Analytics Contracts in Scotland

Analytics
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 55 52
Rank change year-on-year +19 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 93 102 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.96% 4.15% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 4.51% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 80 124
10th Percentile £285 £400 £328
25th Percentile £375 £418 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -1.04% +7.87%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £538
90th Percentile £750 £638 £711
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.04 - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.38 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.13% +1.07% +23.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,261 3,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.39% 91.95% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 1,465 2,227
10th Percentile £207 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £563
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 59 56
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.13 £12.52
25th Percentile £14.28 £13.71 £14.91
Median hourly rate £19.94 £19.18 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -10.79% +30.30%
75th Percentile £24.18 £58.89 £41.29
90th Percentile £45.23 £74.60 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £28.90
% change year-on-year +1.18% +47.06% +34.42%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in Scotland

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in Scotland

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Scotland

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in Scotland

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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 Analytics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Edinburgh +17 46 £450 -8.91% 16
Glasgow +7 31 £510 +13.22% 25
South Lanarkshire +17 8 £750 +66.67%
Aberdeen -1 1 - - 1
Dundee - 1 £204 - 1
Fife - 1 £300 -
Analytics
UK

Analytics
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 11 (11.83%) Confluence
2 7 (7.53%) CMS
3 3 (3.23%) Apache
3 3 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.23%) SAS
4 2 (2.15%) Mule
5 1 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.08%) GeoServer
5 1 (1.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Actimize
1 2 (2.15%) Maximo
2 1 (1.08%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.43%) AWS
2 11 (11.83%) OpenShift
3 10 (10.75%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.53%) Amazon S3
4 7 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (7.53%) Serverless
5 5 (5.38%) Azure
6 4 (4.30%) Canva
6 4 (4.30%) GCP
6 4 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.23%) Adverity
7 3 (3.23%) Google Analytics
7 3 (3.23%) Google Data Studio
7 3 (3.23%) Google Sheets
7 3 (3.23%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.23%) Sprout Social
8 2 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.15%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.83%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.98%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.75%) Power BI
2 10 (10.75%) Tableau
3 7 (7.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (5.38%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.23%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.15%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.15%) Informix
7 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.08%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.08%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.08%) GIS
8 1 (1.08%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.08%) HBase
8 1 (1.08%) Impala
Development Applications
1 16 (17.20%) JIRA
2 9 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.15%) GitLab
5 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.08%) JMeter
5 1 (1.08%) JUnit
5 1 (1.08%) Selenium
5 1 (1.08%) TestCafe
5 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (43.01%) Social Skills
2 27 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (29.03%) Public Sector
3 22 (23.66%) Finance
4 10 (10.75%) Banking
5 9 (9.68%) Retail Banking
6 6 (6.45%) Marketing
7 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.08%) Front Office
9 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Local Government
9 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (22.58%) Developer
2 11 (11.83%) Applications Engineer
2 11 (11.83%) JIRA Engineer
2 11 (11.83%) Senior
3 10 (10.75%) Analyst
4 8 (8.60%) Applications Support
4 8 (8.60%) Applications Support Engineer
4 8 (8.60%) Consultant
4 8 (8.60%) Database Engineer
4 8 (8.60%) Monitoring Engineer
4 8 (8.60%) Support Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.38%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.30%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Tableau Specialist
8 3 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Designer
8 3 (3.23%) Social Media Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.66%) REST
2 11 (11.83%) Spring
2 11 (11.83%) Spring Boot
3 8 (8.60%) Web Services
4 7 (7.53%) AWS CDK
4 7 (7.53%) React
5 6 (6.45%) OAuth
5 6 (6.45%) OAuth2
6 5 (5.38%) CSS
6 5 (5.38%) HTML
7 4 (4.30%) .NET
7 4 (4.30%) Spring Security
8 3 (3.23%) PostGIS
8 3 (3.23%) Spring MVC
8 3 (3.23%) Spring Web Flow
8 3 (3.23%) Thymeleaf
9 2 (2.15%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.15%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.15%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.83%) Cyber Threat
1 11 (11.83%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.75%) Management Information System
3 9 (9.68%) Social Media
4 7 (7.53%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.38%) Mobile App
6 4 (4.30%) CMDB
7 3 (3.23%) Blog
7 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.15%) Podcast
8 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.15%) Video Editing
9 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.08%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.18%) Agile
2 26 (27.96%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (19.35%) DevOps
4 16 (17.20%) Data Analytics
5 14 (15.05%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (15.05%) Microservices
6 13 (13.98%) CI/CD
6 13 (13.98%) Workflow
7 12 (12.90%) Code Quality
7 12 (12.90%) Data Analysis
7 12 (12.90%) Human-Centred Design
7 12 (12.90%) Inclusive Design
7 12 (12.90%) Migration
7 12 (12.90%) Test Automation
7 12 (12.90%) User Experience
8 11 (11.83%) Data Migration
8 11 (11.83%) Kalman Filter
8 11 (11.83%) Pair Programming
8 11 (11.83%) Service Management
8 11 (11.83%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.35%) SQL
2 13 (13.98%) Java
2 13 (13.98%) Python
3 10 (10.75%) TypeScript
4 8 (8.60%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.15%) C#
6 1 (1.08%) Bash
6 1 (1.08%) Groovy
6 1 (1.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.53%) Degree
3 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.08%) CISSP
5 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 9 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.45%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (4.30%) GRC
4 4 (4.30%) PMO
5 1 (1.08%) COBIT
5 1 (1.08%) COSO
5 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.08%) GDPR
5 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.08%) ITGC
5 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) RACF
3 1 (1.08%) HDFS
3 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (13.98%) Grafana
2 5 (5.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.23%) SysTrack
4 2 (2.15%) Kibana
4 2 (2.15%) Terraform
5 1 (1.08%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (12.90%) Atlassian
2 6 (6.45%) Adobe
2 6 (6.45%) Facebook
2 6 (6.45%) Google
2 6 (6.45%) Instagram
3 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.38%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.38%) Twitter
3 5 (5.38%) YouTube
4 4 (4.30%) Databricks
5 3 (3.23%) Brandwatch
5 3 (3.23%) Hootsuite
5 3 (3.23%) Nexthink
5 3 (3.23%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.15%) Dataiku
6 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.08%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.08%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (1.08%) Snow