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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 60 96
Rank change year-on-year +5 +36 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 66 54 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.12% 2.90% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 3.36% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 27 34
10th Percentile £273 £354 £363
25th Percentile £313 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £451 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.99% -5.70%
75th Percentile £519 £488 £584
90th Percentile £548 £538 £597
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £513
% change year-on-year - -7.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £13.40 -
UK median hourly rate £31.57 £30.94 £32.30
% change year-on-year +2.04% -4.22% +13.00%

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 1,460 1,608 2,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.19% 86.36% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 978 1,483
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 46 58
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.63 £13.43
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -10.95%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.96
90th Percentile £29.80 £51.50 £75.03
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +1 37 £420 -6.67% 11
Edinburgh +11 28 £513 +17.14% 20
Aberdeen 0 1 - - 4
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 10 (15.15%) Confluence
2 5 (7.58%) SAS
3 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 17 (25.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (10.61%) MS Visio
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.24%) Power Platform
2 6 (9.09%) AWS
3 4 (6.06%) Azure
4 3 (4.55%) OCI
4 3 (4.55%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.03%) Serverless
5 2 (3.03%) Textract
6 1 (1.52%) GCP
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.52%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.52%) SaaS
6 1 (1.52%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) Power BI
2 10 (15.15%) Relational Database
3 8 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (10.61%) Tableau
5 6 (9.09%) RDBMS
6 5 (7.58%) NoSQL
6 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (4.55%) Data Mining
8 3 (4.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (4.55%) Power Query
8 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.52%) MySQL
10 1 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) JUnit
General
1 32 (48.48%) Finance
2 31 (46.97%) Social Skills
3 20 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (22.73%) Public Sector
5 12 (18.18%) Banking
6 5 (7.58%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Legal
9 1 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Marketing
9 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (62.12%) Analyst
2 18 (27.27%) Data Analyst
3 17 (25.76%) Business Analyst
4 8 (12.12%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Architect
5 6 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 6 (9.09%) Data Modeller
5 6 (9.09%) ITSM Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) ITSM Architect
6 5 (7.58%) SAS Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) SAS Architect
6 5 (7.58%) SAS Data Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) SAS Modeller
6 5 (7.58%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Business Data Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) HR Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) HR Data Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) NumPy
1 4 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (6.06%) Pandas
1 4 (6.06%) PySpark
2 2 (3.03%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.03%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.03%) SpaCy
3 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.52%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.52%) JPA
3 1 (1.52%) React
3 1 (1.52%) Spring
3 1 (1.52%) Spring Batch
3 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.52%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (7.58%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.55%) CMDB
4 3 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.55%) Derivative
4 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.03%) Equities
5 2 (3.03%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Unix
1 1 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.94%) Data Modelling
2 19 (28.79%) Agile
3 18 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (21.21%) Analytics
4 14 (21.21%) Decision-Making
4 14 (21.21%) Visualisation
5 12 (18.18%) Business Analysis
5 12 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (15.15%) Data Protection
6 10 (15.15%) Migration
6 10 (15.15%) Validation
7 9 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (12.12%) ITIL
8 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (10.61%) ITSM
9 7 (10.61%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (9.09%) Data Architecture
10 6 (9.09%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (45.45%) SQL
2 20 (30.30%) Python
3 4 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (6.06%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.55%) R
5 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.52%) Java
6 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Degree
2 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.52%) CBAP
4 1 (1.52%) IIBA
4 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.64%) QA
2 7 (10.61%) Data Quality
3 6 (9.09%) GDPR
4 4 (6.06%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Grafana
2 3 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.52%) Kibana
3 1 (1.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) Oracle
3 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.03%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.03%) Databricks
4 2 (3.03%) Reuters
5 1 (1.52%) Nintex