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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 58 80
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 65 57 44
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.24% 3.58% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.86% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 33 18
10th Percentile £288 £259 £377
25th Percentile £325 £300 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £425 £478
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -10.99% +0.53%
75th Percentile £438 £500 £538
90th Percentile £482 £525 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £497
% change year-on-year - -4.37% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £16.24 - -
25th Percentile £16.61 - £12.30
Median hourly rate £17.23 - £13.40
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - £29.46
UK median hourly rate £24.71 £32.00 £26.66
% change year-on-year -22.78% +20.03% +14.79%

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 1,661 1,478 1,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 82.84% 92.90% 87.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 853 1,140
10th Percentile £286 £257 £220
25th Percentile £381 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% - -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £568
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 53 91
10th Percentile £12.62 £16.13 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.45 £17.30 £15.05
Median hourly rate £19.33 £19.97 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +2.41% +21.95%
75th Percentile £50.00 £25.15 £44.47
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.16 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +6 38 £390 -5.45% 9
Edinburgh -8 23 £413 -15.38% 3
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
Perthshire - 1 £575 -
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 7 (10.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (3.08%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.54%) iTrent
2 1 (1.54%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.85%) Power Platform
2 5 (7.69%) Azure
2 5 (7.69%) ChatGPT
3 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.15%) GitHub
4 3 (4.62%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.08%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.54%) Alation
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.54%) AWS
6 1 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) Power BI
2 8 (12.31%) MongoDB
2 8 (12.31%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.23%) DynamoDB
3 6 (9.23%) Metadata
4 4 (6.15%) Db2
5 3 (4.62%) Tableau
6 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.08%) Power Query
6 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.54%) Big Data
7 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) Git
General
1 33 (50.77%) Finance
2 32 (49.23%) Social Skills
3 23 (35.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Front Office
4 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Back Office
8 1 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Military
8 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (60.00%) Analyst
2 21 (32.31%) Business Analyst
3 13 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 7 (10.77%) Senior
5 6 (9.23%) Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Business Systems Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Administrator
8 3 (4.62%) Business Data Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (4.62%) Technical Business Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) DB2 Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Junior Data Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) JSON
2 2 (3.08%) Celery
2 2 (3.08%) Kafka
2 2 (3.08%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.08%) REST
2 2 (3.08%) RESTful
2 2 (3.08%) scikit-learn
2 2 (3.08%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.08%) Web Services
3 1 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.23%) CMDB
3 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.69%) Equity Derivative
3 5 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.15%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (6.15%) Derivative
4 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.62%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.54%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Agile
2 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (26.15%) Decision-Making
3 17 (26.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 16 (24.62%) Migration
5 15 (23.08%) Validation
6 13 (20.00%) Scrum
7 12 (18.46%) Business Analysis
8 11 (16.92%) Data Lineage
9 10 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (15.38%) Data Architecture
9 10 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (13.85%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (12.31%) AI
11 8 (12.31%) Data Modelling
12 7 (10.77%) Systems Analysis
13 6 (9.23%) Asset Management
13 6 (9.23%) Change Management
13 6 (9.23%) Data Validation
13 6 (9.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (38.46%) SQL
2 14 (21.54%) Python
3 7 (10.77%) Java
4 4 (6.15%) Perl
4 4 (6.15%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.08%) C++
6 1 (1.54%) C#
6 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) Degree
2 3 (4.62%) HND
3 1 (1.54%) Postgraduate
3 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.31%) QA
3 3 (4.62%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (3.08%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.08%) ISO 8583
4 2 (3.08%) SLA
5 1 (1.54%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Oracle
2 6 (9.23%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.15%) MuleSoft
3 4 (6.15%) Sybase
4 2 (3.08%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.08%) FIS
4 2 (3.08%) Fiserv
4 2 (3.08%) SmartStream
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.54%) SAP
5 1 (1.54%) TOWER Software