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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 27 52
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 -12
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 134 197 413
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.23% 9.46% 6.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 10.13% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 67 61 125
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £39,750
25th Percentile £36,125 £37,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,743
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +15.24% +5.64%
75th Percentile £86,875 £98,474 £73,250
90th Percentile £95,500 - £94,252
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 2,252 1,945 5,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 71.06% 93.37% 90.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,263 826 2,450
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,225
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,661 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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
Edinburgh -11 50 £65,000 -22.38% 16
Glasgow +6 45 £60,000 +14.29% 11
North Lanarkshire -3 9 - -
Renfrewshire -5 6 - -
South Lanarkshire -2 4 - -
Lanarkshire +11 3 - - 8
Aberdeen - 3 - - 3
Ayrshire 0 2 - -
North Ayrshire -2 2 - -
East Ayrshire -3 2 - -
Stirling -6 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire -7 2 - -
Fife - 1 £27,000 -
West Lothian - 1 - -
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 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.24%) Confluence
1 3 (2.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 32 (23.88%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (2.24%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (2.24%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (2.24%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (2.24%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (2.24%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.88%) Entra ID
1 32 (23.88%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (21.64%) Azure
3 13 (9.70%) AWS
3 13 (9.70%) GitHub
4 12 (8.96%) Power Platform
4 12 (8.96%) Snowflake
5 10 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (5.97%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.99%) GCP
8 4 (2.99%) OCI
9 3 (2.24%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (2.24%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.24%) SaaS
10 2 (1.49%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) Broadband
2 1 (0.75%) AMQP
2 1 (0.75%) BGP
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.75%) IPFIX
2 1 (0.75%) MQTT
2 1 (0.75%) Network Security
2 1 (0.75%) OSPF
2 1 (0.75%) SNMP
2 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.45%) Tableau
2 12 (8.96%) Power BI
3 9 (6.72%) Data Mining
4 6 (4.48%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.99%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.99%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.99%) Metadata
5 4 (2.99%) MySQL
5 4 (2.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.75%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.75%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Jenkins
1 7 (5.22%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (4.48%) JIRA
3 3 (2.24%) Git
4 2 (1.49%) fastlane
5 1 (0.75%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.75%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.75%) Gradle
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.75%) Xcode
General
1 63 (47.01%) Social Skills
2 43 (32.09%) Finance
3 32 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (23.88%) Back Office
4 8 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (5.22%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.24%) Games
7 3 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.75%) Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (24.63%) Support Engineer
2 32 (23.88%) Desktop Engineer
2 32 (23.88%) Desktop Support
2 32 (23.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 32 (23.88%) Site Engineer
3 18 (13.43%) Analyst
4 17 (12.69%) Architect
5 13 (9.70%) Data Engineer
5 13 (9.70%) Lead
6 10 (7.46%) Data Analyst
6 10 (7.46%) Data Architect
6 10 (7.46%) Senior
6 10 (7.46%) Trainee
6 10 (7.46%) Trainee Analyst
6 10 (7.46%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 9 (6.72%) Lead Data Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Head of QA
8 6 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.99%) Developer
9 4 (2.99%) ERP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.97%) RESTful
2 6 (4.48%) OAuth
2 6 (4.48%) OAuth2
3 4 (2.99%) JSON
3 4 (2.99%) Kafka
4 3 (2.24%) SAML
5 2 (1.49%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.49%) JPA
5 2 (1.49%) ODBC
5 2 (1.49%) REST
5 2 (1.49%) Spring
5 2 (1.49%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.75%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (0.75%) Core Data
6 1 (0.75%) gRPC
6 1 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.75%) PySpark
6 1 (0.75%) React
6 1 (0.75%) Retrofit
6 1 (0.75%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.72%) Cloud Native
1 9 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.24%) Social Media
5 2 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.75%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.75%) IoT
6 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.88%) Windows
1 32 (23.88%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.49%) Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Android
3 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (38.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 41 (30.60%) ITIL
3 40 (29.85%) Customer Experience
3 40 (29.85%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (26.12%) Customer Service
5 32 (23.88%) Customer Acquisition
5 32 (23.88%) Patch Management
5 32 (23.88%) Software Deployment
5 32 (23.88%) Ticket Management
6 31 (23.13%) Agile
7 24 (17.91%) Data Engineering
8 19 (14.18%) Data Analysis
8 19 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (13.43%) AI
10 17 (12.69%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (12.69%) Coaching
11 16 (11.94%) CI/CD
11 16 (11.94%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (11.94%) Decision-Making
12 15 (11.19%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.40%) Python
1 26 (19.40%) SQL
2 7 (5.22%) Java
3 4 (2.99%) PL/SQL
4 3 (2.24%) Bicep
4 3 (2.24%) Shell Script
4 3 (2.24%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.49%) Scala
6 1 (0.75%) Bash
6 1 (0.75%) C#
6 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (23.88%) CTC Cleared
1 32 (23.88%) Degree
1 32 (23.88%) SC Cleared
1 32 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.48%) IRCA
3 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.75%) MCT
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.75%) PMP
3 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.63%) SLA
2 16 (11.94%) Data Quality
3 10 (7.46%) GDPR
4 7 (5.22%) QA
5 6 (4.48%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.49%) WCAG
7 1 (0.75%) GRC
7 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.22%) Terraform
2 3 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.75%) Grafana
3 1 (0.75%) Nagios
3 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 52 (38.81%) Microsoft
2 32 (23.88%) Cisco
3 13 (9.70%) Oracle
4 11 (8.21%) Databricks
5 5 (3.73%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.73%) SAP
6 4 (2.99%) Anaplan
7 3 (2.24%) Ab Initio
7 3 (2.24%) Google
7 3 (2.24%) Hyperion
7 3 (2.24%) IBM
8 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.75%) Apple
9 1 (0.75%) Epicor
9 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds