Analytics Jobs in Scotland

Analytics
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 53 46
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 224 436 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.50% 6.50% 6.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.09% 7.06% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 83 123 140
10th Percentile £25,313 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,375 £46,306 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £60,249 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +1.21% +8.23%
75th Percentile £93,778 £73,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £96,539 £80,576
UK median annual salary £65,000 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,769 6,175 4,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.67% 92.10% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,324 2,396 2,142
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £32,075
25th Percentile £40,563 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in Scotland

Analytics
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Analytics in Scotland

Analytics
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytics in Scotland

Analytics
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 May 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 +14 119 £76,869 +18.26% 202
Glasgow +38 40 £52,500 -8.70% 176
Renfrewshire -2 24 £52,000 +59.79% 39
Inverclyde - 12 £52,000 -
North Lanarkshire +1 8 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 4 - - 3
East Ayrshire - 3 £40,101 -
Lanarkshire -10 2 - - 6
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Moray - 2 £40,101 -
North Ayrshire - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 - -
Ayrshire - 2 - - 2
South Ayrshire -31 1 £40,101 -38.31%
Fife - 1 £40,101 - 14
Analytics
UK

Analytics
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 15 (6.70%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (4.91%) Umbraco
3 7 (3.13%) Apache
3 7 (3.13%) SAS
4 6 (2.68%) CMS
5 3 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.34%) Drupal
6 2 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.89%) Confluence
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 35 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.34%) Adobe Premiere
2 3 (1.34%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.45%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.45%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (12.50%) Azure
2 25 (11.16%) AWS
3 21 (9.38%) GCP
4 17 (7.59%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.91%) Google Analytics
6 9 (4.02%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.13%) Adobe Analytics
7 7 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.34%) Azure Stack
9 3 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.34%) GitHub
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.89%) Collibra
10 2 (0.89%) Contentsquare
10 2 (0.89%) dbt
10 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.89%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (24.11%) Tableau
2 19 (8.48%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (8.04%) Big Data
4 17 (7.59%) Power BI
5 15 (6.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 15 (6.70%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (4.91%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.23%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.23%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.89%) Looker
9 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.45%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.45%) Impala
10 1 (0.45%) Metadata
10 1 (0.45%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 35 (15.63%) JIRA
2 8 (3.57%) Git
3 6 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.23%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.23%) Eclipse RCP
5 4 (1.79%) webpack
6 2 (0.89%) ERwin
7 1 (0.45%) GitLab
General
1 93 (41.52%) Finance
2 88 (39.29%) Social Skills
3 82 (36.61%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (25.45%) Banking
5 16 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (6.70%) Military
7 14 (6.25%) Marketing
8 11 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (4.46%) Retail
10 7 (3.13%) Legal
11 6 (2.68%) Law
11 6 (2.68%) Wholesale Banking
12 5 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.79%) Advertising
14 2 (0.89%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.45%) Billing
15 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (14.73%) Principal Engineer
2 32 (14.29%) Analyst
2 32 (14.29%) Innovation Manager
3 30 (13.39%) Senior
4 22 (9.82%) Architect
4 22 (9.82%) Lead
5 17 (7.59%) Data Analyst
6 15 (6.70%) Software Engineer
7 14 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.91%) Data Manager
8 11 (4.91%) Lead Architect
8 11 (4.91%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.91%) Senior Manager
9 10 (4.46%) Data Scientist
10 9 (4.02%) Audit Manager
11 8 (3.57%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (2.68%) Analytics Manager
13 6 (2.68%) Data Analytics Manager
13 6 (2.68%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.04%) CSS
2 17 (7.59%) React
3 12 (5.36%) OAuth
3 12 (5.36%) OpenID
3 12 (5.36%) SAML
4 11 (4.91%) Ajax
4 11 (4.91%) jQuery
5 7 (3.13%) HTML
6 5 (2.23%) JSP
6 5 (2.23%) Middleware
6 5 (2.23%) PySpark
7 4 (1.79%) Enzyme
7 4 (1.79%) Jest
7 4 (1.79%) Redux
7 4 (1.79%) RESTful
7 4 (1.79%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.34%) JSON
8 3 (1.34%) Kafka
8 3 (1.34%) NumPy
8 3 (1.34%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 6 (2.68%) Credit Risk
3 5 (2.23%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.34%) Blog
5 3 (1.34%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.34%) Learning Management System
5 3 (1.34%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.34%) Social Media
6 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.89%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.45%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.45%) Life Science
7 1 (0.45%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.45%) Replication
7 1 (0.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.23%) Linux
1 5 (2.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (37.95%) Data Analytics
2 72 (32.14%) Data Management
3 68 (30.36%) Customer Experience
4 63 (28.13%) Decision-Making
5 56 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 55 (24.55%) Artificial Intelligence
7 52 (23.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 49 (21.88%) Agile
9 47 (20.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (17.86%) Data Governance
11 39 (17.41%) Visualisation
12 34 (15.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 31 (13.84%) Data Science
14 29 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (12.95%) Mathematics
15 26 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (11.16%) Statistical Modelling
17 24 (10.71%) DevOps
18 22 (9.82%) Coaching
18 22 (9.82%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (20.98%) SQL
2 39 (17.41%) Python
3 20 (8.93%) JavaScript
4 7 (3.13%) Java
5 5 (2.23%) Ada
5 5 (2.23%) C#
5 5 (2.23%) Rust
6 4 (1.79%) R
7 1 (0.45%) Bash
7 1 (0.45%) Bicep
7 1 (0.45%) C++
7 1 (0.45%) Go
7 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (16.52%) Degree
2 15 (6.70%) DBS Check
3 7 (3.13%) CISA
3 7 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.23%) PhD
5 3 (1.34%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.89%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.89%) PMP
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (20.54%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.23%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.79%) QA
3 4 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.89%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) ITGC
6 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.91%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (4.02%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.34%) Terraform
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 58 (25.89%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.48%) Oracle
3 16 (7.14%) Google
4 9 (4.02%) Adobe
5 4 (1.79%) Tealium
6 3 (1.34%) Databricks
6 3 (1.34%) Genesys
6 3 (1.34%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.34%) Verint
7 2 (0.89%) Charles River
7 2 (0.89%) Informatica
8 1 (0.45%) Facebook
8 1 (0.45%) Maxymiser
8 1 (0.45%) Medallia
8 1 (0.45%) SAP