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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 15 50
Rank change year-on-year -9 +35 -11
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 189 196 426
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.63% 10.24% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.76% 11.12% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 64 72 122
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £41,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.54% +3.57%
75th Percentile £89,375 £95,868 £71,750
90th Percentile £95,875 £99,847 £89,041
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -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 2,435 1,763 5,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.54% 92.11% 92.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,324 897 2,396
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,987 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,625 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -9 87 £65,000 -16.24% 19
Glasgow -10 45 £60,000 -14.29% 20
North Lanarkshire -3 13 - - 1
Renfrewshire -3 9 - - 4
South Lanarkshire -6 6 - -
Lanarkshire +3 4 - - 12
Highlands - 4 - - 1
Ayrshire +1 3 - -
East Ayrshire 0 3 - - 1
North Ayrshire -2 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire -5 3 - -
Stirling -12 3 - -
Aberdeen - 3 - - 3
West Lothian - 1 - - 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 8 (4.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.59%) Confluence
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 36 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (9.52%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (4.76%) Oracle Assets
2 9 (4.76%) Oracle Financials
2 9 (4.76%) Oracle General Ledger
2 9 (4.76%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (4.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.22%) Azure
2 37 (19.58%) GitHub
2 37 (19.58%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (17.46%) Entra ID
4 32 (16.93%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (13.76%) GitHub Copilot
5 26 (13.76%) Snowflake
6 20 (10.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (8.47%) AWS
7 16 (8.47%) Power Platform
8 15 (7.94%) dbt
9 11 (5.82%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
11 9 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (4.76%) OCI
12 8 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.70%) GCP
14 2 (1.06%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.59%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.11%) Tableau
2 16 (8.47%) Power BI
3 15 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.35%) Data Mining
5 10 (5.29%) Metadata
5 10 (5.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 7 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.17%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.12%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.12%) MySQL
9 3 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.06%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 21 (11.11%) JIRA
2 17 (8.99%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (6.35%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.23%) Git
5 2 (1.06%) fastlane
6 1 (0.53%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.53%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.53%) Gradle
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.53%) Xcode
General
1 92 (48.68%) Social Skills
2 79 (41.80%) Finance
3 61 (32.28%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (19.05%) Back Office
5 7 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.59%) Games
7 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.53%) Billing
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (19.58%) Support Engineer
2 36 (19.05%) Desktop Engineer
2 36 (19.05%) Desktop Support
2 36 (19.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 32 (16.93%) Site Engineer
4 28 (14.81%) Analyst
5 21 (11.11%) Senior
6 17 (8.99%) Architect
7 16 (8.47%) Innovation Manager
7 16 (8.47%) Lead
8 13 (6.88%) Data Analyst
8 13 (6.88%) Data Engineer
8 13 (6.88%) Trainee
8 13 (6.88%) Trainee Analyst
8 13 (6.88%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 10 (5.29%) Data Architect
9 10 (5.29%) ERP Analyst
9 10 (5.29%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Oracle Analyst
10 9 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.05%) RESTful
2 17 (8.99%) OAuth
2 17 (8.99%) OAuth2
3 10 (5.29%) JSON
4 8 (4.23%) SAML
5 6 (3.17%) Kafka
6 2 (1.06%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.06%) JPA
6 2 (1.06%) ODBC
6 2 (1.06%) REST
6 2 (1.06%) Spring
6 2 (1.06%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.53%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (0.53%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.53%) Core Data
7 1 (0.53%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (0.53%) NestJS
7 1 (0.53%) PySpark
7 1 (0.53%) Retrofit
7 1 (0.53%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.59%) Social Media
6 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 36 (19.05%) Windows
1 36 (19.05%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.53%) Android
2 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (46.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 61 (32.28%) Customer Experience
3 52 (27.51%) AI
4 51 (26.98%) Agile
5 50 (26.46%) Coaching
6 46 (24.34%) ITIL
7 45 (23.81%) Asset Management
7 45 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
8 42 (22.22%) Decision-Making
9 40 (21.16%) CI/CD
10 39 (20.63%) Customer Service
10 39 (20.63%) DevOps
11 36 (19.05%) Customer Acquisition
11 36 (19.05%) Patch Management
11 36 (19.05%) Software Deployment
11 36 (19.05%) Test Automation
11 36 (19.05%) Ticket Management
12 33 (17.46%) Data Engineering
13 28 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (13.76%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 44 (23.28%) SQL
2 39 (20.63%) Python
3 14 (7.41%) Java
4 9 (4.76%) Bicep
4 9 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 8 (4.23%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.17%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.59%) Scala
8 2 (1.06%) C#
8 2 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.53%) Bash
9 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.53%) Swift
9 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (19.58%) Degree
2 36 (19.05%) CTC Cleared
2 36 (19.05%) SC Cleared
2 36 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.17%) IRCA
4 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.53%) PMP
5 1 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (19.05%) SLA
2 20 (10.58%) Data Quality
3 16 (8.47%) GDPR
4 7 (3.70%) QA
5 6 (3.17%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.06%) WCAG
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (10.05%) Terraform
2 8 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 61 (32.28%) Microsoft
2 36 (19.05%) Cisco
3 23 (12.17%) Oracle
4 16 (8.47%) Databricks
5 9 (4.76%) Ab Initio
6 5 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.65%) SAP
7 4 (2.12%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.59%) Google
8 3 (1.59%) Hyperion
8 3 (1.59%) IBM
9 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.53%) Apple
10 1 (0.53%) Epicor