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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 30 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 258 195 189
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 9.32% 6.11% 7.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.13% 6.98% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 35 69 137
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £30,850
25th Percentile £35,250 £46,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.94% +8.28%
75th Percentile £74,125 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £93,186
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -0.20%

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 2,319 2,793 2,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 83.78% 87.45% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,145 1,285 1,768
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,650 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +5 119 £70,000 +19.15% 30
Glasgow -10 42 £50,000 -20.00% 21
North Lanarkshire - 25 £45,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 18 - - 4
South Lanarkshire - 12 - - 2
West Dunbartonshire - 6 - -
Stirling - 6 - - 2
Ayrshire - 6 - -
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
East Ayrshire - 6 - - 1
Lanarkshire - 6 - - 11
Highlands - 4 - - 2
Fife - 1 £50,000 - 2
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 14 (5.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.16%) SAS
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (9.69%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (4.26%) Oracle Assets
2 11 (4.26%) Oracle Financials
2 11 (4.26%) Oracle General Ledger
2 11 (4.26%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (4.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 94 (36.43%) Azure
2 56 (21.71%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (18.99%) GitHub
4 38 (14.73%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (12.40%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (12.02%) Snowflake
7 26 (10.08%) Entra ID
8 25 (9.69%) Power Platform
9 23 (8.91%) dbt
10 22 (8.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (8.53%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (7.36%) AWS
12 18 (6.98%) OCI
13 13 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (4.26%) Azure Event Grid
15 11 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (3.49%) GCP
17 8 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
17 8 (3.10%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.78%) Firewall
1 2 (0.78%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.39%) 802.11
2 1 (0.39%) BGP
2 1 (0.39%) HSRP
2 1 (0.39%) IPsec
2 1 (0.39%) OSPF
2 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.39%) VPN
2 1 (0.39%) WAN
2 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.85%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (10.08%) Tableau
3 24 (9.30%) Power BI
4 16 (6.20%) Snowflake Schema
5 15 (5.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (3.49%) Data Mining
7 8 (3.10%) Metadata
8 6 (2.33%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.94%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.94%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.55%) Big Data
10 4 (1.55%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.55%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.16%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.78%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 34 (13.18%) JIRA
2 25 (9.69%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (5.43%) Git
3 14 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.39%) JUnit
5 1 (0.39%) Selenium
5 1 (0.39%) TestNG
General
1 140 (54.26%) Analytical Skills
2 128 (49.61%) Social Skills
3 125 (48.45%) Finance
4 11 (4.26%) Banking
4 11 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (4.26%) Law
5 5 (1.94%) Back Office
6 4 (1.55%) Marketing
6 4 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (1.55%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.16%) Legal
8 2 (0.78%) Billing
8 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.78%) Private Banking
8 2 (0.78%) Publishing
8 2 (0.78%) Retail
9 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (37.21%) Innovation Manager
2 32 (12.40%) Senior
3 26 (10.08%) Analyst
4 15 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (5.43%) Applications Engineer
6 13 (5.04%) Lead
7 11 (4.26%) Data Analyst
7 11 (4.26%) Oracle Analyst
7 11 (4.26%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (4.26%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 11 (4.26%) Software Engineer
8 9 (3.49%) Trainee
8 9 (3.49%) Trainee Analyst
8 9 (3.49%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 8 (3.10%) Developer
9 8 (3.10%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 7 (2.71%) ERP Analyst
10 7 (2.71%) Integration Engineer
11 6 (2.33%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.33%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.24%) OAuth
1 29 (11.24%) OAuth2
2 27 (10.47%) RESTful
3 18 (6.98%) SAML
4 11 (4.26%) JSON
5 6 (2.33%) Kafka
5 6 (2.33%) React
6 4 (1.55%) OpenID
7 3 (1.16%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.16%) Vue
8 2 (0.78%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.78%) PySpark
8 2 (0.78%) SOAP
8 2 (0.78%) Spring
8 2 (0.78%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.78%) Web Services
9 1 (0.39%) .NET
9 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.39%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.47%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.10%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.55%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.39%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.39%) IoT
8 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.65%) Windows
2 4 (1.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (69.77%) AI
2 164 (63.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 119 (46.12%) Decision-Making
4 104 (40.31%) Customer Experience
4 104 (40.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 98 (37.98%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 88 (34.11%) Asset Management
6 88 (34.11%) Coaching
7 83 (32.17%) Agile
8 71 (27.52%) DevOps
9 52 (20.16%) Test Automation
10 50 (19.38%) CI/CD
11 49 (18.99%) Critical Thinking
12 48 (18.60%) Emotional Intelligence
13 44 (17.05%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (15.12%) ETL
14 39 (15.12%) Roadmaps
15 35 (13.57%) Machine Learning
16 34 (13.18%) Data Modelling
17 33 (12.79%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 59 (22.87%) Python
2 57 (22.09%) SQL
3 26 (10.08%) PowerShell
4 25 (9.69%) Java
5 18 (6.98%) Bash
6 14 (5.43%) PL/SQL
6 14 (5.43%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.65%) Bicep
8 4 (1.55%) Go
8 4 (1.55%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.78%) C#
9 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.78%) R
9 2 (0.78%) Scala
10 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (5.04%) Degree
2 5 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.55%) CTC Cleared
3 4 (1.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.55%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.39%) ACCA
4 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.39%) CCNA
4 1 (0.39%) CCNP
4 1 (0.39%) CISA
4 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.39%) CISM
4 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.04%) GDPR
3 4 (1.55%) SLA
4 3 (1.16%) NIST
5 2 (0.78%) QA
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (6.98%) Virtual Desktop
2 11 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.10%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.94%) Docker
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (16.67%) Terraform
2 18 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (5.43%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.10%) SCCM
5 6 (2.33%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.39%) Ansible
6 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.95%) Oracle
3 11 (4.26%) Ab Initio
4 9 (3.49%) Databricks
5 5 (1.94%) Cisco
6 4 (1.55%) Facebook
6 4 (1.55%) Google
7 3 (1.16%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.16%) Teradata
8 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.39%) VMware