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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 28 41
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 240 185 262
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 8.55% 7.25% 7.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.74% 7.78% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 40 62 127
10th Percentile - £37,500 £30,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £60,372 £55,148
Median % change year-on-year -15.11% +9.47% +0.27%
75th Percentile £79,625 £82,958 £72,433
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £93,186
UK median annual salary £63,076 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.89% +12.00% -7.41%

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 2,235 2,378 3,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.65% 93.18% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 1,001 1,858
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,420 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,856 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,014
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +5.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +2 134 £65,000 +14.03% 32
Glasgow -1 26 £47,500 -30.28% 16
North Lanarkshire - 21 £45,000 - 2
Renfrewshire +1 15 - - 4
South Lanarkshire - 10 - - 1
East Ayrshire -1 5 - - 1
North Ayrshire - 5 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 5 - -
Stirling - 5 - -
Ayrshire - 5 - -
Lanarkshire - 5 - - 14
Highlands - 4 - - 2
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 (7.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 31 (12.92%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (5.83%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (5.83%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (5.83%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (5.83%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (5.83%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 97 (40.42%) Azure
2 60 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (24.17%) GitHub
4 47 (19.58%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (18.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 42 (17.50%) Entra ID
7 29 (12.08%) Snowflake
8 28 (11.67%) Power Platform
9 27 (11.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 25 (10.42%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (10.00%) dbt
12 21 (8.75%) OCI
13 15 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (5.83%) Azure Event Grid
14 14 (5.83%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (3.33%) Mimecast
17 5 (2.08%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.33%) Tableau
2 28 (11.67%) Power BI
3 25 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 16 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
6 12 (5.00%) Data Mining
6 12 (5.00%) Metadata
7 7 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.67%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.83%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.42%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (15.00%) JIRA
2 31 (12.92%) Oracle Forms
3 17 (7.08%) Git
3 17 (7.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.42%) JUnit
4 1 (0.42%) Selenium
4 1 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 128 (53.33%) Finance
2 110 (45.83%) Analytical Skills
2 110 (45.83%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.75%) Back Office
4 5 (2.08%) Banking
4 5 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.25%) Legal
5 3 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (0.83%) Billing
6 2 (0.83%) Public Sector
6 2 (0.83%) Retail
7 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.42%) Law
7 1 (0.42%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (26.67%) Innovation Manager
2 31 (12.92%) Analyst
3 29 (12.08%) Senior
4 20 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
4 20 (8.33%) Desktop Support
4 20 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 20 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 17 (7.08%) Applications Engineer
5 17 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (6.67%) Site Engineer
7 14 (5.83%) Oracle Analyst
7 14 (5.83%) Senior Analyst
7 14 (5.83%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 13 (5.42%) Data Analyst
9 12 (5.00%) Trainee
9 12 (5.00%) Trainee Analyst
9 12 (5.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 11 (4.58%) Lead
11 10 (4.17%) ERP Analyst
11 10 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.92%) OAuth
1 31 (12.92%) OAuth2
1 31 (12.92%) RESTful
2 17 (7.08%) SAML
3 14 (5.83%) JSON
4 3 (1.25%) Kafka
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.83%) React
6 1 (0.42%) .NET
6 1 (0.42%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.42%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.42%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.42%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.42%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.42%) Blazor
6 1 (0.42%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.42%) NestJS
6 1 (0.42%) Node.js
6 1 (0.42%) REST
6 1 (0.42%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 27 (11.25%) Product Ownership
3 17 (7.08%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.42%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.42%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.42%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.42%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.42%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.42%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.67%) Windows
2 20 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (61.25%) AI
2 146 (60.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 101 (42.08%) Coaching
4 100 (41.67%) Asset Management
5 89 (37.08%) Decision-Making
6 87 (36.25%) Customer Experience
7 82 (34.17%) Agile
8 76 (31.67%) DevOps
9 71 (29.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 66 (27.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 59 (24.58%) Test Automation
12 57 (23.75%) CI/CD
13 49 (20.42%) Critical Thinking
14 48 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
14 48 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
15 46 (19.17%) ITIL
16 42 (17.50%) Roadmaps
17 39 (16.25%) ETL
18 36 (15.00%) Clean Code
19 35 (14.58%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 63 (26.25%) Python
2 59 (24.58%) SQL
3 26 (10.83%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.17%) Java
5 18 (7.50%) Bash
6 17 (7.08%) PL/SQL
6 17 (7.08%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.83%) Bicep
8 7 (2.92%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.83%) C#
9 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.83%) Scala
10 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (11.67%) Degree
2 20 (8.33%) CTC Cleared
2 20 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 20 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.42%) ACCA
4 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.42%) CISA
4 1 (0.42%) CISM
4 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.33%) SLA
2 14 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.42%) GRC
3 1 (0.42%) NIST
3 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.42%) QA
3 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (7.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (20.42%) Terraform
2 18 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (7.08%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.33%) SCCM
5 2 (0.83%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.42%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 70 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.83%) Oracle
3 20 (8.33%) Cisco
4 14 (5.83%) Ab Initio
5 12 (5.00%) Databricks
6 4 (1.67%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.25%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.25%) Hyperion
7 3 (1.25%) IBM
7 3 (1.25%) SAP
7 3 (1.25%) Teradata
8 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow