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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 53
Rank change year-on-year -6 +38 -16
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 198 202 415
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.20% 10.47% 6.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.32% 11.32% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 66 70 118
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £38,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £73,803 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% +23.92% -0.74%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,605 £71,750
90th Percentile £95,625 £100,000 £89,041
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -8.19%

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 1,784 5,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 74.54% 92.48% 92.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 912 2,394
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,575 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £39,784
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,878 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 9 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 9 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 -6 96 £65,000 -16.24% 17
Glasgow -11 45 £62,500 -10.71% 20
North Lanarkshire -4 13 - - 1
Renfrewshire -3 9 - - 1
South Lanarkshire -6 6 - - 1
Lanarkshire +4 4 - - 10
Highlands - 4 - - 1
Ayrshire 0 3 - -
East Ayrshire -1 3 - - 1
North Ayrshire -3 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire -7 3 - -
Stirling -10 3 - -
Aberdeen - 3 - - 1
West Lothian - 1 - - 3
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 (4.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (9.60%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (5.05%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (5.05%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (5.05%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (5.05%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (5.05%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.52%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (32.32%) Azure
2 40 (20.20%) GitHub
3 38 (19.19%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (17.68%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (17.17%) Entra ID
6 29 (14.65%) Snowflake
7 28 (14.14%) GitHub Copilot
8 24 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (9.09%) Power Platform
10 17 (8.59%) dbt
11 16 (8.08%) AWS
12 13 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (5.05%) Azure Event Grid
15 10 (5.05%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (4.55%) OCI
17 7 (3.54%) GCP
18 3 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) Broadband
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.61%) Tableau
2 18 (9.09%) Power BI
3 17 (8.59%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.06%) Data Mining
4 12 (6.06%) Metadata
5 11 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (3.54%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.03%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.02%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.52%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.52%) MySQL
11 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (11.11%) JIRA
2 18 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.04%) Git
5 2 (1.01%) fastlane
6 1 (0.51%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.51%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.51%) Gradle
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 94 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 85 (42.93%) Finance
3 65 (32.83%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (18.18%) Back Office
5 7 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.52%) Banking
8 3 (1.52%) Games
8 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Billing
9 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.51%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (18.69%) Support Engineer
2 36 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
2 36 (18.18%) Desktop Support
2 36 (18.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 32 (16.16%) Site Engineer
4 30 (15.15%) Analyst
5 23 (11.62%) Senior
6 17 (8.59%) Architect
6 17 (8.59%) Lead
7 16 (8.08%) Innovation Manager
8 14 (7.07%) Data Analyst
8 14 (7.07%) Data Engineer
9 13 (6.57%) Trainee
9 13 (6.57%) Trainee Analyst
9 13 (6.57%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 11 (5.56%) ERP Analyst
10 11 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
11 10 (5.05%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (5.05%) Oracle Analyst
11 10 (5.05%) Senior Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.10%) RESTful
2 18 (9.09%) OAuth
2 18 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 11 (5.56%) JSON
4 8 (4.04%) SAML
5 6 (3.03%) Kafka
6 2 (1.01%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.01%) JPA
6 2 (1.01%) REST
6 2 (1.01%) Spring
6 2 (1.01%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.51%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (0.51%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.51%) Core Data
7 1 (0.51%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (0.51%) NestJS
7 1 (0.51%) PySpark
7 1 (0.51%) React
7 1 (0.51%) Retrofit
7 1 (0.51%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.65%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.52%) Social Media
6 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.18%) Windows
1 36 (18.18%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.51%) Android
2 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 61 (30.81%) Customer Experience
3 55 (27.78%) AI
3 55 (27.78%) Coaching
4 53 (26.77%) Agile
5 51 (25.76%) Asset Management
6 47 (23.74%) Cybersecurity
6 47 (23.74%) ITIL
7 45 (22.73%) Decision-Making
8 43 (21.72%) CI/CD
8 43 (21.72%) DevOps
9 39 (19.70%) Customer Service
9 39 (19.70%) Test Automation
10 36 (18.18%) Customer Acquisition
10 36 (18.18%) Patch Management
10 36 (18.18%) Software Deployment
10 36 (18.18%) Ticket Management
11 34 (17.17%) Data Engineering
12 30 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
12 30 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 47 (23.74%) SQL
2 42 (21.21%) Python
3 14 (7.07%) Java
4 10 (5.05%) Bicep
5 9 (4.55%) PL/SQL
6 8 (4.04%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.54%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.52%) Scala
9 2 (1.01%) Bash
9 2 (1.01%) C#
9 2 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.51%) Swift
10 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (18.69%) Degree
2 36 (18.18%) CTC Cleared
2 36 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 36 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.03%) IRCA
4 2 (1.01%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.51%) PMP
5 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (18.18%) SLA
2 23 (11.62%) Data Quality
3 17 (8.59%) GDPR
4 7 (3.54%) QA
5 6 (3.03%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.01%) GRC
6 2 (1.01%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.01%) WCAG
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.51%) NIST
7 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (1.01%) Docker
1 2 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (10.61%) Terraform
2 8 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.51%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 64 (32.32%) Microsoft
2 36 (18.18%) Cisco
3 24 (12.12%) Oracle
4 18 (9.09%) Databricks
5 10 (5.05%) Ab Initio
6 5 (2.53%) SAP
7 4 (2.02%) Anaplan
7 4 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.52%) Google
8 3 (1.52%) Hyperion
8 3 (1.52%) IBM
9 2 (1.01%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.51%) Apple
10 1 (0.51%) Epicor
10 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow