17%) SaaS
13 3 (0.87%) GCP
14 2 (0.58%) Google Sheets
14 2 (0.58%) IaaS
14 2 (0.58%) IBM Blueworks
14 2 (0.58%) PaaS
14 2 (0.58%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.87%) Internet
1 3 (0.87%) Skype
2 2 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.29%) DNS
3 1 (0.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (0.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.29%) Intranet
3 1 (0.29%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) SAN
3 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.66%) Power BI
2 10 (2.92%) Tableau
3 7 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.17%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.58%) GIS
5 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.58%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.29%) Big Data
6 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 1 (0.29%) Power Query
6 1 (0.29%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (7.29%) JIRA
2 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.58%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.58%) ERwin
2 2 (0.58%) Git
2 2 (0.58%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.58%) Postman
2 2 (0.58%) Selenium
2 2 (0.58%) Subversion
2 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
2 2 (0.58%) TestComplete
2 2 (0.58%) Tricentis qTest
2 2 (0.58%) WebDriver
2 2 (0.58%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.29%) SilkCentral
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 130 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 97 (28.28%) Public Sector
3 89 (25.95%) Finance
4 83 (24.20%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.87%) Banking
6 16 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.08%) Legal
8 13 (3.79%) Publishing
9 10 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.17%) Back Office
13 4 (1.17%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Marketing
14 3 (0.87%) Police
14 3 (0.87%) Retail
15 2 (0.58%) Billing
15 2 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.17%) SailPoint
3 3 (0.87%) .NET
4 2 (0.58%) JSON
4 2 (0.58%) Web Services
4 2 (0.58%) XML
5 1 (0.29%) Middleware
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.29%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.29%) XSD
5 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.54%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.79%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (2.62%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.33%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
5 7 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.75%) Credit Risk
6 6 (1.75%) Wiki
7 4 (1.17%) DTCC
7 4 (1.17%) iPhone
7 4 (1.17%) Market Risk
7 4 (1.17%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.87%) CMDB
8 3 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.58%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.58%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.58%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.58%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.58%) NHS
9 2 (0.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.25%) Windows
2 13 (3.79%) Windows 10
3 8 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.17%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (20.41%) Agile
2 57 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (15.45%) Business Analysis
4 49 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 38 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (9.04%) Analytics
7 30 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
8 29 (8.45%) ITIL
9 28 (8.16%) Change Management
9 28 (8.16%) Data Analysis
10 27 (7.87%) Project Management
10 27 (7.87%) User Stories
11 26 (7.58%) Customer Service
11 26 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (7.29%) Requirements Gathering
13 23 (6.71%) ERP
13 23 (6.71%) Roadmaps
14 20 (5.83%) Use Case
15 19 (5.54%) Scrum
16 18 (5.25%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.54%) SQL
2 4 (1.17%) C#
2 4 (1.17%) Java
2 4 (1.17%) Python
3 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
4 2 (0.58%) C++
4 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.58%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.58%) VBA
4 2 (0.58%) VBScript
5 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (5.83%) Degree
1 20 (5.83%) Security Cleared
2 19 (5.54%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.62%) CISM
3 9 (2.62%) MCP
4 7 (2.04%) CISSP
4 7 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.46%) ACCA
5 5 (1.46%) CIMA
5 5 (1.46%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.17%) HNC
7 3 (0.87%) CISA
7 3 (0.87%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (0.87%) ISEB
7 3 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.58%) CRISC
9 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.41%) Disclosure Scotland
2 21 (6.12%) PMO
3 13 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.79%) QA
4 9 (2.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 7 (2.04%) SLA
6 4 (1.17%) NIST
7 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.58%) GDPR
7 2 (0.58%) P3O
8 1 (0.29%) Basel III
8 1 (0.29%) COBIT
8 1 (0.29%) COREP
8 1 (0.29%) FINREP
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 21 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.87%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.46%) SCCM
2 3 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.58%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.58%) Terraform
4 1 (0.29%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Nessus
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (27.11%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.00%) Oracle
3 11 (3.21%) Atlassian
3 11 (3.21%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.62%) Alteryx
5 8 (2.33%) Cadence
6 7 (2.04%) Qualys
7 6 (1.75%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.46%) Apple
8 5 (1.46%) HP
8 5 (1.46%) IFS
9 4 (1.17%) Dell
9 4 (1.17%) Google
9 4 (1.17%) SAP
9 4 (1.17%) Splunk
10 3 (0.87%) Ariba
10 3 (0.87%) CA
10 3 (0.87%) Citrix
11 2 (0.58%) Informatica
11 2 (0.58%) Mitel