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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 62 88
Rank change year-on-year 0 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 54 60 46
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.22% 3.62% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 3.87% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 40 21
10th Percentile £268 £258 £315
25th Percentile £358 £300 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £456 £488 £538
90th Percentile £757 £528 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.47
25th Percentile - - £20.23
Median hourly rate £17.23 - £23.56
75th Percentile - - £27.32
90th Percentile - - £31.18
UK median hourly rate £24.71 £29.07 £26.66
% change year-on-year -15.00% +9.04% -17.46%

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 1,379 1,552 2,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 82.13% 93.66% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 947 1,225
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £375 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -5.21% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £611 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 43 93
10th Percentile £12.60 £16.86 £12.65
25th Percentile £13.42 £19.07 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +18.18%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.66 £48.00
90th Percentile £67.40 £54.86 £61.35
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £31.52 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.07% -4.48% -11.53%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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
Edinburgh 0 28 £413 -10.81% 6
Glasgow +12 25 £408 +2.97% 10
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 6 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.85%) iTrent
2 1 (1.85%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.52%) Azure
2 9 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 6 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.26%) AWS
5 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.70%) GCP
5 2 (3.70%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.85%) Alation
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Network Security
1 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Power BI
2 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.41%) Tableau
3 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.56%) Metadata
4 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.85%) Big Data
5 1 (1.85%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.85%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 27 (50.00%) Finance
3 16 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 7 (12.96%) Banking
6 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.56%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Billing
9 1 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (64.81%) Analyst
2 20 (37.04%) Business Analyst
3 14 (25.93%) Data Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) Project Officer
4 5 (9.26%) Project Support Officer
4 5 (9.26%) Support Officer
5 4 (7.41%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Senior
6 3 (5.56%) Business Data Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Information Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
8 1 (1.85%) Business Transformation Business Analyst
8 1 (1.85%) Lead
8 1 (1.85%) Python Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) Celery
1 1 (1.85%) CSS
1 1 (1.85%) HTML
1 1 (1.85%) Kafka
1 1 (1.85%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (1.85%) PyTorch
1 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.85%) REST
1 1 (1.85%) RESTful
1 1 (1.85%) scikit-learn
1 1 (1.85%) TensorFlow
1 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (11.11%) CMDB
3 5 (9.26%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (9.26%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
4 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.56%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Linux
1 3 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (46.30%) Agile
2 16 (29.63%) Decision-Making
3 13 (24.07%) Migration
3 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (22.22%) Business Analysis
5 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (18.52%) DevOps
6 10 (18.52%) Project Management
7 9 (16.67%) Visualisation
7 9 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
8 8 (14.81%) Data Modelling
8 8 (14.81%) Data Protection
8 8 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (14.81%) Validation
9 7 (12.96%) Issue Tracking
9 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (12.96%) Waterfall
10 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (11.11%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.04%) SQL
2 10 (18.52%) Python
3 2 (3.70%) Bash
3 2 (3.70%) Java
3 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.85%) C#
4 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (24.07%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (7.41%) QA
4 3 (5.56%) SLA
5 2 (3.70%) ISO 20022
5 2 (3.70%) ISO 8583
6 1 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
3 2 (3.70%) Ansible
3 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) Alteryx
3 2 (3.70%) FIS
3 2 (3.70%) Fiserv
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.70%) Pega
3 2 (3.70%) SmartStream
3 2 (3.70%) Splunk
4 1 (1.85%) Databricks
4 1 (1.85%) SAP
4 1 (1.85%) TOWER Software