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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 26 49
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 -18
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 117 221 247
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.00% 8.72% 5.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 9.70% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 61 39 91
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £49,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +9.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £83,738 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £95,000 £98,474
UK median annual salary £66,805 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.34% -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 2,667 2,279 3,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.42% 89.94% 85.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 995 1,616
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,217 £41,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.16% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £82,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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
Glasgow +17 63 £55,000 +7.32% 170
Edinburgh -15 36 £95,000 +26.53% 135
South Lanarkshire -12 4 - -
Moray - 4 £75,000 -
Aberdeen - 4 - - 9
Highlands - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 8
Fife -10 1 £27,000 -46.00% 7
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 5 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.37%) Azure
2 16 (13.68%) AWS
3 14 (11.97%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.55%) GitHub
5 6 (5.13%) GCP
5 6 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (4.27%) SaaS
6 5 (4.27%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.42%) Datadog
7 4 (3.42%) dbt
7 4 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.56%) Alation
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Databricks
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.56%) Collibra
8 3 (2.56%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.71%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) Broadband
2 2 (1.71%) BGP
2 2 (1.71%) OSPF
2 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) AMQP
3 1 (0.85%) DHCP
3 1 (0.85%) DNS
3 1 (0.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.85%) IPFIX
3 1 (0.85%) IPsec
3 1 (0.85%) MQTT
3 1 (0.85%) Network Security
3 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.85%) SNMP
3 1 (0.85%) SSL
3 1 (0.85%) VLAN
3 1 (0.85%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.97%) Power BI
2 13 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.40%) Data Lake
4 9 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (6.84%) MySQL
6 7 (5.98%) Tableau
7 6 (5.13%) Metadata
7 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
8 5 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.56%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.71%) Parquet
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.42%) Git
3 3 (2.56%) GitLab
4 2 (1.71%) JIRA
5 1 (0.85%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
General
1 38 (32.48%) Finance
1 38 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 37 (31.62%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (17.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (17.95%) Marketing
4 15 (12.82%) Law
5 10 (8.55%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.27%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.42%) Legal
9 3 (2.56%) Back Office
10 2 (1.71%) Banking
10 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.85%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (18.80%) Lead
2 11 (9.40%) Data Engineer
3 10 (8.55%) Architect
3 10 (8.55%) Senior
4 9 (7.69%) Risk Manager
5 8 (6.84%) Analyst
5 8 (6.84%) Data Manager
6 7 (5.98%) Developer
6 7 (5.98%) Lead Software Engineer
6 7 (5.98%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (5.13%) Applications Manager
7 6 (5.13%) Data Architect
7 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (5.13%) IT Director
7 6 (5.13%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.13%) Release Manager
7 6 (5.13%) Software Manager
7 6 (5.13%) Software Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.69%) Kafka
1 9 (7.69%) Spring
1 9 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.13%) Hibernate
2 6 (5.13%) JPA
2 6 (5.13%) REST
3 4 (3.42%) .NET
3 4 (3.42%) PySpark
4 3 (2.56%) Terraform
5 2 (1.71%) Apache Avro
5 2 (1.71%) JSON
5 2 (1.71%) ODBC
5 2 (1.71%) React
6 1 (0.85%) CSS
6 1 (0.85%) Django
6 1 (0.85%) gRPC
6 1 (0.85%) HTML
6 1 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.55%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.42%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.71%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.71%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.71%) Social Media
5 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.85%) Bitcoin
6 1 (0.85%) Clustering
6 1 (0.85%) Derivative
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) IoT
6 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.42%) Windows
2 3 (2.56%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.35%) AI
2 31 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (25.64%) Agile
4 27 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 25 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (21.37%) Data Analytics
6 18 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 18 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
6 18 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (14.53%) Mentoring
8 16 (13.68%) Machine Learning
8 16 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (12.82%) Service Delivery
10 14 (11.97%) Customer-Centricity
10 14 (11.97%) Software Engineering
11 13 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
11 13 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (11.11%) Data Science
11 13 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.51%) Python
2 19 (16.24%) SQL
3 14 (11.97%) Java
4 1 (0.85%) Bash
4 1 (0.85%) C#
4 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.85%) Scala
4 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.26%) Degree
2 7 (5.98%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.42%) CISM
4 4 (3.42%) CISSP
5 3 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.56%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.71%) IRCA
6 2 (1.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.71%) PMP
6 2 (1.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.85%) CISA
7 1 (0.85%) MCT
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.85%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.27%) GDPR
3 4 (3.42%) SLA
4 3 (2.56%) GRC
4 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.71%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.71%) QA
6 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 9 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.42%) Ansible
2 4 (3.42%) Grafana
2 4 (3.42%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.85%) Nagios
4 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.26%) Databricks
3 5 (4.27%) Alteryx
4 4 (3.42%) Google
5 3 (2.56%) Cisco
5 3 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.56%) Informatica
5 3 (2.56%) Splunk
6 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.71%) YouTube
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.85%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle
7 1 (0.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.85%) Workday