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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 26 51
Rank change year-on-year -16 +25 -19
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 117 230 290
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.31% 9.14% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 10.15% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 62 45 104
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,550 £36,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £49,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £83,438 £93,778 £76,413
90th Percentile £109,750 £98,474 £92,521
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £62,879
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.58% -3.26%

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 2,476 2,267 4,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 69.98% 90.07% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,409 997 1,965
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,851 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 65 £49,750 -17.08% 16
Edinburgh -23 35 £72,500 -8.70% 9
Aberdeen - 5 - - 5
Moray - 4 £75,000 -
Highlands - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 4
Fife -7 1 £27,000 -46.00% 3
South Lanarkshire -8 1 - - 1
North Lanarkshire -13 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 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (4.27%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.37%) Azure
2 15 (12.82%) AWS
3 13 (11.11%) GitHub
3 13 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 8 (6.84%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (5.13%) GCP
5 6 (5.13%) Snowflake
6 5 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.27%) SaaS
7 4 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.42%) Datadog
7 4 (3.42%) dbt
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.56%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.71%) Alation
9 2 (1.71%) Collibra
9 2 (1.71%) Firebase
9 2 (1.71%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) Broadband
2 1 (0.85%) AMQP
2 1 (0.85%) BGP
2 1 (0.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.85%) IPFIX
2 1 (0.85%) MQTT
2 1 (0.85%) Network Security
2 1 (0.85%) OSPF
2 1 (0.85%) SNMP
2 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.11%) Power BI
3 10 (8.55%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.55%) MySQL
3 10 (8.55%) Tableau
4 8 (6.84%) Data Lake
5 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.27%) Metadata
7 4 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.42%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.56%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.56%) GitLab
2 3 (2.56%) JIRA
3 2 (1.71%) fastlane
4 1 (0.85%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.85%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.85%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.85%) Git
4 1 (0.85%) Gradle
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.85%) Xcode
General
1 43 (36.75%) Finance
2 41 (35.04%) Social Skills
3 38 (32.48%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (18.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (14.53%) Marketing
6 15 (12.82%) Law
7 9 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (6.84%) Public Sector
9 5 (4.27%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.56%) Back Office
11 2 (1.71%) Banking
11 2 (1.71%) Legal
11 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.71%) Retail
12 1 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.85%) Games
12 1 (0.85%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (13.68%) Lead
2 11 (9.40%) Analyst
2 11 (9.40%) Architect
2 11 (9.40%) Developer
3 10 (8.55%) Data Engineer
4 9 (7.69%) Risk Manager
5 8 (6.84%) Data Architect
5 8 (6.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (6.84%) Senior
6 7 (5.98%) Data Manager
7 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (5.13%) Head of QA
7 6 (5.13%) IT Director
7 6 (5.13%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) Engineering Manager
8 5 (4.27%) Technical Leader
8 5 (4.27%) Technical Manager
9 4 (3.42%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.42%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.26%) Kafka
2 11 (9.40%) Spring
2 11 (9.40%) Spring Boot
3 8 (6.84%) Hibernate
3 8 (6.84%) JPA
3 8 (6.84%) REST
4 4 (3.42%) .NET
5 2 (1.71%) ODBC
5 2 (1.71%) React
5 2 (1.71%) RESTful
6 1 (0.85%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (0.85%) Android SDK
6 1 (0.85%) Core Data
6 1 (0.85%) gRPC
6 1 (0.85%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.85%) PySpark
6 1 (0.85%) Retrofit
6 1 (0.85%) SwiftUI
6 1 (0.85%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.84%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.56%) Social Media
6 2 (1.71%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.71%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.85%) Derivative
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) IoT
7 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.56%) Windows
1 3 (2.56%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.71%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Android
3 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 27 (23.08%) AI
2 27 (23.08%) Data Analytics
2 27 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (22.22%) Agile
3 26 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 19 (16.24%) Machine Learning
5 18 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 18 (15.38%) Service Delivery
6 17 (14.53%) Collaborative Working
7 16 (13.68%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (12.82%) Data Strategy
8 15 (12.82%) Mentoring
8 15 (12.82%) User Experience
9 14 (11.97%) Collaborative Culture
9 14 (11.97%) Data Architecture
9 14 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (11.11%) Data Analysis
10 13 (11.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.51%) Python
2 20 (17.09%) SQL
3 14 (11.97%) Java
4 1 (0.85%) Bash
4 1 (0.85%) C#
4 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.85%) Scala
4 1 (0.85%) Swift
4 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (6.84%) Degree
2 6 (5.13%) IRCA
3 4 (3.42%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.56%) CTC Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.71%) CISM
5 2 (1.71%) CISSP
5 2 (1.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.71%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.71%) PMP
5 2 (1.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) MCT
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.97%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.69%) GDPR
3 7 (5.98%) QA
4 6 (5.13%) ISO 9001
5 4 (3.42%) SLA
6 3 (2.56%) GRC
6 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.71%) WCAG
8 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (9.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.42%) Grafana
2 4 (3.42%) Prometheus
2 4 (3.42%) Terraform
3 3 (2.56%) Ansible
3 3 (2.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.85%) Nagios
4 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.97%) Databricks
3 6 (5.13%) Google
4 5 (4.27%) Alteryx
4 5 (4.27%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.56%) Cisco
5 3 (2.56%) Oracle
5 3 (2.56%) Splunk
6 2 (1.71%) Informatica
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) Apple
7 1 (0.85%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.85%) Workday