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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 58 65
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 77 61 50
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.20% 3.82% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 4.24% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 27
10th Percentile £282 £309 £334
25th Percentile £316 £341 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £461 £521 £488
90th Percentile £549 £550 £515
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £484
% change year-on-year +2.11% -1.76% -5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £16.04 - £12.52
25th Percentile £16.12 - £12.85
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £13.40
75th Percentile £17.12 - £13.95
90th Percentile £17.35 - £14.28
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.50 £30.88
% change year-on-year -9.84% -1.21% -2.53%

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 2,035 1,438 1,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 84.44% 90.10% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,070 795 943
10th Percentile £263 £263 £207
25th Percentile £378 £396 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +3.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £604 £670
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 99 44
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.44 £12.41
25th Percentile £13.77 £17.87 £14.88
Median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £19.94
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +0.31% +5.32%
75th Percentile £38.75 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £63.13 £41.16 £43.58
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 52 £400 -4.76% 22
Edinburgh -16 17 £325 -35.00% 8
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 1
Lanarkshire - 2 £625 - 1
Perthshire - 1 £575 -
Stirling - 1 - -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £510 -
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 14 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (19.48%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.30%) Civil 3D
5 1 (1.30%) Navisworks
5 1 (1.30%) ProjectWise
5 1 (1.30%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.60%) MultiFonds
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.30%) Primavera
2 1 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.49%) ChatGPT
3 3 (3.90%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (3.90%) Azure
3 3 (3.90%) GitHub
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (2.60%) AWS
4 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.30%) GCP
5 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.30%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.30%) Miro
5 1 (1.30%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.38%) Power BI
2 12 (15.58%) MongoDB
3 10 (12.99%) DynamoDB
3 10 (12.99%) Metadata
4 7 (9.09%) Tableau
5 5 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.49%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.19%) Db2
7 3 (3.90%) Power Query
7 3 (3.90%) Star Schema
8 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects XI
9 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.30%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.30%) ERwin
2 1 (1.30%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.30%) PowerDesigner
General
1 42 (54.55%) Finance
2 37 (48.05%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (38.96%) Social Skills
4 19 (24.68%) Banking
5 9 (11.69%) Front Office
6 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.90%) Retail
7 3 (3.90%) Retail Banking
7 3 (3.90%) Retail Finance
8 2 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Advertising
9 1 (1.30%) Back Office
9 1 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (63.64%) Analyst
2 21 (27.27%) Business Analyst
3 18 (23.38%) Data Analyst
4 9 (11.69%) Business Systems Analyst
4 9 (11.69%) Systems Analyst
5 8 (10.39%) Senior
6 7 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (7.79%) Data Business Analyst
7 6 (7.79%) Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Administrator
8 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Systems Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (3.90%) Accountant
9 3 (3.90%) Lead
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Systems Accountant
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) JSON
2 6 (7.79%) Web Services
3 1 (1.30%) Celery
3 1 (1.30%) Kafka
3 1 (1.30%) LightGBM
3 1 (1.30%) Matplotlib
3 1 (1.30%) Middleware
3 1 (1.30%) MIDP
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.30%) Pandas
3 1 (1.30%) Plotly
3 1 (1.30%) PySpark
3 1 (1.30%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.30%) REST
3 1 (1.30%) RESTful
3 1 (1.30%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.30%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.30%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.79%) Derivative
3 5 (6.49%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (5.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (3.90%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.90%) Equities
5 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.60%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.60%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.30%) CMDB
7 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.30%) NHS
7 1 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (32.47%) Agile
3 23 (29.87%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (24.68%) Business Analysis
6 16 (20.78%) Scrum
7 15 (19.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (15.58%) Migration
8 12 (15.58%) Process Improvement
8 12 (15.58%) User Acceptance Testing
9 11 (14.29%) Data Mapping
9 11 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 11 (14.29%) User Stories
10 10 (12.99%) AI
10 10 (12.99%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (12.99%) Data Lineage
10 10 (12.99%) Requirements Gathering
10 10 (12.99%) Sequence Diagram
10 10 (12.99%) Validation
11 9 (11.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 35 (45.45%) SQL
2 14 (18.18%) Python
3 8 (10.39%) PL/SQL
4 6 (7.79%) Java
5 4 (5.19%) Perl
6 3 (3.90%) R
7 2 (2.60%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (7.79%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.19%) HND
3 3 (3.90%) Postgraduate
4 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) ACCA
5 1 (1.30%) CIMA
5 1 (1.30%) CIPD
5 1 (1.30%) Degree
5 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.49%) QA
3 4 (5.19%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.60%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.60%) GDPR
5 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.30%) GRC
5 1 (1.30%) ISO 19650
5 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Oracle
2 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (11.69%) MuleSoft
4 4 (5.19%) Sybase
5 3 (3.90%) GoldenSource
6 2 (2.60%) Avaloq
6 2 (2.60%) Charles River
6 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.60%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.60%) Temenos
7 1 (1.30%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.30%) Calypso
7 1 (1.30%) Google
7 1 (1.30%) Murex
7 1 (1.30%) Sparx