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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 51 76
Rank change year-on-year -11 +25 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 55 64 48
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.93% 4.04% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 4.31% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 39 22
10th Percentile £324 £262 £411
25th Percentile £358 £300 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £425 £478
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -10.99% +0.53%
75th Percentile £441 £500 £538
90th Percentile £482 £530 £573
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £16.24 - -
25th Percentile £16.61 - £12.30
Median hourly rate £17.23 - £18.28
75th Percentile - - £27.32
90th Percentile - - £31.18
UK median hourly rate £23.96 £29.07 £29.00
% change year-on-year -17.58% +0.24% -7.26%

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 1,531 1,484 1,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 81.70% 93.57% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 872 1,158
10th Percentile £282 £263 £219
25th Percentile £388 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 47 92
10th Percentile £12.60 £15.90 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.07 £15.92
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.83 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% +1.69% +21.95%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.66 £42.71
90th Percentile £77.50 £51.48 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 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 19 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 +3 30 £415 +0.61% 12
Edinburgh -11 22 £413 -13.16% 4
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 2
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 4 (7.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (3.64%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.82%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.55%) Power Platform
2 6 (10.91%) Azure
3 5 (9.09%) ChatGPT
4 4 (7.27%) AWS
4 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.27%) GitHub
5 3 (5.45%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.64%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.82%) Alation
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.82%) GCP
7 1 (1.82%) SaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) Power BI
1 8 (14.55%) Relational Database
2 7 (12.73%) Metadata
3 4 (7.27%) DB2
3 4 (7.27%) Tableau
4 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.64%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.82%) Big Data
5 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.82%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.82%) Git
General
1 29 (52.73%) Finance
2 25 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 15 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.55%) Banking
4 8 (14.55%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.09%) Front Office
6 4 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.64%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.82%) Back Office
9 1 (1.82%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Military
9 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (63.64%) Analyst
2 20 (36.36%) Business Analyst
3 15 (27.27%) Data Analyst
4 6 (10.91%) Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) Business Data Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) DB2 Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Information Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Junior
8 2 (3.64%) Perl Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Project Support Officer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) Celery
1 2 (3.64%) Kafka
1 2 (3.64%) PyTorch
1 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (3.64%) REST
1 2 (3.64%) RESTful
1 2 (3.64%) scikit-learn
1 2 (3.64%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.82%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) CMDB
1 6 (10.91%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.09%) Equity Derivative
2 5 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.27%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.27%) Derivative
3 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.27%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.45%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.82%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Unix
2 2 (3.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (34.55%) Agile
2 15 (27.27%) Decision-Making
2 15 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (23.64%) Business Analysis
3 13 (23.64%) Migration
4 11 (20.00%) Validation
5 10 (18.18%) Data Architecture
5 10 (18.18%) Data Lineage
5 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (16.36%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (14.55%) CI/CD
7 8 (14.55%) Data Modelling
8 7 (12.73%) DevOps
8 7 (12.73%) Project Management
8 7 (12.73%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (12.73%) Visualisation
9 6 (10.91%) AI
9 6 (10.91%) Data Protection
9 6 (10.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 24 (43.64%) SQL
2 16 (29.09%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) Java
4 4 (7.27%) Perl
5 2 (3.64%) Bash
5 2 (3.64%) C++
5 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) C#
6 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.45%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.09%) QA
3 3 (5.45%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (3.64%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.64%) ISO 8583
4 2 (3.64%) SLA
5 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.82%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.45%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) Ansible
2 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) ServiceNow
2 4 (7.27%) Sybase
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle
4 2 (3.64%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.64%) FIS
4 2 (3.64%) Fiserv
4 2 (3.64%) SmartStream
4 2 (3.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.82%) Databricks
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) TOWER Software