Data Analytics Job Trends in Glasgow

Data Analytics
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 72 150
Rank change year-on-year +12 +78 -87
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 17 8 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.32% 1.11% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.23% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £38,000 £36,500 £57,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -30.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £63,000 £79,500 -
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £67,500 £69,100
% change year-on-year -33.33% -2.32% +25.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Data 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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 969 649 1,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.23% 90.14% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 607 256 587
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £32,400
25th Percentile £35,500 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £69,000
90th Percentile £87,050 £85,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% -

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Data Analytics
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Data Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in Glasgow over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analytics in Glasgow

Data Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) GitHub
1 7 (41.18%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) MySQL
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) ER Studio
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
1 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 6 (35.29%) IT Director
2 6 (35.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Product Director
4 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Technology Director
4 1 (5.88%) Trainee
4 1 (5.88%) Trainee Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Hibernate
1 7 (41.18%) JPA
1 7 (41.18%) Kafka
1 7 (41.18%) REST
1 7 (41.18%) Spring
1 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Derivative
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Collaborative Culture
2 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (41.18%) Machine Learning
2 7 (41.18%) Mentoring
2 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 6 (35.29%) Business Development
3 6 (35.29%) Commercial Awareness
3 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (35.29%) Internal Audit
3 6 (35.29%) IT Audit
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
4 2 (11.76%) Data Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analysis
5 1 (5.88%) Data Governance
5 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
5 1 (5.88%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (5.88%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Databricks
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft