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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 36 45
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 71 117 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.37% 5.28% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 5.96% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 73 118
10th Percentile £362 £414 £359
25th Percentile £416 £440 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £544 £656 £600
90th Percentile £610 £748 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £39.10
25th Percentile - - £45.25
Median hourly rate - £21.64 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year - -61.01% -
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - £71.90
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £30.19 £32.00
% change year-on-year +4.82% -5.67% -8.57%

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 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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

Analytics
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 1 May 2025. 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 +8 49 £497 -1.78% 68
Glasgow -25 19 £456 -4.95% 45
Argyll and Bute - 1 £205 - 1
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 4 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (4.23%) CMS
2 3 (4.23%) WordPress
3 2 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.82%) Confluence
4 1 (1.41%) Apache
4 1 (1.41%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.41%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.23%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.41%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) iTrent
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.76%) AWS
2 13 (18.31%) Azure
3 9 (12.68%) Amazon S3
3 9 (12.68%) Google Analytics
3 9 (12.68%) Power Platform
4 7 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.86%) Serverless
5 5 (7.04%) OCI
6 4 (5.63%) Oracle CX
6 4 (5.63%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.23%) GCP
7 3 (4.23%) Google Data Studio
8 2 (2.82%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.82%) GitHub
8 2 (2.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Internet
2 1 (1.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.90%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (12.68%) Tableau
3 7 (9.86%) Power BI
4 5 (7.04%) Oracle Database
4 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.63%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.82%) Big Data
7 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.82%) MariaDB
7 2 (2.82%) Metadata
7 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.82%) MySQL
7 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.82%) Power Query
7 2 (2.82%) Redis
8 1 (1.41%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Git
2 3 (4.23%) GitLab
2 3 (4.23%) JIRA
3 1 (1.41%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.41%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 21 (29.58%) Public Sector
3 19 (26.76%) Finance
4 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (12.68%) Banking
6 4 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Marketing
6 4 (5.63%) Retail
7 3 (4.23%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.82%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Front Office
9 1 (1.41%) Legal
9 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) Analyst
2 12 (16.90%) Lead
3 11 (15.49%) Developer
4 10 (14.08%) Data Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Senior
5 5 (7.04%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Performance Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.23%) Security Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Web Developer
8 2 (2.82%) Consultant
8 2 (2.82%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.82%) Report Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) Senior UX Designer
8 2 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.82%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) AWS CDK
1 5 (7.04%) HTML
1 5 (7.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (5.63%) CSS
2 4 (5.63%) Middleware
2 4 (5.63%) RESTful
3 3 (4.23%) Node.js
3 3 (4.23%) Pandas
3 3 (4.23%) React
3 3 (4.23%) Web Services
4 2 (2.82%) .NET
4 2 (2.82%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.82%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.82%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.82%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (2.82%) J2EE
4 2 (2.82%) JSON
4 2 (2.82%) NumPy
4 2 (2.82%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
1 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
2 3 (4.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.82%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.82%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.82%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.41%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.41%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Licensing
4 1 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) Agile
2 20 (28.17%) DevOps
3 18 (25.35%) Data Analytics
4 15 (21.13%) ETL
5 13 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (15.49%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (15.49%) CI/CD
7 11 (15.49%) Decision-Making
8 10 (14.08%) Business Analytics
8 10 (14.08%) Data Engineering
9 9 (12.68%) Data Analysis
9 9 (12.68%) Data Governance
10 8 (11.27%) Data Science
10 8 (11.27%) Visualisation
11 7 (9.86%) Customer Experience
11 7 (9.86%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (9.86%) Project Delivery
11 7 (9.86%) Translating Business Requirements
11 7 (9.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (35.21%) SQL
2 21 (29.58%) Python
3 7 (9.86%) Java
4 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.82%) Bash
6 2 (2.82%) Bicep
6 2 (2.82%) C#
6 2 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.41%) CoffeeScript
7 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.41%) R
7 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (16.90%) Degree
2 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) CISM
5 1 (1.41%) CISSP
5 1 (1.41%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.41%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.49%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.45%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (8.45%) WCAG
3 5 (7.04%) QA
4 3 (4.23%) PERC
5 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.41%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.23%) Grafana
3 2 (2.82%) Ansible
3 2 (2.82%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.82%) Terraform
4 1 (1.41%) CASB
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Oracle
2 9 (12.68%) Google
3 4 (5.63%) Adobe
3 4 (5.63%) Databricks
3 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.41%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.41%) Fiserv
5 1 (1.41%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.41%) Sparx