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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 27 53
Rank change year-on-year -19 +26 -21
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 119 224 245
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.13% 8.93% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 9.96% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 64 43 93
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,250 £36,900
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £49,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £100,000 £83,738 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £97,429
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 2,629 2,250 3,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 69.04% 89.68% 85.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,542 977 1,731
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,851 £42,489
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,000 £69,900
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 +20 63 £51,000 -0.49%
Edinburgh -19 39 £76,250 +1.55%
Aberdeen - 4 - -
Moray - 4 £75,000 -
South Lanarkshire -12 3 - -
Highlands - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
Fife -8 1 £27,000 -46.00%
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 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.84%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.85%) Azure
2 14 (11.76%) AWS
3 13 (10.92%) Power Platform
4 12 (10.08%) GitHub
5 7 (5.88%) GCP
5 7 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.20%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.36%) Azure Databricks
7 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.36%) Datadog
7 4 (3.36%) dbt
7 4 (3.36%) SaaS
8 3 (2.52%) Alation
8 3 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.52%) Collibra
8 3 (2.52%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.68%) Firebase
9 2 (1.68%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) Broadband
2 2 (1.68%) BGP
2 2 (1.68%) OSPF
2 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.84%) AMQP
3 1 (0.84%) DHCP
3 1 (0.84%) DNS
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.84%) IPFIX
3 1 (0.84%) IPsec
3 1 (0.84%) MQTT
3 1 (0.84%) Network Security
3 1 (0.84%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.84%) SNMP
3 1 (0.84%) SSL
3 1 (0.84%) VLAN
3 1 (0.84%) VPN
3 1 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.92%) Power BI
3 9 (7.56%) Data Lake
3 9 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.56%) MySQL
4 8 (6.72%) Tableau
5 6 (5.04%) Metadata
5 6 (5.04%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.36%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.68%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.84%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.84%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.52%) GitLab
2 3 (2.52%) JIRA
3 2 (1.68%) fastlane
3 2 (1.68%) Git
4 1 (0.84%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.84%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.84%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.84%) Gradle
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.84%) Xcode
General
1 39 (32.77%) Finance
1 39 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 36 (30.25%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (20.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (17.65%) Marketing
5 15 (12.61%) Law
6 9 (7.56%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (6.72%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.20%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.36%) Legal
10 3 (2.52%) Back Office
11 2 (1.68%) Banking
11 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.68%) Retail
12 1 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.84%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.84%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (15.97%) Lead
2 11 (9.24%) Senior
3 10 (8.40%) Developer
4 9 (7.56%) Analyst
4 9 (7.56%) Architect
4 9 (7.56%) Data Engineer
4 9 (7.56%) Risk Manager
5 8 (6.72%) Data Manager
6 7 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (5.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (5.04%) IT Director
7 6 (5.04%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.20%) Applications Manager
8 5 (4.20%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.20%) Engineering Manager
8 5 (4.20%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Release Manager
8 5 (4.20%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Technical Leader
8 5 (4.20%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.40%) Kafka
1 10 (8.40%) Spring
1 10 (8.40%) Spring Boot
2 7 (5.88%) Hibernate
2 7 (5.88%) JPA
2 7 (5.88%) REST
3 4 (3.36%) .NET
4 3 (2.52%) Terraform
5 2 (1.68%) ODBC
5 2 (1.68%) PySpark
5 2 (1.68%) React
5 2 (1.68%) RESTful
6 1 (0.84%) Android SDK
6 1 (0.84%) Core Data
6 1 (0.84%) CSS
6 1 (0.84%) Django
6 1 (0.84%) gRPC
6 1 (0.84%) HTML
6 1 (0.84%) iOS SDK
6 1 (0.84%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.40%) Management Information System
2 9 (7.56%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.36%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.52%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.68%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.68%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.68%) Social Media
6 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.84%) Bitcoin
7 1 (0.84%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.84%) Clustering
7 1 (0.84%) Derivative
7 1 (0.84%) IoT
7 1 (0.84%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Windows
2 3 (2.52%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.68%) Linux
4 1 (0.84%) Android
4 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.89%) AI
2 30 (25.21%) Agile
3 28 (23.53%) Data Analytics
3 28 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (22.69%) Decision-Making
5 19 (15.97%) CI/CD
6 18 (15.13%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 17 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 17 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (13.45%) Service Delivery
9 15 (12.61%) Mentoring
9 15 (12.61%) User Experience
10 14 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (11.76%) Customer-Centricity
11 13 (10.92%) Data Governance
11 13 (10.92%) Data Science
11 13 (10.92%) ITIL
11 13 (10.92%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.17%) Python
2 18 (15.13%) SQL
3 14 (11.76%) Java
4 1 (0.84%) Bash
4 1 (0.84%) C#
4 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.84%) Scala
4 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.84%) Swift
4 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (9.24%) Degree
2 5 (4.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.36%) CISM
3 4 (3.36%) CISSP
3 4 (3.36%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.52%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.52%) CTC Cleared
4 3 (2.52%) IRCA
4 3 (2.52%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.68%) PMP
5 2 (1.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.84%) CISA
6 1 (0.84%) MCT
6 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.84%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.08%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.04%) GDPR
3 4 (3.36%) SLA
4 3 (2.52%) GRC
4 3 (2.52%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.52%) QA
5 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.68%) WCAG
6 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 10 (8.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.36%) Ansible
2 4 (3.36%) Grafana
2 4 (3.36%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.52%) Argo
4 1 (0.84%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.84%) Nagios
4 1 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.76%) Databricks
3 6 (5.04%) Google
4 5 (4.20%) Alteryx
4 5 (4.20%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.52%) Cisco
5 3 (2.52%) Informatica
5 3 (2.52%) Splunk
6 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.84%) Adobe
7 1 (0.84%) Apple
7 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.84%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle
7 1 (0.84%) SAP
7 1 (0.84%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.84%) Workday
7 1 (0.84%) YouTube