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 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 58 23
Rank change year-on-year +15 -35 -6
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 204 354 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.34% 5.38% 10.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.60% 5.55% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 76 187 285
10th Percentile £25,020 £25,450 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,875 £30,034
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £40,000 £40,356
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -0.88% +6.20%
75th Percentile £54,063 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £59,375 £60,000 £64,472
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.10%

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 2,685 6,379 3,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.39% 97.00% 90.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 2,918 2,090
10th Percentile £26,968 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £39,750 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,400 £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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +21 150 £43,250 -3.89% 129
Glasgow +47 23 £38,000 -10.59% 67
West Lothian -8 5 £48,500 +18.29% 6
Renfrewshire -15 4 £45,000 +28.57% 5
Lanarkshire -6 3 £56,500 - 7
Midlothian -6 3 - - 22
Stirling -4 2 £45,635 +40.41% 3
Inverclyde - 2 £24,990 -
Aberdeenshire +10 1 - - 3
Aberdeen +9 1 £75,000 +167.86% 24
East Lothian -1 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire -4 1 £55,000 - 4
North Lanarkshire -9 1 £28,500 -1.72% 3
Fife -14 1 - - 9
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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 98 (48.04%) Finance
2 70 (34.31%) Social Skills
3 64 (31.37%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (26.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 40 (19.61%) Banking
6 38 (18.63%) Agile
6 38 (18.63%) Data Analysis
7 37 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (17.16%) Customer Service
9 32 (15.69%) SQL
10 31 (15.20%) Windows
11 27 (13.24%) Analytics
12 25 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (10.29%) ITIL
14 20 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (9.31%) Business Analysis
16 18 (8.82%) Degree
16 18 (8.82%) Data Extraction
17 17 (8.33%) CI/CD
18 16 (7.84%) Decision-Making
18 16 (7.84%) DevOps
18 16 (7.84%) AWS
18 16 (7.84%) Tableau
18 16 (7.84%) Microsoft
19 15 (7.35%) Artificial Intelligence
19 15 (7.35%) Data Modelling
19 15 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
19 15 (7.35%) Visualisation
20 14 (6.86%) Continuous Integration
20 14 (6.86%) Linux

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 6 (2.94%) SAS
2 3 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (7.84%) AWS
2 13 (6.37%) Azure
2 13 (6.37%) Power Platform
3 6 (2.94%) SaaS
3 6 (2.94%) Snowflake
4 5 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.47%) Serverless
7 2 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.98%) GCP
7 2 (0.98%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.49%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.49%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.49%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.49%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.49%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.49%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.39%) Broadband
2 4 (1.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.49%) FTP
3 1 (0.49%) Internet
3 1 (0.49%) Network Security
3 1 (0.49%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.84%) Tableau
2 13 (6.37%) Power BI
3 8 (3.92%) Big Data
4 5 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.49%) GIS
6 1 (0.49%) Metadata
6 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.49%) OLAP
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.49%) Power Query
6 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (2.94%) JIRA
2 3 (1.47%) Cypress.io
2 3 (1.47%) ER Studio
2 3 (1.47%) Selenium
3 1 (0.49%) GitLab
General
1 98 (48.04%) Finance
2 70 (34.31%) Social Skills
3 64 (31.37%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (19.61%) Banking
5 12 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.94%) Marketing
7 6 (2.94%) Retail
8 4 (1.96%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.47%) Automotive
9 3 (1.47%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.98%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Back Office
11 1 (0.49%) Front Office
11 1 (0.49%) Games
11 1 (0.49%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.49%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.47%) JSON
2 2 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (0.98%) Playwright
3 1 (0.49%) CSS
3 1 (0.49%) HTML
3 1 (0.49%) Middleware
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.39%) Social Media
2 10 (4.90%) Market Risk
2 10 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.45%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.96%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.47%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.47%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (1.47%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.49%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.49%) CMDB
8 1 (0.49%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.49%) FMCG
8 1 (0.49%) iSeries
8 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.20%) Windows
2 14 (6.86%) Linux
3 4 (1.96%) zOS
4 2 (0.98%) Unix
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Solaris
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (18.63%) Agile
2 38 (18.63%) Data Analysis
3 37 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (17.16%) Customer Service
5 27 (13.24%) Analytics
6 25 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (10.29%) ITIL
8 20 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (9.31%) Business Analysis
10 18 (8.82%) Data Extraction
11 17 (8.33%) CI/CD
12 16 (7.84%) Decision-Making
12 16 (7.84%) DevOps
13 15 (7.35%) Artificial Intelligence
13 15 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (7.35%) Data Modelling
13 15 (7.35%) Visualisation
14 14 (6.86%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (6.86%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (15.69%) SQL
2 14 (6.86%) Python
3 8 (3.92%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (3.43%) R
5 4 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.98%) Java
7 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (8.82%) Degree
2 6 (2.94%) DV Cleared
2 6 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 6 (2.94%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.96%) CBAP
3 4 (1.96%) CCA
4 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.49%) ACCA
5 1 (0.49%) CCNA
5 1 (0.49%) CFA
5 1 (0.49%) CISA
5 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.49%) CISSP
5 1 (0.49%) CRISC
5 1 (0.49%) GCIA
5 1 (0.49%) ISEB
5 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.49%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 9 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.96%) GDPR
4 4 (1.96%) NIST
4 4 (1.96%) QA
5 3 (1.47%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.47%) ITGC
5 3 (1.47%) SEPA
6 2 (0.98%) GAAP
6 2 (0.98%) IFRS
6 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.98%) SLA
6 2 (0.98%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.98%) RACF
3 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (7.84%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.41%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.45%) ArcSight
3 5 (2.45%) Oracle
4 3 (1.47%) Genesys
4 3 (1.47%) Google
4 3 (1.47%) Verint
5 2 (0.98%) Alteryx
5 2 (0.98%) Qualys
5 2 (0.98%) Sage
5 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.49%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.49%) F5
6 1 (0.49%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.49%) Maxymiser
6 1 (0.49%) Medallia
6 1 (0.49%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.49%) Splunk
6 1 (0.49%) Symantec