Senior Analyst Contracts in Scotland

Senior Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Analyst daily rate in Scotland is £478 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 132 112
Rank change year-on-year +36 -20 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 34 31 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.52% 1.08% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.14% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 51
10th Percentile £399 £369 £340
25th Percentile £413 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £429 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.31% +0.94% +7.94%
75th Percentile £523 £468 £488
90th Percentile £538 £492 £523
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% +2.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,112 2,720 3,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 95.17% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,953 2,401
10th Percentile £204 £233 £211
25th Percentile £369 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 46 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.94 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.34 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.18 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +50.99% -9.26% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Senior Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in Scotland

Senior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Senior Analyst in Scotland

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Analyst in Scotland

Senior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Analyst in Scotland

Senior Analyst
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 Senior Analyst within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +40 19 £500 +19.76% 2
Glasgow +11 11 £440 -4.86% 3
South Lanarkshire - 2 £473 -
Senior Analyst
UK

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 14 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 13 (38.24%) Agile
3 11 (32.35%) JIRA
4 10 (29.41%) Finance
5 9 (26.47%) Business Analysis
5 9 (26.47%) Analytics
6 8 (23.53%) Power BI
6 8 (23.53%) Atlassian
6 8 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
6 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
6 8 (23.53%) PowerApps
6 8 (23.53%) Power Automate
6 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
7 7 (20.59%) Management Information System
7 7 (20.59%) Data Analysis
7 7 (20.59%) Visualisation
7 7 (20.59%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (17.65%) Disclosure Scotland
8 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
8 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
8 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (17.65%) PMO
9 5 (14.71%) Security Monitoring
9 5 (14.71%) Privileged Access Management
9 5 (14.71%) Impact Analysis
9 5 (14.71%) Business Impact Analysis
9 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
9 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Remediation

Senior Analyst Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Power Automate
1 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
1 8 (23.53%) PowerApps
2 2 (5.88%) Azure
2 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.88%) IaaS
2 2 (5.88%) PaaS
2 2 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Selenium
2 2 (5.88%) Subversion
2 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 10 (29.41%) Finance
3 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.88%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Agile
2 9 (26.47%) Analytics
2 9 (26.47%) Business Analysis
3 8 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (20.59%) Data Analysis
4 7 (20.59%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (20.59%) Visualisation
5 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (14.71%) Impact Analysis
6 5 (14.71%) Incident Management
6 5 (14.71%) Information Security
6 5 (14.71%) Penetration Testing
6 5 (14.71%) Privileged Access Management
6 5 (14.71%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (14.71%) SIEM
6 5 (14.71%) Technical Analysis
6 5 (14.71%) Use Case
6 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) C#
2 2 (5.88%) C++
2 2 (5.88%) Java
2 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
2 2 (5.88%) VBA
2 2 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) IIBA
2 2 (5.88%) ISEB
2 2 (5.88%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) Disclosure Scotland
1 6 (17.65%) PMO
2 5 (14.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 5 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) P3O
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Atlassian
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Ariba
2 1 (2.94%) Google
2 1 (2.94%) SAP
2 1 (2.94%) Splunk