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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 59 94
Rank change year-on-year +7 +35 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 58 56 39
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.63% 3.35% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 3.64% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 36 20
10th Percentile £280 £263 £314
25th Percentile £333 £356 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £400 £471
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -15.07% -3.38%
75th Percentile £513 £488 £550
90th Percentile £755 £538 £657
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.41
25th Percentile - - £17.59
Median hourly rate £17.23 - £22.87
75th Percentile - - £28.31
90th Percentile - - £31.57
UK median hourly rate £24.71 £28.60 £25.00
% change year-on-year -13.60% +14.40% -25.97%

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 1,354 1,538 2,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 84.68% 91.99% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 911 1,290
10th Percentile £230 £230 £282
25th Percentile £375 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £574 £549 £588
90th Percentile £663 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 42 83
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.93 £12.34
25th Percentile £16.15 £20.46 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +10.05%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £64.67 £33.70 £72.60
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -7.14% -

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +7 29 £388 -2.08% 6
Edinburgh +2 28 £488 +8.94% 4
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 (10.34%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.72%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) AWS
3 7 (12.07%) Power Platform
4 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.62%) Snowflake
6 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.45%) GCP
7 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.45%) SaaS
7 2 (3.45%) Serverless
7 2 (3.45%) Textract
8 1 (1.72%) Alation
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Intranet
1 1 (1.72%) Network Security
1 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) Relational Database
2 7 (12.07%) Power BI
3 5 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.90%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.17%) Metadata
5 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.17%) Tableau
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.72%) Big Data
7 1 (1.72%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
General
1 31 (53.45%) Social Skills
2 26 (44.83%) Finance
3 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (25.86%) Public Sector
4 9 (15.52%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.17%) Retail Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Billing
7 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (62.07%) Analyst
2 20 (34.48%) Business Analyst
3 18 (31.03%) Data Analyst
4 6 (10.34%) Data Business Analyst
5 5 (8.62%) Project Officer
5 5 (8.62%) Project Support Officer
5 5 (8.62%) Support Officer
6 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Business Data Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Data Modeller
8 2 (3.45%) Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Information Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Senior
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Service Manager
8 2 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 1 (1.72%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) NumPy
1 3 (5.17%) Pandas
1 3 (5.17%) PySpark
2 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.45%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.45%) SpaCy
2 2 (3.45%) XML
3 1 (1.72%) CSS
3 1 (1.72%) HTML
3 1 (1.72%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (1.72%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (13.79%) CMDB
3 7 (12.07%) Data Centre
3 7 (12.07%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Unix
3 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) Agile
2 18 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (22.41%) Decision-Making
3 13 (22.41%) Migration
4 12 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (18.97%) Business Analysis
6 10 (17.24%) Data Protection
6 10 (17.24%) Project Management
6 10 (17.24%) Visualisation
7 9 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.52%) Data Architecture
7 9 (15.52%) Data Modelling
7 9 (15.52%) DevOps
7 9 (15.52%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (15.52%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (12.07%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (12.07%) Issue Tracking
8 7 (12.07%) ITIL
9 6 (10.34%) ITSM
9 6 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) SQL
2 15 (25.86%) Python
3 3 (5.17%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.45%) Bash
4 2 (3.45%) Java
4 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.72%) C#
5 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.62%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (5.17%) QA
3 3 (5.17%) SLA
4 2 (3.45%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.45%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Terraform
3 2 (3.45%) Ansible
3 2 (3.45%) Grafana
3 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) ServiceNow
2 4 (6.90%) Databricks
3 3 (5.17%) Cloudera
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle
4 2 (3.45%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.45%) FIS
4 2 (3.45%) Fiserv
4 2 (3.45%) Pega
4 2 (3.45%) SmartStream
4 2 (3.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.72%) TOWER Software