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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 25 52
Rank change year-on-year -8 +27 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 139 192 421
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.29% 9.45% 6.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.04% 10.11% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 64 59 123
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £41,250
25th Percentile £36,438 £37,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.18% +1.21%
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £73,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,779 £96,539
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £59,487
% change year-on-year - +9.27% -8.48%

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 2,300 1,900 5,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.92% 93.50% 91.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,280 825 2,389
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,700
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 £93,267 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 24 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 24 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 -18 57 £65,000 -15.44% 35
Glasgow -2 44 £60,000 +9.09% 22
North Lanarkshire -2 9 - -
Renfrewshire -2 6 - -
South Lanarkshire -2 4 - - 1
Lanarkshire +11 3 - - 9
Aberdeen - 3 - - 4
Ayrshire 0 2 - -
East Ayrshire -1 2 - -
North Ayrshire -2 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire -6 2 - -
Stirling -8 2 - -
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 5 (3.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.16%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 32 (23.02%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (7.91%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.60%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (3.60%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (3.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (3.60%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (3.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (2.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.18%) Azure
2 32 (23.02%) Entra ID
2 32 (23.02%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (14.39%) GitHub
4 16 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (10.79%) Snowflake
6 13 (9.35%) AWS
6 13 (9.35%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (7.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (7.91%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.32%) OCI
10 5 (3.60%) Azure Event Grid
10 5 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.60%) dbt
10 5 (3.60%) GCP
11 4 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.44%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) Broadband
2 1 (0.72%) BGP
2 1 (0.72%) Firewall
2 1 (0.72%) IPFIX
2 1 (0.72%) Network Security
2 1 (0.72%) OSPF
2 1 (0.72%) SNMP
2 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.79%) Tableau
2 11 (7.91%) Power BI
3 9 (6.47%) Data Mining
4 6 (4.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 5 (3.60%) Metadata
5 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.88%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.88%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.88%) MySQL
7 2 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.72%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.72%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (7.91%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (7.19%) JIRA
3 9 (6.47%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.60%) Git
5 2 (1.44%) fastlane
6 1 (0.72%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.72%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.72%) Gradle
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.72%) Xcode
General
1 63 (45.32%) Social Skills
2 51 (36.69%) Finance
3 32 (23.02%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (23.02%) Back Office
4 8 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.16%) Games
7 3 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.72%) Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (23.74%) Support Engineer
2 32 (23.02%) Desktop Engineer
2 32 (23.02%) Desktop Support
2 32 (23.02%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 32 (23.02%) Site Engineer
3 20 (14.39%) Analyst
4 15 (10.79%) Architect
5 14 (10.07%) Lead
6 13 (9.35%) Data Engineer
6 13 (9.35%) Senior
7 10 (7.19%) Data Analyst
7 10 (7.19%) Lead Data Engineer
7 10 (7.19%) Trainee
7 10 (7.19%) Trainee Analyst
7 10 (7.19%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 8 (5.76%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.32%) ERP Analyst
9 6 (4.32%) Head of QA
9 6 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.60%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.63%) RESTful
2 10 (7.19%) OAuth
2 10 (7.19%) OAuth2
3 6 (4.32%) JSON
4 5 (3.60%) Kafka
4 5 (3.60%) SAML
5 2 (1.44%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.44%) JPA
5 2 (1.44%) ODBC
5 2 (1.44%) REST
5 2 (1.44%) Spring
5 2 (1.44%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.72%) .NET
6 1 (0.72%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (0.72%) Android SDK
6 1 (0.72%) iOS SDK
6 1 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.72%) UIKit
6 1 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.47%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.32%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.16%) Social Media
7 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.02%) Windows
1 32 (23.02%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.44%) Linux
3 1 (0.72%) Android
3 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (38.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 41 (29.50%) ITIL
3 40 (28.78%) Customer Experience
3 40 (28.78%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (25.90%) Agile
5 35 (25.18%) Customer Service
6 32 (23.02%) Customer Acquisition
6 32 (23.02%) Patch Management
6 32 (23.02%) Software Deployment
6 32 (23.02%) Ticket Management
7 27 (19.42%) Data Engineering
8 26 (18.71%) Coaching
9 23 (16.55%) CI/CD
10 21 (15.11%) AI
10 21 (15.11%) Asset Management
10 21 (15.11%) DevOps
11 20 (14.39%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (12.95%) Data Analysis
12 18 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (12.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (21.58%) SQL
2 29 (20.86%) Python
3 10 (7.19%) Java
4 6 (4.32%) PL/SQL
5 5 (3.60%) Bicep
5 5 (3.60%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.88%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.16%) Scala
8 1 (0.72%) Bash
8 1 (0.72%) C#
8 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (23.02%) CTC Cleared
1 32 (23.02%) Degree
1 32 (23.02%) SC Cleared
1 32 (23.02%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.32%) IRCA
3 1 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.72%) PMP
3 1 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (23.74%) SLA
2 15 (10.79%) Data Quality
3 12 (8.63%) GDPR
4 7 (5.04%) QA
5 6 (4.32%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.44%) WCAG
7 1 (0.72%) GRC
7 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (7.91%) Terraform
2 5 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.44%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.72%) Grafana
4 1 (0.72%) Nagios
4 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 52 (37.41%) Microsoft
2 32 (23.02%) Cisco
3 17 (12.23%) Oracle
4 13 (9.35%) Databricks
5 5 (3.60%) Ab Initio
5 5 (3.60%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.60%) SAP
6 4 (2.88%) Anaplan
7 3 (2.16%) Google
7 3 (2.16%) Hyperion
7 3 (2.16%) IBM
8 2 (1.44%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.72%) Apple
9 1 (0.72%) Epicor
9 1 (0.72%) SolarWinds