Data Analysis Contracts in Scotland

Data Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis 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 56 84 94
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 63 45 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.88% 2.03% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 2.29% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 17 50
10th Percentile £262 £406 £321
25th Percentile £306 £458 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £496 £538 £550
90th Percentile £530 £560 £590
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £12.67
25th Percentile - £12.30 £13.22
Median hourly rate - £22.87 £14.15
Median % change year-on-year - +61.68% -64.64%
75th Percentile - £25.17 £15.07
90th Percentile - £30.32 £15.62
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £29.00 £33.65
% change year-on-year +0.24% -13.82% -3.86%

All Process and 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 1,518 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%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

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 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
Glasgow +16 32 £400 -9.09% 18
Edinburgh +19 30 £475 -13.64% 22
Dundee - 1 £200 - 2
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
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 8 (12.70%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) SAS
2 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.17%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.59%) CMS
4 1 (1.59%) Drupal
Applications
1 15 (23.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (17.46%) MS Visio
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (7.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.59%) Acrobat
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) Power Platform
2 4 (6.35%) AWS
3 3 (4.76%) OCI
3 3 (4.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.59%) Apigee
4 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.59%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (1.59%) Azure
4 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) VPN
2 4 (6.35%) Network Security
3 1 (1.59%) Internet
3 1 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.59%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) Power BI
1 10 (15.87%) Tableau
2 7 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.35%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.59%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.59%) DB2
6 1 (1.59%) Metadata
6 1 (1.59%) MS Access
6 1 (1.59%) QlikView
6 1 (1.59%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (17.46%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) Toad
3 1 (1.59%) GitLab
3 1 (1.59%) Postman
General
1 36 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 26 (41.27%) Finance
3 18 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (26.98%) Banking
5 13 (20.63%) Public Sector
6 7 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.76%) Retail
9 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.17%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Front Office
10 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (52.38%) Analyst
2 17 (26.98%) Business Analyst
3 12 (19.05%) Data Analyst
4 5 (7.94%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Developer
5 4 (6.35%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Business Data Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Data Modeller
6 3 (4.76%) ETL Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) ITSM Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) ITSM Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Re-Platforming Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) SAS Architect
6 3 (4.76%) SAS Data Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) SAS Modeller
6 3 (4.76%) Senior
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (1.59%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.59%) CSS
2 1 (1.59%) J2EE
2 1 (1.59%) Kafka
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.59%) PySpark
2 1 (1.59%) SOAP
2 1 (1.59%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.59%) Swagger
2 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (7.94%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.35%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.35%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (6.35%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.17%) Derivative
5 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.59%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.59%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Equities
6 1 (1.59%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.59%) PDA
6 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.59%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Linux
1 6 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
2 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.59%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.98%) Data Modelling
2 15 (23.81%) Agile
2 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (20.63%) Decision-Making
4 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (15.87%) Visualisation
5 9 (14.29%) Analytics
5 9 (14.29%) DevOps
6 8 (12.70%) Business Analysis
6 8 (12.70%) Migration
6 8 (12.70%) Requirements Gathering
6 8 (12.70%) User Stories
7 7 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 7 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 7 (11.11%) ITSM
7 7 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
7 7 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
8 6 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.86%) SQL
2 11 (17.46%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.17%) Perl
4 2 (3.17%) R
5 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.59%) Java
5 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) Degree
2 1 (1.59%) A+ Certification
2 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.59%) ISACA
2 1 (1.59%) MCP
2 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.46%) QA
2 6 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.35%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 3 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) ServiceCenter
2 1 (1.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Oracle
3 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.59%) Adobe
4 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.59%) Bomgar
4 1 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco
4 1 (1.59%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.59%) HP
4 1 (1.59%) Peregrine
4 1 (1.59%) Remedy
4 1 (1.59%) Reuters