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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 26 52
Rank change year-on-year -20 +26 -24
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 109 241 289
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.19% 9.50% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 10.59% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 62 54 103
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,625 £36,350
25th Percentile £38,063 £47,688 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +7.69% +9.33%
75th Percentile £83,438 £93,778 £76,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,474 £92,764
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -3.20% -3.85%

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 2,410 2,276 4,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.59% 89.71% 87.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 1,014 2,011
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,851 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +18 64 £54,250 -5.65% 55
Edinburgh -23 32 £70,750 -15.51% 21
Aberdeen - 5 - - 4
Highlands - 3 - - 1
Moray - 2 £75,000 -
Fife -7 1 £27,000 -46.00% 3
North Lanarkshire -11 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 4 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.27%) Azure
2 16 (14.68%) AWS
3 12 (11.01%) GitHub
4 10 (9.17%) Power Platform
5 9 (8.26%) Snowflake
6 8 (7.34%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (4.59%) GCP
8 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.67%) SaaS
9 3 (2.75%) Datadog
9 3 (2.75%) dbt
9 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.83%) Alation
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.83%) Collibra
10 2 (1.83%) Firebase
10 2 (1.83%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.83%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) Broadband
2 1 (0.92%) AMQP
2 1 (0.92%) BGP
2 1 (0.92%) Firewall
2 1 (0.92%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.92%) IPFIX
2 1 (0.92%) MQTT
2 1 (0.92%) Network Security
2 1 (0.92%) OSPF
2 1 (0.92%) SNMP
2 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.17%) MySQL
2 10 (9.17%) Power BI
2 10 (9.17%) Tableau
3 6 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.50%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.59%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.59%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.67%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.75%) Metadata
7 2 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.92%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.92%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.92%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.75%) JIRA
3 2 (1.83%) fastlane
3 2 (1.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.92%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.92%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.92%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.92%) Git
4 1 (0.92%) Gradle
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.92%) Xcode
General
1 38 (34.86%) Social Skills
2 37 (33.94%) Finance
3 34 (31.19%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (9.17%) Law
5 10 (9.17%) Marketing
6 9 (8.26%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (7.34%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.75%) Back Office
8 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.83%) Banking
9 2 (1.83%) Legal
9 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.92%) Games
10 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.92%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (10.09%) Analyst
1 11 (10.09%) Architect
1 11 (10.09%) Developer
2 10 (9.17%) Lead
3 8 (7.34%) Data Architect
3 8 (7.34%) Data Engineer
3 8 (7.34%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (7.34%) Senior
4 6 (5.50%) Data Analyst
4 6 (5.50%) Data Manager
4 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (5.50%) Head of QA
4 6 (5.50%) IT Director
4 6 (5.50%) Java Developer
4 6 (5.50%) Risk Manager
4 6 (5.50%) Trainee
4 6 (5.50%) Trainee Analyst
4 6 (5.50%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 4 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (3.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.09%) Kafka
2 10 (9.17%) Spring
2 10 (9.17%) Spring Boot
3 8 (7.34%) Hibernate
3 8 (7.34%) JPA
3 8 (7.34%) REST
4 4 (3.67%) .NET
5 2 (1.83%) ODBC
5 2 (1.83%) React
5 2 (1.83%) RESTful
6 1 (0.92%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (0.92%) Android SDK
6 1 (0.92%) Core Data
6 1 (0.92%) gRPC
6 1 (0.92%) iOS SDK
6 1 (0.92%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (0.92%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.92%) PySpark
6 1 (0.92%) Retrofit
6 1 (0.92%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.34%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.83%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.92%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.92%) Derivative
5 1 (0.92%) IoT
5 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.92%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.92%) Social Media
5 1 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
1 3 (2.75%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.92%) Android
3 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.61%) Continuous Improvement
1 29 (26.61%) Data Analytics
2 25 (22.94%) Agile
3 23 (21.10%) AI
3 23 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (16.51%) Decision-Making
4 18 (16.51%) Machine Learning
5 17 (15.60%) Collaborative Working
6 16 (14.68%) CI/CD
7 15 (13.76%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (13.76%) Data Analysis
7 15 (13.76%) Data Strategy
7 15 (13.76%) Service Delivery
8 14 (12.84%) User Experience
9 13 (11.93%) Collaborative Culture
9 13 (11.93%) ITIL
9 13 (11.93%) Mentoring
10 12 (11.01%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (11.01%) Customer Experience
10 12 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.02%) Python
2 18 (16.51%) SQL
3 12 (11.01%) Java
4 2 (1.83%) C#
5 1 (0.92%) Bash
5 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.92%) Scala
5 1 (0.92%) Swift
5 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.50%) IRCA
2 5 (4.59%) Degree
3 4 (3.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) CTC Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.83%) CISM
5 2 (1.83%) CISSP
5 2 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.83%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.83%) PMP
5 2 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.92%) MCT
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.93%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.26%) GDPR
3 7 (6.42%) QA
4 6 (5.50%) ISO 9001
5 4 (3.67%) SLA
6 3 (2.75%) GRC
6 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.83%) WCAG
8 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (9.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.75%) Grafana
2 3 (2.75%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.75%) Terraform
3 2 (1.83%) Ansible
3 2 (1.83%) Argo
4 1 (0.92%) Nagios
4 1 (0.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.09%) Databricks
3 5 (4.59%) Google
3 5 (4.59%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.67%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.67%) Oracle
5 3 (2.75%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.75%) Cisco
6 2 (1.83%) Informatica
6 2 (1.83%) SAP
6 2 (1.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.92%) Apple
7 1 (0.92%) Epicor
7 1 (0.92%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.92%) Workday