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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 68 97
Rank change year-on-year +9 +29 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 56 52 43
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.52% 2.83% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.28% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 27
10th Percentile £293 £338 £358
25th Percentile £319 £376 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £496 £488 £538
90th Percentile £542 £541 £609
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.40 -
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £29.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +8.62% +1.75% +9.62%

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 1,431 1,586 2,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 90.00% 86.38% 91.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 789 926 1,370
10th Percentile £250 £208 £230
25th Percentile £385 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £613 £670 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 42 53
10th Percentile £15.31 £12.57 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.06 £13.16
Median hourly rate £19.99 £20.94 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.60% +0.96%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £40.58 £43.89 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.52% -7.06% +30.61%

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 October 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 21 October 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 +3 30 £405 -7.43% 19
Edinburgh +13 25 £450 +2.86% 14
Aberdeen -3 1 - - 3
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 (10.71%) Confluence
2 3 (5.36%) SAS
3 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (23.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 7 (12.50%) AWS
3 6 (10.71%) Azure
4 4 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.57%) Serverless
5 2 (3.57%) Textract
6 1 (1.79%) GCP
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.79%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.79%) SaaS
6 1 (1.79%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) MQTT
2 1 (1.79%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) Power BI
1 11 (19.64%) Relational Database
2 8 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
5 5 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 4 (7.14%) Tableau
7 3 (5.36%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.36%) Data Mining
7 3 (5.36%) Power Query
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) JUnit
General
1 28 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (44.64%) Finance
3 17 (30.36%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (23.21%) Public Sector
5 8 (14.29%) Banking
6 5 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.57%) Legal
9 1 (1.79%) Billing
9 1 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.79%) Marketing
9 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (64.29%) Analyst
2 16 (28.57%) Data Analyst
3 15 (26.79%) Business Analyst
4 8 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) Data Modeller
5 4 (7.14%) ITSM Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) HR Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) HR Data Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) ITSM Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Oracle Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) SAS Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) SAS Architect
6 3 (5.36%) SAS Data Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) SAS Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) NumPy
1 5 (8.93%) Pandas
1 5 (8.93%) PySpark
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.57%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.57%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.57%) SpaCy
4 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.79%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.79%) JPA
4 1 (1.79%) React
4 1 (1.79%) Spring
4 1 (1.79%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.79%) Streamlit
4 1 (1.79%) XML
4 1 (1.79%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.36%) CMDB
3 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.57%) Derivative
4 2 (3.57%) Equities
4 2 (3.57%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Unix
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.71%) Data Modelling
2 16 (28.57%) Agile
3 15 (26.79%) Analytics
4 13 (23.21%) Decision-Making
5 12 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (19.64%) Data Protection
7 10 (17.86%) Business Analysis
7 10 (17.86%) Validation
7 10 (17.86%) Visualisation
8 9 (16.07%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (14.29%) Migration
10 7 (12.50%) Data Engineering
10 7 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (10.71%) Data Analytics
11 6 (10.71%) Data Governance
11 6 (10.71%) ITIL
11 6 (10.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (51.79%) SQL
2 22 (39.29%) Python
3 5 (8.93%) PL/SQL
4 4 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (5.36%) R
6 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.79%) Java
7 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.79%) CBAP
4 1 (1.79%) IIBA
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) GDPR
2 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.14%) QA
4 3 (5.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Grafana
2 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Kibana
3 1 (1.79%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
1 5 (8.93%) Oracle
2 3 (5.36%) Cloudera
2 3 (5.36%) Databricks
2 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.57%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.57%) Reuters
4 1 (1.79%) Nintex