Analyst Jobs in Scotland

Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Analyst salary in Scotland is £43,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 59 23
Rank change year-on-year +20 -36 -5
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 213 373 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.92% 5.41% 9.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.29% 5.57% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 81 200 262
10th Percentile £25,020 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,438 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £40,000 £40,850
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -2.08% +7.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £60,750 £60,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,568 6,691 3,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.43% 96.99% 89.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,152 3,009 2,076
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,646 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £71,063
90th Percentile £84,925 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analyst in Scotland.

Salary trend for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +22 155 £43,250 -9.06% 175
Glasgow +51 25 £38,000 -10.97% 151
West Lothian -8 5 £48,500 +18.29% 7
Renfrewshire -11 4 £45,000 +28.57% 15
Midlothian -6 3 - - 14
Lanarkshire -7 3 £56,500 +37.80%
Stirling -3 2 £45,635 +40.41% 7
Inverclyde - 2 £24,990 - 2
Aberdeenshire +10 1 - - 5
Aberdeen +8 1 £75,000 +130.77% 48
Dundee +5 1 £57,500 +130.00% 12
East Lothian 0 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire -4 1 £55,000 - 1
North Lanarkshire -8 1 £28,500 -1.72% 2
Fife -12 1 - - 7
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 100 (46.95%) Finance
2 72 (33.80%) Social Skills
3 66 (30.99%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (26.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (20.66%) Banking
6 39 (18.31%) Data Analysis
7 38 (17.84%) SQL
8 37 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (16.90%) Agile
10 35 (16.43%) Customer Service
11 32 (15.02%) Windows
12 30 (14.08%) Analytics
13 25 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (10.33%) Degree
15 21 (9.86%) Business Analysis
15 21 (9.86%) ITIL
16 20 (9.39%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (9.39%) Data Extraction
17 19 (8.92%) Data Modelling
18 18 (8.45%) Tableau
19 17 (7.98%) Visualisation
19 17 (7.98%) Python
19 17 (7.98%) CI/CD
20 16 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
20 16 (7.51%) DevOps
20 16 (7.51%) Data Analytics
20 16 (7.51%) Microsoft
20 16 (7.51%) AWS
20 16 (7.51%) User Acceptance Testing
21 15 (7.04%) Mathematics

Analyst Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.29%) SAS
2 3 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.47%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (7.51%) AWS
2 13 (6.10%) Azure
2 13 (6.10%) Power Platform
3 8 (3.76%) Snowflake
4 6 (2.82%) SaaS
5 5 (2.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.41%) Serverless
8 2 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.94%) dbt
8 2 (0.94%) GCP
8 2 (0.94%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.47%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.47%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.47%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.47%) Google Docs
9 1 (0.47%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.47%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.16%) Broadband
2 5 (2.35%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) FTP
3 1 (0.47%) Internet
3 1 (0.47%) Network Security
3 1 (0.47%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.45%) Tableau
2 13 (6.10%) Power BI
3 12 (5.63%) Big Data
4 5 (2.35%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.94%) Looker
6 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.47%) GIS
7 1 (0.47%) Metadata
7 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.47%) OLAP
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.47%) Power Query
7 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (2.82%) JIRA
2 3 (1.41%) Cypress.io
2 3 (1.41%) ER Studio
2 3 (1.41%) Selenium
3 1 (0.47%) GitLab
General
1 100 (46.95%) Finance
2 72 (33.80%) Social Skills
3 66 (30.99%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (20.66%) Banking
5 14 (6.57%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.29%) Retail
7 6 (2.82%) Marketing
8 4 (1.88%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.41%) Automotive
9 3 (1.41%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.94%) Law
10 2 (0.94%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.94%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.41%) JSON
2 2 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (0.94%) Playwright
3 1 (0.47%) CSS
3 1 (0.47%) HTML
3 1 (0.47%) Middleware
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.16%) Market Risk
1 11 (5.16%) Social Media
2 10 (4.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (1.88%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.41%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.41%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.41%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (1.41%) Taxonomies
6 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.47%) Clustering
7 1 (0.47%) CMDB
7 1 (0.47%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.47%) FMCG
7 1 (0.47%) iSeries
7 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.02%) Windows
2 15 (7.04%) Linux
3 4 (1.88%) zOS
4 2 (0.94%) Unix
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Solaris
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (26.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 39 (18.31%) Data Analysis
3 37 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (16.90%) Agile
5 35 (16.43%) Customer Service
6 30 (14.08%) Analytics
7 25 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (9.86%) Business Analysis
8 21 (9.86%) ITIL
9 20 (9.39%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (9.39%) Data Extraction
10 19 (8.92%) Data Modelling
11 17 (7.98%) CI/CD
11 17 (7.98%) Visualisation
12 16 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (7.51%) Data Analytics
12 16 (7.51%) DevOps
12 16 (7.51%) User Acceptance Testing
13 15 (7.04%) Artificial Intelligence
13 15 (7.04%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 38 (17.84%) SQL
2 17 (7.98%) Python
3 8 (3.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (3.29%) R
5 4 (1.88%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.94%) Java
7 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.47%) Perl
7 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (10.33%) Degree
2 6 (2.82%) DV Cleared
2 6 (2.82%) SC Cleared
2 6 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.88%) CBAP
3 4 (1.88%) CCA
4 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.94%) CISSP
5 1 (0.47%) ACCA
5 1 (0.47%) CCNA
5 1 (0.47%) CISA
5 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.47%) CISM
5 1 (0.47%) CRISC
5 1 (0.47%) GCIA
5 1 (0.47%) GIAC
5 1 (0.47%) ISEB
5 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.47%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 9 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.82%) QA
4 4 (1.88%) GDPR
4 4 (1.88%) NIST
5 3 (1.41%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.41%) ITGC
5 3 (1.41%) SEPA
6 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.94%) SLA
7 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.94%) RACF
3 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (7.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.23%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.35%) ArcSight
3 5 (2.35%) Oracle
4 3 (1.41%) Genesys
4 3 (1.41%) Google
4 3 (1.41%) Verint
5 2 (0.94%) Alteryx
5 2 (0.94%) Qualys
5 2 (0.94%) Sage
5 2 (0.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.47%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.47%) F5
6 1 (0.47%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.47%) Maxymiser
6 1 (0.47%) Medallia
6 1 (0.47%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.47%) Splunk
6 1 (0.47%) Symantec