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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 61 73
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 75 63 51
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.31% 3.75% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 4.08% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 35 19
10th Percentile £288 £269 £400
25th Percentile £316 £304 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £429 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -9.68% -
75th Percentile £438 £515 £538
90th Percentile £482 £565 £540
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £16.04 - -
25th Percentile £16.12 - £12.30
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £13.40
75th Percentile £17.12 - £22.50
90th Percentile £17.35 - £29.46
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.94 £32.50
% change year-on-year -19.55% +1.35% +9.24%

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 1,884 1,544 1,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 83.18% 91.80% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 893 1,097
10th Percentile £285 £252 £213
25th Percentile £380 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 76 67
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.59 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.30 £13.82
Median hourly rate £18.00 £20.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.09% +2.81%
75th Percentile £46.98 £25.15 £40.94
90th Percentile £76.00 £28.19 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +6 50 £390 -8.67% 5
Edinburgh -13 20 £413 -13.16% 4
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 2
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 4
Perthshire - 1 £575 -
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 11 (14.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (21.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (17.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (2.67%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.33%) iTrent
2 1 (1.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.67%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.67%) Azure
2 5 (6.67%) ChatGPT
3 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.33%) GitHub
4 3 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.33%) Alation
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.33%) AWS
6 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.33%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.00%) MongoDB
2 11 (14.67%) Power BI
3 10 (13.33%) DynamoDB
4 6 (8.00%) Metadata
4 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.33%) Db2
5 4 (5.33%) Tableau
6 2 (2.67%) Power Query
6 2 (2.67%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.33%) Big Data
7 1 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (16.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.33%) Git
General
1 41 (54.67%) Finance
2 36 (48.00%) Social Skills
3 31 (41.33%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (17.33%) Banking
5 8 (10.67%) Front Office
6 7 (9.33%) Public Sector
7 6 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (5.33%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Back Office
10 1 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Military
10 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Retail
10 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (60.00%) Analyst
2 25 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 11 (14.67%) Data Analyst
4 9 (12.00%) Business Systems Analyst
4 9 (12.00%) Senior
4 9 (12.00%) Systems Analyst
5 7 (9.33%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (8.00%) Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Administrator
8 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Systems Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (5.33%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Accountant
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Systems Accountant
9 3 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) JSON
2 6 (8.00%) Web Services
3 2 (2.67%) Celery
3 2 (2.67%) Kafka
3 2 (2.67%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.67%) REST
3 2 (2.67%) RESTful
3 2 (2.67%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.67%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.33%) Middleware
4 1 (1.33%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.67%) Derivative
2 5 (6.67%) Equity Derivative
2 5 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.33%) CMDB
3 4 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.33%) Equities
6 1 (1.33%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.67%) Agile
2 24 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (26.67%) Business Analysis
3 20 (26.67%) Migration
4 18 (24.00%) Scrum
5 17 (22.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (22.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (21.33%) Validation
7 15 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 15 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (14.67%) Process Improvement
10 10 (13.33%) Sequence Diagram
11 9 (12.00%) AI
11 9 (12.00%) Data Lineage
11 9 (12.00%) Data Mapping
12 8 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (10.67%) Data Architecture
12 8 (10.67%) Data Modelling
12 8 (10.67%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.67%) SQL
2 14 (18.67%) Python
3 8 (10.67%) Java
3 8 (10.67%) PL/SQL
4 4 (5.33%) Perl
5 2 (2.67%) C++
6 1 (1.33%) C#
6 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.33%) HND
3 3 (4.00%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.33%) ACCA
4 1 (1.33%) CIMA
4 1 (1.33%) CIPD
4 1 (1.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) IIBA
4 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.67%) QA
3 6 (8.00%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.67%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.67%) SLA
5 1 (1.33%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) Oracle
2 9 (12.00%) MuleSoft
3 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.33%) Sybase
5 2 (2.67%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.67%) FIS
5 2 (2.67%) Fiserv
5 2 (2.67%) SmartStream
6 1 (1.33%) Calypso
6 1 (1.33%) Databricks
6 1 (1.33%) Murex
6 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.33%) TOWER Software