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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 29 38
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 260 194 219
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 9.43% 7.00% 8.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.54% 7.64% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 39 62 124
10th Percentile - £39,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,372 £59,451
Median % change year-on-year -17.18% +1.55% +8.09%
75th Percentile £74,125 £82,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 2,254 2,539 2,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 81.79% 91.66% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 1,110 1,719
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,625 £83,150
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +4 134 £67,500 +17.39% 16
Glasgow -2 29 £50,000 -23.08% 9
North Lanarkshire - 25 £45,000 - 1
Renfrewshire +3 18 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 12 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 6 - -
Stirling - 6 - - 1
Ayrshire - 6 - -
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
East Ayrshire - 6 - -
Lanarkshire - 6 - - 7
Highlands - 4 - - 1
Fife - 1 £50,000 -
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 17 (6.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 31 (11.92%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (5.38%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (5.38%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (5.38%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (5.38%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (5.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 97 (37.31%) Azure
2 62 (23.85%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (22.31%) GitHub
4 44 (16.92%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (11.92%) Snowflake
7 29 (11.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (11.15%) Power Platform
8 26 (10.00%) Entra ID
9 25 (9.62%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (8.85%) dbt
11 21 (8.08%) OCI
12 16 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
13 15 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (5.38%) Azure Event Grid
14 14 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (3.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (3.08%) Mimecast
17 6 (2.31%) AWS
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 31 (11.92%) Tableau
2 28 (10.77%) Power BI
3 27 (10.38%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (6.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 16 (6.15%) Snowflake Schema
6 11 (4.23%) Data Mining
6 11 (4.23%) Metadata
7 8 (3.08%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.54%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.77%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.38%) QlikView
10 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (13.85%) JIRA
2 31 (11.92%) Oracle Forms
3 17 (6.54%) Git
3 17 (6.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.38%) JUnit
4 1 (0.38%) Selenium
4 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 142 (54.62%) Analytical Skills
2 128 (49.23%) Social Skills
3 127 (48.85%) Finance
4 5 (1.92%) Back Office
4 5 (1.92%) Banking
4 5 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (1.54%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.15%) Legal
7 2 (0.77%) Billing
7 2 (0.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.38%) Law
8 1 (0.38%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (36.92%) Innovation Manager
2 33 (12.69%) Senior
3 30 (11.54%) Analyst
4 18 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (6.54%) Applications Engineer
6 14 (5.38%) Oracle Analyst
6 14 (5.38%) Senior Analyst
6 14 (5.38%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 12 (4.62%) Data Analyst
8 11 (4.23%) Trainee
8 11 (4.23%) Trainee Analyst
8 11 (4.23%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 10 (3.85%) ERP Analyst
9 10 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (3.85%) Lead
10 8 (3.08%) Developer
10 8 (3.08%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 6 (2.31%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.31%) Data Manager
12 5 (1.92%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.92%) OAuth
1 31 (11.92%) OAuth2
1 31 (11.92%) RESTful
2 17 (6.54%) SAML
3 14 (5.38%) JSON
4 2 (0.77%) Kafka
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.77%) React
5 1 (0.38%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.38%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.38%) Blazor
5 1 (0.38%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.38%) HTML
5 1 (0.38%) NestJS
5 1 (0.38%) Node.js
5 1 (0.38%) REST
5 1 (0.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.38%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.08%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.54%) 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%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.38%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.38%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.38%) e-Learning
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
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.62%) Windows
2 4 (1.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (70.00%) AI
2 164 (63.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 122 (46.92%) Decision-Making
4 105 (40.38%) Customer Experience
5 103 (39.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 101 (38.85%) Coaching
7 100 (38.46%) Asset Management
8 98 (37.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 79 (30.38%) Agile
10 78 (30.00%) DevOps
11 59 (22.69%) CI/CD
11 59 (22.69%) Test Automation
12 49 (18.85%) Business Intelligence
12 49 (18.85%) Critical Thinking
13 48 (18.46%) Emotional Intelligence
14 42 (16.15%) Roadmaps
15 40 (15.38%) ETL
16 36 (13.85%) Clean Code
17 35 (13.46%) Data Modelling
17 35 (13.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (23.85%) Python
2 61 (23.46%) SQL
3 26 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 22 (8.46%) Java
5 18 (6.92%) Bash
6 17 (6.54%) PL/SQL
6 17 (6.54%) Shell Script
7 15 (5.77%) Bicep
8 7 (2.69%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.77%) C#
9 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.77%) Scala
10 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (5.00%) Degree
2 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
3 4 (1.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.54%) 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%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.77%) GDPR
2 14 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.54%) SLA
4 2 (0.77%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.38%) QA
5 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (6.92%) Virtual Desktop
2 11 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.38%) Docker
4 1 (0.38%) Firmware
4 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (18.85%) Terraform
2 18 (6.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (6.54%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.08%) SCCM
5 2 (0.77%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.38%) Ansible
6 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 54 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 37 (14.23%) Oracle
3 14 (5.38%) Ab Initio
4 10 (3.85%) Databricks
5 5 (1.92%) Cisco
6 3 (1.15%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.15%) Teradata
7 1 (0.38%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) VMware