Technical Analysis Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Technical Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Technical Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 110 134
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 +21
Contract jobs citing Technical Analysis 12 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.76% 0.52% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.59% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile £475 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £623
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.64%
75th Percentile £525 - £706
90th Percentile - - £717
UK median daily rate £505 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -15.83% -4.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Technical 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%

Technical Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Technical Analysis job vacancy trend in Scotland

Technical Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Technical Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Technical Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Technical Analysis

Technical 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 Technical Analysis within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Glasgow -2 10 £500 -
Edinburgh - 2 - -
Technical Analysis
UK

Technical 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) DB2
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Analyst
2 9 (75.00%) Technical Analyst
3 8 (66.67%) Programmer
3 8 (66.67%) Python Programmer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Database Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Perl Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) J2EE
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
1 10 (83.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) OO
2 8 (66.67%) Capacity Management
2 8 (66.67%) Storage Management
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 1 (8.33%) API Integration
5 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Business Process Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Change Management
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Insight
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Requirements Management
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (8.33%) Ticket Management
5 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
5 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Perl
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) DocuSign
1 1 (8.33%) Pega
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow