Analytics Job Trends in Edinburgh

Analytics
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -17 +7 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 36 99 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.13% 12.79% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 13.77% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 23 21 43
10th Percentile £48,500 £37,000 £41,645
25th Percentile £67,500 £54,441 £55,163
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,084 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.53% +11.23% +13.40%
75th Percentile £111,250 £93,778 £85,411
90th Percentile £116,500 £98,474 £100,000
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +9.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 742 719 1,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.58% 92.89% 86.20%
Number of salaries quoted 453 307 610
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,024 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,851 £47,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -20.83% +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,312 £66,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,500 £95,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +38.16% -30.91% +4.76%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Analytics job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Analytics
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in Edinburgh

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.78%) Confluence
1 1 (2.78%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
1 11 (30.56%) Power Platform
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) SaaS
4 3 (8.33%) Alation
4 3 (8.33%) Collibra
4 3 (8.33%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) AWS IoT
6 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) AMQP
1 1 (2.78%) BGP
1 1 (2.78%) Broadband
1 1 (2.78%) DHCP
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.78%) IPsec
1 1 (2.78%) MQTT
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
1 1 (2.78%) OSPF
1 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.78%) SSL
1 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.78%) VPN
1 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (30.56%) Power BI
2 6 (16.67%) Metadata
3 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Tableau
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (38.89%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (11.11%) Marketing
6 3 (8.33%) Law
6 3 (8.33%) Legal
7 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Architect
1 7 (19.44%) Data Manager
2 6 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
3 4 (11.11%) Risk Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Data Governance Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Data Governance Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Fraud Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Governance Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Lead Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Lead Data Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Data Analytics Executive
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Strategy Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Strategy Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Audit Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Senior IT Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) React
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) Django
2 1 (2.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Data Fabric
2 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Bitcoin
3 1 (2.78%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.78%) Clustering
3 1 (2.78%) Cybercrime
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) IoT
3 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Decision-Making
2 16 (44.44%) AI
3 12 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (30.56%) Data Governance
5 10 (27.78%) Data Analytics
6 9 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (22.22%) Data Architecture
7 8 (22.22%) Risk Management
8 7 (19.44%) Data Strategy
8 7 (19.44%) Lakehouse
9 6 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
9 6 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (16.67%) Service Delivery
10 5 (13.89%) Agile
10 5 (13.89%) Information Security
10 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (13.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (2.78%) C#
3 1 (2.78%) Java
3 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.78%) Scala
3 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) CISM
1 4 (11.11%) CISSP
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) CISA
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) MCT
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) PgMP
4 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.33%) GDPR
2 3 (8.33%) GRC
2 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Ansible
1 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Informatica
3 2 (5.56%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Workday
4 1 (2.78%) YouTube