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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 30 33
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 261 187 184
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 9.59% 5.72% 7.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.05% 6.71% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 39 67 143
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,050 £29,200
25th Percentile £35,250 £46,125 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £59,451
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.13% +8.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £79,648 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,958 £91,797
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -1.52%

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 2,363 2,788 2,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 86.78% 85.31% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,131 1,293 1,782
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,866 £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 19 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 19 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 +6 110 £63,750 +4.95% 43
Glasgow -23 53 £50,000 -15.97% 30
North Lanarkshire - 25 £45,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 18 - - 4
South Lanarkshire - 12 - - 2
West Dunbartonshire - 7 £55,000 -
Stirling - 6 - -
Ayrshire - 6 - -
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
East Ayrshire - 6 - - 1
Lanarkshire - 6 - - 13
Highlands - 4 - - 2
Fife - 1 £50,000 - 3
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 11 (4.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.07%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.53%) Apache
5 3 (1.15%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (7.28%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (3.07%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (3.07%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (3.07%) Oracle General Ledger
2 8 (3.07%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (3.07%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 91 (34.87%) Azure
2 46 (17.62%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (14.56%) GitHub
4 32 (12.26%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (11.49%) AWS
5 30 (11.49%) GitHub Copilot
6 29 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 26 (9.96%) Entra ID
7 26 (9.96%) Power Platform
8 20 (7.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (7.28%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (6.90%) dbt
11 15 (5.75%) OCI
12 13 (4.98%) GCP
13 10 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (3.07%) Azure Event Grid
15 8 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.07%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.77%) Firewall
1 2 (0.77%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.38%) 802.11
2 1 (0.38%) BGP
2 1 (0.38%) HSRP
2 1 (0.38%) IPsec
2 1 (0.38%) OSPF
2 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.38%) VPN
2 1 (0.38%) WAN
2 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (9.58%) Power BI
2 25 (9.58%) Tableau
3 14 (5.36%) Snowflake Schema
4 12 (4.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 10 (3.83%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.45%) Data Mining
6 9 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.07%) Big Data
8 7 (2.68%) Metadata
8 7 (2.68%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.92%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.53%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.53%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (10.34%) JIRA
2 19 (7.28%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (4.60%) Git
4 11 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.77%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.38%) ERwin
6 1 (0.38%) JUnit
6 1 (0.38%) Selenium
6 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 138 (52.87%) Analytical Skills
2 128 (49.04%) Finance
3 127 (48.66%) Social Skills
4 21 (8.05%) Law
5 20 (7.66%) Banking
5 20 (7.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.07%) Marketing
7 5 (1.92%) Back Office
7 5 (1.92%) Retail
8 4 (1.53%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.53%) Private Banking
8 4 (1.53%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.53%) Publishing
9 3 (1.15%) Legal
10 2 (0.77%) Billing
11 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (36.78%) Innovation Manager
2 29 (11.11%) Senior
3 27 (10.34%) Analyst
4 19 (7.28%) Software Engineer
5 16 (6.13%) Lead
6 12 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (4.21%) Applications Engineer
7 11 (4.21%) Data Analyst
8 10 (3.83%) Java Engineer
8 10 (3.83%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (3.45%) Oracle Analyst
9 9 (3.45%) Python Engineer
9 9 (3.45%) Trainee
9 9 (3.45%) Trainee Analyst
9 9 (3.45%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 8 (3.07%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (3.07%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (3.07%) Python Software Engineer
10 8 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.07%) Senior Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.58%) OAuth
1 25 (9.58%) OAuth2
2 23 (8.81%) RESTful
3 17 (6.51%) SAML
4 9 (3.45%) Kafka
5 8 (3.07%) JSON
5 8 (3.07%) React
6 6 (2.30%) OpenID
7 5 (1.92%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.92%) Vue
8 4 (1.53%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.53%) PySpark
8 4 (1.53%) SOAP
8 4 (1.53%) Spring
8 4 (1.53%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.53%) Web Services
9 2 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (0.38%) Entity Framework
10 1 (0.38%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.07%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.38%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.38%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.38%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.38%) IoT
8 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.38%) PMI
8 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.60%) Windows
2 4 (1.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (68.20%) AI
2 163 (62.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 125 (47.89%) Decision-Making
4 105 (40.23%) Customer Experience
4 105 (40.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 98 (37.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 85 (32.57%) Agile
7 74 (28.35%) Asset Management
7 74 (28.35%) Coaching
8 62 (23.75%) DevOps
9 49 (18.77%) Critical Thinking
10 48 (18.39%) Emotional Intelligence
11 45 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
12 44 (16.86%) Test Automation
13 40 (15.33%) CI/CD
14 38 (14.56%) Machine Learning
15 36 (13.79%) ETL
15 36 (13.79%) Roadmaps
16 32 (12.26%) Data Modelling
17 30 (11.49%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 62 (23.75%) Python
1 62 (23.75%) SQL
2 26 (9.96%) PowerShell
3 25 (9.58%) Java
4 18 (6.90%) Bash
5 11 (4.21%) PL/SQL
5 11 (4.21%) Shell Script
6 9 (3.45%) Bicep
7 6 (2.30%) Go
8 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.15%) R
8 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.77%) C#
10 1 (0.38%) Scala
10 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (5.75%) Degree
2 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.53%) CTC Cleared
3 4 (1.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.53%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.38%) ACCA
4 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.38%) CCNA
4 1 (0.38%) CCNP
4 1 (0.38%) CISA
4 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.38%) CISM
4 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.21%) GDPR
3 4 (1.53%) SLA
4 3 (1.15%) NIST
4 3 (1.15%) QA
5 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
2 11 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (3.83%) Docker
4 8 (3.07%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (14.18%) Terraform
2 18 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (3.83%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.07%) SCCM
6 1 (0.38%) Ansible
6 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 46 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.79%) Oracle
3 9 (3.45%) Databricks
4 8 (3.07%) Ab Initio
5 7 (2.68%) Google
6 6 (2.30%) Facebook
7 5 (1.92%) Cisco
8 4 (1.53%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.15%) Teradata
10 1 (0.38%) Genesys
10 1 (0.38%) Informatica
10 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.38%) Verint
10 1 (0.38%) VMware