Analytics Job Trends in Scotland

Analytics
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 29 30
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 113 220 193
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.68% 8.43% 5.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 9.31% 6.74%
Number of salaries quoted 51 38 73
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,900
25th Percentile £49,000 £37,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £51,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.34% -21.15% +17.87%
75th Percentile £100,000 £60,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £83,738 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%

All Process & 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 2,881 2,362 2,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.40% 90.50% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,671 1,019 1,389
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,399 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in Scotland

Analytics
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

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 12 October 2026. 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
Glasgow +19 59 £71,250 +50.00% 117
Edinburgh -18 34 £96,250 +60.42% 108
South Lanarkshire -11 5 - -
Aberdeen - 4 £61,250 - 14
Moray - 4 £75,000 - 1
Highlands - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 7
Stirling -7 1 - - 5
Fife -9 1 £27,000 -46.00% 5
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) Ethereum
Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.58%) Azure
2 15 (13.27%) AWS
3 14 (12.39%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.96%) GitHub
5 6 (5.31%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (4.42%) SaaS
6 5 (4.42%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.54%) Datadog
7 4 (3.54%) dbt
7 4 (3.54%) GCP
7 4 (3.54%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.65%) Alation
8 3 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.65%) Collibra
8 3 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.77%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.65%) Broadband
2 2 (1.77%) BGP
2 2 (1.77%) OSPF
2 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) AMQP
3 1 (0.88%) DHCP
3 1 (0.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.88%) IPFIX
3 1 (0.88%) IPsec
3 1 (0.88%) MQTT
3 1 (0.88%) Network Security
3 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.88%) SSL
3 1 (0.88%) VLAN
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) WAN
3 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.39%) Power BI
2 12 (10.62%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.73%) Data Lake
4 9 (7.96%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (6.19%) MySQL
6 6 (5.31%) Metadata
6 6 (5.31%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.31%) Tableau
7 5 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.77%) Parquet
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.88%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.88%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.54%) Git
3 3 (2.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
General
1 36 (31.86%) Finance
2 33 (29.20%) Social Skills
3 29 (25.66%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (19.47%) Marketing
5 20 (17.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (13.27%) Law
7 11 (9.73%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
9 5 (4.42%) Financial Institution
10 4 (3.54%) Legal
11 3 (2.65%) Back Office
12 2 (1.77%) Banking
12 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.77%) Retail
13 1 (0.88%) Advertising
13 1 (0.88%) Billing
13 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.88%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (23.89%) Lead
2 11 (9.73%) Lead Software Engineer
2 11 (9.73%) Senior
2 11 (9.73%) Software Engineer
3 10 (8.85%) Applications Engineer
3 10 (8.85%) Applications Manager
3 10 (8.85%) Data Engineer
3 10 (8.85%) Release Manager
3 10 (8.85%) Software Manager
3 10 (8.85%) Software Release Manager
4 9 (7.96%) Architect
4 9 (7.96%) Risk Manager
5 8 (7.08%) Data Manager
6 7 (6.19%) Analyst
6 7 (6.19%) Developer
6 7 (6.19%) Senior Manager
7 6 (5.31%) Data Architect
7 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (5.31%) IT Director
7 6 (5.31%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.96%) Kafka
1 9 (7.96%) Spring
1 9 (7.96%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.31%) Hibernate
2 6 (5.31%) JPA
2 6 (5.31%) REST
3 4 (3.54%) .NET
4 3 (2.65%) PySpark
4 3 (2.65%) Terraform
5 2 (1.77%) Apache Avro
5 2 (1.77%) JSON
5 2 (1.77%) React
6 1 (0.88%) CSS
6 1 (0.88%) Django
6 1 (0.88%) gRPC
6 1 (0.88%) HTML
6 1 (0.88%) ODBC
6 1 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.73%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.31%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.54%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.54%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.65%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.65%) Social Media
5 2 (1.77%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.77%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.88%) Bitcoin
6 1 (0.88%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.88%) Cybercrime
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) IoT
6 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.54%) Windows
2 3 (2.65%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (29.20%) AI
2 28 (24.78%) Decision-Making
3 27 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (23.01%) Data Analytics
5 23 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (16.81%) Agile
6 19 (16.81%) Mentoring
6 19 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (15.93%) Software Engineering
8 17 (15.04%) CI/CD
9 15 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (13.27%) Machine Learning
10 13 (11.50%) Collaborative Culture
10 13 (11.50%) Data Architecture
10 13 (11.50%) Data Governance
10 13 (11.50%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (11.50%) Data Science
10 13 (11.50%) Risk Management
11 12 (10.62%) Service Delivery
12 11 (9.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.35%) Python
2 17 (15.04%) SQL
3 14 (12.39%) Java
4 1 (0.88%) Bash
4 1 (0.88%) C#
4 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (12.39%) Degree
2 7 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.54%) CISM
4 4 (3.54%) CISSP
5 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.65%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.88%) ACCA
7 1 (0.88%) CIMA
7 1 (0.88%) CISA
7 1 (0.88%) HNC
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.88%) PgMP
7 1 (0.88%) PMP
7 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.04%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.54%) SLA
3 3 (2.65%) GDPR
3 3 (2.65%) GRC
3 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 9 (7.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.54%) Ansible
2 4 (3.54%) Grafana
2 4 (3.54%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.65%) Argo
4 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.88%) Nagios
4 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.96%) Databricks
3 5 (4.42%) Alteryx
4 4 (3.54%) Google
5 3 (2.65%) Cisco
5 3 (2.65%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.65%) Informatica
5 3 (2.65%) Splunk
5 3 (2.65%) YouTube
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe
6 1 (0.88%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.88%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle
6 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) SAP
6 1 (0.88%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.88%) Workday