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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 25 58
Rank change year-on-year -24 +33 -28
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 101 240 295
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.00% 9.61% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 10.68% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 60 54 101
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,625 £47,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,474 £93,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,628 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.53% -1.40% -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 2,380 2,248 4,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.69% 89.99% 87.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 1,000 2,142
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £30,800
25th Percentile £32,375 £32,851 £40,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -10.80% -3.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +21 58 £51,000 -11.30% 21
Edinburgh -20 31 £65,000 -22.38% 15
Aberdeen - 5 - - 2
Highlands - 3 - -
Lanarkshire +7 1 - - 8
Fife -7 1 £27,000 -46.00% 1
North Lanarkshire -13 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 3 (2.97%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.82%) Azure
2 13 (12.87%) AWS
3 10 (9.90%) GitHub
3 10 (9.90%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.91%) Snowflake
5 8 (7.92%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.96%) SaaS
7 3 (2.97%) GCP
7 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.98%) Firebase
8 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.98%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.98%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.99%) Alation
9 1 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.99%) Collibra
9 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Broadband
2 1 (0.99%) AMQP
2 1 (0.99%) BGP
2 1 (0.99%) Firewall
2 1 (0.99%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.99%) IPFIX
2 1 (0.99%) MQTT
2 1 (0.99%) Network Security
2 1 (0.99%) OSPF
2 1 (0.99%) SNMP
2 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.99%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.90%) MySQL
2 10 (9.90%) Power BI
3 9 (8.91%) Tableau
4 6 (5.94%) Data Mining
4 6 (5.94%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.96%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.98%) Metadata
6 2 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.99%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.97%) JIRA
3 2 (1.98%) fastlane
4 1 (0.99%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.99%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.99%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.99%) Git
4 1 (0.99%) Gradle
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.99%) Xcode
General
1 34 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 33 (32.67%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (28.71%) Finance
4 9 (8.91%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.96%) Law
7 4 (3.96%) Marketing
8 3 (2.97%) Back Office
9 2 (1.98%) Banking
9 2 (1.98%) Games
9 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Retail
10 1 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.99%) Legal
10 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.99%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.99%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (11.88%) Analyst
1 12 (11.88%) Architect
2 11 (10.89%) Developer
3 9 (8.91%) Data Architect
4 8 (7.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (6.93%) Data Analyst
5 7 (6.93%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Senior
5 7 (6.93%) Trainee
5 7 (6.93%) Trainee Analyst
5 7 (6.93%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 6 (5.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (5.94%) Head of QA
6 6 (5.94%) IT Director
6 6 (5.94%) Java Developer
7 5 (4.95%) Data Manager
7 5 (4.95%) Lead
8 4 (3.96%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.91%) Kafka
2 8 (7.92%) Hibernate
2 8 (7.92%) JPA
2 8 (7.92%) REST
2 8 (7.92%) Spring
2 8 (7.92%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.98%) .NET
3 2 (1.98%) ODBC
3 2 (1.98%) React
3 2 (1.98%) RESTful
4 1 (0.99%) Android SDK
4 1 (0.99%) CSS
4 1 (0.99%) Django
4 1 (0.99%) gRPC
4 1 (0.99%) HTML
4 1 (0.99%) iOS SDK
4 1 (0.99%) JSON
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.99%) UIKit
4 1 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.92%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.98%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.98%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.98%) Social Media
4 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.99%) Derivative
5 1 (0.99%) IoT
5 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.99%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.99%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.97%) Windows
1 3 (2.97%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.98%) Linux
3 1 (0.99%) Android
3 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (28.71%) Data Analytics
2 26 (25.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (22.77%) Agile
4 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (15.84%) AI
5 16 (15.84%) Collaborative Working
5 16 (15.84%) Data Analysis
6 15 (14.85%) Decision-Making
6 15 (14.85%) Machine Learning
7 14 (13.86%) Data Strategy
7 14 (13.86%) User Experience
8 13 (12.87%) CI/CD
8 13 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (12.87%) ITIL
9 12 (11.88%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (11.88%) Collaborative Culture
9 12 (11.88%) Customer Experience
9 12 (11.88%) Service Delivery
10 11 (10.89%) Knowledge Transfer
10 11 (10.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.79%) Python
2 16 (15.84%) SQL
3 9 (8.91%) Java
4 2 (1.98%) C#
5 1 (0.99%) Bash
5 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.99%) Scala
5 1 (0.99%) Swift
5 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.94%) IRCA
2 3 (2.97%) CTC Cleared
2 3 (2.97%) Degree
2 3 (2.97%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.97%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (1.98%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.98%) PMP
3 2 (1.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (0.99%) CISM
4 1 (0.99%) CISSP
4 1 (0.99%) MCT
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.87%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.92%) GDPR
3 7 (6.93%) QA
4 6 (5.94%) ISO 9001
5 4 (3.96%) SLA
6 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.98%) GRC
6 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.98%) WCAG
7 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (7.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.91%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.99%) Grafana
2 1 (0.99%) Nagios
2 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.99%) Terraform
2 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.92%) Databricks
3 5 (4.95%) Google
3 5 (4.95%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.96%) Oracle
5 3 (2.97%) Cisco
6 2 (1.98%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.98%) SAP
7 1 (0.99%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.99%) Apple
7 1 (0.99%) Epicor
7 1 (0.99%) Informatica
7 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.99%) Workday