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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 29 36
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 256 197 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 9.27% 6.44% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.12% 7.28% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 36 65 133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,375 £45,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +0.75% +8.28%
75th Percentile £72,688 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £94,437
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -

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 2,302 2,706 2,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 83.35% 88.52% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,167 1,235 1,762
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 13 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 13 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 +5 123 £68,750 +19.57% 59
Glasgow -4 36 £50,000 -20.00% 51
North Lanarkshire - 25 £45,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 18 - - 7
South Lanarkshire - 12 - - 2
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
East Ayrshire - 6 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 6 - - 2
Ayrshire - 6 - -
Lanarkshire - 6 - - 12
Stirling - 6 - - 2
Highlands - 4 - - 2
Fife - 1 £50,000 - 9
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 15 (5.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.17%) SAS
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 27 (10.55%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (4.69%) Oracle Assets
2 12 (4.69%) Oracle Financials
2 12 (4.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 12 (4.69%) Oracle Payables
2 12 (4.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 93 (36.33%) Azure
2 58 (22.66%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (20.31%) GitHub
4 40 (15.63%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (12.11%) Snowflake
7 26 (10.16%) Entra ID
7 26 (10.16%) Power Platform
8 24 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (8.98%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (8.98%) dbt
10 19 (7.42%) OCI
11 14 (5.47%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (4.69%) AWS
13 12 (4.69%) Azure Event Grid
13 12 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (3.13%) Mimecast
15 7 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.78%) Firewall
1 2 (0.78%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.39%) 802.11
2 1 (0.39%) BGP
2 1 (0.39%) HSRP
2 1 (0.39%) IPsec
2 1 (0.39%) OSPF
2 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.39%) VPN
2 1 (0.39%) WAN
2 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.55%) Data Warehouse
1 27 (10.55%) Tableau
2 25 (9.77%) Power BI
3 16 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 16 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
4 9 (3.52%) Data Mining
4 9 (3.52%) Metadata
5 6 (2.34%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.56%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.17%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.78%) Big Data
8 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (13.28%) JIRA
2 27 (10.55%) Oracle Forms
3 15 (5.86%) Git
3 15 (5.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.39%) JUnit
5 1 (0.39%) Selenium
5 1 (0.39%) TestNG
General
1 140 (54.69%) Analytical Skills
2 127 (49.61%) Social Skills
3 123 (48.05%) Finance
4 7 (2.73%) Banking
5 6 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.34%) Law
6 5 (1.95%) Back Office
6 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.17%) Legal
9 2 (0.78%) Billing
9 2 (0.78%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Retail
10 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (37.50%) Innovation Manager
2 32 (12.50%) Senior
3 26 (10.16%) Analyst
4 16 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (5.86%) Applications Engineer
6 12 (4.69%) Oracle Analyst
6 12 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (4.69%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 11 (4.30%) Lead
8 10 (3.91%) Data Analyst
9 9 (3.52%) Trainee
9 9 (3.52%) Trainee Analyst
9 9 (3.52%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 8 (3.13%) Developer
10 8 (3.13%) ERP Analyst
10 8 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (3.13%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 6 (2.34%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.34%) Software Engineer
12 5 (1.95%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.33%) OAuth
1 29 (11.33%) OAuth2
2 28 (10.94%) RESTful
3 17 (6.64%) SAML
4 12 (4.69%) JSON
5 4 (1.56%) Kafka
5 4 (1.56%) React
6 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.78%) OpenID
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.78%) Vue
7 1 (0.39%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.39%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.39%) Blazor
7 1 (0.39%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.39%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.39%) NestJS
7 1 (0.39%) PySpark
7 1 (0.39%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.55%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.86%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.39%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.39%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.39%) IoT
8 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.39%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.69%) Windows
2 4 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (70.31%) AI
2 163 (63.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 120 (46.88%) Decision-Making
4 105 (41.02%) Customer Experience
5 103 (40.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 98 (38.28%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 93 (36.33%) Coaching
8 92 (35.94%) Asset Management
9 79 (30.86%) Agile
10 73 (28.52%) DevOps
11 54 (21.09%) Test Automation
12 53 (20.70%) CI/CD
13 49 (19.14%) Critical Thinking
14 48 (18.75%) Emotional Intelligence
15 45 (17.58%) Business Intelligence
16 40 (15.63%) Roadmaps
17 39 (15.23%) ETL
18 34 (13.28%) Clean Code
18 34 (13.28%) Data Modelling
18 34 (13.28%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.05%) Python
2 57 (22.27%) SQL
3 26 (10.16%) PowerShell
4 23 (8.98%) Java
5 18 (7.03%) Bash
6 15 (5.86%) PL/SQL
6 15 (5.86%) Shell Script
7 13 (5.08%) Bicep
8 5 (1.95%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.78%) C#
9 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.78%) Go
9 2 (0.78%) R
9 2 (0.78%) Scala
10 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (5.08%) Degree
2 5 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.56%) CTC Cleared
3 4 (1.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.39%) ACCA
4 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.39%) CCNA
4 1 (0.39%) CCNP
4 1 (0.39%) CISA
4 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.39%) CISM
4 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.86%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.47%) GDPR
3 4 (1.56%) SLA
4 3 (1.17%) NIST
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.39%) GRC
5 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.39%) QA
5 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (7.03%) Virtual Desktop
2 11 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.17%) Docker
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (17.58%) Terraform
2 18 (7.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (5.86%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.13%) SCCM
5 4 (1.56%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.39%) Ansible
6 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.06%) Oracle
3 12 (4.69%) Ab Initio
4 9 (3.52%) Databricks
5 5 (1.95%) Cisco
6 3 (1.17%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.17%) Teradata
7 2 (0.78%) Facebook
7 2 (0.78%) Google
8 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.39%) VMware