Data Analysis Jobs in Edinburgh

Data Analysis
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 100 110
Rank change year-on-year +56 +10 -30
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 49 11 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.38% 0.73% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.52% 0.81% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 17
10th Percentile £45,000 - £30,500
25th Percentile £46,563 £42,439 £32,055
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,185 £43,586 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.32% -30.26% +28.80%
75th Percentile £82,958 £64,682 £67,500
90th Percentile - £68,114 £77,715
Scotland median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £36,707
% change year-on-year +11.36% +49.84% -23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Analysis 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 888 1,360 2,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.48% 89.95% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 416 956 1,168
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,331
25th Percentile £44,688 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,313 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,987 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.22%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Data Analysis in Edinburgh

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.45%) AWS
2 9 (18.37%) Power Platform
3 7 (14.29%) Azure
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (6.12%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 2 (4.08%) SaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.04%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) Tableau
2 9 (18.37%) Power BI
3 5 (10.20%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.08%) Big Data
5 2 (4.08%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.08%) OLAP
5 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.08%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.04%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.04%) GIS
6 1 (2.04%) Metadata
6 1 (2.04%) MySQL
6 1 (2.04%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
General
1 25 (51.02%) Finance
2 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
3 17 (34.69%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (30.61%) Banking
5 6 (12.24%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Marketing
6 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.04%) Agriculture
8 1 (2.04%) Billing
8 1 (2.04%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (53.06%) Analyst
2 18 (36.73%) Senior
3 8 (16.33%) Data Manager
3 8 (16.33%) Senior Manager
4 7 (14.29%) Governance Analyst
4 7 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
4 7 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (12.24%) Data Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Analytics Manager
6 4 (8.16%) Data Analytics Manager
6 4 (8.16%) Data Scientist
6 4 (8.16%) Financial Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Analytics Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Digital Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Operations Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Digital Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Consultant
8 2 (4.08%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) JSON
1 3 (6.12%) scikit-learn
2 2 (4.08%) Google JAX
2 2 (4.08%) JAX
2 2 (4.08%) NumPy
2 2 (4.08%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.08%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.04%) .NET
3 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.04%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.04%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.04%) gRPC
3 1 (2.04%) HTML
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) LangChain
3 1 (2.04%) Node.js
3 1 (2.04%) Pandas
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) RESTful
3 1 (2.04%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Algorithms
1 4 (8.16%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.04%) IoT
4 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.78%) Analytics
2 13 (26.53%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (24.49%) Agile
3 12 (24.49%) Decision-Making
4 9 (18.37%) Data Science
4 9 (18.37%) Migration
5 8 (16.33%) Data Management
5 8 (16.33%) Mathematics
6 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (14.29%) Data Analytics
6 7 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (14.29%) Visualisation
7 6 (12.24%) Data Extraction
7 6 (12.24%) ETL
7 6 (12.24%) Machine Learning
8 5 (10.20%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.65%) SQL
2 7 (14.29%) Python
3 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.12%) C#
5 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.04%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Degree
2 4 (8.16%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.08%) CISM
3 2 (4.08%) CISSP
3 2 (4.08%) PhD
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) NIST
2 2 (4.08%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (4.08%) Google
2 1 (2.04%) Adobe
2 1 (2.04%) Maxymiser
2 1 (2.04%) Medallia
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.04%) StreamSets