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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 15 52
Rank change year-on-year -13 +37 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 165 201 431
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.92% 10.58% 6.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 11.46% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 64 73 124
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £41,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,125
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.43% +4.56%
75th Percentile £89,375 £95,000 £72,575
90th Percentile £95,875 £99,695 £90,822
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 2,394 1,754 5,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 71.36% 92.36% 92.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,325 876 2,407
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,125 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,188 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,150 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,599 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.34% +9.09% -10.57%

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 3 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 3 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 -6 80 £65,000 -16.24% 25
Glasgow -10 43 £58,750 -16.07% 24
North Lanarkshire -5 9 - -
Renfrewshire -4 6 - - 2
South Lanarkshire -7 4 - -
Highlands - 4 - -
Lanarkshire +13 3 - - 11
Aberdeen - 3 - - 5
Ayrshire +2 2 - -
East Ayrshire -1 2 - -
North Ayrshire -2 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire -4 2 - -
Stirling -12 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 8 (4.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.82%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 36 (21.82%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (10.30%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (4.85%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (4.85%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (4.85%) Oracle General Ledger
2 8 (4.85%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (4.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.82%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (31.52%) Azure
2 36 (21.82%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (20.61%) GitHub
4 32 (19.39%) Entra ID
5 29 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (14.55%) GitHub Copilot
7 23 (13.94%) Snowflake
8 16 (9.70%) AWS
9 15 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (7.88%) dbt
10 13 (7.88%) Power Platform
11 10 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (5.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (5.45%) OCI
13 8 (4.85%) Azure Event Grid
13 8 (4.85%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (4.24%) GCP
15 5 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 2 (1.21%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) Broadband
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.12%) Tableau
2 13 (7.88%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (7.88%) Power BI
3 11 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 9 (5.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 8 (4.85%) Metadata
6 5 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.42%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.42%) MySQL
8 2 (1.21%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (12.12%) JIRA
2 16 (9.70%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (7.27%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.85%) Git
5 2 (1.21%) fastlane
6 1 (0.61%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.61%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.61%) Gradle
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.61%) Xcode
General
1 73 (44.24%) Social Skills
2 70 (42.42%) Finance
3 42 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (21.82%) Back Office
5 8 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.82%) Games
8 3 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.21%) Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (22.42%) Support Engineer
2 36 (21.82%) Desktop Engineer
2 36 (21.82%) Desktop Support
2 36 (21.82%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 32 (19.39%) Site Engineer
4 25 (15.15%) Analyst
5 19 (11.52%) Senior
6 17 (10.30%) Architect
7 16 (9.70%) Lead
8 13 (7.88%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.27%) Data Analyst
9 12 (7.27%) Trainee
9 12 (7.27%) Trainee Analyst
9 12 (7.27%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 10 (6.06%) Data Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (5.45%) ERP Analyst
12 8 (4.85%) Oracle Analyst
12 8 (4.85%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (4.85%) Senior Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.91%) RESTful
2 16 (9.70%) OAuth
2 16 (9.70%) OAuth2
3 9 (5.45%) JSON
4 8 (4.85%) SAML
5 6 (3.64%) Kafka
6 2 (1.21%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.21%) JPA
6 2 (1.21%) ODBC
6 2 (1.21%) REST
6 2 (1.21%) Spring
6 2 (1.21%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.61%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (0.61%) Core Data
7 1 (0.61%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (0.61%) NestJS
7 1 (0.61%) PySpark
7 1 (0.61%) React
7 1 (0.61%) Retrofit
7 1 (0.61%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.45%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.82%) Social Media
7 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.21%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.61%) PMI
8 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.82%) Windows
1 36 (21.82%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.61%) Android
2 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (41.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 48 (29.09%) Agile
3 45 (27.27%) Customer Experience
3 45 (27.27%) ITIL
4 44 (26.67%) Coaching
4 44 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
5 39 (23.64%) Asset Management
5 39 (23.64%) Customer Service
6 37 (22.42%) CI/CD
7 36 (21.82%) Customer Acquisition
7 36 (21.82%) Patch Management
7 36 (21.82%) Software Deployment
7 36 (21.82%) Ticket Management
8 35 (21.21%) DevOps
9 33 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 32 (19.39%) AI
10 32 (19.39%) Data Engineering
11 26 (15.76%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (14.55%) Data Integration
12 24 (14.55%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.64%) SQL
2 36 (21.82%) Python
3 14 (8.48%) Java
4 9 (5.45%) PL/SQL
5 8 (4.85%) Bicep
5 8 (4.85%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.03%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.82%) Scala
8 2 (1.21%) C#
9 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.61%) Swift
9 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (21.82%) CTC Cleared
1 36 (21.82%) Degree
1 36 (21.82%) SC Cleared
1 36 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.64%) IRCA
3 2 (1.21%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.61%) PMP
4 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (21.82%) SLA
2 17 (10.30%) Data Quality
3 15 (9.09%) GDPR
4 7 (4.24%) QA
5 6 (3.64%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.21%) WCAG
7 1 (0.61%) GRC
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.30%) Terraform
2 8 (4.85%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 59 (35.76%) Microsoft
2 36 (21.82%) Cisco
3 22 (13.33%) Oracle
4 15 (9.09%) Databricks
5 8 (4.85%) Ab Initio
6 5 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.03%) SAP
7 4 (2.42%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.82%) Google
8 3 (1.82%) Hyperion
8 3 (1.82%) IBM
9 2 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.61%) Apple
10 1 (0.61%) Epicor