Systems Analysis Contracts in Scotland

Systems Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Systems Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Systems Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 116 158
Rank change year-on-year +10 +42 +2
Contract jobs citing Systems Analysis 10 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.62% 0.59% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.66% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 5
10th Percentile £192 - £369
25th Percentile £263 £200 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £380
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +11.84% -15.56%
75th Percentile £543 £530 £401
90th Percentile £589 £535 £422
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Systems 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 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Systems Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Systems Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analysis in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Analysis in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Systems Analysis in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Analysis in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Analysis in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Analysis in Scotland

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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 Systems Analysis within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +5 5 £315 -3.08% 2
Glasgow +4 3 £530 - 3
Systems Analysis
UK

Systems Analysis
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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (60.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) IaaS
1 2 (20.00%) OCI
1 2 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Administrator
2 5 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Database Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Product Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) AIX
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Solaris
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (20.00%) Database Tuning
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) High Availability
2 2 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Line Management
2 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (20.00%) SDLC
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (10.00%) Feasibility Study
3 1 (10.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (10.00%) Service Design
3 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Dell
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat