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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 66 107
Rank change year-on-year +17 +41 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 66 53 36
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.20% 3.08% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 3.48% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 21
10th Percentile £309 £319 £325
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.27%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £575
90th Percentile £721 £530 £644
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.87
UK median hourly rate £29.60 £29.00 £26.24
% change year-on-year +2.07% +10.52% -20.48%

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 1,386 1,521 2,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.22% 88.43% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 901 1,374
10th Percentile £238 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 46 57
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.77 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £52.25 £31.44 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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
Edinburgh +12 33 £450 -2.70% 16
Glasgow +9 33 £420 +6.13% 14
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 9 (13.64%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) SAS
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.52%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.70%) Power Platform
2 11 (16.67%) AWS
2 11 (16.67%) Azure
3 6 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.55%) GCP
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.03%) Serverless
6 2 (3.03%) Textract
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) MQTT
2 1 (1.52%) Intranet
2 1 (1.52%) Network Security
2 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) Power BI
2 11 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.61%) RDBMS
3 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
4 6 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.06%) Tableau
6 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.55%) Data Mining
6 3 (4.55%) Power Query
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.03%) Metadata
7 2 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) JUnit
General
1 33 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (43.94%) Finance
3 21 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (27.27%) Public Sector
5 9 (13.64%) Banking
6 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Billing
9 1 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Legal
9 1 (1.52%) Marketing
9 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (56.06%) Analyst
2 17 (25.76%) Business Analyst
2 17 (25.76%) Data Analyst
3 8 (12.12%) Data Engineer
4 4 (6.06%) Project Officer
4 4 (6.06%) Project Support Officer
4 4 (6.06%) Python Engineer
4 4 (6.06%) Support Officer
5 3 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Data Modeller
5 3 (4.55%) HR Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) HR Data Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) ITSM Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Power BI Analyst
5 3 (4.55%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (3.03%) ITSM Architect
6 2 (3.03%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) NumPy
1 5 (7.58%) Pandas
1 5 (7.58%) PySpark
2 3 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.03%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.03%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.03%) SpaCy
3 2 (3.03%) XML
4 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.52%) CSS
4 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.52%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.52%) HTML
4 1 (1.52%) JPA
4 1 (1.52%) React
4 1 (1.52%) Spring
4 1 (1.52%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.52%) Streamlit
4 1 (1.52%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (4.55%) CMDB
2 3 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.52%) Derivative
4 1 (1.52%) Equities
4 1 (1.52%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
1 3 (4.55%) Unix
2 2 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.85%) Agile
2 20 (30.30%) Data Modelling
3 15 (22.73%) Analytics
3 15 (22.73%) Visualisation
4 14 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (19.70%) Decision-Making
5 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (18.18%) Data Protection
7 11 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (13.64%) Migration
8 9 (13.64%) Validation
9 8 (12.12%) Business Analysis
9 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.12%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (12.12%) DevOps
9 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (12.12%) Workshop Facilitation
10 7 (10.61%) Data Architecture
10 7 (10.61%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (10.61%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 32 (48.48%) SQL
2 25 (37.88%) Python
3 5 (7.58%) PL/SQL
4 4 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (4.55%) R
6 2 (3.03%) Bash
6 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.52%) Java
7 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (9.09%) GDPR
3 3 (4.55%) QA
4 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.58%) Grafana
3 2 (3.03%) Ansible
3 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.03%) Terraform
4 1 (1.52%) Kibana
4 1 (1.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (7.58%) Oracle
2 3 (4.55%) Cloudera
2 3 (4.55%) Databricks
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.03%) Pega
3 2 (3.03%) Splunk
4 1 (1.52%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.52%) Reuters