Data Analysis Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 56 79
Rank change year-on-year -9 +23 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 53 60 46
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.78% 3.78% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 4.03% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 36 20
10th Percentile £322 £260 £397
25th Percentile £358 £300 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £478
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -10.99% +0.53%
75th Percentile £438 £500 £538
90th Percentile £474 £538 £559
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £16.24 - -
25th Percentile £16.61 - -
Median hourly rate £17.23 - £12.30
75th Percentile - - £25.17
90th Percentile - - £30.32
UK median hourly rate £24.71 £31.49 £27.83
% change year-on-year -21.54% +13.16% -10.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Analysis 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 1,566 1,487 1,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 82.16% 93.58% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 802 878 1,147
10th Percentile £284 £263 £221
25th Percentile £389 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -3.16% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 48 93
10th Percentile £12.60 £15.95 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.70 £17.30 £15.67
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.97 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +2.41% +34.48%
75th Percentile £50.00 £25.15 £40.94
90th Percentile £77.50 £50.06 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
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 Data Analysis within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 May 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 -1 30 £415 +0.61% 13
Edinburgh -14 20 £413 -13.16% 5
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 3
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
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 2 (3.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (3.77%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.89%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.09%) Power Platform
2 5 (9.43%) Azure
2 5 (9.43%) ChatGPT
3 4 (7.55%) GitHub
4 3 (5.66%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (5.66%) AWS
4 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.89%) Alation
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) SaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) Power BI
1 8 (15.09%) Relational Database
2 7 (13.21%) Metadata
3 4 (7.55%) DB2
3 4 (7.55%) Tableau
4 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.89%) Big Data
5 1 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.89%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) Git
General
1 27 (50.94%) Finance
2 25 (47.17%) Social Skills
3 15 (28.30%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Banking
4 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.43%) Front Office
6 4 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.66%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.89%) Back Office
9 1 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Military
9 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (62.26%) Analyst
2 19 (35.85%) Business Analyst
3 14 (26.42%) Data Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Data Business Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Python Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Senior
6 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Business Data Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) DB2 Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Information Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Junior
8 2 (3.77%) Junior Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Junior Data Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Celery
1 2 (3.77%) Kafka
1 2 (3.77%) PyTorch
1 2 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (3.77%) REST
1 2 (3.77%) RESTful
1 2 (3.77%) scikit-learn
1 2 (3.77%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.89%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) CMDB
2 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.43%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (9.43%) Equity Derivative
2 5 (9.43%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (9.43%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.55%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.55%) Derivative
3 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.66%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.89%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Unix
2 2 (3.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Agile
2 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (28.30%) Decision-Making
4 13 (24.53%) Business Analysis
4 13 (24.53%) Migration
5 11 (20.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (20.75%) Validation
6 10 (18.87%) Data Architecture
6 10 (18.87%) Data Lineage
7 9 (16.98%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
9 7 (13.21%) Data Modelling
10 6 (11.32%) AI
10 6 (11.32%) Change Management
10 6 (11.32%) DevOps
10 6 (11.32%) Project Management
10 6 (11.32%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (11.32%) Visualisation
11 5 (9.43%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 23 (43.40%) SQL
2 16 (30.19%) Python
3 7 (13.21%) Java
4 4 (7.55%) Perl
5 2 (3.77%) Bash
5 2 (3.77%) C++
5 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.42%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.43%) QA
3 3 (5.66%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (3.77%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.77%) ISO 8583
4 2 (3.77%) SLA
5 1 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.89%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.66%) Terraform
2 2 (3.77%) Ansible
2 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) ServiceNow
2 4 (7.55%) Sybase
3 3 (5.66%) Oracle
4 2 (3.77%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.77%) FIS
4 2 (3.77%) Fiserv
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.77%) SmartStream
4 2 (3.77%) Splunk
5 1 (1.89%) Databricks
5 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.89%) SAP
5 1 (1.89%) TOWER Software