Business Analytics Contracts in Scotland

Business Analytics
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Business Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business 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 106 126 161
Rank change year-on-year +20 +35 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Analytics 10 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.62% 0.14% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.15% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £408 £451 £410
25th Percentile £419 £452 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £456 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% +1.39% -20.35%
75th Percentile £509 £464 £475
90th Percentile £510 £467 £490
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.64 -
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £21.64 -
% change year-on-year +48.11% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Business 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%

Business Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analytics in Scotland

Business Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analytics in Scotland

Business Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Analytics in Scotland

Business 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 Business 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 +14 10 £463 +2.78% 6
Business Analytics
UK

Business 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 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) OCI
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle CX
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) Metadata
4 1 (10.00%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analytics Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Middleware
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) Great Expectations
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
2 6 (60.00%) ETL
3 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) CRM
4 4 (40.00%) ERP
4 4 (40.00%) Human Resource Management
4 4 (40.00%) SOA
4 4 (40.00%) Use Case
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
5 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (30.00%) Data Science
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle