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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 28 30
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 257 193 180
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 9.46% 5.90% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.13% 6.81% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 39 70 137
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £30,850
25th Percentile £35,250 £47,610 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £64,000 £59,451
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +7.65% +8.09%
75th Percentile £70,625 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -1.37%

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 2,310 2,835 2,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 85.02% 86.67% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 1,325 1,763
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £34,750
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 £81,448 £82,958 £82,747
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 26 November 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 26 November 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 +7 111 £68,750 +7.22% 48
Glasgow -9 48 £50,000 -20.00% 28
North Lanarkshire - 25 £45,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 18 - - 4
South Lanarkshire - 12 - - 2
West Dunbartonshire - 7 £55,000 -
Stirling - 6 - -
Ayrshire - 6 - -
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
East Ayrshire - 6 - - 1
Lanarkshire - 6 - - 12
Highlands - 4 - - 2
Fife - 1 £50,000 - 4
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 12 (4.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.17%) Apache
3 3 (1.17%) SAS
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (8.17%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (3.50%) Oracle Assets
2 9 (3.50%) Oracle Financials
2 9 (3.50%) Oracle General Ledger
2 9 (3.50%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (3.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 90 (35.02%) Azure
2 50 (19.46%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (16.34%) GitHub
4 33 (12.84%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (12.45%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (11.67%) Snowflake
7 27 (10.51%) Power Platform
8 26 (10.12%) Entra ID
9 24 (9.34%) AWS
10 21 (8.17%) dbt
11 20 (7.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (7.78%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (6.23%) OCI
13 11 (4.28%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (4.28%) GCP
14 10 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (3.50%) Azure Event Grid
15 9 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (3.11%) Mimecast
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 (10.51%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (10.12%) Power BI
3 25 (9.73%) Tableau
4 15 (5.84%) Snowflake Schema
5 13 (5.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (3.50%) Data Mining
7 8 (3.11%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.72%) Metadata
8 7 (2.72%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.33%) Big Data
9 6 (2.33%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.56%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.56%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.17%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 30 (11.67%) JIRA
2 21 (8.17%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (4.67%) Git
3 12 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.39%) JUnit
5 1 (0.39%) Selenium
5 1 (0.39%) TestNG
General
1 138 (53.70%) Analytical Skills
2 127 (49.42%) Social Skills
3 122 (47.47%) Finance
4 16 (6.23%) Law
5 15 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.06%) Banking
7 6 (2.33%) Marketing
8 5 (1.95%) Back Office
9 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.17%) Legal
10 3 (1.17%) Publishing
10 3 (1.17%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) Billing
11 2 (0.78%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (37.35%) Innovation Manager
2 30 (11.67%) Senior
3 27 (10.51%) Analyst
4 15 (5.84%) Lead
4 15 (5.84%) Software Engineer
5 13 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (4.67%) Applications Engineer
7 11 (4.28%) Data Analyst
8 10 (3.89%) Oracle Analyst
9 9 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (3.50%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 9 (3.50%) Trainee
9 9 (3.50%) Trainee Analyst
9 9 (3.50%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 8 (3.11%) Developer
10 8 (3.11%) Java Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 6 (2.33%) Insight Analyst
11 6 (2.33%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.12%) OAuth
1 26 (10.12%) OAuth2
2 24 (9.34%) RESTful
3 17 (6.61%) SAML
4 9 (3.50%) JSON
5 8 (3.11%) Kafka
6 7 (2.72%) React
7 5 (1.95%) OpenID
8 4 (1.56%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.56%) Vue
9 3 (1.17%) Hibernate
9 3 (1.17%) PySpark
9 3 (1.17%) SOAP
9 3 (1.17%) Spring
9 3 (1.17%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.17%) Web Services
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (0.39%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.51%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.11%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
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%) PMI
8 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.67%) Windows
2 4 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (68.87%) AI
2 163 (63.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 121 (47.08%) Decision-Making
4 104 (40.47%) Customer Experience
4 104 (40.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 98 (38.13%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 83 (32.30%) Agile
7 79 (30.74%) Asset Management
7 79 (30.74%) Coaching
8 65 (25.29%) DevOps
9 49 (19.07%) Critical Thinking
10 48 (18.68%) Emotional Intelligence
11 47 (18.29%) Test Automation
12 45 (17.51%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (17.12%) CI/CD
14 38 (14.79%) ETL
15 37 (14.40%) Machine Learning
15 37 (14.40%) Roadmaps
16 31 (12.06%) Data Modelling
17 30 (11.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 59 (22.96%) Python
2 58 (22.57%) SQL
3 26 (10.12%) PowerShell
4 25 (9.73%) Java
5 18 (7.00%) Bash
6 12 (4.67%) PL/SQL
6 12 (4.67%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.89%) Bicep
8 5 (1.95%) Go
9 3 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.17%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.78%) C#
10 2 (0.78%) R
10 2 (0.78%) Scala
11 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (5.45%) 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 17 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.28%) GDPR
3 4 (1.56%) SLA
4 3 (1.17%) NIST
4 3 (1.17%) QA
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%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (7.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 11 (4.28%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.11%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.72%) Docker
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (15.18%) Terraform
2 18 (7.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.11%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.11%) SCCM
5 1 (0.39%) Ansible
5 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 46 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.01%) Oracle
3 9 (3.50%) Ab Initio
3 9 (3.50%) Databricks
4 5 (1.95%) Cisco
4 5 (1.95%) Facebook
4 5 (1.95%) Google
5 4 (1.56%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.17%) Teradata
7 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.39%) VMware