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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 62 111
Rank change year-on-year +8 +49 -32
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 53 55 34
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.54% 3.33% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 3.70% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 18
10th Percentile £313 £263 £340
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £471
Median % change year-on-year - -9.77% -5.80%
75th Percentile £575 £471 £579
90th Percentile £756 £515 £683
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £17.23 - £22.87
UK median hourly rate £29.60 £28.75 £31.05
% change year-on-year +2.96% -7.41% -11.29%

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 1,312 1,486 2,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.64% 89.90% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 752 878 1,315
10th Percentile £246 £240 £250
25th Percentile £386 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £560 £538 £588
90th Percentile £637 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 44 52
10th Percentile £13.71 £16.75 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.13 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +26.90% -0.19%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.35
90th Percentile £56.25 £43.58 £72.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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
Edinburgh +12 32 £525 +17.32% 8
Glasgow -1 21 £420 +5.00% 6
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 5 (9.43%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.75%) AWS
1 11 (20.75%) Azure
2 8 (15.09%) Power Platform
3 6 (11.32%) Snowflake
4 4 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.66%) GCP
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.77%) Serverless
6 2 (3.77%) Textract
7 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Intranet
1 1 (1.89%) Network Security
1 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) Power BI
1 8 (15.09%) Relational Database
2 7 (13.21%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (13.21%) RDBMS
2 7 (13.21%) SQL Server
3 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.77%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.77%) Metadata
6 2 (3.77%) Tableau
7 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) JUnit
General
1 24 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 21 (39.62%) Finance
3 15 (28.30%) Public Sector
4 12 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (16.98%) Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Billing
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (50.94%) Analyst
2 14 (26.42%) Data Analyst
3 13 (24.53%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (7.55%) Project Officer
5 4 (7.55%) Project Support Officer
5 4 (7.55%) Python Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Support Officer
6 3 (5.66%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Business Data Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Consultant
7 2 (3.77%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.77%) Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Information Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Analytics Consultant
8 1 (1.89%) Finance Business Analyst
8 1 (1.89%) Product Control Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) NumPy
1 5 (9.43%) Pandas
1 5 (9.43%) PySpark
2 2 (3.77%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.77%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.77%) SpaCy
2 2 (3.77%) XML
3 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.89%) CSS
3 1 (1.89%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.89%) HTML
3 1 (1.89%) JPA
3 1 (1.89%) React
3 1 (1.89%) Spring
3 1 (1.89%) Spring Batch
3 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.89%) Streamlit
3 1 (1.89%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.66%) CMDB
3 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Derivative
5 1 (1.89%) Equities
5 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.89%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
1 3 (5.66%) Unix
2 2 (3.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.74%) Agile
2 11 (20.75%) Analytics
3 10 (18.87%) Data Protection
3 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (18.87%) Visualisation
4 9 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (16.98%) Data Modelling
4 9 (16.98%) Decision-Making
5 8 (15.09%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (15.09%) Business Analysis
5 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (15.09%) DevOps
5 8 (15.09%) Migration
6 7 (13.21%) Data Engineering
6 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (13.21%) Workshop Facilitation
7 6 (11.32%) Data Analytics
7 6 (11.32%) Data Architecture
7 6 (11.32%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (11.32%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 23 (43.40%) SQL
2 17 (32.08%) Python
3 5 (9.43%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.77%) Bash
4 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.77%) R
4 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.89%) Java
5 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.43%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.77%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.77%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Ansible
2 2 (3.77%) Grafana
2 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.66%) Cloudera
1 3 (5.66%) Databricks
1 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle
2 2 (3.77%) Pega
2 2 (3.77%) Splunk
3 1 (1.89%) Bloomberg
3 1 (1.89%) Reuters